The Dump

Oh boy. I'm so ready to be back, I lowkey missed this place

Love to see that literally nothings changed

All those child-free adults who complain about parents only talking about their kids are literally exactly the same about their dogs. All they talk about is their dogs. They have a license plate that says PAWRENT or DOG MOM or something. Someone in the room could be talking about major world happenings and these people will be like okay but look at my dog bubbywussikins he's such a good boyo wook at hwim 🥺 and you'll look and he's a cute dog but god forbid you mention something about your toddler niece because they'll be like ugh crotch goblins 🙄🙄 and you have to just sit there and stare at their dog wearing a diaper and not hit them with a shovel

To Tired Writers. To the people out there whose hearts very, very much want to write and work on WIPs, but who are just mentally and physically exhausted right now. It’s okay. It is okay to rest sometimes. Allow yourself time to rest. 

I think a big reason why "children are an oppressed group" gets (wrongly!) read as a "pedophile talking point" is that everyone treats children so terribly that actual child molesters can speedrun winning a kid's trust by like, actually respecting their needs and perspective, at least at first. Which means that the only way out of this mess is for all of us adults to treat children with respect, so that abusers can't use the rareness of that respect as a weapon.

I don’t know who needs to hear this but it’s okay for writing to be a HOBBY that you do because you enjoy, and that you don’t want to do when you’re not enjoying it. No one’s up in the business of knitters telling them they have to be willing to SUFFER and SWEAT or they’ll NEVER FINISH THAT SWEATER and they can’t expect good things to come to them. I don’t know why our current culture around writing is so intense, but I’m here to support your casual, relaxing writing habit. If people can glue pompoms together or knit a scarf or watch hours of streaming shows with their spare time there’s absolutely no reason writers can’t waste time writing just for pleasure, without any expectation that they’re going to Achieve something Amazing and Important or make a bunch of money or whatever.