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Between the fact that the CEO is a multi-million Aire and that healthcare bills routinely go into the hundreds of thousands, a 50k bounty probably feels like a slap in the face

May be an unpopular take but people on book covers is so tacky

Hi, wondering how to write good image descriptions and #AltText? Here's a detailed breakdown for you 🧵

[I am not claiming to be an expert, this advice is based on my personal experience as a visually impaired person.]

I want to write a litcrit article on Orientalism but I have yet to build up a following so who is going to read it honestly

“i was born afab!” “i was born amab” well i was born arab

Today, I’m Monday-Lisa. 🤣

This is probably a very hot take but Japanese food does not taste as good as it costs

Academic math is me thinking I can respond to all my emails, attend the meetings I need to, finish a 15 page paper, and also have time for myself by the end of this week

I have nothing against tropes but there's something so demoralizing about the encroaching capitalist need to measure everything so that they can reproduce it for commodity consumption that makes tropy writing feel so lifeless to me

An Israeli company profiting off of stolen work... Color me surprised

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To have a cottage here and do nothing but write, make art, and fiddle around with little trinkets

Replying to posts on Bluesky gives me the same feeling of awkwardness as responding to someone's diary

Worldbuilding to distract myself from the character development I was doing to distract myself from writing

There's something so indescribably sad about the reincarnation/"going back in time" trope in Eastern Asian dramas and books

I've breezed through Reverend Insanity, Heaven Officials Blessing, and The Husky and His White Cat Shizun this past week to get to know Chinese web novels. Of the three, The Husky novel was best written but seems to be the least popular, while Rev Insanity was the most popular but worst written

What do you mean I can't stalk people's likes on here too?

I just had a personal interaction with someone that is driving me to say that your credentials of being a highly paid corporate worker means nothing to me, especially if you think it means I'm going to treat you better than workers you view as beneath yourself

The tragedy of having inspiration hit you in between sleep cycles during the night but being too sleepy to get up and write them down

The writing process goes like this:

- Got this great idea for a novel

- Start writing it. It’s great!

- Well, maybe it’s not so great. It’s ok

- Actually, girl, I don’t know what you’re doing

- Girl

- Girl

…

Yes but it was by accident so it doesn't count

The way Wuthering Heights both inspired and destroyed me at the same time

Am I going to be exposed to the opinions of people who make drones for a living here too or is that just a Twitter thing

!! That sounds like a good idea, hopefully I can muster the discipline to do that consistently

I think social media has truly rotted my brain. I find that my reading habits (I have to read a book in one go instead of over several days, my eyes zoom across the page, sometimes skipping paragraphs, unable to savor the writing) mirrors the way I use social media. How am I going to unlearn this

Me after following up on two emails: that's enough work for today, time for me to take a break for the rest of the day!

One of my dreams is to become an object of morbid fascination by the Chinese internet

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a meme top panel is jimmy fallon on his set of the tonight show, at his desk and says "Wow, cook book idea!" to jerry the mouse from the show "tom and jerry" who is labelled as "writer" sitting happily in the guest chair, excited to talk about it, and replies "OMG, thank you so much!" bottom panel is jimmy fallon following up and asking, "When can I read it?" and jerry labelled as "writer" covers his mouth crying in silence

I'm uh... I'm working on it

Definitely!