Endure pain, find joy, and make your own meaning,

dishes are done, lunch for tomorrow is prepped, laundry is in the dryer--day two take two on Writing. it is ten until 10pm and the doc is at 2,210 let's goooooooooo

2,338. i'll take it.

The rookie mistake in fiction writing is assuming that short stories will be easier to write than novels because they're smaller. No. This is the equivalent to thinking that it's easier to make a pocket watch than grandfather clock. Short stories are complex engineering problems.

You need to find a way to pack all of the things that a story needs into a tiny like box without it overheating.

it’s unlikely I’ll die on my hill because I have created a mott & bailey castle up here which is difficult to assault unless you have sophisticated siege equipment

"He wouldn't say that" has a beautiful cousin, and her name is "That's Not What This Story is About".

dishes are done, lunch for tomorrow is prepped, laundry is in the dryer--day two take two on Writing. it is ten until 10pm and the doc is at 2,210 let's goooooooooo

Analyzing the politics of a work that's meant to be apolitical is actually a really interesting exercise because it asks you to critically examine what the creator considers to be "political" in the first place. Which ideas are just How Things Are, and which ones are Political, and how is that influenced by the creator's beliefs?

Usually this just ends up with you looking like a moron btw

Angrily lashing out at the suggestion that it's possible to do basic media analysis was foundational to the ragebait ecosystem of the 2010s, from which we got basically the entire culture of modern far right politics, btw.

I genuinely believe myself and others are being so sincere and literal when we say TOUCH GRASS

I went outside and got an education, that's where I learned that you can obtain knowledge and insight through analytical methods, then noticed that some people who sit on the internet yelling at strangers get really mad about that constantly.

It is really funny how much some tumblr users build their understanding of what is taboo in a degenerate immoral fashion vs what is taboo in a subversive radical fashion exclusively on aesthetic appeal so they’re willing to drastically alter their moral stances based on what media they’re obsessing over currently

Blogger obsessed with posting about sexual cannibalism and toxic doomed yuri complaining about incest fetishization… you’re two Ginger Snaps gifsets and a Flowers in the Attic excerpt away from trying to recreate Single White Female with your mutuals

The last part was kind of insane, honestly. When we started changing platforms for the donor database, I kept telling them that yes I was aware we already had an account for the volunteer database, and no that could not be connected to the donor database. And they said yes fine sure and then connected them anyway. And I called them back and said, excuse me, I'm confused, I can see both databases. And they said, well, yeah, but it's only you, someone has to be able to see both databases to give other users access. The other users can't see both. And I said, no, we have been asking for a completely separate database. I should not be able to see both. And they said, you are one organization, one organization can't have two databases. And I said, last year someone used our volunteer email list to commit approximately one thousand felonies. Please feel free to imagine how much worse it could have been had they had a way to use volunteers' email addresses to get their legal names. We do not want this to be something anyone can do no matter how much we trust them. Let me describe those felonies to you in more detail. And they emailed me two hours later and said, you can have two separate databases.

This post feels like watching an iceberg go by in clear water. The amount of stuff going on beneath the surface of AO3 just astonishes.

the thing about rocky and grace is that they are very literally the most important person in each other's life. whether that relationship is queer in some way or platonic it doesn't matter, what matters is that to grace, rocky comes first. and to rocky, grace comes first. that was the whole book, the whole movie. rocky and adrien's relationship is an interesting one to juxtapose with rocky and grace, but it's not the focus. and i think the fact that a crossover ship is rapidly overtaking both the platonic and romantic ao3 tags for rocky and grace's relationship is what has finally jaded me. i'm jaded now. congratulations. i have finally lost my faith in fandom. what. just. what???

this is worse than when cody and obi-wan were the most popular TCW ship, because at least with cody and obi-wan i could pretend that this was a good thing because it got more people to write about cody specifically, and the clones more broadly. even if i ended up greatly disliking most of the fanon that was born from that ship. but yeah this is like. bonkers?? i have never seen this happen. even in the good old days of batman and miraculous ladybug crossovers, the crossover shipping never erased the canon based shipping. what.

the thing about rocky and grace is that they are very literally the most important person in each other's life. whether that relationship is queer in some way or platonic it doesn't matter, what matters is that to grace, rocky comes first. and to rocky, grace comes first. that was the whole book, the whole movie. rocky and adrien's relationship is an interesting one to juxtapose with rocky and grace, but it's not the focus. and i think the fact that a crossover ship is rapidly overtaking both the platonic and romantic ao3 tags for rocky and grace's relationship is what has finally jaded me. i'm jaded now. congratulations. i have finally lost my faith in fandom. what. just. what???

Reblog to gain creative energy and to give more creative energy to the person you reblogged this from.

You'd think "don't use a fictional creature as an allegory for oppressed minorities and as a horde of vile automatons that it's always okay to kill in the same work at the same time" would be a no brainer, but roughly 70% of all works featuring goblins and/or robots demonstrate otherwise.

Star Wars using this exact formula with droids blows my mind to this day. Like, they really can’t decide whether they’re actually an oppressed group or genuinely mindless automatons whose inner lives we don’t need to worry about.

Given that Solo: A Star Wars Story features a droid liberation activist who's very obviously characterised as a mean-spirited parody of a women's rights activist and whose concerns are consistently treated as misguided and laughable (before they blow her up and use her brain to repair a spaceship), I'm not sure it's that the writers can't decide so much as it that they don't want to say what they really think out loud.