so it goes or whatever

mi ao3 grey, they/them, 25, here for a mediocre time not a long time

[minyard-05]

sometimes you just have to say "you are all so fucking stupid" and scroll past

[stjohnstarling]

All the men I hunt for sport are sustainably and ethically sourced.

[digitalmyyth]

little petrova line I drew for my computah wallpaper👍

[anton--rayne]

Are you the same race as your profile picture

Yes

No

My profile picture doesn't have a race

Remaining time: 2 days 9 hours

Racial coding counts. And stuff like "Homer Simpson isn't White he's yellow" doesn't count, you know what I mean

[anton--rayne]

Are you from the same country as your profile picture

Yes, we're from the same country

No, they're from a different country

My pfp is not a sentient being

No, because my pfp is from a completely made up place with no basis in real life

Remaining time: 2 days 9 hours

If it's a fictional place based in real life then you can still consider them from the same country / a different country and not a completely made up place based on your own criteria

[satanfemme]

[annoying online discourse about art simulator]

"hi I'm Joe Normalson and I just heard about a New Horror Movie with violence against women in it. I haven't seen the movie myself because I'm too scared, but I've decided it's probably degenerate art and just proves that the horror genre as a whole is made by a bunch of serial killers and anyone who likes horror could only possibly enjoy it because they're also a serial killer who's going to hurt my property women. we need to kill anyone who admits to liking any horror movie, but only specifically the marginalized people who like them, for some reason. coincidence I'm sure."

"hi I'm Jack Freakson and actually you're wrong, horror movies never ever arise from a context of real life violence. they come tabula rasa from the ether, are completely politically neutral, and say nothing at all. if you think a horror movie has ever been misogynistic you're probably part of whichever marginalized demographic lets me call you stupid and uneducated without backlash."

systemic bigotry: *left unchallenged*

the actual context and themes of New Horror Movie: *left unexamined*

"hi my name is Tumblr Anon do you wholeheartedly agree with Joe Normalson or Jack Freakson? btw these are the only two options. art either has the right to exist unexamined, or all artists need to be killed while their work is left unexamined. do you want entertainment or do you want death? entertainment or death? entertainment or death?"

[greentea-and-honey]

me when i watch something scary before bed and i get scared 😔

[what-even-is-thiss]

I hate I when I get an idea for a novel. Like oh no here starts the slow sad slip n’ slide to dissapointment again.

[what-even-is-thiss]

You ever been 30,000 words and hundreds of research hours into a project when you realize hey wait a minute. I don’t like this. This is bad.

[fassina]

Ok adding to this though that even though it is extremely relatable, this is a KNOWN thing with professional writing. 10k is often referred to as "having a pot boiling" or "having a stew" - it's the point where you often see an idea coming together and it's exciting! But THEN... 30k-50k is the point where that fun has to start coming together. In theatre, it's usually week 3 of a 5 week rehearsal period where you have to stop talking about the play and really get it all up on its feet and cohesive. In art, it's committing to what are going to be the final visible layers of colour and texture, in sculpture the moment where you're truly at the point of no return with carving out the shape.

It usually feels really bad. Because this is the point it becomes real craft. It's so, so difficult to really be able to identify if it's truly not going to be anything or you're just in the hardest part of the process, and really the only way to know is to... write through it. Write it badly. Or, if you really can't, put it in a drawer and come back to it after a few months of breathing space. Remember, you can fix so much in the edit, but you can't fix nothing!

(I say, fully looking at my latest draft of my book and considering throwing it in the bin. But my editor said exactly this to me, so I'm passing it along.)

[tjalexandernyc]

this is 100% true. I've written 6 complete novels at this point and every single time around the 40k mark I feel lost in the woods. Nothing seems to be working. I feel awful; I can't sleep. I keep going even though I'm convinced I'm going to fail. And then... It's like leaving a tunnel and getting back out in the sunshine. Stuff starts coalescing. Things that weren't working have obvious fixes. I "can write" again, except I was writing the whole time. It just felt hopeless in the moment. It's not. You just gotta get out of the woods.

[ariaste]

Ah yes the Slough of Desponds. Professional author with 13 books, and this is normal for me as well. (Checking for tension issues usually helps!)

[sainamoonshine]

Lmao I literally wrote a whole blog post abt it once.

https://www.patreon.com/posts/writing-advice-1-82451675

Writing Advice #1: The 90% project completion Dark Night of the Soul | Marie Blanchet

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[knownqueerbaiter]

SEPARATE CHURCH (AO3) AND STATE (TRADPUB)

[brittlepredatordemon]

Actually, no, I don't think that friendships dropping like flies in your late 20s and early 30s because no one has time for that between overwork and family obligations and marriage and kids and partners and the ritual of the time slayer is normal and ok. No I don't think deep conversations and spontaneous adventures being replaced with a tired coffee every six months is a normal part of growing up. I don't think that emotional intimacy and soul bonds disintegrating in the face of practical inconvenience is a fact of life. I think that means something is deeply deeply wrong with our society and I will never forgive it for the friends I've lost

[superdaisypowerhour]

"if i had a time machine i would go back in time and kill hitler"

I would put sea mines around medieval britain. i would give hannibal barca ww2 era heavy artillery and tell him not to stop till he starts seeing gauls. i would give boudica a fucking abrams. i would appear before jesus like an angel and tell him "you gotta stop. not cause theyll kill you, youre fine with that, surprisingly, but because your fanclub is gonna spend about 1500 years making everything worse for everyone, everywhere." I would take a glock back in time and shoot romulus, shoot remus, and shoot that damn dog too just to be safe. i would be on the side of christopher columbus' ship in a scuba suit planting c4 on that bitch like rainbow six siege. i would be waging a one woman campaign of terror across andalusia to prevent the reconquista. i would be getting way out in front of that shit is what im saying,

[bloodwithoutflesh]

Fiona Apple performing in 1996

[sobcat]

the summer I turned evil

[katelyn-danger]

Sorry that we turned our found family dynamic into a weird sex thing. We will do it again.

[the-invisibility-bloke]

[perfectday1972]

i do wonder how mamdani would have solved a problem like the green goblin

[achillesinhighheels]

[xylocopae]

starting a collection

[ooppo]

Your heart is not true enough to enter the gates of Margaritaville

[youremysunshine8]

My heart was heavier than the feather; I am sentenced to Rainforest Cafe