i want to read more mensah&secunit fics but sooo many of them reduce her to it’s mom. theyre very close friends and she helps her friend deal w its trauma and takes care of it where it otherwise wouldnt be. that doesnt make her it’s fucking mom. like. i cant help noticing ratthi is also providing similar emotional support, guidance, and care, and yet he is not called secunit’s dad ever. go figure

i want to read more mensah&secunit fics but sooo many of them reduce her to it’s mom. theyre very close friends and she helps her friend deal w its trauma and takes care of it where it otherwise wouldnt be. that doesnt make her it’s fucking mom. like. i cant help noticing ratthi is also providing similar emotional support, guidance, and care, and yet he is not called secunit’s dad ever. go figure

also facades and false identities are so fun . many such variations.

someone accidentally slipping further into a facade than they intended . someone purposefully retreating further into a facade . someone accidentally dropping their normally impeccable facade for a moment . someone purposefully letting their facade down as a taunt or mockery or in a genuine way because they're finally in a situation where they don't need the facade anymore . someone whose facade really is just a tool that they have complete control over and it never falters or fails . someone whose facade is the opposite and they're having a really bad time trying to maintain their facade or trying to maintain their true self under the facade . many such good options. all fun.

i love you facades and false identities and presentations of the self and separation of aspects of the self and

A lot of public media will be destroyed by this. Public TV and radio are vital for rural areas in our country, and without them, anyone living there will have a difficult time finding out about important news in their area.

One thing you can do is find your local PBS station and click “donate” at the top of the page. https://www.pbs.org/stations/

I just saw a post where one of the comments was a woman saying that they don't care about the POV or internal life of female characters in general, and I didn't want to reblog that post because I didn't want to go after that specific person, but I did want to say:

If that is how you feel (regardless of what gender you are), if every time you read a female character (but only a female character) you think, ugh I don't care about them, they're so boring, female characters never have internal lives worth reading about, you need work on that.

I'm serious. Figure out what your hangup is, reevaluate how you're approaching stories, maybe get some therapy or talk to someone about it if you need to, and figure out how to get past your dismissal of female POVs as being worth reaing.

Because whatever problem you have with the internal lives or POVs of female characters, it's an issue you also have with women. It's not like female characters are somehow universally written as so fundamentally different from real women that everything you find so dull or shallow or annoying or uninteresting in those female characters is fictionalized--and, it's not like female characters are somehow universally written as so fundamentally different from male characters that everything you find so shallow or dull or annoying or uninteresting in those female characters isn't also present in those male characters in some very similar way.

And if your excuse is that men can't write women--read more things written by women. (Some men can write women well, but you should read things written by women anyway.)

Tl;dr: If you find yourself looking at every female character you read, or every Black character, or every disabled character, etc. and thinking that somehow none of them quite live up to the male/white/abled characters that you are used to reading, that's something you need to work on.

Statistics that I use to motivate myself

I have a really bad case of the tinkerbells (I need applause to live) so I have these statistics I use to keep myself from getting depressed as a creator*. Here they are. They may help you as well!

• In professional marketing, 5% of viewers engaging with a post is positive turnover.
• 5% of engagers will click the link
• 5% of link clickers will buy the product
• On twitch, the average number of views a live stream has is between 0 and 1
• According to social media professionals, 10% of users do all the posting. The other 90% may not even comment.

So if your fanfiction has 100 hits and 5 kudos, you're meeting your goals at fanfiction corp and you're getting your raise this year. If your fanfiction has 100 hits and 10 kudos you're getting a promotion.

If you make a post about your new ttrpg and it gets 20 likes, 10 reblogs, and makes 1 sale, you're doing really well!

If your stream has an average of 1 friend who drops in and chats to you occasionally, you're doing better than average. If you make it to Affiliate you are genuinely doing incredible work.

90% of online creative work is just shunting stuff into the void, and it feels so so so bleak sometimes. But remember. You're doing good at it! Your "flop post" with 3 notes is actually more attention than 90% of internet users get.

Remember not everyone clapping for you is telling you about it. <3

*these statistics are from memory and from anecdotes from various people I have met/seen posts from on the internet. I do not know or care if they are completely accurate thank you

re: AI tools it's very frustrating because it's like. you can just say "I don't think it's good at most of the things that people use it for and I'm worried about it reducing job opportunities for human beings." but no everyone has to say some bullshit about The Soul and Mental Degradation but not in a fascist eugenics way they promise

The fact that a book with a name like 'Thud!' is at once an excellent statement on the futile foolishness of racism and passed-on hatred, a fantastic mystery novel, one of the best stories that follows a new father as he navigates the divide between his work and his obligation to his young boy, and also possessed of a climactic sequence of berserker violence that can make me cry and is legitimately hard to me to get through EVERY TIME is a testament to the skill and craft of Terry Pratchett.

Mozilla have basically always been exactly the same amount of "better than the competition". As everyone else backslides, they do too, just always at more or less the same moral offset.

It's like this graph I made up:

Getting worse over time, but always the better option at any given moment. (Unless you're in deep enough to have strong opinions about XUL or IceWeasel, in which case you're not my target audience right now.)