This year hasn’t been going well. A lot of bad things have happened over the course of two months (specifically my mother but we won’t get into that). I’ve felt so scared and alone and all I would want was for that pain to be over. But I don’t want to keep being scared for the rest of my life. It might take a while for me to be free from all of this, but I’ll get there eventually.
For now, I’ll keep living on. I’ll keep living, no matter what happens.
To keep the mood light (because I don’t need to bring down the mood with all my trauma stuff lol), to my brother: thank you for sticking by me. I know I’ve said this a lot, but you’ve saved me from my own self hatred so many times. I’m glad I have you in my life. I don’t know why I’d do without you. You’re an amazing artist, an amazing writer, an amazing friend, and an amazing brother. I’ll keep going for you, you will never be able to get rid of me. I love you <3 /sib
Also to the mutuals I have of the funny hellsite: You all are great. I’m not very good and talking to other people a lot of the time (and also I’ve kinda been bad at posting a lot lmao) but I’m glad you decided to stick with me and my silly creature posting. You all are really cool, I don’t know how to say it any better, but you all are incredible artists and I think you are super swag and win.
i wrote this words of radiance missing scenes fic like two and a half years ago! @smeegamae sent me a really nice message a few days ago about it, but if you’ve been thinking that i wrote something new, i haven’t 🥲
Good luck with all your future endeavors! What was your favorite thing you remember from this account Frank?
Frank has been up for about a month and a half now, so there's a lot I could say -- but the thing I'm most amused by, and that I like the most, is all the ways that Frank's idiosyncrasies have built up over time.
The thing that made Frank's voice so distinctive to me was her way of using one-word nouns in place of complete sentences. "Gazing" instead of "looking with a certain expression on my face." "Eating" instead of "preparing and consuming food." This really struck me as being a cool way to communicate the sheer volume of input that her neural net gets, and the very abstract way in which it represents that input.
And now, after all these hundreds or thousands of posts, you can see how all that input has built up a whole world. Her word-use patterns are distinctive and interesting -- an archive of a life as a character with a worldview and a sensibility. If it weren't for the fact that this character is a robot, she'd be exactly the kind of person that a certain segment of people would be able to recognize as clearly "human" (with a quirky accent and inhuman habit of word choice), and that would make her immediately fascinating to them. There's something I love about the way she's developed such a distinct character and sensibility after all this time, when we had no idea that was going to happen, and when she started out as just a big, opaque black box.
What makes you say Willow x Faith should have been one of the main romances of season 7? I don't dislike it at all, but i don't particularly see it either, so im curious