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[that-house]

partially-managed mental illness is so fucking funny i'll be sitting around doing my job and suddenly think "wow i hate myself" and immediately get confused because, like, that's not TRUE! i love myself so much. who are you to talk to me like that

[touch-starved-lurker]

if youre my mutual you have to stay alive and stay safe and take care of yourself. no exceptions idc

[disney-darling-blog]

[52stations]

i've got the kind of eyebags that make people in movies say 'you look like hell, detective. go home.'

[theclassyissue]

[socialpants]

There's an awful trend in reading that's this CinemaSins kind of rejection of abstract concepts and suspension of disbelief, that makes people say it's bad writing when authors use descriptions that aren't immediately one to one with physical reality.

Like it's bad when a "tattoo is undulating" (as opposed to... "drawn in a wave like pattern on the skin"?), or when hair is "wet wheat from a late Summer field" (as opposed to "sort of brownish light yellow that dries lighter, but is not actual wheat stalks growing on someone's head but kind of reminiscent of the color and texture"?), or when when ice cream tastes like midnight at the fair" (as opposed to "ice cream flavour bringing back memories of undefined ice cream flavours that are individually popular but always tied to a memory of late evening at the fair ground and probably smelling vaguely like popcorn and sugar"?).

Please. We have to get back to understanding abstract descriptions that evoke feelings and memories and mental images or things we haven't experienced yet. This hyper utilitarian way of reading and judging text is killing fiction. it's robbing you of experiencing things you haven't actually personally experienced.

[liveforcats]

i don't give a single damn if none of my interests are niche why does it matter

[liveforcats]

"why doesn't the character just be, way smarter than they are written to be, way smarter than is humanly possible and figure everything out really fast so it could end?"

"why don't don't the two characters with conflicting beliefs just... start agreeing? problem solved."

"why didn't the character just do that at the beginning of the story when they didn't have the necessary character development to make the right choice? woulda been over so much faster."

making a list.

[liveforcats]

"why doesn't the character just do something they consider blasphemous and end the story quickly?"

[liveforcats]

"why doesn't the character just be, way smarter than they are written to be, way smarter than is humanly possible and figure everything out really fast so it could end?"

"why don't don't the two characters with conflicting beliefs just... start agreeing? problem solved."

"why didn't the character just do that at the beginning of the story when they didn't have the necessary character development to make the right choice? woulda been over so much faster."

making a list.

[skulandcrossbones]

some people really do need to start reminding themselves that the answer to "why didn't the character just do [something entirely different]" is often simply "because then there wouldn't be a story"

[04k96]

[loubis-and-champagne]

X

[midnightskywrites]

writers really will spend twenty minutes pacing around the kitchen thinking “this scene is genius” and then sit down to type and suddenly remember approximately three words and one emotional vibe

[liveforcats]

"hasn't that character suffered enough D:"

NOT IF IM BORED

[liveforcats]

the most disheartening thing for writers to ask themselves is whether they actually like the idea they came up with or if it just felt original. am i struggling with this because i don't actually feel compelled by it or is it just hard to write?

[04k96]

[sasukekys]

happy naruto’s milk expiration date

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]