#not a novel

[whatapunderfullife]

this just in that ttrpg actual play you keep posting about is run by people who are not you, playing character that are teenagers and not you, and fighting npcs that are not you.

wow the bad kids have morals and flaws you think are bad, they are well rounded fictional characters in an absurd .

wow the rat grinders have redeeming qualities and you personally have the hope they are redeemed. cool write an au or your own story, but this is not your story.

wow the IH or BLeeM made a choice you disagree with, these are really people who are telling a specific story/have different morals than you/are human and might say the wrong things/comedians. you are engaging in a parasocial relationship with people you do not know. you can critique a choice they made but don't make it about their character or their ability to play their own character that they have made.

wow the dice/tv style season/set/game system made x thing happen which i found narratively unsatisfactory. thats what Dimension 20 is. like you can complain about it but you knew it was a twenty episode dnd actual play with an emphasis on battles and sets going in.

basically, before you make some post about fhjy (or any media) remind yourself what type of media are consuming and why the story might be going that way. it being different than how you imaged is not a flaw on the creators part

[kimdokja-real]

LuciferZ's Story - Real Life Kim Dokja

So if Anyone cares...

LuciferZ was bullied by this same person who was friends with him and who had loved him so much. (Even if he didn't Know what Love was)

'i don't bite' this same person Bit, and she bit really Hard. When he became more Popular than her.

I guess they forgot to mention that, new people here btw, that when LuciferZ was bullied online on tumblr, it was by people who were formerly his friends. Whom he had trusted.

Dokjoong is not the only pairing he made Popular from trouble or nothing.

So you know his Friends spoke about putting himself out there?

Well, there's this person.

This person is the 2nd person who bullied him (the two were friends with each other) in the drrr fandom (durarara). (If you're Interested, type lucifersus Shizaya, in google). The same person which told him to put himself out there, and when he did, She turned her back on him and sent anon hate when he became more Popular than her.

So this isn't a normal case of bullying.....it's scarred bullying, being bullied online by the two people whom you had trusted the most. He was happy

This same person who said shipping isn't a big deal started a shipping war with her friend ruka when LuciferZ became more Popular than both of them.

You can never really tell people, and obviously this scarred him beyond recognition. At the same time, he was handling questions from the drrr fandom. And people did show love. People

Not one, but Two people showed love talking about important Cultural stuff with him, people who completely didn't know him and only read his blog, theories and analyses. (And this is the internet.)

People even called them out on it with their real names, the bulliers (who were once his friends). That's something you just don't do in Fandom drama, but People loved this Honest, humble, yet blunt and accurate person so much. People Loved him so much.

And it's the Same here right? I won't say how many followers he has, but his Dokjoong fic got 11 000 + Views, over 700+ kudos, it's no a study in geometric shapes but, amazing for being an Unpopular pairing.

Look at this Omniscient Reader, just looking at 'Answer'.

He Was Loved.

[lucidloving]

@roach-works // Melissa Broder, "Problem Area" // Mary Oliver, "The Return" // @annavonsyfert // Koyoharu Gotouge, Demon Slayer // Haruki Murakami, Dance Dance Dance // David Levithan, How They Met and Other Stories // Tennessee Williams, Notebooks

[newlevant]

Preview of Sam Long’s story, drawn by the amazing Cynthia Yuan Cheng! (@cynthiaycheng, cynthiaycheng.com)

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[flowerytale]

Celeste Ng, Little Fires Everywhere

[jordanbolton]

To The Person In The Newspaper - Jordan Bolton

Pre-order my new book ‘Blue Sky Through the Window of a Moving Car’ here - https://smarturl.it/BlueSky

[oxytocinatrocities]

"The House," a parable I drew about leaving the Mormon church.

I've come to think this metaphor also applies pretty well to constitutional originalism and the absurd idolization by both U.S. political parties of a document written hundreds of years ago by men who didn't know about the carbon cycle and owned human slaves.

I want to include some altered version of this in the graphic novel I'm working on, as well :)

[tomcruisingthroughlife]

[mactiir]

obsessed with mass market paperbacks. their pleasing rectangular proportions. how they fit badly in a hoodie pocket so you can drag them around everywhere with you like a temporary little buddy. the way they fit in your hand because they're MADE for human hands and not as bookshelf decoration. the way the pages feel when you riffle them gently with your thumb. How pristine and crisp they look when you get them and how creased and folded they look when you're done, even if you try to be nice to them. how that wear is okay, how that's correct actually, because they're made with the philosophy that books aren't meant to be PRETTY, they're meant to be read. that little ripple new ones get on the left side from where you hold them when you're reading, the way the ripple only goes as far as you've read, because u change stories by reading as they are changing you. how you can find thousands of these creased and folded and loved little dudes in every thrift store and used book shop and neighborhood library and you can instantly see the ones that someone carried around in a backpack for weeks or read to pieces or gave up on halfway through because they wear being read like fresh snow wears footprints. I love these poorly made, subpar little rectangles so much. truly the people's books.

[runawaymarbles]

Reading Mockingjay as an adult is extra devastating because. Of course the plucky teenager and her ragtag friends aren't going to sneak into a government building to kill the president with a bow and arrow. That's absolutely ridiculous. It's the kind of thing that's only possible in the kind of propaganda that Coin developed. But she's so good at it that in some ways she tricks the reader into thinking that's the kind of story this is, too--even after 3 books reminding us that pretty much everything that Katniss does the second she volunteers is manipulated by adults pulling strings to make propaganda in some form or another.

[eric-bogosian]

Re-sharing this post I found on Twitter for people looking for alternatives to NaNo. I haven't tried any of these sites but they might be worth looking into.

[the-bar-sinister]

I just think people write out of obligation too often.

"How do I motivate myself to write through the boring part of my story?"

"How do I make this boring scene not boring?"

Don't write it.

Don't write boring things just because you think the structure of the story demands it. I promise it doesn't need to be there.

If your characters need to have gone shopping for a later part of the story to make sense you can just have a sentence about how they went shopping and move on.

You are not obligated to write the boring parts. No matter what those parts are.

You are not obligated to make the parts of your story that you're not excited to write interesting somehow.

You can just write the fun and interesting parts and gloss over and summarize boring things.

Your audience will thank you and you will thank yourself.

[lucidloving]

Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena // Alain de Botton, Essays in Love // Eden Robinson, "Writing Prompts for the Broken-Hearted" // Chloe Liese, Always Only You // Anne Carson and Euripides, An Oresteia // Two—Sleeping At Last // Studio Bones, SK8 the Infinity // Trista Mateer, "is it okay to say this?" // @moodylilac // D. H. Lawrence, "The Rainbow"

[rlaehrwk21]

they are canceling me for the way i deal with grief. also, for the infinite number of destroyed universes

[fixyourwritinghabits]

Happy September everybody, NaNoWriMo has decided to go "no YOU'RE the baddies" because no one likes their AI-ridden sponsor, lmao. In other news, multiple authors are suing OpenAI for copyright infringement.

[theoptia]

Carmen Laforet, from Nada

Text ID: My chest was heavy with a thousand daydreams and memories.