I think this might actually be a good year

It's not that I don't appreciate a bit of chiaroscuro, but there has to be enough chiar to o the scur.

love watching pre, idk, 2000 movies where there is "night lighting" that tells you it is dark but the director has paid lighting engineers enough that you can also clearly see everything

Then once they have learned how to make a movie that the audience can see, they will have to make fully produced (music, sound effects, etc) audio dramas so they can learn to make something that the audience can hear what people are saying and how to do audio mixing properly.

i love fics that feel so... grown. fics about adults that were written by adults who have years of life experience under their belts who pour that into their writing. fics where you can tell this is a person who has lived through a marriage or a divorce or a child or children or parent death or any number of Huge Life Events because the way they write with an emphasis on the highs and lows of the human experience rather than an emphasis on tropes (not throwing shade) is just so. oh man, it's just so fucking good. if my blorbos are grown men, grown women, grown people, i love it when they feel like grown people, not just extensions of the (young) author's imagination. (still not throwing shade). you know?

As a youngish writer (early 20s) I feel this! I love reading fic that I can tell is probably from someone who's seen a lot more of life than I have. Also, oddly, it's made me more excited and less morbid about getting older. I can't wait until my own work is enriched with more of my life experiences :)

I think that when you're overstimulated you should appear kind of grayed out and no one should be able to interact with you like a locked character in a video game