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how many of us have been kicked out of bars in our time, only to find some asshole outside to take out our anger on, and later have a crisis of sexuality?

be honest

we've all been there

but, seriously, i fuckin love it here and i keep telling myself (and tumblr) that i will return to tumblr but right now i'm like naaaaahhhhhhh. writing absurd shit is so much more fun than doing things that take effort like serious threads. hahaha. who even does that

not me. ever. at least i have an appropriate outlet

all yall are great

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first, thanks so much for the crit. i mean for the timeline to be somewhat confusing because when people close to me have died, that's how it has felt, just a muddled mess. i wanted to try to accomplish something similar in writing and i guess i didn't pull it off that well? oh well, fanfic is for experimentation!! i thought i was being too slow, too, so i'll try to put more attention and detail into things

anyway.
now that you mention it, about being a teenager, thinking shit needs angst to make it good, i totally thought that too lmfao i at least didn't write any grossly poorly-researched forays into the "staying at a mental hospital" trope but i did use war and gore (haha) a lot.

the rp community on tumblr used to be a lot older? when i started, i was 18, and this was back in 2012, and in general a lot of the well-established writers were 18+. it depends on the fandom too because Hannibal definitely had an older crowd than, say, Welcome to Night Vale (since i wrote in both)

but OPM? i've got this little group chat i talk in that i met through tumblr and was invited to, and i'm the oldest there by 5 or 6 years. i..... like it here a lot better even if i havent been to the SRS RP parts and maybe i never will because passive aggressive bullshit is more or less universal from what i can tell and that's my biggest pet peeve, i lose my cool and get really angry over it so its best if i just stay as far away as possible

I personally have never experienced loss like that, so I can't really relate to that. It may resonate more with someone who has that experience, or it could be one of those things that just doesn't work well from an outside prospective. I appreciate the effect you were going for though, with that context! I think the pacing may have been thrown off by the timeline confusion a little bit, too? Like the third chapter played out pretty well, but the first chapter just seemed rushed.

My fanfic journals from my teenager years were full of "Whose Line Is It Anyway?" scenes, tbh >_> But man, my World of Warcraft character's Tragic Past had just about as much shit as I could stuff into it, it was a mess.

Yeah, I suppose to be fair, my experience with Tumblr RP has been mostly OPM and SCP, and the age range that I've noticed is about 16-20, and as a 26 year old, I am just like. I am continuously amazed at how obvious the age difference seems from this end of the spectrum. I keep asking myself when I got old. I wonder how the 26 year olds I used to RP with on WOW put up with me.

Aging is WEIRD.

But yeah, I can't stand passive-agression either. I grew up with it, and I FINALLY managed to escape that house in the last few years, and I just. Will not tolerate it anymore. The dressing room and

nexus_sages both seem to be incredibly chill places, and as tempting as real games are... They've gotten to the point where they're too much effort and I just don't have the energy these days.

either way, thanks a ton for reading 3.5k words of my nonsense ;o; I have people who beta chapters for me but they haven't given me much concrit other than straightening out one of the transitions to make it less jarring. i need that shit man, one day i'll be a good writer

ikr?? like i'm almost 23 and that's young for this platform (i think) but it's life experience. functioning even somewhat as a proper adult, outside high school and college and in the real world and dealing with shit just gives you a perspective that tumblr doesn't seem to have? not that i consider myself particularly versed but i've done my fair share

i'm happy you got out of whatever situation you were in and i'm glad we have that in common too lmao. i'm not a confrontational person, usually, but it's often out of fear of hurting feelings rather than out of spite. emotional manipulation, guilt-tripping and shit, that doesn't fly with me. also, that community seems pretty cool :O i'll give it more of a look when i have a chance!!

I think beta readers (especially ones who are friends) are often hesitant to give too much feedback for fear of hurting your feelings or changing the story. Negative feedback is also hard to give in general, even in the vein of trying to be constructive. Some art schools give classes on it for that very reason, actually. I know a lot of times I have a hard time identifying specific pain points when I'm reading fic (unless it's a case of "Your characterization is overall bad and juvenile and I can't read it it's so cringewrothy" but you can't leave a comment like that on a fic). It's also hard to tell who's open to crit and who isn't, and I would kind of prefer to make con crit in a more private setting than commenting on a fic, ngl.

BUT YEAH, I know how you feel. Nice comments are great writer fuel, but they don't really help you improve.

I think 23 is young for DW now, but man, I remember back when that was the median age. Most of the people who have been using DW for RP have been doing so for YEARS, and we don't get a lot of fresh blood the way tumblr does, so the age range keeps going up. That said, there is... a fair number of people on DW who are NEETs, so... Honestly, just stay away from the anon comm, and I think wankgate, if that's still operating, and you'll probably avoid the worst of it.

Haaa, my mom is just narcissistic and passive-aggressive and controlling and yeah. Living at home was a lot of fun, lemme tell you. And also, I am largely non-confrontational for fear of hurting people too, so. Yeah. These days, it means I know manipulation when I see it, and I am way too tired to put up with it for very long.

ANYWAY, Nexus Sages is a remake of the community I used to play in when I was a teenager! It's waaaaaay more organized and better modded this time around, I really recommend it! As much as I love the dressing room, cross-canon CR is super fun, and the Nexus is a good place to go for it without having to jump through hoops to join a game.

yeah you're probably right. on chapter 4 i'll put a lil note in that i am definitely looking for concrit and people can message me if they don't want to do it publicly, so thanks, now i have a plan oOo

fresh blood lmao. i'm kind of a NEET myself i guess? (mentally impaired to the point that it's really hard for me to find work i can actually handle) i love to count and sort things and people exhaust me so you'd think there would be plenty of jobs for someone like me. alone, organizing/counting a thing or doing some data entry or something. pure bliss

BRUH i know, right?? i can smell emotional manipulation a mile away, so, back on that age topic, a lot of those teenagers on tumblr do that shit on a regular basis because of the atmosphere of "your feelings are never bad or wrong uwu" "u have a mental disorder so its ok if ur not a nice person sometimes <333" which is all great on the surface but some of these fucking kids straight up say "well i have this and that so its not my fault when i act this way" like. nope. it totally is. take responsibility for your fucking behavior. they'll do it on skype at me and i always find myself having to tread very carefully because if i dont watch it i'll just start snapping and being rude and that doesn't solve anything

i just joined nexus last night and filled out the permissions thing for my fucking Batter blog (from OFF)

im_pure and i know that fandom is dead as dust but im hoping people might interact with me anyway just because he's a super interesting character. fingers crossed

I'm nueroatypical myself, I know how that can feel. I was INCREDIBLY lucky to get the tech writing job I have; a friend of mine from a LARP I'm in was like "We need a tech writer, anyone know any?" in the realms chat one day, and I was like "I am desperate for a job, no one else seems to be speaking up, and I have SO MUCH WRITING EXPERIENCE, might as well try." An essay on Amazon's Mechanical Turk program, and a week later I had a work from home job, and I am just. It fries me out a lot mentally, since I have to do a lot of writing about stuff I know nothing about, but like. This is the best job I could imagine having, it is so cushy and I am constantly worried that I am not doing enough, but they love me, and I get my shit done in time, so.

I think data entry is definitely something you should be able to handle, although I don't know how hard it is to get a job doing it. I know it was something that came up frequently through the temp companies I worked with prior to getting this job, maybe try there? Also, since you ARE a writer, I would recommend writing 500 word or so blog posts on a weekly basis because as it turns out, that is a marketable skill. That's roughly 60% of what I do, and it's a good way to build up portfolio you can show off, rather than rely on my "I WRITE FANFICTION 8D" approach to getting a job. I mean for real, that would not have worked if I hadn't already known the people I was applying to. I think you can also make money as an independent blog writer, I haven't looked that much into it. Something to consider, though?

Ehhhnnn yeah... I RP'd with someone similar a while back, and she would throw tantrums every time she didn't get her way, and if you pointed it out to her, she would get very apologetic until she got you to forgive her. Then later, she'd say she didn't do anything of the sort, and man, lemme tell you. I have her blocked on multiple accounts, because she just refused to accept responsibility for your actions. And she was 24. 8I Some people don't grow out of that "it's not my fault" mentality. Mental disorders are an explanation, not an excuse.

Well, as soon as I see Batter go up, I will def figure out how to throw either Sonic, or my gundam child Shino (

pinkmech) at him. And I can pretty much guarantee that Verity will probably hit you up too, since she's the mod's character and she talks to basically everyone. She's awesome, I like her a lot.

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