Ghostwoods

Writer, neurodivergent, exhausted, friendly, goofy, high strangeness denizen, profane. Often found in Hookland, Hellier, and other spaces. Formerly @ghostwoods on Twitter and /u/Ghostwoods on Reddit.

[skribblegurl]

some people think writers are so eloquent and good with words, but the reality is that we can sit there with our fingers on the keyboard going, “what’s the word for non-sunlight lighting? Like, fake lighting?” and for ten minutes, all our brain will supply is “unofficial”, and we know that’s not the right word, but it’s the only word we can come up with…until finally it’s like our face got smashed into a brick wall and we remember the word we want is “artificial”.

[heywriters]

I couldn't remember the word "doorknob" ten minutes ago.

[bumblewyn]

ok but the onelook thesaurus will save your life, i literally could not live without this website

[breelandwalker]

REBLOG TO SAVE A WRITER'S LIFE

[myfairkatiecat]

LIFE SAVED

REBLOGGING TO SAVE ANOTHER WRITERS LIFE

[sirowsky]

I use this every time I sit down to write. It's the best tool in the world and I would be lost without it!

[theghostwoods]

And it's NOT an AI thing, either!

[guidancerune]

imagine you're frolicking in a field, prancing through long grass, singing "falalalala~", occasionally picking a flower. etc, etc. but a guy in the same field is watching you, about 20 paces away. he lowers his opera glasses (which he was using to watch you) and starts clutching his head and screaming with blind rage because of how much you're pissing him off. that's what it's like to be on the internet.

[theonion]

[facts-i-just-made-up]

[alarminglynamed-wolfman]

Explain this

[facts-i-just-made-up]

People think it’s like grades, sleep, or social life. But it’s really like Victorian hippo dance. I think the post is pretty clear about that.

[tiktoksthataregood-ish]

[drtanner]

Didn't like it

[spiritualistapologist]

[coughloop]

heard chicago is going into the air tonight. whole city. ripped up off the ground in one big chunk. forever suspended over Lake Michigan. like Farum Azula. and Lori Lightfoot will finally ascend to the status of a lesser God.

[bondboy8]

[slowburncowboy]

Photodump! Tumblr got mad lemme post more pictures lol

[theghostwoods]

Good morning

[70sscifiart]

Ken Barr

[depizan]

I see posts go by periodically about how modern audiences are impatient or unwilling to trust the creator. And I agree that that's true. What the posts almost never mention, though, is that this didn't happen in a vacuum. Audiences have had their patience and trust beaten out of them by the popular media of the past few decades.

J J Abrams is famous for making stories that raise questions he never figures out how to answer. He's also the guy with some weird story about a present he never opened and how that's better than presents you open--failing to see that there's a difference between choosing not to open a present and being forbidden from opening one.

You've got lengthy media franchises where installments undo character development or satisfying resolutions from previous installments. Worse, there are media franchises with "trilogies" that are weird slap fights between the makers of each installment.

You've got wildly popular TV shows that end so poorly and unsatisfyingly that no one speaks of them again.

On top of that, a lot of the media actively punishes people for engaging thoughtfully with it. Creators panic and change their stories if the audience properly reacts to foreshadowing. Emotional parts of storytelling are trampled by jokes. Shocking the audience has become the go to, rather than providing a solid story.

Of course audiences have gotten cynical and untrusting! Of course they're unwilling to form their own expectations of what's coming! Of course they make the worst assumptions based on what's in front of them! The media they've been consuming has trained them well.

[randomitemdrop]

Item: portal to the Elemental Plane of Water

[donnasweettttttttt]

when people are like “the hunger games just stole the plot of battle royale” like listen everything steals from the plot of everything the lion king is just furry hamlet westworld is jurassic park but sexier lost is edgy gilligan’s island there are no original stories and the only good piece of media is jennifer’s body

Michael crichton wrote westworld and jurassic park tho so he just pirated himself

michael crichton keeps TRYING to tell y’all about the evils of capitalism impeding on the progress of science when will y’all LISTEN

[kryptonians]

Maybe he just doesn’t like theme parks

michael crichton in line for a roller coaster at six flags: fuck this

[onion-souls]

Jesus Christ, that’s the height at which every rollercoaster and dark ride is a decapitation threat

[sonatine]

[madlori]

how am I ever supposed to leave tumblr when it takes me on journeys like this

[mysharona1987]

[strawberrymilkshakeearrings]

[lowreswunderbred]

[darkseid-deactivated20190806]

this might be the oldest jpeg I can remember. had this bad boy saved to my computer when I was like 10

[foone]

me_irl

[panduus]

[sic-semper-hominibus]

found the artist's name in the notes and went looking because this slaps (it's called A Place Where I'll Dance) and its not even their best song. check this shit out: