#words without meaning

[ranibow-sprimmkles]

I just know things would be different if we were irls and could go on long walks and play video games on the sofa together

[09overwhelmedflower90]

It bakes so nicely

I don't deserve it

I don't deserve this place

I don't deserve these people

They gave me so much and I'm just an ungrateful sucker

[milkamel]

I don't think this guy is good at handling any kind of affection let's be real 🙏

[vampirepuppyboyfag]

im feeling comfortable !! time to ramble about my personal psychoanalysis again

[marciaillust]

trapped in amber

[starry-bi-sky]

on a completely separate note; shizun luo binghe with a disciple shen yuan who fell into the abyss??? *thinks about LBH canonically stealing SQQ's corpse for 5 years* he'd hallucinate i think. like, like visual and audial hallucinations.

Keeps thinking he's seeing SQQ in the corner of his eyes, or wandering between the trees, amongst a group of disciples. Thinks he hears him calling for him, but its just the wind or another disciple.

Gets Xiu Ya reforged but patently fucking refuses to make a sword mound. Because his disciple Is Not Dead :))) There was No Body. He's Not Dead. And If You keep Insisting That He Is, He's Gonna Skewer You :). He's holding onto Xiu Ya so he can return his most favored disciple's sword when he returns. It's on his hip right next to Zheng Yang where it's supposed to be.

Also this motherfucker?? does not sleep btw. He has the image of SQQ, wide eyed and hysterical and standing at the mouth of the abyss burned into his fucking eyelids. Can't use the dreamscape to escape it either because he keeps trying to save him and either he does and it's an incredibly cruel trick to wake up to, or he doesn't and he gets his heart broken in several different pieces again.

There is no convincing this man that Shen Qingqiu is dead. Absolutely nothing at all. He is buried so deep in denial that moles would be jealous of how deep he is. He keeps making tea for two in the bamboo house only to remember that it's just him. SQQ's fans are hiding everywhere, little reminders of his presence. He goes to wake up SQQ on the mornings he sleeps in-- only to find the room empty.

[lucabyte]

Different standards

[evilkitten3]

it would've been really funny if madara had just kept using words naruto didn't know and obito kept pausing to explain them to him, with the words getting more and more obscure each time and naruto starting to just automatically look to obito for help all while obito wonders if one or both of them is messing with him but they're genuinely dead serious

[ranibow-sprimmkles]

been cooking chips in the oven for an hour now. why are they STILL RAW

[not-him-someone-else]

Love tastes like soap to me I'm sorry

[ao3commentoftheday]

While looking for something else, I found an old ask I answered about "ideal chapter length" in terms of word count.

I've been asked this probably a dozen or more times, and each time I need to take a moment and adjust my thinking to take the asker's point of view into account. Because the thing is? The only time I ever try to factor the word count into how I write a story is when I'm aiming for a true drabble.

For whatever reason, this difference in thinking stuck with me today and I actually considered why that might be. And I think it's because I'm in my 40s and the first 25-30 years of my life, any stories I was reading were printed on paper and bound into physical books.

When I imagine a novel, I still think of a mass market paperback on my bookshelf. An average one would be maybe an inch thick, probably in the neighbourhood of 300 pages. A long one would be maybe as much as two inches thick and 500 or more pages long. A short one was always nice to have because it filled in the gaps in the shelf because 200 page books were so much narrower. Or so it seemed.

When I started posting my fic online, I still thought in terms of pages. I'd type them out in whatever word processing software I was using at the time, and I'd usually get a chapter's worth of ideas into 3 or 4 pages. Turns out that's about 1000 words, which makes sense with the number of 1000 word essays I wrote in high school. I'd been trained to encapsulate an idea into approximately that length.

And that's what it comes down to. The thing that always made that question seem weird to me. A chapter isn't about how many words there are in it, just like a cake isn't about how many cups of flour exist in each slice. A chapter is a an idea that helps make up a bigger idea called a story, and it needs to be however many words that idea needs to be to get it out.

[09overwhelmedflower90]

🟣🟣🟣🟠🟣🟣🟣🔵🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟤🟣🟣🟣

Time passes

And beauty fades away

Knowledge can only grow

But people only choose things that are visible at first glance

So they do beauty surgeries

However, many of them do not turn out the way people want

So they make more, spending more and more money

And those who choose knowledge gain

[syril-kam]

ok at first I didn’t understand what kyle and denise meant by “it’s a fledgling relationship, they’re still figuring things out” because. come on. it’s been two years, they lived together, theyre having weird kinky sex in the dark. BUT SEEING THEIR WEIRD LITTLE EXCHANGE IN EPISODE 5, i finally understand.

“if i say this is the greatest day of my life will it spoil everything?” like who asks a question like that. and then dedra taking 80 years to reply with “it’s good to see you happy” with the world’s most pained confused guarded expression on her face. because it’s surprising to her!! that she wants to see him happy!!

[ssaltlicker]

Happy pride month specifically to caitlyn kiramman. To have a fandom in shambles because youre a multi-dimensional woman and because you had sex with two other women? Powerful. I love her so much and i appreciate her serving (ay) as a litmus test for this shithole of a fandom

[purpurussy]

Devastating news :(

literally so sick and twisted smh I can't believe dnp would agree to work with a sponsor like this. unsubscribing. day ruined