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Guardbo au where evbos the vampire that refuses to drink blood and rays the human(or werewolf idk… I’m a sucker for both…) that has to beg him to actually eat and gets desperate enough to offer himself

Is this anything

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Not that anybody asked, but I think it's important to understand how shame and guilt actually work before you try to use it for good.

It's a necessary emotion. There are reasons we have it. It makes everything so. much. worse. when you use it wrong.

Shame and guilt are DE-motivators. They are meant to stop behavior, not promote it. You cannot, ever, in any meaningful way, guilt someone into doing good. You can only shame them into not doing bad.

Let's say you're a parent and your kid is having issues.

Swearing in class? Shame could work. You want them to stop it. Keep it in proportion*, and it might help. *(KEEP IT IN PROPORTION!!!)

Not doing their homework? NO! STOP! NO NOT DO THAT! EVER! EVER! EVER! You want them to start to do their homework. Shaming them will have to opposite effect! You have demotivated them! They will double down on NOT doing it. Not because they are being oppositional, but because that's what shame does!

You can't guilt people into building better habits, being more successful, or getting more involved. That requires encouragement. You need to motivate for that stuff!

If you want it in a simple phrase:

You can shame someone out of being a bad person, but you can't shame them into being a good person.

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Fanfic tiktok is wild... I see so many people saying shit like "I could never read anything below 60k!!", or "What story can you even tell in under 5k words?" or "A oneshot below 10k isn't even a story!" or "I always filter completed fics by 100k< only!"

And I'm like...

A) which fandoms are you reading fics for where you have this kind of offerings on the regular?

B) have you heard of short stories? If you truly think every story NEEDS to be longform to connect with people, I sincerely feel sorry for you.

C) Average novel length is between 50k to 100k. I'm sorry, but CONSISTENTLY demanding fic writers to push out fics of that length is insane. Just think about it: YOU DEMAND AUTHORS TO PUT OUT FICS THAT COMPARE TO COMMERCIAL NOVELS IN LENGTH (AND QUALITY) AS A BASELINE.

Yall are wilding.

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I'm back !! from a depressive episode

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A Mirage perchance? 👀 Best girl for pride month?

mimi goes to pride 🏳️‍🌈

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convinced my brother not to get a buzzcut WE STAY WINNING🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

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when i say “that reminds me” & theres zero connection you just have to take my word for it theres no time to explain

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{robot girl who shows up at the mechanic’s shop because she keeps breaking down}

{mechanic who intentionally rigs her internals to fail so she can see her more often}

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no because i’ll genuinely get home from the club fully drunk at 4, get into bed and think “huh im not that tired maybe i should write fanfic”

"you should be at the club" I should be working on my fanfic

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or so says the sadist

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did you know you can do anythingh with your ocs and no one can stop you.. did you know you can make aus of your ocs. you should make aus of your ocs

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this was a trade with pechkay

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two kris drawings I didnt rlly know if i wanted to post I can't tell if I like or dislike them 😮‍💨 I wanna get good at drawing that armor though I feel like I haven't quite figured them out

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(via FlimsyFlamingo on Twitter)

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IT FUCKIN YURI DAAAAAAAAAAAY