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"it's okay to live with your parents as an adult if you're disabled" "it's okay if it's a cultural thing" "it's okay if you're trying to save mon-" shh. listen. it is okay for any reason. you don't need to have a justification. if your parents are alright with it and you're alright with it you can just do it. peace and love on planet earth etc etc

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Generations of locking the fuck in.

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damn people rly hate type 2 diabetics don't they

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products are so bad now that i have to do approximately 8 hours of research before i buy anything

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my favorite thing about navigating fanfiction is finding a really good one and being all “oh boy this was good, I hope they have more!” and literally every other story they’ve ever written was for like Miami Vice 

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Do you think authors sometimes don't realize how their, uh, interests creep into their writing? I'm talking about stuff like Robert Jordan's obvious femdom kink, or Anne Rice's preoccupation with inc*st and p*dophilia. Did their editors ever gently ask them if they've ever actually read what they've written?

Firstly, a reminder: This is not tiktok and we just say the words incest and pedophilia here.

Secondly, I don't know if I would call them 'interests' so much as fixations or even concerns. There are monstrous things that people think about, and I think writing is a place to engage with those monstrous things. It doesn't bother me that people engage with those things. I exist somewhere within the whump scale, and I would hope no one would think less of me just because sooner or later I like to rough a good character up a bit, you know? It's fun to torture characters, as a treat!

But, anyway, assuming this question isn't, "Do writers know they're gross when I think they are gross" which I'm going to take the kind road and assume it isn't, but is instead, "Do you think authors are aware of the things they constantly come back to?"

Sometimes. It can be jarring to read your own writing and realize that there are things you CLEARLY are preoccupied with. (mm, I like that word more than concerns). There are things you think about over and over, your run your mind over them and they keep working their way back in. I think this is true of most authors, when you read enough of them. Where you almost want to ask, "So...what's up with that?" or sometimes I read enough of someone's work that I have a PRETTY good idea what's up with that.

I've never read Robert Jordan and I don't intend to start (I think it would bore me this is not a moral stance) and I've really never read Rice's erotica. In erotica especially I think you have all the right in the world to get fucking weird about it! But so, when I was young I read the whole Vampire Chronicles series. I don't remember it perfectly, but there's plenty in it to reveal VERY plainly that Anne Rice has issues with God but deeply believes in God, and Anne Rice has a preoccupation with the idea of what should stay dead, and what it means to become. So, when i found out her daughter died at the age of six, before Rice wrote all of this, and she grew up very very Catholic' I said, 'yeah, that fucking checks out'.

Was Rice herself aware of how those things formed her writing? I think at a certain point probably yes. The character of Claudia is in every way too on the nose for her not to have SOME idea unless she was REAL REAL dense about her own inner workings. But, sometimes I know where something I write about comes from, that doesn't mean I'm interested in sharing it with the class. I would never ever fucking say, 'The reasons I seem to write so much of x as y is that z happened to me years ago' ahaha FUCK THAT NOISE. NYET. RIDE ON, COWBOY.

But I've known some people in fandom works who clearly have something going on and don't seem to realize it. Or they're very good at hiding it. Based on the people I'm talking about I would say it's more a lack of self-knowledge, and I don't even mean that unkindly. I have, in many ways, taken myself down to the studs and rebuilt it all, so I unfortunately am very aware of why I do and write the things I do most of the time. It's extremely annoying not to be able to blame something. I imagine it must be very freeing. But it ain't me, babe.

Anyway, a lot of words to say: Maybe! But that might not stop them from writing it, it might be a useful thing for them to engage with, and you can always just not read it.

Also, we don't censor words here.

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"sorry that probably doesn't make much sense" <- for perfectly intelligible & logical statements relevant to the present conversation

"you get what I mean." <- for unparsable non sequiturs

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i personally think its pretty crazy that karl marx actually knew what was gonna happen to us back in 1850 like this guy comes out of nowhere at what the fuck o'clock and goes, capitalism is going to creep into every single crevice of your lives there will be nothing left and all creativity and integrity will be taken away like. he just said that    and it was correct

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“The best translations into English do not, in fact, read as if they were originally written in English. The English words are arranged in such a way that the reader sees a glimpse of another culture’s patterns of thinking, hears an echo of another language’s rhythms and cadences, and feels a tremor of another people’s gestures and movements.”

— Ken Liu, Translator’s Postscript to The Three Body Problem by Liu Cixin

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blank WIP intro format, free for the taking

unless you want to credit me and thereby sneakily get some more eyes on your project, which I would not be adverse to.

I, personally, like making little graphics, so I include one of those first and then do the word part. but you don't have to do that. you can just do the word part.

TITLE: what's in a name? a story, I guess. GENRE: be as creative or specific as you like, darling SETTING: where does the story take place? tell me! TROPES: you get what goes here STORY: the combination of character and plot, what is the main thing that we're reading this story for, a tagline, if you will, a light summary

THE CHARACTERS: 

you can be funky and list your characters how you want

PLOT AND KETTLE: the timeline of events, the shenanigans, the points of HAPPENINGS that the characters interact with.

STUFF THAT IS NIFTY: worldbuildy bits and things that don't fit into the other categories. character bits that are more complicated. whatever you like.

STATUS CHECK: how far along are you in the process? please state for the record.

a lot of people have found this useful, I'm really glad my chaotic brain calmed down that one day and thought of it, and now here, many more people can use it and not have to calm down their chaotic brains too. unless you want to.

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Who invented autism?

The famous Italian inventor, Leoneuro di Vergent.

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Haven't figured out a politic way to word this but before saying someone/thing "makes you uncomfortable" please ask yourself this important question: is it any of your fucking business

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can we all agree that being overdressed is a myth made up by boring stuffy people who are too worried about other people’s lives and don’t want you to have fun

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literary kinsey scale time

i’m just curious what mix of fiction and nonfiction the average tumblrina is consuming

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Hi Bebe, can you tell us more about St. Celia's School for Wayward Girls?

actually, that was an rp put together by my witch-wife @interluxetumbra yearsss ago. almost fifteen, maybe ?? on polyvore. i joined in early on, coming off another of her groups that i really enjoyed.

basically, it was set in a victorian-era "school" for girls, but in reality, it was just a home to tuck your, in some way, deranged daughter or mother away from polite society. so we had all of these creepy little characters fighting evil doctors and swanning around in their own weird imaginings- attempting escape and facing demise, etc. at the time, emily autumn's music was a heavy influence- i mean the song "miss lucy had some leeches" was literally one of the characters involved in the rp (hello my darling @shalott<3) .

honestly, i look back on it, and it was just purely a lot of fun. always think about it whenever i interact with the old poly clique.

we have a pin board too just here: x

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the current state of fandom needs to be old yellered immediately. im loading up the shotgun as we speak