Superheroes Are Dorks

“Do dishes” and “take out trash” both require the use of a spell slot, vs “use phone” is a cantrip, and brother, I am a level one wizard

We CANNOT let all the Wattpad users migrate to ao3

Everyone was new to AO3 once. Here’s an FAQ I wrote up that covers many elements of the site Wattpad users tend to be curious about. If you see someone struggling, linking prewritten information may be easier than explaining the same things over and over.

I am so tired of short-attention-span, trim-the-fat culture. All writing advice these days is for how to write like Chuck Palahniuk. "Cut 'think', cut 'feel', cut 'wonder' - only action, only pushing forward, show and move and move and move." What if I could emulate this style, and still don't want to? What if I want to write like Henry James, with three paragraphs of introspective musings between each dialogue line? The music advice is, "make it shortform, make it Tik-Tok compatible, make it punchy, hit the refrain as soon as possible." What if I want that 10-minute prog rock piece? What if I want that symphony? What if I want it slow and luxurious and lazy? Movies. Series. Poetry. Bodies. Everything is "trimmed trimmed trimmed trimmed, stripped bare, you have three seconds to win me over, make it airport chic." I don't want to win you over, then, I guess. I want the fat left it. I want the pleasure and the indolence and the indulgence. Fuck this art-advice that's always "your art needs Ozempic."

can we all hold hands and agree not to call fanworks content. can we all kiss each other's foreheads and agree not to call it "promoting your content". i beg of you i am not a cog in the machine i am not doing this for profit i am not an influencer im just engaging in a hobby helppppp

time to make a post on tumblr. surely no one will interpret it to be as offensive and bad intentioned as possible.

Here’s my roundup of resources for new Wattpad refugees. I figure it’s good to have something comprehensive to link to as the questions start flowing in.

Genuinely radicalising that we literally had an emergency alert about the risk of wildfires and Westminster aren't having an emergency meeting about how to rapidly and sustainably reduce the UK's contributions to the climate crisis. Absolutely ridiculous that the best we got was this alert and a ban on disposable BBQs

"he would not fucking say that" but its about a character being a leftist. he would not fucking believe that

media literacy is knowing when a character would say "i dont vote. why are you bringing politics into this?" no matter how mad it makes you to hear somebody irl say the same thing

This goes for a good amount of the characters who are complained about "oh no they were a cop in the timeskip", a lot of the time they wouldn't have an issue with being a cop and it is perfectly in character.

The number of people who go like 'my beloved war criminal blorbo!' but then act like you poured a drink on them if you suggest they'd be a Republican is honestly pretty funny.

Comics writers don't be evil challenge

I feel guilty having Sandman on my shelf even though I bought it before the allegations