“Because the Runaways are touring in August and we wanna go see them. I will do anything. I will fucking do anything. I need this. We need this.”
“No,” said Joel.
“Oh come on, man! What the fuck’s your problem!”
“You’re too young. And you can keep that language away from the table.”
“I’m fifteen,” Riley spoke up, her voice taking on a knowing, responsible edge. “I have been to lots of concerts, Mr M. I’ll be looking out for Ellie.”
“Those concerts are insane,” Joel shook his head, reaching for another cigarette. “I’ve seen them on TV. People throwin’ themselves all over, singers pissin’ on the audience. No.”
Ellie leaned across the table, hands spread to appeal to Tess. “The tickets go on sale in the morning and if we don’t get them I will die. I will die, Tess. I’ve saved enough and everything."
"So keep on saving."
"You know what, fuck you man, I’m not even asking you!”
worried that thing you put in your art or writing or game or music is too self-indulgent, too self-referential, too niche for anyone but yourself? fear not! you can do whatever you want forever. and you should.
More random tropes that I fucking love: Becoming the mask you wore.
Like oh shit, this character who was sent to spy somewhere under a false identity suddenly realises they've started to genuinely become the person they claimed to be? Someone who's been telling the same lies about who they are for so long that they're actually forgetting that the story isn't true? Finding themselves genuinely doing the things they pretend to do in front of people, when they're alone and nobody's watching? Answering to a name that wasn't supposed to be theirs without thinking?
Ooohh-hoh-hoh, you lost track of yourself in pretending to be someone else? You were only supposed to impersonate somebody, a plausible background and a name you came up with on the spot, and now that the people you were supposed to infiltrate have become your true companions? You lost yourself in the game you played, and no you no longer know who you truly are, and where your true loyalties lie? And both sides would mark you a traitor if you came out with the truth. On a scale of one to ten, how bad did you fuck up.
Fuck that is a good trope. Never seen it done badly. Pour that shit on a table and I'll chop it into lines and snort it.
Sorry for being such a slow writer, it's because I [remembers that self-deprecating jokes are harmful to my mental health and make everyone else uncomfortable] was attacked by dark spirits and washed up on the shore of a mysterious island with no recollection of who I was
a weird thing is that we got waves of people going "who cares if its cringe or youre annoying! have fun!" but no one really learned how to accept the fact that some people will find you annoying or think your art or your work or posts or anyrhing sucks and thats ok. rather it just became a weird "if people think youre annoying theyre just morally bad. let people enjoy things!". like no i think this yes man only biome sucks and people are allowed to not like artstyles and shows and media and other things
If you ever tagged me to do one of those tag game thingies and I never did it:
1) Thank you, seriously. Those are fun and being included shows that my followers care enough to want to learn more about me.
2) Very sorry about that, it’s extremely likely that I said to myself “Cool! But I’m busy at the moment, I’ll have to do this later today or tomorrow” before proceeding to just straight-up forget, now it’s too far back in my notifications and/or your blog to find again.
My toxic trait is I don’t know how to set boundaries and say no, so I’ll agree, but I can’t hide the fact that what I’ve said yes to is absolutely inconvenient right now.