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imagining a universe where porn is a marketable genre so you have to deal with raycon ads while trying to jerk your shit

torchichate

You’re an easy slut, aren’t you kitten? Almost as easy as dinner with Hellofresh

#there are so many things wrong with the world but I'm so fucking glad this isn't one of them #ad hate gang ✌️

amongusroleplay

kyssimmee

starlight and trixie comic

kyssimmee

i'm breaking the author's silence to address these tags directly, because i've seen similar responses a few times. your context is part of you. you like your favorite band because you found them somehow. you speak the languages you speak because somebody else taught you. you feel the way you feel because you have memories and experiences. shaving off pieces of yourself will not reveal a truth at the center, and will only make you feel less like a person worth being. you will never shed your context or influences, anymore than you will ever become younger or undrink a glass of water. but you are free to create as much additional context as you like. build yourself outward instead of digging for yourself at the center. trying 100 new things will give you 100 more data points on what you like, don't like, think, believe, feel. it might begin to reveal an image of yourself that you can recognize, respect, and love. your life is not an object to be kept clean, it is an ongoing action that you get to control. also that's starlight glimmer not rarity.

lakevida

im going to drink a $7 light beer at the zoo and become the jane goodall of leafcutter ants

irish-american-chan

I Wonder A Lot About Being Six. Will I Miss Being Five?

trumbloola

One day youll even be seven! ...but not for a long time

irish-american-chan

But Maybe Ill Be Eight For A Really Really Really Long Time

trumbloola

I miss you. I miss you so much.

fforsythiaaa

Once when I was in undergrad, someone described something as “problematic” in class and our professor was like, “That’s cool, but ‘problematic’ doesn’t really mean anything. It means that the thing you’re describing has a problem, and in and of itself that’s not bad. Art, especially, should always have problems, or else it’s not interesting and not art, either. It sounds like you’re trying to say that this is bad, but you don’t want to say ‘bad.’ Is that right?”

So from then on whenever one of us called something problematic, he would make us talk it out until we could name the “bad” thing we were hinting at. In this particular class, 7/10 it was some type of oppression, and the remainder was like, “I’m uncomfortable because this is very new/confusing/pushing boundaries that made me feel safe.”

Once we stopped calling things “problematic” and stopping at that, class got way more interesting and... we all had to say, like, “that’s racist” or “that’s misogynistic” or “ew capitalism gross” out loud, which a lot of us had never done in a classroom before. Or we had to be like, “Uhhh... I’m not sure what’s so bad?” and confront our own beliefs and that was maybe even more useful.

Anyway. Whenever I see the word problematic, I can’t help but think of this professor being like, “Good starting point, now let’s get specific.” I think when we have to commit to saying “that’s ___” it requires a lot more careful thought about the truth and impact and complexities of whatever we’re claiming. Sometimes there really is some bullshit afoot, and also sometimes it’s art, and it should be full of problems, because that’s what art is.

what-even-is-thiss

I think a lot of writers might benefit from giving themselves permission to get weird with format.

Use second person, drop classic rising action and climax format, write backwards, just sit in a moment, tell all you want and refuse to show, make an entire book that’s just one run on sentence, reject tropes, use all tropes, cliche yourself to death, produce something that’s completely gibberish. Break all the rules of marketability. Become ungovernable.

what-even-is-thiss

Write a story that just takes place inside one pathetic little person’s head. Do it. It’s enrichment in your enclosure.

what-even-is-thiss

Do the writer’s equivalent of playing with finger paints. Do it do it do it do it do it do it do it do it do it do it do it do it

what-even-is-thiss

It’s the middle of the night and I should be sleeping but listen. Listen. Just get weird with it. Open your soul up a little bit. Like actually don’t worry about it being palatable. I’m serious. Get weirder. Get weirder right now. I’m demanding that you get weirder right now. It’s not your responsibility to make your reader feel good. It’s your job to make art, goddamnit. Make art. Make weird art. Open up your third eye and eat an entire cheesecake.

transwarlock

If you’re like me and so painfully autistic that you Literally Can’t Conceptualize How To Do This, look up examples of experimental fiction.

Two of the most famous examples of this are House of Leaves and this one old book written by a French(?) guy whose name escapes me where he systematically chose each word so that there wasn’t an entire ‘e’ anywhere in the entire text from cover to cover.

Tell a story exclusively through dialogue.

Write from the POV of a recipe blogger about her latest dish that’s not actually about the dish itself — maybe it’s about the Cold War or her pending divorce or generational trauma, but it’s still technically a recipe, so on her blog it goes.

Make a buzzfeed-style list of helpful criteria for people to look at if they suspect they’ve been isekai’d.

Go crazy. Be stupid. Have fun.

driftingprose

LA DISPARITION MENTIONED, THAT’S THE OLD BOOK WITH NO “E” ANYWHERE IN THE TEXT

French guy’s name is Georges Perec btw

It’s been translated into a bunch of other languages and all the translators picked the most common letter in their own language to leave out lol

The English translation is called A Void if you want to check it out!

A Void - Wikipedia

kedreeva

There's something so good about the wild type.

ambiguouspersonhood

What are those cool spiky feathers?? (Sorry I know nothing about these cool gals!)

kedreeva

You've been!! BAMBOOZLED!!

Those are actually not spiky feathers at all! They sure do look like it, though, and that's likely the point- if I were a raptor looking down upon a pincushion, I would think twice about grabbing it with my bare feet.

However, it's a ruse! Just a marking on a feather

Pretty neat, yeah?

aphrodite-gock

just overheard somwone say "hey dude i dont see the future I've got two balls and neither is made of crystal" and im absolutely losing it

gawki

Pride or die 🌈🛼💗

dogpuppy

He is my princess diana

forestgreenandgray

Hey do you know what rumination is?

Rumination is probably the most common type of OCD compulsion, but I rarely see anyone talking about it. I've talked to multiple people diagnosed with OCD who didn't even recognize it as a compulsion.

Basically, if you have OCD you have terrible intrusive thoughts. They can be about anything, but common themes are fear of being a bad person, fear of hurting someone, fear of contamination. etc.

Rumination is when you get stuck in a spiral. Rumination is when you spend hours catastrophizing, overthinking, analyzing, telling yourself it's going to be okay.

I'll say it again:

Rumination is a compulsion.

Rumination is a compulsion, and that means you have to stop doing it.

I did ERP (exposure response prevention) for my OCD with a therapist! For 9 months! And it did help, but the idea didn't really click until I found this website a couple years later.

And Oh My God. It made things make so much more sense, and I was able to pull myself out of an episode even though I wasn't in therapy or on meds at the time.

Genuinely if you have OCD, or even if you suspect you have OCD, I'm begging you to read some of these articles.

Like this was genuinely life changing for me.

Here are some of the ones that were most helpful to me:

Defining Rumination

How to Stop Ruminating

ERP Exercises for Compulsive Rumination

What to Do When You're Triggered

tikkunolamorgtfo

Just want to add that if you're on the spectrum, you may also experience Autistic Rumination, which is distinct from the obsessive variety, despite the two having some overlapping characteristics!