#it's really patchy

[pynkhues]

I found your blog through your incredible Succession meta (and have since checked out Good Girls because of your posts and am really enjoying it!). I really love reading your views and find you’re often able to articulate things I’ve been thinking but had struggled to convey succinctly. Do you enjoy writing out commentary and metas and are there ever any that either take a long time to find the words for to answer or that stump you as far as pulling coherent thoughts into an organized form? Also, for future reference, are there some topics you’d prefer not to touch or be asked about?

Hi! Thank you so much for your kind words, anon, and I love that you've been watching Good Girls. It's a very different show from Succession (in more ways than one, haha), but I think it was a more interesting show creatively than it got credit for (especially when you compare it to shows of a similiar genre), and it's a shame it never really got the broader audience or attention that I think it deserved.

And yes! I do enjoy writing out commentary and meta. I'm a writer by trade, so I enjoy thinking pretty deeply about the things I watch and read in general, but I find answering other people's questions can really prompt me to think about things at a different angle or to articulate thoughts that might be only half-formed in my head. Understanding both the mechanics and the artistry of storytelling is something that's important to me, on both a personal and a professional level, and writing meta is both fun and also a great sort of exercise that I think has definitely helped me develop as a writer and deepen my own stories.

There are definitely things that take me longer to answer though. Funnily enough, I don't think it's so much areas of questions (I'm happy to be asked about any topic, really), but I do find really broad questions can be difficult to answer. Like I have a few questions in my inbox now that might just be like 'what do you think of Shiv' or 'talk about the music on the show', which I find are both interesting topics, of course, but also kind of hard to write straight forward answers to because my thoughts on both are big and vary across the 39 episodes of the show.

Specifics though like, what do you think was going through Shiv's head when she did x, or talk about the music in x scene makes it a lot easier to hone in on the details and I think (hope, haha) give a more satisfying answer to the person who sent the ask too.

[thecatundertheladder]

Conversations I Think Happened in the Grasslands:

Lloyd: So people use you to justify hate towards queer people, but uncle Wu's chill with queer people, so does that mean you're okay with queer people too?

FSM: I don't what that means.

Lloyd: Uhhh, queer people are people who aren't exclusively attracted to the opposite gender as them, and/or don't identify as their birth gender.

FSM: You have words for that now? Well then yes, I am fine with queer people. And I don't appreciate others using me as an excuse to hate people because of the way they were born. I've had enough of that in my lifetime.

Lloyd, lying on his back: Hey, do you have wifi here?

FSM: No.

Lloyd: Can you get wifi here?

FSM: I’m God, so probably.

Lloyd, sitting up: You should get a twitter account.

FSM: No thank you.

Lloyd: So being gay means you're exclusively attracted to people of the same gender as you, being bisexual mean you're attracted to both genders and-

FSM: Is there a word for not being attracted to people at all?

Lloyd: Um yeah, asexual means you don't feel sexual attraction and aromantic means you don't feel romantic attraction.

FSM: Oh it's wonderful that humanity’s finally figured that we exist. Whenever I told people I didn't want a spouse because I wasn't attracted to anyone they always said 'you haven't found the right person yet'. I'm thousands of years old, I really don't that's going to happen Takeshi.

Lloyd: You're queer?! Ha suck it homophobes!

Lloyd: Wait who's Takeshi?

FSM: Don't worry about it. He's dead now.

Lloyd, squinting suspiciously: Like, did he die of old age or...

FSM, smiling: I said don't worry about it.

FSM: So how is Mystake?

Lloyd: Dead.

FSM: Really? I didn’t know she could die.

Part 2 Part 3

[touteytout]

[zivazivc]

obsessed with the idea that adrien post hawkmoth's defeat becomes just some dude, just some bro. fashion? don't know her.

[thepatchycat]

[woah-uhuh-uhuh-uhuh]

BOSS FIGHT!

[creaturefeaster]

WOW!!! WIRE YOUR PROFILE CHANGED!!!!

new era new me

[potionpeddlerpatchy]

Patchy is giving up, she really is.

[gomzdrawfr]

practice doodles

[unown]

I will say though I’m in better spirits, I got a new shampoo and have been washing differently and blow drying instead of air drying and I think I’m seeing less hair fall? might be a placebo idk my hair feels better and shinier so I’m hoping it’s not a joke 😭

[romanticfatale]

My father put a shaver in my hands

As heavy as my heart

He said he’d show me how to use it

Like father, not-son.

It’s the only gift he’s ever given

But it's not a gift at all

A pound of steel

A pounding heart

Heavy, held in shaking hands

Dead beat

dead wrong

deadnamed daughter must be hiding underneath the fledgling Saturn’s son

His smile is a grimace

He says it to my face

"No one likes a woman with hair all over the place"

[wattlebranch]

I DONT LOVE YOU ANYMORE

[kiwiana-writes]

WIP Wednesday

Thanks for the "early" (by which I mean it was the middle of Wednesday for me but well before WIP Wednesday usually kicks off) tag, @getmehighonmagic, and to @suseagull04 for one at a slightly more expected time 🤣

I feel a little mean for sharing this? I am asking y'all to a) trust me; b) trust the process; c) trust that any stylistic quirks or inconsistencies, both within itself and in comparison to the rest of my back catalogue, are part of the process. I guess that's all I'll say for now 👀

There were a great many things Alex did not enjoy about waking up.  There was the act itself, of course; blinking his eyes open only to be momentarily blinded by the sun pouring in through a crack in the curtains no matter how tightly he shut them the night before. There was the way his dreams slipped away from him as he woke, trailing through his memory like snowflakes, impossible to catch for more than a moment before melting into nothing. There was the immediate caffeine craving his body inflicted upon him, despite it having only been eight or so hours since his evening cup of coffee. Seven hours, perhaps. Certainly at least five, most nights. Though worst of all was the way his phone would light up with notifications—no matter how early he set his alarm, politics was a nonstop calling, all day, every day.   Still. Perhaps if Alex had known how few opportunities he would have left to do so, he could have found it in himself to embrace the sensations of returning to consciousness a little more.

Forever feeling feral for whatever y'all are up to, so tags below the cut and, as always, anyone who wants to play! (If you take the open tag please tag me so I can see!!)

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[bloodofgrapes]

seeing a highly disturbing trend of people """jokingly"""" saying things like men should run their beard by a panel of women to determine if they're allowed to have one, because it's sparse or patchy or whatever

like you all grasp that men do not owe attractiveness to the world any more than women do, right

[differenteagletragedy]

What if Baxter believes in fate so much that after he met you during the summer of 2011 and again during the summer of 2016, that he spends the summer of 2021 almost looking over his shoulder, waiting for you to pop up. It's not that he expects you to come to him again, not really ... but in a way, he wonders. If it happened twice before, maybe it could happen again. And maybe the third time will be the charm.

And then something happened. The timing didn't work out right. Maybe Jude and Scott found another wedding planner, maybe they put the engagement off. But there was no reason for you to run into each other that summer. The pattern was broken. The hope was gone.

So lol he just grows out a soul patch, just to try it, because you can't tell me that if he kept himself alone for even LONGER that he wouldn't get a little bit weird

[cosmossystem]

so this post may be controversial but i will no longer be silenced. i need people to start being accepting of bears/fat men in general that don't fit into the "dad" vibe or aren't conventionally attractive. quit acting like they've all gotta be incels/mladys/neckbeards/racist weebs etc. because first off, fat hairy nerdy men with patchy beards and glasses or acne or bald spots or whatever are HOT and i'm tired of pretending they're not!!!!!! and more importantly!!! even if you aren't attracted to them (or even if you are) i need you to start being fucking normal about them. because if you keep treating every fat hairy guy with glasses as if he's this rampant bigot, you're just gonna create more divides, and also you're a fucking asshole who equates looks with morality. something something alt-right pipeline, someone's worth is not determined by how attractive you find them, etc. please stop being fatphobic to ppl you don't like lol