#ranty

[nyancrimew]

epic games and songtradr need to fucking die and give the bandcamp union ownership of bandcamp, i am so done with capitalism ruining art. let the artists and workers own the platforms we depend on. bandcamp is like MADE to be worker and community owned. bandcamp is MADE to be a cooperative. yet it is being used as a gotcha in a legal case by epic and as a toy by some vc backed shitty exploitative startup.

[futurebird]

Please don't forget the ants!

STOP STOP STOP Stop, making festive "bug print" fabrics, quilt patterns, children's books and drawings that include "mix of bugs" but don't contain a single ANT.

I know how you artists are. You never skip the butterfly because of the colors. You never skip the beetle because of the ... shape. You never skip a centipede or millipede because of the legs. You never skip the spider because of the LORE. But ants are "boring" --right? NO WRONG

Ants are everything. Ants are the most successful members of the most successful group of land animals on the planet!

A nature drawing without ants is like a forest without leaves. Like night sky... without any stars. Do not forget the ants. Know the ants have not forgotten you!

[gloriousmonsters]

So, this post. I have a bangin' headache so I have to condense all my points to their absolute minimum. Here goes.

On one hand, the original post is pretty worthless, because it's OP larping as an AI and outputting something not based on thought and creativity, but as an imitation of something they have no respect for. It's not a coherent critique or argument - it's a haha funnyman 'let's all laugh at those cringe tumblr users' post.

On the other hand, it's worth engaging with because crap like this - people making fun of 'purple prose', 'bad writing', etc etc - does a lot of damage. I grew up with Hemingway-worshipping, 'trim the fat trim the fat cut everything but the absolutely essential words' type advice and I will die on the hill of not going back there. And due to the vagueness of the original post and the essentially-totally-fine content of the fake excerpt, a lot of people are going to see their writing in this and get discouraged or feel ashamed of their work, and that pisses me off.

'Purple prose' is fine. Everyone's tolerance for ornamental writing (a term I prefer to 'purple prose') is different. Some people are minimalists; some people are maximalists. Just because you think an aesthetic is cluttered and overwhelming and too excessive doesn't make it bad; the same is true in writing. Vice versa for bare-bones prose; see above, I obviously dislike it, but I know that a lot of people like it or don't mind it. Taste exists.

Writing does not have to follow grammatical rules. It does not have to follow description-word-order. It is allowed to smash together descriptors that sound odd or use the 'wrong' words. That's actually a feature of poetry that I love, for me--using an unexpected word, or outright the 'incorrect' one, with the intent of startling the reader's brain. Now, that's poetry, and having that kind of style sustained for a full book - assuming that's what you're aiming to do - is... still not bad. It's unusual. It might make it hard to anchor the text in a solid storyline or make depictions of characters clear, if that is your intention. And that's a might.

I actually love 'something black and arterial', btw. For one thing, blood's red, so it's identified with blood - arterial - but seems to... not quite be that. Now, was that the author's intent while writing it? Probably not, because this was essentially LLM writing, and that brings me to my biggest point:

In my opinion, the problem with a lot of writing - not just this style, there's others that also fall prey to this - is not in the style itself, not in the subject matter (picture me going on a Brennan Lee Mulligan 'defender of the basic' rant about people using god/monsters/blood/pomegranates/fucking whatever as motifs) but in the thought and intention. Ideally, you should know the basic rules of prose and grammar before you break them; ideally, you should know what your writing is trying to do, whether it's 'essentially context-orphaned flash fiction I want to post on tumblr as an 'excerpt' for people to enjoy' or 'fully finished book with a storyline and characters' or 'idk man, I'm just having fun.'

Thing is, thought and intention are some of the hardest things to determine through just looking at other peoples' prose. Other thing is: a lot of people who write emotion-and-drama-and-vibes-heavy writing are young, newer to writing, etc. Even if you specifically dislike their writing, even if you think it's crap after taking the audience into account - or you don't think that should matter because there's a universal standard for Good Writing (which. lol), simply mocking the popular style they write in does jack shit on the positive scale.

Headache is increasing, but in conclusion: 'good writing' is a wildly elusive beast, the issues with 'bad writing' are nuanced and specific, and it costs 0 dollars to not be a dick.

[kattozilla-blog]

guess who is drunk again [my mom] 🥀🥀🥀🥀🥀

[alwaysalir]

I feel like the Buccaneers has so much potential to be a great show, but the writing is so mediocre and ruins the tension in literally every situation.

You had this amazingly messy set up with Nan choosing to leave Guy again to help her sister. She comes home and her husband is in love with someone else, but they decide to put on a united front . When Guy returns with Ginny the show had this opportunity to amp up the triangle again and have Guy witness this united front between Nan and Theo. But instead of doing that, you immediately have Nan confess to Guy that nothing has changed. Guy is literally with Nan in every scene and We barely see Nana and Theo interact at all. We are told over and over again how much Nan needed this marriage to help Ginny only to have it be all for nothing. And this happens over and over again.

We don’t get to see the fallout of Lizzy’s wedding or Richard’s death. It’s like we miss the most important moments every single time. And don’t even get me started on this idea that Nan is going to be so upset over Theo and Lizzy when Nan and Theo have not even spoken to each other in like three episodes

[xx-vro27-xx]

emo clive in the big 2026

i don’t really draw or even think abt dscd au anymore but i do like their design…… also they were the reason i feel back in love with clive i gotta give this thing some credit /hj

[clatterbane]

Seeing one post from a teenager just diagnosed with diabetes where their response was thankfully to be proactive in seeking out info and support, and some of the first responses I read? Unfortunately just reminded me of what a good thing it ended up being that I can't NOT seek out information on my own.

Because what I did end up getting when mine was rediagnosed while I was unconscious really was criminally inadequate. And it really could have harmed me further if I hadn't started looking for more just as soon as I was able to.

Apparently, the way to deal with somebody having been misdiagnosed and subjected to malpractice-level treatment for years completely ignoring guidelines? Is to retcon it so that they obviously knew about the actual diagnosis all along, but just Did $CONDITION wrong enough to cause themselves a crisis situation. 🤯😵‍💫😵

So yeah, no actual education or guidance required because the person must know this shit already! If they'd just do as they were told at some imagined point in the past and take the damn insulin they never had, surely there would have never been a problem at all.

Well, thankfully I already DID know some things (and had strong suspicions for a good while that nobody wanted to hear 🤬)--and also had the wherewithal to do research on my own for the practical stuff that I didn't know nearly enough about.

Or I might well have been dead within a few months of being set loose, from what little instructions I did get. Not even exaggerating.

I got sent off with set doses of insulin for 3 meals a day no matter what I was eating or doing, and a finger stick glucose meter with like 4 strips prescribed per day to keep this shitty Tamagotchi going. Also ended up needing to ration the fast-acting stuff toward the end of the month, until I could get the hospital-issued prescription math that just didn't math sorted out with the GP's office. That took a couple of months.

Anyone who knows anything about T1 diabetes will know just how adequate that sounds as a treatment plan.

Never spoke with an endocrinologist the whole time I lived in the UK. Maybe one cycled through at some point while I was out of it in the hospital in 2020, but I sure never saw them. T1s are automatically supposed to be referred to the local hospital's department for that, but I never was even after the emergency diagnostic retcon. That did happen in 2020, but we stayed there for nearly a year after The Crash. Nobody ever mentioned the diabetes team at any point.

Joke's on them though, with how I have been managing basically as soon as I got the appropriate tools to do so. I'm really not that easy to kill off.

Now I just keep numbers going that have had the last two endos here running more tests to make sure I'm really T1 and do need insulin. 😱

(That would be a resounding YES, btw. My beta cells are pining for the fjords, and have been for a good long while. Enough were stubborn that I somehow didn't completely collapse until 2020, but there is absolutely no question that my body needs the supplemental insulin to keep going. At least these folks are indeed ordering testing, if they are in any doubt.)

Once I got to Sweden, I must have seemed like I had my shit together well enough--and was frankly plenty old enough--that nobody has seemed to think that I really needed much guidance. Though they do seem much better set up locally for people who do, and, like, actually pretty competent overall.

I don't particularly want or need any particular professional help beyond keeping the necessary prescriptions coming, and keeping tabs on stuff like my thyroid and kidney function. Just as glad that they're mostly willing to let me get on with it in a less-negligent seeming way. If I do need some help, I can ask and they're actually reachable.

Yeah, that turned pretty ranty. But it apparently took me over 5 years to really process some stuff. It was just So Much, all smashed together.

And I was freshly struck by the sheer audacity of that retcon mindfuckery to avoid any accountability, in contrast to some (very reasonable!) expectations and assumptions about how a new diagnosis should work.

I am very glad that OP over there probably can expect much better with their new diagnosis at 16.

[kryonix]

Makoto to rises the moon, misery meat, body, meteor shower, ghosting(kinda?), amnesia was her name

Hinaegi to harness your hopes, nonsense, would you be so kind, gold rush, bad dream

Komaegi to cannibal queen, apple cider, 2econd 2ight 2eer

Alot of other songs and many, and I mean many, meme audios of them I'm ajsjahsh.

I HAVE NO TIME, I want to make an animatic, a doodle, a drawing urghhhhh I love them sm