The gender of the day is a congregation of distant fish.

@mattmight Or the AI that can take a reality competition and edit out the "dramatic" pauses before the reveal?

@Danaintq Tie between Come Dancing and White Wedding for the "I'm a little TOO invested in my sister's love life" vibe.

Whenever I used to hear people say, “You catch more flies with honey than with vinegar,” I'd think, "Well, it doesn't work out all that well for the flies either way, does it?" (The point, of course, is that positive reinforcement is no less than controlling than punishment.)

@dianes_lesshostileusername Just don't let the cat know where the bell is or they'll be meowing at the cabinet, and nobody wants that.

@anathema_device Blue-Faced Honeyeaters is the name of my rockabilly cover band

@dianes_lesshostileusername How do you feel about your downstairs neighbors? Because when the month is over that cat will keep ringing that bell. And if you don't tell them, the cat will keep ringing and drive them nuts. Depending on how loud the bell is it might drive you nuts, too.

General info: if you see a post tagged #NEISvoid, this means No End In Sight void. It means the post is from someone with a chronic illness or disability that isn't going away. They're venting or seeking to connect with other people who also exist in this void.

Avoid responding to these posts with unsollicited advice or generic 'get well soon' messages - I know you mean well, but we know more about our conditions than you and the tag tells you that we're not gonna get well soon.

I don't mean to toot my own horn, but...
my own horn.

#badpuns

Man who was taught how to fish, after about a week: I’m so fucking sick of eating fish

What's the worst #writing advice you've ever gotten?

In university I once went home in tears because a prof I had, who was a published author, told us that "real" writers have just an insatiable need to write all the time, and if you didn't feel a deep, constant need to write maybe you just weren't a "real" writer.

Now that I'm an adult and I talk to other writers, every "real" writer I know is a procrastinating train wreck that prays for the sweet release of death like 90% of the time they spend writing.

So like... idk about that one, prof.

#writers #fiction #authors #fiction

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