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itās so easy to forget that you can literally write whatever you want
#i think especially if you post your writing itās easy to forget because#sometimes we subconsciously try and write reader as someone who most readers will like#instead of writing reader as#yourself for example#sometimes i feel disconnected from my own reader-insert-guy#you know ?!#i havenāt written anything with me in mind as the reader#i had this sudden realization#just now#as im writing a lil vent-y kind of fic#that i probably wonāt end up posting HOWEVER#im writing the reader as myself for the first time and itās#making me happy today#as for the vent not to worry sbshjsjdkd Iāve had this issue with an irl for a couple months now#tis all okay and well#š ā text !#but you can literally write so much. like if youāre nervous for something u could write ur fav offering support#if ur happy u can write them being happy w u! if ur mad u can write them telling someone off for u#u have so much freedom as a writer#love that a lot#on the other hand i can write sakura pouring milk before cereal if i wanted to#i could even make suo do that#cw vent#INCASE
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the thing is I already know that men and society at large hate women. I know that young men in particular increasingly skew right and towards misogyny (I've read the articles, although all I really need to do is spend any time on any part of the internet to see the evidence). but then every so often something like this happens where it still somehow surprises me. like my god.. they really hate us this much.
#also the thing that's supposed to be a glimmer of hope is that younger generations are more progressive#and you can tell yourself that as time goes on that will reflect in society#but when for example the exit polls suggest a massive discrepancy in young men vs young women voters#it feels like jesus what's the point these men in our own age category are just growing up learning to hate us#talking
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characters who hate themselves so much that they physically rip theirselves in half my beloved
#itās the self hatred itās the self destruction itās the inevitable downfall itās the you are destroying yourself and for what?#you cannot hate yourself into being better!!#genuinely one of my favourite kinds of stories if anyone has any other examples PLEASE tell me#centaurworld#elktaur#the nowhere king#the glass scientists#tgs jekyll#tgs hyde#the substance#the substance 2024#the substance movie
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By the way, Will is explicitly written not only as a gay character who is in love with his best friend, but also as a character who grew up believing that heād never fall in love. Heās someone who still believes that he doesnāt deserve to be loved, because he feels like his feelings are a mistake. This isnāt the type of character arc that will end with him watching the only person he has ever expressed interest in, the boy heās in love with, be with with someone else. That wouldnāt be satisfying for viewers, wouldnāt make sense for Will as a character, and it would be needlessly cruel. In a story focused on demonstrating why societyās outsiders deserve love and acceptance, heās going to find just that. Itās the only end for him that fits with his arc and the showās narrative themes. To have it end otherwise is terrible writing.
#there are dozens of examples of āproofā for byler being endgame but we donāt need any of it. itās built into the story itself#look at the themes. the story theyāre trying to tell. and ask yourself whether it makes sense for will to end up alone#spoilers: it doesnāt!#and they arenāt going to introduce some boy last minute when will has been in love with mike for the past two seasons (at least)#that wouldnāt make sense and would also be terrible writing!#trust the process#will byers#byler#byler endgame#byler analysis
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Man, it's cool and all if you see a metaphor for marginalisation in the monstrous, and if you want the power fantasy of 'what if you could just eat anybody who threatened you/pissed you off'. Me too.
However, as soon as you start saying 'no, these monsters are a 1:1 on Specific Marginalised Group, and you have to treat them in the fiction like they are directly representative of real human members of the marginalised group', BUT you also, in the fiction, make them hurt/kill/eat humans? And then try to shame me, your audience, for noticing or engaging with the bit where they kill people, because you made them directly representative of a real-world marginalised group? You have lost me, and also, I think, the plot.
#hear yourself. for the love of whatever you cherish.#'but they only kill bigots so ACTUALLY they're the GOOD GUYS -' your metaphor of monstrosity is entirely premised on the question of#'what if what you went around righteously killing; believing your actions to be justified;#were actually people and it was not in fact righteous or justified to just kill them'#'what if the world isn't neatly split into 'good guys' and 'bad guys'#who gets to decide who or what is 'bad'? because that's the original problem of monstrosity-as-metaphor-for-marginalisation#(if as a creator you say 'oh my intention with this was X' cool!#if instead you go with something like. well.#'well in this setting monsters are so rare it doesn't matter that they kill people and you'd have to be a homicidal sadistic psychopath >#< to hunt them; but sure I guess if you want to play a Bad Person' well I might have#but if you're going to explicitly judge me for wanting to engage with the moral question of 'how justified is this and who would do it#versus how justified are these monsters if they do have to harm or kill people to continue to exist'#then maybe I just don't want to play your game at all)#anyway I'm sick to death of poor uwu cozy vampires who are SO marginalised so I'm not Allowed to care about all the people they murder#it being fucked up is what's fun about it! do all the other shit but let me take the murders seriously!#and inb4 someone accuses me of being a bigot for saying 'actually I don't think you get a free pass to kill and eat people if you're gay'#remember when the CW's famously reactionary and conservative Supernatural tried to just gloss over the part where every time its heroes >#< killed a demon with a magic knife it also killed the person the demon was possessing#and say 'oh no it's fine we don't care about those killings; they don't matter; don't bother caring about them either'#but they were doing it to glorify exactly the kind of people that these 'monster as metaphor' stories are trying to cast as expendable?#I have other examples that are like. real dramas. but That Paranormal Show is the one that's in the same niche that I'm talking about here#it feels more insidious when it comes through a fantasy show where there are monsters involved#so you can say 'no it's not real so it doesn't matter'#but then ALL of it is equally not real. and vampires are not actually an oppressed group. because they don't exist.#you can say 'these vampires are a metaphor for an oppressed group so this fiction matters in real life'#or you can say 'don't care about the murders because they weren't actually real'#but you can't say both and then get mad at ME for treating the murders as seriously as the vampires#let me engage with your premise and don't waste my fucking time#or just set your fluff in the Sesame Street universe where vampires drink cherry Kool-Aid and help kids learn to count
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more jetko tomfoolery
#jet: have you ever seen a bitch so bad you wanted to kill yourself?#smellerbee: can we talk about something else. like when are you gonna get a job for example#also as for why i think jet and iroh would still have beef even if jet never saw him heat his tea....#i think jet would still find his vibes very off. and hed be right about that technically#and iroh wouldnt like jet because hes slimy and proud of it. and because he came over to their apt once and sat on zukos bed w his shoes on#he wants his kid to make friends. really he does. but why does this little punk have to be it.#jetko#jet#zuko#iroh#smellerbee#longshot#avatar the last airbender#atla#alicias art
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At this point I'm just waiting for Yuu to give Rollo a smooch, since he's now held hostage living in the guest room. Doubt he has the nerve though. š
Maybe give one to the mini Rollos on the forehead, that seems more plausible. (Feel free to ignore this, I'm just expressing my thoughts.)
Lmao it would be a miracle if he even managed to express his interest voluntarily. He's absolutely a coward :)
Though he absolutely gives smooches on the mini rollo's foreheads ! He sees them as pets kind of and just hugs them or gives them a peck on the head like you would do with your cat or dog whenever you see them. Might have accidentally done that in Rollo's presence just because he's so used to it.... Really?? In front of his croissant ???!
And proceed to make everything worse by trying to justify it, then avoid eye contact for the rest of the day
#rollo flamme#twst yuu#example of what not to do#he only is capable of giving a kiss on the cheek in the french greeting context or thank you for a christmas or bday gift (or the pets :)#to be honest it must be so weird to see weird small versions oy yourself getting a smooch#all this is part of the little fanfic i keep in my head- I'm always surprised whenever there's asks abt the french disaster duo and/or trio
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i think people really do lack the understanding of just how much representation matters.
like, chappell roan. not only is she an out and proud LESBIAN, but i just saw a interview where she opens up about how she is also demisexual. that truly struck a chord with me personally, because iāve been struggling with figuring myself out in those terms and just hearing someone talk about it, knowing iām not alone in my feelings and that itās okay, really does help.
representation MATTERS. DIVERSE representation matters.
#honestly this isnāt even the biggest example#like i could talk abt this topic for hours#the live action little mermaid for example#the whole streamer sketch thing that happened recently#just like so much.#i just wanted to talk abt this because itās somethn iāve (like i said) have been struggling with#also why i believe in being true to yourself and expressing that truth#cus you never know who needs to hear that#like by living your truth you may unexpectedly help someone else find theirs#and i think thatās beautiful#thatās a lot iām sorry šš#iām feeling thingsā¢ļø rn#chappell roan#representation matters#lgbtq community#lgbt#demisexual#lesbian#demiromantic#<< me (maybe. probably)#(still figuring it out)
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#writing#writeblr#polls#writing motivation#writing positivity#go crazy#hype yourself up in the notes!#share examples if you want!#zac's polls
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i personally have an internal monologue, and while i can "see" words/images in my head, my default thoughts are all audio...it sounds like i'm saying them out loud in my head (i have to consciously try to "see" things i'm thinking about)
#personal#found out my partner doesnt have an internal monologue. was shocking info to be honest#if youre still unsure one of the examples i try to do is like#if you have a grocery list. or general to do list#do you say to yourself in your head āi need eggs and breadā etc etc#or do you see the words. or see images of the things you need. or something else
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Hey, gentle recognition for the people who are taking care of themselves in "not aesthetically-pleasing" ways. To the people who have to do things they don't want to because they know they would suffer more if they didn't, to the people who have to brush their teeth with their fingers, to the people who have to use washcloths to bathe, to the people who need to punch pillows or scream into them to express their intense emotions, to anybody ashamed about the way they need to live and take care of themselves.
You are doing the very best you can with the hand you've been dealt. It's not easy, it's not pretty, but it sure as fuck takes so much to do these things. You are doing what is best for yourself, and I, for one, think you deserve to be proud of that. Self-care isn't easy. It isn't pretty, often, but it's something you shouldn't be ashamed of or hide away because it's deemed "grotesque" or "not really self-care (because self-care is pretty and non-threatening to 'normal peoples' senses)"
#mental health#mental health support#self care#like when i was still in school i would end up forcing myself to go because i knew i would feel worse if i hadn't...#...and i don't think people get how difficult that is. it isn't like you choose to be difficult when you struggle#and feeling ashamed about doing these things only makes the situation worse for them (the person struggling)#something i've just been thinking about#i hate this idea that self-care *only* looks like the 'healthy' person's treat days...#...like lighting candles around your bathtub and putting rose petals in the water...#...because that isn't the only aspect to taking care of yourself. sometimes it looks like forcing yourself to bathe and grieving...#...and using rough washcloths because you can't stand the feeling of your own skin and you can't stand how dirty you feel...#...and obviously i'm not saying that mentally ill people doing self-care is the only way it looks...#...but that it really doesn't help us when self-care is almost made into a 'non-threatening' activity that is pleasant and nice-looking#and of course the examples i used in this post were examples and aren't the end-all-be-all
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im so glad that we never get a clear picture of sophieās background in leverage & i hope we never do. however i also really like making up various, often conflicting backstories for her in my head. perhaps theyāre all backstories for an alias of hers, ones she laid to rest back in season two.
#leverageposting#leverage#sophie devereaux#particularly that one of or both her parents had to move around a lot for work & so she would change herself to fit in at every new school#or new town etc etc. and that whatever original identity she had was dropped due to some kind of really awful event and her bio family think#sheās dead. eg she got into some kind of extreme legal trouble for the first time & she faked her death & everyone she knew as a kid thinks#sheās dead too. like. astrid wasnāt the first person she left to miss/mourn her.#but also that she was a teen runaway at like age ~16 and pretended to be an adult (like. 18/19) cause theres not much you can do by yourself#as a minor like booking flights or renting an apartment. and so began her first proper alias. and she was a pickpocket until she could fund#her life fully through grifting & cons.#or alternatively her parents died when she was a teen & she was old enough to become an emancipated minor (everyone in lev is an orphan)#and she kind of just fell into crime from there bc she had no one#or perhaps she got married at 17 and realised how fucked it all was and stashed money until she could run away & leave it all behind. thatās#bc of a single vague sentence on john rogersā blog saying she was married at 17 and in context it was quite possibly a joke or random#hypothetical example but i was like what if???? What If???????#i also like the hc that sheās trans which iāve seen a few times#in some versions in my mind her parents were okay and in some versions they were awful and in some versions it was so complicated.#i think tara has heard one story and parker or hardison have heard another and nate has never heard any story. heās never asked.#she is here now and thatās all that needs knowing. and sophie devereaux is her real name in any way it matters.#eliot has also never asked and she asked if he was curious once and he just asked if she was curious about What He Did and that was answer#enough for the both of them. just a mutual agreement not to ask and it actually solidified their bond.#i think she struggled for a long time about whether to tell her new family The Real Story but in much the same way we never hear her birth#name bc itās not Her anymoreā¦ she never gives The Real Story. bc it no longer defines who she is. sheās so much more than whatever happened.#lvg
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āgob is actually bi!ā āmac is actually bi!ā
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these are two characters that have been explicitly confirmed to be gay. Itās been confirmed by the creators of Arrested Development that Gob is gay. Mac has flat out said āIām gayā meaning he came out explicitly as gay. ābut theyāve shown attraction to women which means theyāre-ā
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Do you not know what compulsory heterosexuality is? Would you go up to a real life gay person whoās dated someone of the opposite gender and tell them theyāre actually bi? No, right? Because that would be disrespectful. Hot take? But headcanon is over when that aspect of the character has been explicitly confirmed. ESPECIALLY if youāre going to negate it.
#Iām sure this happens outside of arrested development and sunny but those are just the examples Iāve heard of#and you shouldnāt even have to assume that their attraction was comphet!#(although it pretty obviously was in gobās case- to me at least)#you can find yourself genuinely attracted to a person and realize later you werenāt for whatever reason and thatās okay!#I know this is a little harsh but imo if a characterās sexuality/gender/etc has been confirmed it isnāt up to us anymore#sorry š¤·š»āāļø#you know that thereās a word for completely disregarding something like that?#yeah#its called erasure#and taking a character thatās explicitly gay and just deciding that theyāre bi feels especially iffy to me#like you want them to be āless queerā#NEWSFLASH ASSHOLES#theyāre equally as queer regardless#might as well just let them be the sexuality they are#arrested development#its always sunny in philadelphia#iasip#gob bluth#mac mcdonald#headcanon
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Fun fact! Being an idiot, as in, HARASSING PEOPLE, about other people selfshipping with your f/o would not make your f/o like you any more. At all. Also you're the worst kind of person and you make everyone in this community look horrendous.
Sending hateful anons and making alts to harass people is cringe and you are beyond childish. Get over yourself. Point and laugh at the clown, class.
#selfship talk#selfshipping#nonsharing selfship#non sharing selfshipper#selfship tag#self shipping#selfship#self ship#self ship community#selfship community#f/o community#this shouldnt have to be said! it isnt hard to not harass others! i am hiding the user out of simple respect but its fucking gross behavior#this is not okay and it never will be. block and move on if it upsets you! holy shit! its not hard!#using this as a great example of who not to be. dont be this person. so many of you are kind and lovely and id never wish this upon you.#keep being you and rocking on! youre amazing and im proud of you for being yourself. these people are just coping for... something.#trolls maybe. oh well. not worth more time spent on them.
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everyone should think too deeply about small oc details forever btw. it makes life better
#larry time#in my experience it also helps to make the characters feel more ''real'' when they have like. mundane little quirks#especially if you can explain those quirks#for example kiru is the type of person who likes to dance in pretty much any situation where music is playing#usually its just her walking a bit silly or waving her arms at her sides but shes also dancing down the aisles at the grocery store#and this is how she stims!! since other ''weird'' stimming behaviors were shamed out of her#but these days most people think the dancing is very charming if a bit silly#case in point the people around her enjoy her whimsy#and YOU dear reader can make your ocs whimsical and fun as well. you just need to look within yourself#open your heart as crush 40 once said
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Representation is so important bc im sitting here crying again to foolish from the bright sessions musical episode. I never DID dream I never DID hope I never did have the time!!!! I never dared I never tried to yearn for something that never could be mine!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
#the bright sessions#tbs#sam barnes#girlies whos youths were stole by their debilitating panic disorders rise up#by which i mean just me and fucking samantha barnes IG#DONT BE FOOLISH. (thats what id say) DONT GO FOOLING YOURSELF. YOU CANT BE LIKE EVERYONE ELSE#DONT ASK FOR MORE (THEN WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR?)#samantha barnes#im planning on writing an essay in my disability studies class on panic disorder as a disabling condition in media and Samantha Barnes#WILL be mentioned#and Hera and Adaine#bc those are the only 3 examples i know#screaming#cienna talks
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