#i hate being a writer sometimes

[et-cant-phone-home-no-signal]

i wish i could still draw decently cause i have so many ideas and so many images in my head all the time and all i can do is write it down in varying levels of detail because i'm a writer not an artist and writing is HARD and i want to visualise my blorbos more and i love commissioning artists but money is tight rn so i can't scratch my itch and it's killing me :'((((( i can't wait to have more money so i can message my fav artists and bully them (pay them) to draw more of my ideas cause i'm frothing at the mouth thinking about it all skksjdkaksjsk

[stationary-cycle-in-motion]

Are there any other fic writers out there who have characters that they love so much that they're actually terrified of writing them?

Like, kinda the opposite of 'I don't write this character because I don't know them well enough,' I actually know this character better than I know myself, but my idea of how they should be characterized is so specific and important to me that I'm terrified that I'll never be able to do them justice, so I just. don't write them.

But also, I want my understanding of them to exist out there so other people can see what I see.

[gorkaya-trava]

why is it easier to write the whole thing than to rewrite a tiny piece of it that you're dissatisfied with

[lazylittledragon]

mombin pt 9!! it's been too long i'm sorry

(1)(2)(3)(4)(5)(6)(7)(8)

[keferon]

May I ask what were the best transformers media you ever saw/read?

Well Transformers Prime, Transformers 1986 and IDW comics are having the first place that’s for sure

And then the second place is kind of shared by Fall of Cybertron, Exodus, Prime wars trilogy, Robots in disguise(2001) and Transformers One.

The third place goes to G1, Animated, Earthspark, Armada, War for Cybertron Netflix series, Aligned Robots in disguise, Bumblebee, Rise of the Beasts and Cyberverse because I only liked some little parts of them.

And then I also saw some of the Bay movies, Victory and Headmasters and didn’t like them at all.

Separate first place for J-Decker. It is not exactly Transformers but it is a show about giant robots and I loved it

[yandere-daydreams]

do you ever get hate? I'm a new dark content writer and got my first anon who obviously has conflicted views. I guess how do you cope with it? Do you just delete and move on? Figured I'd ask the best of the best this question 💙

i still get the occasional death threat from time to time, but it does kind of taper out as your blog grows and people realize they can not dissuade you from your sinful, hedonistic ways. my recommendation is always to delete it as soon as possible (out of sight out of mind etc.) unless it happens to be particularly funny or you have something funny to say in response. otherwise, it really isn't worth it. arguing with people on the internet is a frustrating and exhausting way to spend your time and we have better things to do (writing fucked up porn).

[ayyy-pee]

me: i'm gonna write porn no plot today!

also me: five seconds into writing, creates intricate backstories leading up to the when where and why these characters are having sex and psychoanalyzing their emotions and then giving those emotions intricate backstories and-

[lost-inanotherlife]

I need to know your opinion on Jack's and Juliet's weird relationship

Because for me it looks like most of the time Juliet doesn't really likes Jack that much- not even romantically but like, in general, doesn't like being around him very much (which, fair)

While Jack obviously is interested in her because of Kate's partial rejections and his time with the Others

But also on the flashsideways they are divorced and have more or less an amicable relationship and share a child, and given than the flash sideways is the happy eding every character wanted then it means is mutual and that Juliet did appreciate Jack on some level, but it just doesn't looks like it?

Hello Anon, thank you for the ask, this is a good one!

I need to make a little detour before answering it but I promise it'll make sense in the end.

So. The way I see it, LOST is the "unlikable characters who cry a lot" show. You see, all LOST characters are, from the start, morally grey but, perhpas, some are "greyer" than others. In this show the main characters are cheaters, con people, torturers, murderers etc. and you see them "crying" over their own "sins". There isn't much space for victims and justice in LOST and you're either okay with that or LOST isn't for you. Like, the whole premise of the show is that these people HATE themselves, they hate their past and they hate their lives. The character arcs end the moment they stop hating themselves, hence the importance of the flash sideways (and, imo, the writing cop-out that they are but that's for another day, not blaming the writers because they were in a tight spot but I'm not the number one fan of what they came up with, sorry).

Having said that, we can put up with the fact that we're watching the story of people committing horrible things because their story is tragic. As in, seriously, these people had it bad, like reaaaaal bad. And this is the second point of the show: bringing people to the extremes, forcing them to make a choice and therefore involving the audience in making a choice with the characters as well. It's not always pretty, in fact it's never pretty. We as audience are complicit in what our characters do and we can all together drape ourselves in the flag of tragedy and "justify" the characters' actions to feel less bad about them.

But, you see, among all these tragic characters Jack and Juliet's stories seem to pale in comparison. Like, their lives pre-island weren't exactly amazing but they were... ordinary. Loveless marriage, cheating, substance abuse, parent issues, sick relatives... I mean, this is "normal" life. So what I personally like to look at when I think about Jack and Juliet is that they're tragic because they're prisoners. Symbolically, they're prisoners of their own choices because they're incapable of moving on, "realistically" speaking they're literal prisoners of the Dharma initiative and, at large, of the island.

So, anon, you are right when you say that their relationship is weird because they're both prisoners and wardens of themselves and... of each other. There is no other impending tragedy over them: they seem to do okay in terms of finance, they're both extremely intelligent people with an impossibly high potential, they could do anything they want with their lives and yet they're stuck or, if we want to be corny, they're lost.

For Jack and Juliet the island is the embodiment of everything they've desperately tried to figuratively run away from and that they must face now. There is no escape, quite literally. This is why Jack "has to" go back: the island is his "purpose", something that, unfortunately, he could never find in the "real" world. This is also why Juliet "must" die on the island as well: on a symbolical level "death" means "accepting and letting go" (btw, I don't condone this specific usage of death in fiction, I have lots of things to say about it because I think it conveys a very twisted message wrt self-sacrifice/suicide but that's not for today).

So what's up with Jack and Juliet, then? Well, the thing is that they serve as a constant reminder to each other of who they are and of the things they should do to move on. It's not a coincidence that they "meet" in an aquarium/prison where Jack is written as a parallel to off-island Juliet: a "person" of science abducted and taken as prisoner on an island (they're on Hydra island by now) to help with something related to the specific field of medicine they're expert of.

This means that, the way I see it, it's not that Juliet doesn't like being around Jack because she doesn't like "Jack". As a matter of fact, I think she does like him as his own person but she doesn't like what she sees when she sees him because she sees herself in him. Also, another thing that I always say is that, to me, everybody on the island is a little bit in love with Jack but not everybody "likes" Jack. This is because getting to know the "real" Jack is a. very difficult and b. as much as I love him with all my heart, Jack isn't exactly the life of the party. Like, it's not easy to take to Jack, that's what I'm trying to say.

While Jack represents for Juliet a "bad omen" that says "you have to deal with your stuff or you'll always end up being a prisoner in situations you don't like", Juliet represents for Jack something akin to "hope". This is because Jack has an ambiguous relationship with the Others/the losties/ with the world in general, lol. He wants to desperately belong but... "he walks among us but he's not one of us". Unlike Juliet, Jack is actually "willing" to be a prisoner if this means that he could belong somewhere. This is why he's so tethered to the island in a way that Juliet both can and can't understand because she's on the opposite end of that spectrum (the difference being that she didn't "simply" crash to the island, she was unwillingly "complicit" in her imprisonment and she can't forgive herself for that).

Here comes the perfect metaphor in the flash-sideways: the divorce. Divorce is great, I love divorce. There should be more divorce stories. In the context of LOST, divorce, for Jack and Juliet, means that they can finally let go and move on, that they've failed and that's okay because failing doesn't mean punishment for life. It means that you can leave situations that aren't for you anymore and that's not the end of the world. As a matter of fact, it's actually best for you to do so. So yes, Juliet does appreciate Jack but she can't be with Jack despite the fact that she'll forever be bound to him (the island/the son they have in the sideways). And this is because, surprise surprise!, Juliet and Jack are the same character. In order for them to "grow" and complete their arcs, they must let themselves go, they must divorce "themselves". While on the island this is translated into literal death as I said above, in the flash sideways the writers opted for something a little bit more poetic: love. Love is also a form of letting go and embrace the unknown. Love is a form of meeting... the Other and... having faith in this encounter.

Kate and Sawyer are Jack and Juliet's respective Other, aka they're the ones who can help them move forward along their journey (and viceversa can be said for Kate and Sawyer, of course).

So, yes, anon, you got it right when you spotted the "push-and-pull" dynamic between them. I personally think they're attracted to each other but, as I tried to explain, they can't ever "like-like" each other because if they did, it'd mean that they like... themselves, which they don't (this is the characters hating themselve show as I also said above). The ultimate point of the show is for the characters to overcome this self-hatred and accept themselves for who they are. Hence, the divorce metaphor: Jack and Juliet will always be connected but, in order to move on, they have to let themselves go.

[rowanoftheunknown]

I love that stede acknowledged he was a shit dad actually like they don't woobify the fact that he is just. Not a very good father. I am not being sarcastic when I say I love it.

[lambsixtysix]

barbi fans would it be weird if i described the way franco calls u pet names in Italian...

[epickiya722]

I haven't even read the ending and I won't have a full opinion on it until the actual chapter comes out, but from I have seen about "loose ends"... I could imagine that Gege actually wanted to explore more but there are certain reasons that kind of halted that. Similarly, like with MHA's ending.

(I'm sorry but I'm not deciding on just leaks on whether a chapter is good or bad.)

It just feels odd to me. I don't know, it just does.

I think about the overall scheduling and that Gege can't and can do certain things because he does work with other people he has answer to. I wouldn't be surprised if after this, Gege comes out with a statement saying there was a lot he wanted to continue to explore but couldn't due to reasons. There's also Gege's health to consider.

Whether the ending got fumbled or not, again, I don't know. I'm not here defending Gege or making excuses, but putting insight and why the ending possibly became what it is.

Hell, just last year people were upset because how some of the episodes of the anime looked but then it's turns out how the workers literally had to crunch for time and apologized (which I think was just so sad to do because the animation and pacing was fine for me and I know that has to be hard to do with little time to perfect it but some of you couldn't relate but I digress) as if they are actually to blame when they're just employees.

Maybe it is just me but it just seems odd to me.

And I know some people are upset about Gojo. If you are, I'm not holding it against you. I like him, too and yeah, I'm shedding a tear or two.

However, how this fandom acts now compared to before is such major whiplash for me.

Some of you want to throw around "Gege hates Gojo" so much but Gege is the same creator who gave the audience Gojo and a story to understand and yet a lot of people still mischaracterize him and only see him as "a hot character" or "the powerhouse that should come back because how dare he be happy in the afterlife" or "the blue eyed twink".

Actually, I find that some of you probably hate canon Gojo more than Gege supposedly does because of all these different versions that the fandom have conjured up.

The most Gojo did deserve is a funeral after he died and I get being upset if he didn't get that in the story, I would be upset for sure.

But given how much I have seen the fandom act when it comes to Satoru Gojo's character, I'm taking a lot of opinions on "Gege mistreated Gojo's character", the ending and everything else with a very teeny grain of salt. Yeah, be "critical" all you want but it just seems for anything nowadays that's all people want to do without considering other factors.

You can still hate or like something and acknowledge other things that play into why that something is the way it is.

[bi-panic-at-the-disco]

I like how whenever I watch AstralSpiff or Backseat play a new Poppy Chapter it’s pretty clear what game that they devs had been playing before hand lmao,, Chapter 4 being very clearly referencing to the Resident Evil 4 underground factory insect fights with how it was framed

[whozkay]

when lorde says "it feels so scary getting old", i would love it if she had put I warning for when you really get older, the things will be even worse.

another day that I feel myself into a void, disconnected from myself, walking aimlessly through my own mind wondering why I can't reconnect with who I am, why I can't feel that weird (but amazing) feeling of doing something you really like.

i miss the happiness of writing and the delight of painting. instead of a brush and a pen, I have a broom and a sponge. they will never make me happy, they will never be my lovers, not even my friends, the same way as art is... or used to be.

i miss this, i miss just being myself. and I've realised I can't live that way.

getting old can't be like this, I'll never accept and I'll never let myself fall into this suffering easily. not that easily

[mamawasatesttube]

saw someone being wrong about kon on the internet again (i know. shocking) and you are all so lucky i'm sick and feverish and lazy because i DID just seriously entertain the thought of writing up a small essay complete with issue and panel citations about why it's simply incorrect to say that kon never really seemed to reciprocate any sort of crush on tim before geoff/tt03. this is just not true. you dont have to actually ship them but to downplay their importance to each other even in the earliest days is simply incorrect. i'm too tired and achy to bother digging through comics to pull up all the issues that have the bits i want to point at but like... they were both very mutually important to each other from early on. it was in no way shape or form one-sided, whether you want to read that as platonic or romantic. man.

[marisbarra]

Someone’s got to motivate me cuz omggg im actually losing it and thinking of so many things to write it’s freezing me up

[ca-highway49]

(ID : Stardew Valley on my switch. Elliott is in the doctors office of Harvey talking to the farmer, "What brings you to this terrible place?" He is low friendship. My sock matches the mint green walls and privacy-curtains in the doctor's, end ID)

I guess I should try to understand him better I'm always bewildered by the way he talks (if you even care)