#txt.me

[wulfhalls]

forever grateful i was simply too lazy to let the makeup industrial complex get its hooks in me. I was just like im not doing all of that. in fact. im doing none of that

[lestatrocks]

louis smiling and confirming to regina that hes gay is so funny to me.... no no i didnt want SEX oh god, you mustve thought i was so creepy haha. Noooo omg i want you to act like my dead vampire daughter who was also a stand in for my humam sister who died believing me to be a monster. which i am.

[24x81]

sidney crosby is gonna be in italy playing in the olympics for the first time since 2014 staring at the guy who played the slutty bottom fictional version of himself carrying the olympic torch as a reward for throwing ass so good on television it hypnotized the entire world

[allstarrocks]

spot the difference

[cannonpenis]

"Everything is fucked. Everybody sucks." :(

[aegonette]

Sansa at the Ashford tourney would be like "Valarr Targaryen was the most gallant, handsome knight at the Meadow. The Young Prince they called him, despite his awfully old age of twenty. The silver strand in his brunette locks was said to be a Targaryen feature but Sansa suspected it's just due to him being elderly."

[verrstappen]

YUKIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII

[italiancized]

Look, you can rage about traditional publishing all you want (sometimes it's both justified and good to do so) but if Audra Winter had put herself through that process, she wouldn't now be in this mess. If a real professional had taken a look at her manuscript — and I refuse to believe anyone did, as she claims — there is no way they would've let her get this far.

I've seen one video by someone raising the talking point that, by virtue of ...publishing an unfinished novel, Audra Winter somehow possesses a quality of audacity (that's certainly true) lacking in many other authors; that "perfectionism is the enemy of done".

That's a very useful saying and there's a lot of truth to it ...as far as first drafts go. You don't publish first drafts. You don't even publish second drafts.

And this is partly why I'm so against BookTok, and why I do think that it's a negative influence on contemporary literature. Nowadays all that matters is aesthetic, -cores, pretty pictures. The actual stories are all slop (I'm talking about what becomes popularised, of course there are plenty of indie or smaller authors putting out great work.)

I hadn't intended for the first post on this blog to be argumentative or related to discourse, but here we are.