Hyperfixation Station

Me, thinking about non-Germans who only know Sandra Hüller from her international and/or more dramatic roles: They don't even know she was in Fack Ju Göhte 3

genuinely I'm so sick of people wanting all fiction to be ethical. can we all just get a little gross with it. the point of fiction is that it's not real. we can be unethical in fiction; same goes with being perverted with fiction, being unrealistic with fiction, and being grotesque with fiction. not all fiction has to be ethical, not every character has to be ethical, and that's okay. can we stop with the puritanism. be gross. be unrealistic. be whatever. if I don't like it it's not my business as long as we're all clear that its fictional.

really recommend getting a partner with a different religion than you and very little knowledge of your religion because the opportunities for explaining things to each other are just exquisite

yesterday she told me some story about the Buddha's wife and child and I was like. Wait. He fucked? And she was like yeah of course he fucked, why wouldn't he, he was the most attractive and loveable and and wise and etc. person who ever lived. why would he not fuck.

this morning she looked perplexed in the kitchen at me and said "did Jesus not fuck?"

The eye doctor is the most fun doctor you can go to. They never steal your blood. They never make you get naked and put on a paper dress. They're just like, "Can you see these letters? It's fine if you can't, we can fix that." And they don't even spell anything.

@ fic authors what do you personally consider a successful fic? What’s the bar?

actually writing the fic down

ⓘ Tip: while sewing, you can unlock scary sewing by losing your needle somewhere on your bed.

that is actually my main principle of explicit fic is that the personalities stay On during sex.

Genuinely - and I get that this is probably in part my aceness talking - if I can't hear the character voices in smut just as much as in non smut, then I can barely read it, much less find it hot.

I love the lawyer metaphor, because whenever I see “John knew that...” in prose writing I immediately think “how?  How does he know it?”  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 it’s forced me to stretch my skills.

This is your "show not tell" advice explained!

the version of you from five years ago would be genuinely amazed by what you’ve handled since then. sit with that for a second