[zurielthecactus]

The Medic | updates, where I'm at with rewrites, etc (in replies)

[dogpuppy]

[redstonedust]

thinking "everyone can tell im bad at this" as i stand completely motionless doing nothing in public

[zurielthecactus]

in the middle of re reading my own fic so I can find the will to continue it (bc ive genuinely forgotten pretty much everything I wrote) and ive been waiting ALL DAYYYYYY for ao3 to come back up for me to continue 😭

[starberrymilktea]

What i'm writing might be slop, but at least its MY slop

[starberrymilktea]

What i'm writing might be slop, but at least its MY slop

[iamnautilus]

It doesn’t matter if I’m dead. If someone leaves a comment on my ao3 fic I will reply. Those comments mean the most to me. So much that they transcend the barrier of death.

[ellipsus-writes]

If you haven't heard, the em dash has been getting a lot of attention lately…

Because it was trained on pirated work—including freely accessible online writing (like fanfic, academic texts)—ChatGPT picked up patterns and quirks native to human writing.

Including (sigh) the em dash.

There are other victims here (RIP tapestry and delve 🫠), but the appropriation of the em dash—a punctuation mark beloved by writers everywhere—feels especially personal.

A kind of low-grade panic is ensuing. Writers who once memed their own em dash overuse—the greatest punctuation mark ever to grace the control-freak’s lexicon, frankly—are suddenly backing away to avoid accusations.

No. More. We have centuries of dash-abusing writers behind us. We will not sit quietly while AI repurposes our beloved stilted aside—or the just-one-more clarification the sentence demands—or the dramatic pause your comma could never—etc.

You don’t write like AI—AI writes like you.

Defend the em dash.

(Feel free to download/share/stick it where it matters!)

[weaselle]

[bigfatbitchdotcom]

Endlessly diabolical how you can't say words like rape and suicide uncensored without either being criticised by idiots or punished by conglomerates.

[bigfatbitchdotcom]

It's not r*pe, it's rape. It's not su*cide, it's suicide. Not unalive, dead. The backbone needs to be reintroduced en masse because softening the blow of these concepts with advertising language does absolutely nothing but allow people unaffected by them to feel not even a sting of what they can do, prompting inaction.

[bigfatbitchdotcom]

And it's been proven that on certain websites, you don't even face a repercussion for using the words as they are. People just started censoring themselves because they feared the potential lack of views and likes and followers which is so nasty itself.

[its-the-blob]

I attended an anti-suicide seminar in college. One of the big takeaways from it was that stigmatizing suicide increases the rate of suicide, because people who are feeling suicidal feel like they can't ask for help. Every time I see babytalk garbage like 'unalive', I think of that.

[ralfmaximus]

Use the real words. Words have power, and they matter.

[crazysodomite]

how it feels to dm someone

[zurielthecactus]

the medic: update/⚠️minor⚠️spoilers⚠️ for next chapter

im really struggling with it, and I'll tell you why: it's a happy chapter. chanley are finally going to have a really good time, together, with (almost) everything out in the air at long fucking last.

uhhh but idk how to write that 😐 what do happy people do? how do they act? what activities can I write that aren't flatter than a sheet of paper? and how do i make it realistic for an idol??????????????? I have written one (1) scene and it makes me cringe so hard I cant imagine posting it. how the hell am I supposed to write more 😀 it is by no means a filler chapter either, it is important, but im just as such a loss.

anyways this is a bit more of a ramble than anything but im fr stuck

[sourdough-seal]

"why did you stop writing your story!!! never stop writing!!!!!!!!!!!" well you see the character had to drive one mile to a new location and the sentence "she got into the car" was quite simply my undoing

[serenadeformice-deactivated2025]

Everyone loves me for my repetitive speech, my odd noises, my constant forgetfulness, and my repetitive speech

[zeelatunes]

pov: you're a tumblr user reading a post

[closet-keys]

"They tied [Greta Thunberg's] hands behind her back with the Israeli flag and made her walk. They didn't give us clean water,they told us to drink from the toilets. We went nearly 40 hours without food. We saw mothers writing their children’s names on the walls. We actually experienced a little bit of what Palestinians go through." - Activist Aycin Kantoglu

"They tortured Greta very severely before our eyes. [...] They dragged little Greta by her hair before our eyes, beat her, and forced her to kiss the Israeli flag. They did everything imaginable to her, as a warning to others" - Journalist Ersin Celik

"Greta Thunberg, a brave woman, is only 22 years old. She was humiliated and wrapped in an Israeli flag and exhibited like a trophy." -Journalist Lorenzo Agostino

"It was a disaster. They treated us like animals." - Singer-songwriter and humanitarian activist, Hazwani Helmi

"We stayed with reverse handcuffs for 5 hours. When we went to prison, they didn't give us water, we had to drink water from the toilet." - Author Said Ercan

"When we showed our reaction, they increased their violence even more. They tried to keep us under constant pressure in prison, waking us throughout the night and changing our locations." - Doctor Osman Cetinkaya

"They treated us like dogs. They left us hungry for three days. They didn’t give us water; we had to drink from the toilet … It was a terribly hot day, and we were all roasting." - TV presenter Ikbal Gurpinar

[closet-keys]

Hundreds of peaceful activists from around 45 countries had their aid vessels blasted repeatedly with water canons and boarded by Israeli navy. Their communication systems were jammed and their ships were unlawfully seized and brought to Israel. The activists were then kidnapped and tortured in Israeli prisons against their will.

The quoted statements above are what we know from individual activists from the Global Sumud Flotilla.

The words of Aycin Kantoglu are important: "We actually experienced a little bit of what Palestinians go through."

She is correct. They were denied clean water and medicine, kept awake, moved from place to place, starved, dehumanized, and had their bodies used to generate Israeli propaganda. They endured this terror for days. This is terrible. And this is only a glimpse of the terror that Palestinians have endured.

My friend Fadel (@fadel-danii) and his family have been denied access to clean water and starved for months. They have been forcibly displaced over and over again. They are kept awake with the sound of bombings and the insects and animals that get inside their damaged tent. He has struggled for two years to afford his medications.

Donate to Help the injured Fadel and save his family, organized by Fadel Aldany

My name is Fadel Al-Dany, a 23-year-old third-year IT student. My life hasn't … Fadel Aldany needs your support for Help the injured Fadel a

[closet-keys]

While the activists detained for attempting to deliver aid are being released, Fadel and his family are trapped where they are without any assurance they will soon be somewhere safe.

They cannot simply return home at the end of this suffering and be treated for their injuries, because their house was destroyed, their healthcare infrastructure and doctors are constantly under attack, their land is being killed, their water polluted, and there is no clear end in sight.

Fadel started this fundraising campaign to afford travel to a hospital that could perform surgery to remove shrapnel that pierced his body during the bombing of his family's home. His campaign was verified and shared by @90-ghost and @a-shade-of-blue, and was vetted by @gazavetters (#197 on the gazavetters spreadsheet). That was early summer of 2024. It has been over a year since then, and he has still not raised these funds.

His family has been displaced to southern Gaza and are struggling to afford water, food, medicine, and supplies to repair their damaged tent. Please donate what you can.

[armandgender]

writing is so fun

[armandgender]

writing is impossible why does anyone do this

[ttechniic]

i do not "queue". i do not use "peak posting times". i do not "stagger" my art. i post it and then bury it myself. and if it doesnt get notes? i rb it again