trying

if i had to give a single piece of writing advice it’s to throw the entire thought process about what specific parts future readers may find cool out the window. 90% of the time you can REALLY tell when an author was smirking to themselves while writing and going “oh yeah, now THIS is the cool part that’s gonna get quoted” and, almost without fail, that disrupts everything enjoyable about a scene or even an entire story. not only that, though— if there’s one thing i’ve learned from being a DM, it’s that the things YOU think your audience is gonna love don’t mean fucking ANYTHING. you can spend every ounce of effort crafting a perfect side character that you think of as Reader Bait. the second readers smell that, they’re flocking to a completely random once-named never-referenced background character. i couldn’t even really tell you why. i guess the same reason cats never want to play with the toys you buy, just scraps of paper and shit around the house. you can’t predict it and to hang your hat so obviously on a peg with no structure is a disaster!

one of life's great mysteries is why so many websites are explicitly designed to be unpleasant to use

seeing people say "this trope has been done to death" as if that's ever stopped anyone from eating bread. BREAD HAS BEEN DONE TO DEATH FOR LITERALLY THOUSANDS OF YEARS AND WE STILL WANT MORE BREAD. write your chosen one AU. write your coffee shop meet-cute. write your 47th iteration of "there was only one bed" because guess what??? we're still hungry.

I have no sympathy for straight men having to restrain their sexual desires in the face of a cruel society, bc being an osa woman I occasionally encounter a man where I have intense carnal desire. Not shit that needs to be explicated on tumblr. But I’m like okay pursuing this would be like eating dog shit. There is no world where I have collateral equalizing this on any level. I would love to just lean into my libido and ignore the rest of reality, but my pride won’t let me. So when men are like we are being Curtaiiiiiiled…. I’m like listen maggot you have no clue what some of are inhibiting

Hatewatching an athlete with domestic violence or rape charges isn’t even a fun hatewatch I’m sitting here like this world hates women so much…nuke this planet and start again

there's a special place in my heart for people who made an effort to be my friend regardless of how quiet or distant i can get at times