Well I started this comic in 2020 or perhaps early 2021 and at this point I thought I would never finish it. And I am still not happy with it. But I am choosing to let go of it and what the hell, why not share it. Hope you all enjoy
the thing about being bullied for being weird as a kid is that even if you've always embraced being weird your brain is still always looking for the line where it's too much. you can be as proudly and intentionally weird as you want and you can love being weird but your mind is still convinced there's a point where you get too weird and people start treating you like a weird looking bug again. also it feels like you reach that point 500 times a day even if everyone you've spoken to today found you pleasant and likable and even if you're completely alone in your house with nobody looking at you at all.
Not the bombs in the First Crusade I'm HOWLING. It sounds like a Monty Python sketch!
yeah it was funny but also i don't even think the writer was really thinking about the bombs part consciously, it is just that they had to write a 'character is in the middle of battle' scene and used a stock sentence without really thinking about what it meant in the context of that particular battle. this was aaaages ago and i have no idea what fic it was, no hard feelings to whoever wrote it, i just always think about it when i think about how I also have a library of stock sentences i unconsciously use if i don't stop to think about it.
all those posts that are like "why am i researching currency debasement in the 1860s for a fanfiction no one is going to care" are full of shit, i just DNFd a fic for being obviously incorrect about the history of plumbing
#i think the underpinning perception to me re: this kind of thing #is that it’s what convinces you on a gut level that the author doesnt know what theyre doing and is not thinking seriously about their story #whether this is true slash accurate or not varies #but supposedly ‘ little ‘ things can be strong & clear indicators that an author didnt think through their scene and just wanted a specific #aesthetic or moment that accidentally hurls the reader out of immersion in the story #forex - an example from some prev tags - horses being tacked up in the middle of the night #just in riding gear for no reason like theyre cars that can be parked in a garage and just be ready to drive #a ‘ little ‘ thing but it’s like. fully immersion breaking. like oh thats not a real horse. these characters arent interacting with real #horses. they are Means of Transportationing With Aesthetic. and from there it’s such a quick slide into oh these characters arent real arent #engaging arent compelling #bc theyve accidentally fallen thru a hole where the author forgot to put down story (via @silentwalrus1)
i made a post like this before but I can't find it now. so. I'll just redo it.
What's the first "big news story" you remember from when you were a kid?
It's something I love to ask mixed-aged groups sometimes because I think it's really interesting to see the responses. I've gotten answers from the Olympics of [whatever year] to Watergate to more recent stuff from my niblings.
My first news thing I remember is the OJ Simpson trial. I vaguely remember watching the news with my grandparents before that, but that's the first story I remember, in part because my second grade teacher had us go play so she could watch the verdict 😂
Okay so I made a list of 30 (well, 29 actually) prompts I am releasing into the wild. The point of this is that at least one of the participants are not having a good time.
It has 30 prompts for November but feel free to write and post whenever, but please add the tag #No one nuts November or #NoonenutsNovember wherever you post. You do not have to @ or credit this blog if you use any of these prompts.
(Text version under the cut)
1. Safeword
2. Sub/dom drop
3. Loosing intrest halfway through
4. Trying something that doesn't work
5. Medical emergency (bonus points: it happens during bondage)
6. Bad/failed orgasm
7. Should have safeworded
8. "Wait, it's not supposed to hurt?"
9. "Let's never try that again."
10. Sex so bad they break up after
11. Realistic shower sex
12. Incompatible kinks
13. Threw up on that thang
14. Can't get hard/wet/aroused
15. Says wrong persons name during sex
16: ugly crying/overwhelmed
17: "I remembered you being better at this"/"I'm not impressed."/"I've had better."/"You're not hung chill"
18: Allergic reaction/cut off circulation
19. Dirty talk/degradation gets too real
20. Ignored/missed a safeword
21. Random horny confession that kills the mood for the other person/people
22. "No really, that's not going to fit."
23. Fire alarm goes off/interrupted by a third party
24. Pushing themselves into sex they aren't ready for
25. Sex toy gets stuck
26. Only one person having fun/agreeing to boring sex
27. Couple brings in a bad 3rd
28. Sex in a bad location
29. Sex so bad it kills you/one of the participants dies
started listening to the audiobook version of the chronographia by michael psellos – essentially a tell all memoir by a guy who worked at the byzantine court from the 1020s to the 1070s and let me tell you!! I'm pretty close to the beginning still but the amount of sex and betrayal and scheming eunuchs and moral outrage is already sky high. the real housewives of the byzantine empire. this is my love island
psellos also constantly keeps teasing all sorts of dramatic twists and turns and saying stuff like "but this decision would turn out to be fatal for them all.... more on that turn of events later in our story" like yessss love the building suspense..... the 1070s version of "here's what happens in next week's episode" sizzler reels.
Knowing that Christopher Nolan has no idea of women’s inner lives AND that he knows his own happiness is completely reliant on his wife, who is also his boss, without whom he would be creatively and emotionally adrift, suggest that his marriage is this intensely spiritual, almost theological type of femdom. Not unlike the guy who defrauded Harvard with a fake “Jesus’ wife” papyrus less as a financial fraud than as an extension of his belief that his own wife, with whom he was in a femdom relationship, was the reincarnation of Mary Magdalene. But Nolan is, I guess, a more pagan iteration, in which Emma Thomas is like a puzzling oracle to whom her husband must keep making a variety of sacrifices to please. A sort of cargo cult femdom. I’m very happy for them both, to be clear.
started listening to the audiobook version of the chronographia by michael psellos – essentially a tell all memoir by a guy who worked at the byzantine court from the 1020s to the 1070s and let me tell you!! I'm pretty close to the beginning still but the amount of sex and betrayal and scheming eunuchs and moral outrage is already sky high. the real housewives of the byzantine empire. this is my love island
probably the one where I show up at his doorstep with a black eye and he opens the door in boxers and a white tank top and he leans against the doorframe looks me up and down and says you just can't stay outta trouble can you and I say I'm here ain't I and he says proves my point and I say fuck off and he chuckles and says get in here you're lettin all the air out and I follow him in and we sit on opposite ends of the same couch and he mutes the tv which I can't help but notice is playing a recording of one of my matches and he drapes an arm over the back of the couch and regards me with head tilted back kinda just showin me his jaw you know and he goes so what is this and I go gimme a break this ain't exactly easy for me and he says last time I see you you punch me in the gut and tell me to shove my ass up my ass which is impossible for the record and now you show up here lookin like you just went twelve rounds and I say maybe I did and he says how was it and I say you know how it was and he says I wanna hear you say it and I huff and say not the same and he says I think it looks good on you and I say would look better on you and he says I can give you more and we realize how close we are to each other and then he leans forward and I lean forward and we do kiss and then it's like all hell breaks loose and we're all over each other and minutes turn to hours turn to nights turn to months and before he knows it we're at the altar dressed to the nines and he's telling me I'm the best bad thing that ever happened to him and one of the bridesmaids wipes a tear from her eye and he cups a hand around the back of my neck and pulls me close and that's when I hit him with a right cross BAM works every fuckin time
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