#but that is not me

[nvrthlessthsun]

The thing is, I want to do my best! I want to have a job that I succeed at, that I help people with, that fulfills me. I want to work minimum wage jobs like fast food or call center work!

But the stress of not being able to pay my bills unless I'm working an ungodly number of hours is debilitating. Our current economic system has made it impossible for me to not burn the fuck out at the things I want to do.

So I'm forced to take a job that is not fulfilling and/or directly harmful. I'm forced to take out ridiculous loans and go back to school. I'm forced to work three times the number of hours I would prefer, just to make ends meet. I can't do my best, because I'm exhausted all the time.

It's so frustrating, because if you made "undesirable" work financially sound, you'd have people who would want to do it! But the current system isn't built to fill needs, it's built to make money for those at the top.

[coffeexxcigarettes]

Screaming but in silence,

Ripping from myself.

There is me,

And then there is you.

A stranger,

A worm wiggling it's way inside my chest,

Cutting off my oxygen and with haste

You order me,

Breathe.

I know not where I go when I claw myself free,

Invisibly, of course.

Only that that is not me,

And that I,

Well.

I cannot breathe.

x

[harryforvogue]

Hi Sarah I wanted some writing advice ! How do you go about outlining the events of a fic? I have no idea what I really want to happen in the beginning, middle, and end of this fic and wanted to know what your writing process usually consists of! xo

hiiii so basically

i start with a scene i REAAAAAALLY wanna write, which is usually the climax or the resolution, oddly enough. and i frame scenes around it

i do kind of like a comic strip version of a story first. this then this then this and finally this!

and the in between stuff is filled in with dialogue, setting changes, new characters intro, etc. that’s where the GOOD stuff is.

the beginning for me is always hard. i write at least 5/6 first chapters before deciding on the final one. endings are easier to write. and the middle is relatively easy too IF you have it outlined.

i think you need to have at least a vague comic strip version of your “story” including the plot. and then add in the little stuff that makes your story come to life AFTER. because in the end when you’re telling your story’s synopsis to someone, you’re going to refer back to the comic strip graphic yknow??

for example, i’m in the outlining stage. every few days, i add in the tiny details in between the Big things. i know that this is the beginning, and this is the issue, and this is how it’s resolved.

hope this helps!

[just-french-me-up]

'ao3 needs a like and dislike button'

what you need, my algorithm-rotten minded friend, is a grip

[vee-lociraptor]

tiktok refugees i believe you are few but it is VITAL that you know on tumblr you can speak freely. kill. die. sex. fuck. you can say things here

[mallalada]

the voice of the devil

[xxscrabiesxx]

hey folks if you have an android phone: google shadow installed a "security app".

I had to go and delete it myself this morning.

[morganbritton132]

Me: You know how when you were a kid and you’d wish that you’d get sick or injured in a way that would justify why you didn’t live up to your potential?

Everybody, apparently: No?

[aromantic-goldfishdeactivated202]

I find it so funny, in light of TikTok’s imminent American demise, that even now they aren’t considering moving to tumblr. The last two social media refugee crises (Twitter -> X and whatever happened with Reddit) prompted a wave of wide-eyed new baffled tumblr users to flood this app and yet last I heard all of the tiktokers are flooding en-masse a Chinese social media app. That is entirely in Mandarin. Instead of moving to tumblr.

[fangsforfags]

fake idgafer. i saw tht haunted look in ur eyes

[westiec]

You've gotta love Jews more than you hate Nazis.

You've gotta love trans folks more than you hate TERFs.

You've gotta love your unhoused neighbors more than you hate the billionaires.

You've gotta love immigrants more than you hate ICE.

You've gotta love queer kids more than you hate christian fundamentalists.

You've gotta love fat people more than you hate the diet industry.

You've gotta love disabled people more than you hate the insurance companies.

You've gotta love your fellow humans more than you hate the worst that humanity has to offer. You don't have to like every person you're fighting for, and you sure as hell don't have to give up your righteous anger, but hate is ultimately corrosive.

You've gotta love.

[boltlightning]

not watching severance and succession means i log on the day after an episode and everyone is like SCREAMING CRYING THROWING UP THEYRE SO INSANE FOR THIS and the image cited is a man in a suit standing still in an otherwise blank, fluorescently-lit hallway. i'm happy for you guys or sorry that happened

[redstonedust]

phenomenom thats been bothering me that i could only express via an mspaint reverse boomer comic

[pkaykim]

Valentines gift for my girlfriend

Please don’t repost on other platforms!

[daftpatience]

slow down for your disabled friends. thats like a bare minimum kindness that we shouldnt have to ask for. i love that youre so quirky and walking fast is a cool personality trait to you and all that but i bet you can count your physically disabled friends on less than one hand