starlit-hopes-and-dreams
hopes for suffering and dreams of hea
here for the whump - may write some too - adult - anna/starlit - she/they
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"A cishet person must have made this, no queer person would ever portray queerness in this way."
"This artist must be white."
"No SA victim would ever handle the subject in this way."
"No woman would ever write women like this."
"This creator is obviously neurotypical. Everyone with autism/ADHD/depression understands-"
Nope.
People who make these blanket statements are very frequently proven wrong when the creator comes out as a member of that group. And even when they aren't proven wrong, even in cases where the creator isn't from the group in question, actual members of the group who don't fit whatever arbitrary criteria are being expressed will see these statements and feel excluded and erased.
Not everyone in your group is going to share your experiences. No single individual gets to personally decide what does or doesn't count as a "valid" expression of trauma or being part of a particular group, and creators are also not obligated to out themselves in order to "prove" their validity.
If something doesn't resonate with you, all that means is that it doesn't resonate with you. You don't have to like it. But you don't get to decide what it means to someone else.
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Every writer has two sides:
"I love my characters, they are my children and will protect them with my life"
"I wanna make them suffer so fucking much"
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Last Line Tag
I was tagged by @kaylinalexanderbooks and @writingmoth <3
Now the problem with editing is that I never feel like I have a last line, but today I did a change that was more than just shoveling commas from one sentence into another, so here we go.
“Don’t!” She scrambled back to her feet on her own, clinging to the edge of the table. “Don’t touch me!” She allowed a hint of hysterics into her voice to give her performance the finishing touch. “This is your fault. You are making a mess of my home just because someone smeared blood at my door!”
And I am gonna tag, if you want to do it, @winterandwords @little-peril-stories and whoever else wants to pick one up!
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guys the consequences of inaction are noooootttt enough to motivate meeee
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Explaining the important things to my mum
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receive the ultimate blessings from the Year of Loong龙( wealth, luck and health) by 爱摆牌的龙龙
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Not to tell anyone in a horror story what to do, but:
Forests are normally loud.
They're full of life. There's endless animals that live there. They make noises. Lots of them.
If you ever are in a forest and it's quiet, that's not right. That means something is very wrong. You should probably either be similarly quiet until you can figure out what's going on, or you should get out of there very quickly.
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ᓚᘏᗢ meow
5000 years later and humans still be making hieroglyphics of cats
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When you're unsuccessfully looking for something and start gradually increasing your It Could Be There range. Like yeah sure maybe the rice cooker pot is in the freezer, idk
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Having anotheg 'gork we have got to get out of bed faster then this' morning
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[ID: tumblr tag reading when characters do torture they should do it for the love of violence /end ID]
kind of wild how much fiction still treats torture as something that objectively works when every study has shown that it does not work at all and is possibly the least effective way to get correct information
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Suddenly struck with a need to explain to you how boat pronouns work (I work in the marine industry).
When you're talking about the design of the boat, you say "it".
When the boat is still being built, your say "it".
When the boat is nearing completion, you can say "it" or "she".
When the boat is floating in the water you probably say "she", unless there is still a lot of work to be done (e.g. no engine yet) then you say "it".
When the boat is officially launched and operating, you say "she". If you continue to say "it" at this point you are not incorrect but suspiciously untraditional. You are not playing the game.
If you are referring to a boat you don't really know anything about you may say "it" ("there's a big boat, it's coming this way"). But if you know its name, it's probably "she" ("there's the Waverley, she's on her way to Greenock").
If you are talking about boats in general, you say "it" ("when a boat is hit by a wave it heels over")
If you speak about a boat in complimentary terms, it's "she" ("she's a grand boat"). If you are being disparaging it may be it, but not necessarily ("it's as ugly as sin", "she's a grotty old tub").
If she has a boy's name, she's still she. "Boy James", "King Edward", "Sir David Attenborough"? The pronoun is she.
If it's a dumb barge (no engine), you say it. But if it's a rowing boat (no engine), you say she.
I hope this has cleared things up so that you may not be in danger of misgendering floating objects.
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Roses are red, that much is true, but violets are purple, not fucking blue.
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YES authors!
YES write that self-indulgant shit
YES write what you enjoy
YES
Be who you are and like what you like. If you like a masquerade Ball, put that shit in your story! If you like love triangles, put that shit in your story!
PUT IT IN YOUR STORY
It's your story
Write it for you
Now I might judge you for it, but don't let me stop you! I've written wayyyyyyyy weirder shit, I guaruntee you that!
Love ya!
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This badly cropped Terry Pratchett quote I found is here for anyone who wants it
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You know I didn't know any other writers for a long time. Started at 12, and a majority of my stuff has never been read by another human being. Easily a million or two million words that I've hoarded like a dragon.
And it's lonely, I know that. Eventually once I started doing it for work I stopped minding. But it's hard. That's why I'm so fixated on encouraging the writers here. Not only have I been where you are in terms of doubt and fear, I actually haven't read a single bit of writing that warrants how a lot of you regard your own craft.
We're the next generation of writers. The ones that people can trust in an age of increasing AI reliance. You should be getting your work out there, submitting to literary journals and considering long form publication through traditional or indie means. This is just a thing that needs to happen and it should start now.
Don't think you can do it? Message me. Let's talk.
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