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ghibligrunt

@ghibligrunt / ghibligrunt.tumblr.com

she/they, ENFJ. 30 🔮 Future Queen of Mirkwood.

ppl are always writing characters doing dumb shit like roasting a fresh-caught rabbit over an open flame instead of making a stew with that thing. great now you’re letting all the fat drip down into the fire as it cooks, wasting calories and flavor as well as causing the flame to flare up = inconsistent heat source,… when you could be maximizing the nutritional value of small game by making a soup or stew. Come on

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just convinced my endo to give me progesterone even tho I already have D cups

pssh, what's the worst that could happen. (clueless)

you know how sometimes your back hurts?

It doesn't matter..... I need more power...... I'll accept any punishment.... for my ambition

children are so fucking funny man

my niece is in 2nd grade and she came home crying her heart out and when we asked why she said her friend called her a "salt head" and its like the end of the world for her but its like. what does that even mean

I hate I when I get an idea for a novel. Like oh no here starts the slow sad slip n’ slide to dissapointment again.

You ever been 30,000 words and hundreds of research hours into a project when you realize hey wait a minute. I don’t like this. This is bad.

Ok adding to this though that even though it is extremely relatable, this is a KNOWN thing with professional writing. 10k is often referred to as "having a pot boiling" or "having a stew" - it's the point where you often see an idea coming together and it's exciting! But THEN... 30k-50k is the point where that fun has to start coming together. In theatre, it's usually week 3 of a 5 week rehearsal period where you have to stop talking about the play and really get it all up on its feet and cohesive. In art, it's committing to what are going to be the final visible layers of colour and texture, in sculpture the moment where you're truly at the point of no return with carving out the shape.

It usually feels really bad. Because this is the point it becomes real craft. It's so, so difficult to really be able to identify if it's truly not going to be anything or you're just in the hardest part of the process, and really the only way to know is to... write through it. Write it badly. Or, if you really can't, put it in a drawer and come back to it after a few months of breathing space. Remember, you can fix so much in the edit, but you can't fix nothing!

(I say, fully looking at my latest draft of my book and considering throwing it in the bin. But my editor said exactly this to me, so I'm passing it along.)

court-ordered AA/NA is so fucking stark. legally-mandated christian cult subjection or they'll lock you in a cage [again]

the "well atheists are actually the real reactionaries :/" crowd always get very wormy and indignant about this one

There are judges in the US that have explicitly ordered church attendance. The whole concept of "separation of church and state" has been thoroughly whittled down at this point.

Feels like too many people have forgotten that everyone on earth also has feelings and interior lives and experiences and are themselves entire universes that exist beyond the current and fleeting moment…

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