#THAT'S YOUR RESPONSE BABE???

[traumamade]

crying at leon's 'uh oh' in the new deat.h isla.nd trailer

[los-plantalones]

babe come look at the moon! babe let’s listen to the rain! babe come touch this leaf! babe just taste this berry! babe check out that cloud!

[sophsicle]

OKAY just so we're clear. thinking about the roman empire is a red flag. they're super boring and lame. they're like the greeks if instead of being gay and drunk you like, conquered people. y'know? the vibes are off.

[sybbi]

Oh, good. The people who can't read a linked article on a post they reblog, much less open a separate tab and look into something themselves, are gonna tell us what is and isn't legit

[ishouldbedoingalright]

people act like tommy leaving the date is the worst crime to ever exist and forget that buck is a whole ass adult who can take care of himself

[lover-of-mine]

[evankinkley]

donovan rocker in every swat episode → 1x10

[mumblingsage]

(Oh God help is she still going on about it--)

That post has developed some healthy discussion of what constitutes "trauma," but now I realize there's the mirror/shadow discourse that isn't being had, but could be equally clarifying, namely "What is the normal amount of emotional reaction to a book?"

[anonymouspuzzler]

extremely tw blood and gore below im not joking

if only we'd met under better circumstances dot jpeg

[brujahinaskirt]

idk man my feed is constantly full of people polling their readers to ask if it's "okay" to write about xyz or add abc to their ongoing fic. and maybe i'm just making distressed noises as a byproduct of my own role in a creative industry, a space in which professionals are rarely permitted to have true authority over their commercial work once a budget is opened. but i am really troubled by how quickly it has become so common for hobbyist writers to view hobby writing as an transactional public service and not as. idk. art.

[sweetnnaivete]

why do i always get people in my askbox asking abt severus :/ can i just clarify that i think he's an incredibly interesting, important, and complex character, but he is still a bad person imo!!!!! if you like him, that's fine idrc, but can you stop sending me stuff ?? i will explore his character, but maybe not as positively as you want, so tbh if you don't like that portrayal you don't have to interact with me!

[bxriles]

think it’s pretty stupid that you hate acotar so much but ur writing a fic abt it. why don’t you get out of this fandom since you clearly sympathize with abuse based on all the pro tampon shit you reblog. fuck you and ur shitty fic and get out of the acotar fandom. you are not welcome here

Is this satire? I can’t tell with all the foaming at the mouth that’s going on here.

[melancholic-pigeon]

Alright, this is my last comment on the issue, for real this time.

@nerdykeppie is staffed by unprofessional, rude, cruel people who double down on their entitlement to be unprofessional, rude and cruel in public to their former customers.

You should know the sorts of people you're giving money to if you patronize them. The founder is liable to misread your words, lash out at you in anger over something he misunderstood, and generally behave like a tantruming child even if you go out of your way to be polite and give him the benefit of the doubt when he lashes out at you over his own poor reading comprehension.

I'm done getting into this. No, Spider is not ~required~ to be professional on his (public) personal blog which is closely tied to his business. I just think it's extremely stupid to double down on his "right" to be unprofessional on his public blog when he owns a business that is clearly tied to said public blog, because it reflects very poorly on both his personal character and his business. I think it is hilariously foolish and an extremely poor decision to openly advertise and defend your founder's unprofessionalism, which speaks of general lack of professionalism and poor judgment throughout the whole business, not just from Spider (though his lack of good judgment and public unprofessionalism is the most obvious).

So. Best of luck in the people involved resolving whatever problem in their lives that they're taking out on me, and beware interacting with them in any way because they will absolutely be rude as shit to you and then smear you in public and private for (/checks hand) apologizing for a miscommunication because you didn't mean what they incorrectly interpreted you to mean.

I can't fucking believe they still think they're in the right here and *I* am the one who needs to be ~asked not to contact them again~. You answered me THREE TIMES *after* I had blocked you because you cannot let go of the fact that you were wrong about a stupid fucking plastic pumpkin and the fact that I went OUT OF MY WAY to give you the benefit of the doubt.

(two of those three asks were frantic apologies because I genuinely felt terrible, and they were both met with meanness and scorn and snide insults about my communication failures.

Lol. Me. I'm the one who is failing to communicate and has poor reading comprehension because you misunderstood me and started lashing out like I personally strangled all of your pets for having the filthy nerve to apologize and try to clear it up.

Yeah. I'm the villain here. Sure, Jan.)

I'm done now, but enjoy having your unprofessional, cruel, immature nonsense publicly exposed. I stand by my actions (the ones I actually took in real life, not the fake pretend ones you made up because you misunderstood what I wrote) and I look forward to you experiencing the natural consequences of your own.

Don't give money to childish jerks.

[essektheylyss]

I am obsessed with how narratively convenient Lark's divinatory abilities are. She's the only one of the protagonists who is both pragmatic and has a working sense of self-preservation, so having some internal impulse that is actually the guiding hand of the cosmos pushing her into doing the REALLY stupid shit is both necessary and really useful.

Like, I am the type of writer who kind of scoffs at the idea that characters are beyond the writer's control and will completely screw over your outline, because on one hand, a sensible outline will follow the characters' personalities and tendencies anyway. Obviously in an ensemble cast you will need to do some wrangling, but in theory your characters are responding to varying degrees of stimuli in order to maneuver them into the places you need them to be for things to all come together in the end.

But more importantly, "curse from god" is the funniest and easiest way to push any character to do things beyond the realm of reason when necessary, and frankly, what the fuck is the point of playing god if you don't embrace that?

[amywritesthings]

Oh god I hope you’ll gift us a Levi fake dating modern au someday (don’t mind me, the Floch friend, quietly brainrotting in the corner of the room)

ok but being serious for a sec could u imagine that i almost considered doing that with James & Levi at one point because 'we're fake dating and you don't know i'm in love with you but i have been this whole time' levi is basically the equivalent to 'you have amnesia and don't remember me but i'm here' SU!levi

first fake dating agenda is in fact sir armin, but i would literally write fake dating aus for every single blorbo i've ever had

[got-ticket-to-ride]

13 for the Beatles ask game :)

13. If you could travel back in time to one Beatles event, which would it be?

Acid trips. The first time when Paul dropped acid with John. I would drop acid with them and join their trip, WHAT DID THEY SEE? WHY WAS REVOLVER SO GOOD? WHY WAS JOHN THE EMPEROR OF THE UNIVERSE?

Why did Paul drop acid with Tara first and invited him to the family Christmas party and not John? I love me a good Hallmark movie, where the childhood friend (John) is jealous and the rich, privileged guy (Tara) gets to impress the family in the small town.

WHY PAUL, WHY?

(also wasted this question because I should've gone to one of their concerts or fucking went to Hamburg and joined their flea infested mattresses at Bambi Kinos. Rat boys for life).