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[alaa-mari-hamza]

A call to humanity ..

We are starving in Gaza We are hungry

For more than 50 days, nothing has entered Gaza.

We are dying slowly, there is no flour, no food, a severe shortage of water, and everyone is watching.

I say to everyone who sees this post, perhaps these are the last words I write to you, because bombing and death surround us from every side, please save me and save my children and do not leave me

Please donate 🙏🫂

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[cynicalclassicist]

Well, it really depends on who you ask!

fic planning be like:

[rubbishraven]

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post/artist

[abdalsalam2000]

The ceasefire agreement was reached and joy is floating among the Palestinian people

[kosmogrl]

the secret to life is always having something to look forward to

[111papilio]

brazil miku

[mmelete]

i wish ao3 allowed people to give kudos per each chapter. These 100k word NOVELS need more love than 200 tiny digital hearts ☹️

[the-lexiverse]

Texas’ HB 3399 bill will kill people if it passes. It will make hormone therapy illegal. For all ages. Period. This was never about women’s sports. It was never about bathrooms. It was never about “protecting the children”. They want us dead. If you’re a fellow trans person and you live in Texas, I strongly urge you to be ready to move somewhere safer.

EDIT: For updates, check the #HB 3399 tag. It’s hardly being used by anyone else.

[nova-rogue]

Something that can help audiences now is to go and find media to consume that will actually serve them well. Stop letting corporations with the most money put things in front of you. Rather, look up what new movies are coming out--lots of stuff doesn't get good advertising if it isn't literally from MegaCorp Disney, and a lot of unique movies flop at the box office despite being really good because no one goes to see them.

Stop getting book recs from TikTok, YouTube, Instagram and even Tumblr--go to a library or bookstore on an empty afternoon and spend 2 hours browsing and reading the first few pages of books to find something you might actually enjoy. Maybe it's an author you've never heard of before, but it also might be an author you have heard of and you picked out the book because the first few pages actually reads well to you, not because someone told you to go buy it. Reviews are okay to look at if you have a goal in mind (such as trigger warnings, etc.) but don't rely on everything other people say before giving something your own taste test.

Yes, audiences were unfortunately burned very badly, but you can undo the suffering for yourself by finding media to enjoy on your own terms.

I see posts go by periodically about how modern audiences are impatient or unwilling to trust the creator. And I agree that that's true. What the posts almost never mention, though, is that this didn't happen in a vacuum. Audiences have had their patience and trust beaten out of them by the popular media of the past few decades.

J J Abrams is famous for making stories that raise questions he never figures out how to answer. He's also the guy with some weird story about a present he never opened and how that's better than presents you open--failing to see that there's a difference between choosing not to open a present and being forbidden from opening one.

You've got lengthy media franchises where installments undo character development or satisfying resolutions from previous installments. Worse, there are media franchises with "trilogies" that are weird slap fights between the makers of each installment.

You've got wildly popular TV shows that end so poorly and unsatisfyingly that no one speaks of them again.

On top of that, a lot of the media actively punishes people for engaging thoughtfully with it. Creators panic and change their stories if the audience properly reacts to foreshadowing. Emotional parts of storytelling are trampled by jokes. Shocking the audience has become the go to, rather than providing a solid story.

Of course audiences have gotten cynical and untrusting! Of course they're unwilling to form their own expectations of what's coming! Of course they make the worst assumptions based on what's in front of them! The media they've been consuming has trained them well.

[victusinveritas]

[isabela-merceds]

trans women, i love you.

you were a woman yesterday. you're a woman today. you're a woman tomorrow. you're a woman forever.

trans women have existed long before those stuffy bigots sitting in a court room have. trans women will continue to exist long after they're dead and rotting in the earth.

[correllian]

[mrrodentman]

Useless things you want are necessities to me because joy and enrichment are important too

[snowstories]

My biggest tip for fanfic writers is this: if you get a character's mannerisms and speech pattern down, you can make them do pretty much whatever you want and it'll feel in character.

Logic: Characters, just like real people, are mallable. There is typically very little that's so truly, heinously out of character that you absolutely cannot make it work under any circumstance. In addition, most fans are also willing to accept characterization stretches if it makes the fic work. Yeah, we all know the villain and the hero wouldn't cuddle for warmth in canon. But if they did do that, how would they do it?

What counts is often not so much 'would the character do this?' and more 'if the character did do this, how would they do it?' If you get 'how' part right, your readers will probably be willing to buy the rest, because it will still feel like their favourite character. But if it doesn't feel like the character anymore, why are they even reading the fic?

Worry less about whether a character would do something, and more about how they'd sound while doing it.

[queerstudiesnatural]

some of my favourite sign fails <3