Writing and Complaining about my Writing

“but he did [this horrific thing]” i am neither his keeper nor happy with every single decision he makes. Also he is not real

its always so charming to me when an artist has been posting something almost exclusively for months and as you scroll back on their feed you slowly start seeing other stuff filter in until you can pinpoint the exact moment they first got into the thing and the moment where it consumed their life entirely

people keep telling me its "narcissistic" to build an army out of clones of myself but it'd be a lot weirder if they were clones of someone else right

it's not weird to have clones of your nemesis

why do i have a job i should be writing fanfiction!!

If your fic is 1000 words long, you can’t tag it slow burn. It’s not slow burn. That is a matchstick. And this is my personal bias here but if those motherfuckers you’re writing experience significant forward momentum in their relationship in under 5k words, then that is just a regular old burn. Slow burn should be borderline intolerable and a mistake to start reading at 2 in the morning.

If the fic doesn’t have multiple scenes where two people almost kiss but then don’t because of a contrived interruption that they are both grateful for and angry about, until the desperate reader is forced every other paragraph to mutter, “this is fucking ridiculous, this is bullshit, I’m so fucking mad, please update sooooooooooon,” then it isn’t a slow burn. It is a romance and that is a lovely thing but. Slow burns should feel like being set on fire unto your death but the tinder is people not kissing and the spark is people who don’t admit they love each other and the whole thing is. You know. Slow.