✨ Suspend Your Fucking Disbelief ✨

look i knowwww this will make me sound like a pretentious asshole, but art and culture literally make you a better and more interesting person. im not exaggerating. you need to pick up some highfalutin classic literature or watch some experimental auteur films every now and then to gain some scope and perspective about the world around you. cultivate curiosity! this can help you in many ways☝

Someone on Reddit reported there's apparently a more insidious commissions scam going around where they don't just open up with offering commissions, they spend a lot of time talking to you about your fic before hitting you with the commission part. (I assume they're using AI to have that conversation with you.) So, be cautious out there.

I get these on AO3 but they never program the AI to check if the thing they’re commenting on has any actual words in it. They compliment my writing and character development effusively but it falls flat when you note they’re commenting on a piece of art.

What helped me write trauma better is remembering that the nervous system learns predictions. If danger used to come after quiet, calm can feel threatening. If kindness used to come with a price, kindness can feel suspicious. So healing is not just “they know they’re safe now.” Healing is the slow, annoying, deeply unfair process of teaching the body that the old prediction is not always the present truth.

worlds slowest fanfic author tries really really hard

everyone in the notes we are all holding hands. everyone who hasnt worked on a wip in weeks or months or years, its okay. we are going slow but we are going

the replacement of websites with apps sounds so backwards when you actually describe it. like hmm you have to download an entire program onto your device each time you want access to a portal, where it takes up storage indefinitely. somebody should invent an app where you can "browse" any portal just by typing in its address... 🥴

I remember when it was a big shared sentiment in the queer community that "sex =/= gender =/= pronouns =/= physical appearance or expression" and. I feel like everyone even other trans people have forgotten about all that except the first part. and in many cases people forget the whole thing entirely

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there's a common belief that artists know how to make art. this is untrue. i've yet to meet a single artist who has any idea what they're doing