thegradus

[thegradus]

"we need less sanitized queer stories" yall keep saying fucking she-ra romanticizes abuse. you couldnt possibly handle less sanitized queer stories

[thegradus]

maybe it's just because i spend my time scrounging around libraries and itch.io and such but i'm often bewildered whenever people talk about everything becoming the same or death of art or everyone being afraid to Get Weird with It. i promise people are still out there getting weird with it. the hegemonic mainstream art remains hegemonic and mainstream like usual. counterculture remains counterculture. as usual. interesting and somewhat off-putting zines cost a little more but the cost of living is pretty high right now, and i don't particularly mind giving an independent artist a few more bucks for their work

[thegradus]

[thegradus]

shadow the hedgehog is cool. gunblades are cool. vampires are cool. scythes are cool. white hair is cool. we need to stop lying about what is not cool

[thegradus]

[thegradus]

Clint you've got to be fucking kidding me

[thegradus]

#every day in the morning #and then in the evening if im 1: really sweaty or 2: really cold

[thegradus]

:J

[thegradus]

He's right tho

[thegradus]

The current state of pop girlies is so funny like

Ariana Grande: getting dragged for homewrecking with the guy who played SpongeBob in the SpongeBob musical

Taylor Swift: dropping her worst album in years about how deeply obsessed she is with Matty Healy

Billie Eilish, for some reason:

#honestly good for billie eillish

[thegradus]

i would've fucked so hard as a court jester in ye olde i would've jangled my balls and done a little dance and sang my silly tunes i'd be so good at my job. alas i have to be on tumblr instead which is like a poor imitation of it

[thegradus]

i know that "unalive" is part of larger worrying trend of self censorship but if you really are in a situtation where you have to avoid the words "die" or "kill" the english language already has centuries worth of much better euphemisms. the iconic and perennial "six feet under"? the lovely imagery of "pushing up daisies"? "shuffle off this mortal coil"????? literally anything from the monty python dead parrot bit???? you have so many options. please try to be more creative at least

[thegradus]

the sleeeperrrrr

[thegradus]

Carrie Fisher in a suit

[thegradus]

[thegradus]

Well after a debilitating battle with writer’s block, and wondering why I’ve had such a hard time, I’ve decided to look into the past. Ten years ago I wrote everything longhand. I seldom suffered from writer’s block, and even when I did, I somehow managed to pull through it. I personally can manage writer’s block better when I’m only writing by hand. And I’ve only just realised why. There are several reasons: 

It’s harder to edit while you’re writing when you write longhand. It’s easy to scroll through a document, click a button to check spelling, and add or subtract large amounts of content from a word processor. But with handwriting there’s no easy fix for anything. Sure you can scratch out large swathes of work, maybe erase a word or two if you’re using a pencil, but otherwise it’s more trouble than it’s worth. 

Fewer distractions. It’s often intimidating to face a blank page on a word processor, and even with distraction-minimising software, there’s still the inherent lure of the internet. It’s easy to just switch tabs and procrastinate. When I work longhand, I’m locked into the page, even if I’m using my computer to listen to music. And that might be because of…

Muscle memory. I’ve written nearly novel-length works in longhand before. It feels right, the pencil or pen gliding over the paper, the paper under my hand, the words appearing in my own handwriting. Something about the physical sensation of forming the words is enough to keep me from getting distracted. 

Anyway, this is just a little revelation about my process, and what’s worked for me. It’s funny how it worked out for so long and then I just abandoned the process, as if it was too inefficient or old-fashioned, lol. But it worked for me. So I’m returning to it. It took me way too long to realise, sometimes the way you do something when you were younger is the way you’ll always do it. And that’s okay. 

[thegradus]

not a dark elf