#ley rambles

[ashirisu]

i do my best to be chill and analytical and look at character arcs for what they are instead of what i want them to be, but all of that went flying out the window after that air mattress scene. what do you mean they haven’t kissed yet

[leynaeithnea]

Wanna work on SoT:tM; wanna work on SoT:tM, want to work on-

(Unfortunately it requires thinking/orangizing and I DONT want that!!! Why cant i just skip this and work on the story/timeline right away! Chronological creative process be cursed!)

[ashirisu]

Give me both, frankly.

All in all, I think publishing just needs to get its shit together when it comes to marketing bc I (and I imagine many other people) have yet to pick up a book based on its publisher’s marketing alone. The advertising is either nonexistent or it’s hyper-reliant on booktok microtrends that themselves are pale imitations of some other nearly-dead trend from some other side of tiktok. Hijacking fandom language is the closest they’ve come to actually speaking the language of their consumer base, and they’ve latched on HARD.

Ideally, we could get marketing that simultaneously tells us what the book is actually about, as well as giving us a shorthand assurance that the execution of that premise isn’t bland as fuck. Right now, the only people doing that effectively are the authors themselves, which is a completely separate problem in that massive trad pub houses should not be forcing authors to do their own advertisement in exchange for the pathetic excuse they call advances these days.

The reason categorizing fanfiction by tropes works is because there's already an established setting, cast of characters, and theme in the original work, so when people write fanfics they're building sand castles in pre-existing beaches, but when you advertise your book as "sci-fi enemies to lovers where there's only one bed and also they're gay" it says nothing about what the premise is, who the characters are, or what the book is actually trying to say. That's not to say that books containing stuff like "sci-fi enemies to lovers where there's only one bed and also they're gay" can't be absolutely fantastic books, but if you only advertise by listing off tropes that are inherently cookie-cutter then you're implying (whether intentionally or not) that there's nothing interesting or memorable about the book besides smashing tropes together like you're playing with action figures.

[ashirisu]

the latest adventuring party has me in stitches bc it’s really just the elmo vs. rocko beef brought into an actual-play campaign

[rei-venus]

my friend just told me that if i ever got isekaied into a historical-type story they would want to be isekaied with me purely to see me fail at getting a farmer life in real time

they have never read tcf i don't know how to break it to them that this is a real plot

[ashirisu]

how much do y’all wanna bet the acronym is SIMPL and the s stands for sacrifice?

[ashirisu]

Reblogging this bc I have a lot of thoughts and feelings that felt too important for a reply.

I felt this way for most of my childhood and early 20s, like I had something about me that people couldn’t find out or they’d hate me. I didn’t know what it was, I just knew that because I felt terrible, it must be something terrible.

Turns out I was just queer with an undiagnosed neurodivergence and mood disorder. I was also, and I cannot stress this enough, young.

It is absolutely unbelievable how much of a difference having a fully developed brain makes. It was like flipping a switch. I’m not even that far removed from it, but comparing how I felt in my early 20s to how I feel now, even though my life hasn’t changed all that dramatically otherwise? It’s a world of difference.

Obviously getting older doesn’t solve everything, and people in their 30s and beyond deal with insecurity and imposter syndrome, too. I myself still have a neurodivergence and a mood disorder that physically affect the behavior and well-being of my brain. But god, did it get easier to deal with those things when I got a little older.

If you’re feeling this way, I want you to know that you’re not alone, there’s nothing wrong with you, and that people do love you (for you, not just the mask you put on). And if you’re young and feeling this way, trust me that it really does get better.

you ever feel like you were born with something rotten inside you and if people get close enough they’re gonna find out

[skullsandcorals]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY @apiratefellinlovewithastar 🤭💜💜💜 !!!!

I hope you like it ;)

(click for better quality if you're on the mobile app. do not repost.)

[bowsers-keep]

So I came to realization today.

(Lei is a general stand in for all three disciples she's just the one I had on hand. I'd put them all in roughly the same spot)

[chuu-huahua]

atsushi learning how to fight your enemy/partner/wtf-are-we-even from dazai

atsushi: *internally* what if this time, instead of attacking him physically, i attack him emotionally?

atsushi: yes come here akutagawa!

atsushi: *kisses akutagawa*

akutagawa: whu-

atsushi: i love you! see you tomorrow! *leaves*

akutagawa: whu- what the fuck was that?? what does this- what does this mean?? what- what are we?? are we like, are we friends?? come back! what's tomorrow??!

akutagawa ends up stalking atsushi for the next 5 days. dazai's advice did not help at all.

[gojosatorubrainrot]

Guess who went to an anime convention and bought every single Satoru merch?

[leisomnium]

guess i should announce this here too, but im on bluesky ! i might be more active there from here on out

[omegasomeone]

Been doing random searches on the bing app (doing this purely for microsoft rewards because I need robux to stop having my deadname in my username and I want mictosoft to have to both pay for my gender affirmation and get garbage data, any actual search I want to do is done with Firefox, also because edge is poopoo) and I found this gem

New gender goals everybody

[ashirisu]

look i can’t help that i find Some Guy™ so relatable

but also it’s worth noting that the reason i, a woman, so often identify with Some Guy™ more than any of the women in the exact same piece of media is that male characters tend to be written with more nuance and personality than all of the female characters combined.

misogyny in fandom is a real problem but we simultaneously need to acknowledge that it begins with misogyny in the media we’re consuming. the emergence of the strong female protagonist and girlboss female villains has been sort of a step in the right direction, but these characters are often just as one-dimensional as their more traditionally sexist counterparts.

when more women are written as neurodivergent, mentally ill, queer/queer-coded with complex relationships, and altogether as better characters, we’ll likely see more girl blorbos out there.

(and in the meantime, we have to stop demonizing the few that we do get. y’all can’t say you support women’s wrongs and then rally against every female character with flaws for simply existing)

people online will say things like “omg female character is stunning showstopping the character ever she’s mothering she’s a goddess a cuntress nobody has served like her I support women’s wrongs my beautiful gorgeous darling princess the entire world and male character is just some guy.” And then they’ll care about the some guy more

[ashirisu]

I love you all. Drink some water, get some sleep, and keep yourselves safe. See you in the morning.

[chososprettyprincess]

toge definitely sends you brainrot reels/tiktoks during class