{Cariño}

Don’t mind me in my corner with my hyperfixations || I use any pronouns:) (Angst has a chokehold on me) 🐀

[escapedaudios]

Heightflation among literary male love interests is out of control man. So many people got into an arms race to make taller and taller dudes that people will be legitimately shocked if you say a male love interest character is 5'10" and ask why you chose to make him so unbelievably short. I can only presume this is because they read that Prince Sexyfae was 6'4" and don't actually conceive about how colossally large that is, and just imagine a normal slightly above average height to the point that their brain adjusts and the heightflation cycle starts.

Someone on the /r/RomanceBooks subreddit did an analysis of the best selling romance books of 2024 and found this:

Most of them are vaguely described as over six feet, with the most common explicitly stated heights being 6'3" and 6'6". There were more MMCs over 7 feet in height than under 6 feet in height, even though 84% of American men are under 6 feet/1.83 meters. 6'6" (slightly over 1.98 meters) is fucking gigantic. I really don't think people's envisioning of these characters is really keeping up with how massively large that is. A slim build at that height is around 200-210 lbs, a muscled and built frame at that height is more like 260 lbs or more. Most stores don't even carry clothes that fit that kind of size.

Among my characters, my only MMC that is Romance Novel MMC-height is like… Crow (6'7"), who's character largely revolves around the fact that he's superhumanly fucking huge. The fact that random ass businessmen or cowboys or 18th century aristocrats or whatever in romance novels are just casually walking around at approximately the same height as my barbarian superhuman mutant MMC is actually hysterical to me.

We've gotta correct on heightflation lmao this is getting silly. People act betrayed and deceived when you make an MMC 5'11" (two inches above average American height). Love interests will become kaijus pretty soon.

[redstonedust]

being too warm during the day: well, this sucks, but this temperature makes sense because the sun is up, and the sun is making me warm. i am unhappy but logically i can deal with it for now.

being too warm at night: what if i kill everybody.

[mr-laveau]

Any facts about Lori for the poor perhaps U⁠ ⁠´⁠꓃⁠ ⁠`⁠ ⁠U

Hiii, and uhhh lemme think, surprisingly not many people ask that about Lori:

Lori does not actually care for alcohol like that, he'll still drink it but she doesn't care for it, will indulge in cigarettes tho. Mother of three needs something to take the edge off after all. They're a lot more of a social drinker.

Lori's tough but also isn't trained to fight anyone. I made art about it but realistically, Lori would rely a lot more on magic and the strength that being a Celestial Savante gives her while scrapping.

While Lori can be pretty caring about their employees, the line sort of gets toed rather than crossed when it comes to how nice she'll treat them. They did used to work in a very shady line of work and the lessons that came with that were knowing how to give people grace and when to be firm with others.

It's been years since Lori spoke with her parents but if she did actually come back to them, they'd take him back in and help, buuuuut they don't believe that because they're pretty pessimistic about their chances at a real happy life.

And that's some facts about Lori!

[mywilltoliveisdecreasing]

LORILORILORILORILORILORI awe Lori :[

[t4timekeeper]

WE NEED TO START TELLING PEOPLE ABOUT BIGENDERISM

[t4timekeeper]

seeing people say “sometimes i wish i was a guy but i still want to be a girl too” or vice versa and it’s like YOU CAN!!! YOU CAN DO THAT!!!! TAKE MY HAND

[xanthuslover]

As someone with chronic pain. I would let xanthus turn me in a heartbeat.

[boiledegghole]

dmsp was like those old movies that were absolutely stunning and had a really captivating sense of magic and color that we cant really capture today and then you google it and the wikipedia reads out how the filming killed like 30 people and permanently wounded 6 others

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

remember that when it comes to fanfics, two cakes is always better then one. the more the merrier!

[writingdose]

one of the best feelings tbh

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

this and also there’s something very beautiful about watching in progress fics grow. shout out to in progress fics <3

[mareevstheworld]

Was stressed about defining my sexuality until I realized it doesn't fucking matter #bewhoyouare

[irreparableteacup]

i only like enemies to lovers if it’s gay because i think men who are mean to women don’t deserve to live

[mywilltoliveisdecreasing]

Me when I saw Uriah:

[our-trans-punk-experience]

in the absence of ao3 I think we should go become tattoo artists, flowershop owners, students, members of a band, long term rivals, coworkers, or get selected for a politically advantageous arranged marriage.

Let's take this shit to the streets

[dragon-in-a-fez]

the thing that really cheeses my cake about flies getting in my house is they clearly don't want to be there anyway. like at least the ants trying to steal cereal from my pantry had a goal and a plan. you are just here because you're too stupid to use a window twice

[ranboolivesaysstuff]

It's very funny to me whenever I get forced ai content on my feed it's always a terrible idea at it's core.

Like the people that claim it can create "literally anything" can't even come up with anything remotely entertaining to put into it. Like the terrible thing that is generative ai aside, the people who use it just arent even creative to begin with 😭😭 It's not because they want to create something it's because they're so jealous of those who have actual talent and passion that they make a tool that tries it's best to hide the fact they don't have any.

[chubs-deuce]

I had a really funny interaction idea based on the baseless hypothesis that Jax has joined the circus late enough to have used vine on the regular, but still early enough that probably missed most of what's happened in the last decade in the real world.

[gbaudios]