C1ov3rrr Via The Pit

He/Him, Reader, Writer, Yapper, D1 ragebaiter, Rower, Athlete, Nerd

[i-eat-ambient-space]

Welcome To The Pit:D

Hello hello, my name is Clover and you're probably wondering what I'm doing here. Well, let me freaking tell you.

I am a guy (I'm trans have no fear, you aren't reading the words of a cis man, I promise) that yaps A LOT. During one of these yap sessions (with my mom and stepdad) I was PASSIONATELY complaining about a conversation I had with a girl, and they were like "wow you should start a blog" and I later found out, upon bringing that comment up, that they told me I should start a blog because apparently they wanted me to shut up.

I'm not going to lie, my feelings are still a little hurt, so now I am mostly doing this out of spite. In this blog I will be:

-Yapping

-Having (somewhat) well written crash outs about events in my day to day life

-Opinions on EVERYTHING will be shared

-Reviewing books because I read A LOT and I like to talk about them

-Posting occsional short stories

-I will add more as ideas come to me:)

[cykelops]

I have had a lot of evil people say to me that nothing taste as good as skinny feels and every time im like no im pretty sure food tastes really super good actually

[i-eat-ambient-space]

chocolate ice cream?? 10/10. Starvation? unanswered cravings? 0/10.

[rhinco]

i understand that it's unreasonable to expect a band on world tour to play in every country in the world but i do think they should only be allowed to call it a world tour if they play in every continent. we need to make it embarrassing to say world tour and then not even step foot in africa

[lliveonthesunn]

i get why people don't believe in marriage as a social construct but legally it is the best and easiest way to say "this is who i trust to take care of me when i can't take care of myself" and i'm so glad gay people fought for that right bc when shit gets scary at least i know im in good hands

[i-eat-ambient-space]

I genuinely don't know how I will function in the Real World when I can't seem to write an email without receiving a premium package of Crippling Anxiety

[antlered-vixen]

I am so tired of short-attention-span, trim-the-fat culture. All writing advice these days is for how to write like Chuck Palahniuk. "Cut 'think', cut 'feel', cut 'wonder' - only action, only pushing forward, show and move and move and move." What if I could emulate this style, and still don't want to? What if I want to write like Henry James, with three paragraphs of introspective musings between each dialogue line? The music advice is, "make it shortform, make it Tik-Tok compatible, make it punchy, hit the refrain as soon as possible." What if I want that 10-minute prog rock piece? What if I want that symphony? What if I want it slow and luxurious and lazy? Movies. Series. Poetry. Bodies. Everything is "trimmed trimmed trimmed trimmed, stripped bare, you have three seconds to win me over, make it airport chic." I don't want to win you over, then, I guess. I want the fat left it. I want the pleasure and the indolence and the indulgence. Fuck this art-advice that's always "your art needs Ozempic."

[i-eat-ambient-space]

Nothing feels like breathing the way writing does.

[ceruleanheaven]

[looking at people younger than me] you have your whole life ahead of you [looking at people older than me] you have your whole life ahead of you [looking at myself] its over

[i-eat-ambient-space]

It's genuinely so disappointing when the food you were looking forward too isn't half as good as it has been literally every other time you've ever eaten it

[tofusofus]

priory of the orange tree:

[lovvvender]

the priory of the orange tree is like the perfect fantasy book, it has everything: good worldbuilding, a thought-through magic system, dragons, pirates, gay people, a religion built on a lie slowly crumbling in front of your eyes...

[i-eat-ambient-space]

One of the best books to ever be written tbh

[justsomecrows]

Can't stop thinking about Kalyba. No one's doing it like her. She's an ancient legendary witch. She can appear to you in dreams and take the form of your greatest desires. She has absolutely no game. The woman is so un-insightful that she fumbles every attempt at seduction She's ever made. She's trying SO HARD to get some. Can't score Ead, can't score Tunuva, got betrayed by the saddest, wettest dog of a man BECAUSE she took the form of the love of his life. Galian destroyed every image of her in the country and then himself when he realized he'd been with her. She has EVERY tool at her disposal to be a legendary seductress and still cannot overcome her complete lack of game. I can't wait to see my favorite problematic immortal failwoman get rejected in even more time periods.

[gapiju]

Ead: court politics plotline

Tane: dragon rider school plotline

Loth:

[writingdose]

[i-eat-ambient-space]

This could be any book if you hate passionately enough

[fictionadventurer]

One of my biggest literary pet peeves is when historical or history-inspired fiction pretends that "courting" is a synonym for "dating". Usually it's just a one-to-one word swap--in a modern context, these characters would be dating, but this is olden times, so they call it courting instead. Sometimes they'll pretend there's a shade of difference, and that courting is a more serious exploration of marriage or something. But I read a lot of fiction that was actually written during these historical eras, and the word "courting" is never used like that.

Two people do not decide that they are "courting". One person decides to "court" someone else. It's an action, not a stage in the relationship. A man decides to court a woman because he wants to encourage her to have romantic interest in him. He's trying to win her favor. It's not an exclusive relationship--a woman could be courted by multiple men at once. She'll spend time getting to know the guy who's interested in her, but they won't officially define their relationship as one where they only show romantic interest in each other. If they reach a point where they want it to be exclusive, that's when you propose.

There's no middle ground--either you're getting to know each other, or you're committed to marrying each other. This idea of a period where you kind of commit to each other until you decide you definitely want to get married is a modern one, and it occurs in eras where they use the word "dating" to describe it. The closest equivalent I can think of are times and places where they'd talk about a couple "stepping out together", but they're still not calling it "courting". Words have meaning, and the word "courting" has never meant that, so stop using it that way!

[going2hell4everythingbutbeingbi]

honestly yall just gotta be comfortable reading books that make you feel stupid

[valtsv]

i LOVE the idea of "i can't win, but you can lose" in fictional confrontations it is SO fucking tasty. the human nature to self destruct and the human nature to survive by any means necessary combined at its finest.

[theravenflawed]

— jude duarte, page 210 of tcp.

[i-eat-ambient-space]

Frankensteins monster did it the best. "if I cannot inspire love, I will cause fear" chapter 17.