little girl, get up!

-alex-almost 40-she/her- aspiring to write again

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

please please please please reblog if you’re a writer and have at some point felt like your writing is getting worse. I need to know if I’m the only one who’s struggling with these thoughts

[seananmcguire]

Good news! At various points in your development, it is!

As you write, you level up in little ways. It's not like D&D where you get a level all at once. Oh, no. You get tiny improvements to your skill tree, and there will be points where your build is entirely unbalanced. As you adjust to these changes, you will naturally regress in some areas. This is just your mind and overall skill level getting ready for the final leveling, where you're briefly fully balanced again!

TL;DR: Regression is a natural part of improvement, and while it's frustrating as hell, if you keep going, you can write through it.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Also this.

[birdwarde]

don't forget to shop small this holiday season!

we have plenty of goodies up in the shop now and NEW items to come with a shop update in the next few weeks!

[1dpotluck]

Are you cooking up something for the 1D Potluck?

There's two weeks left to make something!

[everythingfox]

They can share

[calocera]

whats the worst pain you've ever experienced?

broken/bruised/etc bone

surgery

menstrual

cut/wound

burn

digestive

joint/arthritis

muscle cramp/pull/tear

headache/migrane

sti/std

other chronic pain

something else

Voting ended onOct 2, 2025

[thementalistscandidate]

Curious if anyone feels the same about this as me

Would you date someone with the same name as your sibling?

Yes

No

Only Child Button

Voting ended onSep 23, 2025

[memewhore]

[casa-de-cadejo-deactivated20220]

lol this slaps

[thesylverlining]

HOLD BABY JESUS RANSOM UNTIL ST. ANTHONY RETURNS YOUR FREAKING KEYS

[fitchersvogel]

There's an entire category of Catholic folk magic that involves threatening and abusing statues of the saints until they do what you want! A famous example is burying a statue of St Joseph upside down in your yard to sell your house; once it's sold, you dig up the statue and "reward" it. The folklorist Sabina Magliocco talks about how Italian folk magic, in particular, has a strong quid pro quo element: in Sardinia, for example, villagers would throw parades for saints and carry their statues around town to ward off drought, but if the saint failed to come through, they'd dunk it in the well headfirst, and keep doing it until the rains came. So if you buy this statue and Anthony doesn't do his job, you can always waterboard him!

[incognitopolls]

"Revenge bedtime procrastination" is a term coined by Daphne K. Lee to describe the phenomenon of choosing to "refuse to sleep early in order to regain some sense of freedom during late night hours."

How often do you engage in revenge bedtime procrastination?

Every day/almost every day

Most days

About half the time

Sometimes

Rarely

Never or almost never

This concept is not really applicable to my life/sleep patterns

Voting ended onSep 10, 2025

We ask your questions anonymously so you don’t have to! Submissions are open on the 1st and 15th of the month.

[nemainofthewater]

Would you rather

Be able to perfectly regulate your body temperature

Not ever be bitten/stung by insects

Voting ended onAug 10, 2025

* insect in the vernacular sense, so including spiders etc

[a-silly-poll-side-blog-yay]

your 5 recent faceless emoji are your aesthetic now, is it good?

yes

no

matches my irl aesthetic

results

Voting ended onJul 18, 2025

[thememedaddy]

[oaky-dokey]

love the library. there's no risk. you can take out a book and go "wow this sucks" and just give it back. and when you do that you're still making the library's Number Go Up so you'll be able to roll the dice on even more books. all for the low low price of free/you already paid for it with your tax money so you might as well use it

[soup-mother]

it's crazy how many super duper patriarchal things get retroactively justified in the name of being about love. yeah I'm sure women taking their husbands surname has always 100% been about recovering from trauma and distancing yourself from abusive family or whatever and has absolutely nothing at all to do with women being seen as property. great work here everyone, marriage as a concept has been redeemed through the power of pop psychology

[cohendyke]

to quote my bestie and pulitzer prize winner tony kushner “hope isn’t a choice, it’s a moral obligation, an obligation to the cells in your body” and “it is an ethical obligation to look for hope; it is an obligation not to despair.” like god. it is so fucking hard it is harder than anything in the world to wake up and have faith that things will be better and we can change things but it is the only thing we tangibly have and can pass on to other people. idrk where i was going with this but yea

[lesvegas]

A few years ago while trying to find ways to commit suicide as painlessly as possible, I came across a PDF of Dr. Paul Quinnett's The Forever Decision. Thinking it might go into actual methods of suicide (I read an article once that actually did that and was trying to find it again) I started to read it, and I think I only got about two pages in before I was crying too much to actually see the words.

I downloaded the PDF to my hard drive and I open it again whenever I'm feeling too suicidal to do much else, but not enough to start booking a ride to the hospital. And every time without fail I only go up to a few pages before backing off and choosing to live another day just because suicide suddenly seems even more unbearable than whatever the hell upset me in the first place.

All the book really does is [I'm pulling a summary from GoodReads here as, again, I've read no more than 5 pages] "discusses the social aspects of suicide, the right to die, anger, loneliness, depression, stress, hopelessness, drug and alcohol abuse, the consequences of a suicide attempt, and how to get help."

But it also starts with the author kindly asking the reader to complete the book before going through with anything, and for some reason I'm compelled to really just try to read it all before finalizing everything. Despite not yet completing it (hopefully never will) I think I can safely say it's saved my life at least a few times now.

It's intentionally legal to copy and redistribute this book to keep it as accessible as possible, and it's very easy to find, but here's a link for it anyways.

[lolastung]

GILMORE GIRLS 1.02, “The Lorelais' First Day At Chilton”

[wandringaesthetic]

You should only write in present tense with extreme caution.

not because it's bad or anything but because if you do it even once you're going to be editing the bits where you shifted tenses out of your writing for the rest of your life

[corvuscorona]

if u write in present tense enough times in a row, you can switch this problem around & get confused when your present-tense narrator is talking abt something that happened in Their past. I recommend this bc it keeps u on ur toes

[ach-sss-no]

guys i made my first blackout poetry