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googledocs you are getting awfully uppity for something that can’t differentiate between “its” and “it’s” correctly

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Reblog to see how chaotic we are!

#___ needs a hug #literally everything I've ever published is just 'give that [gender undefined] a hug gdi' #see queue later Kitty

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For research purposes:

#literally anything if you're posting I'm happy idk how long it took #and also I'd be a hypocrite to say anything else #see queue later Kitty

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ao3 wrapped

-> you read 2,690,420 words, none of which are in the bible

-> your preferred genre is an abomination

-> you found one writer and read everything they've ever written...

-> ...only to find out they're into some weird shit.

-> and now you are too. congratulations!

-> the data we've collected has shocked us to our very core and we wish we hadn't done it. we won't see you next year. please seek professional mental support

#see queue later Kitty

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That post that's like "stop writing characters who talk like they're trying to get a good grade in therapy" really blew the door wide open for me about how common it's become for a character's emotional intelligence to not be taken into consideration when writing conflict. I remember the first time I went to therapy I had such a hard time even identifying what I was feeling, let alone had the language to explain it to someone else. Of course there are plenty of people who've never been to therapy a day in their life who are in tune to their emotions. But even they would have some trouble expressing themselves sometimes. You have to take into account there are plenty of people who are uncomfortable expressing themselves and people who think they're not allowed to feel certain ways. It also makes for more interesting conflict to have characters with different levels of understanding.

#see queue later Kitty

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looking for fics about your favorite character on ao3 be like:

dont care

dont care

dont care

what the actual fuck

dont care

ooh that sounds- what the fuck

unfinished

don't care

the best fic ive ever read in my life. this absolutely ruined me and ill never be the same ever again

dont care

#see queue later Kitty

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having adhd and being a creator is like being on a timer. oh sorry you have this art idea? well you have approximately 12 hours to start it and 6 hours to finish the task or else you will lose interest and inevitably move on. oh you have an idea for a one-shot? well you’d better finish it in a day unless you want to banish it to your wips forever. ding dong bitch

#any neurodivergence really #they're all murder on the attention #my bipolar got me like this on the daily #see queue later Kitty

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i like when fics make my chest hurt. wish that was something i could look up on ao3

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how write book?

#balls #see queue later Kitty

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Forever thinking about Molly liking the book Holsters... what kind of reaction would he have had to the Xorhassian bandage gear????

asjsfjgkg since Molly liked the little book holsters so much I imagine he'd have something cute to say about that too, and probably think Caleb looked very good--

Though I feel like he'd also be very worried for Beau and Caleb walking into that; try to keep an eye on them and make sure no one gave them any trouble. He's used to being the one that stands out after all--people telling him to get out of their sight or calling him a devil--"I did my best every town I went to and every town I left, no matter how they treated me--and a lot of them treated me with deep disrespect." Lucien's testament that, "Not a lot of folks are really eager and kind--especially in Shadycreek Run, growing up--to those of infernal blood." And I think it'd make him very protective of Caleb and Beau if he thought they'd be treated the same.

I do really wish he could've been there for Xhorhas arc though, it could've been so fun ;; he definitely would've loved their house with the big tree and all the lights and the hot tub--and Jester's paintings!! ALSO,, THE PLACE HE PRETENDED TO BE ROYALTY IN WAS NOGVUROT, THE SAME TOWN WHERE KIDS WERE GOING MISSING BECAUSE THEY GOT THEIR MEMORIES BACK AND HEADED TO XHORHAS...could you imagine if someone there recognized Molly as the duke--

#YO I didn't think about the nogvurot thing before and it is DEFINITELY going in that molly lives!AU verse #see queue later Kitty

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Me while editing: *adds a sentence*

*finds nearly identical sentence in the next paragraph*

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Accurate.

#TT_TT #see queue later Kitty

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Gale's Room in Waterdeep Reference

A few notes:

Is that a statue of Mystra on his desk?

His bench looks pretty old

Quite a lot of statues and paintings around his room

Empty display case in back

His book is called "The Art of the Night"

Let me know if you'd like a closer view of anything in this room.

#loooove this #especially since my game refuses to render all the elements in a cutscene EVER #and my one pass at this one in particular it just full on shat the bed so I didn't get to see anything #see queue later Kitty

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Funniest thing in the whole wide world is opening a completed fic and seeing the author’s note for the first chapter say something like “unlike my other fics, this will be a shorter one! Expect it to be complete within three months or so” and then you look at the stats and the fic is 100k+ words and took two years to finish

#see queue later Kitty

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So obviously, the most obnoxious and useless sort of science fiction criticism is provided by angry dumb guys screaming into microphones about things being "woke"; but I also get annoyed by the people who insist on applying a sort of "roman-á-clé" reading, where everything in the story is merely a disguised stand-in for some real-world human political issue. Like, yes, obviously, sf is used for social and political commentary a lot of the time; but it's *also* used to just kind of play around on the frontiers of possibility. And it frankly seems kind of demeaning to the genre to pretend that its alien, its bizarre, and its inhuman features are necessarily just stand-ins for some mundane, real-world concept. Like, yes, clearly The War of the Worlds is about colonialism; but it's also about alien life; it's also about evolution and ecology; and it's also about "Wouldn't it be fucked up if THIS happened!?" And all of these are irreducible from the genre. Is your robot autistic? Well, maybe you can read it that way. Maybe it's a sincere attempt to imagine a nonhuman mechanical intelligence. Maybe it's both. Sometimes, you write a story strictly for "Wouldn't it be fucked-up if..." purposes and it ends up shedding a whole new light on the human condition; in fact, I think that, if you're taking your concept seriously, it should do this by default. But you have to take the bizarre on its own terms or you might as well be reading realism.

#see queue later Kitty