'tis writ somewhat crabbedly

writeblr. she/her, late 20s. main is djclapyohandz.

[beguines]

Jennie Malboeuf, God had a body

[kallistoi]

[image text: In the Myths

everyone was raped. even the birds raped women; the ocean too. there was no undoing. this was explanation: fact of life. the hero, as in Janus, was two-faced and raped other nymphs than the ones he saved. in Rome, he was the god of doors and beginnings,  and his accuser allayed with goddess of the hinge. hinge from hang. or almost zipper in Italian. the moral is trust no one. the moral is gods take what they want. the moral is take heart: we are made from this raping in their image. or they in ours.]

[lelif]

on survival

-// @aridante // @orivu // @buzzkillgirls // ? // ? // richard siken// @cemeterything // moomin, tove jansson// @disenchanted-killjoy // isn't that enough, shawn mendes// @ prettytheyswag on twitter// @ coletyumuch on twitter// ? // ? // bird by bird, anne lamott// undertale// @strawberrycircuits

[aqueerkettleofish]

The word is "renascence." See the poem of that title by Edna St. Vincent Millay

[aritany]

put a cat in the bag, call that purr review

[peachdoxie]

I love characters who are extremely hypercompetent and simultaneously massive losers

[littlestpersimmon]

Hello Everyone, my name is Caleb and I am an indigenous trans guy currently living in the global south. "Easily accessible" medicine is not a thing in the Philippines- government aid of any sort is nonexistent here. I currently have 3 jobs, but they all do not pay well, and they are all very "unstable".

I have a life-limiting disease that will kiIl me if I am not medicated. I had a suspicious mass removed along with my entire thyroid last May, and I would like to keep living. I have severe hypothyroidism that will lead to myxedema coma, (and eventually death) if I am not medicated, and a heart deformation caused by type II diabetes

I want to keep making art for as long as I am alive, and I need continuous medication for the rest of my life to do so. (Levothyroxine, Calcium & B-complex and metformin-sitaglipin). Please consider buying my prints! ❤️‍🩹 thank you very much.

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[littlestpersimmon]

Its my bday next week :] if youd like to come pick up a print or take a look at my patreon, or just send me a tip so I can buy diabetic friendly snacks, haha. Who knew itd be so hard finding stuff to eat. Ill take it as a bday gift!!

[artbyblastweave]

The old world is dying. The new world had that thing happen where the umbilical cord gets caught around the neck as it's coming out, yuuuurk, no new world either. So it's basically just gonna be monsters forever

[pangur-and-grim]

I’ve gone insane and started writing a cliche fantasy novel

[pangur-and-grim]

yeah to be honest, when I made that post I didn’t think we be ending up here

[catilinas]

(rotk / earlier version of the same passage in HoME vol 8)

the change from ‘leant upon his father’ to ‘leaned upon his father’s chair’ is crazyyyyyy. like you can see tolkien thinking hmmm. actually i need to make the relationship between denethor and faramir worse

[pericardium-and-glass]

Longing led you to me, to the Desert.

[laskulls-deactivated20250318]

oc design is just “this is me” and “god I wish that were me” in random measurements on a scale

[avaero]

may I present an alternative take

[starcut-sand]

When I was in college, my Creative Nonfiction professor would regularly have us do something she called "hotspotting" (she didn't know that this was already a term tbc) with our rough drafts. Basically, hotspotting is when you look at your draft and pick out your favorite sentence, or one of your favorite sentences--one that you're really proud of--and write it down in a blank sheet in a notebook. Not a new document, a physical notebook. (You are not allowed to use technology for hotspotting.) And then you set a timer for however long--like maybe ten to twenty minutes--and you elaborate. You treat that one sentence as if it's the opening sentence to a new draft, and you write from there, until the timer is up.

It sounds like a gimmick, but honestly, some of my best writing in that class came from hotspotting. Usually, the sentence you consider the "best" is the one that really gets to the heart of something you're trying to convey. In a rough draft, it tends to be that you're fumbling around a bit before you really hit on the heart of things. So with hotspotting, you're starting from a less fumbly place, which means you're able to dig into your subject in a much deeper and more precise way. It makes you feel like a surgeon, a little bit.

So I do recommend trying it, even just for fun, even if you think the rough draft you have is already good. You might surprise yourself with what you come up with! :)

[what-even-is-thiss]

I think a lot of writers might benefit from giving themselves permission to get weird with format.

Use second person, drop classic rising action and climax format, write backwards, just sit in a moment, tell all you want and refuse to show, make an entire book that’s just one run on sentence, reject tropes, use all tropes, cliche yourself to death, produce something that’s completely gibberish. Break all the rules of marketability. Become ungovernable.

[what-even-is-thiss]

Write a story that just takes place inside one pathetic little person’s head. Do it. It’s enrichment in your enclosure.

[what-even-is-thiss]

Do the writer’s equivalent of playing with finger paints. Do it do it do it do it do it do it do it do it do it do it do it do it

[what-even-is-thiss]

It’s the middle of the night and I should be sleeping but listen. Listen. Just get weird with it. Open your soul up a little bit. Like actually don’t worry about it being palatable. I’m serious. Get weirder. Get weirder right now. I’m demanding that you get weirder right now. It’s not your responsibility to make your reader feel good. It’s your job to make art, goddamnit. Make art. Make weird art. Open up your third eye and eat an entire cheesecake.

[golden-autumn]

[ravaildaverse]

River near Ilda's cottage

[tedthetalk]

I actually do think it’s better for abusers and abusive characters to realize the harm their past actions caused and seek to do better than be literally or metaphorically executed for their crimes

[tedthetalk]

I think it’s better for abusers and abusive characters to realize the harm their past actions caused and seek to do better than be literally or metaphorically executed for their crimes.

[tedthetalk]

I think it’s better for abusers and abusive characters to realize the harm their past actions caused and seek to do better than be literally or metaphorically executed for their crimes.

[tedthetalk]

You may notice, if you read the post, that “forgiveness” and “redemption” are not mentioned at all. This is on purpose.

[suhaylah]

oil pastel studies: little fires, pouring rain, and pink night forest (2021)

shop: suhaylah.bigcartel.com instagram: @suhaylah.h

[larval-tear]

born to prance in the glade forced to guard the royal capital

[blackpyrefly]

stop thinking about "glades" and cross your "glaive" with mine boy. a traveller approaches

[larval-tear]

*sigh* who goes there..

[portalibis]

Ceres searching for Proserpine, ca.1780s by Johan Tobias Sergel, 1740-1814, Nationalmuseum, Sweden

[kallistoi]

[image description: a statue of the roman goddess ceres, lifting a pair of large torches and striding purposefully ahead. she has a pair of large coiling serpents at her sides. end description.]