Sketchy

ngl I feel a lot of the posts arguing in favor of the goodness and validity of fanfiction as a work are in the end begging to hear an answer of "yes it is okay to only read fanfiction" and it's like. I am never going to tell you that. your fanfiction will be bad if you only read fanfiction. your original writing will be bad if you only read fanfiction. your brain will be worse at thinking if you only read fanfiction. like sure, it's better to read fanfiction than to read nothing but I feel this is both a weird hypothetical - you have no access to any simple books at all? - and also like, look, it's better to eat only cereal than to eat nothing but I'm not going to tell you that your restaurant recommendations, food reviews, or meals constructed only from cereal are good.

mark, my words. *mark brings me my dictionary* thank you mark

hey, don't cry. fictional character in dire & perilous situations. ok?

i am not immune to a well choreographed fight scene with a fun song in the background

one argument you often see about fanfiction is that it's like 'training wheels' writing? like 'oh it's fine to do that while you're still learning, it's easier than coming up with your own ideas'. and I have to say I have just never agreed with that.

I bet raising your arm and summoning a weapon for you to grasp feels good as fuck

woke up this morning, rolled over, and very confidently tried to blow out my alarm clock like a candle. absolutely no precedent for that.

In the year 1450 a priest rolls over and slams his hand into his candle, burning him and sending wax flying all over the place

NO OTHER PLANET IN OUR SOLAR SYSTEM GETS TOTAL SOLAR ECLIPSES!! THE SIZE AND DISTANCE OF OUR MOON FROM EARTH AND THE SUN MAKE THE PERFECT CIRCUMSTANCES TO GET TOTALITY!!! THE EARTH AND MOON ARE SOOOO COOL AND OF COURSE OUR SUN!! I LOVE LIVING ON EARTH I LOVE YOU EARTH I LOVE YOUUUUU MOON I LOVE YOU SUN

The fact of the matter is that I do not want to do it

"do what?" you might wonder. well. [gestures broadly]

if you want your female characters to both have agency in the story and be complex human individuals then sometimes bad things have to be their fault

I think a lot of you understand oppression as "how many people are mean to you online" and not like. A systemic thing that affects all facets of one's life.

The kindest thing that literature does is remind you that your little peculiar feelings have always existed. Someone, in some century, felt equally bewildered by love, bored by society, tired of pretending, and hungry for meaning.

hey quick PSA but “reading before bed to wind down” only works if you’re normal about books btw. if you aren’t you are going to end up awake at 2:52am after finishing the whole book just trust me on this one

Changing the relationship status to "Stalemate"

Changing the relationship status to "Uneasy truce"

Changing the relationship status to "Mutually assured destruction"

feminist killjoy hours again, what the actual fuck is “weird girl literature” and how often do we acquiesce to the latest degrading gendered advertising campaigns

Women did not fucking pioneer horror, thriller, and science fiction as we know it for publishing to infantilize it into a high school phase

is Stephen king “weird boy literature”? Or does he get to be an adult horror novelist?

Nearly blocked someone for a vaguely annoying reply they made in 2017 then remembered 2017 was 9 years ago. They will live. We can change *opens their blog* nevermind they got worse. Guards