so if demons are sticklers for contracts, demand high payment for their services, and have firm/specific rules regarding summoning rituals (aka the hiring process & availability of their labor)—what i'm hearing is demons are fully unionized

I know I’ve said this before but vampires

don’t show up on camera

can fly/scale walls

immune to bullets

can break into any safe by turning into fog or some bullshit

could probably hypnotize security guards as needed

therefore I am in dire need of a heist film where a group of vampires band together to steal back their old stuff from museums

Part one

They are studying us in petri dishes

Do you ever have a problem where you just don’t know how to reply to an argument, not because you don’t know the answer, but you just don’t know where to begin? Like, the foundation of knowledge you’d need to impart to this person before you could even begin to drag them out of their sinkhole of ignorance would cost thousands of dollars if it were coming from a university?

everyone say thank you to transgender women

i love men so much i feel like im going to puke

Sometimes things are just... Hard.

(repost) I know sometimes it can be easy to sink into despair. At times everything just feels wrong and dysporia makes it hard to function... I still have hard days sometimes, but it does get easier. I believe in you 💕

what is happening in my inbox

Silly little slimes!

Look at 'em go!!!

Songbird

I'm fascinated by how the formatting of different social media sites affect how text is read.

For instance, a line break on Tumblr indicates a new idea.

MAKE BAD ART! WRITE BAD STORYS! PLEASE GOD MAKE BAD ART WHATS THE WORST THAT CAN HAPPEN? YOU MADE ART! GOOD JOB! WHO CARES IF ITS BAD? I DONT! MAKE BAD ART I STILL WANT TO SEE IT

One of the things that’s struck me about reading “““good”““ poets is how much they use devices that are considered hallmarks of “““bad”““ poetry. Stark, basic metaphors a child could understand or even come up with. Flowery language. Cliche themes. Meandering between themes. I think the conclusion here isn’t that only “““good”““ poets know how to use these blunt tools that would be wasted in the hands of “““bad”““ poets. I think it’s that they’re powerful tools. We exist in the same world and largely pull from the same cultural well. The basic building blocks are for all of us to use. The “““good”““ poets have spent longer using them and figured out interesting ways to use them, but they had to use them bluntly first. We should be writing bad poetry. Using obvious metaphors for obvious themes. It’s a step to writing good poetry, but more so, it’s an acknowledgement of our shared human experience

I don’t think you should write 50,000 words in a month in hopes that you will get discovered and Penguin Random House will buy your Next Great American Novel, Gatorade for Lemurs. I think you should do NaNoWriMo to stick it to capitalism.

Capitalism tells us that everything we do has to be productive. You should sell your wares on Etsy or become such a good baker that you’ll end up on reality TV, which will get you more Instagram followers, which will get you a cookbook deal. Knitting, woodworking, baking: Hobbies that once brought joy to the maker—and to the family and friends who received the resulting socks—are now side hustles, because one job is not enough. Now you must use your free time to set up a camera so you can timelapse your progress on your paper mache sculptures of lemurs drinking Gatorade, making sure to tag Gatorade, dreaming of one day being able to add the hashtag #ad.

One of the many ways that we can resist this idea that our capital defines us is to do things separate from the market and do them with gusto. And that’s where the brilliance of NanoWriMo is. Because here is the thing about writing 50,000 words in a month: What you do write will be bad. Very bad.

Writing a bad novel is a belief that something doesn’t have to be “productive” in order for it to be worthwhile. It is a belief that you being you is, in and of itself, a worthy thing. It’s faith that even if it never turns into anything but itself, it was worth the time and practice of writing the thing anyway. And that’s something that your job, your boss, and the marketplace really don’t want you to believe.

Vanessa Zoltan, Don't Just Write a Novel This November. Write a Bad Novel.