Something next to normal, that's the thing I'd like to try

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kayvsworld:

I know some fic writers get stressed about writing tropes they think are too popular or overdone, and I need you all to know that I just spent 4 hours reading every iteration of the same exact fic plot I could find, and they all brought me an indescribable amount of joy. Listen. Listen. Sometimes you want cakes of many flavours and sometimes you want Nine Carrot Cakes

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corviiids:

badboneszone:

corviiids:

corviiids:

i have a croissant related grievance

the entire appeal of the croissant is that it is a layered pastry item. it has a light flaky texture. the layers are in there specifically to create a fluffy, airy eating experience. that’s the intention of the lamination process. having so many layers of butter and thin pastry dough make the croissant puff up when it’s baked so that when you bite into it the pastry has a texture similar to puff pastry. the entire point is to fill the pastry with air. therefore any trendy hybrid variant of the croissant such the “cruffin” or the “cronut” or the worst offender of all the “croffle” which involve jamming the unbaked croissant or compressing it into a flat shape completely betray croissant as it was originally intended. they defeat the nature of the croissant by forcing it into something it was never meant to be, removing the unique core of its identity, killing its appeal and thus its entire reason for being. now am i saying you can’t enjoy a cronut or croffle? of course i would not say this. you can enjoy any pastry you want to enjoy because it’s your time on earth. i want you to enjoy your croffle. you should enjoy your croffle. also, you can commit any sin you like and i can’t stop you nor do i want to. i won’t hear your arguments because you don’t need to convince me. but you must understand, as you eat it, that the croffle should not exist. it is a mistake. it is an insult not only to the croissant but to me as an individual. i am not french

This reads as someone with a strong moral code (people should be free to experience joy without arbitrary regulation, you don’t have to like what other people like but your discomfort is your own problem) trying to maintain their faith in a time of hardship (they keep doing weird shit to croissants)

ill be so honest this read of my character in such a fraught croissanted context has me tearing up with the raw joy of being seen

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expressions-of-nature:

Hunt’s Mesa, Monument Valley by Bousure

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aearyn:

ghosthorse-tracks:

Lesser-known steps of the writing process:

• Finding all the paragraphs where you used some hyper-specific word more than once
• Rearranging paragraphs that you swear you wrote in the right order but turned out to be totally backwards
• Going for a walk, coming up with the perfect line, and forgetting it as soon as you get home and open your laptop
• Creating a separate document where you can dump all of those nice sentences that no longer fit in anywhere
• Waking up in a cold sweat because so-and-so was supposed to be barefoot but never actually took his shoes off

• going for a walk, coming up with the perfect line, you get back and type it in…and realize you just said almost that exact thing two sentences ago.

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tzikeh:

max–phillips:

Huge bummer that those old people in Halloween costumes are AI. Fooled me. This goddamn sora app is killing me.

This is not just a “huge bummer” - this is an it’s-already-too-late wake-up call to people to check sources for *everything* - ESPECIALLY video now. You have to do due diligence on everything – you’ve got to source quotes, “facts,” photos, videos, etc. We’re all at risk of falling for it, especially if whatever “it” is appeals to us in any way.

Unfortunately we are now at the “trust no one” stage of the bullshit game we’re all trapped in. You cannot trust anything - even people who you’ve been friends with for years - decades - may reblog something that seems innocuous, or feeds their leanings (and yours)- they may be reblogging AI fakes (unknowingly, of course). You can no longer safely reblog your friends without doing your own background search on whatever it is.

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goshdoggett:

Twin Peaks (1990-1991)
Created by David Lynch and Mark Frost

@giftober 2025 | Day 2: “Cities/Towns”

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scrivnomancer:

Still one of my favorite wordplay titles in all of literature.

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unlettered-heathen:

warmfigure:

i am massively overdue for a very very good week where not a single bad thing happens and everything is easy

reblog to give prev a very good week where not a single bad thing happens and everything is easy

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