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god was trying to create a well-balanced unit but accidentally nerfed me too much and now i have to suffer the consequences

tbf there are less evil reasons to use second person that i love as well, this forced proximity also means getting more intimate with the story, but this specific angle is what i've been thinking about lately

with third person pov, you can enjoy the freedom of a voyeur-god and/or absolve yourself of any responsibility or guilt by fully embracing the role of a bystander, but with second person pov, you are essentially trapped, whether you like what's happening to "you" or not

second person pov will always be goated with how much mindfuckery it allows you to achieve. i love that it forces the reader into the character's shoes (more effectively than first person pov imo) without giving them any agency over the narrative

@twodayshidden phainon in a white tank top all soaked and sexy running around the stage with that blinding smile of his would straight up kill everyone in the vicinity

i had a hunch, so i kept reading but switched to an english version on my kindle, and it was like night and day. so much of the sharpness and lucidity of her prose was lost in translation, the lack of rhythm-awareness sucked all the punchiness out of it

i went to a thrift bookstore with a friend recently and picked up a machado collection in translation because a lot of wonderful people spoke highly of her, and after reading the first two stories i was like "okay, i kinda see the vision, but something feels off"

once i started noticing the rhythm in prose, i can't unsee it, and it highkey ruined a lot of ukrainian translations for me

@kittenswoofwoof genuinely in awe every time i read anything you write about mydei, be it fic or character analysis, because few writers get him like you do. had to reread this snippet a few times just to savor every word, so fucking delicious

Felt like sharing some bits from a phaidei WIP I'm currently busy with

@birdgenre sexy as hell. also vaguely thinking about deification if we're going the horror route

@imagnesnutter i really like this tweet. ex. when an autonomy-seeking character is stripped of the context of them having autonomy in their actions it feels a little horrific to me. could be horror, in a meta-sense

wonder if people realize that woobifying their favorite characters is also a form of dehumanizing them

@confusedmonade you're not the only one though, i have at least two other people in my circle who do this 😭

@imagnesnutter while subtweeting me.... never thought I would be betrayed like this 😔

your friends would be like "oh i don't use tiktok, i don't even have it on my phone" then send you a fucking youtube short

stop conflating humanity with goodness. being messy, having bad or ugly thoughts about people and things, making mistakes & morally imperfect or outright Bad choices (intentionally or not), hurting other people (intentionally or not)—all facets of humanity as well

@confusedmonade kisses you on the forehead

@imagnesnutter ok you know what

@seabirdweather 😭😭😭😭😭

My dream of being a poet vanished like a thing in a whatever.

your honor this is my emotional support deadgirl

i keep forgetting that cyrene doesn't have to be dead in every universe