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makerofmadness · 4 months ago

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being a writer sucks sometimes because you need synonyms to keep yourself from using the same word too many times in succession without strategic purpose but you run into situations where you basically don't have another word. Or your pool is super small and you may need more than one

like you're telling me in the entire history of the English language that it still never bothered to develop more than like three words for love that can have a platonic application that aren't like. Huge stretches for synonyms. Like why is it all romantic words i can't just write about family in peace 😭 like majority of the synonyms are either inherently romantic in meaning or have strong romantic connotations to the point that I'd have to be super strategic in my usage in order to make them NOT sound really fxcking wrong like. And even some of the platonic words just wouldn't really fit right in the thing in writing like.

literally and there's only so many times I can use the word "affection" before that becomes repetitive too-

What am I supposed to do with this

(Btw when you look up stuff like "synonyms for love that are platonic" the results are literally shzt like "love without sex" and "chaste love" so that doesn't work either fudging. Society 😭😭😭 can't write for shxt)

#This is gonna trigger my joker arc if nothing else does #Tenderness could work for the sentence I'm stuck on currently but I've been having this problem for like the whole writing process and #I just wanted to rant a little I guess fudging. One time I realized I needed a synonym for silence. But like what the fudge do I do #All synonyms for that have like. Way more specific connotations I think.#So I had to trade out the earlier usage of silence for one of the synonyms and then use silence in the later usage #In order to not be stale #Fudging we don't have enough words for No Sound No Talk I guess 😭😭😭😭😭#At least I've added reticence to my vocabulary now #Idk this is probably kinda incoherent but I just need to rant about language but like.#I feel like the love thing is like telling of something about how society treats non-romantic love compared to romantic love or something #Like the fact we have so many words for romance and even some words that technically aren't inherently romantic are just assumed to be #But if you want to write about the love between family or friends or like anything that isn't lovers you just. Good fxcking luck.#Shoutouts to aromantics y'all are braver than any US marine /ref for just like. Existing. Being alive. In This Sussiety.

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