Jan 8, 2013
Quite possibly the best compliment I've recieved
Soliloquixote: darcy
Soliloquixote: you would be the prettiest hooker at the ball
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Quite possibly the best compliment I've recieved
Soliloquixote: darcy
Soliloquixote: you would be the prettiest hooker at the ball
if relationships were destroyed by snark alone our species would die out. it is permissable to be in a bad mood and say things you don't mean, you know. this shame spiral is entirely unnecessary although i guess that's true of many shame spirals
Yeah but he always backs down and apologises and feels terrible when I start fights and then I am a dick for making people I love feel bad. :/
burning down the house is superior to both those things :(
But my stuff is in my house, and I've already started making stupid, pointless, snarky, passive-aggressive comments to destroy my relationship...
boredom and hiding spider? sounds like time to burn the house down.
No apparently it's time to rant about dumb things and get into arguments with people I care about :(
you can't tell that i'm procrastinating on my homework. i know this because i'm really smart.
Yeah I'm definitely not coming up with things I have to do so that I don't have to go to bed.
Completey unrelated note there's a giant huntsman spider somewhere on the door and I can't find it. >_>
and, i gotta say, i think ya fiction tends to be a more realistic and reflexive answer to modern society, as opposed to the speculative super politically correct world sj bloggers want represented. teenagers experience their immediate surroundings. they don't see themselves in completely ridiculous worlds that go against everything they know. they see themselves in worlds that are broken and dumb and painful. prettying it up is condescending.
(My friends are smart you guys.)
That's pretty much why I write how I write. That, and reading all of Discworld when I was 12. I write teenagers being teenagers even though they're dumb and obnoxious, because that's how they are? And that's how a reader connects with a story, even if social justice types get upset by that. Blah.
i like that ya fiction bears the brunt of this social justice pressure. like, i legitimately like it. people have their priorities straight. maybe catcher in the rye is amazing and thought-provoking for adults but most high school students can't connect, whereas ya fiction is accessible and interesting. what i don't like, however, is people telling writers how to write. if you want a social justice ya book, write it. otherwise, everybody has the right to their own artistic statement.
A lot of the active social justice community we see on Tumblr is made up of young adults, so I'd assume that's why the fiction geared towards their age group tends to come under their scrutiny most often?
I'm just bad at dealing with hate. Or threats. Or threats of future hate. Jenny is oversensitive news at 11.
"you're not liking the right words! you should be liking THESE words! only THESE words, in THIS order, are good. those other words, those are bad. the words are bad and the order is bad and you should feel bad." -people who don't like anything that could be called ya literature
It's more like...
Omg you guys this character, this like... 16 year old girl in a society that is either ours or similar to ours? She's NOT FEMINIST ENOUGH/OCCASIONALLY HAS THOUGHTS THAT COULD BE INTERPRETED AS RACIST/ABLEIST/SEXIST/SOMETHINGIST. The author is obviously a bigoted prick and the whole novel is shit because they haven't accounted for how I'm triggered by descriptions of damp grass.
On another note, if I finish my novel it can never touch tumblr. Ever.