alien stage is truly peak “nobody wins” fiction. doomed yuri, doomed yaoi and doomed straights, just pure misery and great music. 10/10 would recommend.

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alien stage is truly peak “nobody wins” fiction. doomed yuri, doomed yaoi and doomed straights, just pure misery and great music. 10/10 would recommend.
bringing this to tumblr because a realer thing has literally never been said
tools of the sea 🌊
abalone shell - general use
anchovies - beauty, attraction
clam shells – purification, love
conch shell – love
cone shell – protection
coral – emotions, healing, vivid dreams
cowrie shell – prosperity, money
crab – protection
fish – protection, fertility
hag stone – clairvoyance, protection
moon shell – peace, psychic awareness, purification
oyster – fertility, love
sand – dreams, grounding, cleansing
sand dollar – wisdom, luck
sardines – beauty
scallops – travel, journal, movement
sea glass – change, purification
seahorse – luck, love, understanding
sea salt – cleansing, banishing negative energy
sea water - manifestation of goals, energy, power, cleansing, healing, banishing
seaweed – prosperity, luck
shark teeth – location, curses, glamours
sponge – absorb negative energy
urchin spines - protection, curses, transformation, regeneration
whelk shell – positive changes, transformation
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“this writing shit is easy. you just have a story and you tell it to other people”
me doing this writing shit
I need tiktokers to understand that ao3 has been home for the freaks (affectionate) ever since the day it was created. the entire site was created because “dark and fucked up fics” were banned and removed from other platforms, so us freaks came together and created a site for other freaks — a site where nothing is censored, a site with no algorithm, no capitalism, no ads, and again, absolutely no censorship.
this has been our house for decades. you newbies don’t come into our house and tell us how to arrange our furniture. either be nice and respect our house, or leave and build your own house elsewhere.
oh ok
“Why would you stop in hell?” has changed my brain chemistry
DOL is genuinely an insane game to me. you can goon or you can face the eldritch level horrors that exists in the in-game lore. but before any of that, you need to pay life changing amounts of money each week in order not to get slimed by a bunch of grown adults. the guy who demands that money from you is in an asshit forced proximity hate-hate relationship with your sugar parent. said sugar parent is associated with multiple other weird people who run the most morally questionable businesses possible (don’t worry, treating humans like animals is okay but building a skyscraper isn’t!). one of them is a cult leader who hosts furry conventions every four weeks. speaking of cults. twilight is technically possible in the dolverse because vampires are hinted to exist. lovecraft-esque creatures can be made via cult rituals. you get haunted every so often by an apparition that tried to drown you. a gyaru bullies you at school. you can have dinner with pimp lucius. they mayor is an amateur filmmaker. said mayor is actually under the thumb of the guy who demands you to pay him each week. they still use medieval torture devices to punish criminals. the law is practically nonexistent. there’s no such thing as a good ending. and it all happens in a seaside city in the UK. what the fuck.
thank you ao3 for being an archive and not an algorithm. thank you for letting me like things without consequences, thank you for being free with no ads, thank you for having lawyers to defend our freedom of speech. thank you tag wranglers. thank you to all authors and thank you ao3
what's the point of initiating conversations with people when 99.9% of them turn out to be normies
okay. how do I put this. if you approach interactions with strangers as if the vast majority of them are unbearable losers who aren't worth your time, you will find yourself not liking most of the people you meet because you'll be looking for any excuse to write them off as unbearable losers. I know this is hard to hear but sometimes the problem is you.
There is not a single person alive who doesn't have something fascinating and beautiful about them...
Your life is only a slight sliver of the range of human experience that is out there. What you have experienced overlaps very little with what others have. you will always find something you could never expect
Hot take, but even if you ARE punching up (instead of punching sideways at a group that is in the same boat as you), there's a limit to what you can say without sounding like a violent facist but woke this time.
Making fun of a group of people that are privileged over you is one thing, but wishing non-cartoonish violence and death on them ("they should fall off a cliff" vs. "they should be wiped out"), wishing sexual violence on them, dehumanising them, claiming that they're less capable of creating art or living meaningful lives, saying that their relationships are inherently shallow and fake - these things are fucked up. I understand venting and saying extreme things when in pain, but when you find yourself regularly posting about wanting certain people tortured and killed, you need to examine that.
When the only thing stopping you from completely dehumanising someone is your own judgement regarding their privilege level relative to yours, you are not a safe person to be around.
''what if my writing isn't good eno--'' what if it's a reflection of your soul. what if it has a place in this world. what if you write it anyway
the internet is a place for reading wikipedia articles and watching every movie for free. social media is an invasive species. never forget this
i havent been on my computer in a week what do i used this for again
you can move files around on your desktop using click and drag. try it now
this is so fuckign stressful
Where’s the YA protagonist teen girl and her two boyfriends that are supposed to save us from this mess anyways
The dystopia books lied. The teen throuples aren’t coming to save us.
Save me teen dystopia love triangle
Teen dystopia love triangle save me
I seriously love AO3. Like what do you mean that I get extra content of my favorite fandoms for free?? What do you mean that some of the Shakespeare-level writing is what we could only dream to get in canon?? What do you mean I can read all the content tags and warnings so I know what I’m reading and can choose what I enjoy?? What do you mean I can search and filter for specific troupes and emotions instead of vague genres?? WHAT DO YOU MEAN NO ADS AND ONCE AGAIN IT’S ALL FREE?? Ack I’ll never get over this website lol <333
writing is so funny because i could write nonstop for 9hrs and then hit a block where im like "how do i transition between this moment and the next?" and then i just dont touch it for 6 months
Serious advice tho if this happens, it's likely because you already wrote past the end of the scene and wandered too far from the more logical transition point, and you should go back to the last time the writing felt "unforced" and cut everything after.
You can also just skip the transition. Really good writing can span years in a single sentence, like you can just authoritatively state fact and your reader will go with it.
This is GOLD! You just saved me like thousands of therapy costs lmao