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the thing is people treat female characters' personalities as the exact same slider as their morality, where it goes nice > mean at the exact same rate as good > evil, which means there's an entire range of characterisation that gets lost on some people between [woman who is good but is occasionally bossy/snarky] and [woman is enthusiastically mean and loves doing evil things]
and even woman who is good but is occasionally bossy/snarky is on thin ice, so long as she is never bossy/snarky towards a male character
#this is just a broad observation as an enjoyer of women inside of that spectrum#when can we retire the baby gloves in having to explain that nice =/= good and mean =/= evil
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my fav genre of fanfic is "ship i have not ever considered but the author is insane abt it in a way that intrigues me immensely"
#when its a really far out pairing it catches my interest bc u know the author has gotta put in work to make it work#and damn they sure do sometimes
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I truly don't get why the common stereotype of tank/healer MMO couples is surly toughguy tank and anxious people-pleaser healer because every time I queue in as a healer I can feel myself physically turning into the devil
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The thing about therapy scenes in stories is that I don’t wanna see a character coming out of it feeling enlightened I wanna see them coming out of it about to throw up
#like the one in fleabag comes to mind#maybe it’s a whump proclivity but I want to see them shattered in real time#it’s more fun that way
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I know the funny advice for writing essays instead of generating them is "wait until the day before, chug ten mountain dews, and bullshit your way through" but obv that won't work for everyone. so if you want a genuine alternative that's still 'easy'
My hack for essay writing was to work on 100-200 word chunks every day, because no I can't write 1000 words in 2 hours but I can write up to 200, and five-ten days later boom there's an essay.
Of course the end result was super uncohesive and messy because I'm writing a bunch of disconnected sentences every day until I finally hit that word count minimum, but with a little bit of forward planning I was able to finish most of my essays early (!) by just writing them piecemeal
#i would also just write everything i wanted to say and then look for sources that backed up what i said#which isnt how ur supposed to do it but i was mostly making arguments i had already been taught#so i wasnt exactly reinventing the wheel and saying anything that didnt already come from someone else's work
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exercising my active listening by sending 👀👀 in the group chat
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wrote like a bunch more but i got other stuff to work on !! putting them back in the box now
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Imaginr if there were Two women with something Gay & Weird going on
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we are forcing mike to discuss top 40 pop girlies in the groupchat #elderabuse



#ok my problem is ive heard a lot of the names but i cant put the faces to them#also like im sure they have dedicated fans and make the charts but they're not a list pop girlies#to put it another way they're not femininomenons
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I honestly and truly believe all good AUs should be a little “”””ooc”””” in the sense that good characterisation involves understanding that changes a characters backstory and circumstances will have an effect on how they respond to the world around them
Good characterisation isn’t about creating a perfect 1:1 canon replica it’s about understanding why a character is different in your work and about grounding the changes you do deliberately choose to make in canon character traits
#the fun of roleswap aus to me is seeing how two characters might not necessarily be that different after all#if only they were to have lived the other's circumstances#like they're still Them but ofc the hand they're dealt will determine how they see the world
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the problem with "tumblr is dying add me on discord" is that posting on tumblr is like jovially walking down the street chatting to no one in particular and dming on discord is like having a sleepover conversation with one specific person both are good but theyre not substitutes
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hard cider was invented when someone decided to make beer that tastes good instead of bad
#back when i still drank i used to like dry ciders#only it turns out they'd usually be much stronger than beer#ciders are dangerous u gotta check the %
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