how rare and beautiful it is to even exist

friend server has changed our nicknames to various things you might find in a haunted house or whatnot so whenever one of us has a tough time it produces really good sentences such as “keep going you can do it creepy spider” and “terrifying shadow i hope you feel better soon” and “thank you sinister glow you’re always there for me”

taipei, taiwan / 2016

sometimes im like "wow holy shit im being really fucking annoying. i should stop talking" and then i pull out my magic 8 ball and it says "youve always been annoying and your friends chose to talk you anyways. youll be fine" and im like wow thanks magic 8 ball. and then the ogre attacks me

not a character who died and came back different or who died but came back the same but a character who died and came back extremely angry that you stopped digging for them

you were so close

why did you give up on me

why did I have to drag myself out of this grave without you

*holding my hat in my hands* well y'see the ppl in the cemetery were gettin all mad about. u know, the grave digging. aw babe don't bite my arm again don't be mad im sorry

my number one skill is being sooo cute and my number two skill is the ancient curse

don’t worry about why i had to google this but this example sentence is killing me

The thing about Timmy Chalamet is that he’s truly a great actor and he even has good taste in projects and he’s not even overexposed when you calibrate for how overexposed all that group of 25-30 year old big stars are……however something is still off. any time he gets cast in something it feels like that movie instantly turns into a parody of a movie. I cannot explain this

i need a girl to run hot wheels over my boobies

never let anyone tell you that trawling through mediocre victorian poetry isn't worth it. we just happened upon an absolute BANGER of a worm poem. go read it or else 🪱🪱🪱

So, guys, I want to branch out more into writing original romance fiction, but what I love most is 1) queer and 2) historical. But this leaves us with the issue that legitimate, based-in-actuality historical fiction leaves us with a rather limited set of plots thanks to, you know, decades of rampant homophobia. From reading a lot of reviews of queer historical romance, they’re mostly kinda depressing with a tenuous HEA (or no HEA at all), and that aint for me.

Is just saying “fuck history” and pretending that it never happened a thing? Can I just write a regency romance where the fabulously wealthy new neighbour who appears to be an ass but is actually lovely is also a woman and no one bats an eye at her marrying the main female character?

Honestly modern romance fiction just doesn’t really interest me! So… what do you do? Can you just say “history does not spark joy” and throw it out?

100 percent yes.

If people want to read historically accurate shit, there are history books for ‘em to read. Let’s be honest – even fiction from historical eras is sugar-coated, as all fiction is. It’s an escape! 

There are enough ‘time period accurate’ heterosexual romance novels to sink a fucking ship. Make a ruckus! Do what you want! WRITE QUEER HISTORICAL FICTION, I BELIEVE IN YOU

Yeah this is fair - all the published historical romance I’ve read is so far flung from actual history that making everything not super homophobic isn’t really that far a leap.

Ahaha I SHALL MAKE A RUCKUS. Eventually . Obviously all this dilly dallying and research is an excuse to not actually write anything…

I was going through my old posts and I just found this again and I am laughing so much at 2020 Merry. Not because of the accuracy stuff but her general belief that writing books was never actually going to happen.

Also combined with this message I sent to @inber after submitting Hartswood:

Buddy you have no idea what’s coming you mad idiot

came back from the codependent homoerotic friendship wrong