"does it have to be queer"
yes, next question, unless the next question is "why", in which case I am pulling the lever
Could it be more queer?
(To my personal assistant) Increase the sea salted wolverineâs budget

pixel skylines
Sweet Seals For You, Always

blake kathryn

Origami Around
Mike Driver
One Nice Bug Per Day

Kaledo Art

titsay
KIROKAZE

let's talk about Bridgerton tea, my ask is open
will byers stan first human second
Aqua Utopiaď˝ćľˇăŽĺşă§č¨ćśăç´Ąă

Discoholic đŞŠ

wallacepolsom
"I'm Dorothy Gale from Kansas"
Today's Document

#extradirty
seen from Indonesia

seen from TĂźrkiye
seen from Malaysia
seen from United States

seen from Slovakia

seen from United States
seen from Germany

seen from United States

seen from United Kingdom

seen from Germany

seen from Malaysia

seen from United Kingdom

seen from United States

seen from Switzerland

seen from United States

seen from Spain

seen from Switzerland

seen from Switzerland
seen from United States
seen from Romania
@shisnotdead
"does it have to be queer"
yes, next question, unless the next question is "why", in which case I am pulling the lever
Could it be more queer?
(To my personal assistant) Increase the sea salted wolverineâs budget

Anya is live and ready to show you everything. Watch her strip, dance, and perform exclusive shows just for you. Interact in real-time and make your fantasies come true.
Free to watch ⢠No registration required ⢠HD streaming
rocky discovers the consequences of human boredom
grace, who has been alone for five minutes: oh my god. an alien! im not alone anymore! i hope he wants to be friends :)
rocky, coming up on 50 years of solitude, imprinting on grace in ways baby ducklings can only dream of: if you leave me to sleep where i can't watch your heart beat i am blowing up this tunnel with us both in it
So... I found this and now it keeps coming to mind. You hear about "life-changing writing advice" all the time and usually its really notâbut honestly this is it man.
I'm going to try it.
I love the lawyer metaphor, because whenever I see âJohn knew that...â in prose writing I immediately think âhow? How does he know it?â Interrogate your witnesses. Cross-examine them. Make them explain their reasoning. It pays dividends.
All of this, but also feels/felt. My editor has forbidden me from using those and itâs forced me to stretch my skills.
This is your "show not tell" advice explained!
Editor here.
First, let me preface this with something very important: you can treat all of this advice as SECOND-DRAFT ADVICE. It is so much easier to rewrite this kind of stuff once you have words on the page. Telling yourself the first draft is totally appropriate and acceptable.
What weâre talking about here are FILTER WORDS (and to some degree verbs of being). Yes, âthoughtâ words are included. But so are âheard, saw, looked, tasted, smelledâ etc.âmost words having to do with the senses.
This isnât black and white advice; sometimes youâll use these words and thatâs okay. Theyâre not WRONG. Theyâre just weaker. And theyâre weaker because they create distance between the reader and the experience of the character.*
If you want your reader to feel like theyâre experiencing the story right alongside the character, you want to cut down on filter words.
*This is particularly important with first person and close third POVs. The reader always knows whose eyes theyâre seeing through and thoughts theyâre privy to. So you donât need to tell them âI saw X.â Or âI heard X.â Or âI thought Y.â You can just jump into the action/observation as itâs happening.
This is also where you want to pay attention to verbs of being.
âIt was rainy.â Versus: âThe rain pounded against the roof.â Or âThe rain howled like an injured animal.â Or âThe rain tapped against the window like an anxious lover.â All of these are inviting the reader deeper into the experience of the story by using stronger verbs and similes. And, at the same time, they stir feelings (instead of TELLING feelings). And feelings keep your reader engaged. Engaged readers keep turning pages; engaged readers become FANS.
This is also where
you want to pay attention
to verbs of being.
Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.
The most valuable advice that Author Ex gave me through the years that we wrote together was this: the problem with all these filter words is that they create distance in the POV.
That means that when you read a line like
John saw that the curtains were open.
It immediately takes you OUT of the character's perspective and instead tells you what they experience as a secondhand observation.
You don't have to get fancy or purple with how you rephrase things like this. Not everything needs a ton of breathing room.
You wanna know what's perfectly impactful while keeping a tight POV?
The curtains were open.
Simple as that.
I truly believe shane is exactly one mic'd up game away from losing that golden boy status. he is vicious. utilizing that idodetic memory for evil. every chirp is highly personalized and succinct. he's giving these men insecurities they didn't know existed before he opened his mouth. forget the weak backhand. he's referencing the fact your team has been trying to force trade you for the better part of three seasons and how your commitment to being the worst player in the western conference is perhaps the only thing you don't have issues committing to.

Anya is live and ready to show you everything. Watch her strip, dance, and perform exclusive shows just for you. Interact in real-time and make your fantasies come true.
Free to watch ⢠No registration required ⢠HD streaming
hey so uhhh uhhhh uhhhh uhhhhhhhhhhhh
hey i think about this comment a lot
weekend? more like weakened. let me rest
next time youâre at the thrift store and find a nice solid thick pile area rug for a shockingly good price and youâve been looking for an area rug for the office forever and the color goes really nicely with the office color scheme and you think this is it, this is what iâve been waiting for, stop, and ask yourself: did i take the bus here?
next time youâre on the bus and see someone with an area rug and a look of deep disappointment in themself mind your own business
the problem with movie remakes is that they always remake something that was already good, meaning at worst you ruin it and at best your remake is largely redundant. to make a truly good remake you need to start with source material that is absolute dogwater. ignore the pull of nostalgia. redeem the sins of moviemaking past.
oh worm?

Anya is live and ready to show you everything. Watch her strip, dance, and perform exclusive shows just for you. Interact in real-time and make your fantasies come true.
Free to watch ⢠No registration required ⢠HD streaming
When people get a little too gung-ho about-
wait. cancel post. gung-ho cannot be English. where did that phrase come from? China?
ok, yes. gĹnghĂŠ, which isâŚan abbreviation for âindustrial cooperativeâ? Like it was just a term for a worker-run organization? A specific U.S. marine stationed in China interpreted it as a motivational slogan about teamwork, and as a commander he got his whole battalion using it, and other U.S. marines found those guys so exhausting that it migrated into English slang with the meaning âoverly enthusiasticâ.
ThatâsâŚwild. What was I talking about?
what if Grace comes to Erid and realizes a lot of the things he assumed all Eridians do are in fact just *Rocky* things.
what if Rocky is just exceptionally bad with boundaries. and has no filter. and might be neurodivergent, if they have neurons?? what if Rocky is a bit of a weirdo.
just like Grace is a bit of a weirdo :)
he meets some of Rocky's colleagues (hc that Rocky works at some NASA-type facility thing. like they wouldn't send just any random engineer to space right?) and they're like "yeah he just kinda does stuff like this, sorry, we got used to him". it's a very amusing thought to me
itâs so magical and beautiful that there are sprawling interconnected cave systems carved deep into the earth by various geological forces and you donât have to go in them. there are miles and miles of stone passageways in total darkness that require you to exhale all the air out of your lungs to squeeze through parts of them and you donât have to be there. some of these squeezes are underwater and require cave divers to take off their oxygen tanks and push them through ahead of them and me i am above ground looking at the sky as we speak. there are untold subterranean wonders no human has ever seen and i will not be the one to discover them #grateful #blessed
Comic based on a post I liked a lot
Rocky bless your heart never change

Anya is live and ready to show you everything. Watch her strip, dance, and perform exclusive shows just for you. Interact in real-time and make your fantasies come true.
Free to watch ⢠No registration required ⢠HD streaming
is there anything more humiliating than filling in the 'preferred salary' bit of a job application. grubby victorian workhouse child cap in hand oh guvnah ill work for anyfink! oh if youd be so kind, just a tuppence for me troubles sir, honest only a tuppence!
rocky's crew dying from radiation exposure, something humans go to great lengths to prevent and are very scared of and ryland's crew dying in their "sleep" with nobody watching, something eridians go to great lengths to prevent and are very scared of. cool book that is easy to read through your tears.