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qrowscant-art · 11 months

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CHILDHOOD HOMES (and why we hate them): After over a decade, you return home to find it unchanged.

A short, interactive horror story, and my first attempt at making something in Twine. Inspired by Anatomy, House of Leaves, and my deep hatred for my own childhood home! Full trigger list included on the itch.io page.

Play here!

#its done!!! finally! im so anxious and an hour late but here you go! yell at me if anything breaks and ill fix it lol #pixel art #horror #ditherpunk #interactive fiction #haunted houses #body horror #mal-art #childhood homes (and why we hate them)#the growing pains collection

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feral-ballad · 1 year

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Victoria Chang, from The Trees Witness Everything; “Garden”

[Text ID: “Something is growing. / Plath said growing hurts at first, / but when does the hurting stop?”]

#victoria chang #growth #growing #survival #healing #sylvia plath #pain #hurting #excerpts #writings #literature #poetry #fragments #selections #words #quotes #typography #poetry collection

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uncanny-tranny · 11 months

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It's actually kind of heartbreaking how many people feel their life has ended right after high school or college, and honestly, the heavy romanticization of that period of time is so overwhelmingly predominant that it can be hard to avoid. It's insidious to constantly be told that ages 10-24 are the only worthwhile parts of life, that everything after is essentially meaningless and dull.

It's hard not to look around you and think that your life still is open and full of potential when you're told over and over again that the rose-tinted childhood is the last time you were alive. It's hard to realize that your life isn't over when you walk off the stage of your graduation.

We must realize that we will always be full of potentials. Your life won't be over until you take your final breath, and then? That's simply another chapter in your story, one of many. Let yourself realize that you're alive in the here and now. There will be good and bad, but never a complete loss of potential or hope.

#positivity #it's just... weird when you see somebody your age who says how over their life feels you know?#and i feel for them. i feel their pain and the emptiness of not knowing what's next or what you should do #and that's sometimes the scary part of life. but your story isn't over yet #one day it will be. one day you'll put the pen down and dry the ink on the yellowed pages and close your book of life. but that's not today #you are allowed to be an aimless spirit. you are allowed to breathe in without the crushing weight of productivity #the idea that your only potential happens when you're too young to realize it is wrong #your potential has nothing to do with feeling your youth and how little you know #it is hard to really internalize this and remind yourself to make space for hope and positivity...#...and you might not be ready to internalize this. that's okay. i'll wait with you (in a strictly spiritual sense)#we can wait together and not think about any of it. just to rest and collect our minds and feel the world hold its breath with us #all this to say that your life isn't over yet. you don't have to beat yourself up over not having lived at fucking 18 #allow yourself the compassion to realize that you needed time to grow and mature and explore the world in your own way

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suhnshinehaos · 1 year

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growing pains : the playlists

series synopsis : people say that you’ll experience three kinds of love in your lifetime. the first is an idealistic love, the kind that feels straight out of a fairy tale. the second is the hard love, the kind that will leave you with lessons about yourself and the love you want and need to experience. finally, the love you never see coming. this is the story of your three loves. pairing : svt 97 line x gn!reader genre/s : non-idol au, coming of age, angst, fluff, my attempts at humor

growing pains ➤ masterlist

i. the idealistic love — the love that looked right

" i've been afraid of changing cause i built my life around you "

ii. the hard love — the love you wished was right

" go and break my heart in two... there's worse things i can take "

iii. the unexpected love — the love that feels right

** coming soon **

#🎐 — growing pains!#today i offer you : this #surpriseeeee ?#a collection of some of the songs i listened to while writing these acts / songs i feel like fit the story #mingyu gets two mitski songs so you know it's bad for him <///3 #i'll update with the minghao playlist when i start act three :)#Spotify

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snickerdoodlles · 21 days

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never been so glad to be picky with my fics 💀 reading your 🔥 ☕ post about kim was like peeking into a horrific alternate dimension lmao

😂 (prev)

most fics aren't! by large kp fics are good! not everything is for me, but overall there are many good fics out there to be reading. i've just also been living in the kimchay tag since the filmania trailer, so i happen to have read through a lot of its fics thanks to circumstance. largely i am trying to stick with very broad and general topics for these tea asks because it's all about personal preferences of what draws me towards a fic vs what turns me off and not get into anything too specific; but when you've been reading a tag for multiple years since the tag first got started, you tend to have seen a lot more of the obscure stuff than the average reader.

#and like #in fairness #another aspect of being here since the early early days is that you also went thru all the character growing pains kp canon did #all the filmania characters were strikingly different from their BOC counterparts #but some changed a lot more than others and Kim in particular was one of them #and there was a very long and unsure wait between the filmania trailer release and the actual show dropping #so there's some tension within in the earlier fic versions of Kim because they weren't just a clash of show and novel characterizations #but a clash of trailer kim - show kim - *fanon* kim - novel kim #i still do think a lot of people were just bad at understanding kim's character because they approached him like a collection of tropes #instead of approaching him like an actual character to develop #but also like. juggling the influences of four very different versions of one character is A Lot to juggle

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weatheredpoetry · 2 months

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A Fool

I was a fool, always searching for the one but none were as blind as me. Amongst the roses are the thorns, and the weeds lay beneath they like to choke everything. I was a fool, for love hit me, tripped me and played my heartstrings like a fiddle. Foolish me, always searching for the one but none were as blind as me. I once laid beneath the roses as the bush slowly wrapped itself around my heart…

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citrus-cactus · 1 year

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You know, I wrote this yesterday, saved it as a draft post, thought about publishing it, and then changed my mind (aka, the typical lifecycle of all my vent/personal posts). I wrote it as a reminder to myself for when I’m feeling down about my creative output in fandom compared to my mutuals and other creative people I admire. But then I figured: maybe someone else out there might find it helpful, too.

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I need to periodically remind myself that I’m at my least stressed and most productive when ideas are allowed to sit in my brain (and in unfinished, unpublished files) for a long time before I’m comfortable releasing them to the public. Hurrying through things, particularly writing fiction, is not my norm. Yes I’ve been working on a 2,000 word fanfic on and off for the past 6 months. Yes, it’s only 2,000 words, and no, it’s not going to blow anyone’s socks off—but so what? I started writing it for me. I got stuck, I lost motivation, and then I found it again. In the meantime, I’ve been working on tons of other creative stuff, both fiction and art, and although I can’t speak for other people, that parallelization is a vital part of my process for getting creatively unstuck.

Moreover, I have my own preferences for how I write, constraints on my time, and my own internal editing and review process that affects what I publish and when I publish, be it fic or art. That’s just how it be. And I like my process, and it’s a perfectly fine process to have! And if that happens to be different from how other people on my dash approach writing, or if it means I don’t finish absolutely everything I start, that’s also completely fine and, I dare say, expected. And absolutely nothing to stress over.

Something that I make as a hobby, for fun, will ultimately only be done when I look at it and say it’s done. I can’t always plan for it, and I can’t always schedule it. It’ll happen naturally, because that’s when I know it will be as good I can make it, and when I will be happiest with other people seeing it. One of the (many) great things about Creating For Fun is that you, as the creator, have complete control over what you share with the world. And if you want to walk away from it (be it a wip, an event, or a whole fandom) because it’s not bringing you joy anymore, you are 100% allowed to, and don’t need anyone’s permission but your own.

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Take care of yourself, friends. 💖

#sorry still don’t want other people reblogging but #creativity #the cactus speaks #save for later #I genuinely worry about collective fandom burnout based on how things appear to be going #being creative as a hobby does not require deadlines (unless they’re genuinely helpful to you)#some of this is motivated by my own growing pains over having goals and deadlines #(self-assigned)#we’re all trying our best!

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qrowscant-art · 7 months

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MY BROTHER ; THE PARASITE

People die, and sometimes they come back. Your brother is one of those. Even as his body rots and his mind unravels, he still has control over you— just like when you were kids.

A short, interactive story about a corpse, a complicated sibling relationship, and the things we forget. Made in Twine. Written, illustrated, and coded in about three weeks for the IFComp.

Content warnings included on the itch.io page and in the story itself.

|| PLAY HERE! ||

#screams. i hope you all enjoy this ;_: thank you pepper for playtesting #interactive fiction #short story #horror #writing #pixel art #twine game #writeblr #the growing pains collection #my brother; the parasite #eyestrain

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kitkatcadillac · 2 years

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omg actually it was some mold off a melon that fucking crashed my stomach so hard that i was out of work for a week a few weeks ago. i dont know what kind of mold, it was too early and i wasnt about to order some petri dishes and a microscope off amazon to find out what on gods green earth made my stomach detonate for a week, but its amusing every time i get those little reminders that a common antibiotic would probably make my brain melt KFKDKF

#penicillium is the mold they derive it from! it was discovered and initially studied and collected by growing it on melons #pain in the ass though it may be for ME its still suuuuper fascinating to think about how we can make medicine like that #and also how easy it is for me to bite into it in the middle of the night.... half asleep....#chew and swallow and wake up just enough to ask myself;#'why does my cantaloupe taste like vinegar'#thats fermentation babey. now perish #skelly speaks

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stephobrien · 2 months

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Is your pro-Palestine activism hurting innocent people? Here's how to avoid that.

Note: If you prefer plain text, you can read the plain text version here.

Over the last few days, I’ve had conversations with several Jewish people who told me how hurt and scared they are right now.

To my great regret, some of that pain came from a poorly-thought-out post of mine, which – while not ill-intentioned – WAS hurtful.

And a lot of it came from cruelty they’d experienced at the hands of people who claim to be advocating for Palestine, but are using the very real plight of innocent Palestinians to harm equally innocent Jewish people.

Y’all, we need to do better. (Yes, “we” definitely includes me; this is in no small part a “learn from my fail” post, and also a “making amends” post. Some of these are mistakes I’ve made in the past.)

So if you’re an advocate for Palestine who wants to make sure that your defense of one group of vulnerable people doesn’t harm another, here are some important things to do or keep in mind:

Ask yourself if you’re applying a standard to one group that you aren’t applying to another.

Would you want all white Americans or Canadians to be expelled from America or Canada?

Do you want all Jewish people to be expelled from Israel, as opposed to finding a way to live alongside Palestinian Arabs in peace?

If the answer to those two questions is different, ask yourself WHY.

Do you want to be held responsible for the actions of your nation’s army or government? No? Then don’t hold innocent Jewish people, or Israelis in general (whether Jewish or otherwise), responsible for the actions of the Israeli army and government.

On that subject, be wary of condemning all Israeli people for the actions of the IDF. Large-scale tactical decisions are made by the top brass. Service is compulsory, and very few can reasonably get out of service.

Blaming all Israelis for the military’s actions is like blaming all Vietnam vets for the horrors in Vietnam. They’re not calling the shots. They aren’t Nazis running concentration camps. They are carrying out military operations that SHOULD be criticized.

And do not compare them or ANY JEWISH PERSON to Nazis in general. It is Jewish cultural trauma and not outsiders’ to use against them.

Don’t infuse legitimate criticism with antisemitism.

By all means, spread the word about the crimes committed by the Israeli army and government, and the complicity of their allies. Criticize the people responsible for committing and enabling atrocities.

But if you imply that they’re committing those crimes because they’re Jewish, or because Jewish people have special privileges, then you’re straying into antisemitic territory.

Criticize the crime, not the group. If you believe that collective punishment is wrong, don’t do it yourself.

And do your best to use words that apply directly to the situation, rather than the historical terms for situations with similar features. For example, use “segregation,” “oppression,” or “subjugation,” not “Holocaust” or “Jim Crow.” These other historical events are not the cultural property of Jews OR Palestinians, but also have their own nuances and struggles and historical contexts.

Also, blaming other world events on Jewish people or making Jewish people associated with them (for instance, some people falsely blame Jewish people for the African slave trade) is a key feature of how antisemitism functions.

Please, by all means, be specific and detailed in your critiques. But keep them focused on the current political actors – not other peoples’ or nations’ political or cultural histories and traumas.

Be prepared to accept criticism.

You probably already know that society is infused with a wide array of bigotries, and that people growing up in that environment tend to absorb those beliefs without even realizing it. Antisemitism is no exception.

What that means is, there’s a very real chance that you will screw up, and get called out on it, as I so recently did.

If that happens, please be willing to learn and adapt. If you can educate yourself about the suffering and needs of Palestinians, you can do the same for Jewish people.

Understand that the people you hurt aren’t obligated to baby you. Give them room to be angry.

After I made a post that inadvertently hurt people, some were nice about it, and others weren’t. Some outright insulted my morals and intelligence.

And I had to accept that I’d earned that from them.

I’d hurt them, and they weren’t obligated to be more careful with my feelings than I had been with theirs.

They weren’t obligated to forgive me, trust me, or stop being mad at me right away.

I’ll admit, there were moments when I got defensive. I shouldn’t have. And I encourage you to try not to, if you screw up and hurt people.

I know that’s hard, but it’s important. Getting defensive only tells people you care more about doubling down on your mistake than you do about healing the hurt it caused.

Instead, acknowledge that they have a right to be angry, apologize for the way you hurt them, and try to make amends, while understanding that they don’t owe you trust or forgiveness.

Be aware that some antisemites are using legitimate complaints to “Trojan horse” antisemitism into leftist spaces.

This is a really easy stumbling block to trip over, because most people probably don’t look at every post a creator makes before sharing the one they’re looking at right now.

I recently shared a video that called out some of the Likud and IDF’s atrocities and hypocrisy, and that also noted that many Jewish people are wonderful members of their communities.

I was later informed that, while that video in particular seemed reasonable, the creator behind it is frequently antisemitic.

I deleted the post, and blocked the creator. I encourage you to do the same if it’s brought to your attention that you’ve been ‘Trojan horse’d.

EDIT: Important note about antisemitism in leftist spaces:

While it's true that some blatant antisemites are using seemingly reasonable posts to get their foot in the door of leftist spaces, it's also true that a lot of antisemitism already exists inside those spaces.

This antisemitism is often dressed up in progressive-sounding language, but nonetheless singles Jewish people and places out in ways that aren't applied equally to other groups, or that label Jewish people in ways that portray them as acceptable targets.

If you want to see some specific examples, so you can have a better idea of what to keep an eye out for, I suggest reading this excellent reblog of this post.

Fact-check your doubts about antisemitism.

Depending on which parts of the internet you look at, you’ve probably seen people accused of antisemitism because they complained about the Likud and/or IDF’s actions. So you might be primed to be wary, or feel unsure of how to tell what counts as real antisemitism.

But that doesn’t mean antisemitism isn’t a very real, widespread, and harmful problem. And it doesn’t mean many or even most Jewish people are lying to you or being overly sensitive.

So if someone says something is antisemitic, and you aren’t sure, I encourage you to:

A. Look up the action or thing in question, including its history. Is there an antisemitic history or connotation you aren’t aware of? For best results, include “antisemitic” in your search query, in quotes.

B. Understand that some things, while not inherently antisemitic, have been used by antisemites often enough that Jewish people are understandably wary of them. Schrodinger’s antisemitism, if you will.

C. Ask Jewish people WHO HAVE OFFERED TO HELP EDUCATE YOU. Emphasis on WHO HAVE OFFERED. Random Jewish people aren’t obligated to give you their time and emotional energy, or to educate you – especially on subjects that are scary or painful for them.

@edenfenixblogs has kindly offered her inbox to those who are genuinely trying to learn and do better, and I’ve found her to be very kind, patient, reasonable, and fair-minded.

Understand that this is URGENTLY NEEDED.

In one of my conversations with a Jewish person who’d called me out, they said this was the most productive conversation they’d had with a person with a Palestinian flag in their profile.

THIS IS NOT OKAY.

I didn’t do anything special. All I did was listen, apologize for my mistakes, and learn.

Yes, it feels good to be acknowledged. But I feel like I’ve been praised for peeing IN the toilet, instead of beside it.

Apologizing, learning, and making amends after you hurt people shouldn’t be “the most reasonable thing I’ve heard from a person with a Palestinian flag pfp.”

It should be BASIC DECENCY.

And the fact that it’s apparently so uncommon should tell you how much unnecessary stress and fear Jewish people have been living with because of people who consider themselves defenders of human rights.

By all means, be angry at the Likud, the IDF, and the politicians, reporters, and specific media outlets who choose to enable and cover up for them.

But direct that anger toward the people who deserve it and are in a position to do something about it, not random people who simply happen to be Jewish, or who don’t want millions of people to be turned into refugees when less violent methods of achieving freedom and rights for Palestinians are available.

Stop peeing beside the toilet, people.

#I/P #I/P conflict #I/P war #Israel #Palestine #Gaza #free Palestine #Israel Palestine conflict #Israel Palestine war #Jewish goyim solidarity #choose peace

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