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Hardest part of writing is accepting that some people will not fucking get it & you just have to like cope with that because over-explaining it just makes it worse

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Kinktober 2025

Some rules for submissions:

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"why did you stop writing your story!!! never stop writing!!!!!!!!!!!" well you see the character had to drive one mile to a new location and the sentence "she got into the car" was quite simply my undoing

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dash serendipity

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It's a het ship to YOU. To ME, they are both incredibly bisexual.

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2026 booktok discourse: sad books are a cognitohazard (they make you sad)

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[Shrek meme] They don't even have non-con

LMFAOOOO the kind of kinktober happening on twt…

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Authors have until the end of Augustto opt out of the licensing agreement. If they do not, their work will be used to help train AI models. “As media reports have surfaced on some LLMs scraping content from pirated sites, we are increasingly concerned, although not certain, that the major LLM companies already have our books,” Barbara Kline Pope, executive director of Hopkins Press, wrote in the email to authors this week. “Having a contract with legal language around how these companies may and may not use the content is the most effective way to manage the risk now.” Hopkins Press did not share which large language model company it will sign the contract with, and did not detail how much money it will receive from the deal. Spokespersons for the press and the university did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

...Traitors.

Also: these people are just setting themselves up to be the targets of a class action suit. You can't just amend/alter the terms of submitting authors' contracts like that. (Per John Scalzi's comment here at Bluesky.)

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realized I’m not experiencing writer’s block, I’m severely depressed

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writing is so simple. all you need is an idea, a plan, time, energy, discipline, emotional resilience, and the ability to make decisions without spiraling

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I think "fuck you, I hate your work and I will do it myself and I will do it better" is a really funny and epic sentiment. i started publishing poetry because an ex boyfriend of mine was publishing really ass poetry in a bunch of journals and I was like "Jesus christ, this is garbage, I could do that, and I could do it better." now I have a page in the Academy of American Poets and I've published a full length collection and his website says "former poet." You should win by succeeding way harder than they do. Spite is a legitimate energy source.

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"I have depression." - character who has been through extensive therapy.

"I feel dead inside all the time and nothing helps!" - character who does like, regular introspective thinking and is aware of the concept of mental health.

"Leave me the fuck alone I'll be fine once I get over my stupid shit." - repressed character.

"It's fine I'm just having an Empty Time. What? Yeah, empty times, you know, when everything is like bzzzzzz in your brain and you don't shower for two weeks. Why, what do you call it?" - ooooughhh now we're talkin

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genres i'm tired of:

"feminist retellings" of stories that can already be considered feminist in their own right

"feminist retellings" that fumble the "feminist" plotline so bad it just turns misogynistic

"feminist retellings" that still center around and hinge on men

"feminist retellings" written by people who don't understand what feminism is