Writerly things

welcome to the hell that is this writer's mind

[9ofarc]

I love when people are weird. Do your thing diva

[ndnbutch]

sometimes i talk about how awful it was to feel trapped by my daily makeup routine and how i couldn’t leave the house without putting on a full face and it played a major role in the misery of my high school experience because i had to spend so much extra time getting ready in the mornings and that followed me into my early 20s as well and it was hell and it was so incredibly liberating to go through the slow and uncomfortable but ultimately essential process of getting my bare face back and having makeup be an optional accessory instead of a mandatory uniform. and the response always tends to be ah yes of course, because of your trans and your masculine. and it’s like aha so close! actually! I think if I ended up being a feminine cis woman I also still would not deserve even a second of that shit! I think trans women and nonbinary people and every human alive should have the option to leave the house without a single cosmetic product ever touching their face! but thanks for playing!

[release-the-sheep]

just witnessed something devastating

guy on the subway with one ear pierced, little gold hoop. other guy on the subway very quickly and subtly googling "which one is the gay ear". it is not the gay ear. visible disappointment on his face as he puts his phone away.

[ooo-silly-worms]

Pottery sounds terrifying to me. Every post I see is like "Here's this awesome art I made!! Pray for me that it survives The Kiln™ :')" I don't think I could cope with making art that could quite easily blow up and I have no way of controlling that. You guys are true heroes.

[claypigeonpottery]

@bazanite you are so correct

[freakoutgirl]

Avoidance is the worst reaction to stress. Oh this thing is giving me anxiety? And it's something I could prepare for by looking at it more or learning things about the topic? No, I will take psychological damage if I look at it directly. I will still be thinking about it and be stressed though.

[kuttithevangu]

One thing that seems to trip people up on this here website when it comes to discussions of bigoted representation is like. How do I put this. Bigots don’t particularly care if their bigotry ensnares more than one group???

Like the example that brings this to mind is people saying “I didnt know Dracula was Jewish coded, I thought he was coded as [insert other group here]”

And the thing is I don’t think Bram Stoker was particularly invested in seeing those as different types of person! As far as the text of Dracula is concerned Jews ARE evil aristocrats ARE undifferentiated, Orientalized inhabitants of the Ottoman borderlands ARE vampires. This is one of the many reasons I think it’s silly to try and “claim” some kind of unique relationship to this kind of scattershot oppressive coding. A man can be racist against

Bugs bunny meme

OUR people

[kuttithevangu]

Are vampires always antisemitic = no there's a bunch of other stuff going on

Is Dracula antisemitic = yeah

Is Dracula also depicted as a boyar, a class to which Jews have never belonged = yeah

Does Dracula also come across as racist toward Romanies and The Ottoman Empire Generally = yeah

Did Stoker choose to metaphorically depict English landlords in Ireland as Ottoman Jewish Boyars to make them look more Evil = Probably yeah

Does this mean Bram Stoker didn't intend for it to be antisemitic = no but also I don't care that much about what he intended because people get so hung up on that and end up talking in circles

[scribeherself]

There is no drug on earth that can replicate the absolute euphoria of hitting a writing flow state at 2:00 AM. You aren’t even typing anymore. You are a vessel. You are a channel for the gods. The characters are speaking directly into your brain and you’re just the stenographer trying to keep up. You feel like you could fight a bear. You feel like you invented the alphabet

[kuttithevangu]

All fantasy authors wish they had a bigger bathtub in their house. You can tell by every bathing scene ever written into a fantasy novel

[asthedeathoflight]

My favorite quirk of American English is that since we're constantly exaggerating, sometimes it's more intense to say something slightly less intense. Because like, it means you actually thought about it.

"you look great!" - normal. Anyone could say this. Could be true or could just be lying to be nice. Very normal expected thing to say to someone

"you look good." - gay as hell thing to say to someone.

[misscrazyfangirl321]

Being an adult will have you unironically craving a vegetable

[misscrazyfangirl321]

Being an adult will have you unironically sad about a parasite outbreak in fresh vegetables.

[glorianas]

i think all the women through out history who were financially pushed into marriage and motherhood because they had no other options is sad and tragic too but socially something we will never be able to reckon with because we can’t come to terms with the fact some women don’t want to be mothers

[glorianas]

we really are so condtioned to believe, deep down, all women want to be mothers (even if now we’re okay with women having careers too) like i really just think we should all question how news cycles about birth decline are aimed at us, when realistically there’s several reasons for it and one is absolutely women more and more are in positions where they don’t have be wives and mothers for economic reasons and you know what? that’s a good thing!

[postsatthepeakofperfection]

The word you are looking for is “selfish.” Not narcissist, not sociopath, selfish.

[miggylol]

[sufjansjoy]

mm you’re being such an okay boy for daddy. could be better could be worse. you will receive neither reward nor punishment for your forgettable behavior. that’s my okay boy, keep doing whatever …

[skopostheorie]

[foreveriallyzombified]

I just made myself sick eating purple cookies

[foreveriallyzombified]

Neopets ass problem

[egberts]

"i ate too many cookies" is truly an ageless problem. an unlearnable lesson.

[catilinas]

friendly reminder that [the most cherrypicked interpretation of the text possible] <3