A lot of personality, none of it good

For-profit cooperations are not only alienating you from your labour, they are also alienating you from pussy

[kittenslurpingmilk-deactivated2]

[thefaiao]

Dunmer Hlaalu councilman Vares Veleth in Necrom, revived to attend court summons and resolve a minor land dispute between two of his great grandsons, both from different families. Despite being displeased with his descendants' inability to settle affairs by themselves, he was notably cheerful, happy to drink sujamma one more time, and not in a hurry to return to his burial chamber, despite "generally preferring it to the tumultuous world of the living."

[what-even-is-thiss]

I hate I when I get an idea for a novel. Like oh no here starts the slow sad slip n’ slide to dissapointment again.

[what-even-is-thiss]

You ever been 30,000 words and hundreds of research hours into a project when you realize hey wait a minute. I don’t like this. This is bad.

[fassina]

Ok adding to this though that even though it is extremely relatable, this is a KNOWN thing with professional writing. 10k is often referred to as "having a pot boiling" or "having a stew" - it's the point where you often see an idea coming together and it's exciting! But THEN... 30k-50k is the point where that fun has to start coming together. In theatre, it's usually week 3 of a 5 week rehearsal period where you have to stop talking about the play and really get it all up on its feet and cohesive. In art, it's committing to what are going to be the final visible layers of colour and texture, in sculpture the moment where you're truly at the point of no return with carving out the shape.

It usually feels really bad. Because this is the point it becomes real craft. It's so, so difficult to really be able to identify if it's truly not going to be anything or you're just in the hardest part of the process, and really the only way to know is to... write through it. Write it badly. Or, if you really can't, put it in a drawer and come back to it after a few months of breathing space. Remember, you can fix so much in the edit, but you can't fix nothing!

(I say, fully looking at my latest draft of my book and considering throwing it in the bin. But my editor said exactly this to me, so I'm passing it along.)

[tjalexandernyc]

this is 100% true. I've written 6 complete novels at this point and every single time around the 40k mark I feel lost in the woods. Nothing seems to be working. I feel awful; I can't sleep. I keep going even though I'm convinced I'm going to fail. And then... It's like leaving a tunnel and getting back out in the sunshine. Stuff starts coalescing. Things that weren't working have obvious fixes. I "can write" again, except I was writing the whole time. It just felt hopeless in the moment. It's not. You just gotta get out of the woods.

[ariaste]

Ah yes the Slough of Desponds. Professional author with 13 books, and this is normal for me as well. (Checking for tension issues usually helps!)

[sainamoonshine]

Lmao I literally wrote a whole blog post abt it once.

https://www.patreon.com/posts/writing-advice-1-82451675

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[lakevida]

i bet the pain will end if i arrange a perfect enough sentence about it

[mousidy]

so how much more do trans women need to show you about what we go through before you stop rolling your eyes when we say we face misogyny

[mousidy]

we face misogynistic patterns of abuse, discrimination, and oppression, intertwined with and amplified by transphobia. and then, beaten down, when we seek community with others who face these things, we are laughed off as the jokes we've always been told we are

[mousidy]

pale imitations of womanhood

when we are raped, it is a pale imitation of real rape

when we are abused by our partners, it is a pale imitation of real domestic abuse

when we are punished for our failures to meet patriarchal standards of womanhood, it's a pale imitation of the same thing happening to cis women

when we grieve our inability to give birth, it is a pale imitation of the grief of cis women who cannot give birth

when we face violence and murder at incredibly high rates, when we are threatened and catcalled and harassed by men in public, our fear is a pale imitation of that of cis women

when we are paid the lowest wages of any gender demographic, it is a pale imitation of the smaller wage gap faced by cis women

our suffering is a pale imitation of real suffering

what jokes we are

[mousidy]

to be vulnerable for a second. it's painful. I want it to be ok but it isn't ok. I hope things start to get better if we keep working to make them better. I want my sisters to be ok

[mousidy]

I want my sisters to be ok

[craftykit1]

Was in a voice chat talking about bees because I shared some photos of a bee in my garden today, and everyone was like "okay bees are cool." and then I mention that I also like wasps and everyone goes "Ahhh I hate wasps! they're mean and scary!" Why? I think they're lovely. They're the same bugs.

be nice to her okay? she's just trying to live, like you.

[taraxippos]

God do I love the type of shitty erotica that refuses to refer directly to genitalia or its functions so that sex is conveyed as an act in which people mash sets of creepy pulsating growths together, "swollen organ" "wet mound" "manhood" "turgid manhood" "swollen manhood" "throbbing passage" "tumescence" "turgid swelling" "narrow slot" "moist passage" "nodule" et all

[shoogachi]

[bruzum]

[lastvalyrian]

This is literally what people are talking about when they say AI will be used to mainstream widely held bigotry. LLMs are trained on frequency and probability -> straight relationships are more well represented in the dataset -> straight pronouns and terms become the "correct" normal.

This is a form of backdoor bigotry from both normative facts (there are more straight than gay relationships) and well represented bigoted beliefs (men are superior to women).

Combine this with the mass of people inclined to believe (and being encouraged to believe) that if AI says and does something it must be correct

[7dmom]

Ants are a form of thing, known for travelling in cliques. They are small in size, unknown in color, and bashful in temperament. Every ant has two appendages they use to hurt other beings, and four appendages for other activities. Scientists have discovered many types of ants; gay, Protestant, electric, and chill. Their wealth is considered low.

[11thsense]

Yasss who else is a kinda lame aimless adult in they mid to late 20s

[senblades]

Why do you stay?

[ranticore]

Leun From Memory

[oursystemblog]

[galaxysquid27-blog]

Trapped in a world unfamiliar and incomprehensible

[sawed-on-shotgun]

hello my name is indie horror story author and basically my job is to lure you in with a really creative idea and hook that gets you super excited and then right when things start to get good im gonna throw the atmosphere and my writing style out the window and start introducing liiikeee cults and government organizations and all the characters are gonna turn into like one-liner blurting action heroes who get into likeeee gunfights and car chases and stufffff and then its gonna like keep escalating until you feel like youre reading a marvel movie script plz buy my novel i started out on nosleep

[theatsthetic]

female-presenting vitruvian

[theatsthetic]

i appreciate the amount of people reblogging this despite me not really tagging this at all. im glad many of people feel the same anger i do.