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I've said it before and i'll say it again: THAT IS NOT A FUCKING METAPHOR, JOHN GREEN

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a solid visual representation of me in a bookstore

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[ Artfight 2025 ] [2]

Just a doll, in the end

for @/mvstic

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I used to watch this movie all the time, it's so beautiful💙

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Adopting a metafictional framing device whereby the narrative is periodically interrupted by found-document-style transcripts of interviews with selected major characters, in such a way that it takes you several chapters to realise I'm doing the literary fiction equivalent of a fanfic author talking to the characters in the chapter notes.

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i had a writing teacher show us how he uses chatgpt to get feedback on his writing…… like pls sir…… the robot isn’t reading your stuff it’s simply generating the most plausible sentences a critique would sound like…… i repeat the robot is not reading nor relating to your writing in any way no matter how much your ego gets stroked by autogenerated praise and tips this is the author’s equivalent of reading a horoscope

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Corvids!! :D

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If you're a writer you're supposed to write a lot of bullshit. It's part of the gig. You have to write a lot of absolute garbage in order to get to the good bits. Every once in a while you'll be like "Oh, I wish I hadn't wasted all that time writing bullshit," but that's dumb. That's exactly the same as an Olympic runner being like "Oh, I wish I hadn't wasted all that time running all those practice laps"

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i can never decide on one way to draw eyes

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the bi/pan alliance and the aro/ace alliance in my city did the funniest possible thing for pride today

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Windows 10 - CD drive

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damn i wish u guys could read this fic i haven't written and this fic i haven't finished writing and this fic i'm putting off outlining and this fic i outlined but haven't started and this fic i'll never write and this other fic i haven't written and this fic that exists only in vague impressions in my head that fall apart every time i try to commit them to the page and th

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officially the best line in The Odyssey

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If nobody ever explained this to you, if someone you see a lot does something you like and you never ever tell them that, they might think you don’t like them or don’t like the things they do for you.