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i just found 12 bricks

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for a satire news site they hit the nail on the head

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this has been sitting in my files for SO LONG cus i kinda hate it but here

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the masculine urge to ride your horse into the middle of town and dramatically fall off of it revealing the serious gunshot wound in your side

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🙏 💫

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I think there's something that needs to be said about encouraging readers to leave feedback.

For me it's not about "tell me my writing is amazing and stroke my ego"

It's more about "please engage with me so that I can experience your joy secondhand and foster a connection with you"

I understand that not everyone wants this in their reading experience, some people are shy and a million other reasons why maybe someone wouldn't want to engage and that's perfectly fine!

But what I'm trying to steer away from is being a passive content creator with passive consumers. What I want to steer toward is fostering a community that is essential to fandom. I want to see your reactions because it makes me feel like I'm a part of something.

On encouraging reblogs —

I understand that not everyone is comfortable reblogging, especially explicit content. This is ok!

But just consider that the only reason you were able to enjoy a fic or fanart is because someone else shared it, and by not sharing it yourself you are potentially robbing someone else of the opportunity to enjoy it as much as you did.

As OPs our reach only goes so far and this website relies on reblogs in order for anything to truly get seen by a wider audience.

So that's really it! That's why I encourage these two things at the end of every story I post. Not because I'm trying to be demanding and "make people feel bad" if they don't do it.

I know most other social media sites encourage mindless content consumption and that's just the way of the world nowadays, but I am from a time when community was at the heart of fandom and I just don't want to lose that.

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glimpse into my beautiful imaginary world where arthropods are really big and we domesticated them

edit: people are starting to say some "my worst nightmare" or "eeeww no that one is yucky and scary" comments on this like they do on any bug post and id like to say. it's fine if you don't like bugs it's fine if you're scared of bugs but don't put that on MY post clearly talking about how much i like them and how cute i think they are. you can make your own damn post about how much you hate wasps or spiders or whatever. i'm blocking people who make these kinds of comments.

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My cards have been adamant that I should have a lot more fun in my life and let it do its wonders to me, so here I am. Having fun with these three dorks and their brain cells combined.

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wolfskulljack

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They say "in theory, practice and theory are the same, but in practice they're not". That's how you know we're in practice. If we were in theory, the saying would be "in theory, theory and theory are the same, and they are". Pretty useless saying. So that's how you know we're in practice.

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this is all I’m talking about until halloween sorry i don’t make the rules

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which do you prefer?💚💙

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Shapeshifter who gets horribly grotesque and mutilated when flustered