#alex talks

[manichewitz]

ever since i was a little girl i wanted to be a man with a homoerotic years long incredibly intense friendship with another man

[vraska-theunseen]

DID YOU ALL KNOW THAT YOU CAN DO WHATEVER UOU WANT WHEN YOURW MAKING ART ISNT THAT WILD

[aritany]

I'm sorry your writing strategy is WHAT?? I'm going to need a thorough explanation of this because I'm FASCINATED

[brian murphy voice] I DIDNT SAY ANYTHING WEIRD!!!

okay i did. but also! if it ain’t broke…

here’s how this crumbles cookie-wise. sometimes (as is currently the case) i feel like i am trying to hold onto a whole novel in my brain at once. this does not feel particularly good because the novel doesn’t belong in my brain it belongs Out There. so i make a very detailed outline and then i start at chapter 1, and i write to 100 words (give or take a few). then i move on to chapter 2 and write to 100 words. then to chapter 3 and so on until i have at least 100 words in each chapter. then once i’ve run through the whole book, i go back to the beginning and make sure each chapter is up to 200. then i’m usually in the Meat of each scene so i’ll get everything up to 500, then 1000, then 1500 and then usually i clock out of chapters around or just under the 2k mark.

this appeases the hyperactive part of my brain by making sure i’m never bored, and helps the project manager in my brain so i can keep track of many moving parts in the novel and also ensures that scenes at the end speak to scenes at the beginning since i’m (sort of) writing the whole book at once.

NOTE: sometimes i get lost in the sauce and write way past 100 or wherever im at, and that’s fine. it just means i probably skip that chapter during my next pass since it’ll be past my goal wc for each chapter of the run.

that is all. try it, if you want. i honestly don’t know how to write books any other way

[raylasgf]

actually shed some tears wdym 💔💔

[alexandraisyes]

It's not normal to send people death threats over fiction 👍

If you're so bothered by a piece of fiction maybe you should go to a therapist and talk about why it bothers you

Not send death threats

Authors and artists are real people, not machines for you to abuse

[rambles-of-mental-illness]

REGRET, REMORSE, GUILT, ACCOUNTABILITY

Regret - What it is: Wishing the outcome had been different. - Focus: The consequences of the action - especially for yourself. - Key traits: Self-focused, reflective, sometimes selfish.

Remorse - What it is: Emotional sorrow for causing harm to another. - Focus: Empathy and moral awareness. - Key traits: Other-focused, internal suffering, emotional heaviness.

Guilt - What it is: A moral or emotional weight for breaking a personal or societal rule. - Focus: Internal shame or conflict. - Key traits: Internally driven, can be irrational, often causes rumination.

Accountability - What it is: Acknowledging and taking responsibility for your actions. - Focus: Behavior, consequences, repair. - Key traits: Can be rational, does not require emotion.

HOW THEY OVERLAP

All Four Present ✅ Regret | ✅ Remorse | ✅ Guilt | ✅ Accountability Example: “I lashed out and hurt someone I care about. I hate that I did it (regret), I feel awful about the pain I caused (remorse), I can’t stop thinking about how wrong I was (guilt), and I’ve already apologized and made amends (accountability).” → Classic “I messed up and I know it” moment.

Regret + Remorse ✅ Regret | ✅ Remorse | ❌ Guilt | ❌ Accountability Example: “I wish I hadn’t said that. It clearly hurt them and I feel bad. . . but I don’t think I was actually wrong, and I’m not going to apologize.” → Feels sorrowful and wishes things went differently, but doesn’t believe they’re morally at fault.

Regret + Guilt ✅ Regret | ❌ Remorse | ✅ Guilt | ❌ Accountability Example: “I broke the rule, and I feel ashamed. I just wish I hadn’t gotten caught.” → More focused on personal consequence and inner shame than on the harm done to others. Self-loathing can show up here.

Regret + Accountability ✅ Regret | ❌ Remorse | ❌ Guilt | ✅ Accountability Example: “This deal went badly. I’ll own it and fix the damage, even if I don’t feel bad about it.” → Professionalism. Do what must be done but don’t get emotionally involved.

Remorse + Guilt ❌ Regret | ✅ Remorse | ✅ Guilt | ❌ Accountability Example: “I had to make the choice. . . I know it was right. But I still feel awful for what it did to them, and I can’t stop thinking about it.” → A moral dilemma. They wouldn’t take it back, but they still hurt.

Remorse + Accountability ❌ Regret | ✅ Remorse | ❌ Guilt | ✅ Accountability Example: “I don’t think I was wrong, but I hurt you. I want to make that right.” → The person doesn’t think they acted immorally, but still feels emotional pain for causing harm, and they try to fix it. A very mature emotional space.

Guilt + Accountability ❌ Regret | ❌ Remorse | ✅ Guilt | ✅ Accountability Example: “I broke the rule and I’ll face the punishment, even if I don’t feel bad about it or think it hurt anyone.” → Rule-follower or someone trying to prove their morality. They take responsibility purely from principle.

Regret Only ✅ Regret | ❌ Remorse | ❌ Guilt | ❌ Accountability Example: “I wish I hadn’t done that. It didn’t work out.” → Often selfish or neutral. There’s no emotional weight, just a reaction to negative consequences. A wish that the situation ended differently.

Remorse Only ❌ Regret | ✅ Remorse | ❌ Guilt | ❌ Accountability Example: “It had to be done. . . but I hate that I hurt you.” → Sadness or empathy without shame or moral conflict. A great example of emotional depth without self-blame. You just hurt for them.

Guilt Only ❌ Regret | ❌ Remorse | ✅ Guilt | ❌ Accountability Example: “I feel guilty for surviving when they didn’t.” → Internalized shame without external harm or desire to fix it. Often irrational guilt.

Accountability Only ❌ Regret | ❌ Remorse | ❌ Guilt | ✅ Accountability Example: “I did the thing. I’m responsible. That’s all.” → No emotion, just ownership.

None ❌ Regret | ❌ Remorse | ❌ Guilt | ❌ Accountability Example: “Yeah, I did it. So?” → No emotional or moral engagement, no ownership, no care. Just indifference.

Why It Matters

When people use them interchangeably, it erases nuance.

You can:

Regret something but feel no remorse

Feel guilty but not be accountable

Take accountability without feeling bad

Feel remorse without wishing you’d chosen differently

And that distinction is super important when you're figuring out:

Who’s genuinely sorry?

Who’s trying to do better?

Who’s just upset the consequences suck?

[quillquiver]

I could honestly kiss Jacob Tierney for standing his ground and not being swept away by the insanity that has been the reception of the show.

They are anticipating 2027 because they will take as long as they need to to make the story work and do it justice.

They will likely not have a larger budget because funding is fickle and if they did it on a shoestring once…

They will likely be telling Troy Barrett’s story because it is integral to events of TLG.

They will be keeping a short season probably because of funding AND because the format works for this kind of story, where emotionality drives the plot. You can absolutely make the events of TLG work in 6 episodes.

It will be a Canadian production, both for funding purposes and because that’s the foundation of the show, actually.

If the last 15 years have proved anything it’s that, on a whole, creating media that caters to the whims of the masses results in mostly disappointing art. The reason this show worked is because it did not do that; instead, it did all of the above and that made it unlike anything else on TV right now. Why would anyone want to change things in the second season??

[snzzzzz420]

guys is this anything or did i waste my time. Did i eff up the order things should be and did i miss something Huge. Let me know. Also has someone made this before ?