#personal post don't pass around

[sergle]

can I just say how much I love. love love love being able to turn off reblogs on a post. It's so freeing bc people will literally reblog or retweet shit that has absolutely no business being a reblog

[dallonwrites]

random sunday afternoon thoughts but i think the thing with writing advice isn't only that it's just that -- advice -- but also that most of the time it's really just an intro to some kind of craft theory. like you can see a post about how to write better prose for example and it can give beneficial ideas -- show don't tell, specific language, utilise the senses -- all of these are good as theories on craft but with any theory there are exemptions, there are ways to bend it. you also have to ask why this is a theory in the first place, what idea of good prose does this theory come from? but ultimately the thing is no writing advice can tell you how to work that advice into your writing voice/specific story. so seeing these posts as examples of craft theory rather than advice helped me out a lot because instead of wondering which advice to take on for a story, if i "knew" enough about this writing thing to make that call, i was seeing these posts as an intro to a theory on craft, and then i'm asking myself what i can do with this theory, what can this theory do for my story? where does this theory come from? what kind of story/writer does it consider, what kind does it not?

atm i'm writing a flash in 1st person present which is not a POV i use a lot and before i would read as many resources on 1st person present as possible -- which in itself isn't bad, resources exist for a reason! -- but i'd always get stuck because in my attempt to learn as much about "how to write" something as possible, i would forget the only person who can teach me how to write something in my story is me. those resources do help, but the answer is in my story. and that answer will look different in the next 1st person present story i write. there's a garth greenwell quote i love about drafting that says "if anything i try to forget all considerations of craft or technique, to work from a place as near to ignorance as I can manage". i think part of taking in writing "advice"/craft theory is also understanding the gaps in it that are filled in by your story, what will strengthen and what will weaken it. and understanding writing advice as just craft theory helped me because it's just that -- theory, possibilities with craft -- and isn't meant to answer specific questions about how to write a specific story, and you will also learn a lot more if you let yourself lean into the unknowing that is a natural part of writing. because you don't need to know craft to write, you just need to know what your story needs, and a lot of advice and "rules" are really just intros to craft theory that can help you start to know where to look for your story's answers, rather than giving the answer itself. tldr most writing "advice" and "rules" is just craft theory, and instead of trying to shape your writing to fit "advice/rules" you should be thinking about the ways you can shape theory to fit your writing

[azuredrg]

not that im crazy about making public statements since i think what i repost shows my stance well enough. i just thought that the people that established a country after being thrown from their own wouldn't do the same thing to others. it just hurts to see that as a jewish american israel is using my faith as fuel for a genocide and it hurts that all i can do is pray i am doing enough here to support the people of palestine

[sylvies-kablooie]

feel free to reblog for sample size + add what area of the world you're from so we can see Patterns and perhaps Trends

[kenobihater]

not me spending way too much money on trench art

[da-proti-toku-grem]

feeling like a total asshole today 👍

[thethingything]

had to lay down. woke up at nearly 7am. got overwhelmed by our sleep schedule once again being fucked because yesterday we actually went to bed at roughly the right time and thought "oh this is great we've fixed it". decided that we're just gonna deal with it and it'll be fine. and then our brain decided that no actually we're gonna have a combination of emotions that's maybe gonna give me another breakdown if I can't figure out how to deal with them but I have no fucking clue what to do with them

[leatherbookmark]

a thing that irks me about wgxn as lsz's Best Parents Ever and lsz himself calling them his fathers iiiis that aren't... parents and basically ancestors... kinda important in chinese culture? yknow, like *gestures at some of the characters' complicated relationships w/ their parents, their legacy and last wishes*? lsz discovers he's a wen and doesn't immediately go "ah well, doesn't matter, they were Problematic and i feel more like a lan anyway", but rather goes to the nighless city with wn to bury the ashes of their family and build a cenotaph for wq. that means he still wants to honor his ancestry, especially since he's the last surviving member of his clan. would lsz just... conveniently forget about all that -- about his parents, whoever they were, who died in the war -- for lwj? hm

[joyflameball]

"Everyone wants mean lesbians until they actually get one 🙄" Now this might confuse and surprise you, but there are such concepts like "'mean lesbian' does not mean 'lesbian who is an asshole to everyone'" and "people dislike it when you are a self centered asshole"

[zabiume]

Do you think Ichika has a crush on Kazui?

who knows!

[reverie-starlight]

I think it's very very very very unfair for your grade in a class to be based on 3 tests only AND to have all three tests weigh the same.

the weight of the midterms should not be equal to the weight of the final exam ESPECIALLY when you don't give us opportunities to raise our grades or actually study the material properly outside of the slides and one million pages of reading you assign. istg I'm gonna drop this class!!!!!

[himbeaux-on-ice]

sigh. folks, once again: it is not hard to find ways to (deservedly!) rip on and lampoon gary bettman and how he runs the nhl, without dipping into the realm of antisemitic "goblin" or "lizard person" or "creature in a human suit" so-called "jokes" remarks. 😬

it is not hard to make a very basic "first line of 'personal life' on wikipedia"-level effort to check whether a famous figure is jewish before you go ahead and make one of these jokes/comments about that person. it is usually pretty simple and fast to look into this. even when they are not jewish, i bet there's probably a more creative and less done-to-death riff/critique you can do instead.

further, it should not be solely the job of our jewish friends and fellow bloggers within the hockey community to have to point this stuff out, to explain why it (pretty obviously, i think) makes them feel uncomfortable and unwelcome in otherwise nominally "progressive" hockeyblr spaces that cheerfully pass these jokes around, and to always be the first ones to bring it up, over and over again. their place as valued and loved members of our fan community should and must be treated as more important than the ability to make lazy jokes without thinking!

just. please, we shouldn't have to re-have the conversation every year about the need to do a basic due diligence on this. check yourself and be willing to check your friends/mutuals and say "hey, that's no good". it's really not hard.

[apollo-cackling]

you would've thought it would be easy to avoid using/propagating high school bully type mockery even if the words "NFT" or "AI" or "tiktok" are attached. on the queer disabled neurodivergent site. and yet and goddamn yet

it's so transparent that whenever some new Bad Thing comes out and it's tumblr's topic of discussion for the week most people don't know/care/care to learn about its actual harmful effects and just want to use it as a way to find socially acceptable people to bully (for low hanging fruit i.e. reactionary reasons)

[pettydisco]

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[artekai]

Okay now who wants to date me for real :(

[little-mouse-adventures]

Love learning things about myself! For example, today I learned that I pass out while getting blood drawn!