forgive me great sage, for I have fucked up

The Great Hating Cunt of Good Intention🪻AO3

[cyberxbattalion]

[boise-chypre]

Livresse (Bookish) ~ Frederique Mariot

[wibblyrlin]

FLORENCE + THE MACHINE Sympathy Magic (2025)

[literarymagpie]

Social media is an evil machine that shows you the worst book takes you've ever seen.

[literarymagpie]

Related to this, I recently found a post on Instagram advertising Japanese lit. recs that aren't Haruki Murakami because of some sexist remarks he made. (I didn't know about the sexist remarks. It wouldn't necessarily surprise me, but that's neither here nor there. I don't have a problem with recommending other Japanese authors.)

The list included work by Yukio Mishima. I can't.

[objectamour]

am I into 'rope and rigging'?🤨 uh yeah I guess you could say so

[ongreenergrasses]

about to go into serious credit card debt lollll

[oatmilkcore]

girl help all i do is endure

[feyburner]

99% of fanfiction is absolute dogshit bathwater and that’s beautiful, I love that, I love that the barrier for entry is nonexistent, I love that anyone can do it, I love all the badly written porn, I love that it’s just creation for creation’s sake, I love it. Except when it’s something I’m into. When it’s something I’m into, then I’m gonna need everyone to step it up.

[meekmedea]

even a well fed snake will turn

At her very core, she is a scientist. Her experiments, her life’s blood. And she shall live and die as a scientist if that’s the last thing she'd do.

[thghorrorcollection]

opinions requested!

There has been some interest in having an October reopening of the horror collection. The same guidelines would apply, with the two main differences being that the collection would remain open for only one month and there would be a short prompt list provided that people could choose to use for additional inspiration.

would you be interested in participating in the horror collection, October edition?

yes!

unsure/more information needed

no

Remaining time: 6 days 2 hours

[justgot1]

At the post office today:

Man with beautiful silver undercut and a coach bag: can I get a sheet of stamps please

Clerk: does it matter what kind?

Man, with homosexual despair: EVerything matters to me, unFORtunately.

[radicalgraff]

"Fuck ICE"

Seen in Los Angeles, USA

[7pleiades7]

Ariadne (1886) by Sir John Lavery, R.A., R.H.A., R.S.A. (Irish, 1856 – 1941), signed twice J Lavery (lower right), oil on canvas, unframed: 174 x 113cm.; 68¼ x 44½in, framed: 193 x 133.5cm.; 76 x 52½in.

[driflloon]

lam museum: lam loves

[antoniabishop]

illustrations for a poem I wrote called The Invisible Palace about a kidnapped princess and her best friend's attempt to rescue her.

I dream to see it published someday 🫥

[sapppphho]

katniss is given grace for being a seventeen year old girl thrown into war (as she should!), but gale is never given any grace for being a seventeen year old boy who suffered the exact same way she did all his childhood and then chose to walk into the fight for whatever he had left. gale didn’t have a cinna or an effie; he didn’t see capitol people growing to care for katniss, he saw them walking her to a death match and then dolling her up as a child bride who got pregnant at seventeen. he had three younger siblings and a mother to take care of, he was hunting way before katniss. he’s the revolutionary people want katniss to be when in reality her story is about the effects of war on innocents.

[ongreenergrasses]

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I was talking with the gf about booktok tonight and explaining what I see as the deterioration of writing in that environment, in that people are no longer interested in crafting narratives across a piece. the priority is to include as many snappy and quotable lines as possible. in reality, a well constructed story has very few quotable lines (if any) because all the writing is working to support a larger narrative goal and the individual sentences either don’t make a lot of sense or don’t have the same impact without context. and I think it’s fine to have writing that orbits around quotable lines! there’s nothing wrong with that! but what bothers me is when people uphold that type of work as good writing, because it’s not. “good writing” is subjective, yes, but I think we can all agree that what makes a piece of writing good is if it can convey a story or not, and if you’re jumping from quotable line to quotable line, it’s almost impossible to convey a story effectively.

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