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Tales from the Borderlands is a good game but I wanted more romance options. 10/10 though. This is the kind of story I wanted in future borderlands games. Looking at you borderlands 3.

Remind me later.

Tw// SA

Joker 2 is spiteful mess. I understand the message perfectly fine. It’s still not a good delivery of the message. Especially since Arthur only drops his Joker persona shortly after being molested.

I’m quite disgusted with that sequence of events. Joker 2 continues the trend of sequels being spiteful messes.

“Oh you mildly enjoyed the first film? Well fuck you.”

For the love of Chaplain , will these pretentious directors get off their high horse? You should be grateful that your film succeeded on such a small budget. Especially when your two previous films were Grown ups 3 and The Road Trip.

Weirdest dream I had as a kid was of the Keebler elf spelunking in my ear. He went far enough that I could hear him dropping cookies into my brain. Anyway I got mad and shook him out along with the cookies.

Second weirdest was about legos but I’ll probably share that at another time.

Fanfic is a good and healthy part of creative storytelling.

However some of you are depriving the world of great art. Simple because you’re busy working within the copyright of existing art.

This is coming from someone that used to spend years writing fanfic before officially publishing original fiction.

Please publish your own work too. It’s scary but you’ll be better off for it. Especially when your original story starts getting love too.

Nobody knew they needed certain story worlds until someone took the chance and started a new one.

You can still write your fanfics but don’t miss your true calling.

I usually stop watching Dexter around Season 4, Episode 7.

Rant

Dexter not killing Trinity feels like a plot contrivance; there’s no real reason for him to let him live. He just decides not to kill him after already receiving the proof he needed. Instead, he gets sidetracked with some serial killer of the week because “he threatened Deb.” Really, Dexter? Do you not remember what happened just a few episodes ago because of Trinity?

The idea that “Trinity is on cooldown” doesn’t make sense. When has that ever been a consideration for him? It felt like the showrunners didn't want a predictable series, so they made Dexter act out of character. Trinity isn’t just another Miguel situation; Dexter has seen him kill innocents live. There’s no justification for not dealing with him ASAP.

You could argue that Dexter is struggling with parenthood and being a husband, which clouds his judgment. However, he has never allowed his role as a boyfriend and pseudo-father to so severely distort his logical reasoning. Show runners wanted Trinity to hurt Dexter. The only way they could get that outcome was to make Dexter act outside of his norm.

“Maybe he wanted to learn more about having a normal family life from Trinity.”

Dexter has tabled other serial killers with normal lives. He knows how’s to put on a show and still exist.

“Well Rita needed to go out that way for the set up!” (in a totally different show that the writers definitely knew would be a reality someday)

Actual take I’ve seen before. That show also shifts the dynamics around with the audiences relationship with Dexter so not a fan. I’ll explain. Imagine if Supernatural had a spin-off show that said: “erm actually the Winchesters were pieces of shit the entire time. You should hate them actually. Because technically they were still killing people even if they were irredeemable monsters!”

Then Sam and Dean are killed off by Adam and that found footage werewolf they chose not to hunt.

That’s how that ending feels. So no that “setup” isn’t a good payoff to either series. I’ll just pretend the show ended after S3.

My time has come.

My SO is stuck in a house with her creepy mom’s boyfriend. He’s peeked on her in the shower and that was the last straw for her. He’s done other things but nothing as bold and disgusting as this. Now she’s trying to get out ASAP but she doesn’t have enough for the deposit in the new place. I sent as much as I could but I’m scared that she’ll end up stuck with this creep. This is such bullshit. Why do sick fucks like this exist? Why does rent cost so much in certain states that the deposit is so expensive? I want her to move in here already but it’s just not realistic with her work life yet. So so sick of this.

Update: she moved out

Shitlibs will try to invalidate your experience just because they haven’t personally experienced it. These same people talk over POC, disabled, neurodivergent, and LGBTQ members because they haven’t personally experienced a specific thing. Congrats! The world doesn’t revolve around you. Quit being a jerk and open your ears. Shut your mouth.

It’s wild to me that people complain when people turn off replies. Social media has really conditioned people into believing everything requires a response and pointless debate. Sometimes people want to say something without being subjected to others wild misunderstanding of their statement. Sometimes things need to be said without an “erm actually” being thrown into the comments section. If anything replies being turned off has killed trolling and trolls see the most pissed off.

For later

Words to use instead of ‘said’

**Using the word ‘said’ is absolutely not a bad choice, and in fact, you will want to use it for at least 40% of all your dialogue tags. Using other words can be great, especially for description and showing emotion, but used in excess can take away or distract from the story.

Neutral: acknowledged, added, affirmed, agreed, announced, answered, appealed, articulated, attested, began, bemused, boasted, called, chimed in, claimed, clarified, commented, conceded, confided, confirmed, contended, continued, corrected, decided, declared, deflected, demurred, disclosed, disputed, emphasized, explained, expressed, finished, gloated, greeted, hinted, imitated, imparted, implied, informed, interjected, insinuated, insisted, instructed, lectured, maintained, mouthed, mused, noted, observed, offered, put forth, reassured, recited, remarked, repeated, requested, replied, revealed, shared, spoke up, stated, suggested, uttered, voiced, volunteered, vowed, went on

Persuasive: advised, appealed, asserted, assured, begged, cajoled, claimed, convinced, directed, encouraged, implored, insisted, pleaded, pressed, probed, prodded, prompted, stressed, suggested, urged

Continuously: babbled, chattered, jabbered, rambled, rattled on

Quietly: admitted, breathed, confessed, croaked, crooned, grumbled, hissed, mumbled, murmured, muttered, purred, sighed, whispered

Loudly: bellowed, blurted, boomed, cried, hollered, howled, piped, roared, screamed, screeched, shouted, shrieked, squawked, thundered, wailed, yelled, yelped

Happily/Lovingly: admired, beamed, cackled, cheered, chirped, comforted, consoled, cooed, empathized, flirted, gushed, hummed, invited, praised, proclaimed, professed, reassured, soothed, squealed, whooped

Humour: bantered, chuckled, giggled, guffawed, jested, joked, joshed

Sad: bawled, begged, bemoaned, blubbered, grieved, lamented, mewled, mourned, pleaded, sniffled, sniveled, sobbed, wailed, wept, whimpered

Frustrated: argued, bickered, chastised, complained, exasperated, groaned, huffed, protested, whinged

Anger: accused, bristled, criticized, condemned, cursed, demanded, denounced, erupted, fumed, growled, lied, nagged, ordered, provoked, raged, ranted remonstrated, retorted, scoffed, scolded, scowled, seethed, shot, snapped, snarled, sneered, spat, stormed, swore, taunted, threatened, warned

Disgust: cringed, gagged, groused, griped, grunted, mocked, rasped, sniffed, snorted

Fear: cautioned, faltered, fretted, gasped, quaked, quavered, shuddered, stammered, stuttered, trembled, warned, whimpered, whined

Excited: beamed, cheered, cried out, crowed, exclaimed, gushed, rejoiced, sang, trumpeted

Surprised: blurted, exclaimed, gasped, marveled, sputtered, yelped

Provoked: bragged, dared, gibed, goaded, insulted, jeered, lied, mimicked, nagged, pestered, provoked, quipped, ribbed, ridiculed, sassed, teased

Uncertainty/Questionned: asked, challenged, coaxed, concluded, countered, debated, doubted, entreated, guessed, hesitated, hinted, implored, inquired, objected, persuaded, petitioned, pleaded, pondered, pressed, probed, proposed, queried, questioned, quizzed, reasoned, reiterated, reported, requested, speculated, supposed, surmised, testified, theorized, verified, wondered

This is by no means a full list, but should be more than enough to get you started!

Any more words you favor? Add them in the comments!

Happy Writing :)

Gege fumbled. I’m sorry. I would say more but the stans are already glazing. When the hype dies down they’ll agree.

Gee it sure is boring around here

Alright I’ll bite.

My WIP is about a character who was sculpted into becoming a serial killer by his politician serial killer father. He’s just currently done his first kill that is personal to him.

My character is currently stuck in a blizzard within a patrol car with a sheriff. The sheriff is gruff caring type that is unaware that he is a killer. She assumes he’s just trying to get across town for the holiday morning. The problem is he has incriminating evidence in his duffel bag.

I’m unsure of how to proceed the story once he wakes up. I want to make him grow closer with the sheriff somehow before something unfortunate happens to her. It won’t be by his own hands but it’ll be a consequence of the killing he did earlier.

My brain is having a slight hard time connecting that dot toward her death.

I have an idea of who kills her and how it’ll eventually lead to him being chased but I’m not sure.

Writers UNblock

Ask me a question or vent to me about where you're stuck in your WIP, I wanna help yall its getting real boring in here

“Erm Hollywood/ Gaming Industry/ Music/ publishers don’t make anything original anymore it’s just sequels, remakes, samples, and prequels!”

I’m going to hold your hand when I tell you this:

Support original art outside of existing pillar franchises and labels.

If you remain inactive in supporting new things, everything will stay the same. Studios, producers, and executives only produce games, movies, music, and TV shows if they believe there’s a fanbase for it. Many book publishers won't take risks on picking up an existing series unless they can prove a major return.

I’m done with this stale argument that everything sucks now. If you’re unhappy with the industry, do something about it or stop complaining. Stop hate watching and start engaging with content you enjoy. Take a chance on new content, you might be missing out.

The era of the hate-watching YouTube essay reviewer is slowly ending, and that's a good thing. Don’t let these reviewers, who often don't even watch what they critique, deter you from trying new things. They often have agendas to convince you that only their specific taste of art is worthwhile. They also don’t like a majority of things even indie.

Form your own opinions and seek out new things to enjoy. Deconstructing and hating is easy; constructing and loving is much harder.

There’s no way this is a real person. Nothing in the original post was said about having kids. Typical internet.

Long rant

I find it funny too because someone pointed out that almost nobody in the US pays for these. Most people, if they want one, will wrangle a stray one from around the airport. Not to mention typically luggage has had wheels since the 70s.

A rich businessman mad that he has to pay $6 out of his expenses. In an economy where most people struggle to afford groceries, this guy is upset about the possibility of spending $6 after traveling around Europe.

I was curious though if OP did have kids and simply didn’t mention them. If I was missing some crucial context that the replier had that I missed. So I checked OP’s profile. OP was traveling alone and has one daughter that appears to be an adult.

So nothing close to this imagined scenario in the comment replying to me. I realize the replier was projecting his scenario onto my comment. But my comment isn’t to the replier it’s to OP. Who clearly doesn’t have that specific scenario to worry over.

Additional Context:

(I made the original comment because I’m tired of people engagement baiting on there. Originally this site was about creatives showing off art.

Now it’s about non-stop engagement baiting like any other corner of the internet. A popular one atm is Europe vs USA .)

Me: only interacts with writing posts and anime

Tumblr: you want to see politics?!

Me: *not interested x1000*

Tumblr: oh so you *really* wanna see politics huh?!

I know it’s an election season but ffs.

“So you’re a villain, but you only want to take over this small village?” “Yep.” “You don’t have any plans to take over anywhere else?” “Nope.”

Yes yes we all read "There Will Come Soft Rains" by Ray Bradbury

I’m so sick and tired of automod systems in social media. I can’t even say “Gay lil —“ without the automod assuming I’m being offensive. Then appealing it sends it off to an ai that keeps the rejection.

Please for the love of EVERYTHING hire actual people from the same countries to review this stuff.

That way even if it goes to an actual human they’ll be judging it within cultural context.

Guess I’m asking too much of a service that offers no product except hosting and makes all its money off the users’ product.

Certain delis will sell prepared food covered by EBT but it’ll be cold. Just refrigerated to the point that you can’t eat it outright. Like a pre cooked spaghetti dinner with sauce on it. Hard potatoes wedges with chicken strips. Some of the EBT conditions seem spiteful. Unless you have an oven or microwave it’s not a good value. (WIC restrictions also seem weird too. But that’s another conversation. )

Solidarity

Here’s a meme based off my first books MMC.

Hey everyone, would you be interested in a story told from the first-person perspective of a young woman who’s stuck living in a creepy underground town and has to face seriously chilling horrors? Let me know!

Rewatching gravity falls since the first time it aired. Lots of setup in this series. Even season 1 did that well. Very impressive. If the series came back I would want Dipper to own the shack as an older man.

I think I will have made it as an author when I start getting fanfiction of my books. As long as it’s not anything illegal, I don’t care what the fanfic is about.

I’m wheezing

Who are you calling a pipsqueak midget who can't even go to the beach because he's so small that he'd sink in the sand and then when the tide comes in he doesn't even say that he's worried about drowning because he's so microscopic he can breathe oxygen atoms IN THE WATER!????!

-e.e.

NO ONE EVEN SAID THAT!!

I wrote and published my book. This book is very important to me. I never thought I’d live this long to write and publish a book. That’s all.

This is one of the memes I’ve made about my first book.