Me: *opens the fridge knowing there’s nothing I want to eat*

Also me 5 minutes later: *opens fridge knowing there’s nothing I want to eat*

My brain: “Sit your ass down and write. You’re not actually hungry.”

Me: *opens fridge again out of spite*

Me: I don’t know what to do with myself. I folded laundry and there are no new episodes of anything to watch and I don’t feel like Christmas shopping tonight.

Brain: you could write

Me: HAHAHAHAHHAHA

Brain: Im serious

Me: ……

Brain: ……

That nasty moment when you edit a fic and suddenly absolutely never want to look at it again, despite hyperfocusing on it 5 minutes ago.

When writing fanfiction... there are two beasts that wage war within the writer. *sage nod*

Me when I finish writing something:

scenes i loved from Real Enough to Get Me Through by @marriedzukka <333 [ids in alt]

How to torture a writer:

Send writing prompts which you know they'll like. Send lots of them. Keep sending them. Dont stop.

"why is all the fic in my fandom so short"

maybe the fic writers are tired. maybe they prefer short fiction. maybe they have pets and kids and school or full-time jobs and can't devote 24/7 to writing fanfiction. maybe they write on their phones while commuting and shorter is easier to manage. maybe they write for zines, which by nature have limited word counts. maybe they write slowly. maybe their motivation comes in bursts and they churn out oneshots when that happens. maybe they can't find someone to brainstorm with so they never wrote the fic at all. maybe the last time they posted a longfic they didn't get any comments, or a reader only said "write more" and they gave up. maybe the fandom is toxic. maybe they saw a passive aggressive tumblr post at 5:26am.

You Know You're A Writer When You:

Start Writing

Check If The One Thing You Wrote About Is Real (For Example: A Flower, No I Will Not Tell You What One)

Get Distracted By Social Media Or Something (Totally Not Why This Post Has Been Written, What Are You Talking About)

70% Chance Of Losing The Writing Motivation, 20% Of Forgetting What You're Doing In The First Place, 10% Of Keeping The Writing Motivation.

For my fellow angst writers 😂😂😂

god mcspirk is so terrific. i love when jim and spock scheme together (ok jim schemes but he ropes spock into it too and spock just can't say no to his captain) to fluster bones.

sometimes jim just wants to see his boyfriends make out with tongue... is that too much to ask?

prompt fill for @mcspirkevents' mcspirk bingo prompt "sloppy kissing" ←⁠(⁠>⁠▽⁠<⁠)⁠ﾉ

You know what trope I desperately need but never see? A traumatized character who's never had a day of comfort in their life trying to comfort one of their friends, and just failing. They're making things worse, their friend is angry, and they're confused and scared. Give me the angst in a moment that was supposed to be fluff.