Teacher: What Inspired You To Write This Essay?

Not all character development is positive. Characters can, and in my opinion, should, develop both negative and positive traits throughout the course of their story. As the story goes, they shouldn’t be perfected, they’re people, not artpieces, and so there shouldn’t be a stage where they’ve improved/changed exclusively for the better, to the point where they have no negative traits at all. 

*gas mask breathing noises* you know where the nearest taco bell is

I am learning to code and no one told me math would be involved in this shit, I refuse 

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?

THEY DESERVED BETTER THAN THIS

It really freaks me out that people think body hair is unsanitary. Like y'all are just so brainwashed if you believe that body hair is perfectly normal and fine on men, but on women its suddenly dirty? Use your critical thinking skills for a few damn seconds, I’m begging you.

Might have these out of order but just a good thread to share.

More angst :

unanswered phonecalls

seeing op's phone with shit ton of missed calls and new messages

texting to deceased op or writing letters to op

mp3 players with op's favorite songs

grave with no flowers, or a single dead flower

feel free to add or use sum of dis for ya angsty scenes

angsty prompts

empty bedroom once was full and lively

messy bedroom, op never came back, it was left as it is, as if op will be back soon. but op will never come back

cut out calendar, where op knows its his/her time already, so he/she cut the calendar to leave it only until the last date

unfinished paintings

op wanting/wishing to meet a deceased loved ones (unknowingly op wished to die, they want it so bad)

the place that op use to seat is empty (in class, cafeteria, etc)

empty and undecorated bedroom bcs op is not here to stay

:)

God I really wish carrying stuffed animals around with you was socially acceptable