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Sooooooo 👀👀 anyone know of a ReiMob discord server?

we should retire the word "relate" and replace it with "connect" when it comes to the relationship between audience member and fictional character. a character being relatable implies some of their personality and/or experiences match yours. a character being connect-able means audiences will find a way to understand and feel for their struggles (internal or external) even when they haven't experienced them themselves. this is especially relevant when it comes to marginalized characters. a character not being relatable to some audience members does not mean they can't be connect-able and the laser focus on relatability as a selling point for a character will only make it so stories with protagonists who are not white/cishet/western/etc will get less visibility because audiences assume that if they can't relate to them then they won't be able to care and root for them.

Remember when joining fandom as a younger person meant lurking for a bit and figuring out the vibe and etiquette instead of coming in on day one and calling people weirdos for liking weirdo shit in the weirdo factory.

rereading my own fanfic for flow like damn this is fire why tf isn't there more of it. but of course i am the one who has to make the more of it

sorry if all of my posts have a vaguely sadomasochist undertone to them. it’s because i’m a sadomasochist

Oh also you do have to read real books. Like you have to read the books. You can’t just read fanfic, those are not books. You can if you just want to write fanfic, but if you want to write books, you kinda gotta read books. No, posts do not count.

I don’t know who needs to hear this but it’s okay for writing to be a HOBBY that you do because you enjoy, and that you don’t want to do when you’re not enjoying it. No one’s up in the business of knitters telling them they have to be willing to SUFFER and SWEAT or they’ll NEVER FINISH THAT SWEATER and they can’t expect good things to come to them. I don’t know why our current culture around writing is so intense, but I’m here to support your casual, relaxing writing habit. If people can glue pompoms together or knit a scarf or watch hours of streaming shows with their spare time there’s absolutely no reason writers can’t waste time writing just for pleasure, without any expectation that they’re going to Achieve something Amazing and Important or make a bunch of money or whatever.

I stand corrected: According to a great many who have piped up in the comments, apparently people ARE up in the business of knitters. What the hell. Get out of the business of knitters, people. May we all enjoy our hobbies without pressure to professionalize.

Only if you specify in the contract that the demon can't use chat-GPT

That's every novel. That happens to me any time I manage to get more than four hours' sleep at once.

I love how this implies that we can ‘fix’ authors with an exorcism.

Yeah that sounds instinctually true to me. If we could remove the curse then my soul could rest.

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