#we're never escaping

[i-will-physically-fight-you]

Happy almost 3 years to this post, friendly reminder the SaSi canon is still ostensibly in April 2019

Say what you will of Sanders Sides, but I love the fact that the show followed a coherent timeline that was aligned with our irl timeline up until April 2019 and now it’s been ambiguously stuck in April 2019 for like three years now

[abyssalzones]

not just saying this lightly but gravity falls has maybe the most catholic fanbase I've ever seen. every complex discussion about ford pines needs "Not to excuse his Horrible Actions or anything" appended to it like he killed someone. and then you watch the show/read the books and he committed the cardinal sins of Being Lied To and Going To College. which makes sense I guess because half of the people into the show back in the day couldn't even handle mabel pines

[brokenrefraction]

hey, everyone. thanks for the support. i figured i might briefly explain my situation, although there's way more layers into this, the post would be way too long if i explained everything though

yesterday, after days of family troubles (or years, rather), me, my brother and my mom found out my dad died of suicide and left us with no money. we are all honestly shocked and my mom has to now find a job to survive, may i also add how she actually studied in university in russia and has all the shit to get a good job, she just doesn't have a citizenship because our dad didn't ever give a shit about giving her one in 20 years, so she has trouble finding jobs.

if you want to help in some way, my brother is taking comms and he draws dinosaurs and stuff alike, i might consider opening them too if i figure out stuff but i already stress myself with drawing for free

in the meantime i probably won't be as active as i was. i read all your messages and asks, i just really need some time to recover. thank you and i'm sorry for making you worry

[maidling]

@transgenderization

vacuum-sealing the dishes with a broom so they can be together forever

[gaffney]

I get that you’re not happy about Robby losing the tournament, but what do you think about the leak that Johnny retakes Cobra Kai? It feels like it completely undercuts his growth.

i fully agree, because it does 😭 he finally broke away from all the toxicity and abuse tied to kreese and cobra kai, and now he’s just walking right back into it. like, i would’ve much rather they lose with miyagi-do and have johnny actually accept it. find some peace in realizing it’s ok to lose and that it won’t destroy his life this time, because he's got his sons by his side, a newborn baby girl, a beautiful girlfriend, his old nemesis-turned-idk-frenemy & the rest of his team and students. but nope, instead they’re pushing that storyline onto robby again (for the third time.. 🙃 it is NOT robby who needs to learn that lesson) it’s hella frustrating because the show had the perfect opportunity to tell a story about how there's power in moving on, about letting go of something that’s fucked you up for decades. but instead, they’re going with the tired old narrative that you can’t escape your past. you HAVE to go back and let it define you, because apparently, you’ll never succeed without it. even if johnny decides to close down cobra kai after the sekai taikai, it doesn’t undo the message that he needed it to win. that he couldn’t move forward without crawling back to the thing that caused him and others so much pain. it’s just such a garbage message.

[uselesbo]

Feminism really is just a bunch of miserable women trying to pressure all other women into being exactly like them, isn't it?

[fellamarsh]

another thing i've been trying to do recently is read more self-published stuff. "but fell," you say, "you're a self-published author. surely you've been reading self-published stuff all along" and then i laugh for so long in response we both become uncomfortable.

see, the fear (which has for a long time been killing my mind) that i'll read other self-published stuff and find out that it's so much better than mine that i might as well stop writing forever kept me from doing that basically ever. i have a hard time not unfavorably comparing my work to others and had convinced myself i was being smart by withholding an avenue of de-motivation (reader: i was not being smart). it also doesn't help that i'm pretty low income and have a hard time spending money on books i haven't already read, and that self-published stuff isn't always available at the library---but really a lot of it was just me being a coward. which i'm working on. i could talk about how this particular cowardice is Very Silly, but i think enough has been said about it on writeblr and in the Writing Space in general that i don't feel the need to (though i will if anyone wants me to).

instead, i wanna talk about the self-published things i have read in the past few months and ask about the self-published things you love!

so: what happened was i got real sick, and while i was real sick i (naturally) read over 200,000 words of ace attorney fan fiction in the span of a few days. eventually i got bored of it (and also maybe annoyed at how people were characterizing some of my guys), but i still wanted to read something gay and romantic and nice, something i knew was gonna end happily, which isn't my typical fare.

now you may be saying (having gotten over all the uncomfortable laughter from earlier) "fell, you write gay romance. what do you mean that's not your typical fare?" listen. until a couple months ago i hadn't read a cut and dry romance novel since before i finished college. for context: i graduated in 2015. i know it doesn't make sense. i'm a guy who doesn't make sense.

but in this case it worked to my advantage. not the not making sense thing, but the not having read Published Romance in 1000 years thing. I didn't know where to start. I was very skeptical of everything the library had Available Now in the Gay Fantasy Romance category. what if it was all bad and also not good?

and then i scrolled past the familiar cover of our very own @ashen-crest's A Rival Most Vial.

now this was comfortable territory! this was a novel by a very nice writeblr person whose posts i enjoy! i already loosely knew the plot, i was familiar with the characters, i knew the names of things like rosemond street and the griffin's claw and that ambrose had blue hair and that at the end of it all there would definitely be Boyfriends. i didn't have to worry that this would be bad! i only had to worry that it would be really good!

but i wasn't worried about that, because i was officially Not Writing at the time, and because why the hell hadn't i read this book yet Ash literally emailed me some very kind words last year when my cat died??

Y'all, I devoured ARMV. If you haven't read it yet---especially if cozy fantasy is more your thing than it is mine---you should check it out Immediately. It was fun! It was heartwarming! It was sweet and earnest and confident! I was delighted to find it was occasionally hot! Ambrose and Eli snuggled up into my sick exhausted heart and found a permanent little place there. (Especially Ambrose. I have such a thing for Stiff Guys who Kind of Suck for Tragic Backstory Reasons and are So So Lonely They Don't Even Realize It. gawd)

(And a very small part of my brain spent the whole time wondering why I had been so afraid to really engage with the work my community is doing. The community that I'm in. The one I'm a part of. Why?! Maybe more on that later.)

But from there the curse was broken! I immediately devoured @stjohnstarling's What Manner of Man in a similar sort of frenzy (and hooooly shit guys am I excited for the expanded, finalized version to come out at the end of next month!) and started digging into @lurinatftbn's The Flower that Bloomed Nowhere (which I can already tell is going to be an All Time Favorite).

And now I want to ask you what your favorite self-published books are so that I can read them, too, but I think I will in another post that doesn't dedicate so much space to talking about my various and sundry Issues and isn't Terminally Long

[iknowwhereyousleepatnight]

pissed tf off because 1) i have once again put on a new show thinking i could work on shit with it in the background without getting distracted (and failing miserably)(when will i learn). 2) i have a new character that i want to tear apart with my teeth which pisses me off even more because 3) it is EMBARRASSING how much i like this character i could fucking feel my pupils dilating and my prey drive activate literally immediately 4) it is even more embarrassing bc he is so embarrassingly my type that im pissed tf off that i never watched this before now or literally any time i wasnt busy. and this all leads to 5) now i have to think about killing him when i am TRYING TO GET SHIT DONE and it's making me mad it's pissing me off so bad i'm fucking enraged they should invent a way to physically harm fictional characters just for me i think

[thisshitisridiculous]

move over shannon diaz there's a new sheriff in town (haunting the narrative)

✨texas✨

[torchickentacos]

Internet road trip update: today we went in a circle. that's about it. we'll never make it to Canada at this rate.

[arcann]

wild how people hear economical violence and cannot register that it's possible. the only abuse people register is physical when i sure wish *sits with that for a moment*

well, there's a bunch of reasons people don't go to protests and think strikes are there to not let their amazon package reach their house in a day.

[mifunebooty]

People trying to call sabrina carpenter anti feminist like a pop star is going to change the shit ass conservative era we're in like you make it sound like sabrina carpenter is filming herself feeding her man everyday

[feline-evil]

Dick or no dick confirmation Pickles was always going to be trans to me anyways; if he's swingin' somethin that's phallo babes, if he's not then his t-dick fat. What's not to get.

[clumsypuppy]

if escape rooms as team building exercises became popular im not sure if id be more excited or terrified

[ragtimeunder]

Hey what if instead of Ralsei's suspicious behavior being the result of some grand plan with the prophecy, it was the result of a core flaw with how he attempts to treat discomfort, both his own and others'

Do you think sitting alone for god-knows how long with nothing but your thoughts wouldnt lead you to dark mental spaces? what do you do when all you have to spend your time on is wait?

I can speak from experience to some degree. You spend your time by trying not to think about it. because when you think, you realize how much time is passing.

Its perhaps not a stretch to assume the guy who says "I just wish I knew what being [me] like means" is a character designed to explore dissociation.

[become-a-robot]

The Johns' adversion to the idea of releasing an album in December is really funny considering the fact they released TWO studio albums ON THE SAME DAY in December a few years ago