The devastating difference between how much time it takes to write something vs how fast people read it lol

you're falling in the trap!! it will be read by many people, many times, and it will live on in their memories. and maybe no single other human will match you in time spent dedicated to your story, but as a collective we will outlast you. acts of creation only grow when they are shared

This. Writing is not like dinner. It can be consumed many times

itsmelmitch:

You know they were the only Black family in the neighborhood and she woulda clocked it 😂 #homealone #MacaulayCulkin #christmas

"no I will not mind my business" 💀

The answer is well-done

show me your jaw muscles

so strong (─‿‿─)♡ one car tire steak coming right up sir

I've met him in person btw and he's a fucking sweetheart

[ID: Text-intensive Twitter thread from the Shapeshifters chest binders Twitter account in reply to a post by artist and author Ursula Vernon. Vernon says, A non-zero number of you apparently did not know that The Last Unicorn was a book before it was a movie. It is by Peter S. Beagle. It is made of spun glass and fairytales and iron knives and there are individual lines that I would give my lungs to have written. Shapechangers replies, I saw him every year at NYCC for several years straight, bought something at his table, asked him to sign it, and we spoke. He remembered me from year to year, no small feat at that con. He remembered which stories he'd told me. One year I came back with a different gender on. He squinted at me a bit and said thoughtfully, "I've seen you before in this place." All I had to say was, "last year you told me the story about the inoshishi." And his face cleared, and he leaned in with a grin and told me about a German guitarist who he traveled with, twice. Who transitioned between the first and second time, so he'd gotten to meet this person all over again on the second round. It was a wonderfully kind way to let me know that everything was fine. I was fresh out of the closet and I needed that, and maybe he could see it. The Last Unicorn is the best book in the world and I will defend it and its author til I die. the end. /end ID]

I don't usually talk about celebrities; artists, when I do, and I'm keenly aware that one needn't be a good person to be a hell of a heartwrenching artist. But Peter S. Beagle has written a few of my favorite things in the world, he's an excellent singer and filker, and this Twitter thread was dreadfully important to me. I don't want it going away as Twitter becomes Shitter, because it's so often bad news, isn't it? It's important to me to share trans joy.

I don’t care if it’s 1 A.M. I don’t consider it “tomorrow” until I wake up.

im starting to think you guys dont like it when stories make you feel things

[ID: a reply with the url and profile picture cropped off: "You do NOT need to kill off a character for 'emotional impact', or 'realism'. Especially if you've given readers / watchers time to bond with said character. Come on." End ID.]

Truly a post that hits different if you’ve spent any amount of time around bad writers and TTRPG players who insist that permanent character deaths are the only possible meaningful stakes in a story and knowing that nobody will die completely destroys their ✨immersion.✨

Like, for sure you shouldn’t be afraid of killing off a character if that’s where your story leads you or if you planned for it, but irreparably destroying characters isn’t the only way to make people feel things.

I don’t know the context of these comments but I feel both sides. 😭

Here's your reminder that it's never too late to brush your teeth

Aquamarine with Morganite from Minas Gerais, Brazil. By dusted77 on Instagram.

the pixel art brothers

legends say that if you pet them all at the same time, you become the pixel art master!

I feel like the psyops are back…

Ok let’s go over this again, for those with short memories:

The psyops work by taking (screenshotting or paraphrasing) REAL leftist takes by REAL people, (very often American POC,) generally where they are upset or discouraged about the us government or democrats specifically.

Then, the psyop either adds to the post (or in a separate post) something to direct the conversation into “things will never change” “voting does nothing” “politicians are all the same” etc.

The POINT of the psyop is to make leftists who agree with the REAL person who made the original post ALSO agree with the psyop, by conflating the two as being the same person, or at least being on the same side.

anyone who tells you not to vote is not on your side

Alright, let's discuss this. And since I'm going to be talking for a minute here, and I'm going to use pictures, we're putting it behind a read-more. I'm considerate like that. Any inline links you see that are in words will be links to definitions and news articles that discuss topics more in-depth. [legal dictionaries, Merriam-Webster, Al-Jazeera, etc]

Hold on to that, because it's probably the nicest I'm going to be in this whole post.

It is frustrating, sometimes, to feel like I don’t have the option to vote toward meaningful progress on things that are important to me. To feel that I am stuck, again and again, with only the option to put my vote toward protecting the institution of democracy itself, because the only other option is to leave power to those who would cheat it, hollow it out, dismantle it entirely. (And then fuck me over.)

And I must take a step back and remind myself that the vote to preserve democracy is the most important one anyone can ever make.

Small artists you need to understand that when you see an artist who you think has 'made it' tells you not to worry about the numbers and to not fret about getting more likes than reblogs they are not telling you it because they think you are stupid for caring or because they dont need to network to survive they are very likely telling you that because they have witnessed first hand the way the numbers game tears people to shreds in terms of mental health and motivation

Beginner artist: It’s easy for you to say not to worry about the numbers because you don't have to do it anymore.

Advanced artist, shaking them by the shoulders: DON'T DO THIS, it's a never-ending loop of trying to satisfy the nameless statistical tables that make you think your worth is measured by the number of people you can entertain.

Posts like this can be so frustrating. I know that for a lot of people, the internet “numbers game” is just a meaningless popularity contest, but often for working artists, their livelihood depends on getting eyes on their work. So many times, the situation is more like this:

Artist with thirty followers: hey internet, how do I make some money with my art?

Internet: here are some products you can make and sell to your thousands of followers!

Artist with thirty followers: hm… okay, how do I get more followers?

Artist with thousands of followers, who just made a YouTube video about how artists should supplement their income by selling stickers: don’t get so caught up in the numbers game! it’s so unhealthy to hinge your self-worth on your popularity! just do it for your own enjoyment! 😌

There's a bunch of adhd advice out there that's like "people with adhd tend to work better under deadlines due to the anxiety so here are ways to artificially induce a stress response in order to get you to get work done" and it's like well what if I don't want to be stressed out all the time in order to function

this gold shouldn't stay in the comments

I saw a video one time where this woman talked about how she dealt with her ADHD by optimizing for sporadic bursts of intense work rather than consistent incremental progress and it blew my third eye wide open.

Nobody fukkin teaches that. Or rather, nobody fukkin teaches a healthy version of that — we all know the unhealthy version, where you stress out about the thing up until the day it’s due and then you bang it out an hour before deadline.

Anyway, still workin’ on figuring that out.

There's a bunch of adhd advice out there that's like "people with adhd tend to work better under deadlines due to the anxiety so here are ways to artificially induce a stress response in order to get you to get work done" and it's like well what if I don't want to be stressed out all the time in order to function

this gold shouldn't stay in the comments