@maliciouslycreative replied to your post “I sure do write about the ocean a lot for someone who lives in a…”

You have to suffer the desert all the time, why would you want to write about it? I personally never write about the frozen wasteland around here.

You underestimate just how many people around here write about the desert around here. Like, they romanticize the fuck out of it. Which, okay yeah, it’s pretty but it also sucks. Sunsets are gorgeous but the rest of the day? It’s dry, it’s hot until all of the sudden it’s cold as hell, there’s sand and dirt everywhere and everything is brown. Everything. The plants are brown. The dirt is brown. The houses are brown. 

There’s so much freaking local poetry about mesas and cacti and sunsets. It’s all lies. No one likes it here. 

The only time I write about the desert is to bitch about how much it sucks to live in one. I’m not a strong swimmer and I don’t know much about the ocean but I’d much rather wax poetic about that. 

mousathe14:

wackd:

zarekthelordofthefries:

runan:

jumpingjacktrash:

derinthemadscientist:

kirbily:

derinthemadscientist:

theglyphscrawls:

chaoticaddict:

proteusspade:

derinthemadscientist:

Petition to rename Animorphs books more accurately, so they’re called things like “first named character gets eaten alive”, “first suicide attempt”, and “oh my god even more genocide are you kidding me”

#1: “First named character gets eaten alive”
#2: “First incidence of PTSD, also JESUS CHRIST, ANTS”
#3: “First suicide attempt”
#4: “THEY BIT HIM IN HALF”
#5: “WELL THIS ONE’S UPSETTING”
#6: “Genocide and slavery, basically”
#7: “The future can involve eating your friends”
#8: “Well, this is the one with cinnamon buns…”
#9: “Oh thank god it’s getting less traumatic”
#10: “THE BLOOD IS EVERYWHERE”
#11: “someone dies and it’s confusing”
#12: “let’s sell out the human race, nbd”
#13: “SHIT GOIN DOWN HODAM”
#14: “Poop Jokes”
#15: “*unintelligible screaming about sharks*”
#16: “SO MUCH CANNIBALISM, ALSO CASUAL MURDER.”
#17: “This is the oatmeal one. Alternatively, this is the chemical warfare one.”
#18: “Brain lobes get bitten off in this one.”
#19: “Moral Shades Of Gray: The Book. Also a throat gets ripped out, and parts of it stuck in someone’s teeth.”
#20: “OH NO”
#21: “OH NOOOOOO”
#22: “JESUS FUCKING CHRIST NOOOOOOOO”
#23: “HE JUST WANTED A FUCKING FAMILY”
#24: “… let’s pretend this one never happened”
#25: “RIPPED ITS SKIN RIGHT OFF. Also, more genocide.”
#26: “GENOCIDE AHOY”
#27: “Increase Your Password Security”
#28: “Graphic Depictions of a Slaughterhouse”
#29: “Graphic Depictions of Alien Brain Surgery”
#30: “*sobbing intensifies*

ok that’s all for now

#THIS IS NOT AN EXAGGERATION #NOT EVEN REMOTELY

I CAN STILL CLEARLY PICTURE THE ALIEN BRAIN SURGERY.

That alien brain surgery was the best

I THOUGHT THIS WAS A CHILDREN’S BOOK SERIES?!

It is, that’s why the untrained soldiers with neither physical nor emotional support who are forced to murder innocent slaves for their own survival and constantly face death are children.

from now on when people ask me why i haven’t read animorphs i’ll just show them this post

I absolutely adored this series and I still had to eventually stop reading it because every chapter K.A. Applegate was like “I’ll see your psychological trauma and raise you two instances of surreal body horror and a bout of survivor’s guilt.”

I mean, they’re fantastic books, just…be prepared.

I only read a few of the books and read them out of order – I should really try to read the complete set and use this post as a guide for what to expect with each book.

“This is the oatmeal one. Alternatively, this is the chemical warfare one.” i’m dying

…also man i did actually forget 24 was a thing

“Poop Jokes” feels like a weird addition but I’m too scared to ask what it might actually be about.

Never really read Animorphs past book 1 but I’ve heard things about it for the past 6-ish years and uh… What the hell, Applegate.

@tapnbluesnlindyhopdancer replied to your post “Authors Notes: This character is into some freaky shit. Fic:…”

I slid down that rabbit hole real fast for reading kinky shit, and even faster for writing. I was too nervous to include a smut scene in my first BDSM fic, and then what did I write next? A torture-filled one-shot that was pretty much pwp. And it got worse (or maybe better?) from there…When I go back and look at the tags, I’m like, “how did I fit all that shit in there?!”

lol. I’ve had a few moments where’s I’ve looked at my tags and went “I went there? Really? I wrote all that? Okay then.” 

I was so nervous writing my first pwp. I was certain it was totally unsexy crap and everyone was going to hate it. Now I just don’t care. I write all kinds of stuff and hope that the sexy stuff is sexy and the off-putting stuff is off-putting. 

@samanddeaninpanties replied to your post “Authors Notes: This character is into some freaky shit. Fic:…”

As someone who has written freaky shit (I think) I must agree with this. A lot feels mild to me.

lol. Yeah, you’ve definitely written some freaky shit. 

It’s so funny to me, though. Like, if someone asks me to write the freakiest shit I can think of that’s still exciting to me my starting point is bondage. It’s not like the end goal or anything. It’s wild lol. 

@majesticduxk
It’s one of the most fascinating things imo. I haven’t written half the wild things I want to and I tend to think of myself as one of the more tame writers in my little circle of people I talk to. Every once in a while though I’ll come across something and I’m just struck by how one man’s bread and butter is another’s extreme. It’s definitely interesting and it makes me wonder how some of my fics are received. I wonder just how much of my “normal” is one something one of my readers feels is an fun and scandalous (but in a good way).