Nothing will dispell the “the curtains were just blue” myth faster than writing something yourself, because the amount of pretentious symbolism i am putting in my silly little fanfics is ridiculous. I mean SO much with these words, literally every single one of them. This fic has twenty five typos and zero correct uses of punctuation but if there’s curtains you bet your ass I put thought into what colour they were.
[Image description: a Reddit comment on r/AskReddit by u/ViperThreat which says “Worked as an on-call computer tech for about a year, and I’ve seen some weird shit. Plenty of Hoarders, elderly men with interesting sexual fantasies, Multimillonaire Lawyers with closets full of gay porn, etc.
The weirdest one was this cool old dude who had retired and lived in a double-wide trailer in a fairly nice retirement trailer park. His house had one of those trains that traveled along the walls from room to room, occasionally poking through walls and such. The primary purpose of this train was to carry his bird (a blue macaw IIRC) around the house.
From his explanation, the bird had some birth defects and had difficulty flying, so they built the train for the bird to cruise around the house on.
This may not sound all that weird to you, but let me set the stage for you:
You’re a college student removing a stupid browser hijack from some old guy’s computer. You’re nearly done with the job when you hear a clacking sound and look up to see a toy train crossing your vision. Aboard the train is a decently sized bird that makes eye contact with you and says “choo choo motherfucker” before disappearing into the next room.
One of the most surreal moments of my life.“]
This may not sound all
that weird to you, but let me
set the stage for you:
Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.
so much love for characters who are desperately unsure whether they’re a good person, a redeemable person, a person worth saving, but are absolutely certain that they’re a grade a hottie
i do this when im writing fiction. Each fic has a cut document full of discarded dialogue, scene settings, metaphors etc that dont quite fit yet I might want to use down the line or other fics.
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