quoth the raven, "fuck."

not using AI genuinely feels like the rest of the world is experiencing some kind of mass amnesia. if someone says they never use it, the immediate response is that can't be true because "everyone" uses it to write their emails or answer their questions. saw a comment suggesting that not using chatgpt to write an essay is "like the 90s". girl I graduated in 2021 and we weren't doing that! how is it that everyone has suddenly forgotten that they were entirely capable of doing these things all by themselves for their entire lives up until the past few years!! am I going crazy!!!

the only thing that could top that clip is that story

there be some hyper fixations out there

I love someone who knows what the fuck they're about

Another storytelling rule I think people should remember is the law of diminishing returns. If you keep on ramping up the stakes higher and higher and higher, after a point it gets to where the audience can’t really care anymore.

I think this is also connected to what I have no idea whether there's a word for it but you know how in The Lord of the Rings (the books) there are all those moments when no action happens and they're basically resting somewhere nice, the hobbits are enjoying some food and banter, or the narration stops to admire the scenery? Yeah, those are there for contrast, to make the action count, and remind you why you should care for the characters and their fighting and questing to save the world. You don't get the saving-the-world high stakes of that story just from bigger and bigger battles.

I think more non binary characters should be fat

fat and black and brown 👍🏾

doing things at the right age is literally a made up concept. you can start/pursue anything at any age. btw.

help I’m having ideas beyond my available free time

help I'm having ideas beyond my available energy levels

aromantic relationships (of any kind) can often look different than allo people might expect. for example, some of us may enjoy having sex but not kissing. some of us may have close, caring relationships with our friends and still identify as loveless. some of us may some of us may choose not to label our relationships at all, even as queerplatonic. some of us may fantasize about rock aliens doing open heart surgery on us. etc.

If your system doesn't account for the fact that Parents Are Going To Be Abusive/Neglectful/Insufficient then it objectively sucks I'm sorry I don't make the rules

Monitored bank accounts for those under 18. Requiring parental consent for medical procedures. Parental controls on personal devices. "We won't teach this at school because parents are supposed to address it at home." Anything that puts all of the child's power onto the parents' hand, anything that assumes parents are going to inherently do enough of a good job no one else needs to interfer, every single one of these IS going to be used by controlling, neglectful or unprepared parents and already are, and if the system did not account for that very real, tangible, dangerous tendency, then it's not worth fucking anything. You shouldn't make things "for the youth"/with children in mind if you are going to overlook this painfully common aspect of their lives u_u