stonelionhearts:

i think as a writer, the older you get and the more you read, the more you realize there are very few actual truly bad ideas. which is a relief. but! the other thing you learn is that stories live and die on the execution and ha ha. lemme tell you. unfortunately. there are lots and lots of bad ways to execute an otherwise fine idea

jordaclan:

oh shoot just realised new followers might not know this so: fuck jk rowling. all my homies hate jk rowling

were–ralph:

thatdimensionalfox:

were–ralph:

The ultimate sexy poll showdown you can only choose one to fuck

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RB for the largest sample size this site has ever seen. it’s time to put an end to this.

now, considering the fact that a werewolf made this poll, I suspect this poll might be slightly biased with the viewers of this poll

no i want people to get it as far away from me as possible so it gets a fair chance all around, so rb and keep it pushing

argumate:

adhoption:

argumate:

ginkgo-bilobas:

I was born in the late nineteen hundreds

only nineteen hundreds kids will remember these

normal brain: I’m a ‘90s kid

big brain: I was born in the late nineteen hundreds

giant brain: I arose from the final years of the 20th century

galaxy brain: I was brought into this world amongst the dying breaths of the second millennium AD, and grew amidst the warmth of its ashes

born some decades before the Calamity

official-lucifers-child:

still thinking about the brainrot that fast fashion has caused in people, like i made this pair of pants that are black and white with a cool flowery design, and an acquaintance saw them and said “wow i’d pay like 20 dollars for you to make me a pair” and i could barely think with how utterly horrified i was at that; i told them that 20 dollars wouldn’t even cover the materials, let alone the hours of work that went into cutting, sewing, ironing, hemming, altering, etc. they just had this look on their face when i told them that, when i said i wouldn’t make them a pair for even 100 dollars because that was still way too low of an amount, a look that said “you’re crazy for thinking that those cost 100 dollars” and maybe i am crazy but holy shit, 20 dollars for a pair of handmade, durable, lined pants fitted specifically to your measurements? 20 dollars for upwards of 60 hours of work? 20 dollars for several yards of high-quality fabric, thread, and buttons? 20 dollars???

transmerry:

me, long ago, perfectly innocent: hm, i don’t have a lot of followers, but i wanna perform well for them so i’m going to construct a good queue system and post content that they’ll enjoy !!

me, now:

itoshisoup:

it’s actually so funny how challenging it is to write bona fide graphic, horny smut. like people don’t give smut writers enough credit. you are constantly running out of words to describe the same 2-4 body parts and same 4-6 motions. you are constantly attempting to do interesting and dynamic things in the prose with this extremely limited set of words. you are looking at your prose for the nastier bits and wondering if it actually sounds hot or if it just sounds goofy. you are then toning down your prose and then wondering if it now sounds tasteful or if it’s just boring. you do ctrl+F for the word “cock” and there are 37 instances of it in the doc but you hate the 1-2 acceptable synonyms so there’s nothing much you can do about it

iunsei:

MIGNON

creativepromptsforwriting:

creativepromptsforwriting:

What I hate about writing is when I have to write so much before I finally get to the part I actually wanted to write.

And then I finally get there and the part I wanted to write now doesn’t fit in anymore with the story I wrote so far.

sainamoonshine:

A note to all creatives:

Right now, you have to be a team player. You cannot complain about AI being used to fuck over your industry and then turn around and use it on somebody else’s industry.

No AI book covers. No making funny little videos using deepfakes to make an actor say stuff they never did. No AI translation of your book. No AI audiobooks. No AI generated moodboards or fancasts or any of that shit. No feeding someone else’s unfinished work into Chat GPT “because you just want to know how it ends*” (what the fuck is wrong with you?). No playing around with AI generated 3D assets you can’t ascertain the origin of. None of it. And stop using AI filters on your selfies or ESPECIALLY using AI on somebody else’s photo or artwork.

We are at a crossroad and at a time of historically shitty conditions for working artists across ALL creative fields, and we gotta stick together. And you know what? Not only is standing up for other artists against exploitation and theft the morally correct thing to do, it’s also the professionally smartest thing to do, too. Because the corporations will fuck you over too, and then they do it’s your peers that will hold you up. And we have a long memory.

Don’t make the mistake of thinking “your peers” are only the people in your own industry. Writers can’t succeed without artists, editors, translators, etc making their books a reality. Illustrators depend on writers and editors for work. Video creators co-exist with voice actors and animators and people who do 3D rendering etc. If you piss off everyone else but the ones who do the exact same job you do, congratulations! You’ve just sunk your career.

Always remember: the artists who succeed in this career path, the ones who get hired or are sought after for commissions or collaboration, they aren’t the super talented “fuck you I got mine” types. They’re the one who show up to do the work and are easy to get along with.

And they especially are not scabs.

*that’s not even how it ends that’s a statistically likely and creatively boring way for it to end. Why would you even want to read that.