It Perplexes Me How People Can Spend All Their Spare Time Consuming Media For Entertainment, Yet Still

Encouragment for writers that I know seems discouraging at first but I promise it’s motivational-

• Those emotional scenes you’ve planned will never be as good on page as they are in your head. To YOU. Your audience, however, is eating it up. Just because you can’t articulate the emotion of a scene to your satisfaction doesn’t mean it’s not impacting the reader. 

• Sometimes a sentence, a paragraph, or even a whole scene will not be salvagable. Either it wasn’t necessary to the story to begin with, or you can put it to the side and re-write it later, but for now it’s gotta go. It doesn’t make you a bad writer to have to trim, it makes you a good writer to know to trim.

• There are several stories just like yours. And that’s okay, there’s no story in existence of completely original concepts. What makes your story “original” is that it’s yours. No one else can write your story the way you can.

• You have writing weaknesses. Everyone does. But don’t accept your writing weaknesses as unchanging facts about yourself. Don’t be content with being crap at description, dialogue, world building, etc. Writers that are comfortable being crap at things won’t improve, and that’s not you. It’s going to burn, but work that muscle. I promise you’ll like the outcome.

RAGGHH LALALOOPSY AND LPS FOREVER

genuinely I don’t care how old you are and as a society grown ups and older teens also liking toys and dolls and stuff should be normal :] tuoys…,,,, doulls….

My problem with the "looks like a cinnamon roll - looks like they could kill you - is actually a cinnamon roll - could actually kill you" thing is that there's a very big difference between characters that could kill you and characters that would be willing to kill you.

Like, the opposite of "is actually a cinnamon roll" should be "would actually kill you", and there needs to be a z-axis of "has the destructive power of a cinnamon roll" to "living nuclear bomb"

Hello there! (intro post)

I'm The Secret Beetle. You can call me Beetle. My pronouns are They/Them, It/Its. I am Non-Binary. I am also Neurodivergent (Autism and possible ADHD).

This blog is mostly for fandom-related stuff and some other random things I like/find amusing. I'll repost memes and cool fanarts I find. Memes and other posts could contain swearing and other 18+ topics, but there will be no lewds here. I might also occasionally repost things that resonate with my personal values and viewpoints.

I'm a writer working on the first draft of my first (hopefully) novel. I have a separate blog more dedicated to writing. I also play piano and compose music as a side hobby. Most of my art is traditional, and I probably won't post it often, as I have convinced myself from a young age that I suck at it.

I was also the editor of the Mob Psycho 100 fanfic "Broken and Healed" on Ao3.

When I'm not doing any of that stuff (or battling executive dysfunction), I'm probably gaming, reading, listening to music, or watching cartoons and anime.

My favorite game genres are; Platforming, puzzle, horror, and occasionally RPGs. I mostly play indie games, but I've been getting into more triple-A game franchises slowly, but surely.

As for specific fandoms, trust me - you'll know. I will mark posts with spoiler warnings as I see fit.

Basic DNI; no racists, sexists, ableists, homophobes, transphobes, pedophiles, proshippers, etc.

I'm not comfortable with DMs unless I know you personally. But asks are fine.

I believe that's about it. Don't really have any other socials - people scare me.

Remember to be kind to each other! :) - Beetle

Me when I can finally browse the tag without spoilers

i wish i could emoji react irl so if i don't feel like talking or emoting i can just

people who don't experience hyperfixation don't know what it feels like to hyperfixate so much on something that it becomes not only your subject of obsession but also your source of happiness and literally the main reason why you still keep going; literal source of strength and life.

shoutout to my favorite fictional characters, favorite people, favorite ships, favorite movies, favorite tv shows, fanfics and archive of our own