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sourdrop · 1 month

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Roses are red, that much is true, but violets are purple, not fucking blue.

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sourdrop · 2 months

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all i do is sit and think about imaginary but extremely detailed romantic scenarios

#literally me #im not dead btw #just busy w/ life

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sourdrop · 5 months

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I understand the sentiment, but when you write RIP in a sentence please be careful with your presentation, cause I just saw someone sincerely post "Let her RIP 😔" and I immediately pictured them Beyblading their grandma into the fucking stratosphere.

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sourdrop · 7 months

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so. A few days ago I got into a… I won’t even call it an argument, because none of them HAD an argument, just very angry voices at the fact that there was no easy way to what they wanted.

BUT.

One of the things remarked was that, as I said I was interested in writing noir horror, that there already was a Harry Dresden, and thus I shouldn’t bother. The blatant inference being that I wouldn’t ever write anything nearly as good, and should just stop any efforts I make, as they won’t rate.

And in the end it returned to me and made me suddenly think ‘Well, no wonder you never achieve a fucking thing, if you think that way’.

Not just because Harry Dresden is not Noir Horror, he’s urban fantasy. Detectives are not inherently Noir, after all.

But also because Dresden isn’t even the be-all end-all of Urban Fantasy!

There’s a dozen detectives in that like, variations on the theme. Vampires, Mages, Monsters and Angels. And for the reader, each one is a different kind of treat. There’s so many variations on the theme of “Girl drawn into the Supernatural’ or ‘Professional Monster Hunter’.

And if your view on the world is ‘Someone has done X, so nobody should ever do X again’, you’ll not only kill your own creative potential, but you’ll rob yourself of a chance at succeeding.

Yes, Stallone did Rambo, and nobody could out-Rambo Rambo, but even for that there was also Commando. And Predator.

Success is not in being the one big name, but rather in being a name. If we shouldn’t try because of Harry Dresden, then Dresden shouldn’t be there because of Sam Spade. And Same Spade shouldn’t exist for Hercule Poirot, and Poirot shouldn’t exist because of Sherlock Holmes.

If you think that there’s only room for one, then it’s of very little surprise to me that the ‘One’ isn’t ever going to be you.

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sourdrop · 9 months

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we are in a media literacy crisis

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sourdrop · 9 months

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sourdrop · 10 months

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My grandmother was a nurse and worked in the maternity ward. One day she was talking to this lady that had had her daughter the day before and my grandmother asked her what she had named her daughter. And this woman looked my grandma in the eyes and told her that she was naming her daughter Uretha because she'd seen it on her chart and thought it sounded pretty.