Mary Sues aren't boring because there's no 'stakes,' but because they aren't equitable. To be the best around, you have to be /better than…/

The utter joy in finding out that someone didn't just vanish off the face of the Internet for nothing, & she's fine, she just transitioned!

"❄️ Do you ever get..." — yes, /yes you do,/ see Analog by Plum Pudding. This is a real thing, that people have happen to them occasionally!

kin la, happy belated Tau Day to all who celebrate! Closest I could get.

You ever listen to something and realise that it's /a better story than you?/

Just realised what the joke is in the name of Snowdin Town.

I love the fake names for things people make up for examples in arguments. Also, metasyntactic variables!

Another thing that is frankly awesome — epigraphs taken from fictional media the author made up for the work.

:D /Floornight/ understands that in 'they're doing typical oppressive stuff, but they're eldritch' the 'eldritch' bit is the /positive/ one.

I /really, really/ disike what this one author does when he describes 'weird, slimy, alien' and means 'disgusting' instead of 'interesting!'

The best thing that ever happens in stories is when they show you a world where the inciting incident never happened.

They're bombing Rafah now. What gets described as 'last civilian safe zone' and 'last bastion of Hamas' are the exact same cities. God fuck.

Swipe-based text input methods like 8Vim are more resilient against wet or snowed-at screens than tap-based methods like most keyboards now.

By using enough different words that contradict each other enough you can regain the freedom you lost when you started using words /at all./

I think I should try to get into horror again. Keep hearing people describe things as scary and thinking — no, just weird, unnerving and fun

What's the difference between someone pretending to be you who /isn't/ you, and someone pretending to be you who /is/ you?

Cohost has added asks now! Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

Has a sort of grunge aesthetic, but the original novel is so much more cold and vivid. Love how it plays with cameras and viewpoints, though

Is there such a thing as 'method writing'? Putting yourself in a mindset of a character so you can understand what their dialogue looks like

Bacon isn't inherently hedonist, and necktie isn't inherently anti-hedonist. You /can/ have a necktie hedonism. (That's me!) And vice versa.