Trying This Writing Thing

gay ships are the backbone of fandom. get over it

“i was born in the wrong era” not me, i love reading gay fanfiction about anime characters while listening to asmr at full volume and drinking copious amounts of tea

despite everything, it’s still you (derogatory)

"nobody likes a complainer" you say, like an idiot, as if thriving ecosystems of friendships aren't blossoming every day based solely on people vocally disliking the same things in similar ways

not all ships are For wanting them to be in a happy healthy relationship together. sometimes shipping two characters means you want them to be erotically obsessed with each other and become entwined in a mutually toxic love affair for a few months and then horrifically break each other's hearts and never speak again. sometimes you want them to be codependent best friends with enough repression to explode a submarine who only make out/have sex when they're at their worst. sometimes you want them to pine after each other for years, never say anything, and then die. sometimes you want them to kill each other. this, too, is shipping

Do you ever write a sentence and then realize “Nah, that’s too self aware for you” and backspace a bunch of times.

me? doing well? no but i am being very chill about it

oh to be someone's favorite person

Do you ever write a sentence and then realize “Nah, that’s too self aware for you” and backspace a bunch of times.

You guys NEED to stop treating Ineffable Bureaucracy (Gabriel x Bee) as a straight ship

ineffable bureaucracy won but at what cost

Honestly? My main piece of advice for writing well-rounded characters is to make them a little bit lame. No real living person is 100% cool and suave 100% of the time. Everyone's a little awkward sometimes, or gets too excited about something goofy, or has a silly fear, or laughs about stupid things. Being a bit of a loser is an incurable part of the human condition. Utilize that in your writing.