Ooh Ooh Ooh It's Me In Real Life! Want To Know What It Is?

Had a friend show up to swordfighting last week and when I went up to face her and some of her allies she pointed her spear at me. I had never seen this spear and it had a pink end with... Kirby's face on it? So I double blink and go "Kirby?" and then she stabs me

gUYS my grandma just sent me pictures she took of foxes playing in her snow-covered yard and they're the most precious things everrr I just wanted to tell someone :)

You don't have to know exactly what you're feeling or experiencing. You're allowed to give it your own interpretation or take a best guess. You're allowed to simply leave it undefined. Whatever works best for you.

HE WAS ABU IN KINGDOM HEARTS

posts that make you go "wait why was Abu in Hercules"

I think this is a tragedy? Sober in its irony My poor frightened phone with its ever-beating heart and failed and failing touchscreen

still gives me notifications and as I work here on my computer my terminally ill phone pings

A message telling me

my new phone has arrived and is in the mailroom

everyone says the mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell, no one says the nucleus is the vowel of the syllable

Casts spell called “please be alright. I love you.”

i'm still not over the fact that merlin is an actual name of the actual bird (i can't believe that my old stuffed birds drawing practice was for use just now)

On Writing Trauma

This is more of a personal opinion post, but I always prefer stories involving trauma to be about healing said trauma in the end.

Angst is a wonderful dramatic tool, but especially to the younger writers out there, remember that your writing says something about you as a person. The writer always leaks themself into the writing, the artist always leaks into the art. If your characters are always stuck in pain, agony, death, look at yourself: are you the one that's stuck?

I'm not saying to make all stories light and rainbow filled. I myself use trauma and pain in my writing. But your message must poke through: Is trauma a spectacle that is always preset? Or is it a momentary period that will bring greater meaning in the story (or in your life) in the future to come?

My characters have PTSD nightmares. My characters have parental trauma. My characters have unhealthy attachment issues. My characters mask to hide the damage inside. But all of it is in the work so that people that have the same problems can be seen. My characters will talk about the nightmares and realize that they can feel understood and seen. My characters will find solace in the fact that the other characters also have hard family dynamics. My characters will learn to heal and love in healthy ways.

Your writing is a message. For those that want to hear it, they can heal parts of themselves through it. Pain and trauma healed is one of the most fulfilling experiences in the world, and your art can spread that message.

oh no my greatest weakness (simple subtraction) revealed! ya got me there my friend hc-ppc

sincerely,

oo-do

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