T.G. Sparks

Words scare me but I know how to use them.

[tgsparks]

Hello! Quick little introduction, My name is T.G. and I am a trans pan writer from the Pacific Northwest! I use he/him pronouns please!

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Author and playwright from Seattle. The Last Siren out now!

[tgsparks]

Sometimes writing is a lovely, delicate thing. Happily guiding the story to its natural conclusion. Other time, you as the writer are Sisyphus and his boulder, and the top of the hill is the end of the story.

[depsidase]

[irishiris]

[vaspider]

YES PLEASE AND THANK YOU.

[drarryking]

This is actually info I didn’t know

[marauders4evr]

Seriously folks review my books! Review everyone’s books!

It’s the difference between Amazon giving a damn about you verses pushing your book to the bottom of the food chain. 

[natalieironside]

If u want to write a story about a character that’s just you but hotter with a dark twisted backstory and magical powers and a pet falcon or something, I think u should just go ahead and do that. Who’s gonna stop you? The government?? Fuck the police.

[charlon-lumi]

What if someone barges in, points at said character and scream, “Mary Sue!”

[natalieironside]

Tell them to come back with a warrant

[charlon-lumi]

This post came across my dash again and now I am having an absolute blast with self insert hotter me that gets the girls and guys everywhere.

[natalieironside]

This is the Way

[natalieironside]

#everyday i remember i can write whateveer i want#and then get too embarrassed to do it😕#one day.. 

[jld-az]

[v8roadworrier]

need a permission slip? have a permission slip

[thestalwartheart]

I love it when people take fic writing seriously. I love when it's not 'Here's this dumb thing I wrote' and instead it's 'Here's this thing I put blood, sweat and tears into. Here's this thing I slaved away at, trying new writing techniques and editing over and over. Here's this dialogue that kept me awake at night. Here's this beautiful turn of phrase I thought up. Here's this thing that I wrote with vulnerability and heart, and I am proud to share it with you.'

[tlirsgender]

Throwback thursday to when I was like 12 and I was putting out new writing DAILY...... Like entire Chapters of my then-current wips just, over an afternoon. What the fuck was I on

[tlirsgender]

Nobody:

Me, age 12, just started drinking coffee:

[tlirsgender]

[bagh0st-deactivated20240223]

I drew 14 pictures during the day, and wrote 32 pages a night. Now I can’t do shit.

[audliminal]

A huge part of this is because you've gotten better! And now, when you're drawing/writing/doing whatever creative task, you're not just mindlessly throwing thoughts at your paper, you're thinking as you do it. Children can churn out a lot more work because it's not yet refined, but when you're older and have more practice, you work with all these thoughts running through your head about form and shape, color palettes or word choice. Now, you're making a dozen decisions with every moment of work, and you're also questioning the decisions you've just made, wondering if you can do it better. Don't beat yourself up about producing less work now than you did back then, because every sentence or shape involves a lot more effort for you now, than it did when you were ten and brand new to this hobby.

[deathcomes4u]

Also you have a job now and the never-ending bullshit that is laundry and dishes and feeding yourself.

[bokettochild]

okay, I actually really needed to hear this

[tgsparks]

This makes me feel a lot better. Thanks guys.

[softbrah]

my earnest hope for 2025 is that everyone embraces being a little weirder and freakier and less judgmental bc we will all be better off for it like to charge reblog to cast

[enraged-chihuahua]

ur first and last recent emojis are ur gender now. mine is 🅱👨‍❤‍💋‍👨

[medianox-astrum]

[eclipxium]

[fanciest-sauce]

😭😊 pick one bitch

[totallynotastan]

😏😈

wtf…

[catgirldollthing]

😭🐈‍⬛ sad cat :(

(real)

[laya-snowfeather]

👁⁉️

uh

ok then

[nevermoorfan6789]

❤️😗

hmm. Interesting.

[oliviers-tea-deactivated2025121]

😌😨

what

[the-448c-haj]

⭐💜 yk im not mad that does fit

[the-rodbrunhaj]

🔪❤️

Huh.

okay.

[the-smahaj]

💜💯

Yk what I’m ok with that

[officially-iceland]

🏳️‍🌈📡

Fair enough…

[denmark-official]

🫂👍

what.

[telangana-official]

🤮✊️

social anarchist it is

[india-official]

😭🙄 I’m.. being an angsty teen?

[tgsparks]

❤️🦞you know what? I’m fine with this. I can make loving seafood my gender.

[bittersweetresilience]

one of my favorite things to do in limited perspective is write sentences about the things someone doesn't do. he doesn't open his eyes. he doesn't reach out. i LOVE sentences like that. if it's describing the narrator, it's a reflection of their desires, something they're holding themselves back from. there's a tension between urge and action. it makes you ask why they wanted or felt compelled to do that, and also why they ultimately didn't. and if it's describing someone else, it tells you about the narrator's expectations. how they perceive that other person or their relationship. what they thought the other person was going to do, or thought the other person should have done, but failed to. negative action sentences are everything.

[tgsparks]

The Spotify wrapped as a writer is so fun. Like yes, the random ai is garbage, but it was fun to see what I listened to in a certain month and go “That was when (insert character here) took over my life and I only listened to music related to them.”

[seeingteacupsindragons]

Was wishing there was a positivity post for original fiction writers since I see so many about how fanfic writers are doing so much for their communities even when they're not actively writing, and then I thought:

Be the change you want to see in the world.

So this is a positivity post for the writers out here who are working very hard on stories with no established community. Who can't talk about their blorbos and plot lines and brainstorming to anyone and expect them to know what any of it means. Who don't have much to share publicly, but are hoping they will one day.

You're doing a lot of hard work, and I recognize and appreciate what you're putting into the world, even when you're resting.

[duothelingo]

Archery arrows are expensive so I’ve decided I’m gonna use one of these fuckers instead

[tgsparks]

….. *jots that down*

Apocalypse character who was a competitive archer, now using whatever they can get their hands on as arrows.

[inthemidstofbuddie]

congratulations! you’re now a pirate. your seventh most recent emoji is the symbol on your flag. mine is ™️

[the-gimmick-simp]

♥️

[denmark-official]

🫂

huh. okay.

[maryland-officially]

😉 (it was a mistype earlier)

[the-real-gmail]

😭

Well that's not very menacing

[totally-dairy-queen]

😔 damn not very menacing either lmao

[yahooo-official]

🗿

[tgsparks]

🔥

… I win.

[alagaisia]

Hey. Why isn’t the moon landing a national holiday in the US. Isn’t that fucked up? Does anyone else think that’s absurd?

[alagaisia]

It was a huge milestone of scientific and technological advancement. (Plus, at the time, politically significant). Humanity went to space! We set foot on a celestial body that was not earth for the first time in human history! That’s a big deal! I’ve never thought about it before but now that I have, it’s ridiculous to me that that’s not part of our everyday lives and the public consciousness anymore. Why don’t we have a public holiday and a family barbecue about it. Why have I never seen the original broadcast of the moon landing? It should be all over the news every year!

[alagaisia]

It’s July 20th. That’s the day of the moon landing. Next year is going to be the 54th anniversary. I’m ordering astronaut shaped cookie cutters on Etsy and I’m going to have a goddamn potluck. You’re all invited.

[watermelon-converse]

Hey. Hey. Tumblr. Ides of March ppl. We can do this

[emi--rose]

Hell yeah moon holiday

[hello-delicious-tea]

Ooh coming up we should celebrate

[ariaste]

PITCH: We call it Moon Day, and then every 7 years when it falls on a Monday, that's an even BIGGER deal and we call that Moon Day Monday and go absolutely apeshit about it (the next Moon Day Monday is in 2026 so we have a couple trial runs first)

[sarostheghostcat]

MOON DAY MOON DAY MOON DAY

[non-tyrannical-usa]

MOON DAY!!!!

[not-not-turnblr]

MOON DAY

[yahooo-official]

But the times when it falls on a monday will not be every 7 years because we have leap years

[tgsparks]

Leap years mess everything up. I’m too lazy to do the actual math on when it falls on a Monday.

Pitch for part of the celebration: Nighttime stargazing picnics/meals. Just time to look at the moon and the stars.

[c3rvida3]

My new meds make my skin throw a fit. It’s not terribly bad, just a few things here and there, but it’s bumming me out because I’ve never really had too many run-ins with acne.

My four-year-old sister, however, is under the impression that it’s just “3D freckles”, and that they look very, very pretty. She wants all of my freckles to “pop out”, especially the ones across my nose; they’re her favourite.

And it puts me in this weird position where I can’t say, “No, this is acne, and it’s bad,” because I don’t want to teach her that it’s a bad to have unclear skin, you know?

Because the more I think about interactions I have with children, the more I realise that children will consistently compliment “flaws” until they’ve been taught not to.

Like, a kid at the library, whose sister has vitiligo, saw my scars once and suggested that his sister and I should be cats for Halloween, since I have “tabby skin” and she has “calico skin”. “I can be a black cat,” he immediately added. “It’s not AS cool, but they’re the spookiest.”

When I started losing weight, my little brother immediately demanded that I gain it back, because I wasn’t as comfortable to cuddle with anymore.

And my other little sister always wants to wear her paint-stained clothes to school so that “everyone can tell [she’s] an artist”.

I don’t know. I guess talking to little kids just reminds me that all of this superficial shit we worry about really is 100% made up.

[neil-gaiman]

Cat??

Birch tree.