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"Imogen and Laudna are doomed" yeah. Doomed to love each other so deeply and fiercely and fundamentally that it saves them. And maybe the world. Doomed in that sense. Dumbass.

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national holiday

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making a compilation of text posts that knocked sense straight into me

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Tshirt idea I had

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this image is so raw and real. ive been thinking about it for weeks

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loving this new tiktok trend of 14 year olds thinking 1998 was actually the 1800s

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A hexagonal storm with a diameter of 25,000 km raging at the north pole of Saturn.

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1, 9 and 22 from the weird asks?

>What font do you write in? Do you actually care or is that just the default setting?

I don't super care much, no LOL When I wrote in Word, it's Calibri, and when it's in Google Docs, it's whatever the hell they use for their default. As long as it's legible, to me it doesn't quite matter.

>Do you believe in ghosts? This isn’t about writing I just wanna know

Holy fucking shit yeah I believe in ghosts. I've been in the presence of a few of them, and I even used to do amateur stuff back in high school for paranormal investigation because I'm that convinced. New Jersey is haunted as hell.

>How organized are you with your writing? Describe to me your organization method, if it exists. What tools do you use? Notebooks? Binders? Apps? The Cloud?

I'll usually do shit like this, which is a snippet of some world notes I had for a little asteroid in a tabletop roleplaying game called LANCER, which features mech combat in a sci-fi, futuristic setting.

I use Google Docs for TTRPG notes, and then for writing notes, I just sort of uh.... Use Notepad, and little bulletpointed lists like you see there. I do sub-bullets and sub-lists and categorize smaller and smaller until I get the exact level of categorization I need. Below is screenshot of some D&D notes from a session early in my homebrew world's story, redacted to keep things secret as to what the creatures are and some less-than-savory things the creatures are made of.

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i propose that instead of pride month, we have queer year (queer people are treated like actual people all year long)

edit: @ilackhumanqualities wins best addition to this post

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5, 17, 26 for the writing asks!

>Do you have any writing superstitions? What are they and why are they 100% true?

I used to be really superstitious because I'd need to have really specific music playing, or it'd need to be a certain time of day, or a bunch of other things, but... I've become less and less superstitious as time goes by. I'm like. A little-stitious.

>Talk to me about the minutiae of your current WIP. Tell me about the lore, the history, the detail, the things that won’t make it in the text.

Dreams of Boston is the one that has a lot of my focus right now, and that I actually have a decent amount of notes planned for it. I think I do a pretty good job of finding equivalent or like-weapons, or just making shit up on the fly that would fit the setting. Stuff like Fearne's Power Armor design, with the cloven hooves for feet and the digitigrade legs, that's not stuff you can get in the game of Fallout 4 without mods. I looked at what existed, said "eeehh I don't have anything that fits, but I think this will work!" and just sort of spitball something together. I definitely do plan on introducing other members of Bell's Hells in the story!

>How do you get into your character’s head? How do you get out? Do you ever regret going in there in the first place?

Getting into a character's head, for me, is actually super duper easy since I've been LARPing (Live-Action Role Playing, think D&D but you dress up as your character and go to a campsite with like, 50-100 people for a weekend) for like... Over 10 years, at this point. And a lot of that is basically sort of like I said before, you look at everything you have with the character (their backstory, their goals, personality, the meat and potatoes of a character), and you sort of go "Well, what can I do with this, given the information that I know? If I put this character in X scenario, what would happen?" And you just ask yourself questions like that to prompt more things about the character. Like, "Okay, well this horrible situation has just happened to The Character. Given what I know about them, how would they react?" Getting back out, you just stop asking yourself the hypotheticals. You end the "What If's" and you start reacting as you instead, because more often than not, you know a lot more about you than a hypothetical character, even if it's one you made up. For me, getting back out is like turning off a lightswitch. Do I ever regret going? Absolutely not. It's often an escape for me, to think about what other characters would do for a while. And I like taking people, no matter who they are, on that escape/journey with me.

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Unpopular opinion but the reason being a teenager sucks is less to do with hormones and social cliques and more to do with the fact adults fucking hate teenagers. The fact that adults expect teenagers to be able to take on adult responsibilities yet don't deserve rights of an adult. They don't see teenagers as human beings and they aren't prepared to see kids with their own formed identities and humanity. Teenagers are so sexualized and seen as needing to take on more and more adult responsibilities. Yet when they want rights and humanity they are denied. The years your brain spends wanting nothing more than to form an identity are being taken away from you. Teenagers are essentially being kicked out of social spaces unless they have an extra 40 dollars lying around anytime they want to go out. Teenagers being kicked out of the mall just for existing or groomed into the school to prison pipeline. And now creating legislation to keep them off the Internet. Our society hates teenagers. And does everything we can to hurt them. The fact that anyone makes it out of their teenage years without trauma is a fucking miracle frankly.

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No cops at Pride, just Elton John with his Gucci shirt and a knife

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I got real petty over on the Facebook page and IT WAS GLORIOUS.

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Weird Questions for Writers (because writers are weird)

1. What font do you write in? Do you actually care or is that just the default setting?

2. If you had to give up your keyboard and write your stories exclusively by hand, could you do it? If you already write everything by hand, a) are you a wizard and b) pen or pencil?

3. What is your writing ritual and why is it cursed?

4. What’s a word that makes you go absolutely feral?

5. Do you have any writing superstitions? What are they and why are they 100% true?

6. What is your darkest fear about writing?

7. What is your deepest joy about writing?

8. If you had to write an entire story without either action or dialogue, which would you choose and how would it go?

9. Do you believe in ghosts? This isn’t about writing I just wanna know

10. Has a piece of writing ever “haunted” you? Has your own writing haunted you? What does that mean to you?

11. Do you believe in the old advice to “kill your darlings?” Are you a ruthless darling assassin? What happens to the darlings you murder? Do you have a darling graveyard? Do you grieve?

12. If a genie offered you three writing wishes, what would they be? Btw if you wish for more wishes the genie turns all your current WIPs into Lorem Ipsum, I don’t make the rules

13. What is a subject matter that is incredibly difficult for you write about? What is easy?

14. Do you lend your books to people? Are people scared to borrow books from you? Do you know exactly where all your “lost” books are and which specific friend from school you haven’t seen in twelve years still possesses them? Will you ever get them back?

15. Do you write in the margins of your books? Dog-ear your pages? Read in the bath? Why or why not? Do you judge people who do these things? Can we still be friends?

16. What’s the weirdest thing you’ve ever used as a bookmark?

17. Talk to me about the minutiae of your current WIP. Tell me about the lore, the history, the detail, the things that won’t make it in the text.

18. Choose a passage from your writing. Tell me about the backstory of this moment. How you came up with it, how it changed from start to end. Spicy addition: Questioner provides the passage.

19. Tell me a story about your writing journey. When did you start? Why did you start? Were there bumps along the way? Where are you now and where are you going?

20. If a witch offered you the choice between eternal happiness with your one true love and the ability to finally finish, perfect, and publish your dearest, darlingest, most precious WIP in exactly the way you’ve always imagined it — which would you choose? You can’t have both sorry, life’s a bitch

21. Could you ever quit writing? Do you ever wish you could? Why or why not?

22. How organized are you with your writing? Describe to me your organization method, if it exists. What tools do you use? Notebooks? Binders? Apps? The Cloud?

23. Describe the physical environment in which you write. Be as detailed as possible. Tell me what’s around you as you work. Paint me a picture.

24. How much prep work do you put into your stories? What does that look like for you? Do you enjoy this part or do you just want to get on with it?

25. What is a weird, hyper-specific detail you know about one of your characters that is completely irrelevant to the story?

26. How do you get into your character’s head? How do you get out? Do you ever regret going in there in the first place?

27. Who is the most stressful character you’ve ever written? Why?

28. Who is the most delightful character you’ve ever written? Why?

29. Where do you draw your inspiration? What do you do when the inspiration well runs dry?

30. Talk to me about the role dreams play in your writing life. Have you ever used material from your dreams in your writing? Have you ever written in a dream? Did you remember it when you woke up?

31. Write a short love letter to your readers.

32. What is a line from a poem/novel/fanfic etc that you return to from time and time again? How did you find it? What does it mean to you?

33. Do you practice any other art besides writing? Does that art ever tie into your writing, or is it entirely separate?

34. Thoughts on the Oxford comma, Go:

35. What’s your favorite writing rule to smash into smithereens?

36. They say to Write What You Know. Setting aside for a moment the fact that this is terrible advice…what do you Know?

37. If you were to be remembered only by the words you’ve put on the page, what would future historians think of you?

38. What is something about your writing process YOU think is Really Weird? If you are comfortable, please share. If you’re not comfortable, what do you think cats say about us?

39. What keeps you writing when you feel like giving up?

40. Please share a poem with me, I need it.