lucy marlowe

graphic poet | she/her

[lucyrosemarlowe]

changed my username & pfp. formerly dp. say hi to lucy.

[sandmandaddy69]

[ode-on-a-grecian-butt]

this could be us

[distractionsfromthefood]

[styrofauxm]

[Image ID: bluesky post by @ californiahorst.bsky.social reading "when i was young they had these people called 'investigative journalists' who could find out stuff like if a senator was dead or not" /end ID]

[storm-of-feathers]

tumblr is great bc its like a diary where I can take other peoples diary entries and glue them into my own diary

[starrynet]

that’s his little guy!!

[grootficguy]

it must feel good as hell when you’re a horse and you take a big bite out of an apple like ttshoke

[rubensmuse]

your command over onomatopoeia is unmatched bestie

[prokopetz]

One popular take on "deconstructions" of children's media I'll push back on is the idea that talking about how fucked up it is that a bunch of kids have to save the world is inherently pandering to adult audiences. Kids love it when kids' media is about how fucked up it is to be a kid who has to save the world – you've just gotta not be condescending about it.

[onbearfeet]

To be a kid is to be constantly told that you'll have to save the world someday—from climate change, from some new technology, from whatever your adults are scared of. But you're not allowed to do anything NOW, because you're a kid. You have to sit and watch the world get worse with the knowledge that you'll have to fix it all later. It's all responsibility and no power.

Kids' media gives kids the power. It lets them ACTUALLY save the world. Kids know the status quo is unfair, and good kids' media actually validates their feelings. It says, "Yes, the adults are filling the world with evil monsters like always, but this time you get a fucking sword."

[segmentedleg]

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[fangsandthangs]

When you’re in the middle of a fic and realise you’ve missed a very critical tag

[tlbodine]

For the last goddamn time...

"Kill your darlings" means "if something is holding you back, get rid of it, even if it sounds pretty."

That's it! That's all it means! It means if you're stuck and stalled out on your story and you could fix the whole block by removing something but you're avoiding removing that thing because it's good, you remove that thing. That's the darling.

It does NOT mean

That you have to get rid of your self-indulgent writing

That you should delete something just because you like it (?wtf?)

That you need to kill off characters (??? what)

That you have to pare your story down to the absolute bare bones

That you have to delete anything whatsoever if you don't want to

The POINT is that you STOP FEELING GUILTY for throwing out good writing that isn't SERVING THE STORY.

The POINT is that you don't get so HUNG UP on the details that you lose sight of the BIG PICTURE.

Good grief....

[prof-grace-aspen]

Also, you don't have to like, delete it from existence. Keep a second document full of the Darlings. You never know when you'll need it later.

[earhartsease]

yes, your killed darlings are ripe for rebirth

[eldritchsandwich]

compost your darlings

recycle your darlings

Darlings who don't fit this narrative go into the use later folder

[kestalsblog]

Not every story is about seeing yourself in it. Sometimes it’s about learning to see other people too.

[doesnotloveyou]

@tearyeyedcat this was beautifully written, thank you for adding it!

[charlesoberonn]

Another excuse for me to post Head Writer of ATLA Aaron Ehasz’s great characters board:

[ntrider]

noncon friendship

[sonyvegas9-deactivated20241118]

Coworkers

[ryukisgod]

Your friend’s boyfriend

[pattern-recognition]

top ten moments of anti white racism of all time

[kidzbopdeathgrips]

incomplete without this hall of famer

[tunisian]

i cant be a hopeless lover because im full of hope !! im a hopeful lover until the end of times !!

[wolfer-aid]

anglerfish 

[rozzed]

why not have the reader re-read a sentence now and then? it won't hurt him....

[versacies]