mood whiplash

knight0fcups on ao3 || 18+ || 99% gym bro 1% writer

[unnameablethings]

its extremely important to read widely and deeply in a variety of genres. read obscure self published shit that only 4 people have read. read culturally relevant works of literature that have helped shape the canon. read horror. read women's lit. read historical fiction and comedies and nonfiction and hentai and poetry and science fiction and fantasy and mysteries and romance and good things and bad things and things u hate and things you love and things you COULD like if only the author changed x y and z and things which are beautiful but not meant for you.

doing all of this reading will lay a groundwork of rich complexity in your heart. so that you can write really good porn

[alice-is-annoyed-deactivated202]

[fadesense]

✨🪩Disco Dragons🪩✨

i recently finished disco elysium and was compelled to put tarquin in kim's jacket. followed shortly by giving ashur snakeskin shoes. which ballooned into a crossover nobody asked for

ashur shares nothing in common with harry, but i find identity crisis (viper, divine, ashur) and memory loss very compelling in a mystery. also tarquin with gun. 👀

[modwyr]

the problem with liking video games is that the gaming industry is genuinely so evil and needs to be wiped out

[deslizada]

man sometimes friendship really is just "I saw this and knew it would give you psychic damage. please respond with agony" and then they do. and it's great

[knight0fcups]

One of the things I hate about AI is how it's rewarding the Idea Guy. You know, the Idea Guy. The guy that comes to you and is like "hey, I have an idea, what if we did X" and then you're like "Okay, bud, who is going to actually take X from idea to a finished product?" And the Idea Guy is like "I dunno, some pleb. I had the Idea. Isn't that most of the work?"

Actually no. It is not most of the work. But now, hey, we have the slop machine. Idea Guys rejoice.

I've always said that there are no bad ideas, only bad execution. The most trite, overused plot with great execution? Amazing. The most amazing premise with horrid execution? Awful, with a dash of added disappointment because it squandered a great premise. The corollary to all this is that ideas are, most of the time, fucking worthless. Only execution of the idea matters. How you take your little brainfart from a random thought to an actual story with a beginning, middle and end, that also hits the emotional beats you want it to, is entirely in the execution. How do you learn to execute? NOT THROUGH THE USE OF AI.

(Yes, this rare public kay-c rant was brought to you by the whole drama of the AO3 skin that detects Claude usage.)

[birdsareblooming]

thinking about this tag on my post again. i'm saying this all the time forever

[knight0fcups]

Giving good critique is a skill and also a lot of fucking work and most people have no idea how to do it properly so they can safely be ignored.

[writingdose]

this and also the only difference between fanfic writers and writers who sell their own original works as careers is that fanfics aren’t monetized. that’s all.

being a “professional” writer doesn’t mean your works are inherently better than fanfics. I’ve read so many fics that are more professionally written than some published books.

whether or not a piece of writing is monetized has nothing to do with its quality.

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

today I found out my mother doesn’t know what dandelions are and now I’m wondering what other strange secrets she’s been quietly harboring

[krystal-prisms]

Where do you live that you don’t have dandelions?

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

we have dandelions EVERYWHERE, they are basically our State Weed, it is absolutely impossible that my mom has never interacted with a dandelion before, this requires further investigation

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

So after extensive interrogation I have an update:

my mom is in fact aware that dandelions exist. she temporarily forgot the name and there was some miscommunication.

the truth is actually weirder

she’s aware dandelions look like this

she is familiar with this flower. she knows the name of this flower. she declines to believe, however, that these are also dandelions

she does not believe these are the same plant. I tried to explain, and she thought I was either misinformed or lying. so I asked her what exactly did she think the yellow ones were called?

she answered, with complete confidence: Daffodils.

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

gosh I enjoy this website

[authoratmidnight]

For comparison, this is a daffodil

[quietlygrousing]

See, folks in the southern US will tell you up and down those are buttercups, actually.

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

i don’t think so? i’m southern and buttercups are what we call these things (much tinier)

[maejacrezz007]

Wait I thought those bigger cup ones were Easter Lillies???

[fractiousrvt]

This is an Easter Lily. It is an actual lily and therefore deadly to cats.

[blood-trip-god2]

They’re marigolds and I know a bitch when I see one!

[delphinidin4]

This is a marigold:

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

….we need to start taking the phrase “go touch grass” more literally. go outside and examine a flower i beg u

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

today I found out my mother doesn’t know what dandelions are and now I’m wondering what other strange secrets she’s been quietly harboring

[krystal-prisms]

Where do you live that you don’t have dandelions?

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

we have dandelions EVERYWHERE, they are basically our State Weed, it is absolutely impossible that my mom has never interacted with a dandelion before, this requires further investigation

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

So after extensive interrogation I have an update:

my mom is in fact aware that dandelions exist. she temporarily forgot the name and there was some miscommunication.

the truth is actually weirder

she’s aware dandelions look like this

she is familiar with this flower. she knows the name of this flower. she declines to believe, however, that these are also dandelions

she does not believe these are the same plant. I tried to explain, and she thought I was either misinformed or lying. so I asked her what exactly did she think the yellow ones were called?

she answered, with complete confidence: Daffodils.

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

gosh I enjoy this website

[authoratmidnight]

For comparison, this is a daffodil

[quietlygrousing]

See, folks in the southern US will tell you up and down those are buttercups, actually.

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

i don’t think so? i’m southern and buttercups are what we call these things (much tinier)

[maejacrezz007]

Wait I thought those bigger cup ones were Easter Lillies???

[fractiousrvt]

This is an Easter Lily. It is an actual lily and therefore deadly to cats.

[blood-trip-god2]

They’re marigolds and I know a bitch when I see one!

[delphinidin4]

This is a marigold:

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

….we need to start taking the phrase “go touch grass” more literally. go outside and examine a flower i beg u

[weepingwidar]

Nicko Cecchini (Canadian, d.o.b. unknown) - Mightosis (2026)

[nondelphic]

editing is just you vs. past-you in a duel of questionable comma placement and emotional instability

[oopsallabominations]

[depsidase]

[porterr-robinson]

[sandersstudies]

This is so

Unnecessary

[myrrhguy-deactivated20250626]

how do you explain to someone that this is your sense of humour

[celtic-pyro-deactivated20230725]

“What could the audio possibly be?”

*unmutes*

“Oh,”

[moonblossom]

If I ever don’t laugh at this, assume I died.

[reallybadblackoutpoems]

to be alive! (1966) - alastair reid

"grandfather, tell me about yaoi. tell me what it is, to be alive."

[kjscottwrites]