"is this a pigeon?" meme, except it's a writer looking at a perfectly normal first draft and asking "Is this the worst thing ever written?"

Remember, a first draft's only job is to exist

A digitally drawn recreation of a chalkboard gag from The Simpsons opening credits. Bart is being held after school and forced to repeatedly write ‘Maybe it will happen today’ on the chalkboard.

do not ask yourself whether or art is good instead ask is it sincere was it cathartic was it fun to make is it made by me and don’t forget to stay silly

A digital illustration of a fat cat, done in yellow, cream, vermilion and forest green. The cat is stretching to try grab some treats, with the treat box being stuck around its waist.

failing is hot girl behaviour 🫵🏻💥

How does it feel to have the biggest brain

😭😭😭😭

the two phases of writing: (1) writing and (2) wandering aimlessly like an unmoored ghost and complaining about not writing

Oof yeah 👁️👄👁️

Woah that website still exists!! The latest member joined in May 2025 and there haven't been any new stories posted in the last week 😔 absolutely peak early noughties web design though

I'm pretty sure it was a Twilight /Heroes crossover (remember that show??) on twilighted.net. I must have been around 15 i think

The story was about the bad vampire James kidnapping Claire from Heroes but then when he drank her blood her healing powers turned him back into a human...

a digital collage with a pink, purple, green, yellow, and teal gradient overlaid on all the images. the images include a horse carrying a bucket, a cluster of mushrooms, a grub, a birds talon, a cicada, five spiders, two flower buds, a hand with an eye over the back of it, and a microscope slide of atoms. there is white text that reads "get weirder or die miserable." the background is black and there is a slightly grainy texture

get weirder 🫵

So be it 😔✌️

Apples

Apart from yours, probably this tgcf time loop one about Xie Lian being buried alive for 100 years archiveofourown.org/works/330395...

hold on i gotta take this

Okay but this has happened to me a few times

His skincare fridge!!!!

“Is my fanfiction good” “will a lot of people read/like my fanfiction” GIRL FORGET ABOUT ALL THAT FOR A SECOND your top aspiration when writing fanfiction should be making it so weird, someone will read it at 16 and never forget it as long as they live

Rings a bell 👁️👄👁️

EVERYBODY CAN MAKE ART IT CAME FREE WITH YOUR HUMAN SPIRIT

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a round pottery piece with pig eyes and a snout

i think we all need to step back and realize that peak art was made when neolithic pot in the shape of a pig was fired

Heated rivalry?? 👁️👄👁️

you guys can name five things?

I've worked on my fic You day dreamed about it I've worked on it

Me with writing recently

Book checkpoint

Last: Helm by Sarah Hall

Current (audio): Will I Ever Have Sex Again? by Sophie Hagen
Current (physical): Autumn by Ali Smith

Last added to TBR: The Poet Empress by Shen Tao

Next: The Last Graduate by Naomi Novik (if my library hold comes in on time 🤞🤞🤞)

Galaxy brain

*write !!!!

Someone wrote this predicament bondage fic pretty please 🥺🙏