#thats how many blogs i follow

[buwheal]

Damn, Spam, did the cake taste that bad? - bad joke. Sorry you're havin' a rough day. We're here if you need to talk, or if you just need a distraction.

[patchdotexe]

by the way im pro-palestine. i have not been vocal enough about it i think. there is a literal fucking genocide happening and trying to handwave it is disgusting. we are at the point where you cannot make an excuse for why an entire nation's worth of people deserves to die. ok bye

[compacflt]

hey! i was just going through your blog, and i saw a post about ice&carole and mav&goose. i looked a bit more but i couldn't find a post about your take on mav and goose's relationship, so i wanted to ask what it was. if you have answered this, i'm sorry about asking you again. imo i think what they had was wayy deeper than friendship but complex and probably not romantic, but again, i just wanted to know your thoughts on it.

thank you! and this blog has probably been one of the best finds i have ever come across on tumblr, i'll be sad to see you go.

yeah, i was really trying to be suave and subtle and mysterious about it with this parallel

like, you should be able to figure it out for yourself.

but luckily for you i looooove beating dead horses. to a problematic degree.

the full story of my vision of mavgoose (moose?) is in the completed draft of the extras that are coming out on Saturday. about halfway through. But i want to bring it back to the internal craft-of-writing debate i brought up yesterday—my inability to summarize, or to cut superfluous sections that don’t really matter.

I’ll stick it under the cut for spoiler reasons, but i wanna show the simple first draft of this scene versus the complicated, heavier final draft. And I want to ask any of you, if you’re interested—as a reader, which is more impactful? which should i end up publishing?

the simple first draft:

then i kept turning it in my head thinking of different ways to edit it to say something slightly different, to get a little more specific, coming up with things to add, and ended up adding like five extra paragraphs. which is this:

about 1/4 of the final draft (by which i mean, this is about 1/4 of the whole final discussion scene, but the goosemav-specific content only goes on for about another graf [omitted bc spoilers]):

(so to answer your ask explicitly, i actually don’t think they were anything deeper than good friends. imo there’s no evidence that they were anything deeper than good friends, especially with maverick blowing goose/goose’s wishes off soooo many times [‘she’s lost that lovin feelin;’ volleyball; refusing to do the responsible thing at least twice even after goose tells him it puts his & his family’s livelihoods at risk…bro all he does is blow off goose]. see me bitching in the tags for more on this)

obviously in my head the complicated in-depth version ⬆️ is the True version, the version of events that really Happened. i think the writing is in some spots much more compelling. But it just doesn’t make for a particularly good reading experience when it’s surrounded by like 3/4 pages of other discussion of history! sometimes too much of (what i think is) a good thing turns that good thing bad! & this is a major keystone dynamic of my whole series so i just want to get it right, for my own peace of mind. I guess im asking you to be the harsh editor i wish i had sometimes, if ur interested in doing so—this is genuinely a major major problem i have with my writing, i can’t ever just leave well enough alone 😭 please let me know if simpler is better/less is more in this case! do i publish the short vague “the reader fills in the blanks” version or the long boring “here’s EXACTLY how i see it” version?

[whattadroid]

genuinely considering going back to watch alien: romulus again but with a notebook this time

[python333]

hi question: is it disrespectful at all to write age regression (as in like writing a character being an agere little/cg) as someone who doesn't experience it??

[aria0fgold]

The short time I was in writeblr was fun though! I DID get to actually practice my writing during then so that was nice!

[sugo1stuck]

i think everyone has that one fandom or interest where you literally cannot interact with the fanbase too deeply because you feel that everyone misunderstands it. anyways hi scott pilgrim is that fandom to me

[babieken]

whew... i just cleaned up my saved urls... deleted every url i never used bc i will probably never use them anyway.

also, heads up, im changing to @ babieken soon for as long as this vixx promotion lasts (which probably isn't that long).

do we have anyone from my babieken era here?????hello???

[kurthorton-moving]

I wish tumblr was. Easier

[aftonenterprise-moved]

levi jordan has been like my biggest and newest blorbo for months that no one knows bc i only p[ost about him on a secret blog because iof how triggering fear and hunger can be but oh my god i am crazy about him hes such a weird little puppy. HE MAKES ME CRY. i dont know if anyone in the rpc has played fear and hunger other than like 1 person but im crazy about it it makes me go nuts. levi is my little dog i feed treats out of my hand. he is everything to me

[solemntitty]

thank God I lost the 50/50 for jingliu, now I got that guarantee (plus another Himeko)

[ilostyou]

my tumblr experience got so much more enjoyable once i stopped caring what other people thought about what and when and how much i post

[muirneach]

…dia daoibh

[kathles]

today i had the thought “maybe i should make more mutuals” but then i realized id have to start following more people to do that and then i thought “oh god, oh fuck”

[lukeskqwalker]

my line of thinking is that if i post enough untamed stuff then i'll either a) make more mdzs friends or b) lose followers and both are a lowkey a plus so