I Feel Like Sometimes Is An Understatement

you're the shell now

i just ate a whole peanut with the shell on

if you're trying to get into the head of your story's antagonist, try writing an "Am I the Asshole" reddit post from their perspective, explaining their problems and their plans for solving them. Let the voice and logic come through.

On the plus side, Zach's mom gave us the chips from today, I have my waters and monster, and I have Chex Mix so we're set for another hour

@idraw-sometimes It's 5:37. How's the stage managing going? The closet is pretty warm.

something I think we all know about fanfic, but don’t talk about because it would hurt writers feelings is that some fics are like fast food. I mean this as a compliment. I don’t always want to sit down for a six course meal that will be a flavor experience. Sometimes I just wanna dip some fries in a frosty. Sometimes I want something homecooked and delicious and super niche, but super comforting. Sometimes I want to eat an entire dark chocolate cheesecake in one sitting even though I know Its gonna make me sick. Just. holy crap, y’all. Sometimes I don’t even want fast food, I just want to eat an entire bag of chips. and yeah, I’m ashamed of myself afterwards, but at the time it was exactly what I wanted. So, no, we’re never going to say to our fanfic writers that we consider their writing to be the equivalent of a midnight run to taco bell - and we shouldn’t, feelings would be hurt by that. But writers, please, please, please, remember this. You don’t need to create a six course meal if you don’t want to. You don’t have to make something complex and homemade if you don’t want to. You don’t even have to finish cooking it - because someone will be thrilled that you brought a bowl of cookie dough and a spoon, because they cannot even consider sitting down and having a proper meal right now. It’s okay writers, whatever you decided to make. Someone was happy to have it. You gave them what they needed. You made them happy. You did good.

Imagining an alien species that has a buncha carbs or whatever as skin so that when a human spits on them they begin to melt and therefore humans would have “acid spit” to them (because human saliva has amylase or whatever that can dissolve sugars)

I reminded the props that almost all the actors were on stage and therefore their phones were unattended

@idraw-sometimes It's 5:37. How's the stage managing going? The closet is pretty warm.

@idraw-sometimes make sure you read the second paragraph. I'm actually excited.

“Half delicious murder ballad, half beguiling love story, Amal El-Mohtar transports us to Faerieland so seamlessly it seems as though she just stepped out of it.” —Holly Black

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Sisters Esther and Ysabel Hawthorn tend and harvest the enchanted willows that grow on their land at the border of Faerie and the mundane world. The sisters honor an ancient compact to sing to the willows as thanks for their magic, and they cherish each other as much as they cherish their trees.

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