Writin' Dirty ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

Thousands of protestors singing “Do You Hear The People Sing” in a Hong Kong international airport. This is part of a 3-day sit-in and is only one example of the many marches, rallies, and sit-ins that are occurring daily.

Hong Kong’s huge protests, explained by Vox.

I made an entry for The Black Penguin Smut Exhibition. You can read more about what that is here, but the bottom line is: porn for the masses.

Someone out there is reading your stories to get through a rough day. 

Someone out there is recommending your fanfics to others with glee. 

Someone out there is appreciating all the hard work you put into your stories. 

Your writing is important. 

Your fanfiction is important. 

Never think your content doesn’t matter to a fandom, because your content might just be the only thing that makes someone else feel like they’re not alone when it comes to shipping certain characters together. 

Yesterday, I was in yet another deep spiral of self loathing, and the CORE of it stems from this very fucking message. If I’m not saying ‘yes’ to everyone, I’m selfish and mean. No one will love me if I say ‘no’.  If I’m not valuable to others, I’m worthless.  If I’m better than others at something, I can’t be proud of it, it would be rude.  Give give give give give.  I cannot make demands of others without feeling guilty.  I can’t speak my mind against others.  I freeze up.  I tumble into depression and dark thoughts to the point where I cannot function. I have the worst form of imposter syndrome: Am I a nice person?  I can’t be. A nice person would just suck it up and keep going.  Stop complaining.  This anger that you feel?  It’s wrong.  You have to forgive and shut up.  Their feelings mean more important than your own.  They said something terrible, it’s not their fault.  It can’t be.  They are stressed.  If you stand up for yourself you are just ignoring their pain.  You need to be the bigger person, even if it’s killing you.

sliding the metal cover on floppy disks

the slight resistance of inserting cassette and video tapes

ripping off the strips of holed paper off of dot matrix printer paper 

Unkinking the curly cord of a telephone while you talked

The -peww sound and slowly fading image of a crt monitor turning off, and then running your finger through the static on the dusty glass

The crunch of opening or closing a plastic Disney vhs cover

The sound effects in kidpix