Teaching creative writing to 8 to 12 year olds this summer, a demographic whose stories include a shocking amount of murder. The use of "unalive" was so egregious I had to tell them, "if you aren't comfortable using the words death, die, and kill, you aren't mature enough to be writing about them yet". Kiddo asked me if that applies to adults as well, and I told them it very much does, so here's a PSA.
If you aren't comfortable using the words death, die, and kill, you aren't mature enough to be writing about them yet.
Teen!Ghost: *opens the bedroom door, wearing full hunting camo including a mask*
Nik: *looks up and snorts when he sees him*
Teen!Ghost: *gets on the floor and army crawls towards the bed*
Nik, laughing: малыш what are you doing??
Teen!Ghost: *says nothing as he stops next to the bed, reaching his hand up and blindly looking for Nik’s wallet on the nightstand*
Nik: Why- Why are you- *snorts*
Teen!Ghost: *grabs Nik’s wallet before he sits up and looks through it, pulling out his credit card before dramatically snapping the wallet shut and dropping it back on the nightstand*
Nik, wheezing: You could’ve just asked
Teen!Ghost: *flops back onto the floor and wiggles back across the floor to the door*
Teen skk but they casually bonk their head for no reason. Like two cats bumping their heads. You see Chuuya standing and texting and here comes Dazai. He bumps their head together (from front) to peek at the screen.
"Who are you texting?"
"Your mom"
Dazai taking a nap somewhere and here comes Chuuya to full force smash his forehead against Dazai’s only to say
i'm resisting the urge to interact with the slapfights going on in the comments of that one femboy post i put a couple of days ago, but holy shit lmao the people who are like "ermm everyone says roseboy" and im like what on god's green fuck are you talking about. i'm a normal ass person who interacts with lgbt people regularly both offline and online and ive never heard that in my life. and i search it just to double check and apparently the teenagers on tiktok (because of course) who were too stupid to not conflate 'femboy' with 'transgirl' or such apparently made up that term to... also not be any less transphobic objectively but i guess there's some stupid distinction they make