#or whatever we call ourselves

[asher-more-like-trasher]

Will Wood? In my Percy Jackson? Its more likely than you think.

[starryrock]

Liking characters who are assholes is such a wild ride. It’s a fine balance between “he would not fucking say that” (being too nice) vs. “he would NOT fucking say that” (the worst person ever).

[mrsmiroir]

i must speak my truth… unfortunately, this must be said: i do not think modern alternate universe kaz is goth. i don’t think he would enjoy goth music, let alone any music in general. i think he would probably dress a little spooky but all canon evidence points to him wearing blazers and jeans like any other startup yuppie.

[uncanny-tranny]

You know, sometimes I see those cis people who are genuinely angry that they aren't "just" men or women, and part of me wants to go, "oh, I empathize with that impulse. I find that many people seem to remind me of my transness in order to both put me in my place, but also almost as a comforting way to pretend like a trans person could never have anything in common with 'normal' people. I find the distinction between trans and cis seems to primarily help cis people, so I can understand why you'd only want to be under the 'man' umbrella."

[worldsbiggestnerd101]

just saw someone i follow reblog a post that called bi lesbians/mspec lesbians bigots… checked the dni of the person who made the post and sure enough they’re an exclus. needless to say the exclus has been blocked and that person i was following has been unfollowed. kill the cop in your heads y’all, it doesn’t fucking matter what terms someone uses for their identity. and bi women were also considered lesbians before terfs kicked them out. so.

[a-faggot-with-opinions]

Neither is a girl calling herself a faggot, but here we are. I wish you actually went through like 1% of what actual gay people go through in my country: imprisonment, rape, physical assault for literally walking out the door, being treated as a literal subhuman by your own family, being relentlessly stalked by religious extremists around the globe no matter how many times you move etc. I wish you'd know what ACTUAL struggle and ACTUAL oppression is and how insulting it is to go through all of it and then see some brain dead het woman calling herself a FaGgOt for validation. I wish straight people like you knew what they're actually fetishizing. It's like a blond blue eyed hitlerjugend dropout calling himself an antisemitic slur and whining when actual jews object. And then trying to "educate" them about how he's more oppressed then them for people not willing to pretend like he's jewish. If trans people were actually opressed, you'd probably have at least a little empathy and self awareness, but homophobia is a little fun game for people like you, and it always will be. Congrats on that.

please google search "trans genocide" and either educate yourself or get the fuck off my blog

[yellowocaballero]

I just finished your New Wave fic. I’m convinced everything your write is gold. I loved your TMA fics, with the most heartbreaking demon AU imaginable and the hilarity of Fahrenheit 101. I loved your moon knight fics, starting with Steven talking to animals on the reg at work to the system growing closer with a focus on Jake, i- there’s- it’s sooo much packed into it. When I’m on burnout, of art or writing (maybe life in general at times) I revisit your work and am thrown back into a creative headspace.

You are my favorite writer, you cram so much meaning and thought into your work and it shows. The characters are dumbasses and say the most ridiculous shit and turn around the next chapter and say the most thought provoking thing, and I don’t get whiplash from it because these characters just work! They just do, and I… am very much off track!

Anyways I just got into Batman and reading your fic is fueling that flame! I can’t wait to see what you have in store next, and I shall now stalk your blog for writing tips! I hope you have a nice day broski 💙

Thank you!! This is so sweet thank you so much! This ask is so nice!

Trust me, if there's meaning then it's because I get obsessive over these fics and I massively overthink them. I honestly wish I was better at making simpler, more elegant stories. I feel like nothing I do is truly going to be good until I can find that simplicity.

"Dipshit who says stupid stuff and then turns around and spouts ridiculous philosophy" is just how I talk. But I habitually approach my life from a standpoint of finding humor in everything, if only to soften the blow. I was once told that it's really hard to tell when I'm joking, because everything I say is always half-joking and always half-serious. I feel like that's pretty evident from my narration too...

As for writing advice...um, I was just speaking about this with somebody. When you're plotting a story, the first thing I like to figure out is what I'm trying to say. Everything else should be built around that. The joy of writing is that I think we all have something we want to say, or something we want people to know, or that we have an aspect of ourselves and our lives that we want to express. Most of the time, trying to convey those things verbally just results in a frustrating approximation of your true feelings. I find that when I manage a successful story, the depth and scale of what I'm trying to impart is fully understood and felt. It's rewarding. I think if people aren't understood on some level, by somebody, they kind of die.

Thanks for the sweet ask!!

[iiusia]

everyday i restrain myself

[cousinthrockmorton]

i hate living with people who still have high school minds and don’t practice basic respect in sharing spaces with people cause they just have their friends over all the time who r loud asf and no one cleans up after themselves and most of their friends call me a bitch behind my back ig cause i don’t interact w ppl and also yea you’d have a resting bitch face too if ur the houses fucking maid and only actual adult who deals with every fucking thing whatever holy fuck man

[crimeronan]

(Biphobia anon) but then I realize that by saying "people who are vocal about disliking these ships are biphobic" i'm definitely following the same flawed logic (twisting likes and dislikes into an ethical debate). So yeah I'll try my best to embrace complexity and ambiguity in characters and media and accept people will have wildly differing readings of the same text 😌😌 sorry for sending you deranged anons with my stream of consciousness like im phoning into a local radio station

i actually don't think your other anon went through! but assuming it was about how people don't think luz is queer enough if she dates a boy..... yeah, it's not my favorite thing either. and in my experience it really just comes back to ship wars and feeling Threatened.

like, the reason i like amity/luz/hunter so much is because the three of them have SO MANY relationship parallels, it compels me eternally. and the way i think about them as a triad is way more in line with romantic shipping than nuclear family sibling constructs, even when i'm writing hunter as strictly platonic with both of them.

so i end up having more in common with monogamous luz/hunter shippers than monogamous luz/amity shippers, just bc we're both shipping non-canon stuff -- as long as those shippers don't attack amity for no reason. and i get wary of people who have Any kind of "luz/hunter is incest" stance because i'm like .....i recognize that you probably have some kind of personal experience factoring into your reading of the text, here. like i don't want to take you in bad faith immediately.

however.

i Do suspect that our personal experiences are..... sorta..... fundamentally incompatible.....

[twilightarcade]

to do list for my eyes Only

[pinchan]

i need 2 kill myself and everyone around me

[disdaidal]

I don't want to brag or sound too optimistic about it, but after three weeks of training at a private college, I think my lessons with this one particular immigrant student (who has serious motivational problems lemme tell ya) are finally starting to get through and there's been improvement.

Only slight improvement so far but I have spotted some, so maybe not all hope is lost yet.

Remains to be seen I guess.

[thevirginslvt]

if i had nickels every time my dad said he wouldn’t mind one of *his* friends to be his son in law i would have two nickels, which isn’t much but it’s weird that it happened twice

[please-picturemeintheweeds]

Celebrities should not be exempt from basic human rights like privacy and speaking about their personal experiences and feelings - you either think all people are entitled to that or ya don’t, the line doesn’t just end at a celebrity that annoys you (or that you wish had different opinions on stuff or different friends)

[theangstking]

of all the people i have loved-

oh i love, oh i love, oh i love.

as much as i say i love,

my love never truly consumes me

the way some describe.

but at the same time,

my love does truly consume me,

just not the way others will explain it.

i haven't really had the experience of,

being unable to speak to someone,

because of my infatuation.

stumbling over words,

or struggling to breathe because of them.

my love consumes me in other ways.

my love consumes me because

it does not end.

if i love someone...

it never leaves.

perhaps the infatuation

may fade

to something calmer,

more manageable.

but there is always love,

once it begins.

once that emotion is able to

be labeled under "love",

it never leaves,

merely changes.

the love i hold for someone

i met many years ago,

who i do not even speak to now

is still here,

as much as the love i hold

for those i am currently involved with.

my love is all consuming,

because i know it will never fade.

it will never leave.

and it is terrifying,

to love so wholly,

and to know

that there are some i will never be able

to properly show or give that love to.

perhaps that is why loving someone

who i have no plans to give that love to

is so terrifying.

what shall one do,

when they love someone so wholly

but they will never be able to do more

than admire them from afar?