simon or sy, they/them, adulti would absolutely die for bats
Don't wanna be here? Send us removal request.
Text
i'm sorry but a lot of you guys need to be writing short stories.
#perfect place to plug my favorite short story collection of all time so far#which is exhalation by ted chiang#which is an excellent collection of stories that (generally) discuss what it means to have personhood#what it means to be a person#both in terms of how you define personhood but also what that means relative to other life around you#absolutely fantastic writing#and some of the pieces are extremely short! some of the pieces are longer!#and yet they're pretty much all very poignant#short stories are also an excellent way to practice plotting and development btw#i believe it's in the introduction of n.k. jemisin's how long 'til black future month#that jemisin talks about how writing short stories made her a better novel writer?#i could be misremembering but i swear that's somewhere#(how long 'til black future month is another excellent short story collection)#i love short stories#if there are no short story fans then i am dead#also as a writer i do tend to find short stories easier to write#i do tend to find it significantly more difficult to plot out full novel-length stuff#but ive written a decent short story or two#and a pretty okay flash collection#anyway i agree wholeheartedly here
16K notes
·
View notes
Text
the thing about being nonbinary is that you really do start to forget that other people have such strict walls around what is and isn’t allowed for genders. i thought we all agreed that we made that up. could you climb out of the cave real quick and feel the sunshine for a minute.
#i worked as a chocolatier for a little bit#and at easter time we made painted chocolate eggs#and i remember getting a call at the shop once#from a woman who was like ''do you have any... *masculine* eggs?''#and i just sat there like. it's chocolate ma'am#i did eventually go ''we have blue ones?''#that was fine by her but. i was very tired
147K notes
·
View notes
Text
adulthood is just telling yourself “and after i’ve done THAT i can finally relax” with increasing desperation
170K notes
·
View notes
Note
do you own anything autographed items?
#i have a couple of signed books dedicated specifically to me!#world of wonders by aimee nezhukumatathil#(met her at a conference which was incredibly cool)#the sapling cage by margaret killjoy#(my work hosted a reading and i got to talk to her and THAT was really cool)#and fun home by alison bechdel#(she was in the area and stopped by my work)#i have other signed copies of books but those were ones i bought/acquired as such#so not personalized
7K notes
·
View notes
Text
sad reality of the fanfic-to-published work economy is that the weirdest people are willing to do it. that's why there's now hundreds of shitty no plot cishet hate-to-love enemies-to-lovers books that are ex reylo fanfic. and it's not even good. that's because the people who wrote book-quality steve/bucky and kirk/spock fic are too normal to think to themselves "i should get this porn published". they're too busy working in local government offices
#op im sorry to inform you that they’re doing it with hp fanfic now too#specifically draco/hermione#theres 3 books that have come out/are about to come out by apparently quite prolific fanfic authors of that particular pairing#two of them are repackaged fics and one of them (iirc) is supposed to be original#but like. when you look at the characters on the cover they’re clearly supposed to be modeled after those two#they’ve also been MARKETED referencing the origins in/links to those fanfics/that fandom#it has been a whole horrendous shitshow#primarily because of people claiming supporting these books doesn’t support the original IP#when like. they’re intrinsically linked#due to marketing#and also one of the authors in question referring to her characters with the original names on social media lmao#but yeah i agree it’s always the most boring cishet enemies to lovers pairing#usually including the ML having been like. on the side of fascism in the original property#which is always an… interesting vibe we’ll say#bit of a tangent from the original point of this post but yeah this has been a huge thing recently#because people are understandably upset about this heavy marketing and people pretending that platforming these books#does not help continuing to platform a horrifically transphobic person and her work#even if the authors of these books do support trans people. because they are still using the marketing of Specifically Linking To HP#it’s wild shit
137K notes
·
View notes
Text
The inability of a certain subset of blockheaded fans to notice Kris's gender is so. This is a game which places a nonbinary protagonist in a narrative that has them struggling explicitly with how much control they are allowed to have over their own life, whose best friends are a girl who is gleefully unfeminine and a boy who has no idea who he's supposed to be but sure seems to like being pretty, after the first few seconds of the game consisted of us trying to create our own form and then being told point blank "no one can choose who they in this world," where the above three children are all being railroaded into and struggling to escape their roles in a religiously per-ordained questline that we know ends very badly for them. If you think gender is not being employed here in a way that is specific, intentional, and thematically relevant then you are not serious
#YEAH.#literally the most right that anyone has been about kris' gender.#i go insane every day#deltarune
18K notes
·
View notes
Text
#LMAO#i love the pettiness of this.#so many people in youtube comments (and some on tumblr though ive seen less)#being like ''well kris is only they/them for self insert purposes''#or ''it's a meta joke because there's kris and the soul in the same body''#EVERYONE REFERS TO THEM WITH THEY/THEM PRONOUNS THROUGHOUT THE GAME#AND ALMOST EVERYONE HAS KNOWN KRIS THEIR WHOLE LIFE!! WAY BEFORE WE THE PLAYER CAME IN#drives me fucking insane#partially on me for looking at youtube comments#but also. i wanna see fun speculation on the game not transphobia. thanks.#deltarune
45K notes
·
View notes
Text
Deltarune was cooking up entirely new and unheard of character archetypes when they came up with Queen. “what if a forty year old divorced milf had iPad brainrot” is a stroke of literal genius
15K notes
·
View notes
Text
i like the phrases "it's not for me," "it's not my thing," and "i'm not the target audience" because they're the most concise way to express "this thing that you enjoy has merits but idgaf about it" without being aggressive
156K notes
·
View notes
Text
Hey everyone, remember that being sick or healing from injuries is a hard time for your body. You have to eat a lot and lay still and be kind to yourself! [large neon sign that says HYPOCRITE descends from the ceiling and points at me] Hey what the heck what's this who put that there
78K notes
·
View notes
Text
saw someone say that chapter 4 was "the most homestuck Deltarune has ever been" and god it's true. toby fox is now doing homestuck at teens who were not alive when homestuck began
35 notes
·
View notes
Text
more fictional characters should have bad awkward sex with each other
5K notes
·
View notes
Text
i want to talk about my ocs but im literally this image. i got nothing
74K notes
·
View notes
Text
Fake laughed at a customer's joke today and dropped the smile within milliseconds of them turning around. when I tell you that I felt like Patrick fucking Bateman
31K notes
·
View notes