Forged in Fire

it is honestly amazing how much of writing and editing is just. logistics. like... do i use a name here or a pronoun? if i move this dialogue tag to the middle of this line and break it in half, does the end of the line hit harder that way? what if i move the tag to the front? what if i remove it entirely? ...wait, whose point of view am i in; can i reasonably say this character is appalled, or must i say they look or seem or sound appalled? is this a deliberate action or a step-removed one; is her hand closing on his shoulder, or is she closing her hand on his shoulder? environment environment environment, we need to break all this dialogue up with some narration, the scene is coming untethered. what! are! they doing! with! the rest of their bodies that are not hands! fuck fuck fuck FUCK i forgot we covered this two chapters ago and now i either need to cut this whole chunk or find a reason to reprise the conversation from earlier. name or pronoun? name or pronoun? name or pronoun? move this clause around in this sentence? oh i'll add this phrase-- nope, never mind, past!me added the same phrase two lines down. okay, if i add too much environmental narration it's going to take away from this bit, but not enough and it won't feel grounded. what if i move this to its own line? where the FUCK are their hands?

He will not be exiled again

I enjoy all parts of this post. The trans leash, the confusion, the heartfelt display of affection we give to our pets. The biography, the history lesson, and the morality of keeping cats indoors are all bonuses.

This post has EVERYTHING...

All I can think about is the ENERGY in the room with the students when the first one looked at their email... absolutely incredible.

Sure, we should just force people to produce things for free, that's totally different from slavery.

well presumably you didnt get it for free, you got it by paying taxes. which i think is based, taxes should be used to pay the needs of everyone, but technically it wasnt "free"

Do you think that the "life saving medication should be free" people are using the word "free" in that very specific way. Do you think that they are saying that taxes should not pay for medicine instead of the far more obvious and direct use of the word 'free' AKA "the end user should not pay out of pocket for life saving medication". If I were in a traffic jam and I said "man, this car is NOT moving," would you conclude that I meant that the temperature of the car was at absolute zero and it was not rotating with the earth.

So wait are livestock guardian dogs to their flocks like… Clark Kent among the residents of Smallville? He’s been here since he was a baby, we all know him, and he’s… generally one-of-us shaped, uh, approximately. And then when something goes wrong he suddenly leaps into action and does some terrifying impossible shit none of us could do. And then comes back home and settles in like nothing happened and he’s one of us again.

I think people misunderstand "x fell first, x fell harder " trope because it's not about like the one who fell harder loves the other person harder. It's just that the one who fell first falls in a graceful way, one step at the time, maybe gradually over a span of time. The one who fell harder smashes trough the air, there's blood everywhere, everything is fine-

getting inspired to create stuff is honestly the meaning of life. like i found a great story and now i wanna make a cool story too. literally could there be any better feeling

so anyway i found my moms xfiles fanfiction from the 90′s

I asked a freshman for a high five today as I walked past him in the hallway and after he gave me one I laced our fingers together and said “we’re dating now love u bae” and I don’t think I’ve ever seen a boy look so fearful and confused before in my life

Two years later and I still haven’t had a single actual conversation with this kid but any time he sees me in the hallway he goes “hey bae”.