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[image id: a tumblr poll answer that says i don’t know / i’m bald / any other miscellaneous infinitely nuanced answer. /end id]

rule #1 of being a child soldier is to have fun and be yourself

rule #2 of being a child soldier is to feel enough overwhelming guilt to make those who made you one choke on it endlessly as if you are prometheus and they are your eagle

rule #3 of being a child soldier is to stare into the void until it stares back

[image id: tags that say #rule 4 is to always always wonder if any amount of atonement can ever be enough. /end id]

[image id: a screenshot that says From your Drive and then a banner with a google slide icon on the left and the text MIDDLE AGED MAN YAOI!!!!!! with You’ve opened frequently below it. /end id]

[image id: am edited picture with blocky yellow text in all caps that says gender neutral terns to address a group. there are several words peeking out from under a messy black scribble that has the word everypony over it. /end id]

As I writer I am deeply squicked right now.

[image id: a blank word document. /end id]

shipping two characters not in a romantic way and not in a platonic way but in a secret third way

[image id: the united states postal service logo. /end id]

i'm genuinely having so much fun writing a jock protagonist. can't believe i never tried this before. all these years i've been limiting myself needlessly

i've created an extremely elaborate magic system based on linear algebra and not once does the narrator ever explain how it works. he doesn't know. he doesn't care. that's nerd shit. he is going on a lad's night out and if you try to tell him anything about equations he'll put his fingers in his ears and go "lalalala"

i feel it's important to add that my other protagonist is an academic and does know how the magic system works, but he doesn't get a POV chapter until halfway through the story. which means that over the course of 40,000 words we gradually build up a solid working idea of this world and its laws, as understood by Jock Protagonist - and then it switches to Nerd Protagonist, who's like, "just so we're clear, he was wrong about basically all of that."

[image id: tags that say #and then he ALSO doesn’t explain it. because like all academics he assumes you already know. /end id]

sometimes instead of “why can’t they just be friends” i think it should be “why can’t they also be friends” because sometimes shipping feels much too much like forcing two pretty characters to kiss and be intimate without actually being interested in the dynamic the two people have. what about hanging out together. what about why they like being in each others company. what do they argue about. how do they patch things up. what do they laugh about.

[image id: tags from @/magpie-trove that say #you wanna have two people in a relationship but uh chief I think we forgot the two people. /end id]

hey man I found a piece of your soul stuck in the text messages of old friends you don’t speak to anymore. do you want it back

[image id: tags that say nah it’s okay you can keep it #I’ve since grown and healed around what came off and it wouldn’t fit anymore. /end id]

the trick for enjoying a new video game is avoiding the internet’s opinion on it 

[image id: an edited rendition of the original post that now says the trick for enjoying is avoiding the internet’s opinion. /end id]

a good sumerian inexplicably donated five packs of 500 temporary tattoos to the classroom, each pack featuring identical pictures of a different invasive species of bug

i meant samaritan you jackasses i was typing with one hand bc i was putting on one of the temporary tattoos and it got autocorrected

[image id: a gif of red flaming text in all caps. it says MESOPOTAMIA TYPI. /end id]

Sometimes I hyperfocus so hard on something, I forget I’m a person until someone interacts with me. I feel like some wild animal seeing a human being for the first time. I’m like “oh yeah I’m supposed to speak and stuff”

[image id: a close shot of young, small deer standing behind a wooden fence in a field. its eyes are glowing. /end id]

[image id: an edited screenshot of two comments on tiktok. one is a reply from the creator to the other comment. the first comment is edited to say if it would make you feel better i can kill myself. the reply says Literally no one is asking for that stay safe. /end id]

[OPENS FRIDGE, REMOVES TUPPERWARE CONTAINER LABELLED "Pomegranates from land of dead do not eat"]

[I REMOVE A SECOND CONTAINER LABELLED "Fairy apples do not eat (Autumn Court)]

[I APPROACH THE BLENDER]

[image id: tags that say #you shouldn’t eat that either. /end id]

[image id: a tweet from @KindaSortaMaebe (Bright Sunshine ☀️) that says EVIL polyamory. they call it a diabolicule 😈. /end id]

for me internet friendships are “we don’t talk all the time but I see you’re online and it makes me happy” and I really hope it’s like that for everyone

[image id: tags that say I may not know everyone in my neighborhood but it’s still nice coming home at night with all the lights from their windows aglow around me. /end id]