when u come up with a tiny change for your story that not only makes the writing flow better but also hammers in the character motivations and story theme
imagine opening the newspaper over your morning coffee and the first article is a piece by your wife about how much she fucking hates you
My favorite thing about this post is that the actual article and everything about it are worse than it sounds, so much worse.
Cis Straights: Not Okay since forever.
So I tracked down this article and its summary is:
My husband is useless and smelly and the living embodiment of a pile of dirty laundry
He’s an academic which sometimes seems charming and dashing but usually he’s a useless font of jargon who does nothing but grooms kids to become academics themselves
He sneezes loud and has congestion problems
His snoring is oppressive
If you think you’re in a healthy, loving relationship you’re lying to yourself
How dare he try to have fun on a vacation to Australia to visit his family
How dare he let his kids also have fun on said vacation
I can’t even summarize this, I’ll copy-paste it directly: “But I don’t say a word about how bad I feel. You don’t believe me, but it’s true! Thanks to writing an advice column for years. I have evolved, unlike my spouse. I am so good, so thoughtful, so generous.”
She seems to also despise her children, who committed the horrific sins of: getting seasick while snorkeling, being upset that they got a rash, and complaining about it being too hot
She is a fucking saint for finding it within herself to forgive them
And she’s better than everyone else because she writes an advice column which I’m sure is well-reasoned and helpful
When I look at her advice column, almost all of the entries are locked behind a paywall, but every publicly-available one I can find has this weird habit of her turning the correspondent’s story into being all about her, and about how awful everyone else has always treated her.
“please buy crabs so that Tumblr doesn’t have to implement changes we hate to become profitable” right, let me explain something about capitalism.
Tumblr didn’t change course because they need the cash and are down on their luck. they did it because corporations want growth.
and that desire for growth is gonna be the same whether they have negative infinity money or positive infinity money. a corporation seeks money and growth.
if Tumblr suddenly became profitable after announcing these changes, it’s not even that it would send the wrong message, although it would.
it’s that Tumblr wouldn’t be taking care of us better if only it weren’t for the cruel realities of the world. it’s a subsidiary of a corporation. it doesn’t care.
it’s still going to keep the changes that it thinks are profitable, and ignore changes it thinks won’t be. Tumblr is not our friend, it is a website we use, and it wants to profit from us regardless of if that’s in our best interest and regardless of if it has “enough” money. that is the relationship. don’t get it twisted.
“yeah but Tumblr needs the money 🥺”
what part of corporations aren’t our friends isn’t fucking clicking
