Heya! I'm Astro! | He/Him | Pansexual - Demisexual | Pronoun page with my preferred names: https://en.pronouns.page/@astro-inthestars! | My heart is honestly so full of love for everyone I care about... AND MYSELF NOW! I'M GREAT! I DESERVE TO LOVE MYSELF LETS GOOO! I like making friends! Except homophobes, TERFS, p//dos, abusers, or just an all around asshole. Fuck off!
If ya'll didn't know, I accidentally deleted my old account.... So if you recognize lil ol me from that era-- (2022!) hi I'm cooler now <3
Heya! My name's Astro! I'm a pansexual demisexual Filipinoπ΅π, and I make art! Here's a Pronoun.page with my preferred names and preferred titles and such!
Yippeee! Homophobes/Queerphobes, ableists, TERFS, proshippers, and just assholes and weirdos (/neg) in general, ya'll get the fuck out of here, yeah? Yeah. Cool.
The tags I use and my sideblogs are under the cut!
My art β #astroarts #astrodoods (<-this one is for just doodles and not fully colored art)
Just normal text posts β #renrambles
Long posts or talking with people β #renrambleswithpeople
My writing?? Damn β #renwrites? #poems from the stars (<-for poems)
My sona or just art of me (by me)! β #astro sona #your local star boy
Answering asks β #astroanswers
Submissions β #stuff4stro
My friends β #kaibigan kong mahal
Rambling about love β #lovely rambling
Appreciation??? Also for self esteem I guess! β #astro appreciation
Oc Universes (usually not mine) β #original blorbos from the brain #when the ocs (<- now these are my own characters)
ASTRO LORE (Star God lore)! β #astro lore
Tips about art from ME? More likely than you think β #astro art tips? #starboy explains stuff (for just every tutorial, not just art)
Art FOR ME??? WOAH? β #art for the astro!?
ALSO! IMPORTANT: Please send an ask or DM me if you want me to tag a trigger on a post that needs to be tagged, I will do so accordingly!
My sideblogs:
@astros-arts-inthestars - Art Blog! - Active
@kelbreys-baseball-bat - Omori - Ship blog - Active once in a pink-orange moon
@the-oc-central - My friend @/phasmogender's OC blog - Inactive
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There should've been a point in chapter 5 where you could save and the text would read "the power of mean girls shines within you!", so that the general audience could go "oh! Nice chapter 1 callback! Although it's a sorta cheap reference since Susie isn't even being that mean this time!"
Meanwhile the suspiciously mean girl shaped "Prince":
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[Image ID: The Destiel confession meme edited so that Dean answers 'Tumblr banned the creator of The Amazing Digital Circus, gooseworx.' to Cas 'I love you'. /End ID]
the original got flagged with no way to appeal it when every contributor is deactivated but I will never let this post die. it's monday and we are getting on it cunts
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"Readers have SHORT attention spans! The average reader takes just TWO sentences to decide whether to put a book down! You have to HOOK them in the FIRST sentence! GRAB them by throat and don't let them BREATHEβ"
... have... have we considered that perhaps the average reader just, like, knows what they like in a book? I mean... first sentences are famous for establishing things like *checks notes*... genre, tone, POV, pacing, character, voice, uhhh... writing style...
The average reader is putting your book down because they discovered it's in first person (or not in first person). The average reader put your book down because they wanted a cozy read, or they're sick of cozy reads, or romance, or grimdark, or assassin princesses, or vampires, or or or. The average reader put your book down because they just didn't like your writing styleβno, not because it was boring... they just, get this, didn't like it.
The average critical reader put your book down because it had six grammatical mistakes in the first two sentences.
The average reader will read quite a ways if the premise intrigues them, they like the genre, the writing style doesn't get on their nerves, and the characters pop off the page. In fact, they'll probably read the whole book, so long as it delivers on its plot promises and doesn't drag in the middle section.
The average reader will, however, stop reading after just two sentences if it's clear by the second sentence that the only thing they'll like about this book is the opening line.
Idk, I just think like, painting a demographic of people who, you know, pick up full length books to read for fun, as having short attention spans doesn't make too much sense. At least not as much sense as the alternative: words tell people things; namely, the contents of this book.
In general, though, I think we jump to blame short attention spans too often when there is a far more logical explanation. "It takes 0.06 seconds for viewers to scroll past a post." Yes, that is typically how long it takes me to discern whether this post is about something I'm interested in. There's a trillion posts out there, probably a billion books, of course we've gotten fast at sorting through content. That's not an attention span issue. That's just efficiency.
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