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@mercury-waters / mercury-waters.tumblr.com

writer of detective stories, & anything else that makes your hair stand on end

i would say 'trans guys, no matter where you are in your transition, never let yourself become the first boyfriend of a cis bi boy' but unfortunately it is a canon event that i have now gone through TWICE so homeboy just hit me up when it's over and we can cry about it together

accepted the fact that I'll never be very prolific but I'd like to at least be lific at an amateur level

i genuinely do not know whether or not to post about my WIP because it's a kind of ambitious audio drama project in a fandom that is still very active and i dont know whether or not people would care but if they did it would be so weird to be posting about the process of this before it is close to existing? but at the same time i REALLY want to talk about it

“The writer's job is to get the main character up a tree, and then once they are up there, throw rocks at them.” — Vladimir Nabokov

i mostly stay stealth in work situations just cuz i don't feel like being labeled the Office Fruit(tm) but the oooonneee motherfucker who ALWAYS clocks my shit is the "guy" coworker who quietly asks me my pronouns one day and when I ask pronouns back they drop that they always thought about transitioning but don't feel like they have the body for it.

i'm out here swinging hammers into eggshells left and right being like "yo a lot of your body will feel similar pre and post transition but you will feel way better about it."

your fixable post is great and hit at just the right time for trying to be hopeful. Sorry this happened to you - may change bring swift healing from heartbreak.

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thank you!! i saw this yesterday morning before i headed into work and it helped me get a good cry out before i went in which was very helpful

feeling a lot better today <3 may the world do so as well

it sucks so bad to be like, i love you, i love you, please can we talk, please can we fix this, i am willing to change things and behaviors in order to make us both happier, i love you, i want this, i want you, please meet me halfway

and to get i love you, i love you, but i'm sorry, it's over

Okay you know what, I do have another thing to add about audio fiction and how important it is, especially now. You know, during *gestures broadly around*

The thing about audio fiction is that they can't take it down.

Books can be pulled off the store shelves and publishers can flat-out refuse to give space to new ones that don't fit their side of the current political climate. Video streaming services can and already have gone even further by entirely scrubbing media they don't like from the only places that had rights to distribute them -- if not for piracy, shows like Infinity Train would be gone gone. I expect we will see much more of this type of behavior in coming years.

With audio fiction podcasting, the default is a decentralized, self-published, free to access platform. They can't very well take down a whole hosting service, and any show they go after can just be re-uploaded under a new RSS feed. (If you're a creator, please look into the basic principles of self-hosting, just in case.) Although we probably won't need to take any of those measures, because since there's no money that capitalists can extract from this art form,

They don't even know we exist. Be as queer as you want. Be as progressive and inclusive as you want. Be as anti-capitalist, anti-imperialist, anti-racist, anti-fascist as you want. Tell stories that are important, that people with power wouldn't want you to tell. They won't find us, not here.

Peace and love on every planet. And fight until we get it.

hey guys my relationship ended pretty suddenly last night so i would appreciate some nice words if there are any to spare

i do think a lot of implausible medieval plot devices make more sense when considering the fact that these people simply did not have glasses

like the king arthur problem of how were these people always accidentally sleeping with the wrong person? well 1) no glasses 2) no lights and candles are so expensive 3) royal couples didn’t even sleep in the same bed a lot of the time anyway 4) arranged marriage how much do you really know your spouse anyway? maybe not very well a lot of the time 5) people are drinking a lot idk. maybe not as absurd as one might think

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