#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.

[arkashas]

currently cringing in deep seated shame over the very nsfw joke which had mid popularity which i made months ago..

[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!

[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

[jellogram]

On my first day in Germany I got to my hotel and I couldn't get the lights to turn on. And I was like "Eh, fuck it, I'll just take a shower in the dark." And then the shower wouldn't get hot. I waited and waited and it stayed ice cold.

So I go down to the front desk and I'm like "My lights won't turn on and my shower won't get hot" so they send this guy up with me. We get into the room and I flick the switch and nothing happens so I'm like "See?"

And he goes "You must put your card in the slot."

"I... what? I have to put my room card in the light switch?"

"Of course!"

Now I have been in many hotels in the US and never encountered this concept, but apparently it was something most of their guests already knew. So I'm looking like a fool at this point. I feel like an idiot. The dude is fully grinning at me. I put the card in the slot and voila, the light turns on.

Then he's like "Ok, let's see if the shower works. You know you must wait for the hot water?" and I just know he's thinking I'm an idiot who also can't use a shower. This stupid American can't wait for the hot water! She can't even use a light switch or a shower!

And I guess he was distracted by these thoughts of my stupidity, because this dude fully stepped into the shower. In his nice dress shirt and slacks. He just. Gets into the shower.

And turns it on.

Have you ever seen a playing field get leveled instantaneously

[mobgoblin]

Queued right up for it

[bixels]

As gen-AI becomes more normalized (Chappell Roan encouraging it, grifters on the rise, young artists using it), I wanna express how I will never turn to it because it fundamentally bores me to my core. There is no reason for me to want to use gen-AI because I will never want to give up my autonomy in creating art. I never want to become reliant on an inhuman object for expression, least of all if that object is created and controlled by tech companies. I draw not because I want a drawing but because I love the process of drawing. So even in a future where everyone’s accepted it, I’m never gonna sway on this.

[eethok]

turns out there is nothing stopping you from making a pngtuber so you can rp working in a scriptorium

[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

[fangirlinginleatherboots]

Being 30 is fun. I was discussing anime with a teen at work and asked her how much of bnha she had watched. She had trouble answering and wasn't sure how to approach it. I said "better question was who was your husbando" and she turned bright red before mumbling an answer. They never expect me to know how deep their love of anime boys runs....

[female-ai-heaven]

Wonder Woman

[septemberkisses]

the fact that i'm no longer the same age as the protagonists of novels and films i once connected to is so heartbreaking. there was a time when I looked forward to turning their age. i did. and i also outgrew them. i continue to age, but they don't; never will. the immortality of fiction is beautiful, but cruel.

[toss-a-coin-to-your-stan-account]

staff: our april fools joke this year is a silly feature that doesn't really do anything but give you a button to boop other users! they have to opt-in first though :)

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