i’m quinn, black, he/they, 23 y/o

on every level except physical i am

my main occupation is being a jester. i have secondary position as a neurotic film major dropout

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kin/system carrd

have a rootin tootin day

chilewithcarnage

‘are you afab or amab’ why? you tryna figure out what typa holes i got? you tryna bang??

chilewithcarnage

funniest tag on this post thus far

waterloggedsoliloquy

"im having creation ideas beyond my skill level" DO IT ANYWAY. "i don't have good supplies" DO IT WITH BAD SUPPLIES THEN. "i don't have free time" SO DO IT SLOWLY.

FIND THE SHORTEST MOST DIRECT ROUTE TO YOUR CREATION BEING REALIZED AND DO WHATEVER IT TAKES TO GET THERE

paperairplanemob

Tech Bros do this. It’s called an MVP: minimally viable product. It’s all about asking “what is the quickest way to get a barebones version of what I envision?” The reasoning is that as soon as you have something people can experience, you can start getting feedback and finding out if you’re on the right track.

Even if this is something just for you, having something that is “done” can do so much for you, especially in deciding “well, that was fun, let me try it (or something like it) again!” or “that sucked, I’m never doing that again.”

waterloggedsoliloquy

THIS!!! IF U MAKE AN MVP U R MY MVP <3

txttletale

appeals to nature are so funny. like not only is "nature" not a coherent distinction but if even if we accept it as one, you know what's incredibly "natural"? shitting yourself to death

wordsfahan

appeals to Nature always struck me as secularized appeals to god. saying something is "contrary to Nature" or "unnatural" is basically the same as saying it violates "God's plan." e.g. I took a class about the Philosophy of Death where we talked about immortality, and one of the arguments against was how living forever would violate "Nature's plan." thats literally a medieval scholastic's argument (Aquinas, maybe?) with the word god replaced!

disgruntledinametallicatshirt

you know what actually pisses me off? when I finally start to feel a smidge of confidence in my writing ability and then some JERK POSTS A SINGLE LINE FROM A TERRY PRATCHETT NOVEL AND IT’S BETTER THAN ANYTHING I WILL EVER WRITE NO MATTER HOW MANY MILLENNIA I SPEND TRYING!

thebaconsandwichofregret

Terry was a professional writer from the age of 17. He worked as a journalist which meant that he had to learn to research, write and edit his own work very quickly or else he’d lose his job.

He was 23 when his first novel was published. After six years of writing professionally every single day. The Carpet People was a lovely novel, from a lovely writer, but almost all of Terry’s iconic truth bomb lines come from Discworld.

The Colour of Magic, the first ever Discworld novel was published in 1983. Terry was 35 years old. He had been writing professionally for 18 years. His career was old enough to vote, get married and drink. We now know that at 35 he was, tragically, over half way through his life. And do you know what us devoted, adoring Discworld fans say about The Colour of Magic? “Don’t start with Colour of Magic.”

It is the only reading order rule we ever give people. Because it’s not that great. Don’t get me wrong, very good book, although I’ll be honest I’ve never been able to finish it, but it’s nowhere near his later stuff. Compare it to Guards Guards, The Fifth Elephant, the utterly iconic Nightwatch and it pales in comparison because even after nearly 20 years of writing, half a lifetime of loving books and storytelling Terry was still learning.

He was a man with a wonderful natural talent, yes. But more importantly he worked and worked and worked to be a better writer. He was writing up until days before he died.  He spent 49 years learning and growing as a writer, taking so much joy in storytelling that not even Alzheimer’s could steal it from him. He wouldn’t want that joy stolen from you too.

Terry was a wonderful, kind, compassionate, genius of a writer. And all of this was in spite of many many people telling him he wasn’t good enough. At the age of five his headmaster told him that he would never amount to anything. He died a knight of the realm and one of the most beloved writers ever to have lived in a country with a vast and rich literary tradition. He wouldn’t let anyone tell him that he wasn’t good enough. And he wouldn’t want you to think you aren’t good enough. He especially wouldn’t want to be the reason why you think you aren’t good enough. 

You’re not Terry Pratchett. 

You are you.

And Terry would love that. 

rsfcommonplace

I only ever had a chance to talk to Terry Pratchett once, and that was in an autograph line.  I’d bought a copy of The Carpet People, which was his very first book, and he looked at it with a faint air of concern.  “You realise that I wrote that when I was very young,” he said, in warning.

“Yes,” I said.  “But I like seeing how authors grow.”

He brightened and reached for his pen.  “That’s all right then,” he said, and signed.

kulluto

please excuse my hater moment but i hate when people see two characters that have the most insane dynamic and they’re like but what if it was wholesome :) okay well what if they fucked nasty style and tried to kill each other all the time also

pigeoncatunderscore

do you. do you even want a story

effemimaniac

personally I think in this day and age every media ever needs at least 2 Vriskas. due to Inflation.

our-queer-experience

yeah you think trans bodies are great but are you normal about intersex bodies?

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ALT

prev YEAH!!! a lot of the tags are like “im so normal abt intersex people i want to fuck them so bad” with ZERO introspection done.

guerillawh0refare

HELP A TRANS WOMAN SURVIVE

Hi I'm Donna, a transgender woman in the PNW w autism, chronic pain, and a laundry list of other issues that make it hard for me to work full time n support myself. I'm currently overdrafted and stuck in a payday loan loop, which I can get out of if I make my goal. PLZ boost n help if you can

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$0/300

guerillawh0refare

Hey yall I managed to get it down to 200 but it's gonna be a thin couple of weeks, so I could rlly use more support. Will update the goal to reflect out progress.

$0/200

oniroro

silly

flesh-is-the-fever

I'm up to the "I dunno maybe children working 13 hour shifts is bad, guys" part of Capital and it feels important to inform people that haven't read it yet that capitalists in the 19th century were not by any means wringing their hands and twirling their mustaches about employing children to squeeze out profits, they were hiring "experts" to write newspaper articles for them, explaining how "well, the socialists have these big demands about an 8-hour work day, and taking Saturdays off, but it's actually just so complicated, it's too complicated for most people to understand, we just NEED to hire children for night shifts because the stamina of their strong, youthful bodies is the only way we can survive as a business! It's science, you see. Economics doesn't work like that, just ask our economics professors at Oxford. You CAN'T turn a profit only working people 8 hours! Trust the experts, they know. It's just so complicated..."

That exact infuriating cadence that you read in New York Times articles, in the Atlantic Monthly, in the WaPo and all the other bourgeois rags where "everything is so complicated, and it's actually a lot more complicated than you think.." that has been around since the beginning. It is nothing new. So the next time you see some op-ed from Matt Yglesias or any of those other guys huffing their own farts about how "complicated" everything is, and how "unrealistic" a 30-hour work week is, remember that Marx was dealing with that exact class of "intellectuals" "explaining" how working 13 hours at age 10 was "vital" to the "moral fibre" of those poor kids.

sorryforpartyrocking

dj crazy times was so right tbh... women Are my favorite guy

itsmovere

Chainsmoking you

(I'm very normal about BR Wolfwood's widower era)