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Chris paused for a moment.

No. He did not feel out of place at all wearing his own clothes. They were all standing inside a clothing retailer were they not? It would only be odd if he was wearing clothes he did not own outside of the dressing room.

Chris then reminded the sales clerk at the boutique on Rodeo Drive ‘Stranger Things’ already happened. They were still producing new episodes too so they could put the matter to rest. The old saying was now absolute truth and no longer opinion.

Chris then seemingly out of nowhere felt himself resisting an incredible urge to scream, “BIG, HUGE, BIG mistake!”

Brad would attribute the unrecognizable urge to intergenerational trauma at dinner that evening. After careful consideration and research via a rental on Netflix, Brad’s hypothesis certainly fit the bill.

Chris then wondered how it was Chris saw the flick ‘Pretty Woman’ in the first place. It screamed of straight people. To the other end, it did produce an unexpected explanation for Brad’s fear of polka dot dresses. Chris always did admire Brad for his integrity.

Yeah, he had a point but he also didn't have to generalize russia or china. His point still stands though

alex hirsch is like. hes just some guy. i dont think hes a Homophobe or anything and i think its not BAD that hes speaking up about disneys censorship of lgbt characters (its a good point and its true that disney is shit when it comes to lgbt rep but still participates HEAVILY in rainbow capitalism) but like ultimately he’s a cishet dude. im sure theres lgbt creators in the industry making the same points as him whose voices ppl could be amplifying and listening to

gravity falls is a good show but it is far from perfect like.. it had its own issues with transmisogyny and casual racism. i dont think you should let the fact that you like the show cloud your vision and put him on a pedestal. im not saying this to #cancel him or whatever just like. some people on here get SO defensive about him and like. hype him up for the most bare minimum 

Just finished watching Devilman Crybaby and I wished someone would have warned me that I would cry like a baby.

I thought it was going to be a romance, horror thing. But, nope. It was sadness. I’m very sad but satisfied. Good show.

Before I go to bed, I want to clarify something in case any anons show up in my inbox. My annoyance at JK dropping the word “girl” every five seconds and singing about being a hetero womanizer are NOT because I’m insecure about Jikook or have doubts that JK isn’t straight. It’s because it feels so inauthentic and forced. I didn’t like Seven, but Jungkook at least “sold” that song. I don’t think he was resonating with a damn word he was singing. You can tell the vibe of 3D is just.. off.

I wish Thor: Love and Thunder was similar to Wakanda Forever in its character study and development. It had the right story to do it and it doesn’t need to get rid of the jokes but like it’s hard to watch it for a 2nd time

Imma just leave this here.

Okay, so I’ve been like, not saying anything on this because I can’t be bothered with the drama, but like, I figure a fair few people in the fandom are generally aware of my existence, and I make a lot of ace content, so here we go. Sorry it’s not a read below the line, I’m on mobile.

The concept of smut week makes me a tad uncomfortable, but the concept of making smut taboo makes me even more uncomfortable. I don’t understand the appeal of it, but I don’t understand the appeal of sex at all.

Quite honestly, some of the smut creators I’ve interacted with in this fandom have made me very uncomfortable. Some of the ways smut creators in this fandom have referred to people who don’t like smut make me uncomfortable. The idea of watching a show for kids and seeing a potential for smut makes me uncomfortable. Some of the fetishist behaviour I’ve seen within smut I’ve stumbled across makes me uncomfortable.

But (and I’m really not trying to be a pick me ace here) smut week was always going to happen. Honestly, the prompts and rules are comforting because it seems respectful and inclusive. Hyper sexual kids exist. Kids who find their comfort in smut and sex exist. Trans kids who want to feel attractive exist. I know people really fucking comforted by some of the trans smut in this fandom, and I know people really fucking comforted by the emotional smut in this fandom, and I’m proud to be apart of a fandom that’s provided that, even if it’s not something I want to read myself. I’ve found that comfort in ace and aro related content in this fandom, and I’m glad me and my friends can all find something for ourselves.

In my opinion, the best way for this to go forward without some kind of explosion is respect. Like actual fucking respect. You find your comfort, I’ll find mine, maybe we can get through that without calling each other names, and maybe we can get through that without ostracising parts of the community that could be providing comfort to others. A blocklist is useful because it means don’t like don’t read can be enacted, but in the same vein, let’s not accuse people of crimes, yk. Don’t attack smut writers, but smut writers, maybe don’t call us prudes.

(P. S. Maybe ace week is meant to be a rebuke to smut week, but do you know what? Maybe ace people deserve an outpouring of content at a time when the smut creators (by no means a majority) who’ve disrespected us will be getting a lot of validation)

No offense to writers, but why does everything have to be a fucking love story?

I have found like 2 posts that have actually helped with my style of writing and one of them was literally just grammar. Whenever I go on tumblr looking for writing advice, all I see is relationship writing prompts. Speaking of those “writing prompts”, they are literally just singular lines of context or dialogue. The only person that actually follows the correct definition for writing prompts every post is @writing-prompt-s , which are great and almost every one of them has so much potential, each one of those is an entire, self contained story.

Writing does not require a close relationship ship, nor does it need complex character arcs. People are not malleable, humanity is an extremely stubborn species that does not like change. Too often do I read stories where the villain becomes good at the end, or they are defeated and the MC(s) live happily ever after. There is a reason why the big bad is evil, whatever that reason may be, it is what drives the antagonist. Consistency in what drives a character is important for that character to seem believable, despite what people tell you, people rarely, truly change.

For example, if the villain became evil because of a traumatic childhood, abusive parents, and or neglect, the protagonist giving them the attention they needed as a child wouldn’t change the antagonist. This realization came to me after watching the boys, Homelander is given all of the love and attention in the world by hundreds of millions if not billions of fans and even then he’s constantly on the verge of snapping. When a person is deprived of attention, they either think they don’t deserve it or that it’s their right. In both cases, if you then give that person attention and passion, they will then want more. They were at rock bottom for the longest time and have most likely been in denial about it their whole lives, when you bring someone like that back up they find out that the feeling they previously thought unimportant felt good. They might stay with the protagonist for a bit to hold on to that feeling, but the moment they find out they can get that same feeling from others, suddenly the person that first showed you compassion is no longer unique. This is a very slippery slope to addiction, and addiction can and will make a person do anything for just one more fix of the only thing they care about.

I used this example because it is of the introduction of emotional drive to a story that had lacked it previously, some stories are meant to be love stories from the beginning and that’s fine, but when it is put into another type of story it can completely take over the plot and thus overrides any foreshadowing or themes the plot originally had.

(Spoilers for the boys, skip to the next paragraph if you haven’t seen it yet.)

Going back to Homelander, he is a character driven by attention, he’s already addicted to it. Homelander goes through several relationships in the show, be it real or fake, but none of them help him or change him as a person in any way. The boys is a beautiful example on the human mind’s need to be loved and how it can never truly be fulfilled. In the end, Homelander doesn’t get defeated or proven that it doesn’t have to be this way, instead he listens to his son and walks away. Even though he hasn’t changed completely, he now has a drive that is greater than his need for attention, making sure his son gets the childhood and love he never did. At the end of the show he discovers that love is mutual and that you don’t need everyone’s love to be happy. Homelander learn’s that making sure his son is happy can fulfill him greater than anyone else loving him ever could. Even after all of this, in the very last seen he murders someone and gets praised for it, his old motives and ideals are still there but he doesn’t need them.

However, sometimes love is forced into scenario’s that are completely illogical. Morals are based on a mental line you draw somewhere in your mind, but once you kill someone, suddenly you’ve just crossed the last line. You can make excuses, but ending a life is a one way road. No matter how hard it was to end that life, it will always be easier the second time. Sooner or later that second time will come, nobody teaches you how to forgive yourself because nobody really knows how. Love loses meaning when the person giving it can be ending so easily, don’t believe me? Do you remember the feeling you got from succeeding at something for the first time? Did ever feel that way for doing it again? Life is an endless loop of winning and losing, but once you overcome that final hurdle, what then?

The villain in a story can often be depicted as bored from a life of killing, there’s no going back, so more often than not they just stop. Defeated by a hero, killed by their own machinations, or just simply ending their own life, it doesn’t matter. They’ve killed so much at this point that they don’t fear death and often long for it. I hate it when I read a book and the character is redeemed from this state. Whenever I see a story end with a “happily ever after” I just sigh, it’s completely fine to have a b plot relationship, but it should never be the ending unless it’s actively a romance novel.

Sorry for the tangent, but I have just read one to many “action and adventure” books with a sappy ending. Watching Invincible, The Boys, and surprisingly Avengers: Infinity War has shown me that stories don’t have to have a happy ending, and the ones that don’t are interesting as fuck.

P.s. the only show that sufficiently handles friendship and relationships is my little pony. I only saw it because sister, but damn. There is no reason nor does there even deserve to be a reason why mlp was so well written. It had characters that consistent motivations and morals, event that actively changed who they were as a person, and get this, multiple character traits, I know, unbelievable. The animation was incredible and dialogue and writing were fucking perfect, fight me

just once i want a makeover scene where the stylist says “and…the finishing touch” and we see them put the trademark glasses back on a confident, well-adjusted and surprisingly physically unaltered face to learn that the real makeover was the person she became

(for the hell of it she’s also dressed to the nines)

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There was a long break between the time I wrote the first entry and this one. So I decided that after this opinion piece about writing in a foreign language I will probably in the near future publish a longer and more personal entry that I wrote in order to “catch up” on my mental health :)

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❀ Pansy n°2 = I love English.

It is true, I do love the English language.

In fact, today I am in my first year of college and I follow a course in English Literature and Civilisations. So basically I am studying this language in depth. It feels great as, when I started this journal, it was the only thing I was wishing for but it is a lot harder than I thought…

Anyway, it is definitely not what I want to write about.

What I want to speak of, to let my mind wander to, is how I find it easier to express myself, my thoughts, my mindset, my feelings in English rather than in my mother tongue. I find it so strange yet fascinating and a bit logical. Actually, I have been told (or I have read somewhere but can’t remember where) it is a fact that bilingual people describe their emotions and communicate in their learned language with more ease. I find it quite logical as we have learned precise words and ways to express peculiar and specific events, feelings,... We have a whole new and fresh vocabulary imprinted in our minds so it feels like we have more words to clearly express something. Moreover, it creates more distance between us and the problems or feelings we’re facing.

I personally relate to this a lot.

I think it might be enhanced by the fact that I read more in English as well. So in a way, my literary vocabulary is more extended in English. I consume a lot of English entertainment. Songs, books, movies, series, fanfictions…

My mind even works in English. I think, speak and dream in English. Weirdly, it just comes naturally.

When I write or read in my mother tongue things just feel cringe and wrong, like there’s always a better way to say those things. Sometimes I think of sayings and expressions in English which are perfect for what I am trying to say but, it has to be in my mother tongue and it either doesn’t have an equivalent or even if it has, I feel like it loses a bit of its meaning. It is truly complicated, especially when I talk with people and only English vocabulary comes to my mind. Moreover, as an aspiring writer and translator, I cannot and do not want to lose connection with my mother tongue. I have to practice it and feel more comfortable with it. And when I successfully write in my native language, I cannot express how proud I feel. It just is awesome to see that I am capable of writing beautiful and meaningful things in this language that I feel so uneasy with.

Yet, I feel that sometimes it is an enormous struggle to communicate with others when I can’t speak with them with some english words and expressions. Like I said, more than often I have english words which come to my mind and it is hard to find how to say it in my native language. The worst is, when I struggle and people tell me to just say as I think, they end up mocking me and saying things like “Oh excuse me ! Madame only speaks English !” It makes me feel awful as people clearly think I am trying to expose my good english. Like I am pompous, conceited, arrogant… And it is very much what I don’t want people to think of me. Even though I am, in fact, proud of the quality of my English - written and spoken - I don’t want people to see me as someone who thinks too highly of herself.

ANYWAY. I enjoy writing in english. I enjoy speaking in english. And I will not stop practicing this language.

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- notify me if there are typos ;)