I laughed bout this post but I also think you’re a bit too pessimistic. At least in my experience it’s also boys who take care of themselves that don’t get compliments, and by compliments they don’t only mean for their appearance. Calling someone smart is a compliment, telling them their voice sounds nice is a compliment, saying they are funny is a compliment,,, I think what they actually seek is affection and reassurance for the things they may be insecure about, like any other person.
I just know that the dudes who make those "girls get 500 compliments a day vs. guy gets one compliment once and cherishes it for the rest of his life" memes put zero effort into their appearance. Like what exactly do you expect people to say? Wow nice plain ill-fitting hoodie, goes great with your basic-ass blue jeans and nondescript haircut. Got some real cool Grey Man vibes going on, you could seamlessly blend into any crowd ever without being seen at all.
Like nobody has any obligation to look any certain way, but you can't expect to be praised for doing something you're not even trying to do. I dress like I got tarred and feathered in a Tim Burton film costume department discard scrap pile, and someone saying they like my style is a biweekly occurrence.
I think we all have this one chapter with incomprehensible dialogue that we wrote at 4am that just has us like
if you ever finish reading a really dark story and find yourself wondering if the author is okay and stable no they aren’t.
big fan of characters that are as pathetic as they are terrifying
writing tips blogs: “to make your character feel real and relatable you need to take a little from them.”
dystopian writers: “On it boss!” *turns to main character and points at them with a pencil* “No bitches, no family, no limbs, no hope, no healing, no rest, no peace, no clue, no wisdom, no help, no freedom, no redemption, no happy end, no comfort, no safety, no food, no mercy, no dignity, no conclusion, no impact, ONLY WAR.”
feel you. When I edited out characters it was 20 dead, 3 injured
I just killed ten people*
I feel like some of you guys think "bad art" is like someone gluing rhinestones to a water melon, or a guy who made his own armchair out of Ohio license plates, or a trashy romance novel where someone says "the blue-eyed one kissed the brown-eyed one," when in reality bad art is a 1000000 Billion Dollar movie where none of the workers got paid and every single creative decision was market tested to see how lucrative of a profit it could foreseeably make to wow shareholders.
i beg to sniffer
OP turned off reblogs so this is my post now. Behold, the "Objective quality vs. degree of ferality" scale
Here are a few of my own personal datapoints:
save me tormented fictional man… please tormented fictional man save me
ugghh uaahhfh aaafdhhf a I write about war. Constantly in the trenches. You’re safe and wanted here.
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