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Thing about figurative speech is that it can communicate more than literal speech. The allusions, the implications, it creates more than the sum of the parts.

please i love you i'm begging you bring back suspension of disbelief bring back trusting the audience like. i cannot handle any more dialogue that sounds like a legal document. "hello, i am here to talk to you about the incident from a few minutes ago, because i feel you might be unwell, and i am invested in your personal wellbeing." "thank you, i am unwell because the incident was hurtful to me due to my childhood, which was bad." I CANT!!!!

do you know how many people are mad that authors use "growled" as a word for "said"? it's just poetics! they do not literally mean "growled," it's just a common replacement for "said with force but in a low tone." it's normal! do you hear me!! help me i love you please let me out of here!!!

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Tumblr is just a nice little place where you can take off your ‘real person’ face and roll around in piles of garbage tailored to your unhinged hyperfocus five minutes before you stand up and go back to your zoom meeting

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I have come up with a better metaphor than “you can’t pour from an empty cup” for burnout. You can’t boil an empty kettle. Pouring from an empty cup just gets you nowhere. Trying to boil an empty kettle can ruin the kettle, the stove, and burn down your house if you keep trying it.

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Opening the document, looking at the cursor, and then closing the document I think.

Or at least that’s what I’ve been trying lately.

Writing a book takes more than just thinking about writing it.

I’m not sure what else it takes. Open to suggestions.

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The magic is for sale now, neatly packaged and marketed. Do you need it sold back to you? (Questionable.) Is some company gonna make money off it? (Definitely.)

Neither “the magic is going away” nor “the magic is just beginning” but “the magic has been around for fifty years and society has only partly adjusted”

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I wish there was a way to reliably differentiate in content warnings, because I’m happy to read a story where the answer to the second is “no” as long as the first is “yes”. The problem is that if the narrative doesn’t respect women, the writer probably doesn’t have enough self-insight to differentiate the nuance here.

Though at least the presence of the cw is a good sign.

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Just opened my fic document and found this

Thanks, past me. Incredibly helpful.

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Tomorrow, Misora is gonna have a terrible phone call. Friends over funs.

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Apologies to anyone whose "Bloop" button on desktop happened to be in the column of space where I could line it up with the confirmation modal. I was Blooping Historic on the Fury Road.

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In which I discover I can boop my own sub-blog and through that boop myself and get the option to boop launder.

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Victory for the day: I entered some of the early dates into the timeline on Notion, and then created a calculator that can tell me how many years/months/days are between two events. So, now I can easily find out how old a character was when they did (thing), or how long they’d been at that job when (event) happened.

Why yes, I am superbly skilled at productive procrastination. Why do you ask?

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How about writing memes into your story…?

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“Now, for this lock, you guessed it…”

“That’s a lot of jiggling, Asagawa.”

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Shooooooot. Back during lockdown, I wrote part of an AU with two characters stuck in quarantine. These two don't have a single conversation in the actual continuity, so this was a low stakes crackship for entertainment. Recently, I decided to go ahead and fill in a few scenes to share for fun in our Banchan book, but was going to write up to a point and, barring interest, let it sit at day 9 of 14.

Now I just realized I have a whole stupid arc. Parallels. Character depth. An extended metaphor.

Two dudes who in their lives are valued for what their bodies do, but don’t have people who really care about them as people. So, they both default to treating each other that way.

Both have places they live that aren't homes, but now are trapped in a third space and without the distractions they use to pretend it's all okay.

I'm going to end up writing the whole thing, aren't I?

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Did I do this right?

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"I'm not sorry to say you'll have to wait until next week to beat on me some more. I have a businessman who isn't going to threaten himself."

"Do you need a tie?" she asks, starting to get up.

Kumanaka dresses in a full suit every day, and I doubt it's because he loves the feeling of a freshly pressed collar.

"Takamine is not under any illusions that l'm taking time out of my office job to meet up with him."

-Kenji, Chapter 26 The Butterfly Koi