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"I can fix her" takes on a whole new meaning when the her in question is a near scrapped pile of robot girl body parts.

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robotgirl who has an extra little motor that doesnt actually do anything but it makes it seem like she's purring and she finds that adorable (it is)

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robotic tgirl with all her status lights flashing bright red but insists that she's fine, she's just kinda tired, no that's a normal grinding sound for her to make, she's fine, it's fine, really you shouldn't worry about her, she's fine

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Holy Ghosts but it’s Dev Patel as Oscar and Pedro Pascal as Noel. Consider.

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nobody expects the gelatinous rectangular prism

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idk i don't think it's terrible to joke about common themes and even tropes in poetry and fiction. like some things are funny in the way that they pop up so often and are sometimes overdone & hamfisted.

the problem for me is when people on this site post poetry or short prose and someone reblogs it with a joke and that version of the post gets big notes. and that happens on here like every other month.

regardless of whether it's "good" or not, that's someone's art and unless they've already published it, this this is likely the only place they're "publishing" so the comments & tags here will be the only feedback they get.

and if they push back at all, they're portrayed as bad sports. i joined this site as a creative writing blog when i was 15 in 2008 and over the years i've seen so so so many young writers here play along and laugh it off when one of their poems becomes the new joke, because at least then only their writing will be criticized, not them.

i'm not by any means suggesting that no one is rude and terrible to visual artists here as well but i will say there isn't a hugely popular tumblr trend of reblogging someone's drawing and commenting "lol this is corny and stupid" and then that version gets 100,000 notes with everyone agreeing and laughing.

people seem to find it uniquely acceptable to make fun of poetry, something so vulnerable, because it exhibits vulnerability. there are literally "iconic" copypasta memes from this site that were originally teenagers' poems.

try being nice

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some fic writers don't understand what Sulu and Chekov do, so let me make an analogy: Sulu drives the car and Chekov has the GPS.

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he's had the names memorized since before starfleet academy

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starfleet employed haters

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ANTON YELCHIN as Pavel Chekov

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American Psycho 2000 | dir. Mary Harron

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my beloved  ♡

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a mother is a creature you can bargin with once per year by sobbing hysterically and telling her you feel like she hates you

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you can go back to the past but nobody’s there

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truly some people have no genre savviness whatsoever. A girl came back from the dead the other day and fresh out of the grave she laughed and laughed and lay down on the grass nearby to watch the sky, dirt still under her nails. I asked her if she’s sad about anything and she asked me why she should be. I asked her if she’s perhaps worried she’s a shadow of who she used to be and she said that if she is a shadow she is a joyous one, and anyway whoever she was she is her, now, and that’s enough. I inquired about revenge, about unfinished business, about what had filled her with the incessant need to claw her way out from beneath but she just said she’s here to live. I told her about ghosts, about zombies, tried to explain to her how her options lie between horror and tragedy but she just said if those are the stories meant for her then she’ll make another one. I said “isn’t it terribly lonely how in your triumph over death nobody was here to greet you?” and she just looked at me funny and said “what do you mean? The whole world was here, waiting”. Some people, I tell you.