Where did I leave my "reader's tears" mug again...

Shout-out to all the stories that didn't make it out of the shower with us in time to be actually written down.

you don’t have to write something good. you just have to write something unhinged enough to edit later

I'm waiting for him to explain to me how his newfound love of drag allowed him to prove I killed my business partner

they should invent an autism accommodation that's like: okay so there's a guy next to you and whenever you have a conversation and you know you've chosen the wrong dialogue option, you can later present it to him for review and he can tell you why. And then whenever you run out of the energy to do your own pr rep he simply takes over your body and comes up with the correct phrasing and tone to explain what you want to get across. So basically noise-cancelling headphones are NOT going to solve all my problems and we need intermittent demon possession

in my revolutionary Guy Next To You autism accommodation plan the Guy will also alert you when you should ask people to alter their behavior and when you should not. Sometimes you're annoyed at people for having a haircut that is bad. Sometimes you're annoyed at them for asking you out three times after you've said no. But many situations fall in between these two extremes, and Guy Next To You will help you determine which are actionable

one of my creative writing professors once said that to evaluate a work as good or not, first you ask what the work is attempting to do, and then you evaluate how well it does it. and this is how to judge everything from critical essays to romance novels to snack packaging to theory tracts.

me, haunted by yet another idea for a 250k fic i have neither the energy nor the free time for, but that shall rattle its chains at me for the foreseeable future nonetheless: i wish it had never come to me gandalf

Any person who writes is a real writer, there’s no right or wrong way to be a writer

Fandom theory: The reason that women find sad/injured fictional men attractive is because we are fundamentally attracted to the combination of strength and vulnerability. A fictional guy who collapses into a puddle of angst at the slightest provocation gets tiring because he is all vulnerability and no strength. A fictional guy who is a perfect stoic is admirable but not as attractive, because he is all strength and no vulnerability. The man who has demonstrated his strength by enduring the vicissitudes of the plot and now is in need of comfort is catnip to fans because he has proved his ability to protect, but is not so strong as to not need someone to love and care for him.

Overheard in a manga store yesterday: "we need more yuri in here. I've had at least 5 girls coming up to me last time asking for yuri. Everyone wants yuri now". The world is healing

actually can't get over how terribly christopher nolan treated the black women in the odyssey

like. i don't think any of the women in the odyssey are treated well by nolan (penelope and circe in particular have their characters ruined to make odysseus seem smarter and more honourable) but there's something so nasty about casting a black woman as athena, goddess of wisdom, war, and handicraft, the character who arguably drives most of the post ogygia plot in the poem, and choosing to ignore all of that in favour of a mute hallucination of a girl who was raped and murdered whose only function in the film is to add to the guilt the white male lead feels over the atrocities he committed. or casting a dark skinned black woman as the most beautiful woman in the world, and then having her husband carve up her face to disfigure her as punishment for being so beautiful that she was kidnapped