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Jenny Slate, Little Weirds // Melissa Broder, The Pisces // Richard Siken, "Detail of the Woods" // @minuty // Natalie Wee
#theme: you are you whether or not you are loved#so you better learn to live with yourself#because at the end of the day#no one is obligated to love you#except you#web weaving#webs#poetry#aesthetic#prose#prose poetry#art#collage#literature#song lyrics#novels#novel quotes#books#book quotes#quotes#words#poems#poem#poem quotes#self love#self empowerment#identity#independence
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Sorry, Iâm still hung up on it.
It is WILD how James Somerton praised straight men for their depiction of queer people but then acted like Becky Albertalli (a QUEER woman) was committing the greatest sin for the same exact thing. Then, when she POLITELY called him out for calling her a straight with kawaii ideas of the queer experience, he bitched about it and then spread lies that she harassed him on Twitter.
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I used to say that a relationship doesn't have to last forever to be worthwhile. I would take all the good this world was willing to grant me and accept it when things ended. But in all my imaginings, I never once thought that could mean you.
#friendship breakups hurt my heart like nothing else#because at the end of the day#I have to wonder#is it really people misunderstanding my illness and life? or am I just a shit person who can't be what the people in my life need haha#or could it be some awful mix of the two??#(my partner friends and family would tell me I am good but maybe they're just lying because they love me????)#(that is illogical because the people in my life are pretty harsh and call it like they see it buuuuuuuuuuut)#(still.)
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people on tiktok: chappell roan to lesbianism is what olive garden is to italian cuisine
people in real life: hey man howâs it going
#babe you have bigger fish to fry okay#lesbians still exist#and iâm telling you#they do not care#they wouldnât care if chappell roan to lesbianism was like fucking#chicago pizza is to italian pizza#because at the end of the day#it is night#so go to fucking sleep#daisys whimsical words#chappell roan#tbc#(to be clear)#i am nowhere near a chappell roan anti#but i saw that on my fyp earlier#and it kind of annoyed me#so
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I think Fiona's betrayal makes way more sense and fits into the narrative better if you simply bump it to after the destruction of Knothole.
Like, in the actual comic it kinda comes out of nowhere, and it's heavily tied into the romance plot tumours and Issue 150. Fiona's actual character is barely important, she just disappears for five issues and comes back with a new personality, her old trauma in high gear again (but girl, if you're mad at Sonic for abandoning you, why the feck are you running off with Second Sonic Who Is Worse?), and an ideology that makes zero sense with her history ("You can't count on anybody" says character who has literally never been independent and will never become independent).
And the fallout is incredibly understated and after literally two issues nobody cares any more except Tails. And he's done caring after 179 closes.
Betrayal is supposed to be impactful.
But if you shuffle the order of the stories around, don't even change the actual content, then the whole thing becomes a buttery-smooth consistent arc and Fiona's character development, while not a good thing in the long run (Scourge literally would've killed her in 196 if his plan had succeeded, she traded the stunningly mediocre partner that was Sonic for a literal monster), actually makes sense and is front and centre in her story, instead of what we got, which is "Fiona ascends from background character to weird love interest to an accessory for Scourge who is defined entirely by Scourge."
Fiona being driven by her trauma to hate Sonic for leaving her behind is a reasonable angle, it's where she started in the Knuckles comic, but it's been so long since that was relevant to her character that dredging it up years after the fact in a different book would only ever be jarring. Unless, say, history repeated itself and all those wounds got opened up again.
Eggman drops out of the sky, razes her home to the ground, and shoves her in a prison to be used as fodder for one of his sick creations, just like Robotnik did all those years ago. Only this time, the prison is so small that she can barely even move, and the machine she's going to be fed into is much worse. It'll kill her, twice over, draining her life-force to power Eggman's machinery and wiping her mind for no reason other than "Eggman's a sadistic asshole."
She gets to see the effects up-close too, via Charmy's brain damage.
And while it's unnecessary, as I think the actual plot of the issues needs no alterations to make sense, you could nonetheless add a small scene during the rescue where Sonic saves Fiona from the Egg Grapes and says he won't make that mistake again. A small hope spot before it all comes crashing down.
Because it does! The arc ends with the Freedom Fighters standing triumphant over a wrecked Egg Beater. They could easily grab Eggman and drag him into the brand-new prison that Nicole put Mogul, Naugus, and the Hooligans in. They have turned their darkest hour into an opportunity to win the war... and they don't take it.
Eggman flies off, clinging to an Egg Flapper and doing the "I'll get you next time, Gadget! Next tiiiiiime!" bit, and the heroes just... stand there.
And that's where the (hypothetical) hope spot gets dashed. Fiona, already uncertain of her place in the team after 160-1, loses faith in them completely. She just lived through the worst experience of her life again and the heroes of this world are doing nothing to prevent another repeat.
It even makes her "You can't count on anybody" line actually have some weight. She genuinely feels like she's been failed by them, that she put her trust in these people and they still turned on her at a moment's notice, and they're not doing enough to actually save the world. It's like Scourge says in 172- she "wishes [Sonic] had a backbone."
And then, after all that, there's the big Fiona Betrayal Issue except now it's actually about Fiona and not just about giving Scourge a girlfriend, and that's followed immediately by the Sonic vs. Tails issues. There's no time to process what just happened, everyone's emotions are still extremely raw, and it boils over into a fight between brothers that's more about venting all those nasty emotions they've been holding in for a while now. Sonic has been through a lot lately, he just lost his home and repeated one of his few failures, and he's not long lost Tommy too. Tails is dealing with emotions that he's not mature enough to process properly and healthily, he grew up too fast, but not evenly. And at the end of the day, they're both still just kids.
I still think 179's ending is an overall horrible way to to resolve that plot thread, and further reduces Fiona to an object to be fought over, but I'm not heavily changing the content of the issues, only the context.
I've never been a fan of villain!Fiona, I've made that clear in the past. I like it as a step on a journey that results in her healing, but I found its start confusing and messy and the rest of the arc lacklustre and far too focused on Scourge, rather than Fiona herself. But I think putting it in this order makes it flow a lot better for me.
If I write Sonic stuff again, I'll probably do it with this as a headcanon of what went down in the 170s.
#Sonic#Archie Sonic#Archie Sonic Analysis#Archie Sonic Meta#Fiona Fox#Let Fiona be bitter and angry but have it be rooted in some level of truth#She's not just lying to herself.#Her resentment is rooted in a real hurt#She genuinely feels abandoned and betrayed by her friends and she's lashing out at them.#Just like Tails does in 178-179#Because at the end of the day#Sonic and Tails are still just kids#And so is she#So make her downfall a tragedy focused on her#And not just ''Wow she's mean anyway look at how cool and hot Scourge's new girlfriend is.''#No shade on Scourge (this time)#But he is a black hole that devours the character of everyone associated with him
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i have nothing to say for this. i just couldn't stop thinking about it
#pip.txt#generation loss#head 1968#the monkees#bo burnham#inside 2021#it's funny isn't it?#they're all trapped by the end of it. it was always going to end up this way#we could've stopped it! but we couldn't look away#because at the end of the day#we weren't supposed to take it seriously#they all started with comedy in one way or another#they were never meant to be taken seriously.#gonna stop rambling now
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Btw Hamlet isnât about action vs inaction. Itâs about justice and mortality and equating vengeance with love. In case anyone was wondering.
#hamlet#shakespeare#hot take#death itself is used as a form of justice#alexander was buried. Alexander returneth to dust#because at the end of the day#death is the ultimate equalizer#Hamletâs hesitancy to kill Claudius was because of his concern with what was truly just.#vengeance and Justice are the same.
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Thursday morning PSA: you do not owe anyone androgyny. Gender expression =/= gender identity
#this has been a psa#psa#thursday morning#nonbinary#nonbinary umbrella#enby#this applies to#any and all#gender nonconforming#folx#gender expression#=/=#gender identity#iâm tired of people#demanding#nonbinary folx#look androgynous to appease their sense of gender identity#when in reality#gnc folx can curate their physical appearance as they please#because at the end of the day#the only person whose opinion matters about a gnc personâs gender expression#is the gnc person in question#lgbt đłď¸âđ#lgbtq community#queer#queer community
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okay, arcane s2 spoilers, but do you guys think the reason why jinx wanted vi to be the one to kill her is because even after everything, she was still her big sister and her sister could never really hurt her? like, death doesnât seem as scary when itâs by the one you love the most, the one who has always held you tenderly.
#vi#jinx#arcane#arcane season 2 spoilers#what iâm trying to say is#jinx basically had the same outlook on the situation#that vision had#when wanda killed him#because at the end of the day#vi is her sister#so she could never truly hurt her#well#she could#what iâm saying is itâs probably what jinx believes
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Historians & writers: Iâm doing a feminist retelling of the wives, I want to seperate them from Henry VIII and show them as individuals!
Me: oh so youâre gonna give each of them their own separate book/show/etc
Historians & writers: âŚno obviously Iâm still gonna group them together as âsix wivesâ
#or people use âsix queensâ because they think thatâs more feminist#why does it seem like iâm the only one that thinks this is so obvious??#as long as youâre still grouping them together as âsix wivesâ or âsix queensâ it doesnât matter how âfeministâ youâre retelling is#because at the end of the day#youâre still grouping them together as a collective#(and also you say you want to separate them from h8#but when you group them together as âsixâ#youâre completely ignoring the elephant in the room#ie WHY theyâre all grouped together)#catherine of aragon#katherine of aragon#anne boleyn#jane seymour#anne of cleves#anna of cleves#katheryn howard#katherine howard#catherine howard#kathryn parr#katherine parr#catherine parr
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Keep Taylor's name outta your mouthmanifesting u getting violently raped and slaughtered in front of ur loved ones so they have to live w that trauma for the rest of their lives
meanwhile, taylor:
#Asks#anonymoose#anti taylor swift#swifties dni#posting to make an example#because at the end of the day#THIS is the shit swifties tell ppl#literally bc they donât like their dumb white bitch#rape tw#tw rape
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i could talk about how abedâs character pretty accurately describes being autistic and having an intense fear of abandonment because of it for ages
#like i cant be anything other than myself#no matter how hard i try#but me being myself is what makes people leave#because at the end of the day#youâll realize how weird and difficult i am#and you just get to leave#but i donât get to do that#community#community nbc#community tv#abed nadir#dannypudi#neurodiversity#actually autistic
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Jesus H Christopher, Pia. Your writing load is insane.
Maybe you should cut back on how many chapters you release for certain stories? Like Stain and Palma (since these stories dont equal income) until UtB the other Underline stories are almost done. Just a thought
Because I feel burnt out just by thinking of writing that much, so I can only imagine how you feel. Please take care of yourself
Hi anon,
TL;DR: My brain is stupid, which is why I can't do this, even though it makes sense and is logical.
Unfortunately the fanfiction is what often makes the original fiction possible, or more enjoyable.
If I lock myself down into too much schedule and rigidity, or if I only focus on writing for money, I actually start to hate writing, even if I love the stories. There is nothing like 'will this earn money, do people like this, would people pay, what if they all decide to stop paying for this, why would they pay for this, would I pay for this, how much would people pay for this, is there any incentive for them to pay for this, actually if I wrote a ton of different tropes maybe I'd make more for this, but that's depressing, but I need the money, shit what do I do, what if I lose my income, what if it all stops tomorrow, I need to write more, I need to write more, I need to write more' that is actually very exhausting and makes writing not much fun at all.
And to deliberately break out of that headspace as much as possible, I write fanfiction. Because that headspace (the one I wrote about above), on its own, even if I'm only writing two stories, can and has led to burnout and depressive episodes. I don't recommend it.
In a way, one of the reasons I can write so many stories right now (ADHD meds aside) is that I am letting myself break out and just have fun with fanfiction, and remember that my original writing is meant to be fun too. But without fanfiction, I lose sight of that very quickly.
Fanfiction means that when an original story chapter does super badly, generally there are still excited comments elsewhere that keep me going. That's how I survived The Ice Plague, and that story would never have been completed without fanfiction, because that was my worst performer of any story I've ever written. It also means if a lot of subscribers leave at once, I don't feel like The Worst Writer In The World. So having fanfiction behind me was like...a literal safety net or my security blanket.
If I have to discard my security blankets or use them less often in order to keep writing the original stuff, I might as well just stop entirely, because my longest hiatuses from Patreon (i.e. one lasted 1.5 years, many have lasted 4-6 months) have been when I'm mostly just writing original fiction, and am not writing much fanfiction, or not deliberately finding time for it, and finally get so stressed out re: money I literally have to stop. I'm on a (partial) Disability Pension.
A long time ago some professional people told me I probably shouldn't be working at all because of my mental illnesses and then paid me money because of the severity of those mental illnesses. My dumbass brain be pretty fragile, actually, and keeps chugging away because I make bad business decisions and write stuff I enjoy instead of writing to market, or doing rapid release, or releasing more novels (or novels). Writing does ironically help when I'm stressed, but not when I'm stressed about making money because of writing.
I will cut at my income before I cut at my love of this job, and unfortunately fanfiction keeps me going in this job, which means I can't really cut at that first.
(Also from a business perspective, it's actually a very good funnel to the original stuff and then subscription. Most of you wouldn't be here if you hadn't read one of my fanfics first and then gave the original stuff a try - I try not to think about that too much because I need fanfic to not be about money, but the fact is, I would not have this career without fanfic).
I do have plans to take two weeks off in January from posting chapters (I can still post rewards in the second half of January) and that's not too far away.
And the reality is that I probably would have kept going okay if real life hadn't imploded on top of everything like the world's worst bukkake party.
#asks and answers#personal#pia on writing#i am not a smart business owner#i'm an emotional fragile mentally ill one#who has to make decisions that keep me wanting to do this job#because at the end of the day#my severe treatment-resistant mental illnesses#do not do well with the pressure of making money#and feeling like a failure#so i need to actually do things that aren't about money at all#to remind myself that i don't need to have a breakdown#over never making a minimum wage#(i'm getting closer though which is probably why this burnout came on)#(i've been pushing a lot harder than normal because... well... i'd like to make#an average income one day)#(i may not be smart enough or well enough to do that)#(but i will keep trying)#i just have to keep trying as someone with a very broken mind#who copes with that brokenness through working hard#breaks are stressful and i have to think hard about what's best
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I am here once again to say that if you love Reiner Braun, chances are, I also love you. And I will support your ships regardless of if it's canon x canon, canon x oc, canon x you, canon x self-insert. I dont care. You love him, I love you.
#kei's mumblings#because at the end of the day#I just want Reiner to know he is loved#and that a lot of people are here for him#and that his presence is able to unite people of differing background or heritage#he's a good guy at the core#why wouldnt we love him?
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why are all of my based on your likes! posts speculating about famous lesbians not really being lesbians? i checked my likes, theres nothing in there. you all need to stop being fucking weird about lesbians tho. especially lesbians who have dated/fucked men in the past. you look like a toddler with your gold stars.
#charlie.txt#tw lesbophobia#by a lot of posts that means 2 but it has been within the same 24 hours and it was about two different women so that feels like a trend i do#or at the very least the start of a trend that i dont want to be a part of or privy to#chapelle roan has slept with men? lgbtq+ rights are in the line of fire in like. every country. and your biggest concern is chapelle roan#fucking men???????#and for the record i find chapelle roan super annoying and i dont like her music and im saying that so you know im not white knighting my#fav here. im saying that regardless of who it is and regardless of whether or not you like them speculating on someones sexuality is#super fucking weird. SUPER fucking weird.#and even if you were 100% absolutely correct that someone is using a label for support -- an INSANE and tone deaf take that i can only#assume is being made by the most privileged fucks in this shitshow of a community who are stuck in their own little bubble where ppl#loooooove The Queers and thatd SOMEHOW make you More Popular In Society --#EVEN IF YOU WERE CORRECT THIS ONE TIME#YOU WERE STILL SUPER WEIRD FOR HAVING DONE ALL OF THAT.#BECAUSE AT THE END OF THE DAY#YOUR BASIC CIVIL RIGHTS ARE BEING THREATENED. AND YOUR BIGGEST CONCERN IS THAT SOMEONE IS PRETENDING TO BE GAY TO SELL MORE T SHIRTS.
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note to self and anyone who kind of needs it: you donât have to like, rationalize your anger â itâs probably already rational. like, if youâre angry, then youâve probably been given more than enough reason to experience something that big. youâre just fucking done. and thatâs fine
#sometimes#enough is enough#and thatâs all you need#and you can be angry and you donât have to limit that to anything because itâs yours#i personally am realizing that iâm within my right to be done#and ummmm#yeah#yeah iâm done#and iâm gonna deal with how done i am while simultaneously appreciating the things and the people who make sense to me#because at the end of the day#some things just will never ever make sense#and thatâs not okay but you know what#itâs all forgettable#so iâm gonna forget about it
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