Nowadays when I have writer’s block, I freeze. When I was 11, it seems to me that I would break the fourth wall and keep going.
Actual story quote from my 11-year-old self:
“Then they all waited and waited for the writer to come up with an idea. And they kept waiting. And waiting. And still, they kept on waiting because the idea section in the writer’s brain was filled with hot gas right about now.”
I don’t try to meditate anymore because once I realized that it can’t actually turn me into a water bender my brain stopped letting me do it.
When I was 14 some niche website on the third page of Google convinced me that if I meditate hard enough I could channel my qi energy into making water obey my commands and during that time I got so good at meditating. I could just let my thoughts and earthly worries pass for hours, unbothered.
Then one day I was like “wait a minute qi energy isn’t real” and then I lost the ability to meditate
This was also during a phase in my life where I was so deeply in denial about being transgender that I convinced myself that me secretly being a vampire without knowing it was more likely.
Like I’d already figured out two years earlier that I was trans but at this point I was like no I’m not queer I just need to achieve enlightenment so I can be a water bending vampire empath. This seems much more likely.
Being 14 is weird I’m glad I don’t have to do that anymore
One of the rare times where a comment section is delightful the moment I open it
I approve of powerscaling discourse only in utterly senseless contexts. I don't give a shit about which shōnen protagonists could beat up which other shōnen protagonists, but I will 100% read your five thousand word essay exploring the subtle nuances of establishing a tiered ranking of the Smurfs.
"Could Batman beat Captain America" trite, tedious, bullshit. "Could Deadpool beat Roger Rabbit" now you have my attention.
Have any of you guys seen the superman versus mr bean video? It's absolutely wild and hilarious and opened my eyes to the terrifying godlike evils of Mr Bean
did you know that you can just go online and be nice to people? you can give people compliments and helpful advice when they ask? you can encourage people when they need a little cheering up? you can even share cute pictures! more people should use the internet like that.
Can't be sincerely dark without being called edgy, can't be sincerely emotional without being called melodramatic, can't be sincerely silly without being called stupid. They're gonna hate every emotion you put in your art no matter what so make it anyway and be as sincere as you can be
all this on the ides of march. poetic! happy knife day, everyone!
FUNNIER THAN ME ON MY OWN POST
Just saw someone claim that julius caesar was the people's politician who was an entirely good person that helped all the poor people and only evil rich people had a problem with him so we shouldn't actually "celebrate" the ides of March
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be sure to leave out milk and cookies for brutus tonight
You can leave as many cookies as you want but he’ll only et two
this remains the funniest addition anyone’s made to one of my posts
the emotion i just experienced is kind of indescribable
the funniest part of this post to me is that the reblog:like ratio is nearly 1:1. nobody’s just liking everyone who sees this video goes yeah i gotta inflict it on as many people as possible
I know this is a tiny part of the wider problems born of diet culture, fatphobia, classicism, and racism but like god the idea that "healthy" food must inherently taste bad has completely ruined us as a society.
Every time you feel bad for having coffee with cream and sugar or ranch on your salad or putting extra butter and salt on your veggies I want you to imagine the spirit of John Harvey Kellogg in front of you and then I want you to kill him with a real gun and eat your delicious food in peace.
Every time I start feeling a little guilty for no reason about staying up writing until 3am, or sleeping in past 10, I think about that Hunter S. Thompson daily routine that’s like. 3pm: Wake up. 4pm cocaine. 4:30pm cocaine. 5pm cocaine. 6pm smoke a little weed. 7pm Loiter. 9pm start doing coke seriously 12am midnight: Start writing. Just for a little perspective like, I could be doing worse. I could be doing in fact so much worse.
Like look at this
Vent art
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I'm really not apologetic with this hard stance, either. I'm very firm on this, too. My art has already been used, twice now by people who did not ask my permission, so they could "enhance it" with Gen AI. I really see nothing good coming from generative AI except poor excuses for laziness and glorified search engines that don't work.
This is an important time to make the distinction between generative and analytical AI. Analytical AI is what AI is supposed to be for. It’s all the boring stuff like analyzing data for patterns. For example, you probably heard about that AI that was designed to tell apart bear claws from croissants for a bakery that is now being used to detect cancer cells with greater accuracy than human doctors. That’s an analytical AI, while everything mentioned in the post above is generative AI. (Which sucks!)
Kinda sick and tired of black characters and other characters of color being made to look like white people with a skin tint. Give POC dark eyes!!!! Give them ethnic features!!!! Give them dark hair!!!!! GIVE THEM HAIR TEXTURE!!!!!! I promise you it's not that scary
