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Is this a symptom of my mental illness or just a symptom of being human, the ongoing trivia series, complete with theme music like jeopardy!

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What I feel: I love this character very much because they’ve helped me flex my creative muscle and extend my understanding of what makes a character enjoyable and unique, as well as giving me comfort during rough patches and allowing me to relate to them emotionally

What I say: hgngnhg son

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a tip for writing female characters: don’t be afraid to make her feral. just absolutely batshit. her actual intelligence? that can vary. but bring out the chaotic stupid tendencies. embrace her as a one brain cell enemy of the state

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Proposal for new fandom etiquette:

If you read a fic because it was linked/recced somewhere, you leave a comment saying "came from XXX" and that comment doesn't need to include anything else.

Because when all of a sudden there's a lot of activity on one particular fic I WANNA KNOW WHY!!!!!

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Anton Chekhov, from The Complete Works of Anton Chekhov; "Platonov,"

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Emily Brontë, from The Collected Works & Poetry of Emily Brontë; “Wuthering Heights,”

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i am not immune to the "character's eyes glow when they use their powers" trope

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if you're writing and find yourself thinking 'this is too weird/gross/offputting/esoteric/ambitious/catered to my specific interests + sure to push away a broader audience' that is the devil speaking and it is a lie. you are already firmly on the right path and you need to double down

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— Georgia O'Keeffe, from a letter to Russel Vernon Hunter, from Georgia O'Keeffe: Art and Letters (via letsbelonelytogetherr)

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writers, your characters are not your friends. they are your victims. now ruin their lives :)

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I see a lot of folks lament that they want to talk about their ocs, share their art or fics or whatever but they don't because they don't think anyone will care or they don't want to "be annoying".

And maybe its a symptom of content culture in general where people think they have to have an audience to make it "worth" posting their ideas but you can literally just start!

Maybe no one will care. Maybe the things you spent a lot of time and effort on will get no notes at all but its not less than if you never shared at all.

It's scary to put stuff out there, especially when people can be nasty for no reason. But seriously, there is absolutely no harm in just gushing about your oc unprompted. It's not annoying. Fandoms thrive on this shit.

Go forth, share your gotdamn ocs.

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L. V., excerpts from a past life

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A good rule of thumb for AI is "would you trust a trained pigeon to do this?"

"We trained a pigeon to recognise cancerous cell clusters and somehow they're really good at it" okay great, that's something that could plausibly be a thing.

"We trained a pigeon to recognise good CV:s and left it in charge of sorting through all our job applications" uh perhaps consider not doing that.

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Edgar Allan Poe, from a letter to Sarah H. Whitman, featured in The Life and Letters of Edgar Allan Poe

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doing anything with technology these days is an unending cycle of going no i do not want to use AI. im not interested in setting up copilot. I do not want help building my site. I would like my autocorrect to make sense again. I do not want AI generated search suggestions. no. nope. still not. die

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bastille is correct. how AM i gonna be an optimist about this?

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Victoria Chang, from "Untitled #5, 1998", With My Back to the World