You know what? [Offloads decision-making]

I'm curious. Reblog this if you know how to cook

I don’t even care if it’s macaroni, ramen or those little bowls you stick in the microwave. Please, I need reassurance that most of the population on tumblr WOULDN’T STARVE TO DEATH if their parents couldn’t fix them food or they couldn’t go out to eat. 

There's this thing, sometimes, when reading fic - not shitfic, because I do read that and I know what to expect from it, but fic with actual thought and nuance, which cares about exploring trauma and fucked up emotional consequences, evenwhen when they're ugly and uncomfortable and awful -, when you realise that while the fic is willing to have the protagonists be angry but get over it with some characters, they just refuse to with others. And it can make sense to a degree - there's always one character that gets under another's skin, and there's gonna be some disagreements that just, due to individual perspectives, are that much harder to overcome. Even though having them work through it - having a character admit how and when and where they fucked up, and how severely, and the degree to which they recognise this, the internal complex, contradictory fuckery - can be fun! Can be nuanced and messy and delicious.

Then you see the fic says "[X Character] Bashing" and you realise you're never gonna get that. That those crunchy, messy, complex, fun scenes in your head? Will never leave it, because the author has decided that while they'll put in all this engaging messy nuance for (so far) literally every other character... for this single one, a flat one-sided view of a character is all they can be arsed to write.

I dunno, yeah, it's fic and you can write what you like, but bashing has always felt incredibly, astoundingly lazy to me.

It's just so disappointing when the fic is so good in so many other respects! It's willing to provide messy nuance for other characters, protag and otherwise! It shows long term trauma effects realistically for so many others! It shows empathy for so many others!

And yet it is seemingly completely incapable for just this one character! It just can't be fucked for just this one character! When doing so would make it so much more engaging and fucked up and interesting!

GAAAAAH!

There's this thing, sometimes, when reading fic - not shitfic, because I do read that and I know what to expect from it, but fic with actual thought and nuance, which cares about exploring trauma and fucked up emotional consequences, evenwhen when they're ugly and uncomfortable and awful -, when you realise that while the fic is willing to have the protagonists be angry but get over it with some characters, they just refuse to with others. And it can make sense to a degree - there's always one character that gets under another's skin, and there's gonna be some disagreements that just, due to individual perspectives, are that much harder to overcome. Even though having them work through it - having a character admit how and when and where they fucked up, and how severely, and the degree to which they recognise this, the internal complex, contradictory fuckery - can be fun! Can be nuanced and messy and delicious.

Then you see the fic says "[X Character] Bashing" and you realise you're never gonna get that. That those crunchy, messy, complex, fun scenes in your head? Will never leave it, because the author has decided that while they'll put in all this engaging messy nuance for (so far) literally every other character... for this single one, a flat one-sided view of a character is all they can be arsed to write.

I dunno, yeah, it's fic and you can write what you like, but bashing has always felt incredibly, astoundingly lazy to me.

It's just so disappointing when the fic is so good in so many other respects! It's willing to provide messy nuance for other characters, protag and otherwise! It shows long term trauma effects realistically for so many others! It shows empathy for so many others!

And yet it is seemingly completely incapable for just this one character! It just can't be fucked for just this one character! When doing so would make it so much more engaging and fucked up and interesting!

GAAAAAH!

I know I can't stop complaining about costuming inaccuracies in period dramas, but sometimes I just think about the excuses costume designers come up with and it really gets me irritated.

"Well, 1920s clothes looked frumpy. I'm IMPROVING them for modern audiences!"

"I'm breaking stereotypes so this doesn't look like every other period film! So I'm making it look nothing like the period <3"

What'd be really groundbreaking would be costumes in historical dramas ACTUALLY being accurate for once.

I feel like the "improvement" sentiment is built on the erroneous idea that people now are fundamentally more intelligent than the people of the past, instead of the truth, which is that we stand on the shoulders of giants.

Those fashion designers of the past were just as good as those today, they just had a different perspective and different tools.

My personal pet peeve is bonnets. We’re not in a hat-wearing phase in our cultural fashions and so we don’t like seeing people in them. But it often ruins the actual tone of the story, especially the romance, if the restraint that is such a lovely source of romantic tension in the period is undone by loosely flowing, perfectly beach-waved hair.

This is why everyone should go and watch Gentleman Jack.

There are bonnets. Some are absolutely ridiculous and I love them. They lean into the period's insanely poofy sleeves and use of colours. But people wear bonnets and hats when they go calling on people, I think the only time that hair is down is when people are ill, in bed, or otherwise haven't gotten up to make themselves presentable yet.

2. Hairstyling and fashion!

While not all of the clothes are 100% accurate to historical fashion they do very much make use of historical fashion (Anne Lister's hair not being as elaborately curled as other women's, but still using period styles). As aforementioned, the sleeves are so much. There are gloves. There are fancy little hair things. Clothing also accounts for class, personality, the social engagement in question - people have worn out clothes, clothes that they've clearly been working in, formal servants clothes and dirtied miner's clothes, there's clothes that have been repurposed that are clearly clothes that fell out of fashion remade to keep them useful.

But for now, I will show you the hair, because the use of buckle-style ringlets for Anne Lister to show her more "fuck you, I am doing that" attitude with period fashions (Albeit, more a men's fashion; actual historical Anne Lister did do the whole insane curls and we have portraits to prove it) next to Anne Walker's full on insane curls everywhere period-typical style.

3. Actual Historical Lesbians

Anne Lister and Anne Walker actually existed. They had a relationship. Anne Lister's diaries are how we know so much of her entire life. Anne Lister's attitudes to both religion and her love of women were things written about in her diaries - and I want to be clear for people unaware she reconciled them. She wasn't the archetypal "unhappy gay", unable to reconcile desires with faith - there was nothing in the bible to forbid wlw, she checked, so she went "okay, then" and got on with it. While she and Anne Walker weren't legally married, they did have a small ceremony to affirm their importance to each other.

Actual, historical Lesbians.

Also, everyone should watch this edit, it's what my sibs showed me to get me to watch the show:

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play potions with your followers, but watch out..

Can the british government stop being so atrocious that they actually make me appreciate that we have the house of lords

Writers Truth & Dare Ask Game

🎱 ⇢ post your AO3 total stats  🍓 ⇢ how did you get into writing fanfiction?  🌵 ⇢ share the link to a playlist you love 🕯️ ⇢ on a scale from 1 to 10, how much do you enjoy editing? why is that? 🛼 ⇢ describe your latest wip with five emojis 🥑 ⇢ you accidentally killed somebody, which mutual(s) do you text for help? 🥤 ⇢ recommend an author or fanfic you love 💌 ⇢ how many unread emails do you have right now?  🌻 ⇢ tag someone you appreciate but don't talk to on a regular basis 🐇 ⇢ do you prefer writing original characters, reader inserts, or a mix of both?  🧃 ⇢ share some personal lore you never posted about before 🎲 ⇢ what stops you from writing more in your free time?  🍄 ⇢ share a head canon for one of your favourite ships or pairings 🧸 ⇢ what's the fastest way to become your mutual? 🪐 ⇢ name three good things going on in your life right now 📚 ⇢ what's the last thing you wrote down in your notes app?  🍬 ⇢ post an unpopular opinion about a popular fandom character 🔪 ⇢ what's the weirdest topic you researched for a writing project? 🦷 ⇢ share some personal wisdom or a life hack you swear on ❄️ ⇢ what's your dream theme/plot for a fic, and who would write it best? 🌿 ⇢ give some advice on writer's block and low creativity 🥐 ⇢ name one internet reference that will always make you laugh  🏜️ ⇢ what's your favourite type of comment to receive on your work? 🍦 ⇢ name three good things about a character you hate 🥝 ⇢ do you lie a lot? what's the most recent lie you told? 🦋 ⇢ share something that has been on your heart and mind lately  🦴 ⇢ is there a piece of media that inspires your writing?  🍅 ⇢ give yourself some constructive criticism on your own writing 🐚 ⇢ do you like or dislike surprises? 🪲 ⇢ add 50 words to your current wip and share the paragraph here ☁️ ⇢ what made you choose your username? 🐝 ⇢ tag your biggest supporter(s) and say one nice thing about them 🌸 ⇢ do you have any pets? if you do, post some pictures of them 🎨 ⇢ link your favourite piece of fanart and explain why you like it 🧩 ⇢ what will make you click away from a fanfiction immediately?

The enshittification of the Internet is gaining momentum.

We're on our way back into the fifties and I really think we need a giant meteor at this point.

Here’s the current language from their policies page.

Notably, other policies specifically state “do not store” or “do not create or upload” as needed. However, there’s no guarantee against Google changing this policy later without warning.

Policies like this are also notoriously inconsistently enforced, with erotica often a much lower priority than images of real humans, but the growth of AI has potentially made enforcement scalable for written content.

Downloading in a .doc or .pdf format *shouldn’t* trigger issues because these exports are necessary even for totally private use, but I’d recommend creating backups ASAP regardless.

Sharing with even one other user can be considered “distributing” which is… extremely frustrating.

Looks like I’ll be downloading Open Office again for the first time in… fifteen years? And moving all my cloud backups to iCloud.

The further and further marginalization of explicit content is so frustrating 😩 Authors shouldn’t have to pay more and work harder to get feedback just because they write explicit scenes 😢

Hi I know I haven't made an original post in years but my life is in shambles so if you have an extra dollar I'd really appreciate it.

If you're here for that decade old Romeo and Juliet post and wish to tell me I'm an idiot who's never heard of a tragedy before, you're required to donate 500$ minimum. It's the law.

My sewing manager "wants to talk" and I'm panicking a lil.