I am who I am and I don't apologize

it will be about bringing people together at a time that things look bleak. a lot of people were (figuratively) smacked in the face with the elections that happened in the U.S. this week and i don't know about you, but i sure feel alone. this will be a place for people to come together, grieve (if necessary), and, ultimately, figure out what we, in our own way, can do to combat the craziness that has taken over. this community will be in invite/request (cannot just join, need to request to join) and will start out as public (if needed it can be made private, but private communities cannot be made public).

if you're interested in joining (once it is created), send me a note or like or reblog this post.

it will be about bringing people together at a time that things look bleak. a lot of people were (figuratively) smacked in the face with the elections that happened in the U.S. this week and i don't know about you, but i sure feel alone. this will be a place for people to come together, grieve (if necessary), and, ultimately, figure out what we, in our own way, can do to combat the craziness that has taken over. this community will be in invite/request (cannot just join, need to request to join) and will start out as public (if needed it can be made private, but private communities cannot be made public).

if you're interested in joining (once it is created), send me a note or like or reblog this post.

it will be about bringing people together at a time that things look bleak. a lot of people were (figuratively) smacked in the face with the elections that happened in the U.S. this week and i don't know about you, but i sure feel alone. this will be a place for people to come together, grieve (if necessary), and, ultimately, figure out what we, in our own way, can do to combat the craziness that has taken over. this community will be in invite/request (cannot just join, need to request to join) and will start out as public (if needed it can be made private, but private communities cannot be made public).

if you're interested in joining (once it is created), send me a note or like or reblog this post.

it will be about bringing people together at a time that things look bleak. a lot of people were (figuratively) smacked in the face with the elections that happened in the U.S. this week and i don't know about you, but i sure feel alone. this will be a place for people to come together, grieve (if necessary), and, ultimately, figure out what we, in our own way, can do to combat the craziness that has taken over. this community will be in invite/request (cannot just join, need to request to join) and will start out as public (if needed it can be made private, but private communities cannot be made public).

if you're interested in joining (once it is created), send me a note or like or reblog this post.

it will be about bringing people together at a time that things look bleak. a lot of people were (figuratively) smacked in the face with the elections that happened in the U.S. this week and i don't know about you, but i sure feel alone. this will be a place for people to come together, grieve (if necessary), and, ultimately, figure out what we, in our own way, can do to combat the craziness that has taken over. this community will be in invite/request (cannot just join, need to request to join) and will start out as public (if needed it can be made private, but private communities cannot be made public).

if you're interested in joining (once it is created), send me a note or like or reblog this post.

it will be about bringing people together at a time that things look bleak. a lot of people were (figuratively) smacked in the face with the elections that happened in the U.S. this week and i don't know about you, but i sure feel alone. this will be a place for people to come together, grieve (if necessary), and, ultimately, figure out what we, in our own way, can do to combat the craziness that has taken over. this community will be in invite/request (cannot just join, need to request to join) and will start out as public (if needed it can be made private, but private communities cannot be made public).

if you're interested in joining (once it is created), send me a note or like or reblog this post.

it will be about bringing people together at a time that things look bleak. a lot of people were (figuratively) smacked in the face with the elections that happened in the U.S. this week and i don't know about you, but i sure feel alone. this will be a place for people to come together, grieve (if necessary), and, ultimately, figure out what we, in our own way, can do to combat the craziness that has taken over. this community will be in invite/request (cannot just join, need to request to join) and will start out as public (if needed it can be made private, but private communities cannot be made public).

if you're interested in joining (once it is created), send me a note or like or reblog this post.

Secondary to someone being mean to him in chat yesterday (or so it is said): here’s today’s new shenanigans from you know who…

So if your profile contains any of the above…

the poll is real: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1604617643973124097

This is illegal. 

Bellow are some my favorite POC/Black Reader writers on tumblr check them out they are all amazing! 💛

Honestly fuck this storytelling style. 

Fuck this style of storytelling that puts authorial masturbation over a satisfying conclusion to a story. Fuck this obsession with “swerves” and “subverting expectations.” 

Fuck this mentality that you have to outsmart the audience in order to make a good product. 

Fuck the idea that “predictable” is automatically boring. Fuck the idea that people who have been paying attention to long-running story arcs should be punished for giving a shit and expecting a cohesive conclusion to a long running story. 

Fuck this idea that disappointing endings are okay if they’re “unexpected.” Fuck this auteur mentality where writers have to prove that they’re the cleverest boys in the whole wide world. 

“The fans use to come up with theories; lots of them are just speculative but some of them are in the right way. Before the Internet, one reader could guess the ending you wanna do for your novel, but the other 10.000 wouldn’t know anything and they would be surprised. However, now, those 10.000 people use the Internet and read the right theories. They say: “Oh God, the butler did it!”, to use an example of a mystery novel. Then, you think: “I have to change the ending! The maiden would be the criminal!” To my mind that way is a disaster because if you are doing well you work, the books are full of clues that point to the butler doing it and help you to figure up the butler did it, but if you change the ending to point the maiden, the clues make no sense anymore; they are wrong or are lies, and I am not a liar.”

People who write in search of being totally unpredictable and ‘edgy’ are forgetting that humans are literally wired to enjoy successfully decoding story beats. We’re born pattern-seekers. It’s one of our most successful evolutionary survival strategies (for good and ill). There’s a reason TVTropes is a large and successful website based entirely on being a repository of the patterns we’ve established and go back to in storytelling. That site gets traffic because we go and read about all the times someone did That One Thing in media, and we love it!