katt, migrating 🌟 🌈 @starkatt@awoo.space

when you're wigglin' your bare toes and you feel something soft and damp very gently *boop* AND THEN SUDDENLY TINY CLAWS AND TEETH #kittenthings

honestly that's my writing advice: don't take it too seriously
look at a meme or a joke, say "Oh ha that's just like my character"
think about what that says about them, can you build on that?
it goes even better with a friend
in a few minutes, them dumbest idea can become tragic backstory, intriguing plot point, a goal, a trait, anything!
know about your characters more than the serious moments, they need something more to have depth

I've started referring to the political climate in the US as a cold civil war.

@noelle so she's really depressed and she figures she'll order a pizza... or two... or three... and then the pizza delivery guy shows up, and the music starts up, right? And he helps step her through realizing that the incessant dread she feels is about future events which haven't happened yet, rooted in a condemnation of herself which she'd never apply to other people.

"I hear this confusion [about "CBT"] all the time, but I think you're the first to take it from the the angle of "Wait, there are cognitive behaviour therapy pornos?""

Distopias are everywhere nowadays, in fiction.

I think it's because it is a tool to navigate what's wrong with our world today. Painting a distopia is a way to point at what is problematic around us or where we're going.

But I think there is something else too. Critique of capitalism is everywhere. You can even see it in mainstream media. Capitalism is fine with it. What it can't stand are alternatives. ⬇️

"Galactic Community: Oh no, a giant cylinder is destroying Earth, what will we do?

Kirk: I’m gonna take this stolen Klingon Kia that we barely know how to fly and was dispensing poison food up until last week, and I’m gonna time travel into the past convince some whales to come back with us, abduct a marine biologist, and let the two crew drunks change the course of history by giving out futuristic tech. So no worries, right?"

Hi friends!

Does anyone have suggestions for their favorite kelp strain for cuddliness/sexiness? And if you have a different one for each of those, I'd be super interested to hear about that too!

Also, boosts /very/ appreciated on this!

I wonder how we'd explain the concept of "cute" to aliens...

"aww, isn't he cute!"
"what?"
"over there, he's adorable!"
"human, that's an apex predator that routinely kills and eats mammals far larger than you"
"his box was too smol but he still sits!"
"fucking humans"