I Was Born This Way Baby...

For those of you who weren’t able to get 100% of the total solar eclipse today… I gotchu <3

I want to live my life so that I’ll be able to read an in-depth biography about myself in later years and not puke.

Liza Weil as Paris Geller in Gilmore Girls (2000-2007)

i just wanted to say thank you to every fanfic writer out there.

thank you for writing what others haven't, what others can't, what others won't.

thank you for writing what can be judged and hated, but writing it all the same.

thank you for indulging in something that you love and allowing the rest of us to love it with you.

if you have one kudos or one thousand, one comment or one hundred, one bookmark or fifty, i love each and every one of you for writing them.

thank you.

When I was little my mom’s meatloaf was my favorite food. But ONLY her meatloaf. I didn’t like anyone else’s, and she told me that she would teach me how to make it when I was older. And when I was like 19? She finally taught me, but she told me never to tell anyone else and I was like weird but okay

Anyway, she was super fucking homophobic and abusive to me when I told her I was gay, so here’s the recipe

You can get almost all of these ingredients at the dollar store, and have leftovers if it’s just you. The leftovers make great tacos if (taco seasoning is also like a dollar). Enjoy your revenge loaf

here’s a mashed potato recipe from my homophobic mother that i swore to never share that would pair perfectly!

(6 servings)

-2lbs red potatoes

-1 cup butter (2 sticks)

-1 cup cream cheese (1 pack)

-Chives (optional)

-Salt & Pepper to taste

1. drop those bad boys (potatoes) in a big ol pot. U don’t even have to chop them just wash them

2. boil til soft!

3. Drain

4. Mash (usually they’re small enough you can use a fork if u don’t have one of those squashers) until its a pretty chunky mix

5. add the other stuff. Keep mashing

I like my mashed potato consistancy more lumpy but its all up to you!! Peel the potatoes or keep them on, it literally makes the creamiest fluffiest mashed potatoes which she always served with the nastiest fuckin meatloaf

So after spending hours combing through the recipes in the comments of this post I have created a cookbook. Feel free to use it. The link should work for everyone, its the only file on the google drive! I have referenced all of the recipes I used, all of which are from this thread. I made it for myself, but figured after all that work I should probably share. Happy spite cooking! 

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1WjcDfZrPMr0Pw9f5GfEy0aTs2KEx4Pub/view?usp=sharing

there is a SPITE COOKBOOK now :DDD

“fueled by spite: a cookbook of revenge”

@instructor144 For recipe day. :)

For your Recipe Day delectation: “Fueled by Spite: A Cookbook of Revenge.” ^^^

RECIPE DAY

I need to add a kimchi recipe to this.. From “Mommy Dearest”

Oh wow! The feedback from this has been overwhelming! So many additional recipes and stories, I just don’t have time to add them all to the collaborative cookbook! So in the drive I included a google doc version of my copy of the cookbook. 

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1W93dKYNiRu3mMHXimuLYO7rtLM4pTH2o/view?usp=sharing

Feel free to add your recipes to it, it should be editable for everyone! Just please be kind to each other, and don’t delete each others work! It warms my heart how collaborative this has become!

With love, 

TT

Are you frustrated you can't leave second kudos on AO3? or third kudos? or whatever-who's-counting kudos?

Well, have I got the html for you!

Plop any of these in a comment (by copy&pasting the code) to make an author's day and show your appreciation!

It will look something like this (and will be transparent with white outline on dark backgrounds):

Feel free to spread and use these as much as you like! (and if you have ideas for other variations, let me know ✌️)

So happy to see people enjoying these and spreading the love 💖

UPDATE with some suggestions from the replies! And bonus: cookie kudos.

HTML codes under the cut.

let me tell you, I got a ‘kisses your forehead’ kudos and it absolutely made my day

Saguaro blossoms

jthtucson

the problem with having a decade old tumblr blog is that there are posts on it from a decade ago

i’ve become a completely different person like 5 separate times since making those posts and there are STILL people finding them somehow

hold on a second man…

@insect-p0sitivity tags peer approved

reblog if fanfic writing has been a source of happiness for you and has helped with your mental health

It has changed my life, from top to bottom it's changed it and made it better. Finding community — which fanfiction directly helped me do — changes everything.

My work inbox is a form of perpetual hell for a lot of reasons atm, but somehow there’s something worse than the essential oil cultists attempting to make it entirely unusable on a daily basis, and that’s the sheer number of editing requests from young and first time authors who don’t even really want editing, they just want someone to reassure them they’re not Problematic™ and they’re genuinely scared to death of their potential readers.

They’re so hyperfixated on the terror of inadvertently fucking up and being dragged across the internet, that they can’t even bring themselves to finish their work. So instead of answering questions about how to fix narrative flow, character arc and making grammar changes and fixing typos, I spend a lot of my time answering things like this:

“But what if someone hates it?”

Welp. Can’t please everyone I guess.

“But what if I fucked up this part…”

Did you do your research? Okay good, here is a list of sensitivity readers you can hire to help you make sure you actually understood the things you read. You’ve done all that and taken their advice onboard? Well done. That’s more than a lot of New York Times Bestsellers ever do.

“Okay but what if someone thinks I meant this when I meant that?”

See previous response.

“But what if—”

Your work is always going to be open to interpretation. Sometimes people will read into things you didn’t even realize you were inferring. Sometimes you didn’t actually infer anything but someone will find meaning anyway. That’s just how this works I’m afraid. People find meaning in words. It’s what us humans are particularly good at. Sometimes they find meanings we like, sometimes we don’t. We have no control over how someone else uses their critical thinking skills (if at all).

“But what if someone says…”

Someone is always going to say something you’re not going to like. They may even try to paint you as a villain to justify their dislike of you because they conflate personally liking something with universal worthiness. You can be the most Unproblematic ™, best researched, most woke individual on the planet, and someone is still going to find fault in what you did. Jesus Christ himself could descend from heaven with a short novella about petting puppies and being kind to each other, and he’d still end up nailed to the proverbial wall by someone.

You cannot control every aspect of how people will interact with your work, and I know that is terrifying when you watch the way fandom eats its own sometimes. But if you can’t get over that terror…you’re never going to get anywhere. You need to accept that not everyone will always like you or your work, and it’s not easy. I struggle with it a lot sometimes, especially when people tag my posts with mean comments or personal remarks about how much they hate me, but unlike them I take my issues to therapy and work them out in an actual safe space, and I’m telling you, they don’t speak for everyone.

The echo chamber of discourse is loud, and sometimes you just need to take a step out and remember how to breathe and remind yourself not everyone needs to like you. And not everyone will, and that’s okay. And hey, your work might bomb or it might not. But you won’t actually know until you try.

Perfection is unattainable. Don’t kill yourself trying to get there. You can only do your very best, and even then your very best will shift and adapt with you as you grow and change as a person. It’s inevitable. I dunno where I’m going with this anymore. Permanence is an illusion and we’re all just sentient atoms hurtling toward the great unknown. Write your god damn story.

I’m going to have to reblog this a LOT.

But, like, realistically.

Also! Please reblog for varied responses!

op on the version of this I saw has turned off reblogs while posting lots of frustrated messages about how they don't care about people's actual responses. I'm adding some things they didn't think of.

I care about y'all's actual responses.

I wanna hear all about your writing in the tags. do tell.

11/28/22 (x)

putting this one forward to be heard by the great people’s jury of tumblr.com because i like to start arguments over nothing

telling the song to “shut up” right before you skip it >>>