#whose hands are these? not mine!!

[ehlnofay]

I should try writing something to evoke the very specific atmosphere I experience when I play too much first person 3D video game and then have mental illness symptoms. it's extremely singular. worth attempting to portray

#whose hands are these? not mine!! #the scissors on the floor are shiny and i keep feeling like they should be interactible. #but everything in here is interactible because it is a REAL SPACE #with my REAL BODY in it #this kind of dissociation is not frequent for me and it is so fucking trippy. im chill about it but I'm also deeply freaked out #posting this into the void where nobody will read it because nothing exists outside the video game style cell of my room etc etc #but my CAT is in here. and he's FLUFFY. and he's REAL. PROBABLY. so take that #dear real people who i know intellectually might see this: IGNORE THIS POST. honestly dw I'm fine #im about to go to bed which will push the reset button on my brain and in the morning I will be #perhaps not fixed but not actively Like This #big improvement. #byebye see you #should i make a tag for this shit or something #fay exhibits symptoms on main #fuxking hell i swear to god the roll of tape on the floor is like. floating. clipping. why is it like that why didn't i just lay it flat #was i trying to squick myself out #ANYWAY

[handweavers]

i'm a weaver my time is spent sitting at looms and spinning wheels and sewing machines and dye pots, and my ability to make any money at all comes from the fact that my work can't be truly reproduced by machine and speaks to my own and others' desire to reconnect with acts of making and living that are slower and emphasize the physicality of our lives, that we are present in our bodies in a physical world and we are sensorial creatures who relate to each other and the world through tactile means. it serves as a reminder that there is a lot we can do away from screens, that there is joy and meaning to be found in creating something with your hands, and that through this we can find channels to address and learn to live with grief and loss without running from the fact that we are living animals with meatbodies and a finite amount of time.

i think it would be very easy for me to fall into a trap where all modern technology is bad and we need to escape it at all costs and to take a luddite approach to technology - literally a luddite approach, because the phrase "luddite" comes from workers in england during the industrial revolution who destroyed machinery in cotton and wool mills to protest the introduction of that machinery as cost saving measures by the capitalists. but the problem in that situation wasn't inherently the machinery that processed cotton and wool more efficiently, it was that the people who owned the factories used that technology as an excuse to pay fewer workers and maximize profit while creating more unsafe working conditions for the workers that remained. in a situation where the workers owned the factory and the machinery, the introduction of this machinery wouldn't have necessarily been harmful but rather potentially helpful to the workers, for whom more free time wouldn't be a death sentence and proper precautions in the use of the machinery to protect human life could be prioritized

i don't want to make the mistake of confusing technology or some other boogeyman as my enemy. the enemy is capitalism, and i choose to prioritize class consciousness over my private existential worries about new technological developments. all the tech we use is made by humans, just like this economic system we live in. we have the capacity to dismantle economic systems and build new ones, just as we have the capacity to use the tech we make in ways that benefit rather than harm us and the world we live in. my gut tendency is to be distrustful of new tech but i have to remind myself that it isn't helpful and it obfuscates what's actually going on.

#as a weaver and dyer and spinner my enemy isnt weaving or spinning or dying factories #i could never produce cloth at the capacity needed to meet human needs and i dont want to #and my concern above all is the mistreatment of workers in these factories whose hands know the same things mine do #those machines and the materials it makes and requires can be used in ways that dont cause so much harm

[sashayed]

time for me to review The Whole Bible. ready? ok. to be honest my favorite part of the gospels is Mark 8.22-26, when Jesus spits in some nice blind man's eyeballs and accidentally gives him cosmic consciousness. guy's just like "may i have a teaspoon of visual response to stimulus" and jesus is like "oh sure" and gives him God Vision. fuckin...ayahuasca sight that perceives the interconnectedness of all life. "oh is that not normal? does everyone not have that? nuts. ok try these eyes. are those more regular? great. maybe lie down by yourself for a while and please don't mention this to anyone"

#YES i've read like 8 fundamental world religious texts this year NO i don't think it's made me more normal either!! #fyi as far as i can tell literally no scholarly commentary on this passage supports my reading of it. #nobody agrees with me about the tree eyes. #but on the other hand if u have come to Sashayed Dot Tumblr Dot Gov for biblical scholarship whose fault is that. not mine. #bible cw #jesus (slapping a fig tree across the face): this is just Some Guy. and hes fucking rude

[bylertruther]

mike accepting, loving, and celebrating will's otherness while rejecting his own is so . it's literally Soooooo like i can't see through my tears rn jgenuinely . he's so......... i can 't do this icant finish the post he's so . MICHAEL.............

#mike being the ''it's okay if other ppl are queer but as for myself......... hi :) el :) sure :) lets get back together :) why :) not :)'' #kind of queer.................. the writers room WILL pay for their crimes (aka hurting my feelings). #''you make [me] feel better for being different'' to the dude whose internalized homophobia changed their friendship forever . ok lol #they really think they're funny huh...... sniffles . yeah they think they're soooooooooooo hilarrious .... ha ha ... #head in hands pulling my hair out stick figure gore moment #mine

[peregrintook]

“.... Fetch your feathery shirts. Let's start walking.”

#trop #rop #tropedit #ropedit #tropgifs #ropgifs #rings of power #lotr on prime #elrond #durin #mine #my gifs #I'm SO normal about them i SWEAR #the way it's obvious on durin's face #from the second he looks over at elrond before he asks 'whose hands' #SO OBVIOUS #but elrond doesn't see it because he's feeling too guilty #for staying away so long and missing so much of Durin's life #and for his role in gil and brimbo's plan to get mithril #even if he didn't know it yet #he feels so terrible for all of it he still doubts that durin would be willing to do this for him #meanwhile durin is like #I'm personally going to dig up every ounce of mithril in this mountain and give it to my friend #if that is what it takes to keep him alive and around

[mahogany-leaves]

some quick Sterling stuff I've been procastinating on posting

(reblogs very appreciated!)

#random pierre in the back to fill empty space #sterling ARV #stardew valley #sterling stardew valley #sterling cooper #sterling sdv #always raining in the valley #being fan of characters whose fandom is like 100 people total is an experience #me and the other 5 people posting fanart of him are holding hands #my art #my stuff #mine

[zhongrin]

the way you can just see where i taped the nail picks orz....... (other hand's thumb for comparison)

li come kiss it better ;<

#rin rambles #ig one good thing about getting into playing a plucked string instrument is that. i think i'm starting to. uh. what's the term. #'get used to' seeing my fingers a lot? and not mind them as much. #i used to think they look so ugly cause they're so stumpy and short. #yk like. the term 'sausage fingers'? fits them so much i feel ☠️ #and i still feel the same sometimes but. i'm warming up to the sight of them. #i think (and hope) if i ever get a bf he'd be endeared if we ever compare hands. bc i bet mine would be *so* tiny against his. #i have yet to find anyone whose fingers are shorter and smaller than mine. not even girls who are smaller-sized than me (and most girls are #(​except for kids ofc lol)

[ourflagmeansgayrights]

i'm cry laughing some people on twitter are now saying "izzy bashing" needs to be tagged in fics. how did these people ever survive watching this show where izzy is the CANON ANTAGONIST i'll never know

benefit of the doubt but i think most of them have gotten to this point gradually. when they first watched the show they were not attached to izzy the way they are now. i know for a lot of people it was blorbo at first sight with izzy but i've also seen izzy enjoyers say they didn't like him at first, and then fandom made them care about him.

like i'm pretty sure for a lot of ppl it started off with isolating themselves from ppl who made posts that they didnt like, like ppl who criticized ofmd for being based on two real people with direct connections to actual real-world slave trade (which is an incredibly valid thing to criticize abt ofmd).

another one that i think funneled a lot of fans towards being so delusionally attached to izzy was people pointing out or complaining about the disproportionate amount of fan content for izzy compared to prominent characters of color—which is a consistent issue in fandom no matter what the media, and is also a very easy one for people to be uncomfortable with whenever they see it get pointed out. people venting that "fans care too much abt this white man" often make fans who care abt that white man very defensive right off the bat, and then rather than engage with why they feel defensive or question if maybe their enjoyment of this character is fueled by implicit bias (which it might not be, to be clear! im not saying—and i have never said—that everyone who enjoyes izzy likes him for racist reasons), they stop listening to the conversation abt white favoritism and continue blorboposting as much as they want. it's incredibly easy for fans to brush off this convo as "just starting drama" and avoid the topic altogether because "fandom is for fun!" and they dont want to think abt difficult topics like racism and implicit bias, they just want to enjoy their blorbos in peace.

so they kept narrowing the takes they were seeing until they were in an echo chamber that kept moving more and more towards complete woobification of izzy hands. these people are now looking at the show entirely through izzy's pov, making posts abt how sad it is that none of the other characters are ever nice to him, how frustrating the show is from his perspective, how it feels to be deeply in love with someone who doesn't love you back. they've stared at gifs of con's micro-expressions and read angsty fanfiction and looked at endless izzy fanart and their entire ofmd fandom experience revolves around empathizing with this one character even tho the show itself continually makes him the butt of the joke.

at this point, telling these people to rewatch the show doesn't even matter. they've spent so much time over-analyzing every single one of izzy's scenes to the point where the emotional responses they get from these scenes are not the emotional responses anyone would have watching the show for the first time. they've warped the entire first season to fit their version of the show and are forgetting how often the show itself bashes izzy.

and the icing on the cake is the trolling. there's like, one or two people on here who go around sending anon hate and leaving nasty comments on instagram posts and harassing people on twitter for... like, i would say "for liking izzy" or even "for saying positive things about izzy" but like. i've gotten these messages, and the most sympathetic i've ever been to izzy was the post i made like "maybe he's mean bc he has chronic IBS. i'd actually understand him more if that were the case." so when i get these messages it's easier for me to just laugh them off bc it's so obviously just someone trying to make me upset, but people who do care about izzy (a lot of them being the same people who avoided engaging with the "why does fandom care so much abt white characters" convo) get these absolutely horrible messages about how they deserve to get hate crimed and they should kill themselves. and these fans who didn't want to even see vaguely negative posts abt izzy bc they just want to enjoy fandom in peace are now like "im targeted for just liking a character!"

so that's how we get to people saying that "izzy bashing" needs to be tagged. never mind that their definition of "bashing" almost certainly includes things that are not bashing but are just things that contradict the way they headcannnon him.

#ask #anon #mine #txt #og #izzy critical #izzy hands #ofmd fandom crit #if this post is in the izcourse tag no it isnt u just dont know how to use tumblr #obligatory Not All Izzy Fans disclaimer #also btw in case anyone tries to come at me with “it's stupid to tell people to pay attention to different characters”: #noticing the disappointing trend of fandom to fixate on white side characters ≠ telling people to stop making izzy content #im not telling individual izzy hands enjoyers to stop paying attention to izzy. there are a lot of reasons why ppl might like izzy #if i interact w someone whose ofmd contribution is primarily pro-izzy my thought is “oh they like antagonists” #not “oh they don't care about characters of color bc they're racist” ok im not gonna jump there without a reason #but on a fandom-wide scale this is a Trend that has happened over and over again in fandom after fandom after fandom #like We Live In A Society bro we can't just pretend white men are always the faves in fandoms just by coincidence #but also tbh if you think im saying that You Personally need to make content for characters of color? and you're getting MAD at me for it?? #then ur probs not someone i want making content for those characters lmao. u keep izzyposting to ur heart's content <3 have fun bestie

[oh-no-another-idea]

find the vibe tag XI

Big thank you to @indecentpause for the ancient tag to look for “You have no idea how long I’ve been wanting you to say that.” Here's a bit of Invisible Girl shenanigans 😁

“I’d like to offer you a job,” Antonio said very quickly. “It’s all perfectly ethical, even though I get the sense you wouldn’t care. As one of my assistants, you would travel with me to all my meetings and conferences, and if you happened to overhear the mood in the room or any other tidbits that might be useful, well, that’s on them for speaking carelessly while you’re nearby.” Velia felt a slow smile steal over her face without her permission. “I also need a secretary, but I thought you’d be awful at that job, but rest assured when I find the right person, they will be sworn to secrecy and told all about you.” “One of the others could do it.” Antonio sighed laboriously, and pretended to scribble something down for the driver’s sake. “Believe it or not, they all already turned me down. Something about taking initiative for themselves, or liking their jobs. Utter rubbish. But we’ll wear them down eventually, you and I.” Above their heads, birds sang. The carriage rocked them gently. “I accept,” Velia said.   “Oh splendid,” Antonio sang, as though he’d been waiting for just that. “I’m going to start you on wages today, and you get a room in my father’s house all to you, if you want—second floor, I think, which is optimal for sneaking out of.”

I'll pass it on to @eccaiia @blind-the-winds @moonscribbler @sleepyowlwrites @sarandipitywrites @lyssentome @kaiusvnoir @toribookworm22 and anyone else who'd like to join and look for the vibe "Oh HELL no." 😉🥂

#tag games #find the vibe tag #wip: invisible girl #working on stuff like this right now. how to make antonio act like a normal guy when he very much isn't #like can he just give out jobs? i guess he can #🤦‍♂️ my son is all grown up and completely out of hand. whose fault is this??? (mine)

[ialwaysknewyouwerepunk]

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#these past two weeks have been so intense that ive just.. not spoken about it once i got home from work #blocked it all out #my beloved colleague whose desk is next to mine has cancer #breast and uterus. she needs two major surgeries #they just diagnosed her two weeks ago #so we've been trying to deal with that as colleagues and friends #because we love and miss her and i am so deeply sad as well #but i feel like i couldn't process that at all bc two days after the news of her diagnosis i was asked to take on half of her work #on top of my fulltime #which i agreed to do bc i like her tasks and i want to help her and i also know i can do it #but it does feel very off bc i know i don't earn enough money for this workload to be long term and it is def like this #for the coming four months at least #so i did tell my manager that i would like a raise and. that bitch told me to BUY MORE SECOND HAND SHIT. #i seriously thought i saw my life flash before my eyes #then the day after she asked one of my colleagues who's been with the firm for over 30 years whether she was looking for another job maybe? #which caused that colleague to instantly go home in tears and be home from basically a nervous breakdown the past 1.5 week #which is her full right and i support her with all my heart but bc my management sucks it meant that we had to also carry her tasks ofc #i felt soooo spread thin and super super angry actually but i didn't even realise how angry i was until last thursday my colleague w cancer #came by the office. and talked about all of it. and i suddenly realised how sad i was but then also how angry #but i was just blocking it all out trying to stay afloat #bc we told her about what the manager had said and she said “i hope that i get the chance to really tell her how it is someday.” #“because the stress she causes with people can actually kill you. just look at me.” #and the rest of the day i felt so ready to be done with everything actually #but seeing her anger made me see my own anger #and released me of my own pent up emotions bc i had actual leg pains this week and it was purely psychosomatic #i then managed to tell some friends yesterday about what was going on and their outrage spurred me on even more #so today i emailed hr. demanding a raise #doing this amount of work while constantly feeling like the house is on fire while also struggling financially seriously makes me suicidal #and i am not joking #so.. if nothing comes of that im leaving that job and not looking back

[shiwden]

precious boy

#my art #the corinthian #the sandman #whose are these hands #maybe they belong to lord morpheus #maybe they're mine #maybe they're yours #maybe they're your neighbor steve's

[kyouka-supremacy]

I swear there's no heterosexual explanation to 55 Minutes

#I'm going to fight anyone who says Akutagawa isn't gay fr #Like. No not actually you are free to interpret a character as you like and ship whoever you want but also it's just so hard for me to- #think about Akutagawa as not being in love with Atsushi? Like- it's right there? All the time? I swear I'm not making it up? #And I'm kind of VERY persuaded it's not a matter of shipping lenses because for example I don't think the same for Atsushi. #Like I like to think about Atsushi being in love with Akutagawa and I ship sskk #but I'm conscious there's nothing in canon that suggests Atsushi has feelings for Akutagawa #Akutagawa on the other hand!!!!!! He's pinning on Atsushi's all the fucking time!!!!!!!!!!!! Damn #characters who arent canonically gay but whose behavior just makes no sense unless you read them as gay #ryūnosuke akutagawa #Well. In the tags #sskk #bsd #bungou stray dogs #bsd 55 minutes #mine #q. #01/05/2022 #shin soukoku

[eggy-tea]

This fucking thing. You have no idea. 

About two months ago, I took this thing into work. When I was done with it, I brought it back home and put it away… kind of. 

See, "taking it to work" involved:

remembering I owned it in the first place

remembering I needed it at work once I was back home

remembering to put it in my bag to bring to work

remembering to bring it out of the bag to use at work

actually using the damn thing

remembering to put it back in my bag to bring home

remembering to take it out of my bag once I got home, and

putting it back where it belonged

Where it belongs is in a tool bag on a shelf above our dryer. The shelf is slightly above eye level, and the tool bag sits near the back where I need to reach a bit to get it. The tool bag location makes sense, because it’s something I use often enough that I want it visible, but not so often that I want it in the way of other things. That, of course, means that it's mildly annoying to get to.

So over the course of about a week I managed to get through steps 1-7, but when it came to step 8 (putting it away properly), well… I was tired.  I had a lot of other things on my mind. So I put it on the shelf near the tool bag, because taking the tool bag out added five more steps to the process (take bag, place on surface, unzip bag, place screwdriver in bag, zip bag up, return bag to shelf vs put screwdriver on shelf) and I just couldn’t right then. 

And so it sat there. For like two months. And every time I saw it I’d think, “Right, I should put that away,” and every time I couldn’t, because Too Much. And now, on top of the task itself, there was the Emotional Context of it sitting there, weighing on me. It had become the Screwdriver of Bad Feelings. Every time I noticed it while doing the laundry, I would feel ever so slightly like shit for not just putting it away already it will literally take fifteen seconds, but it never bothered me enough in the moment to flip the switch in my brain and force me to do something about it. 

Until today. Today, I got out a different screwdriver from the tool bag for a different task. When I was done, I :

put away that screwdriver

put the tool bag back

noticed the Screwdriver of Bad Feelings was still there

took the tool bag back down

unzipped it again

put the Bad Feelings screwdriver in the bag,

zipped the bag back up, and

continued on to the next task. 

Like it was easy. Like it was nothing. Because today, it was. 

What was so special about today? Ritalin. That’s it. That’s all. 

Don’t ever let anyone fucking tell you that ADHD isn’t real, that executive dysfunction isn’t a real disability. Because without something extra (high levels of stress, pressure, anxiety… or meds) to make my brain do the thing? I cannot do the thing. I am unable. If that's not the definition of disability, I don't know what is.

#personal #long post #adhd #ok to rb #for MONTHS i could not do this simple day-to-day task #i wanted to! i knew how! i was physically capable! but i *could not do it* #if i could have i would have! #the 'why' was different but the outcome was the exact same as if my arms weren't able to lift or my hands to grasp the zipper and pull #it will forever make me angry that the healthier solution - at least for me - is SO SIMPLE and yet it is so hard to access #because fucking neurotypical folks might abuse the meds that make my brain work #in order to give themselves an edge WHEN THEY'RE ALREADY PLAYING ON EASY MODE #and like. i always feel vaguely bad complaining about this because i don't even have it that bad #my husband's adhd is noticeably more disabling than mine #i have worked with kids whose attention spans could be measured in seconds #whose ability levels dropped at least three grade levels on bad days and who could barely stand to live inside their own brains #and that was never me #but honestly that just makes me ANGRIER #because if i'm dealing with *this* then HOW MUCH WORSE IS IT FOR THEM

[punch-love]

when talented artists like my writing I feel like we’re reaching across the table and shaking hands heartily

#punch.txt #there’s been a handful of artists whose work I really admire who like mine and it’s very #finding beauty in the other! respecting the immense effort it takes to create & create well!

[a11sunday]

TAG DUMP , pt. 1

‧͙⁺˚･༓☾　⸻ this right hand bestows thirst. you shall shrivel and die ( crocodile ). *✭˚･ﾟ✧*･ﾟ* ⸻ sometimes it takes more courage not to fight ( makino ). ‧͙⁺˚･༓☾　⸻ if i forgo duty for family now ̗ what will become of justice ( monkey d. garp ).

‧͙⁺˚･༓☾　⸻ i am the man who will become king of the pirates ( monkey d. luffy ).

*✭˚･ﾟ✧*･ﾟ* ⸻ take me out to sea with you ! a desire to live ( nico robin ).

*✭˚･ﾟ✧*･ﾟ* ⸻ primadonna girl ̗ all i ever wanted was the world ( perona ).

‧͙⁺˚･༓☾　⸻ i am fire itself. you can't even touch me ( portgas d. ace ).

‧͙⁺˚･༓☾　⸻ a man who has cooked on every sea in the world ( red leg zeff ).

‧͙⁺˚･༓☾　⸻ looks like it was a little too spicy for you! devil of the blue sea ( sanji ).

‧͙⁺˚･༓☾　⸻ they call him the dark king ̗ the pirate king's first mate ( silvers rayleigh ).

*✭˚･ﾟ✧*･ﾟ* ⸻ my sword will cut the blindfold from justice's eyes ( tashigi ).

‧͙⁺˚･༓☾　⸻ i'll become a doctor who can cure any disease. a reliable doctor ( tony-tony chopper ).

‧͙⁺˚･༓☾　⸻ to become a brave warrior of the sea ( usopp ).

*✭˚･ﾟ✧*･ﾟ* ⸻ passion bleeds red ̗ this eye of mine sees the core of you ( viola ).

*✭˚･ﾟ✧*･ﾟ* ⸻ fate may have paved the way but i will choose to walk it ̗ enacting my will ( clover d. iselda ).

*✭˚･ﾟ✧*･ﾟ* ⸻ pure lucid evil ̗ i'd sleep all right with all that on top of me ( nina liu ).

‧͙⁺˚･༓☾　⸻ and the sea has a beloved whose name all nightmares know ( otorobashi akai ).

*✭˚･ﾟ✧*･ﾟ* ⸻ let me go mad in my own way. let me live without abandon ( zhi hua ).

*✭˚･ﾟ✧*･ﾟ* ⸻ member of the sogeking fanclub ( ooc ).

#‧͙⁺˚･༓☾ ⸻ this right hand bestows thirst. you shall shrivel and die ( crocodile ). #*✭˚･ﾟ✧*･ﾟ* ⸻ sometimes it takes more courage not to fight ( makino ). #‧͙⁺˚･༓☾ ⸻ if i forgo duty for family now ̗ what will become of justice ( monkey d. garp ). #‧͙⁺˚･༓☾ ⸻ i am the man who will become king of the pirates ( monkey d. luffy ). #*✭˚･ﾟ✧*･ﾟ* ⸻ take me out to sea with you ! a desire to live ( nico robin ). #*✭˚･ﾟ✧*･ﾟ* ⸻ primadonna girl ̗ all i ever wanted was the world ( perona ). #‧͙⁺˚･༓☾ ⸻ i am fire itself. you can't even touch me ( portgas d. ace ). #‧͙⁺˚･༓☾ ⸻ a man who has cooked on every sea in the world ( red leg zeff ). #‧͙⁺˚･༓☾ ⸻ looks like it was a little too spicy for you! devil of the blue sea ( sanji ). #‧͙⁺˚･༓☾ ⸻ they call him the dark king ̗ the pirate king's first mate ( silvers rayleigh ). #*✭˚･ﾟ✧*･ﾟ* ⸻ my sword will cut the blindfold from justice's eyes ( tashigi ). #‧͙⁺˚･༓☾ ⸻ i'll become a doctor who can cure any disease. a reliable doctor ( tony-tony chopper ). #‧͙⁺˚･༓☾ ⸻ to become a brave warrior of the sea ( usopp ). #*✭˚･ﾟ✧*･ﾟ* ⸻ passion bleeds red ̗ this eye of mine sees the core of you ( viola ). #*✭˚･ﾟ✧*･ﾟ* ⸻ member of the sogeking fanclub ( ooc ). #*✭˚･ﾟ✧*･ﾟ* ⸻ fate may have paved the way but i will choose to walk it ̗ enacting my will ( clover d. iselda ). #‧͙⁺˚･༓☾ ⸻ and the sea has a beloved whose name all nightmares know ( otorobashi akai ). #*✭˚･ﾟ✧*･ﾟ* ⸻ let me go mad in my own way. let me live without abandon ( zhi hua ). #tag dump.

[cruelsister-moved2]

this is not untrue but it is kind of funny coming from someone that freely chose to pitch their book as like neon genesis evangelion meets the hunger games or whatever it was and i dont feel like the practice is a problem (in private query letters sent to agents/publishers) because it's literally just a shortcut to discussing the types of audiences it might be relevant to and proving that people would be interested in it. it can be about like themes or style or whatever as much as like ‘these stories both have robots in’ and also does not mandate that books are marketed in this way. also no one in the history of reading has ever been annoyed at the ‘if you like this you also might like this due to some shared similarity between them’ style of recommendations, i think people just object to like artlessly cobbling together as many gimmicks from popular media as you can without any attempt to replicate the meaningful storytelling elements that made the originals popular so they read your book and get disappointed when they realise you didn’t mean it was in the storytelling tradition of the hunger games or nge you just mean its a sci-fi dystopia with a girlboss in 

#but if theyre allowed to do this im pitching mine as rgu meets earthsea #also 'popular' is sooo relative depending on what ur pitching #the idea u can only comp like twilight and that fairyporn booktok book is silly #also im pretty sure at least part of the purpose of comps is demonstrating to agents that ur well-read lol #because that goes really hand in hand with being a good writer and when theyre reading 100s of querys a day they can discard anyone whose #comps are like super basic lo #lol #afaik YA dystopia is also kind of a dead genre so idk #its just funny for this person to be the one to say it idk