Kat | Garbage Queen | Occasional Doofus
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Always open to messages/Asks, may not be timely in response because Dumbs.
I share my place with and constantly blog about my polydactyl cat and a dog who is too big for her own good. I work at a game store and like gifs of cats, colors, and things that make me giggle.
Current Obsessions: MCU, Captain America, Dishonored, DRAGONS (talk to me about Pern), and my bizarre crush on Sebastian Stan.
Also Pacific Rim, Video games, Final Fantasy, Pokemon, Digimon, Marvel in general, Comic books, Weird stuff, and handsome butts.
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If your dialog feels flat, rewrite the scene pretending the characters cannot at any cost say exactly what they mean. No one says “I’m mad” but they can say it in 100 other ways.
Wrote a chapter but you dislike it? Rewrite it again from memory. That way you’re only remembering the main parts and can fill in extra details. My teacher who was a playwright literally writes every single script twice because of this.
Don’t overuse metaphors, or they lose their potency. Limit yourself.
Before you write your novel, write a page of anything from your characters POV so you can get their voice right. Do this for every main character introduced.
Where is all of this advice in my English literature courses?!? (Probably in the second semester or second/third year, but still!!! I’m too impatient for that)
If you haven’t seen the meme, it’s three photos of me showing my flapjacks to the judges and then a quote, I don’t remember saying this but apparently it’s how I talk, says “Started making it, had a breakdown, bon appétit”
James Acaster on his Bake Off experience - ColdLasagneHateMyself1999
Ollie just leapt off of the back of a chair onto my kitchen table to land on the tablecloth and do a cinematically perfect Akira slide across the surface and into my bowl of soup
Santa is on strike due to global warming. All presents this year will be delivered by Sasha the Christmas Tiger. Milk and cookies may not be sufficient.
It was kind of a joke between me and a friend (“you wouldn’t judge someone for having gone rock climbing with a bunch of different people”) but honestly the more I thought about it the more I bought into it unironically because:
It is a physical activity done with one or more partners
You should only go rock climbing with people you trust to not let you fall
You should not go rock climbing with someone who is drunk or currently incapable of rational decision-making
Some people get super super super into rock climbing and do not shut up about all the places they have climbed and how many are left on their bucket list and these people are usually men between the ages of 20 and 35 and like it’s fine dude I’m glad you’re happy but I don’t know what most of those mountains even are
While many consider it a fun activity, pressuring someone into climbing when they don’t want to (or ignoring their feelings and just dangling them off a cliff,) could cause both psychological and physical trauma
There is no moral value to it whatsoever. Who you have gone rock climbing with (or whether you have rock climbed at all) has no bearing on who you are as a person. Imagine telling someone “it’s not that heights make you nauseous, it’s just that you haven’t found the right person to belay you!” or “you need to save your first time rock climbing for someone special.” That would be absurd.
For some people it is a deep and moving personal experience.
historically I have not asked myself “will this aggravate my hip flexor injury” before participating when perhaps I should have 😔
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