that characters need to be likeable or relatable. fastest way to create a world populated by bland paper cut-outs. characters need to be INTERESTING, and that can coincide with likeability but it's not the same thing

if you're not interested in spending time in the world you're writing why on earth would anyone be interested in reading about it?

i do think that one of the fundamental errors a lot of people outside of fandom make is the assumption that 'i participate in fandom for [thing]' in any way shape or form correlates to 'i think [thing] is objectively good'

fascinating take considering that this is not something that anyone in fandom demanded or requested but instead - yet again - AI slop desperately being pushed at the masses in hopes of finding a market

there is a lady who has been sitting at the computers just absolutely UNLOADING about some dude on the phone for the past hour and a half, and she's speaking so fast that i can't understand half the words. genuinely a little in awe. the STAMINA.

I just think if your definition of civility is about the volume and tone of speech and ignores the content of the speech you probably need to start over

the person who picked out an absolutely intolerable nordic noir mystery for tomorrow's book discussion ISN'T EVEN COMING, i should get to cancel the whole thing

it's really bafflingly hilarious to see the nonstop pearl-clutching about how women reading trashy romantasy/erotica is going to bring about the end of literacy, as if james patterson hasn't been pumping out twenty wildly popular meciocre ghost-written thrillers per year for decades

working in a public library will expose you to the most absolutely batshit conversations

My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die. #ThePrincessBride #Fanart

Happy bisexual awakening day for those who celebrate

everything is GREEN!

you don't need chatGPT i am perfectly capable of drinking a bottle of water and lying to you

okay but genuinely who the fuck even WANTS another harry potter reboot? i know that this is the era of beating every single dead horse until money stops coming out of it but like. what is the appeal. even aside from the jkr of it all

it's not the only bad thing about it, but this shit also completely ruins the culture of fandom by turning it into a side hustle. it's like being at a party where half of the guests want to use it as a chance to shill their multi-level marketing garbage

the key to a good fandom experience is finding 3 people you can say anything to and then never give a flying fuck about anyone else’s opinion

a little pre-8x16 ficlet #911onabc #buddie archiveofourown.org/works/65104624

Here the phone call scene we deserved #buddie #911onABC

currently reading! i was going to finish it tonight but i got to the section where something crawled into the protagonist's room on an abandoned station and attempted to gnaw on her so maybe i'll wait until i'm NOT in a dark house by myself

insomnia #911onABC

morbidly hilarious actually

first fic post on bluesky! a gift fic for my fandom trumps hate bidder #911onABC #buddie archiveofourown.org/works/64723816

have children and you too can experience the joy of having every surface in your home be inexplicably Sticky

currently reading! the worldbuilding reminds me a bit of 'the left hand of darkness', at least so far

the bedsheets smell like you🤍 #buddie #911onABC

Fentanyl is very much like a weapon of mass destruction in the sense that Republicans like to lie about finding it and then use that lie as a justification to do ruinous, destructive things

there's something so funny about an unsuccessful provocateur. you can SMELL the desperation for someone, anyone, to argue with them and grant them relevance in the court of public opinion, and no one is biting

oh, this looks so cool

if a male coworker jumps in to start talking over me when i'm dealing with a problem patron because he was 'concerned i couldn't handle it', i should be legally allowed to defenestrate him

my neighbor has been put with his snowblower for two hours straight and i'm about to start taking bets about whether he runs out of gas or drops dead of a heart attack first

This has probably been done

for the record, both of these points were excellent advice 😂 (well, i'm only two episodes into the show but so far it's really excellent the book....... well.)

don't bite the sun/drinking sapphire wine were absolutely formative for me as a teenage sci-fi nerd in the 90s - i still have my beat-up paperback copy somewhere lmao

Behold! My cover is revealed! I am absolutely obsessed with Elissa Flanagan's cover design and I can't wait for y'all to read THIS IS MY BODY.

Bucky Barnes #art #commission

hi, cis folks! meet S.9. it's the senate sports ban for trans athletes—a big step to something making trump’s executive order federal law, which is much harder to undo. short call scripts for dem & GOP senators ⬇️. if you said you'd stand with trans folks, it's time.🧵 
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that sounds nightmarish, and also: taste changes over time. i read things now that i never would have touched as a teenager; conversely, some books that i loved back then no longer really speak to me. this is a recipe for stagnation and a refusal to engage with art in any meaningful way

reading about englishmen freezing to death in the arctic, which feels seasonally appropriate

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i really miss when being a nazi was generally socially unacceptable

We made it to Friday, please accept kitten in a frog hat as a reward🏆

My power over you Grows stronger yet / #iwtv

people who are good at being clever and funny off the cuff tend to get away with being assholes, because we're socially very permissive about cruelty as long as it's amusing