The Rant About What you're Writing Thread.

[Gracithe1andonly]

me, writing 13: look at this precious boi, he's so funny and smart an d he deserves the whole world
also me: he killed his twin on impulse and deserves to s u f f e r

[Gracithe1andonly]

personal confession: i really lucked out with my bio family yet am drawn like no one else to found family and maybe it's because every human being deserves what i have yet does not have it.

why do i keep writing people who aren't proud to carry their parents' names? sammie paper can't help but think of himself as the product of mistakes even though he himself isn't one. he has to remind himself all the time. tata beraht ditched his father's name for his foster brother's wife's maiden name, because no other berahts were around to throw shade at him for it. maybe it's because i am so proud of my name and my home that i'm making a special effort to recognize that that isn't everyone. and if you don't have a name and a home you can find one and build one.

maybe i'm trying to build family and community for those that have none.

how do i do this in real life??

[SilverMoon]

Originally Posted by Gracithe1andonly

personal confession: i really lucked out with my bio family yet am drawn like no one else to found family and maybe it's because every human being deserves what i have yet does not have it.

why do i keep writing people who aren't proud to carry their parents' names? sammie paper can't help but think of himself as the product of mistakes even though he himself isn't one. he has to remind himself all the time. tata beraht ditched his father's name for his foster brother's wife's maiden name, because no other berahts were around to throw shade at him for it. maybe it's because i am so proud of my name and my home that i'm making a special effort to recognize that that isn't everyone. and if you don't have a name and a home you can find one and build one.

maybe i'm trying to build family and community for those that have none.

how do i do this in real life??

yeah i think this is true bc its the case for me also!!
the first way you can start doing it irl is just being a good and supportive friend, yknow. you don't necessarily have to do anything special, just be there for other people

[Olivinat]

I hate topics and conclusions in formal writing

[Gracithe1andonly]

Originally Posted by Olivinat

I hate topics and conclusions in formal writing

mood.

tenchar

[Gracithe1andonly]

Originally Posted by SilverMoon

yeah i think this is true bc its the case for me also!!
the first way you can start doing it irl is just being a good and supportive friend, yknow. you don't necessarily have to do anything special, just be there for other people

presence is so hard when you feel like you're supposed to fix everything somehow lol, but it's something i've been practicing. sitting and listening is chill

[Gracithe1andonly]

in other news i was about to finish a draft but then i left all my notebooks across town so now i've been jumped by a whole new story idea and :/

love to hate the way my brain works

his name is theron and he is a g who hears spirits and paints his arms and braids his hair and makes a weird pudding called koshi and commits war crimes (but usually on accident.)

[Gracithe1andonly]

hmm thinking about the poem I wrote in middle school that started “the wind of change reeks with the blood of martyrs”

[ElizieAngelina]

so I read The School For Good and Evil, a Crystal Of Time.
Dovey's death, man. I cried