honestly there's a lot about veganism that doesn't sit right with me- and this is one of those things. the black and white "no animal products, no matter what" is not only like. not feasible for a majority of people, but also a lot of things that are geared towards vegans are like. comically bad for the environment or have a reputation for having abusive labor practices. the one that really gets me are the clothing materials. like "vegan" leather is comically bad for the environment, and whether we like it or not, sheep literally have to be sheared. oftentimes animal hides or pelts are significantly higher quality (leather, wool, etc) even last a lot longer than the synthetic stuff. 

buy leather and wool secondhand if it makes you feel better! but honestly i feel like it's more ethical to do things like you're doing! eating eggs from someone who you know takes good care of her pets is far more ethical than buying say, a vegan leather purse that inevitably ends up in a landfill in 2 years bc it's garbage and broke easily.

i have A Lot of thoughts about veganism as someone who was plantbased at one point in their lives. sometimes i think about giving it another shot (i fucked up last time and made myself very sick bc i was a stupid 19 year old) but i dunno man. i'd miss cheese.

if you're old, you'll remember this! i used to love playing this game with my friends, especially IRL when we had some time to kill. for those who don't know, the rules of the music shuffle game/soundtrack of your life are simple. 

1. don't skip songs, that ruins the fun
2. include song title & artist name bc i'm nosy
2. that's it those are the rules


THE SOUNDTRACK OF YOUR LIFE GAME

[b]Opening Credits:[/b]
[b]Waking Up:[/b]
[b]First Day of School:[/b]
[b]Falling in Love:[/b]
[b]Fight Song:[/b]
[b]Prom:[/b]
[b]Life:[/b]
[b]Mental Breakdown:[/b]
[b]Driving:[/b]
[b]Flashback:[/b]
[b]Getting Back Together:[/b]
[b]Wedding:[/b]
[b]Birth of Child:[/b]
[b]Final Battle:[/b]
[b]Death Scene:[/b]
[b]Funeral Song:[/b]
[b]End Credits:[/b]


i'll go first!
Opening Credits: "lift" by poets of the fall
Waking Up: "mockingbird" by eminem
First Day of School: "hypnotize" by system of a down
Falling in Love: "rodeo" by lil nas x
Fight Song: "run like hell" by pink floyd
Prom: "forest" by system of a down
Life: "fixation" by crowbar
Mental Breakdown: "watchtower" by the devil wears prada
Driving: "a body wrapped in plastic: prologue" by varials
Flashback: "wait & bleed" by slipknot
Getting Back Together: "gutless" by angelmaker
Wedding: "nunhood" by the merciful nuns
Birth of Child: "be quiet & drive" by deftones
Final Battle: "the devil went down to georgia" by the charlie daniels band
Death Scene: "the kill" by 30 seconds to mars
Funeral Song: "praise abort" by lindemann
End Credits: "hysteria" by muse

welcome friend! that's so cool that you're a researcher! if you don't mind me asking, what kind of research do you do? i know you said "bio", so i'm assuming something involving......biology lmao

possible ideas:
- urban fantasy but set in the distant past or future
- sci-fi fantasy horror nonsense, something akin to like dune and the hyperion cantos
- zambies. i just love a good zombie or apoc site in general tbh
- urban fantasy inspired by the highlander series- where everyone is immortal and have been thrown into this shitbox city to fight each other to the death
- multimedia panfan aboard an old derelict space station that seems to be alive
- panfandom based on/inspired by borderlands
- elder scrolls inspired fantasy
- warriors, but if it was also GoT flavored

having adhd is realizing that no, not everyone wakes up with at least one song (but often several at once, usually with similar titles) stuck in your head the moment you wake up. what's it like not having a busted up jukebox for a brain

for me, writing is all about the melodrama and being someone else. almost all of what i enjoy writing is like, opposite of anything i am capable of doing or even experienced; good or bad (see: the ability to drive LMAO) 

but also for me, getting to be apart of other people's stories has been important for my writing process. some of my best characters, some of which i still use to this day, started out as wanted ads at one point. but i love getting to be that evil dad from your character's history. there's probably some deep psychological reason for why i enjoy playing the worst middle aged man you know, but everybody has a niche.........i guess?

anyway some of my fav tropes/plots/subjects to write about include:

• unhealthy/toxic family dynamics (specifically like, the emotionally distant father figure and their angry child. chef kiss)
• codependent and independently bad people 
• sunshine & stormcloud partners
• deeply flawed people in general tbh. some of my favorite characters are the blatant mustache twirling supervillains, but i also love a deeply flawed morally gray character. 
• "how do we handle our shared trauma together when neither of us have been perfect people?"

innnnnnnnnnn myyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy liiiiiiiiiiiiiiiifeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee why do i smile? at people who i would much rather, kick in the eyeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

i love this idea. totally lean into the 1984 and brave new world of it all.

i've never liked my name. my best friend keeps telling me that i can. just change it. but like. it's my name, whether i like it or not lmao

dead salmon hats we would be too powerful

also how do you make a dorian gray adaptation not insufferably gay? like genuinely. 

the age old game of, "will eating make me more or less nauseous"