actually it's kind of funny how people will say Alex's fatal flaw is that he 'doesn't ask for help' and that it's his determination to handle things on his own that leads to his deterioration and eventual death when his whole introduction to the present-day timeline was a very literal cry for help that simply went ignored

Got an important week comin' up! Keep me in your minds 🙏

My favorite part of this chapter is one could figure out what degree of culpability everyone has in this incident even from Tim's limited pov and perhaps when I'm less busy I will. The bit of setting each other off that sticks out separately from the pot finally boiling over is Tim taking offense to pod person manners, probably bc we got Dick's pov on that. It's the dichotomy of Korvin's understandable defense mechanism vs. Tim's outrage of why is he allowed to get away with that behavior when I can't.

idk why your wording is so funny to me

but it's true. there are enough bits there, even if tim can't be everywhere (he wishes). even if someone has most of the pieces the limitation is their personal perspective and ability to interpret something objectively vs subjectively + understanding their own biases, and readers have a wider perspective than any single character bc they are more removed from the situation -> re: already have dick's pov on the pod person act + the (...false?) dichotomy of acceptable behavior from both :)

mark today on your calendars as the day I actually came up short on credits

Building Herta actually started to drain my infinite money, how could this happen

Hey, I just saw your most recent post and am curious about the irrelevant part - what do you mean by the ''religions abstaining from pork because it was unsafe to eat at the time'' thing? I've never heard that before and I am genuinely intrigued to know about it.

Hi !! There's a lot of religious rituals and rules that people continue today out of tradition and respect that were started (or thought to have been started) for safety/health reasons, with one big one being how meat can be handled and what meat is safe to consume! Pork is the main one that I know of since I have some friends that keep kosher or only eat halal meats

Essentially, pigs are honestly pretty gross animals if you let them be. They're opportunistic omnivores, so they'll essentially eat whatever they can get their teeth on. That includes rotting/spoiled food, fecal matter, and even people if they sit still long enough. Pigs can also carry some gnarly diseases that can easily be passed on to people. It's why you'll often hear people refer to them as "unclean" in both a religious and hygienic sense, despite their cleanliness on the outside. You might not know what Trichinella parasites are, but if your cousin shits himself to death after eating porkchops, you're gonna assume that's a sign from someone above not to eat anymore pigs

We now have modern medicine, biologists, food scientists, meat storage/serving regulations, etc. etc. that have made the risk of catching anything from pork less than minimal as long as you store and cook it properly and there hasn't been a new outbreak of something. A lot of people keep the tradition out of respect for their ancestors/culture. A lot of people also keep it because they know that pigs are still kinda gross, even with modern interventions. I've met people that no longer follow pig-based rules at all, while others adjust it so they're only eating pork if they know where it came from and what that pig ate from birth to bacon

Basically, eating a pig before the creation of antibiotics and vaccines was the peak form of fucking around and finding out. Whether you found out because of salmonella or the wrath of every deity out there (or both!) is up to you

This is me personally giving you permission to block people who say inflammatory shit for no reason. Get that shit outta ya life

i finished making chapter 7 of my comic and immediately my entire routine went to shambles cause i don't know what to do with myself anymore. girlies i'm so bored

theres a line and rn netflix is like 20 yards over it

MY (theoretical) WRITING PROCESS (for 2024)

preferably with pen and paper, write everything out as stupidly open as possible. use the first words that come to mind, don't waste time and energy thinking of cooler synonyms. don't think about sentence structure. don't think about reusing phrases in the same section. just write what feels right.

take a moment to feel proud that you wrote exactly what felt right. you had an idea and you were able to put it very precisely into words. you have a perfect foundation for revising and editing, and now you can maybe avoid that stage in revising where you rethink a huge chunk of the plot because you mentally prevented yourself from going there during the first round. good job.

type your writing into a word doc, and start fucking it up in a good way. make the obvious details more subtle, the way they'd be in real life if they were revealing themselves to a human in real time. inject small yet meaningful details in places where the reader needs to feel the time a bit longer. maybe consider changing up that phrase you reused a bunch. make the writing feel real. make the writing into something you'd feel really proud to share.

share the writing, but love it for yourself. read it and enjoy it for yourself. feel proud.

forget about this piece of writing. rediscover it some time later and feel proud again, maybe not for how it still meets your standards (it won't), but for having done it in the first place, and for doing it out of love and passion. soak in those same feelings you felt when you first baked them into the story. reminisce about the things that happened, the emotions you felt, the people you touched when it was first complete.

go back to step 1, and repeat.

If I ever see that look on Antoine's face again,,, and as a result of Cholo????

I don't give a fuck HOW terrifying Diego fuckass Someone thinks he is, I'll fucking kill him myself

[psychiatric/pathologizing terminology, holocaust imagery, slurs, in-group/reclamatory deployments of]

i've seen people complain in the past that the term 'paranoid reading' is ableist, and i thought, μέν i'm always open to refining the framings i use for things, δέ maybe i should, you know, actually go look at the sedgwick before formulating an opinion—only it turns out 4 in the morning is not, shocker, actually the best time to be trying to wrap yr head around anything complex? however at first glance it does seem worth noting that whatever one's stance on psychiatric-flavored terminology, the original essay is not in fact deploying it accidentally or, i'd argue, wholly appropriatively—it's very explicitly connecting the label to its history of use against queer people to pathologize queerness. so my initial instinct here is that while i do still see why the term might make people flinch, it does seem like sedgwick's deployment of it was deliberate, informed, and in a certain sense reclamatory. doesn't mean it's therefore invalid to flinch at it! but does make flinching at it fairly analogous to flinching at deliberate, informed, reclamatory deployments of the pink triangle, or of language like queer, fag, dyke, etc—id est, something it's valid to want to avoid, if it triggers you, but not in fact categorically inappropriate.

it obviously gets more complicated as we move away from 'queer [still at the time of writing literally pathologized in the DSM!] theorist discussing/attempting to practice antihomophobic theorizing' towards 'people of unspecified positionality applying sedgwick's concepts to arenas farther afield from either queerness or pathologization,' and i do really want to be mindful here of how comparatively little i've personally been subject to this sort of involuntary pathologizing labeling and how that positions me vis-à-vis this discourse, and also of hierarchies of psychiatric pathologization more broadly, but. my initial sense (while still not, to be clear, having fully digested or even finished reading the sedgwick piece!) is that the action item wrt this particular language is less 'strike it from our lexica' and more 'be mindful of its potential to twist in our hands and cut people, and use it with the respect any knife is due, and with attention to our safety circle.'

which is really, i think, the answer more often than not: we often seem to want things to be an automatic, no-thought-required yes/no, when in fact there's very little that has no potential for harm and requires no thought, and also very little that ought to be categorically off limits. most things are situational, really, and deserve more active (re)examination than they often get; but we do so love our thin-slicing!

Holy ahit holy shit I am losing my fucking mind

I love the H German boy story bc it’s his way of saying shit without saying anything, ya know? Which is pretty much his public default. All performers have their stage bits but he coulda let that one go or just change it into amorphous holiday talk but NO! He’s going to name check his German summer boo in 2023!

[if asks had tags / does this story still piss L off lol - I love a petty moment / why would L be in Germany anyway - shouldn’t he be prepping for US tour? I can’t wait to see the big bowl of nothing L serves larries, he’s so done y’all - I do enjoy all the fan pics of him surrounded by men and hope he’s enjoying himself - he does seem to be in his Ariana revenge dress/thirst trap moment on IG, spicy]

For real, it's the EXACT same stage patter, same story, go on, girl, give us nothing cloaked in something that seems major but only has a dash something because you're in your script era! I love the concept of asks having tags, THIS would be something I'd be way more into vs. badges, I'll just answer in REAL tags lol

You can steal this, btw.

Today in "texts I have sent my partner":

[ID: A screenshot of a text message that reads, "And if there's one thing I want out of this life, it is to be a dark specter on the door of Eric Kripke's career". End ID.]

tfw you want to write up a proper post detailing What the Fuck about a particular thing about a character, but you're too exhausted and out of sorts to figure out the best way to format it and you'd rather make an actual concise, relatively coherent post instead of just reblogging it over and over with 'jesus fucking christ'