2023:

1. GET! WEIRDER!

2. CHILL THE FUCK OUT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

3. IF SOMETHING ISNT MAKING YOU HAPPY IT’S NOT WORTH IT

4. STOP WORRYING ABOUT WHO YOU ARE AND START LIVING HOW YOU WANT TO LIVE

7. GAY SEX I GUESS

what's the matter honey? you've hardly touched your fleeting experience of time on earth

I think this picture of my gf helping fix my car should be in the MoMa

cat: I will just hang out on your lap now me: yay cat: I have brought ten knives

something red alright

I don't really enjoy fanfiction. It's not something I read in my spare time, but I believe in the value of a varied media diet, and I enjoy seeing what my internet acquaintances are reading.

As someone with a more traditional literary education fanfiction is bizarre to read. It's like an entire mode of writing that completely missed the boat on narrative multivalence and complex figurative language, but has an absolutely scalpel-fucking-sharp hand at pacing.

I find that fascinating! Maybe it's just the things I've been exposed to, but I feel like theres a pattern. I've found that even lackluster fanfiction prose tends to be delivered with a fairly advanced understanding of narrative pacing.

I don't know much about the broader culture of fan authors, but if I had to hazard a guess, it probably comes from a culture of discussions around what could make an existing story better. That would be an excellent trial-by-fire for getting a sense of when the important beats should happen.

You can tell that a lot of FF authors have never really studied poetry, or done close readings of other literature. Authors often seem entirely unaware of or uninterested in cultivating a symbolic language. Which isn't necessarily bad, but it's leaving a lot on the table.

Set dressing, objects, even actions, are given comparatively little attention. They're almost suggestions, with the vast majority of the narrative legwork placed on dialogue and blocking. The effect is that fanfiction in my mind reads less like literature, or short stories, and more like a film or stage script. It's strikingly theatrical.

I think that's a lot of my displeasure with fanfiction. To my ear, it reads like someone trying to cram a one act play into a short story shaped hole.

i love the whole world violently. and i dont want to go to work

they should invent a way to reconnect with old friends that doesnt feel like eating a pile of dirt in front of god

if we’re mutuals feel free to use me as a powerful summon during a tough battle 

Sandra Oh as Jasmine in Dancing at the Blue Iguana (2000)

angry kitten after failed attempt to steal the food crying screaming

Rating: NOT CUTE.

Kitten not given the bowl of food and will be starbed forever

MEEEEEE-EEEEEEEE-AAAAH!!!!

Not to be a drooling socialist cuck, but if a full day's labour can't purchase three square meals, 24 hour's worth of rent and utilities, a fraction of a month's clothing budget, and a reasonable portion to be saved for when you can no longer comfortably work, what the fuck are we doing shit for

K.Stew is giving full 90s dyke and god she is doing it so well. I’d like her to take me to the Los Angeles Philharmonic, wink wink.

I honestly didn’t know that “whalebone” was baleen instead of actual bone, which makes me feel very dumb.

reblog if you’re gay, shy or a fucking idiot

i 100% would have been diagnosed with hysteria back in the day