Morituri Nolumus Mori

Hi, I'm Rae. 26 yrs, they/them

[duhaeriss]

happy pride :)

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Love when you're reading a fanfic or web serial and it's great and you want more like it but you've run out of stuff by that author, but then you see in the author's note "I've been reading X and it's really fantastic" and you're like "great! More stuff to red!" and check it out and it turns out that this author you love has absolutely dogshit taste.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

My theory as to why this happens btw is that writers see more beauty in what they cannot write than in what they can. Beginners will recommend stuff similar to what they're writing because that's what's inspiring them to start, but when people have their feet wet and know what they're doing then they're less likely to be fascinated by things similar to their own work unless the author they're reading is markedly and obviously more skilled at what they're trying to do. (The exception is if it's an author they got into before they started writing it, and nostalgia is involved.) Everyone who isn't just beginning thinks that the style of writing they do is trite and unremarkable, and is unlikely to be amazed enough by writers similar to them to recommend it to their readers, even though their readers obviously love writers similar to them (otherwise why are they here). So you read stuff you love by some writer and they're like "I am so obsessed with X!" and X is some nonsense slop you couldn't be less interested in because the stuff you are interested in is the stuff that the recommender, by definition, finds routine and not worth appreciating.

That's what I reckon, anyway.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

#i am in the process of having the reverse happen to me#where im realizing an author i like maybe isnt as MatureTM as i thought they were originally#and im sitting here now like 'oh no am i the author op is talking about'

Listen, when I was a teenager I recommended Sword of Truth to multiple people.

[quietwingsinthesky]

all the “peer pressure is bad” education we give kids is practically useless because all it cares about is telling them that Drugs Are Evil rather than the much more useful lesson of ‘the person who responds to you saying you don’t drink by telling you they’ll find a way to get you to is also going to be shitty about all your other boundaries’.

[quietwingsinthesky]

god forbid you teach kids that their consent should be respected rather than about the inherent immorality of all the sinful actions of their peers

[dyscomancer]

[aavalon2]

Illustration from Pierre Louÿs "The Songs of Bilitis" by Willy Pogany (1926)

[postarcadian]

the thing I love most about how tumblr users use tags is that it’s like what if a social media website had a footnotes system

[teaboot]

Can I be honest with yall I don't want to hear SHIT against cishets at pride this year

[teaboot]

"But it's not FOR them!!!" The biggest military power in the world belongs to a christofascist nation overseen by a felon found guilty of 34 federal crimes and has greenlit a gestapo with more direct funding than the entire military of Canada for the purpose of ethnic cleansing. Let Hetero Jessica throw some biodegradable glitter at a municipal parade

[teaboot]

At this point if anyone is trying to exclude anyone benignly pro-queer from a pro-queer space I'm just going to assume you're a fed or something idk like something something destabilize the movement from within or whatever

[starsinoursystem]

this pride month I'm gonna need everyone to be radically pro transgender and also pro intersex and also pro ace and aro spec peoples thanks

[capnsoapy]

always remember that chell is canonically* a transgender woman

[capnsoapy]

Transition timeline; 99999 days on Aperture Science homebrew œstradiol

[capnsoapy]

POV you used the phrase "transition timeline" on [tumblr] post about 20-year-old video game models

[goldensunset]

sometimes media is more delicious when stuff with major implications is very much present but also very much glossed over very quickly. like yeah that guy subtly quietly tried to kill himself and alluded to having tried before. anyway

[raibura]

Be honest do you think your mental illness/mood disorder makes you more creative funny or interesting

Yes

No

Results

Remaining time: 3 days 1 hour

[perplexingly]

Don't be shackled by the idea that going out can only be done with a group of friends, learn to feel comfortable going alone [remembers that encouraging consumerism isn't progressive] into the deep dark woods

[azspot]

“Because the truth is, tech doesn’t have an image problem. It doesn’t have a message problem. It has an intention problem. What’s wrong with the axe murderer who broke into my house is not that he hasn’t successfully persuaded me to buy into his narrative. What’s wrong is that he’s trying to kill me with an axe. Similarly, when you launch a product that’s designed to put millions of people out of work, block access to sources of verifiable truth, replace human creativity with slop, and lower the barriers to every sort of atrocity, the problem isn’t that you haven’t told the public a good story about those things. The problem is that you are trying to do them.”

— The 40 Most Rage-Inducing Problems in Tech

[santhipoma]

[junglejim4322]

Remember when 10 year old girls used to wear happy bunny t shirts that just said shit like “I’m going to skin you alive”

[mrazarix]

I finally got around to the Alan Wake games. Yesterday I finished the second one, and I'm still in ecstasy about it!!!

[bahari-official]

i wish drawing was a real thing that you could actually do

[pangur-and-grim]

-_- apparently the cut-off for this thing I want to submit to (which closes tomorrow) is 70k words, and I’ve got 67k

I need to think of three thousand words of bullshit to pad this thing. like a chapter where everyone goes for coffee, or something. 

[pangur-and-grim]

okay there are 42 chapters in the book, and dividing 3000 by 42 = ~72

so I’d have to write the chapter titles like this:

Chapter 2: In Which an Elf Is Concussed, but it’s Not Really My Fault Because What Would You Have Done? Would You Not Have Concussed the Elf? No, Of Course You Would Have. We All Would Have Concussed the Elf. Besides Which, I Am Very Sorry for Concussing Her and Will Try to Make Amends Later If She Stops Trying to Kill Me. Also, Her Intent to Kill Me Was a Highly Relevant Factor In My Decision to Concuss Her

[pangur-and-grim]

and who will stop me? God?

[pangur-and-grim]

TWO YEARS LATER! Titan Books is publishing this, and every chapter title takes up a third of the page. god didn’t stop me after all

(you can pre-order here: Barnes & Noble, Books A Million, Amazon.com, Amazon.ca, Amazon.co.uk, Indigo, Waterstones, Forbidden Planet, Bookshop.org)

[pangur-and-grim]

it’s so funny to see this all fancy and formalized