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hey do you have a tumblr
no sorry
god i love how fucking ridiculous the internet is
tumblr is a free website compilation
New blorbo???
hello everyone meet my new oc, Map Wizard. they are on a quest to create the most beautiful and useful map ever to present at this year's international cartography conference.
please use they/them for this character if you reblog!
I'll be frank
I'm a sucker for video game characters doing normal human things
DnD (k)night!
Gaming is like this too, due to its sheer scope, so there are multiple flavors. Are you a Gamer(Decent and well-adjusted), Gamer(Anger management issues), Gamer(Racist), Gamer(Cheater-hyperparanoid), etc., etc. It’s enough of a problem that I hesitate to refer to myself as a”Gamer” in public spaces. That’s not even beginning to mention Gamer(“anti-woke”), who are basically the laughingstock of the internet 24/7.
There’s certain hobbies and interests that aren’t inherently conservative or regressive but do attract a lot of people who are those things or worse and when you’re a progressive person involved in those hobbies hearing that someone else is interested in your hobby usually has to involve some “But are you normal about it?” conversations before you get too excited
my dad–also a writer–came to visit, and i mentioned that the best thing to come out of the layoff is that i’m writing again. he asked what i was writing about, and i said what i always do: “oh, just fanfic,” which is code for “let’s not look at this too deeply because i’m basically just making action figures kiss in text form” and “this awkward follow-up question is exactly why i don’t call myself a writer in public.”
he said, “you have to stop doing that.”
“i know, i know,” because it’s even more embarrassing to be embarrassed about writing fanfic, considering how many posts i’ve reblogged in its defense.
but i misunderstood his original question: “fanfic is just the genre. i asked what you’re writing about.”
i did the conversational equivalent of a spinning wheel cursor for at least a minute. i started peeling back the setting and the characters, the fic challenge and the specific episode the story jumps off from, and it was one of those slow-dawning light bulb moments. “i’m writing about loneliness, and who we are in the absence of purpose.”
as, i imagine, are a lot of people right now, who probably also don’t realize they’re writing an existential diary in the guise of getting television characters to fuck.
“that’s what you’re writing. the rest is just how you get there, and how you get it out into the world. was richard iii really about richard the third? would shakespeare have gotten as many people to see it if it wasn’t a story they knew?”
so, my friends: what are you writing about?
yeah
don’t you ever read a piece of fanfiction so good you just