#it was enjoyable

[pumpingonyourstarsthatalign]

I LOVE THIS SO MUCH

[mh2o29]

saw cap4 and randomly felt the urge to drop my old sambucky doodles/wips for no reason at all…

[sarahwriterx]

A creative god~

for my dear friend: @gentlesuninthesky3

[fancykraken]

Today was my workplace's annual movie day, so we all went to see Thunderbolts*.

Thank you, Marvel, for continuing the Bucky Barnes motorcycle porn.

This movie is essentially Marvel's take on depression, but with superheroes.

[wullu]

While it is now clear that romance is absolutely on the table, I fear I have to make a couple of amendments to my previous post.

The biggest deterrents to Justitia and Da On's romance is no longer the age gap or society or even the demon/human condition. But rather: murder Or rather the incompatible meeting of demon justice and human justice.

Justitia is absolutely doing her job, though I think she could have done without the equivalent of a cat bringing their owner dead rodents/birds/critters etc. Still, her work is valid.

At the same time, so is Da On's suspicion because I dont think murder, however deserved, is fair in his eyes. Which is a little ironic because he did aggravate the situation in the Cha Minjeong case by needling the toxic sludge boyfriend -- side note, I am not sure needling is the right word, but when I was watching that scene, I was like bro there's no need to be running your mouth to that man right now. It's the same as kicking a hornet's nest. Still, I digress. Anyway, his own trauma plus his work as a policeman means that the man has strong ideas about following the letter of the law and that justice be served through the appropriate channels -- even when he was annoyed at the rulings presented before.

Hmm, coming to think of it, the real tussle will be how Justitia metes justice and Da On's inability to reconcile that with his growing interest in her. And perhaps, it also forces him to re-examine his perception of black and white/good and bad in contrast to Justitia's measurement of absolutes. And maybe Justitia will also have to revisit what it means to be human and allow room for shades of grey. Right now, Da On is like a very fascinating plaything, so new in his shininess, but also attractive with his convictions and reasoning. So it makes sense she's interested and wants to know more. But falling further also means humanizing herself and giving up a little bit of her core demon identity, which may not feel so tenable in the long run, or is even possible, considering that the penalty for love is death.

I dont even know if the drama will touch on all these aspects, but it sure is fun to contemplate all these.

[baheaux]

[dreams-and-honor]

I finally fucking beat Rebirth yesterday and it's got me feeling some type of (platonic) way about Zack

[uwudonoodle]

Saw Moana 2. Made me want to watch the original.

[sillywormz]

when a character has a shirtless scene and they have washboard abs and no sign of any belly fat not even a little bit

[spngirlpolls]

there's a lot to bitch about re: supernatural but at least it was made in 2005 starring teen soap actors on the cw with one million episodes per season. that's real television. if they made that shit now it would be like six episodes on apple tv and glen powell would be in it. so count your fucking blessings.

[simplepotatofarmer]

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[artemisdesari-blog]

A writer friend told me something that broke my heart a little bit today; they're going to quit publishing their fanfic.

My instant thought was that they had been trolled or attacked or that something terrible had happened in their life because this person is so passionate about their writing. It wasn't any of that. Engagement with their works has been going down, as it has for many of us. Comments are like gold dust a lot of the time, and just looking through the historical comment counts on old fics on ao3 demonstrates this trend very clearly. It was not simply the comments dropping off which caused them to decide to stop posting, however.

My friend came across a discord server for their fandom (I should point out here that their fandom interest and mine diverged a couple of years ago, we stay in touch but don't currently read each other's posts because I'm not into their fandom and they would rather gouge their eyes out with a wooden spoon than read anything Star Wars) and specifically to share fic in that fandom. They joined, because we all love a good fic rec, only to discover that their latest multichapter fic, which has almost no comments and very few kudos, is being hotly discussed in this server as one of the best stories ever. Not one of these people has bothered to say this to them on the fic. When they asked, none of participants could see the point in telling the author of the fic they apparently loved so much that they love it.

This discovery has absolutely destroyed my friend's love of sharing fic. They share because they love seeing other people's enjoyment, and fic writers do that through comments and kudos/reblogs/likes because we don't get paid. There is no literary critic writing a blog post/article about how amazing the story is for us to copy and keep/frame. There is no money from royalties. All we have are the words of the people reading our works.

Those people on that server could have taken five minutes of the time they spent gushing about how amazing my friend's story was to other people and used it to tell the one person guaranteed to want to hear that praise how much they loved it. They could have taken a moment to express their opinion to the person who spent hours upon hours plotting, writing, editing, and posting those chapters. Instead, they deprived my friend of thing that keeps them sharing their writing, and in the process have killed their love of it. My friend now feels used and unmotivated.

I won't be sharing a link to their fic, they said I could share their experience but not their identity. I know they plan to post one final chapter. I know they intend to express their hurt at being excluded from the praise for the thing they created, and I know they intend to announce that as a consequence they will not be posting for a long while, if at all.

So please, I beg you, don't hide your love of a story from the writer. It's just about the only thing we have.

[starridge]

also deciding to make stuff that 12 year old me would have wanted to draw

[valtsv]

"blowing [someone's] brains out" sounds like it should be a sex thing tbh. missed opportunity.

[shabbytigers]

ANHEDONIA REMEDIES!

GET YOUR ANHEDONIA REMEDIES HERE!

if you are lost in the rut, i am begging you to read this essay by Sasha Chapin suggesting what, essentially, my take, are potential jump-starts back into living life in real time. like actually experiencing experiences

do it now! don’t lose months, years, or decades! there is a life beyond doomscrolling, and it’s finite (sorry. sorry. i know okay)