#make me read

[inkskinned]

please i love you i'm begging you bring back suspension of disbelief bring back trusting the audience like. i cannot handle any more dialogue that sounds like a legal document. "hello, i am here to talk to you about the incident from a few minutes ago, because i feel you might be unwell, and i am invested in your personal wellbeing." "thank you, i am unwell because the incident was hurtful to me due to my childhood, which was bad." I CANT!!!!

do you know how many people are mad that authors use "growled" as a word for "said"? it's just poetics! they do not literally mean "growled," it's just a common replacement for "said with force but in a low tone." it's normal! do you hear me!! help me i love you please let me out of here!!!

[dendrochronologies]

maya angelou saying the funniest thing anyone has ever said about editing, which i can never let myself forget EVER AGAIN [x]

[stil-lindigo]

lead balloon (the tumblr post that saved me)

if this comic resonated with you, it would mean the world to me if you donated to this palestinian family's escape fund.

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no creative notes because this isn't that kind of comic.

I know I don’t owe any of you anything but I still felt compelled to write about my long term absence. And I feel far enough away from the dangerous spot I was in to be able to make this comic. I have a therapist now, and she agreed that making this could be a very cathartic gesture, and the start of properly leaving these thoughts behind me. I am still, at seemingly random times, blindsided by fleeting desires to kill myself. They’re always passing urges, but it’s disarming, and uncomfortable. I worry sometimes that my brain’s spent so long thinking only about suicide that it’s forgotten how to think about anything else. Like, now that I've opened that door for myself, I'll never be able to fully shut it again. But I’m trying my best to encourage my mind in other directions. We'll see how that goes.

I am still donating all proceeds from my store to Palestinian causes. So far, I've donated over $15K, not including donations coming from my own pocket or the fundraising streams which jointly raised around $10K. In the time since I made my initial post about where this money would be going, the focus has shifted from aid organisations to directly donating to escape funds.

If you'd like to do the same, you can look at Operation Olive Branch, which hosts hundreds of Palestinian escape funds or donate to Safebow, which has helped facilitate the safe crossing and securing of important medical procedures for over 150 at-risk palestinians since the beginning of the genocide.

[bereft-of-frogs]

There’s that post that’s like ‘everyone should get into a tiny niche fandom at least once’ fully agree, that was really fun -- but I would like to add that everyone should get into a fandom where their opinions run counter to major fanon because it really teaches you about sticking to your guns and trusting your interpretation of the text without having to rely on peer validation

because WHAT are people talking about sometimes

[carlyraejepsans]

"speak for yourself" make your own post❤️

[bardofavon]

not to be controversial bc I know this is like…not in line with shifting opinions on fanfic comment culture but if there’s a glaring typo in my work I will NOT be offended by pointing it out. if ao3 fucks up the formatting…I will also not be offended by having this pointed out…

‘looking forward to the next update’ and ‘I hope you update soon!’ are different vibes than a demand, and should be read in good faith because a reader is finding their way to tell you how much they love it. I will not be mad at this.

‘I don’t usually like this ship but this fic made me feel something’ is also incredibly high praise. I’m not going to get mad at this.

even ‘I love this fic but I’m curious about why you made [x] choice’ is just another way a reader is engaging in and putting thought into your work.

I just feel like a lot of authors take any comment that’s not perfectly articulated glowing praise in the exact manner they’re hoping to receive it in bad faith.

fic engagement has been dropping across the board over the last several years, and yes it’s frustrating but it isn’t as though I can’t see how it happens. comment anxiety can be a real thing. the last thing anyone wants to do is offend an author they love, and that means sometimes people default to silence.

idk where I’m going with this I guess aside from saying unless a comment is outright attacking me I’m never going to get mad at it, and I think a lot of authors should feel the same way. ESPECIALLY TYPOS PLZ GOD POINT OUT MY TYPOS.

[desidesidesi]

Been a hard week. Why don't you settle up and let Professor Juniper make you some biscuits!

[cryptocism]

"just as I did, in 1983."

you'd never know my favourite parts of the show are the fucked up insane bits when my first instinct is to draw the cheesiest thing imaginable

[lazylittledragon]

made a sticker for anyone to slap onto their work if they need to

[strang3lov3]

Bug, congrats on your milestone, omfg!!! I present you a pic of one my cats - this is Corina and I've decided to show her off because she's 17 years old and she's still fighting to keep here, with us.

Also, would like to know more about you (besides knowing that you've an amazing music taste), so 🪐 and ☂️. Aaand, since you're asking for recs, I don't write outside fanfics sites from my country, but I've created this list of recommendations ((probably you've already read some of those) and also recommend One of Your Girls by @joelscruff, because it's been living rent free in my mind since I've read it, it's one of my latest reads that stroke me deeply.

Congrats again and thank you for gifting us through a whole year, you deserve more 10000000000k followers and all the love in the world 🖤💜🖤💜🖤💜

Hi beautiful! I know this has been sitting in my inbox for a couple days. I don’t have an excuse lol.

What a gorgeous cat Corina is. There’s something so special to me about elderly cats. I love their gentleness. I’m glad to know she’s still having good days 🫂

🪐 - favorite shows and series. TLOU, obviously. Succession will stick with me forever. It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, What We Do In The Shadows, Girls, New Girl, Stranger Things, Workin’ Moms, The Bear, Shameless, Parks and Rec, The Office, SNL, Conan Must Go and Conan Without Borders.

Maybe doesn’t quite count but I’m a huge YouTube watcher too, so Chuckle Sandwich, Good Mythical Morning, Watcher/BF Unsolved (I forgave them), Hot Ones, Claire Saffitz Dessert Person, Binging With Babish, Henry’s Kitchen. pretty much anything by jschlatt, penguinz0, Eddy Burback, Drew Gooden, Kurtis Conner. That whole group. I also love video essays by Pop Culture Detective and a few others.

☂️- my favorite fics by other authors. @noxturnalpascal’s Devotion series, but also Happy Ending. Patti is incredibly fucking talented in her writing. Everything I read from @beefrobeefcal, because her voice in her writing is my shit. I love her sense of humor. SWAT by @covetyou is my masturbation material. @joelsgreys wrote To Do The Right Thing which is one of the first fics I read for Joel. @joeloverture , I think of her armpit kink fic all fucking day. I really loved @magpiepills Ezra fic I don’t remember the name of but reader was grinding on his helmet as he watched???? Insane. I also loved their Coach Joel fic. @toxicanonymity’s slasher!joel and personal trainer!joels are really fucking good reads. I started reading Smother by @beardedjoel which is just excellent. @endlessthxxghts’ most recent piss kink fic has not left my brain since I read it.

Thank you so much! And thank you for the fic recs 🩷

[katsinspats]

Thematically appropriate comic for Make a Terrible Comic Day!!

I saw the original post this morning and it made me get out of bed to make something, so thank u Pseudonym Jones mission accomplished

[gibbearish]

love when ppl defend the aggressive monetization of the internet with "what, do you just expect it to be free and them not make a profit???" like. yeah that would be really nice actually i would love that:)! thanks for asking

[mikurinkuwu]

they're girlfriends your honor

[stil-lindigo]

lighthearted.

if this comic resonated with you, please consider donating to this palestinian escape fund (vetted by @/nabulsi and @/el-shab-hussein) as it is less than $7,000 away from it's goal.

i turn 24 today. To celebrate, I made this comic to be a spiritual successor to lead balloon, a comic in which I talked about the darkest period of my life so far.

A lot has changed since my 23rd birthday and this one. My priorities have shifted a lot, in ways that I think are mostly good. But i think the best part about today is that suicide has gone back to being a far away notion. I'm really lucky, and I'm grateful for that.

[emberglowfox]

birds of a feather

[sparkleofstardust]

in light of the recent news that Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi has been found dead after a helicopter crash you might be wondering 'who the hell is this guy and why are so many people celebrating his death??' and i'm here to answer that!

to fully understand what's going on we need to look into Iran's history: when the Iranian revolution in 1979 happened the authoritarian king who was ruling at that time was overthrown, but the ensuing power vacuum lead to the islamic regime seizing power and establishing Iran as an islamic republic

the following years were incredibly cruel to the Iranian people; thousands of people (especially minorities) have been protesting against the strict islamic regime leading to many being jailed, tortured and executed.

and this is where Raisi played a big part: in 1988 he was part of a committee that ordered the execution of thousands of political prisoners who were protesting the islamic regime, earning himself the title of "the butcher of tehran"

do not be fooled by what the state media wants you to believe, the Iranian people are celebrating his death. he was a cruel mass murderer who has destroyed the lives of thousands of people, his death should be used as a time to mourn for all the suffering he has caused, and bring new attention to the political prisoners still being held in Iranian prisions today

because sadly the fight is far from over. many of you have probably heard of the murder of Mahsa Jina Amini back in 2022, causing a new wave of nationwide protests and establishing the "woman, life, freedom" movement. the regime has gotten increasingly cruel in their treatment of the Iranian people, especially women, but the people of Iran are not deterred and keep fighting for a free Iran.

if you want to know how you can help, please keep talking about us. the one thing the regime hates is international attention, and in the past it has been proven that international pressure has stopped the regime from executing various political prisoners. people like Toomaj Salehi are under imminent threat of execution and spreading their names could save their lives. so whether you share social media posts or talk to your family and friends about what is happening in Iran, anything helps 🙏🏼

jin, jiyan, azadi ✌🏼