i have so much affection for the ugly, selfish, human part of people's motivations that pollutes their noble intentions and ideals. i did it because i liked it. because i was good at it. because it felt good. because i deserved it. because i wanted to.
tag the oc who would put dice in their mouth
Y'all have gotta get more insane about platonic relationships like you are about romantic relationships. We need to get more annoying about them NOW. I need to see more meta and losing our minds over them. Get more annoying NOW. More than that. More than that also.
"amab or afab" im alab experiment that went wrong
"So you collect ghosts?"
"Not intentionally. Ghosts are just drawn to me. I'm a ghost sponge. A ghost magnet. When I'm hired to check out a haunted house, I walk in and take all the ghosts with me when I leave. And if it turns out there's a demon the ghosts eat 'em. It's a very efficient system."
"...Say that last part again."
"The ghosts eat the demons. Like a pack of hyenas taking down a wildebeest. I've seen the ghost of a 90-year-old Ukrainian babushka tear apart a demon with her teeth."
Hi CT! A while ago you mentioned how you once trained yourself in a kind of writing where you start going and just don't stop. I forget other details, but I was wondering if you could talk more about it.
What is this writing technique? How is it practiced? And do you have any tips for those who want to start doing it?
Automatic writing! It originally started as an esoteric method, but now it's just a pretty normal writing warm up. Basically, you just write, no stopping, no backspaces. Its an excellent way to build confidence. You know what they say, all writing is rewriting. Automatic writing is a great way to train up the base quality of your first drafts.
What's funny is that's basically how I was trained to write. I can crank out some insanely high daily word counts if I need to. After years of practice, my first drafts are faster and higher quality than most authors 3rd.
Though, it really is just a way to turn out junk and iterate on it faster than most authors. It makes me really good at producing solid C+ work, but it still takes me just as long to make A+ work.
‘there’s no platonic explanation for this’
buddy you wouldn’t believe what kind of platonic explanations im capable of
天使のたまご (Angel’s Egg | Amano Yoshitaka/Oshii Mamoru | 1985)
少女革命ウテナ (Revolutionary Girl Utena | Ikuhara Kunihiko | 1997)
灰羽連盟 (Haibane Renmei | Tokoro Tomokazu | 2002)
there's something about characters with doppelgangers and mirror selves and masks and personas that's like catnip to me. something about how it tells you so much about them while telling you nothing at all.