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[transman-badass]

Sunday update: I took this weekend off after the stuff that happened with itchio. Tomorrow I go back to writing. I'm hoping to get the first draft of The Smiling Skin done by the end of the month, or at least get as much done as I can. I also want to write a novella for Halloween but I'm not sure what I'm gonna do there yet. Stay tuned.

How about y'all? How are you holding up?

[patchymoon]

i love whenever i talk abt being a robotfucker and ppl are like "but why tho" and i just say "glados from portal" and everyone nods their head and agrees

-🎮

[coffeexafterxmidnight]

Sorry to make a new post like this but y'all I really need help. My blood sugar is dropping and I haven't eaten since about six pm yesterday when I took my meds. I didn't realize how little there was in my house to eat until now. I get my money on the first so I just need to last until then. I'm not sure what else to do but ask here. Please help me or reblog if you can't.

Ko-fi

Cash app

[world-of-horrors-au]

Mansion crossover au thoughts: giving the proxies telepathy with each other and the Tall Man for maximum panic and drama when the fight at the start goes down

I have it like... Half pictured rn actually 😅

[runner-owen]

The thing about writing gothic fiction is it's a genre with fangs, or at least it's supposed to. It is not supposed to be comfortable or easy or light. It will bite you back. It's supposed to bite you back. From the very beginning of the genre it's been controversial. That is it's nature, and that is okay.

So listen to me, fellow writers of gothic, horror, and dark fiction in general: Bite your readers. Bite the censors. Bite back against the sanitization of fiction. Fuck the people who want everything to be a fanfiction coffee shop au. Write your triggering content and write it well, however you deem that to be. Write your romance, your horror, your terror, your melodrama. Write it out and write it well. We owe it to ourselves and to our readers and to our society to create that mirror people fear to look in.

I write this here so I don't forget it myself.

[afterdarkwithcoffee]

It is midnight and I am thinking about writing smut involving evil robots

Just an update for anyone curious

[murderousxcoffee]

Two new fic ideas.

[reverse-runaways-au]

I will. Try to write some actual fanfic tonight. Maybe I can get something done by this time next week. Any requests?

[horrors-at-night]

So in this au sometimes Skully regresses back into Jay right. He remembers things eventually but that takes a while so the proxies have to figure out how to make him remember faster

So consider this: Hoodie and Masky deciding to try and fuck the memories back into their friend. No matter how long that takes.

[coffeexmythos]

Thinking about an au with Hastur cultist!Wes this morning

[transman-badass]

So what if I'm not good enough?

No, seriously. So what if I'm not 'good enough'?

Who am I hurting by not being good enough? No one. Writing is a craft that gives, not takes away. Even the worst stories in the world can give the reader something, whether it was meant to or not.

So what if I gain a reputation for being a 'bad' writer? So what if people avoid my work for all the reasons I fear? So what? No seriously. So what?

I own who I am. I write my own words. They come from my heart alone. I don't use the plagiarism machine. I don't lie about my ethnicity. I don't exploit other people. I don't harass others, or chase them off social media. I don't hurt people to lift myself up, or for my own selfish fun. I'm not an asshole, at least, I try not to be.

So what if I'm not 'good enough'? So what if you're 'not good enough'? There's so much worse things to be than that.

And at the end of the day, I'm pretty sure, the only person who thinks I'm not good enough is myself. I mean, have you ever once looked at another person, nevermind a writer, and gone 'you're not good enough'? I haven't. I bet you haven't either.

Maybe you and I, we should show ourselves a little kindness tonight.

[transman-badass]

Got this image from bluesky:

The ID number for the DomoAI is 1153984868804468756

Pass it on!

EDIT: turning off reblogs to prevent spread of likely misinformation (and this wasn't complete apparently in the first place x_x). Carry on y'all

[transman-badass]

My fiction won't save the world, but maybe it'll help someone have a better day. That's a good thing to hope for, right?

[transman-badass]

I've talked about this before but I saw some people talking on bluesky and now I'm even more confused

What the fuck even is "cozy horror"???

It's clearly not just a matter of intention, because I saw someone call the golden age Hammer horror movies cozy. But if it's just a matter of the vibes, then any kind of horror can be cozy. Do you know how many people watch the Saw movies for comfort? (And speaking as someone who's watched some Hammer Horror films and considers them my comfort movies - hell no they aren't cozy to me.)

I don't like starting fights about shit online, I'm too old for that. But I'm annoyed and frustrated by the concept of cozy anything in fiction, truthfully. Maybe someday I'll explain why. Tonight I just want to know what my followers and fellow writers think:

What do you think cozy horror is, and what do you think about the concept itself?

[transman-badass]

And yet despite it all, despite how bad things are in reality, I keep working on my fiction. That stupid bit of hope in me won't let me quit. That desire for even a moment of happiness for myself and my readers won't let me quit.

I hope you keep going too.