If I started again, I would have had my real life stories separately from fantasy. But I also hate relogging. So, not sure… but yeah focusing on less stories imo helps. I want to spend lots of time polishing and promoting Fireman’s Girl anyway.
Once December comes, I will also move out to Marry a Dragon. It is a cute story but on its own, it has zero reads. Oh, and while I am at it, I should also unpublish Space Spinster. Maybe one day i will cannibalize it for a more promising space project
Look, my storyverse has a new logo 
Cute!
Thanks, haha made it in Canva I think.
Thanks, I wanted a simple logo for emails, possible merch, and twitter.
*second 
yes!
I think it looks oly for me
does a little jig
Okay, thanks to the meetings, I am all done with editing!
Also, due to editing and some belated reposting of edited material, I am sitting at 44.8K text going into what I hope is tonight’s writing session.
So tired. 
I don’t think I have any writing in me today. On Monday though (I think it was Monday, omg my brain) I was halfway through editing chapter 7 in my second draft. I wanna sleep. 
The feels!
what’s the problem? i’m on mobile rn so image and the screenshot look the same.
if i left the house rn i could do a couple hours of writing but it’s super hot out and my laptop bag is heavy
but i don’t want to just sit at home and be lazy
but it’s so hot out
and strangers r gonna talk to me bc i can never seem to make it obvious enough that both headphones are in and on.
but no lazy… i wonder if over-ear headphones would work.
Looking at a dark phone with sunlight makes everything look like true black. At certain angles, I’d be forced to turn the brightness of the phone up to read it. It’s not really a big deal because most “blacklit” is gray, like this site, but wattpad’s dark lighting is even darker. Shrugs
It’s not that severe all the time, and most the time people have a white background for sunlight.
Why do woke people insist on using Latinx to describe Hispanics/ Latin Americans or Americans of Latin American/Hispanic heritage when Spanish is a gendered language and a lot of Latin Americans/Hispanics refuse to use Latinx? 
they’re too chronically online lol
the lgbt+ community creates a lot of new terminology and for the most part if you want to use it then whatever. It’s your perogative, everyone has weird hang-ups, and if you’re not hurting anyone then it really doesn’t matter. But latinx and filipinx have a particularly white-savior flavour to them that I’m surprised more people don’t comment on.
Like it’s super obvious that someone who didn’t speak Spanish came up with it. You can barely pronounce it in English, never damn mind Español, the language of the people it’s supposed to be for. And it straight-up ignores that the neutral term ‘Latin’ already exists. And like you said, a lot of Hispanic/Latin American people won’t use it.
it’s lowkey a little racist and ignorant of culture and for a community that spends so much time talking about inclusivity and the importance of respecting other’s cultures/choices/ect., we sure are awfully quiet about this.
it didn’t but i got a chunk of writing in so i’ll call it even.
Yeah, like go outside and touch grass once in a while, or socialize, or something. Or find a hobby, just do something that doesn’t have you on TikTok all the time. To be honest, I have social media and I barely remember to use it, lol. Twitter hardly has any tweets and TikTok has a few videos, and those are puppy, booktok, and music related and on different accounts lol.
Clear your mind of all the online insanity–even channels that I like to watch that take the piss out of TikTok, I need to be away from them for a few days because it’s chaos. My mind needs a detox from all that crap, you know? Even from the people who point out how ridiculous it is.
When I was writing the Julio story, I was in the zone and I didn’t care much about being on social media, or on Youtube in general. I was getting 2.8k+ words down in hour-long sprints and I got my 57k written in less than a month for the Wattys. Focusing on productive things (after a break) is better for you than always being online chronically as you said.
I am glad that I was brought up before social media was a thing. And I got to have a good childhood outdoors (not saying kids now can’t have that, but there is always gonna be an aspect of online lingering there, I have two second cousins and they’re always on their tablets, even if they do take a break and play, they’re like 7 and 4. And my 18-year-old cousin is ALWAYS on her phone. I went out with her and my uncle last week, and I socialized a bit with my uncle we were talking and looking at the scenery, but she was very quiet and always on her phone compared to us).
Yeah, the LGBT+ community does really create a lot of niche terminology that the majority of people in the community barely even seem to use, or know much about themselves. And yeah, if you do wanna use them, okay, but don’t expect everyone outside your niche or community to know what you mean. I’m very into soccer (football, not handegg) and I use a lot of football terms when I talk about it, and I don’t expect people not into the sport not to know about it. I can educate them about it if I want to explain something to them, but I don’t expect them to know/force them to know it all.
And yeah, if people aren’t being hurt, that’s fine. I agree but yeah, latinx and filipinx definitely does reek of white savior and political correctness/policing gone mad. It also annoys me, as someone who knows enough Spanish that people try to mess with the language. Even music targeted at the LGBT+ community (what little of it I can find) is gendered. And in reggaeton songs especially, the language is VERY GENDERED (geared toward the opposite gender and is flirting–I don’t know of any actually gay mainstream reggaeton singers–not sure it’s because they don’t swing that way, or because it’s still “taboo” to come out in the genre).
On a side note, this was reggaeton in 2003/2004 trying to be inclusive:
singing about “perreo” for the women, and for the men. Still gendered.
Yes, I can understand using Latine as a more friendly, gender-neutral term (that some people do use) but it’s still kinda awkward in terms of the language. Even in groups where there is one man, and the rest are women, they still use Ellos. Ellos for all males, and Ellas for all females. Some people have already proposed Elles be used as the gender-neutral term, but I’m not sure, still if that will take off. Or when it will with everyone, but I at least understand the usage of that better than Ellxs. At least it follows the gender rules of the language more closely (I still do prefer Latin/Hispanic, for obvious reasons).
/first part rant over (lol, that was long, I know but I am a bit of a language nerd)
Yeah, there was a survey done a few years back, and the majority of people definitely said that they would not use it, or that they had not heard of the term being used before. And yeah, how the hell do you pronounce “latinx” latin-eks latinks latinsh, something else completely woke and different? lol. Yeah, if it doesn’t actually fit in the rules of the language and it can’t work, why would it be, and should it be used?
I was on GoodReads, looking for some general YA/NA/Romance/memoirs/whatever to read and to get recommendations for, and the amount of Gen Z people who don’t understand languages and reality fully were tagging “latinx rep, latinx” etc. was kinda weird for me. Up until even five years ago, we barely had any of this, you know? Anywhere at all. It was kinda normal even then lol.
Yeah, I agree. I think that a lot (NOT ALL) of this woke nonsense is actually more divisive than actually inclusive and good at bringing people together. It’s all about not offending people, ticking boxes, and excluding people who don’t fit your narrative, whilst blindly ignoring how ironically close-minded and exclusive you are being, and going against your original goals and contradicting yourself.
I can’t blame the “normies” for wanting no part in any of this, lol.
Okay, figure skating all caught in till 3:30 am tomorrow and I am done with all the reading I wanna do until Friday. So… gonna try to finish the chapter.
