#a realization

[queenoftsage]

... o m f g ... not me slowing down a Gen Z's little commentary video about HTML and CSS down to

.75 speed because... I feel their original was too fast and I was missing bits of information. XDDD !!!!

I feel like a crypt keeper when I see the videos of these children on the internet... seriously... * coughs up blood or something *

P.S. and ALSO... not me rewinding it every other five seconds to repeat what they said, after it's already going slow. alskdfjlasdkjf..

[agonized-roblox-screenshots]

You turned away from me. You, who i thought was my friend.

[otherpigeon]

you listen to the kpdh soundtrack on repeat for ONE WEEK ONLY and suddenly spotify thinks you're a kpop girlie

[roseblvde]

What I woke up to this morning --

[teewsbliss]

maybe it’s because i’ve been so numb that i couldn’t even feel the disrespect

[coern]

goodgnight everyone....I'm going to go insult my favorite characters. and be miserably soft about them and feel bad for them afterwards

[goayda]

On Writing and Hope: a confession

There is this quote by Terry Pratchett...

"Let there be goblin hordes, let there be terrible environmental threats, let there be giant mutated slugs if you really must, but let there also be hope."

I read it recently and it got me thinking...

A few years ago I wrote a very angsty fic and I worked hard on the ending twist where I made half of the beloved characters die tragically and the others survive while drowning in guilt and sadness. And the twist worked! The feedback was excellent, the comments were very positive, everybody said the twist was fantastic, that it was heartbreaking, that they cried at that ending and I felt proud of it and then... I felt... bad.

So I wrote a fix-it for my own fic. And it only took me a day because my brain had already started working on it the moment I had finished writing the last sentence. There had been a constant feeling of fix it, fix it, save them, it doesn't have to end like this! so I wrote a fix-it sequel (time travel shenanigans, probably the laziest thing I have ever written) and I have never written anything like that again (character death, unhappy ending, you know the tags).

So that's my confession, all my angsty fics have a happy ending, I can't write angst any other way. I don't want to. I'm soft like that.

Sometimes I think it might be boring for my hypotetical readers, but I mostly write for myself, to see if I can put one word after another and create a story that didn't exist until I started typing on my keyboard. Some of my fics have been read by a glorious total of four people and one of them is my beta reader and two others are friends of mine, and I'm ok with that.

But when I read that quote I thought that Terry Pratchett would have probably approved of my soft, happy-ending stories and that made me smile.