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8:57am
September 16, 2014
“Being raised in an unstable household makes you understand that the world doesn’t exist to accommodate you, which… is something a lot of people struggle to understand well into their adulthood. It makes you realize how quickly a situation can shift, how danger really is everywhere. But crises when they occur, do not catch you off guard; you have never believed you lived under a shelter of some essential benevolence. And an unstable childhood makes you appreciate calmness and not crave excitement.”
— Curtis Sittenfeld (via onlinecounsellingcollege)
8:52am
September 16, 2014
One of the things I like about being alive is being able to drink really, really cold water
Weirdly enough, one thing I really like is to put cold water into my feeding tube. It’s gotten to the point where it feels almost like drinking it. And I just enjoy sticking huge syringes of water into it – to a point, I mean, not to the point where it just over-stretches my intestines and makes me feel yucky.
8:46am
September 16, 2014
Please help.
I’ve lost my source of income, and I need some help until I can figure out something else. I’m disabled, mentally ill, and basically alone. My needs are few, but without income, I’m afraid I won’t be able to meet them.
Donate to nymphbeast@gmail.com on Paypal if you can afford to. Please make a note that it’s for lichgem, since it’s not my Paypal.
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8:43pm
September 15, 2014
This sign is in my doctors office above the scale and I really love it. It actually made me feel a lot better after reading it
6:31pm
September 15, 2014
Please help.
I’ve lost my source of income, and I need some help until I can figure out something else. I’m disabled, mentally ill, and basically alone. My needs are few, but without income, I’m afraid I won’t be able to meet them.
Donate to nymphbeast@gmail.com on Paypal if you can afford to. Please make a note that it’s for lichgem, since it’s not my Paypal.
If you can’t afford to help, please signal boost. Thank you.
12:51pm
September 15, 2014
Please help.
I’ve lost my source of income, and I need some help until I can figure out something else. I’m disabled, mentally ill, and basically alone. My needs are few, but without income, I’m afraid I won’t be able to meet them.
Donate to nymphbeast@gmail.com on Paypal if you can afford to. Please make a note that it’s for lichgem, since it’s not my Paypal.
If you can’t afford to help, please signal boost. Thank you.
10:25am
September 15, 2014
fyi
the term Mary Sue stems from an actual character named Mary Sue in a Star Trek fic way back in the stone age of the 70s that was written specifically to mock female Trek OCs for being badly written wish fulfillment vehicles for teenage girls
it was always specifically gendered and used to shit on female power fantasies in fanfiction
the fact that ppl can’t even agree on a comparable term for male characters (is it Gary Stu or Marty Stu?) should tell you something about its purpose
the types of legitimate criticisms we can make about these types of characters are not by any means restricted to them, nor are they restricted to female OCs
ergo why I always ask the question, “why do we need a specific, gendered term to describe a poorly written character?”
Replying to the tags:
#misogyny #I refuse to believe wish fulfillment writing is invalid to begin with #there’s obviously an audience for it #there’s like this weird ubermensch thing going on when people act like things written for personal reasons #can’t ever be legitimate ‘literature’ #even though writers have been doing it for centuries anyway #they’re just good at hiding it #or rather people give them the benefit of the doubt
…seriously.
My NaNoWriMo project is going to include a PoV character who is basically an alternate-universe me. A me without what I call the gifts of Seshat, that allow me to write and read and understand language to the degree that I do. She won’t really be me, she’ll have her own personality, but her form of autism is heavily based on me and her interests are heavily based on me and there’s no pretending that she’s not heavily autobiographical.
And I know people look down on that shit.
But I can’t bring myself to give a shit. I am writing the story for a reason. I badly want to turn it into a book. I want to show certain things about human experiences that I can’t do in nonfiction. And I’ve already got her a whole family planned out and everything.
I’ll write more in a separate post, I’m really excited about writing this story and nothing about how it’s “bad” to base characters on yourself can deter me from writing it because it really badly needs to be written. I just hope NaNoWriMo will give me the structure and discipline needed to get a first draft written out. I have high hopes, anyway – for some reason it just feels like this is the year I could do it, whereas I’ve never felt before like I could ever finish NaNoWriMo.
9:18am
September 15, 2014
Why do men interpret women wanting respect as us wanting to cut off their genitals
Like what kind of weird ass leap of logic is that, unless you think your crotch is solely responsible for the oppression of women and you managed to ignore all the talk about behavior, values, and choices
Ie the things you do with your brain
Nobody has said shit about your dick except maybe stop sending us unsolicited pictures of it