Music rules my mind

“You can’t compare sex work to other types of work because having sex you’re not enthusiastic about is really traumatizing”

I’m sure for a lot of people that’s true but for me sex and masturbation occupy a similar emotional space to brushing my teeth or doing the dishes and I certainly don’t feel traumatized about it and I know for a fact that I’m not the only person who feels this way.

Also I think that someone physically and violently forcing me to brush my teeth might end up being traumatizing.

Sex is so taboo and mythologized that people have forgotten the mechanics of it.

Yeah sex might be sacred and important to you. To me it’s a chore I’ve gotta do sometimes. Like cooking. I love cooking and put great importance on it and who I do it with. A lot of people just cook to live though.

— International Celebrity Ruins Everything, Chapter 3 "Gaslight, Gatekeep, Girlboss"

I have WAY too much fun writing the social media segments of my fic omg

It's not at all a "social media fic," but having the occasional inclusion of a few social media posts in the story (when it makes narrative sense) as reactions to news and media is actually such a fun way to do some world building and show the scope of the world.

+ The news and media should've been a thing in ZA, so I'm making it a thing. We never see the effect of the media or even see their presence in ZA, which is wild because it should've had a huge impact on the narrative given the themes of the game and how much of a presence it had in XY.

Also, ALEXA YOU DESERVED TO BE IN ZA!!!

Hiroshi Nagai's paintings need sunglasses to look at.

They look like how it feels to walk across a parking lot on a 98° summer day without a speck of shade in sight.

They look like heaven but also like you'd burn your bare feet on the ground.

Even when you can see shade you know it's not enough and the minute you step out you'll be burnt to a crisp like a vampire.

This feels like I could trip on that radio and fall right into that water, feeling the crystal waves as I drop in.

And this, a nice stroll down a resort strip, where my sunscreened skin could literally feel cooked if I leaned too close to the tiling.

And then a nice stretch of summer street, wherein you could see your face in the flushed red of that car provided it didn't blind you from its sunny reflections.

Many fans: I would like her to get better actually and live a fulfilling life.

Much to think about.

⚔ "I wanted to hate you. I tried extremely hard. You made it impossible."

⚔ "Stop being kind to me. It ruins everything I've built in my head about you."

⚔ "We've been fighting so long I forgot what we were even fighting about."

⚔ "You're insufferable and somehow that's become endearing. I resent that deeply."

⚔ "I noticed you were cold before you said anything. I hate that I noticed."

⚔ "Don't look at me like I'm something worth having. We both know what we are."

⚔ "Every argument we've ever had was just this. Just us. Too afraid to say it."

⚔ "You saved my life. I didn't ask you to. Now I don't know what to do with you."

⚔ "I trusted my enemy before I trusted my allies. What does that say about me."

⚔ "We're on opposite sides of everything and yet here I am."

⚔"Stop being right. It's extremely inconvenient for our dynamic."

⚔ "I've memorized the way you fight. I think that's how it started."

⚔ "You called me your enemy for so long. What do you call me now."