It's lesbian visibility week you have to look at my elf ok?

But I guess the litmus test for the MCU was when they killed a Black woman on set to save a few bucks making Deadpool 2 and nobody stopped watching them

The only mysterious thing about any of it is why, when the MCU scripts have been overstuffed, empty, tiresomely self-referential slush at least as far back as — ooh, Infinity War, say; and has gone ever further down the pan as *deliberate corporate strategy,* anyone still gives half a shit

The price of entry to a new MCU film has for some time intentionally been a movie ticket AND a couple years of Disney+ subscription :)

Also, the whole thing where You Have To Watch The Entire MCU For It To Make Sense, Trust Me Bro?

Remember when they deliberately stopped making *movies* out of their MCU movie scripts and tortured the scripts into whole-ass miniseries instead?

Remember how precisely that bullshit has repeatedly almost-killed the *entire* Western comics industry?

Congrats to Marvel on faithfully recreating the arc of cape comics from self-contained stories with stakes and human emotion and a little plot, however simplistic, to an endless joyless sludge of What If Everything Crossed Over & You Had To Buy Everything For Anything To Make Sense head-up-assery

Have you fucks tried this thing where you put all the information necessary to understand a film *into* the film? I hear it's called "writing"

George Lucas retroactively shoehorned extra Jar-Jar grade CGI bullshit into the original Star Wars films so the MCU hacks could run

"um it's Plot Critical, Actually that you buy extra movie tickets to find out what extra crap we shoved into Endgame so the new one makes sense trust me bro"

"That sign can't stop me" meme, edited to read: "I can't speak to what that videogame has to say about suicide, even facetiously, because I can't read!"

This is also a website on which people post a lot of time-sensitive calls to action about serious current events, and if that's the total failure to grasp the concept of one short sentence about video games—

idk, you see a post that says something like "three arguments against suicide from scifi video games:" and all the replies are "HAHA YEAH HERE IS ANOTHER EXAMPLE OF A GAME IN WHICH YOU DIE/DON'T DIE" and it's. You know.

Gyre (III) She’d had no idea what it meant to become one, weapon and wielder, wielded, welded. She’d had no idea of clarity, celerity — of beauty.

Gyre (III) #writing #MechPilot #ScienceFiction

Like the apocryphal Sir Walter Raleigh story with the cloak and the puddle; it's an act of service to unburden your feet

Vandalize My Heart is a smutty, smutty story about self acceptance, losing faith, and getting fucked by a fearsome queen of the damned. It is moderately transgender, very gay, and excessively blasphemous.

archiveofourown.org/works/832825...

Oh hey, it's Lesbian Visibility Week! I am a lesbian, and I am writing a book about a lesbian in a Power Rangers and Super Sentai inspired novel! This would be the perfect time to read it. It is free, and gets new chapters daily!

be back later babe, hearing to my weekly communion of the ass

Fucking neighbours are playing a novelty song compilation. Again.

I don't care if it's "for the grandkids", after a certain number of plays of Agadoo I should be allowed to do something terrible

Speaking purely as a consumer, I'd go further and say there's a trap at a certain point where lowering the price + lack of visibility becomes a negative signal. Like a game I've never heard of at $10 is more likely to draw me in than the same at $2

Alas, not much of a fibre arts person. (Nor gardener, truthfully, but the nettles are perpetually resurging and easily identifiable and nominally helpful to clear)

An elderly chicken, standing next to the chicken coop.

Retirement Chicken came to see what I was doing.

A sea urchin fossil.

Found a fossil while pulling nettles out of the garden.

There are a lot of circumstances, a lot of people, for which I'd approach delivering that advice in a kind, gentle, supportive, constructive way; but if you already have a professional career on the back of writing, with your latest publishing credits in your bio, I honestly cannot find the patience

but an "essayist, critic, journalist" is someone who already knows, or ought to: asking around for advice like this is itself an elaboration of procrastination, and the answer boils down to "start"

"any advice from writers when you need to start writing something but you're scared of it being terrible"

well. my first impulse is to ask whether that's "I need to write something, anything" or "there's a specific thing I need to write"

That "'how did you get into writing' girl I've been tormented by the vision since i was eight years old" Tumblr post is very funny to me because I literally was 8 when I started telling people I was going to be a writer when I grew up

Prima Nocta (VII) From the Cohost prompt account @make-up-a-wizard — wizard who can’t stop, now that it all finally makes sense

Prima Nocta (VII) #writing

Dressed Up to the Eyes is about an underperforming mech pilot with a crush on her mysterious squadmate.

It'll get more updates eventually I swear

archiveofourown.org/works/833960...

The idea that fandom culture is necessarily progressively subversive has astonishing traction for something that's never been true

The nonbinary equivalent of yaoi/yuri? It's fandom cishets doing, at best, rote, dutiful & token land-acknowledgement-style nods to a blorbo being nonbinary, then ignoring it in favour of de facto portrayal of whatever binary gender they prefer wanking over & filing it accordingly as yaoi or yuri.