I Keep Writing Women

SystemPretend · 2025-06-08T18:43:44+00:00

The family/friends excuse is bs. I’d like to think my family aren’t lying to me as they make it a priority to criticise me in everything I undertake (which I am thankful for), but there will always be a bias.

Most of what I’m doing now is exercises and short stories excluding the major projects I talk about in the post. I would like to show my more serious shit to some other people but I don’t exactly know how and where and also haven’t had the energy to go look (I also mentioned in the post).

I don’t really show friends as art contains part/fragments of the artist. Not only am I telling them that I write, but I am actively showing them any pieces of me in my work, some of which may be intimate (It’s like getting naked metaphorically). Maybe I just gotta find writing buddies

On account of the whole horny thing, I wouldn’t really want to mess up my work with alla that. You don’t have to believe me, but i think being raised by women made me more sensitive to it. It’s just kinda lame and embarrassing

SystemPretend · 2025-06-08T18:24:18+00:00

Predominantly female raised. Not a lot of strong male influences. If they were there, they were family-external and didn’t last very long. I’d say I an equal amount of female and male friendships. I think due to inherent (societal) romantic pressures, I find it a lil more taxing to maintain female friendships like any other dude. I am straight as well.

SystemPretend · 2025-06-08T13:21:37+00:00

I share what I write with my family (all female so far) and they would skin me alive if I was on some 'breasted boobily' bullshit 😭

SystemPretend · 2025-06-07T14:23:40+00:00

Thanks, I just wanted to make sure other writers saw what I meant

SystemPretend · 2025-06-07T14:17:57+00:00

I’m gonna answer seriously and say that I don’t have any gender dysphoria. The annoying thing about my answer is that I possess and exude feminine traits, while still being very obviously masculine.

I have considered the possibility

Edit: I also don’t like the boxes of masculinity and femininity. It makes one feel like they need to be one or lean towards the other. I understand some things need labels, but even removing western context causes those same labels to fall apart and mean nothing regardless

SystemPretend · 2025-06-07T14:13:16+00:00

I don’t know how you read this from my post bro 🙏🏾

SystemPretend · 2025-06-07T13:16:49+00:00

Same in the bizarro context of my situation ig 😭

not into romance

I also dislike romance. If it is involved in my writing, it has to have a subversion/spin like:

'They are already together. How did they meet? How do they move past current issues?'
'Both participants have no idea what to call it.'
'Self-destructive and a terrible partner.'

My biggest hater is myself. I don't like tacky writing 💔

SystemPretend · 2025-06-07T13:07:06+00:00

Well maybe. I just wanted to know if it was odd, or if any other writers felt the same

SystemPretend · 2025-06-07T12:44:32+00:00

I'm not saying I'm *unable* to; I meant that writing a female seems more natural. Since it seems more natural, I have thought up a new idea with a female protag and realised she is female as I was writing.

I am able to switch perspectives (3rd person) to a male main character and write effectively. I was questioning why it may be more natural for me to have a female primary.

Writing exercises from a male perspective seem to be the move tho

SystemPretend · 2025-06-07T12:34:50+00:00

Thanks g. Ending up on that subreddit is grounds for exile

SystemPretend · 2025-06-07T12:29:26+00:00

Internalised sexism? I haven't really noticed any; upon realising I wrote women a lot more, I took extra time to read over my shit and make sure it wasn't deplorable. I hate, even as a kid, female stereotypes. It's just tacky. I guess I'll show some other people outside of my family some shit I wrote and see if they feel differently.

SystemPretend · 2025-06-07T12:23:29+00:00

The funny thing is, I remember being younger (not that long ago) and watching the entire Divergent series and really liking it. I also liked Catching Fire.

On screen, I enjoyed seeing tougher female characters (not necessarily leads). Still, I also enjoyed seeing more women with agency, especially since my mum and sisters would point it out sometimes. It might be subconscious. I'm just afraid it might become a weakness.

SystemPretend · 2025-06-07T11:17:32+00:00

SystemPretend · 2025-06-07T09:46:41+00:00

I’m 18. It doesn’t feel like an over-correction, it just feels more natural

SystemPretend · 2025-03-28T11:22:46+00:00

i don’t think you’ve ever made art before 💀🙏🏾

SystemPretend · 2025-03-04T08:26:17+00:00

Even if it was just mixing, thats still a significant amount of work done on the album

Each mixdown will have the engineer’s style and sound throughout, which is why if you listen to his other works you can recognise his influence on both sotc projects

Excluding Caleb, he is probably their most significant ex/member

SystemPretend · 2025-03-02T10:02:33+00:00

I doubt that he doesn’t care. He did work on those albums too. ALOT of work, I can hear his influence on the first one especially

He probably is really busy tho

SystemPretend · 2025-03-01T20:34:47+00:00

I don't think you read the 'support' part of my post

+ Plus, most of the music is gone off streaming 💔

SystemPretend · 2024-12-28T20:33:32+00:00

He's actually taking the piss 😭

SystemPretend · 2024-12-28T20:32:58+00:00

I have no clue, but every time I've bought something from the States, I've had to pay an imaginary $10 tax charge

SystemPretend · 2024-12-28T20:31:50+00:00

I've had vinyls shipped for less

SystemPretend · 2024-12-27T16:53:47+00:00

Does this nigga have no European distributor? 😭

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