be gay do crime

Okay this took me embarrassingly long to figure out but, your character needs a thing they do that has nothing to do with the plot. A specific, weird, small habit. She counts stairs. He can't throw away receipts. She reorganises the fridge when she's anxious. It doesn't matter. It doesn't go anywhere. But the moment you give someone a habit that serves no narrative purpose they stop being a character and start being a person. And the reader can feel that difference immediately even if they can't name it.

the replacement of websites with apps sounds so backwards when you actually describe it. like hmm you have to download an entire program onto your device each time you want access to a portal, where it takes up storage indefinitely. somebody should invent an app where you can "browse" any portal just by typing in its address... 🥴

Something I had to unlearn: giving your character a tragic backstory is not the same as giving them a wound. A backstory is just information. A wound is the thing that makes them flinch at something totally unrelated fifteen chapters later and the reader goes "oh." If the backstory doesn't leave a nerve ending somewhere in the present-day plot, cut it. Nobody needs the trauma. They need the flinch.

I cannot overstate how important open windows are to me. I think about returning to the months of the year without open windows and I want to sob

what should I listen to

women

insane that the only good colorists in the entire world are making gifsets for free on tumblr dot com instead of being heads of cinematography/color grading for tv shows and movie studios

Star Trek has spent sixty years queerbaiting the same two dudes and I for one will never get tired of it

i love you rain, i love you cold air, i love you sound of raindrops hitting the rooftops, i love you cloudy skies

This is an anti-despair checkpoint! You must share something you're looking forward to before scrolling on.

gonna be honest i don’t know how many more ‘enter the 6 digit code we sent to your phone’s i got left in me