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People bring me joy :) (Kenkyu, 20!) (it/its preferred but she/he is okay!)

[razzmothazz]

still caring about internet friends you lost touch with years ago is so embarrassing. yeah i had a deam we met up irl recently. the last time we spoke was maybe 7-8 years ago. i still wear the laces we randomly decided was a sign of our friendship. i dont know what any of your socials are or if youre even active on any. sometimes i see someones art resemble yours and i wonder for hours. do you still go by that name you chose? whenever i see it i wonder if its you. we couldve passed each other in this vastness a thousand times and not have a clue.

[razzmothazz]

we were lonely kids having fun together. do you remember?

[ranpowriter]

I want one day to be able to tell someone that their gesture (of affection) made me happy and mean it.

[valleykey]

can i vaguepost and subtweet a writing advice post i just saw on here for a second.

i just saw someone make a big post getting annoyed about the advice to cut words like "think" and "feel" and "wonder" bc its "tiktokification" of writing and like giving writing "ozempic" and how its like you just what if i want 3 paragraphs of introspective narration between my dialogue!! i hate this pressure to trim the fat and "extra" stuff from writing!!!

which is the kind of criticism you'd have if you saw that advice immediately put on "let's get mad goggles" missed half the words included, wanted to read in bad faith, and also completely misunderstood the point of that advice.

that advice actually generally has nothing to do with "pacing" or the "amount" of writing or level of detail youre including. it doesn't have to do with length. it really doesnt have anything to do with whether you want ur pov character to go on a three sentence or three page internal monologue.

that advice is generally at least in every case i've seen it - it's more specifically about trimming words that create "distance" between the pov character and the audience.

it's the difference between saying "he thinks he wants to go to church" and "he wants to go to church - doesn't he? he does." these both express the same general thought - the desire to go to church, with an implication of doubt. but giving yourself the rule of not using the word "think" or "feel" forces you as a writer to come up with what usually becomes a more immersive way to explore third person limited. another example being. "he feels so mad he can't think" vs "the heat inside of him burns through his skin, his thoughts, brain, skull, until he can't even think"

..which is NOT to say that using words like think or feel will automatically break the immersion of third person limited! but they tend to create different feelings and also force your hand as a writer into creating different feelings. and as a writer you need to understand that words like think or feel TEND to fundamentally be distance creating words. and not only distance creating words, they tend to be words that people default to when they don't know how to express a thought or feeling. or that they just insert into sentences in a way that truly does simply bloat the prose and water down its meaning. THIS is why that advice is so common - because especially when newer writers try third person limited, they limit their prose and the characters range of expression by using words like "think" "wonder" "feel" - even "know" . so on so forth. they rely on these words too much as the simple default without understanding the alternatives or how to use them deliberately.

if you want an incredibly immersive internal monologue where you step by step go through everything with the character exactly, it's EXTREMELY useful to give yourself a rule where you'll try not to use those words.

and frankly even ignoring all that. even if it literally was just about prose minimalism and pacing which. it's not even close to that. that post was just such a rude and uncharitable interpretation. i hate to see annoying discourse and these weird taking-sides social tendencies infest into my .. not just hobby space. writing is a technical and emotional artform i value so, so highly. i hate to see people approach it in ways that sound progressive on the surface but are really just. once again. bad faith interpretations of classical advice! trying to shove everything into a culture war box! i don't like it!

[valleykey]

another note on this

i want to emphasize there are so many good reasons to use that type of word. they can add a lot to your tone and be used for all sorts of things, including technical benefit. for example: "he knows the murderer's eyes were blue" can be used for emphasis as compared to: "the murderer's eyes were blue" although there's always another way to express that. for example: "what does he know? the murderer's eyes were blue." it all depends on the tone you're trying to create and the specifics of what you're trying to convey! the consistent use of fairly dry "distance creating" words like think/feel/know/etc in a person's POV Limited narration can convey that that person is more levelheaded, or has a more objective sense of themselves; it can be used to convey tonal calm, or even dissociation.

the key is to be aware and deliberate - at least, if that's what you want. you can also just write without wanting to consider any of this! but a person that isn't interested in the technical aspects of writing isn't the kind of person that advice is aimed at - it's aimed at people that want it!

so once again it's just. man!!!! it's so sad to see all of these nuances just thrown away in favor of "ew it's like ozampicing your writing this is so evil" NO!!!!

[ranpowriter]

Something very Annoying about being alive. All this mud to trudge through just for my emotions to cap off at Feeling Not Bad. And like yeah I guess feeling neutral is cool and all but surely there is better out there.

[loveridden1999]

the thing about phone in bed is that it's so awesome. almost makes you feel like betraying & destroying yourself for nothing isn't all so bad

[ibenology]

the average twitter vs tumblr community experience

[ceruleanheaven]

brought nothing to the gun fight. whatever man

[aviryllis]

I NEED TO EXPLODE THEM WITH MY MIND!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! anyone wanna join me

[innerchildabortionclinic]

haven't seen anyone say it yet so I will: a lot of what's portrayed as "girlhood" on social media is actually just having parents with money. and people act as if being raised like that is a girl experience. i've never had my dads credit card I don't even know where that guy is rn

[valleykey]

people about a male character: this is my tmasc or tfem genderweird butch nonbinary multigender cupioromantic bi-pan achillean aspec greyace he/they/it blorbo

people about a female character: lesbian idk

[meanbuddhist]

just identified a behavioral pattern within myself

[the-compost-corner]

Tumblr put this right below it...

[veryberryskye]

no i did not “steal” your heart. im a princess. everything is already mine.

[mikkeneko]

planning my fic in a normal way. 1) what incredibly indulgent scene do I want to write next? 2) what connective tissue do I have to set up between indulgent scenes to get us there?

[ranpowriter]

Graduating from college part1 soon and when I do I’ll celebrate more properly but for now I would like it to be known that I’m going to abuse my next college’s health insurance the second I can for medication. And the last time I was on psychiatric meds was the time I was super into BSD so. We’ll see what happens.

[ghostisredacted]

just saw someone say "a fandom is small, so like only 1-3 fics posted per day" . you wouldnt survive a day in the place where im from

[str-ngeloop]

the rule of tumblr is that all your most insightful commentary must be buried under a mandatory "This is What You stupid fucking people Don't Fucking Get" just make it as hostile and offputting as possible. really aim to make people unsafe, cause we all know that's when people are most likely to listen

[gigi-b]

List of things I am currently handling well

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