JetravenEx

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See, that’s what the app is perfect for.

Sounds perfect Wahhhh, I don’t wanna
firealder2005
color--theorist

So to recap

  • Pillowfort is not dead (never has been). It's just smaller. If you join it, it will be bigger!
  • Pillowfort is consistently getting new features and improvements based on user feedback
  • Pillowfort is free to join without invites. Think AO3 waitlist. You'll be ready to go in a few hours at most.
  • Pillowfort was not "made by antis" (lmao)
  • Pillowfort is completely user funded, and thus will never enshittify
  • Pillowfort allows NSFW, is sex worker friendly (as far as US law allows) and banned AI images*
  • Pillowfort does not have reblog replies, on purpose, only comments. You own and control your own posts, forever.
  • Pillowfort is planning Ask Boxes, UX improvements, better image uploading, and tons more
  • Pillowfort is not owned by a transphobic techbro douchebag
  • Pillowfort has been around for seven years, where other small social media has withered and died. Cohost came and went all within PF's lifetime.
  • Pillowfort is small. It is buggy. It has no video or audio, only Youtube embeds. It runs on 7k/month, mostly spent on moderators. They use their resources as best they can, and have built a damn resilient product for it.
  • Pillowfort is trying to build a better, sustainable internet, without venture capital tricks destroying good services. It's not impossible, just harder, and slower. Don't believe the defeatists.
  • Pillowfort is not for everybody. The only way you'll find out whether you like it is by trying it.


\*: Linking to AI images is technically allowed if tagged, but PF will never host them, no exceptions.

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ahotknife

the thing is that childhood doesn't just end when you turn 18 or when you turn 21. it's going to end dozens of times over. your childhood pet will die. actors you loved in movies you watched as a kid will die. your grandparents will die, and then your parents will die. it's going to end dozens and dozens of times and all you can do is let it. all you can do is stand in the middle of the grocery store and stare at freezers full of microwave pizza because you've suddenly been seized by the memory of what it felt like to have a pizza party on the last day of school before summer break. which is another ending in and of itself

clearestbluest

tags: #and sometimes you meet your childhood again #in a kid on the bus talking about lord of the rings #or in a sweet little cat who looks so much like yours did and meows in the same way #in a copy of a book at a secondhand store you had as a kid and lost #childhood ends but it's not always gone #it waves at you from across the street and you wave back #with a sadder but kinder eye and a smile #childhood has moved on to someone else but it remembers you stillALT

<3

shining-bewear

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fellshish

The devastating difference between how much time it takes to write something vs how fast people read it lol

rebornofstars

you're falling in the trap!! it will be read by many people, many times, and it will live on in their memories. and maybe no single other human will match you in time spent dedicated to your story, but as a collective we will outlast you. acts of creation only grow when they are shared

galadriel1010

This. Writing is not like dinner. It can be consumed many times

ibelieveinahappilyeverafter

This has probably been said but the way I had to force myself to understand writing was that it wasn't like making a meal, but it was like making a blanket

Somedays it will only be used once, and briefly, and then tucked away and forgotten about

Other days it will be used for weeks at a time until every pattern stitched in is memorized

And a couple times it will be wrapped around someone and used until the edges are frayed and worn and falling apart and every fibre or string or piece of yarn that was used in it's creation is memorized as something beautiful

Writing isn't cooking

It's creation

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