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[lamine-19]

scientific fact

[paperandpencilsandskips]

girl who has ibuprofen: I have ibuprofen if you need it btw

[prasinoutsikos]

you will look at my one painting. it’s 1914

[churchyardgrim]

google how to explain to my coworkers that criminals aren’t real and were just made up by Big Prison to sell more racism

[wildwren]

i think one of the reasons i dont vibe with a lot of modern "romantic" writing is that there's a notable lack of sweetness or tenderness written between the characters. the most popular tropes for intimacy negotiation between characters in modern romantic novels seem to be based around overcoming their own disdain, distrust, or resentment of the other character. an increasingly lazy, kneejerk "i hate how much i want them" approach to romantic and physical intimacy. true love requires doubt, they tell us. our desires can only be trusted when we douse them in cold hard rationality. no i'm not trying to come for the enemies rivals irritating workplace acquaintances to lovers trope that's so popular (although i'm also deeply bored by that). rather, i think it demonstrates a general jadedness in a genre that's otherwise supposed to be about "wish fulfillment HEA" yet struggles to conceive characters for whom tenderness and all-consuming desire is not a weakness. the irrationality that love can instill in a person is held at arm's length, a toxic impulse that must be adjusted in order to present a "healthy relationship." the overly-emotional lover has been relegated to "dark romance," or their behaviors channeled into specific genre-approved tropes which fit neatly into hetero-dominant relationship expectations. so much of it ends up reading pathos-less to me. in the hands of a talented writer, unhinged tenderness is the most excruciating possible thing to read. we used to have that, you know. we used to be a society.

[penny-anna]

over and over again it comes down to the fact that fanfiction is most people's only exposure to amateur writing

[penny-anna]

'so there's this website where literally anyone can post fiction they've written whenever they want and - get this! - a lot of it is bad' yeah no shit. what would you expect?

[penny-anna]

Relatedly:

A lot of fanfiction is specifically a type of amateur fiction that's shooting for maximum emotional gratification. 'i want these two characters to fuck nasty' 'i want this character to have a big ugly cry about their feelings' 'i want this character to get their legs broken' that sort of thing.

This approach is not inherent to fanfiction and it's not unique to fanfiction. There's whole communities of people out there writing original fiction that's aiming for exactly the same level of gratification. Most people are simply never exposed to it.

[penny-anna]

#mmm big ugly cries about feelings mmmm while their legs are broken after being fucked nasty mmm

got fucked nasty so hard their legs both broke and now they're ugly crying

[d1s4strous]

do you think maize views turning into popcorn as death or transformation or some other third thing

[d1s4strous]

it's not too late to start thinking about corn societal structures

[tsarina-anadyomene]

appeals to authority hitherto unimagined

[d1s4strous]

eighteen inch nails: i want to fuck you like two animals

[shinhati]

cemeteries aren't creepy they're actually devoted to memory and rest and love and humanity

[your-dewey-decimal-number-is]

393.1 or 393.9

burial or general funerary customs

[st-just]

question for the Americans in the room; is this a real thing or just another case of '90% of op/ed writers live in the Bay Area or very specific neighborhoods in NYC/LA'?

[evergreen-femme]

had to share this

[wizardshark]

In every way this is set up to be a joke like any other short video, it even uses the trope of main character in a wig to represent their mom, but it isn't funny at all. It's just sweet and nice

[batwing]

being a brown woman is something so full of love and life and beauty and culture when you don’t have a white person in your ear trying to perpetuate harmful stereotypes all the live long day

[guiltfactory-moved]

saying "this guy is giving me insane molested vibes" and everyone looks at me like i'm crazy because they're apparently incapable of picking up on insane molested vibes

[innerchildabortionclinic]

[repeats to myself] no one knows whose work I am doing

[nonexistentnull]

gonna start reverse-shipping. that canon couple is not dating actually. that kiss was entirely platonic and i dont see why you’re reading into it any other way. their parents are clearly roommates with benefits. when they say “boyfriend” they actually said “boy friend”. every character will become aromantic when i’m done with them

[bish0ps]

Remember when you could look things up online. Do you remember how we used to search