Mary P. Sue

Practically perfect in every way.

[marypsue]

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Fearleading Squad on AO3

Evil cheerleaders, the Satanic Panic, high school friendship drama, and murder all combine to ruin an innocent gothic rocker’s senior year in this short and sweet horror novella. If you liked Netflix’s Fear Street trilogy, Grady Hendrix’ My Best Friend’s Exorcism, Heathers, Jennifer’s Body, or the fan favourite new kids on the block from Stranger Things season four, this might be up your alley.

[thenationalyrics]

My head is a buzzing three star hotel

Lights VI: The Spa (1974), Micheal Andrews / Blank Slate (2008), The National

[thebisexualwreckoning]

It’s still incomplete as of now but here’s a little something I’ve been working on since February.

[ames-draws]

[everydaylouie]

good and evil

[thefandomlifechoseme]

so like. when are we getting that wild west ect TV show where right at the end of the first season. right at the end. last ten minutes right at the end. the main character wanders over from America to England to go propose to this really nice girl we've been hearing about all season. and she opens the door and we finally learn the main character's last name.

and The Public still don't even realise that Quincey Morris just wandered his way into the plot of Dracula because no one ever includes him in the adaptations and no one's actually read the book

when are we getting that.

[arte-artem-artibus]

Herbert Bayer - Chromatic intersection, 1966, acrylic on canvas, 101 x 101 cm

[goldensunset]

i know in my heart of hearts that within the pokémon universe it’s all the really cute popular marketable pokémon that have the most irresponsible trainers. small dog syndrome ramped up to a whole new level. that is not a toy that is a lifelong commitment. ma’am please keep your untrained sylveon in its pokéball inside the store. no that is not a service pokémon it wouldn’t be using moonblast on everything if it was

[goldensunset]

sir! sir!!! your pikachu is decimating the ducklett population at the pond and you aren’t even looking! you are NOT ash ketchum you are NOT gonna catch ‘em all because that involves trade evolutions and you have NO friends!!!

[goldensunset]

ok literally. that palafinstagram mom who posts pictures of her rowlet not understanding it’s displaying distress behaviors making fun of the cool person whose best friend is a solosis or rellor or unown letter f

[warrior-kitty]

if one more middle aged mom tells me that i should’ve kept my raichu a pikachu because ‘she’s much cuter that way’ i’m sending out my full team and throwing hands right there in the starbucks

[antlor]

fashionable mystery teen

[ao3commentoftheday]

I keep making posts about short fics, and I'm going to continue doing so because on every short fic post I make, I get people who love short fics but I also get authors who feel guilty because they don't write "full fics" or "complete stories"

Short fics are complete. Short fics are full stories. There are more tales in the world than just novels. There are more ways of sharing your idea than creating an entire world to go along with it.

You can tell a complete story in 100 words. You can call a fic complete and full and fleshed out, even without all of the context or history or world building in your brain.

Your readers have imaginations, just like you do. Have faith that they'll be able to fill in any blanks on their own. Trust that they'll enjoy what you put out, even if it's short.

Stop measuring yourself with a ruler that doesn't even matter. If you want to write a long fic, that's wonderful. I wish you well.

But if you don't want to write novels, please stop apologizing for that. You have nothing to feel bad about. Be proud that you can capture a moment or a feeling or an idea in just a few words. Not everyone can do that.

[spectralgecko]

100% agree

We wrote flash fiction in our short story club today. It was a blast. Each one was a full, complete story.

None of them were over 500 words, and the lowest was 286. We could've gone even shorter with different parameters or if we'd tried. You can accomplish a lot in 100 words.

It's ok to write short stuff. I gravitate to short stories for fanfiction because that's what I have time for. Novels are exhausting and not everyone gels well with the writing process for them. That's ok. Different people write differently, and you'll have different lengths you like for different things! It's great!

[katgecs]

more photos of washington by me

[veliseraptor]

I understand why "make bad art" can be an effective rallying cry for some, but for me personally it has never worked; my entire perfectionist being locks up at the idea of making something bad. For me, it just feels like if something is really and truly bad then what was the point of doing it at all? Personally, I don't find it motivational or encouraging.

The two things I have found that actually do help me are a combination of "I'll fix it in post" (the first version doesn't have to be good, it can be polished up later) and "not everything I make has to be my best work."

don't get me wrong I'm still very bad at accepting either of these things, but I've personally found them more practicable than trying to tell myself it's okay to "make bad art."

[teratocybernetics]

'#one thing that helped break a friend of his perfectionist tendencies#was a friend of his saying 'oh so the rest of us need to be like this too?'#and him going no i have to be perfect to make up for me you don't need to#and his friend just laughing and going: man. what's so special about you?'

[thesoldiersminute]

Forbidden Fruits dir. Meredith Alloway | 2026

[sheabutterrosesandeucalyptuspls]

cxozyt

[nihilisticlinguistics]

I've been really enjoying some accidentally excellent fiction-nonfiction pairings in my recent reading. to wit, You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine by Alexandra Kleeman + Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia by Sabrina Strings, and The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende + The Open Veins of Latin America by Eduardo Galeano

where the nonfiction text offers enrichment and elaboration on the structural tensions presented (to varying degrees of explicitness) in the fiction text. not that they're linked in any way by their creators but that they're speaking to the same thing from the angles of fiction + nonfiction

so I'm now seeking recommendations of favorite nonfiction-fiction pairings in that vein. what have yall got?

[florantheiia]

god forbid a man grows a mullet

[astriiformes]

Overheard two (high school? probably?) girls discussing some book on the train, with a lot of "They're just SO gay for each other" type comments and did not think much of it at first until it became clear to me over the course of their conversation that they were in fact discussing the main characters of Robert Louis Stevenson's classic gothic horror novella The Strange Case of Doctor Jekyll and Mr. Hyde