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#gonna maybe start posting photography everyone be niceys

as much as i poke fun at “tumblr prose,” i will acknowledge that sometimes when you’re writing and you’re really in the groove, you’re really feeling yourself, you’re on your capital-a Author shit, and you write a line that makes you go, “oh yeah, this is the Good Shit. this is so Subtle and Says So Much. this is Characterization. this is Themes and Motifs. you could write a whole essay about this one line. the master of the craft strikes again!” and then a month or whatever later when you’re editing you read over it again with post-write clarity and you realize you wrote some real “people die when they’re killed” bullshit

dragon-in-a-fez

I love when cats get a claw stuck in your clothes and then act like it's YOUR fault. lil bro I'm literally just clad in garments you're the one with your terror toes deployed

ashenmind

“monsters in the backrooms” is still such a funny concept to me

“here’s a space that’s odd and makes you feel uniquely alone, like no one has ever been here before, but don’t worry, we put a critter in here because we thought that was boring”

fishmech

So you only like the first 62 words of the 80 word post that established the concept? Fascinating.

ashenmind

yes

ashenmind

like that last paragraph is exactly what I described; an author overplaying their hand because they don’t grasp that the space being empty is far more interesting than anything you could possibly put into it

ashenmind

there are 1001 one things you can put into the backrooms that are more interesting than monsters

once you have done that, find something else to do with your creative efforts. not everything needs to be suitable for a video game.

no. wander my halls for 10,000 years.

angrysexyshortstack

A room is most scary when it is empty

nepharim-tree

To put it another way: A room that has things in it has things to do. It has clear actions that can be taken. Those things may be scary or dangerous, like a monstrous creature chasing you, but scary or dangerous things present an even clearer picture of what actions you need to take; you need to run. You need to survive. The immediate threat (monster) erases the existential threat (the empty room).

An empty room has unanswerable questions. A room empty except for the Scary Monster has directions. Now riddle me this- which of those is more terrifying?

appendingfic

i always read the last paragraph as pointing out that the infinite solitude created the hallucinatory uncertainty of whether you're alone, which is in fact scarier than KNOWING there's a monster

eep-blue-sea

💙Ishmael & Queequeg

Moby Dick, illustrated by Anton Lomaev // 7seas, Chloe Moriondo // Moby Dick by Herman Melville, chapter 10 // Moby Dick (2011) // Foreigner's God, Hozier // Moby Dick chapter 4 // Without You Without Them, Boygenius // Moby Dick, chapter 78 // Rising Tide, Allie X // Moby Dick (1956) // Moby Dick, epilogue

#moby dick

jumpscart

Sometimes you will be a lesbian to your parents and a straight man to your partners parents and a gay man to your partner and a woman to your grandparents and out to your friends and stealth to your classmates and a nice young lady to the cashier at the coffee shop and then people on your computer will ask you to choose which of these identities you ACTUALLY are and which you are Appropriating The Oppression Of because don’t you know they contract each other. You can only be one thing solidly forever

ilovedthestars

"how do you feel about labels as a queer person?"

道可道，非常道。名可名，非常名。

mutuals do this

the slow casual creep of misogyny back into every point of our lives both digital and physical is making me feel fucking insane

metanarrates

2010s feminism was extremely flawed and deserved to be criticized but do you remember when most people at least pretended to like women

anarqueeen

Turning the cuck chair around backwards to show I'm not like your other, boring cuckolds

ryan-sometimes

Working an office job will truly make you have the wildest enemies, bc why is my nemesis rn a woman I’ve never met and who exclusively haunts me by sending diabolical emails, and also a specific guy who left my company before I even worked here and made the system so fuckass that it ruined procedures for like a year

ryan-sometimes

Yesterday my nemesis (woman I’ve never met and whose face I’ve never seen) sent my office an email so rude, basically saying we had fucked up every project she ever ordered from us, one of the worst emails I’ve ever read in my life.

And it pissed me off so badly that I spent the ENTIRE WORK DAY today compiling evidence from every project my team has ever done for her, pulling past emails she’d sent us, putting together an entire case proving that she had been the problem all along. That she got projects mixed up, that she’d made requests that were nonsensical, literally everything you could possibly imagine. Screenshots of emails, reports we’d submitted, EVERYTHING.

This woman in particular has been terrorizing my team for years, her name is almost a slur in my office, I had simply had ENOUGH of her.

I put all of this evidence together and sent it to all of my bosses at 4:30pm. Then I took a long break to eat a sweet treat and drink some tea.

After my break, my bosses all called in an emergency meeting with me and they said they read my report and fucking loved it. And I sat on a teams call with my boss’ boss as she wrote my nemesis the scathing email I had always fantasized about sending, using the evidence I’d compiled, and hit send.

It was the most satisfying workday I’ve had since I got hired.

winnie-wine

felwinter-deactivated20190201

my sister has apparently had to stop playing Skyrim because she stole every book in the game to stock her house so now her house is full of books to the point where it almost breaks the game and every time she tries to read one guards teleport into her home and arrest her