#so why?

[lovelysevvy]

People get very vocal when you say you don't agree with the "Snape is objectively ugly" nonsense, sorry, it's not my fault I don't like calling people ugly or labeling them as such....

I just think it's strange that your way of defending someone is by calling them a degrading adjective, but that's just me

[parlerenfleurs]

I think what needs to happen for female characters and f/f ships is the female characters need to be more emotionally constipated. They MUST have some hard edge in there of resistance to produce the vitamin of Compelling.

It's fun if they're more unhinged, sure, but it's not just unhinged characters that are interesting and loveable. Kind characters, weird quiet characters, dignified characters, cold characters, gruff ones, it's good to have variety.

But what makes a character compelling a lot of the time? When they take a weird stance on something. A place of stubborn. An integrity of attitude. A mask they're wearing, an emotion they're sublimating. They're holding something back, they have a measure of composure, they are, in a word, emotionally constipated. Not necessarily too much! Just enough so that they have some depth! That the hidden part of two characters can collide and spark some damn chemistry!

It's the same rule as for eroticism, it is created by the juxtaposition of the hidden and the revealed.

Why do we love villains and toxic ships? They're not bland. They have that rule of erotic thing going on, emotionally. Now it's possible to not be bland at all without villainery or toxicity, but for some reason when it comes to female characters, it trips back into blandness a lot of the time. Gruffness or coldness becomes plain harshness. Vulnerability becomes boring weakness. Put two such women together and the bland collides into the bland and only brave souls with very active imaginations manage to salvage some Compelling from this. I'm afraid it's often entirely absent from the source material, though.

[youchangedmedestiel]

If someone had told me that I’ll wrote fics about two idiots in love I wouldn’t have believed them.

If they added that I’ll write a long one, I would have said that I don’t have the skills.

Then, if they told me that I’ll write an AU fic I would have just said no because I barely read some, it’s not my thing (I feel dumb writing that) so why would I write that?

And finally, if they said I would be writing about my own life, about an old crush I had more than 10 years ago, and that I would write about true events that happened between us and replaced our names by characters of a silly little show I love, I would have said that it's weirdly specific but more importantly I would have simply laughed at them. But like a huge laugh.

Because yeah there's no way I'd write a fic like that!

[alexhatessupermarketcola]

You know what I hate? Tenses.

They hate me. Somehow I switch between them something mad 😭😭😭

[felrend]

One thing I don’t understand is why there’s an option to buy valuables when you’re just going to sell it?? For less?

Like each companion gets ONE gift each. You can’t give them any of the valuables.

So what’s the point?

And I’m not talking about valuables that you find. I’m talking about the ones you specifically buy for no reason

[arcane-vagabond]

Not me forgetting my name tag AND my computer being dead on the first day of travel season 💀

[muckety-mucks-i-s-goin-delux]

Aight all Finch enthusiasts and lovers, why do you think Finch is so scared of Spot?