I adore my novel WIP. I'm incredibly proud of what I have so far and I think it's going to be a great book. However, I always feel like I have to bring my A game when I work on it, I have a whole little ritual I do when I start (a candle and a playlist), and it's hard work sometimes.
On the other hand my LoZ fic is just singing out of me complete with themes and scenes and no expectations and I really needed something like that right now
tipsy swiping thru the dating app and my opening line for tonight is "Alright who would win in a fight between Oscar Wilde or Virginia Woolf"
I guess I write Legend of Zelda fic now
my toxic writer trait is I REFUSE to use sans serif fonts when writing on desktop, and I REFUSE to use anything but courier prime when writing on mobile
Some choice selections from TF2 wiki’s “non-player characters” page, which presumably are a lot funnier if you don’t know anything about TF2.
wow that post sure was a hit (got two likes from my mutuals)
not the twitter migrants putting "reblog heavy" in their bios on here... like yeah. that's what we do here
reblog heavy
image quite literally heavy
dykes read Fucking Trans Women challenge
i am so fucking serious
seeing a lot of "actually everyone should read this" and I agree but I'm a dyke and I specifically would like for my peers to read it. hope this helps!
Love that time I brought up how "transvestite" used to be a term du jur (not the only term, but a well-known term) before it fell out of favor for transexual and then transgender and was immediately given the "um actually it's always been a bad word sweaty :)" routine when like
[Image Description: the Wikipedia page for Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries". The opening paragraph says "Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries (STAR) was a gay gender non-conforming street activist organization founded in 1970 by Sylvia Rivera and Marsha P. Johnson, subculturally famous New York City drag queens of color. STAR was a radical political collective that also..." the screencap cuts off the rest of the article. End ID]
To drive the point home, it later changed its name Street Transgender Action Revolutionaries to reflect the changing terminology preferences but Jesus fucking Christ learn your damn history
(This is also why terfs and other transphobes claiming that Marsha P. Johnson was "only" a transvestite in order to de-legitimize trans involvement in queer history, activism, and liberation is such bullshit because that was the fucking term back then and had Marsha not been murdered there's good chance she'd be calling herself transgender now. Or not, there are trans elders who still call themselves transvestite and proudly so.)
The word was coined by the German LGBT pioneer Magnus Hirschfeld in 1910 and was used as an umbrella term for anyone who’d wear clothes that didn’t fit the gender they were assigned at birth.
He’d also issue so-called “transvestite certificates” for them that allowed them to wear those clothes in public without being arrested for public nuisance.
There was a magazine called “Das 3. Geschlecht” (The 3rd Sex) aimed at them, which was the first trans magazine in history. You can read the English translation of three of its issues here.
The lesbian magazine “Die Freundin” (The Girlfriend) also openly included transvestites and came with an insert called “Der Transvestit” at times (The Transvestite).
Guys this was a correct term IN MY LIFETIME. I'm only in my forties, come on. Remember your history, I'm begging.
Some of you may have seen this little friend around on my backing cards, but here is the little kobold in full, ready to deliver all your merch.
The teenager was asked to write a short scene or draw a short comic using a comedic trope from a list on a handout in their HS American Lit class. They chose to do the comic …
the Bard will never die.
and this comic is fucking genius.
Pizza VS Flower with bee on it VS Bisexuality VS Wind turbine
For anyone who doesn't want to watch the video, he used a list of things from Wikidata, pared it down to about 8000 things that most people would have heard of, and made a website where people voted for the best option in randomly selected pairs of things.
Pizza was voted the 9th best thing, making it the best food. Bees weren't in the top 10 best things, but they won 77% of matchups to be selected as the best creature, followed by emperor penguins and hedgehogs. Bisexuality didn't place in the top 10 either, but it won 73% of matchups compared to heterosexuality winning only 45%. (Orgasms were the highest ranked sexual thing, and were miraculously ranked at number 69.) I think the windmill is supposed to stand for electricity, which was the second place winner. And the winner of "best thing" was sleep.
twitter: currently owned by techbro pissman
tumblr: actively removing functionality and bloating the interface with things nobody uses
discord: being retooled by ex-Meta management who don't understand the appeal of the platform
youtube: neutered by advertisers and algorithms and also tiktokification
reddit: half of the site is down due to protests about the removal of third-party API support
facebook: my mom is on there
idk why but i feel like being a punk is for he/hims and doing ballet is for she/hers
finished the fire temple in totk thank GOD. i hate death mountain I hated that temple and my emulator kept trying to kill itself the whole time
you dont want character ai you want to roleplay with someone
you will be far happier if you roleplay with someone instead. i prommy
An important part of making art is just not doing anything. Just letting weird stuff percolate. Absorbing more or less useless information and then pinning it onto a cork board like a terrible alcoholic detective but with no thread, just things pinned to other things and most of the things are just two word phrases like ANCIENT CRAB and DIRT LABYRINTH and MEAT CASTLE that don’t mean anything. Just moving through the world, making nothing, eating bread, having prophetic dreams and letting insane thoughts build up and up and up until they can finally crystallize into something that exists outside of your body and you can enter a blissfully thought free phase of your life where you just get to glue small objects to other small objects for 18 hours straight
Unfortunately the other part of making art is actually making it
