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I'm sorry, Misto. I'm a Cats blog and even I have to admit that Audrey II is more musical tumblrman. You're just your own special weird cryptid voidcat category.

Why did someone leave me a nice comment about how shirt stays work and then block me before I could even read it. Is being mildly horny about shirt stays block-worthy.

I’m not even that upset about being blocked I’m just completely baffled. Stuck around for all the Everything but shirt stays is too much? Huh?

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alright so during into the spider-verse's introduction to peter b. parker, we see his wedding, and he stomps on the wine glass right? this is a jewish wedding tradition, which makes this version of peter parker jewish (further confirmed in interviews -- however, i believe this is enough by itself). it's a nice nod to the jewish roots of the character.

we get to see a bunch of peter parkers throughout the spider-verse films, and none of them have any explicit religious associations like peter b. parker. except for one!

here we have gwen stacy's peter parker and aunt may, from earth-65, saying grace over a meal. from my understanding, this is generally a christian practice -- in judaism, we prefer to say short prayers before eating, and save the long, in-depth ones for afterwards. so to me, this was a clear example of the character being coded as christian. i was a little disappointed that they didn't make peter parker jewish here too, but since across the spider-verse discusses variants and the differences between instances of the same person between different universes, i interpreted this as a continued commentary on peter parker's ethnicity -- although he was initially jewish-coded and one of his two creators, stan lee, is jewish, this is often erased, especially in more modern interpretations of the character.

and then i remembered that this peter parker also literally turns into the lizard.

and y'know what? good call on that one guys.

Fully losing it at this facebook screenshot. 22 inches of green and 1.5 of carrot.

o/ <- person waving

o7 <- person saluting

ol <- person raising hand

o1 <- person scratching head

\o> <- person stretching

\o/ <- woohoo!

<o> <- EXTREME STRESS, LIKE "OH FUCK OH SHIT" STRESS

orz <- the person is on their hands and knees, on the floor, god what happened to them

OTL <- same, but we are now closer to them (mb softly pat their back or something)

or2 <- the person is still on their hands and knees but they've got a fat ass now

I'm out of weed so I have to smoke thw one that makea me scared

You7 are doing some Cocomelon shit to me

SHE IS A TRUE HERO 

No, she’s a bitch is what she is

what do u mean???? it was clearly an accident she even said “Oooppsss”

LMFAOOOO

Look, rather than being petty and destroying it, why not talk to the girl. Really ask them why they are using the confederate flag. But no, low level terrorism is the answer.

LOW LEVEL TERRORISM?

Low level terrorism

ICONIC

world heritage post

reblog this post if you're strong enough to :3 in 2023

learning from the reblogs of that post that there's a lot of people out there under the impression that "kill your darlings" means "kill your characters" and that's the funniest possible interpretation of that phrase

since a couple people sent asks: it means you can't be precious about your own writing when the time comes to edit. sometimes you will write a really good scene, or a really good line, or a really good description. it will be your new favorite thing you've ever written. the kind of thing you want to post on tumblr attributed to "the book i haven't written yet" because it's just that good. but when the whole thing is done and you're reading it over, it just. it doesn't actually work. it stands out like a sore thumb. it fucks up the pacing, or maybe once you've really got a handle on characters you realize it's ooc. "kill your darlings" is about learning to delete those bits, even though they're really good, because they're making the work as a whole worse.

... but a lot of people i know don't actually delete them because it's 2023 and you can just cut and paste them into a different document titled "bits" until you write something where they'll fit. and sometimes it actually does fit in the work, but you tried to put it in the wrong place or in the mouth of the wrong character. but learning that you can put a lot of excellent paragraphs together to make a story that's worse than the sum of its parts is the important part.

It also goes hand in hand with the idea that if a given sentence isn't working, seriously consider this as a sign that you should delete the whole sentence, and move on. The tell is that you keep re-arranging it and fussing with it, it is slowing you up. Chop it, and free yourself.

You may have to fiddle a previous sentence because of this decision, but if you just had to change one word in the previous sentence to make up for the entire troublesome sentence you just deleted, then you know you did the right thing.

Writers have a lot of "darlings". They tend to get tunnel vision and lose their forward momentum by tinkering with something the reader wouldn't even miss if it was gone.

It is your right to say, "yes, this must be here," but asking if this sentence, or passage, or anything, is just another darling that needs to be killed is a practice that will serve you, and often.

Sometimes the darling is a certain way of writing that you associate with "your style", but it's not working for some reason. You must be willing to drop things that seem precious to you if they are not serving your work. They are not what is important about what you are trying to do, they just feel like it.

Anything that feels like a "darling" probably is. Question every darling, make it prove its worth to you, and to the reader. Ask: Is this paragraph load bearing, or am I just fond of it?

And yes, sometimes you know that a character must perish, or two characters must part, and you do not want it to happen, but the talent that brought you to this point knows that the story must happen. Take a breath, and kill your darlings.

But it is your right to say no, this character must live. It's the clunky sentence, the paragraph that kills the momentum, who must always die. The reader will forgive you when the character escapes doom a little too easily, but they will not forgive you when reading about it feels like a chore.

It's even more important when you aren't writing fiction at all, and there is some paragraph that only happened because you sweated for a week in the research mines, first. You are loath to throw away so much work condensed to a few sentences. But the document is getting long, the target audience will not have the patience for it, and you know this. Kill your darlings. At least put them on trial and ask them why they are so important, why the document cannot survive without them.

If you ever do hand your work to a proper editor, they will go to kill a lot of "darlings", it's their job as editor. They might want to axe entire chapters that you toiled over.

No creative work is ever lost. Even the entire chapter that is cut to make a better story was practice that made you a better writer, it was not truly lost. Perhaps it was just in the wrong novel, and its purpose lies elsewhere. But you must be willing to kill your darlings. If you do that when nobody is twisting your arm, then it will not be a shock to your heart when an editor must do their own work, to your work.

It is important to understand that every document that you have ever loved has had a machete taken to it, the editor's floor was covered in slaughtered darlings. You didn't even notice. In fact, that was why you liked it, why it all flowed so nicely for you as a reader. It is comparable to all the clay that ends up back in the bucket when the sculptor works. You, too, will have to take part in this tradition, so get comfy with it.

This stuff was what "kill your darlings" was always about.

Remember when if you wanted to play Tetris you could just download an app called Tetris and the entire game was there and it didn't have any ads or login bonuses or in-app purchases to make the game easier, no logging in or making an account, it didn't want access to your contacts or to send you push notifications. It was just Tetris, the whole Tetris and nothing but the Tetris. That was a better time.

It's fucking minesweeper! It's minesweeper!!!!! It's a logic game from 1990 that used to come free with computers back when computers were good why the FUCK does it need in app purchases I am going to become a terrorist.

the ancient and noble art of Hating must remain distinct from the dogmatism of the moral crusade. hating has no greater goal. it is not about engineering change or imposing one's will upon others. to hate is a complete act in and of itself

Ah yes, the Backwards Long Yippee, my favorite strat