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Not to get too political here, but once in a while I'm reminded of how fake some people's "progressiveness" is. And it drives me mad.

I'm not a Harry Styles fan. In fact, I'm pretty neutral on him. But he's the best example here so let's use him.

We don't know this man's sexuality (as far as I'm aware), but the general public opinion is that he's straight. At some point, he started being over the top feminine in how he presents himself... and suddenly the vErY pRoGrEsSiVe people lost their minds. He's queerbaiting oh he's trying to get clout out of the lgbt community - do you listen to yourself?

If he's straight, even better. Having a famous straight man putting on a skirt or a dress for a photoshoot, videoclip or concert is a step in the right direction. Having a straight man who might one day be married with children going to events in a fancy dress and heels is good. Many before Styles have done it, and I hope it continues so. Styles got attention because his fangirls from the 1D era never truly left.

How can you talk about "clothes have no gender" and then turn around fuming because a non-queer man (as far as we know) is dressing however the fuck he wants? You can't pick and choose when you're progressive about a topic as simple as "people should not gender lock their wardrobe". Otherwise you're a fucking hypocrite. In fact, I'd go a step forward and call you sexist for thinking so negatively of femininity in a man you don't like, to the point where you call it cringe and inappropriate.

The fact some of you believe only famous queer men should pull stunts like that shows you don't actually care about abolishing gender roles. You just view feminine gay/bi men as women lite, so in your eyes, they're the only ones who can ""dress like women"".

#garrett.text #harry styles #gender presentation

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Me everytime I start up Skyrim: let's do something different this time.

Me, bobo the fool, every goddamn time: stealth archer tiny dunmer dark elf mcedgelord with a thing for darkness and in love with Farkas the Werewolf despite being a vampire fan here we go.

At least this time I have reason to play a stealth archer, since I'm going survival mode.

#tes #tes v #skyrim #garrett.text

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I don't know who needs to hear this, but! Vampires being morally corrupt is part of the sex appeal. The repressed vampire trope can be so sexy if you make the vampire give up on their "vegetarian" diet and fully go through a corruption (or is it blessing?) arc. It's so attractive when a vampire just giggles, drunk on blood after committing attrocities.

That's the PSA, go back to your scheduled dashboard!

#vampires #vampire #garrett.text

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Some of you should try looking at the real world sometimes. "Skinny men (actually skinny, not twinks) who are feminine are a beauty standard ://// where's the love for my bigger hairier masc dudes" what world do you live in where masculine men are deemed an ugly minority and not the average. Not the desired. "Gnc queers get love but straights don't :/// it's not just gay men/lesbians that get to be gender non confirming!!!" WHAT world so you live in where it's acceptable for queer people to be like that. As if gay men don't get harassed and killed for "looking like women" or daring to not be masculine. As if women are allowed to freely shop on the male sections and "look like men" without being insulted or assaulted. WHAT world do you live in.

Some people are so corroded by the binary code on their devices they forgot the real world is not, in fact, a bubble made of equally socially reserved people who get all their information from fandom wank circles.

#LGBTQ #gnc #garrett.text #negative #istg #I swear to god. #being skinny was and is indeed a beauty standard for women. not men. we get judged for not being manly #gay men are in fact harassed if they look girly #lesbians are in fact harassed uf they look manly #straight people are also harassed uf they're gnc #your positivity posts that bottle down to 'let men be masc women be fem' #because of some fandom or tiktok drama #it's so... grrrr

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Some answers had to be mashed together due to the 10 answer limit (such as friendships and romantic relationships). You can however specify in the tags or replies, of course. Sorry if I missed anything but... read the previous reasoning.

On Traumatic vs Violent scenes: the difference is in writing presentation. Are you more foccused on the physical aspects of the scene or the trauma of them? Obviously they go hand in hand, but try to pick the one that better applies to you. Personally I love writing emotional filled violent scenes (I'm a vampire lover and like the trope of "character gets severely hurt and then gets someone to care for them"), but even when I'm writing the emotional side I prefer to emphasize the physical violence and touch on the trauma in a lighter manner between the lines - therefore I would fall on "Violent Scenes". If you, instead, write violence/abuse/etc and prefer to dwell on the ramifications rather than the act itself, I believe you'd fall on the "Traumatic Scenes" answer more.

"Emotional Scenes" are very broad. Think of them as "long lost friends/lovers/family gets reunited", "A confesses their love/hatred/exhaustion of B", "important thing gets revealed and everyone is being all emotional about it", etc.

Personally, although I like most of these, I'm a sucker for descriptions. I love waxing poetry about everything.

Reblogs appreciated for bigger sample size.

#garrett.text #poll #writeblr

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Man I cannot deal with american cooking websites. I just can't.

Looking for food in Portuguese/looking up food from other countries written in english by non Americans: here's the ingredients. Here's each step. Done. Maybe, if it's a cultural dish or one with variants, you get a little intro first.

Looking up recipes in American sites: 10 paragraphs (minimum) of random bullshit. Sometimes they don't have ingredient lists, they just name drop the ingredients in the middle of a paragraph about the best type of stovetop to use. Other times they talk down to you for 3 paragraphs on how to blend food. Sometimes you need to decode the bible length post to figure out what the food even is.

And then there's the random ingredients thrown in. Madam I want simple oat pancakes why are you throwing cream and five other high sugar ingredients onto the batter please. It's a pancake. Flour sugar and yeast, maybe a pinch of salt, is enough. I just wanna know how to incorporate the oats.

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I encourage everyone to write stories set in their "not common setting" countries/cities. I've been letting go of my typical french/italian/english/USAnian places and aesthetics and cultures and... writing comes so much easier and richer.

I can describe in great detail our summer festivities, the taste of wine and beer as you dance to folksongs and pimba, the touch of the moon since the festivities take place at night to shield the skin from the summer sun. I can describe the dances, laughter, the crude songs, the people keeping tradition and wearing historical folk clothes. The stories, the sayings, the touch of madness. The groups of young adults and teenagers taking a break to smoke, the old men and women who fight all the time laughing over a plate of roasted pork. The children with stars in their eyes, too young to remember previous parties, looking at the lights as their ribs vibrate with music. In regular days, the cafés with families and friends paying only for one coffee and staying two hours. The beer. The exasperated voices of those too tired to get mad. The bite of older, cynical individuals. The kindness of an old lady who stops you on the street for a twenty minute chat despite you not knowing each other.

It's so much real. Much truer. Much intoxicating.

Write stories set in your home. It hits different. This is for a vampire story, you would not expect the two to merge, but they do.

#writeblr #writing advice #garrett.text #garrettext

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An ancient greek human, priest and worshipper at a temple dedicated to Apollo, who suddenly finds himself cursed. The sun burns him, blinds him. Food tastes like ash in his mouth. Wine, once bitter on the tongue yet sweet on the throat, now tastes like poison. His body suddenly craves violence, and his mind now leaks with lust as he gazes upon an exposed neck, ready for fangs. The vivid image of blood pouring into his mouth fills him with hunger, a need that the plumpest of fruit and most well seasoned dish cannot fulfill.

And he drinks.

And he's cursed.

Has Apollo cursed him? Has Helios? Why can he not walk in the sun? Why has he offended the gods? Why are people, his friends and family, now afraid of him? Why is he not aging?

If the first vampires were made instead of born... How does one explain what, over two thousand years later, science cannot explain either?

#writeblr #vampires #worldbuilding #garrett.text #this is my oc lance for my vampire book btw #one of the first vampires #blood hunt og work

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I have been aggravated by some online discourse so... For anyone out there writing vampire stories, from original works to fanfic: you cannot escape moral commentary or social issues when writing vampires. Even if your vampire exclusively drinks from blood bags, someone had to donate/sell their blood for them to survive. If your vampire only consumes animal blood, they are still imposing themselves on another living creature. For better or for worse, vampires are parasites by nature.

If you are not ready to keep this in mind while writing, even if you never explicitly mention it... You are not ready to write a vampire story.

#garrett.text #vampires #your goody two shoes vampire is still drinking blood. #humans need at least two months of rest between blood donations #if your vampire feeds once a day #that's still a lot of humans

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Favourite relationship dynamic: the masochism tango

#garrett.text #enemies to lovers #istg #that song fits at least 3 of my top 5 ships

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Today I dreamt there was a book retelling Theseus' story, one where he actually goes through some character development and ceases to be such an enormous dick. It was a bit of an out of order retelling, where he finds the Minotaur Asterion much later... And instead of slaying him, he takes him with him, much to everyone's shock. I vivdly remember the two of them growing together as people along a long boat journey, and while Theseus learns some compassion, the Minotaur turns out to be pretty cute (but unfortunately driven to madness due to his hard life). As in, the boat is painted very clearly in my mind. Ariadne was there too, I believe.

In the end, Theseus doesn't actually abandon Ariadne in an island. Instead, she is moved by her brother (the minotaur) actually starting to change and become less agressive, like when they were kids. There's a flasback to them playing as children, but since this is a dream, they are on a modern day living room for some reason. The dream ends with Ariadne and Asterion choosing to stay on an island instead, with the implication that they would make it a home for the outcasts and those labeled as monstrosities. Theseus leaves them there in search of more "monsters" to save, because for some reason, at this point on the dream he was no longer a glory seeking bastard.

Then I woke up. But what a fabulous idea my brain conjured. A shame such a book doesn't actually exist.

#garrett.text #love the implications this would have on the entire fucking story #I even saw a book cover for it in my dream #it was kinda blue #with asterion on the right side #some greek constructions at the bottom behind him #like white houses against the sea #the title was white and gold

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I think there's a lot of potential on the "vampire/mermaid" hybrid species that we don't take advantage of. They're just like regular vampires, but the story is set underwater. Can you imagine how much more visually appealing it would be? To bite onto the neck of your beloved obsession, and instead of running down their skin, the blood floats all around the two of you? Truly. We need vampire mermaids, in a story featuring no humans at all.

#vampires #garrett.text #mermaids

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Okay. Finally got around to watch and finish it.

"1899" is one of the best series I have ever watched. I honestly hate how it got cancelled. Everything about it is just... mind-blowing.

And I can't even talk about it otherwise I'll spoil it but... in case anyone is on the fence and stumbles upon this post: watch it. It will not go where you think it's going. The massive balls to start the series with that setting and then finish it like that? I am... salivating. It has been a while since I see a show with such great attention to everything.

#1899 #garrett.text #wow #just wow

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The worst thing about creating your own characters and making them date each other, to the point where one such couple rises above all others and becomes your permanent "otp"... is that no real world romance could ever compare. No one will make you feel as passionate and romantic as those little ocs feel about each other.

#writeblr #otp #garrett.text #when yours ocs are your otp... #octp moment #anyway. my favourite couple has been the same for the past 12/13 years. #you guys don't truly know them... yet #oh when paper guardians gets published a few decades from now #my magnus opus is just an excuse to show off that couple #you comr for fantasy and get tricked into a romance #hopefully by then people wont hyper focus on the fact they're both dudes

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Finished it. It was a very good read, would heavily recommend it to anyone who likes astronomy but is unsure where to begin. Might post some quotes here later, because some parts of this book are incredibly poetic for a technical text.

#garrett.text #astronomy #the planets #professor brian cox #andrew cohen

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It's funny when you see someone online foaming at the mouth over a depiction of a fictional character and how bad it is... but all their arguments are based on their own interpretation and not what's actually being shown. As in, they're getting mad at the headcanon they came up with and how ""the story presents it"". As in, they for some reason viewed x thing/character as a portrayal of y, when that is not what the story is showing (no matter how similar you may think it is) and got mad when it wasn't written to their liking.

My man. You are the one saying the orange cake tastes like shit because way too many oranges were added, when the cake in question is actually a pumpkin pie.

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