Uhh-lissa

Drinks too much coffee. Writes songs and fiction. Vintage Fashion Enthusiast. Star Wars / Grishaverse / Marvel / DW / Critical Role / History / True Crime

[seerya]

Germany right now

[yenvengerberg]

"And I'm trying my best to stand up for you in every way I can." 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️

[hollowboobtheory]

fiber crafts is like oh you think you know how to count? think again. also count again.

[elljayvee]

for people who do not do fiber crafts, i will explain just how bad this is.

you are knitting something. it is supposed to be 50 stitches. you keep getting 51. what the hell.

you put in stitch markers every 10 stitches to keep you on track. 10 stitches, marker, 10 more, etc.

all is well for exactly 1 row

you knit 10 stitches, slide the marker over, knit 10 more, look back at the stitches you stitched, and somehow there are 11 in that last section.

how. what happened. you swear up and down you counted 10 as you did it

you count again. ok. definitely 11.

you un-knit the last section a stitch at a time until you find the renegade, fix it, proceed.

everything looks normal.

you go to knit the next row.

somehow there are 49 stitches.

that thing you fixed up above to make 11 stitches be 10 again is somehow 9.

no i don't know how either, and I've been knitting for 20 years. it happens in crochet, too, and I've been doing that for 40 years.

[worstloki]

*reading my own writing* wow this really does cater to all my specific needs

[somebooksmakeusfree]

911 fandom, I will be patiently waiting for the Buddie fan edit to Running Up That Hill, with this episode included, because all I could think about with Buck hanging like that was Max being raised by Vecna lol. That is all.

[publicdomainbooksdevotee]

[whatsdifferentincanada]

[largishcat]

circling back around to the issue of writers being expected to do all their own goddamn marketing via social media these days, because it completely nixes the possibility of writers being weird shut ins, off-putting eccentrics, or misanthropes. 80% of the literary canon was written by weird shut ins, off-putting eccentrics, and misanthropes. if you weed out everyone who’s the wrong kind of insane to maintain a twitter presence, who on earth is left

[charlottemadison42]

i heard a talk about this by a terrific mystery novelist, John Straley, titled “In Defense of Misanthropes in the Arts.”

I’ll never forget him sharing his candid fear that authors like him, authors who did not want to post on Facebook or Twitter, authors who wanted to be curmudgeonly and left alone, were being steadily squeezed out of the writing world as publishers foisted more and more promotional work directly onto authors. Not everyone is cut out for the spotlight. Not everyone wants to be their own hype man. Not everyone presents well in 280 characters, especially in a space they don’t even want to be present. The time suck, the scrutiny, the punishment for making a “mistake” -- all this extracurricular work is so different from actual writing.

Make room for weird reclusive shut-in eccentric misanthropic artists and writers. Don’t forget those voices are worth your attention, too.

[stuckinapril]

“what’s your five year plan” bro i wake up every day confused by the fact that i’m even alive

[plumslices]

My trinkets will keep me company during the end times

[neenarchive]

maidens if you are going to flee dramatically from my castle in the middle of the night once i reveal my true nature to you please leave your candelabra on the little ledge by the portcullis we are running out of them

[funnytwittertweets]

[punkrock-bottom]

[princesconsuela]

[somebooksmakeusfree]

Tell me it’s not just me. Clippy, is that you?

[usergif]

MS. MARVEL (2022-)

[maddhog]

The 80s are back baby. Red scare, ppl blaming the gays on diseases, funny synth pop, economic crash, etc etc