silver blue and frozen silence

clarisse ~ 29 ~ they/them ~ follow for phineas and ferb autism

[juniorsailmakermattcruse]

I’m practicing how to write website addresses in steno and one of the examples was tumblr

[juniorsailmakermattcruse]

there’s a youtuber I watch who in the past would talk about using chatgpt sometimes which kind of rubbed me the wrong way but a couple weeks ago she made a video where she said “death to all AI centers, death to all AI. if it’s taking over the world and using up all our water, do we really need it? maybe we can still use our brains” and that’s such tremendous growth like hell yea

[catball]

all my haters become cicaders when i enter the summer of success

[juniorsailmakermattcruse]

leaving the cardboard insert thing inside the hat for days on end is so doofenshmirtz core

that’s why he’s on the front of the hat, he’s actually mind controlling me

[juniorsailmakermattcruse]

guys I’m an idiot I’ve been wearing my stupid new hat for 4 days and I just now saw that it still has the cardboard insert in it

[tranthony]

grout white shark

[chartreuxcatz]

Shout out to Linda. The he/him asexual woman from my psychology quiz from a few years ago

[therapatical]

queer discourse final boss

[handsomeboymodelingschool]

At the having a headache awards

[dogpuppy]

[insuredgecko]

[ID: The first image is an edited tumblr post reading:

gothdrool: ppl who celebrate fictional character birthdays are annoying pass it on

cub2: FUCK this post and happy birthday Candace Flynn

The second image is a screenshot from Phineas and Ferb showing a calendar with July 11th marked as Candace’s birthday. End ID.]

happy birthday queen

[juniorsailmakermattcruse]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

chapter 8 of my perryshmirtz fic! this is part 2 of my dude we're getting the band back together saga. this chapter is about balloons

chapter 1 is here

[juniorsailmakermattcruse]

so is locker diaries over

[setulose]

Trace amounts of Monica in my life

[setulose]

A statistically insignificant level of Monica in my life

[setulose]

My life manufactured in a facility that also processes Monica

[juniorsailmakermattcruse]

I think I may have just started writing some gay fanfic

[koiagain]

im really bad at texting or talking And really communication in general

[juniorsailmakermattcruse]

this could be one of the saddest things I’ve ever said but I have yet to have a day in 2026 so far that’s better than january 10 when the chibi arch enemies day off video dropped

[juniorsailmakermattcruse]

It’s been 6 months and this hasn’t changed

[cbk1000]

So, I lurk in some writer subreddits, and a frequent topic of discussion is prose: what constitutes good prose, how do you write it, how do you improve it, etc. And yesterday I stumbled across one topic about the difference between good descriptive prose, and purple prose. OP asks people to share some of their favourite authors who they think write beautiful prose without tipping into purple. No problem; people are happy to oblige.

One person says that Steinbeck is one of their favourite authors for prose, and then they share an example of what they would consider purple prose. It is so violetly awful that I think the poster must have written it themselves as a kind of parody of purple prose. Other people assumed the same.

But as it turns out, they are quoting from a book written by a YouTuber whose channel ia dedicated to talking about writing (namely, their own writing, which is genius, but often not comprehensible to the drooling plebs).

Naturally, I read the free sample of their book in awe and horror, and I'd like to share some screenshots with you. If you also have trouble defining or understanding what purple prose is, it's this.

Yes, every single fucking page is written like this.

[cbk1000]

Reading some more of the preview for this book, and I realise this is by far not the biggest problem, but I'm begging this guy to just use 'shadow' instead of 'umbra'. I promise I will not accuse you of being a philistine.

[cbk1000]

'Noctilucent orbs'. Even fanfic written by a 14-year-old wouldn't dare.

The author is a man in his 30s, btw.

[the-pen-pot]

*throws this in the face of everyone who has ever accused me of writing purple prose*

[neverwalka1one]

I thought the Amelia Peabody series was purple. I owe the author an apology. Uffda