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hasty apex
i recently published one of my poems on medium :P
hasty apex
also for anybody who is wondering whether to use medium or substack or both… dr devon price recently said that medium does more to pay writers and also has better protections against transphobia iirc in case that’s helpful to anybody
pseudo fog
https://medium.com/@solrd.09/alignment-78d4b8e1a696
This is really good :0
I think ur rhyme scheme is extremely comforting, the whole thing has this gentle, almost lullabyesque atmosphere to it
hasty apex
yezzzz doit !!
pseudo fog
ok so i had to write a "motivational statement" for this job/internship thing i just applied for and i actually think it kinda goes hard?
i dunno y'all tell me
hasty apex
oO
THAT DOES GO HARD
it’s very poetic, i luv
i have a really hard time sort of writing flowy writing in contexts other than poetry? so i deeply admire this
pseudo fog
Omg tytyty!!!
I only got into poetry recently but I think I was always secretly trying to be a poet. A lot of my favorite prose works are so because of how expressionistic the writing is, like Nadja for example
Like it's a book that I could never tell what it was about narratively or thematically but it made me feel things cuz the way Nadja puts these kaleidoscope feelings into word
So a lot of my prose reflects that, I think. Imma be like Frank and get real weird with it
pseudo fog
boiling ❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥
slender totem
if i do share writings (they are mostly edgy and depressing) whats like the limit of how depressing or just dark they can be?
cause i would like to share but think they be too fucked up cause hell even teachers said it was dark and even other ppl asked if i was ok
pseudo fog
Honestly I think you'll be fine so long as u spoiler and drop a TW beforehand
Just dont be surprise if we ask if ur ok lol
slender totem
ok
lemme find something
TW:||sh/suicidal thoughts As i islolate myself in my only true safe space
I sit and experience so many emotions,positive and negative
Can go from wanting to kill myself and cut myself
To having the best day ever in my closet…alone
Its just who i am…a creep who wants isolation
But i am scared of being alone with my concepts
Those beliefs make me feel like nothing is ever safe
All i ever wanna do is put down my corpse
Block out everything i love and hate…and criticise myself
I try and over power the voices with my own
Yet it has never helped me but i manipulate myself||
got more but this is one i could find
kinda sucks will prob rewrite
was limited to only like 10 lines bu went over by one
when i rewrite will probably go over
slender totem
I could remember sitting
in my chair waiting for
something
anything
to happen when i saw one of the craziest things ever
a true sight to
behold
a car interlinked
with a metal
gate it was a brutal
sight i saw the
hamburger lady
her face all burnt like my burger i made that one night
its almost a splitting image all felt like it took
an eternity cooking my burger
i burnt it
i knew i should've asked her to cook
but she couldn't cook because she had no hands
wip short story for writing group
prompts (i altered them to make harder):drabble (100 words story),2 views of same story,unreliable narrator
slender totem
I was in the kitchen
looking out the front window
i saw Michael in his chair
when suddenly a car hit a metal gate
wasn't that bad
was just a dent
Michael started freaking out in his chair
he kept saying stuff like "hamburger lady" and "no hands"
i tried asking about them and he said "shes the hamburger lady" and pointed at the girl in the car
"she has no hands"
he pointed at my hands
"i think its time for your nap sir"
"i guess so, but i don't want to move"
"i guess you can stay there"
2nd view
slender totem
i mostly do sad shit
fossil escarp
Twin
fossil escarp
Time is passing and so am I, passing time and passing by. The light in my room is soft and yellow, but behind my eyes is vacant, distant. I'm calling out for a person that doesn't exist, writing letters to the deceased and crying crocodile tears as I stare at the ceiling. The fan spins. My mind is spinning, too. I wrote a story seven years ago and never finished. It's sitting dusty on the bookshelf beside me, waiting for the day I decide it's worth writing again. ||I go to bed at 5:30 and weigh the pros and cons of committing suicide before my 20th birthday.|| If I'm lucky enough, a week will pass and I'll feel fine again, but now I sit on the edge of my bed with glass in my throat as I watch The Setting Sun.
slender totem
very sad i love it also i relate to the story on the bookshelf part
fossil escarp
Nothing and everything happens simultaneously. Spinning on a hamster wheel, forgotten by the cruel and cold hand of the ones who made you, rot. Wake. Work. Do nothing, and sleep. Days pass like waves. Everything passes. "Everything passes." There's one more thing I should tell you before you leave this place for the penultimate time. When you're standing in a crowd, no one can point out your face. It's not worth remembering. You're not worth remembering. "I forgot. Sorry!" Do nothing. Go to sleep. Do you feel the weight of it all? It's not your fault, it's mine. We're all just trying to make it around the wheel again, right? I resent you. Nothing is real. There's a gun in your mouth. Won't you take it out? It's not real. Maybe if you pull the trigger, you'll awake from this dream. It is a dream, right? A dream. It's fake. Look yourself in the mirror. It's fake. My best friend is dead. When's the last time you saw yours? Call your mom. I love you, bye. Drive home safe. Nice weather we're having. How's school? Everything passes. The world ends tomorrow at 9:45 on the dot. Don't be late! Wanna meet before class? Contemptus mundi. Do you know what that means? Take the gun out of your mouth. Do you know what that means? Ghost in the shell. Are you living in the real world?
fossil escarp
Goated?
foggy sequoia
"and the passage of time has warped your perception and sight, like light through a diamond. Like dreams in the looking glass. What you thought was fact is fake. What is fake was real. Hold onto something, for the ground is falling under your feet."
little follow up as i reflect on what i originally wrote
foggy sequoia
I might be able to but its hidden in old google docs
foggy sequoia
Please send me more of your writing
i like ur writing above
the frantic and short sentences are yummy
fleet karma
hey gamers
foggy sequoia
hi sol
fleet karma
ill need beta readers for my game soon ish
fleet karma
as much as theyre willing lol
the script is like 60k words now, like 85% dialogue 15% narration
fleet karma
60k is the usual threshold to call a book a novel
foggy sequoia
the script is like 60k words now, like 85% dialogue 15% narration
GIRL ITS AS LONG AS BRAVE NEW WORLD
fleet karma
i know and i still havent written like half of it i have plotted out 
fleet karma
yes,,, its an rpg okay?
fleet karma
the gameplay of mine is uhhh pretty niche in an already niche genre
foggy sequoia
as much as theyre willing lol
okay yeah i can volunter to help and see how much i can read, but no promises ill be able to finish it.
i can read a lot the problem is me actually getting invested
and do u need feed back?
ive never been a beta reader but i can read so
fleet karma
yes, feedback will be the point. i have specific questions to answer
but it wont be ready for a bit
idk when exactly, im in the middle of rewriting stuff based on the last group of readers
foggy sequoia
Okay gotcha
yeah well im willing to read as much as i can and i can answer questions afterwards
so just message me or let me know if/when u need that
fleet karma
awesome, thank u
foggy sequoia
yw
fossil escarp
Lemme read
fleet karma
when i get a new build i will let you know
foggy sequoia
the developer
fleet karma
i makea da video game
fossil escarp
Do you have any advice 🥹
fleet karma
Do you have any advice 🥹
make games! just do it.
fossil escarp
What software ?:??/?:??
HWOOOOWWWWW
I've posted a tiny bit about the video game I want to make, but I don't even know where to start
fleet karma
do you have any experience with programming? what skills would you want to focus on learning (programming, design, audio, writing, art)?
Where you start is where video games as a whole started: Make simple games and build up to bigger projects. Clone classic arcade games like space invaders.
but also knowing what you want to do will guide you to specific software and stuff.
if you wanna focus more on level design, start modding half life 2 or fallout or something.
programming? jump into an engine like godot or renpy.
art? uhhh im not an artist lol maybe something for visual novels.
writing? twine or ink are great narrative game engines
all of the above? gamemaker or pico-8 are simple and give you all the tools you need in one place
fossil escarp
I do know a little bit of programming, though I don't think I'm very good at it LMAO
THANK YOU SO MUCH !!!
fleet karma
you dont have to be good!!! you get good by doing
thats what matters
make shit
it can be shitty shit, just make it
fossil escarp
You are very inspiring :]
fading blade
Song lyrics or something:
(I have no idea what order they're in but I know some of them are seperate pieces)
fleet karma
trying to decide if im gonna present a scene for feedback tonight at a writers group 😵💫
fossil escarp
YOU SHOULD !!
gloomy summit
i enter, joyful
the sound of others writing
bringing forth my own
fossil escarp
Should I post some old shit in here..
fossil escarp
Let me find something I'm proud of
fossil escarp
gloomy summit
foggy sequoia
"To who this letter finds, I wish you the best of health. It's a crying shame it became such an issue. Reflecting fragments, truths changing in the looking glass. Within it's disorder, I assumed my role. I greeted it with sharpened teeth."
"Chords strum and reverb in a sky of stars. After all, its a means to no end. I'm sorry this is the end."
took some lyrics from songs i like/ive been listening to about a situation and scraped booked the meaning around
foggy sequoia
you not loving me anymore doesnt invaildate the love i felt or feel for you. it does not dimish the fact you mattered to me, even if the love rotted like oranges and strawberries. I might be a ghost to you now, but I'm still alive. just far enough and in a different form, and a willing choice on your end to see me as dead.
honest lance
Do you want my suffering?
Or do you want my love?
Do you want my tears?
Or do you want my smile?
Make your choice now, I can't stand you any longer.
(I came up with this on the spot after discovering this forum so it sucks. It is based on personal experiences though)
fleet karma
would anyone be willing to read the opening of my game? wanting feedback on the pacing and how characters are introduced
foggy sequoia
Sol I feel like u already asked that here before
fleet karma
i did not i dont think
i said i would sometime in the future and that time is now(ish)
foggy sequoia
ill need beta readers for my game soon ish
Hmmm this was what i was recalling
Yeah like I said prior I’m interested but might not consume it all