#i don't care what they look like

[i-drop-level-one-loot]

Yandere (human sized) ant colony/ alien hive? Love this blog btw

Aight, so I have this issue. I had the biggest lesbian fantasy when reading this ask, and I have no idea what you want (which is not insult btw I also frequently have no idea what the fuck I want). This isn't just you, dear anon, quite a few people crawl up to me on all fours with amazing ideas, but no genders or sexual orientations. For me, that's fine, gender neutral protagonists with vaguely described genitalia getting loved on by men, women, parasitic alien life forms that reproduce asexually, are all my jams. But I feel bad assuming that you are like me, and don't care about the gender of the yandere(s).

Did you know there are ant colonies that are all female, because the Queen reproduces asexually, creating clones of herself, but there is evidence to suggest that (similarly to the lesbian lizard species) they still have sex, just because it feels good?

Let me know, what you had in mind, because if you were hoping for something else I'll start writing something for you, but I'm still going to write the lesbian ant inspired alien colony.

[aria-benedetto]

Happy STS, Aria!

On a scale from aphantasia to complete movie, how well can you picture things you're writing? Is there any difference to when you're just the reader?

Hi and thank you for the ask!

I can picture things somewhat and the context of what I am doing matters a lot, although the difference is not that much between reading and writing, I feel, as it is between reading/writing or daydreaming.

I already think very much in words, but when I am daydreaming, I do get very... vibes based images? I can translate them to actual images when drawing, but details are just not there. These images rely heavily on atmosphere, pose and the kind of emotions it evokes. Like, say, I might get a person lounging on a throne, know that I am seeing it from a lowered perspective and the vibe that is conveyed for this scene, but please don't ask me what this person looks like (unless some aspect of that appearance is plot relevant) or what colour the throne is.

My daydreams are a mix of those images and a running narration/dialogue. Which is the reason I have no idea what any of my characters look like, unless I sit down and design them on a piece of paper (or in an art program). Except, again, for things that I can tie to their personality or that is somehow relevant for the story/worldbuilding.

When reading and writing, I process things almost entirely as words ... I think. It is hard for me to tell, because as soon as I pay attention to how I process things when reading, I stop doing it. I think that I do still get some general visual ideas, mostly because sometimes I stumble across something that I can't imagine (or with illustrations, sometimes I am thrown because, say, my imagination mixed up left and right and everything is on the wrong side).

And when writing I need to ... essentially translate my daydreams into words? So it is also heavily text based, but the images were already there, so in a way I am kind of describing them I guess?

But, again, no details and I have absolutely no idea how any characters described in anything look like. Especially faces. I cannot imagine faces. At all. If you asked me to describe my mother's face, I couldn't do it.

Also, the fact that I cannot imagine details is the reason why I hate long, loving descriptions of scenery or characters, because it gives me absolutely nothing and I just end up getting bored x'D (*cough* hence why I never managed to read Lord of the Rings)

[artkaninchenbau]

A h-heartfelt reunion..?

Bonus

[marzipanandminutiae]

what's with the weird glorification of smoking that's come back lately

like

I've seen so many posts that paint opposing smoking as some impossibly Loser-ish or puritanical stance and I really don't get it

it makes you, your house, and your clothing stink, destroys your teeth, and gives you lung cancer. opposing it is. Correct. obviously addiction is very complicated and quitting can be hard, but just saying "smoking is gross and harmful as a practice (including vaping)" is True and Right actually

some of you have never grown up hearing about how some beloved family member died a slow, agonized, wasting death of smoking-induced cancer, or watching it firsthand for yourself, and it shows

[tossawary]

This is petty fandom salt, BUT... I've been chewing on this phenomenon that I've been calling "Fandom's Darling". It is related to things like "Author's Darling" and "Mary Sue / Gary Stu" and "Protagonist Halo" and all that jazz, where one character gains a peculiar narrative weight in a story.

"Author's Darling" is when a writer has a favorite character, and the world and all other characters sort of get... warped to put the Darling in the spotlight. It's most noticeable in TV shows with multiple writers, when a character you personally like suddenly has their previous characterization destroyed to make another character look good somehow. Every other character might become weirdly incompetent. The Darling's feelings are treated as The Most Important Feelings in any given situation. The logic of the fictional world seems broken past suspension of disbelief in order to validate this one character's beliefs or skillset or some other fantasy. And so on.

"Fandom's Darling" is what I've been calling the pattern where a fandom essentially crowns a New Protagonist for their fanfiction stories (it's often a side character rather than the original protagonist, but it can also happen to protagonists). This character becomes the self-insert for all sorts of indulgent fantasies, gaining special powers or backstories, and/or becoming the focus of extreme whump, and/or hooking up with all the various hotties, starring in all sorts of tropey AUs, and so on. They're not always an obvious Mary Sue version of themselves, but the character's original personality and interpersonal relationships tend to get warped or dropped completely, and other characters tend to become a little flat around them. I call it "Fandom's Darling" because it's not just one self-indulgent fantasy fic (you do you! Have fun!) with characterization choices that I don't vibe with (I have neither the time nor the desire nor the authority to police anything, I am just venting), but rather a prolific mini-fandom of sorts revolving around this empty doll / fanon version of the chosen vessel character, so it becomes a little unavoidable.

I am salty about this (mildly frustrated) (imagine a soft sigh of disappointment before I just go do something else) because you are FUCKED if you actually liked the canonical version of this character and their interpersonal relationships. It's almost worse than liking an obscure character that no one cares about. There's about a thousand fics starring your fave, but maybe only about a dozen of them are actually rooted in any kind of recognisable canon.

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

going through my old journals as part of therapy homework and i'm reading a section written in the emotional wreckage of a full-on breakdown when i get hit with this line:

There is never a satisfying answer to ‘Why didn’t they love me?’

like wow babe. good fucking point

[bixels]

Reminiscing about Little Witch Academia.

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Kiss Kiss Fallen Tree!

[First] Prev <–-> Next

[keferon]

The tac net crash chapter is one of my favorites so far~

Ah and. Guess what. I just discovered that including this post, I made 50 pieces of fanart for Mistakes on mistakes until.. I’m so sane and normal about this story can you tell👍

[aziraphalalala]

I am not entirely certain what will happen once the actors & writers strike ends, but I'm pretty sure Michael Sheen will break the sound barrier with how fast he will go feral on the internets about how Aziraphale wants to eat Crowley's ox rib

[vaguely-concerned]

can you even imagine what a fucking horror show the early game is from spite's perspective, though. not only is this funky forcibly severed little slip of the fade having to deal with the reverse cosmic horror of physical reality as perceived by a spirit and being trapped in it against its will -- existentially confused and disoriented and hurting and nothing makes any kind of sense, at the mercy of human cruelty at its most deliberately sadistic. and then the one source of comfort and compassion and some kind of safety and clarity that lucanis surely must have been to him in the ossuary despite everything just goes and shuts himself in his room inside with a seemingly passive aggressive number of locks between them and no explanation and won't speak to him and they're STILL in the fucking ossuary. rook came and found them and they could be free now (rook is here!) and still lucanis keeps them in the ossuary even though he PROMISED he promised they'd get out of there together!!! what the fuck DO you think at that point? like did he trick me that whole time??? he wasn't like zara before, so why is he doing this to me now? why isn't he saying anything? 'he won't move. I can't reach him'. at least in the ossuary they had a deal, a goal, a hope -- each other. at least he wasn't entirely alone, before.

this poor poor poor little spite spirit really was ferried into the real world like 'hey welcome to reality! as your first introduction to it you're first getting horrifically tortured and then getting to vicariously experience one of THE most distressing and harrowing psychological conditions the human brain can cook up for itself (a fully fledged and deeply entrenched freeze response flaring up with catastrophic severity due to an unbroken ongoing and unlikely to let up any time soon chain of Unfortunately... Recent Events). I think spite is being extremely reasonable and patient about the whole thing, when you put it into perspective. I'm not saying let him eat the self-lighting candles or anything, but he's got some extremely valid points along the way lol. spite is not only child-like, the metaphor work going on is a lot more pleasingly flexible and complex than that, but he is also helplessly existentially dependent on lucanis in a way that, if anything, is a heightened version of the way a child (or child part) has to depend on a parent to navigate the world and survive.

tl;dr: we truly don't give enough sympathy to spite for having to live in the head of lucanis dellamorte. a place even lucanis dellamorte would prefer not to be. to be fair to him I think lucanis would be the first person to agree with this lol

[i-drop-level-one-loot]

Hello! Hope you are having a good day. May i ask you what kind of monster/whatever do you like writing the most? just curious

Sup ❤️

Aight, I'm going to be real with you.

I like.. everything (lol)

I have a very specific interest, but it can be disguised by a multitude of different genres, and genders, and (fictional) species. I think the best category would be "yandere", although I don't really enjoy obsession at first sight, unless that can be worked around with unnatural explanations (the color of your soul was beautiful, they literally saw your entire life through mind reading, you're the only person to show genuine kindness to them, they just smelled that you were born to be their mate, etc).

I don't mind writing almost whatever, but whatever I can find my specific thing in I'll definitely write faster lmao

I don't care what they look like, whether it's sexual or not, as long as I can find that intensity.

I'd have just as much of a blast writing a story about someone slowly getting ripped apart by a zombie as I would writing an intense conversation between a kidnapper and their victim.

[tshortik]

I love you messy artstyle i love you visible brush strokes I love you textures and rough edges I love you imperfections I love you roughness and colour blobs I love you scratchy sketches and bold stylisation and dirt and imperfections I love you ugly and raw emotion!!!!! ❤️

[callme-mag]

More evidence that these two look alike

Back to bothering with the idea that these two guys are alike in so many ways. In the end if I have a type of guy, and I love it 🫣💖.

[ilikedetectives]

[bitegore]

Zionists want you to conflate Judaism and Zionism. Zionists want you to believe that Judaism cannot exist without Zionism and that all Jews are Zionists. Zionism would have Jews believe that a Jewish state is the only way that they can be safe from antisemitism and will point to any instance of antisemitism as proof that Zionism is the solution- so Zionism wants gentiles to be antisemitic in their support of Palestine. They want you to conflate all Jews with Zionism and the state of Israel, and they want you to treat all Jews regardless of political affiliation as the face of Israel. Antizionist Jews exist, and incidences of antisemitism ostensibly acting against Zionism will not help dismantle the forces propping Zionism up.

Don't do their work for them.