this is the kind of person i amevery time i see an article or post about how someone famous has...

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this is the kind of person i am

every time i see an article or post about how someone famous has died

i rush to my tumblr dashboard and instantly blacklist that person’s name and every variation i can think of

(i’m just gonna put this behind a cut and be curmudgeonly to myself and those of you who click on this because it’s funny, but those of you with pure hearts and light spirits can just keep scrolling by)

and then i still see a fucking deluge of redundant posts because most of y’all don’t tag your shit

but at least it’s not my entire dash

i also have learned that every single time i see a post that says today’s date, or day of the week, or anything like that, i instantly PostBlock it the first time i see it

because otherwise i gotta scroll through every single one of you savages reblogging the same fucking post until whatever the event is, is over. (april the twenty-second. welp it’s thursday. wednesday addams dancing. it’s some day they mentioned in a movie once oh my lord let’s all reblog the same post in a row. jesus christ almighty.) 

so like, praise be to the new xkit people, for making this hellsite usable. there’s no such thing for twitter and it’s sometimes more than i can handle, but i follow fewer people there.

also STAN LEE WAS JEWISH STOP MAKING CRACKS ABOUT HEAVEN
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I am SO EXCITED about everything you say about this book. And next week I think I’m going to take a train trip to nowhere (aka ride the train into Boston, which I can walk to, and maybe just have lunch by myself or something and ride back) just to get some writing done. Not a bad use of $12.

Really? Aw! I feel like this book has been just… setting and no hook, for a year now, but I’m finally finding that the characters are people I want to know, and that’s exciting to me, anyway. 

I also figured out how to make the plot sort of work, though it’s still fudged. And there’s a bit where I was like, this won’t work if they’re all together, how can I make one of the characters go away, and then I wasn’t thinking about it and came up with a different plot thing that took the one character away from the others, and then I was like, head exploding guy gif oh my god that makes the whole plot climax work and then I can work in this other character I made up for no reason OMG!

So. I’m finally kind of excited about this. I hope you’re having some good luck as well.

Taking a train to nowhere actually sounds kind of lovely. I used to visit Boston occasionally as a child, my mom’s college roommate lives there and is a bigshot lawyer type (probably retired now) and so I think that was the first place I ever rode on public transportation, but I was quite small so I don’t remember it well and it’s all blurred together with NYC, where I spent a lot of time later. 

I would take this Amtrak all the time but it’s almost $60 one way, which is sort of ridiculous. And you have to be careful which one you take– if you take the thru train that started in Chicago, you’ll be delayed forever, but if you take the Empire Line that originates in Buffalo, you’re fine. So I’m gonna book the Empire Line. 

(There’s also the Maple Leaf, that originates in Toronto, but sometimes it gets hung up in Customs.)
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I didn’t even know postblock was a THING you just made my tumblr experience so much better! xx Meg

It is the BEST thing. I could probably handle Tumblr without Blacklist, but PostBlock– at first I didn’t install that extension because I was like ‘oh my wonderful friends never put horribly offensive things on my dash!’ but then some Feelgood Story about, I don’t know, a Deaf person’s Heartwarming Somethingorother Bullshit went viral and it was three screens full of photos, and it was definitely one of those ones that’s, sure, it’s heartwarming, but only if you don’t think about all of the systemic awfulness that brought it to this crisis point where it was only someone’s exceptional hard work that could resolve the situation, I genuinely don’t remember, but I was like

in a single browsing session I saw it ten times, and I was like, what was that extension, I am installing this immediately

and now everyone can just rest easy, go ahead and reblog that five-screens-long photo-heavy rant with bonus totally-not-cited pseudoscience, you can be perfectly confident I hit “j” and PostBlocked it the very first time I saw it. (Ooh also the extremely huge gifsets full of reaction images from fandoms I’m not in and media properties I never consumed?) (also every fucking one of those “that’s an x, you’re thinking of y” threads.) And I’m pretty sure that extension was invented expressly for “do you love the color of the sky?”, which I blocked about six years ago and so all the parodies of it don’t scare me at all.

However. This doesn’t work when browsing on mobile?

So I just don’t look at Tumblr on my phone anymore, is how I solved that one. Sorry! If I don’t have time at my computer, I just don’t look at this site. Which sucks for like, its social purpose as social media, but. Can’t be avoided, given the design of the site and how excessively shitty the app is. (I don’t use the app, it tried to take over my last phone so I uninstalled it and it’s never been on this phone. I use the browser.)
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mens-rights-activia:

When you’re team iPhone and you follow Apple maps and end up getting lost and the android user in the back seat comments “this would’ve never happened if you used google maps”

this is so advanced

I feel like I’m hallucinating this

ok but the android user isnt wrong

Normally I would ignore memes like this but for real, the farm is not on Apple maps, and so we’ve learned to tell people who are planning to come out to the farm for any reason to look it up on their computer at home if they have an iPhone, because their phone will take them four miles up the hill into the wrong town and then drop them off at a gravel quarry’s parking lot. 

Google Maps gets you there, though it thinks that the actual farm is about a quarter mile back from the road so it tries to get you to drive up the hill. Most people have the sense to stop their cars when the road stops, though.
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That’s awesome! I’m currently trying to figure out how to make my plot work without a couple lengthy civil court case scenes because NO ONE WANTS THAT. I’ve got the first 10k and the last 5k written and then just… bits in the middle that all make 5k together? It’s getting to the point where I really, seriously, need to make an outline and I don’t WANT to. But I like the story! I like the characters! So I’m hopeful.

oh no civil court case scenes. oh dear. i know people for whom that would be really awesome, both as a reader and as a writer, but most of them are lawyers, so. (I am interested in the rest of it and confess trepidation about sitting through courtroom scenes but honestly, sometimes those are okay, so I’m willing to be persuaded. But only if you are!!! That’s a key point, there.)

yeah i sometimes have that problem with a plot, where it’s like, a thing i am so disinterested in actually writing has to happen. i’m trying to get better at writing around shit like that. the real question is, am i disinterested in writing this because 1) it’s technically challenging, 2) the story actually doesn’t work that way, 2a) there are underlying reasons why this scene cannot actually function the way I’m anticipating, 3) it’s actually going to be a boring scene no matter what I do and so I need to restructure to avoid it, 4) it’s going to involve research on a topic I don’t really want to research but if I don’t the story’s gonna be hollow, or 5) brainweasels are eating me so really this isn’t about the story at all.

(and outlining is the worst. Honestly I can’t do it. I know I actually missed the formal lesson on it in school and a classmate or sibling, I forget, kind of taught me on the back of an envelope, so I’ve genuinely never mastered it on the face of it, but also my brain doesn’t lend itself to that kind of organization so maybe I’m doing it wrong and maybe it’s just– not for me.)

for some reason in my worldbuilding, the question of whether they have any kind of broadcast or print media is… like… i keep thinking they ought to, and then my brain just slides off it. like i couldn’t be less interested. come on! they have radios! there must be radio stars, right? but if it’s only one-to-one radios and relays and such… but clearly they have recording technology? so? you could broadcast recordings over relays, surely?

and in other ‘verses I’ve written, i’ve had a blast with social media and recording stars and music and so on, so it’s not like I’m categorically averse? 

but my brain– it’s not like my Inspiration is like No, This World Mustn’t Sully Itself With Such Things. No, I don’t get a “no” answer (and then I’d need to figure out “why not”), I just don’t get an answer. My mind won’t consider it either way. Maybe they do! Maybe they don’t! Either way it’s going to affect elements of the story so I need to know but my brain doesn’t understand the question for some reason!

So all is not sunshine and rainbows, there’s still stuff that it’s astonishingly a slog to figure out. Sometimes that’s just how it is. It’s hard to explain that, to people who aren’t writers, that there are just parts of it that are hard to do and draining and annoying and uncooperative, and yet the whole thing is such a compulsion it’s impossible not to. You just gotta bitch about it sometimes, you know??
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!!!! i’m getting there! i’m almost on

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!!!! i’m getting there! i’m almost on track!
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Download a Free Ebook of THE BLACK TIDES OF HEAVEN by JY Yang Before November 17, 2018

Tor.com’s free ebook of the month is The Black Tides of Heaven by JY Yang, which I’ve heard a lot of good queer things about, so. Go check it out. All you have to do to get it is sign up for their mailing list.
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Nice! Congrats!! Ahh you’re so close that’s great

Right??? but then I’ll probably fall behind again next week. Still! Maybe I can really catch up for real by tomorrow, and even get ahead a little? 

i don’t know but we’ll see
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