Growing up is actually all about realizing people don’t inherently dislike you and it’s a bit odd to assume they do
This
there are more tweets in this thread
fucking SLAY
this isnt even the full thread, there are even MORE tweets to this thread that i think are really necessary to read if you do what op is talking about! it is not enough to know that feeling this way hurts the people you love, we already know that.
this rest of the thread continues after the third tweet from the reblog.
like THE FULL THREAD is genuinely so reassuring.
sometimes, it is not enough to just know, sometimes you might need that reassurance of “do you really think of me when i’m away?” and someone reassuring you that yeah, they do. and evaluate that! trust that! just like op did.
and then learning that ykw, it’s NOT any of my business really. and finding comfort in that trust that like. whether they are or aren’t thinking of me, they really do love me.
this full thread changed my life and i am ALWAYS going to give the full thread because the parts people cut out aren’t enough for the people experiencing these things, speaking as someone who does. it, really it just makes us, made me, feel bad about my own capabilities when i saw the unfinished thread.
Lyra, my beloved cat of 13 years, passed away this year on Father’s Day. She’s been by my side through very difficult times and was my little rock of steady and unrelenting love. I struggled a lot drawing this, and struggled a lot posting it, but I know I would’ve wanted to read a comic like this that validated my grief for her when I lost her.
Wherever you are, Lyra my little summer star, I love you always! Thank you for being the best thing in my life.
no writing workshop can help you improve your writing as much as this screenshot can
Oh gods. (hides eyes)
…I’ve been coughing my lungs up for the last three days now and am sick and tired of it, and seriously weary, but THIS makes me want to sit up and start ragetyping.
(reaches down into drafts folder, rummages around to grab hold of the screed I wrote in, dear sweet Thoth on his ebike, January) and then decided not to post in the heat of the moment)
Something trundled by on my dash some days back. And I got all ready to write a post about it, and then Peter had his accident in the kitchen and it got jarred out of my head for days. Until now, in fact..
Anyway. The “something” was a beautifully made chart of “dialogue tags”. Someone had gone to a lot of trouble over it, clearly with the intention of helping other people. And after I spent a while admiring the design (and the ingenuity of it), I nonetheless started having, yet again, the same set of annoyed and frustrated misgivings I get every time one of these substitutes-for-“said” or suggested-dialogue-tags lists crosses my path.
These lists aren’t a new phenomenon by any means. In the last century you could buy whole books of them. They were called “saidbooks”, which is kind of ironic, since “said” was about the only word they didn’t include. (Look, hello-delicious-tea over here knows about them too.) But their purpose was to provide people who were nervous about repeating themselves—and thought they’d be mistaken for bad writers when they did—with lots of other words to use.
(sigh) Plainly this misapprehension is still with us.
Am I about to get prescriptive? Depends on your definition of the term. (Though it’s also true that in New York state, where I was licensed, properly trained nurses can prescribe. And in this paradigm, after nearly fifty years of doing this work, and various bestseller lists, blah blah blah, maybe I can be considered properly trained.) Anyway:
(adding a cut here, as I got distracted from doing so earlier by yet another spell of coughing)
EVA GABOR, the original voice for DUCHESS and MISS BIANCA
“I do a scene and the animators watch carefully. My voice is taped. Then the animators imitate my gestures. I play the character. When you see the character, you see me. The animators are absolute genius. It is incredible. I work with the writers to suit my way of performance…I gave up trying to lose my accent. It’s been too lucrative to lose it. The trouble is I don’t hear my accent. I hear everybody else’s…I play tennis like mad, and then I go out in the evenings. I couldn’t do it without wigs. I still believe everyone should look their best or shouldn’t go out. It takes a lot of effort.”
