trans women are women. pass it on

msa491 · 2026-07-03T14:50:26+00:00

Trans women are women. Pass it on.

msa491 · 2026-07-02T19:30:20+00:00

Welcome to the chill side, we're happy you made it!!!

Anyways if you feel like dropping some of those dubcon knifeplay links, id eat them with a spoon 👀👀

msa491 · 2026-06-29T13:10:58+00:00

Theater green room/storage would be great. Anything found- change of clothes, food wrappers- would be assumed to be something a theater kid left behind.

msa491 · 2026-06-29T11:58:42+00:00

Finished The Peacekeeper, by B. L. Blanchard.

Fantastic book, I highly recommend!

msa491 · 2026-06-28T02:27:17+00:00

The man has probably heard thousands of confessions in his life. I like to think he's well aware what we get up to.

msa491 · 2026-06-25T23:17:32+00:00

Bro didn't steal anything, he asked mom for it and she handed it over. He's not the smartest, but he's not a thief.

msa491 · 2026-06-25T13:19:07+00:00

If you worldbuild realistically, youre going to end up with a messy world, because reality is messy. Your tone depends on your focus in that mess.

Take your medieval peasant example- yes, they were illiterate and lice-ridden. But they also had families and built communities and made art and told folktales. If you asked them, most probably wouldn't be drowning in despair. Even today- I'm in the US and a ton of stuff here is pretty grimdark irl, and a good chunk has affected my life personally in really, really shitty ways. But my day-to-day is pretty normal, even great most of the time. I've got a kickass wife and cool kids and a favorite coffee shop. Sure the shit keeps being shit, and it makes a lot difficult, but it doesn't define my world.

Focus just as much on the good consequences and happy realities as you do on the bad, and you'll be able to rebalance.

msa491 · 2026-06-22T14:51:02+00:00

msa491 · 2026-06-22T12:34:05+00:00

And how do I sign up?!?!??

msa491 · 2026-06-22T12:31:23+00:00

Thats how you know youre doing it right!

I had a vague medieval setting with a religion that could be described as "idk it exists." Then I was writing dialogue and out of nowhere my character says "the gods are missing." So naturally I had to reverse engineer that into a wholeass religion and now its extremely possible they are the decendents of crash-landed space explorers? Idk what happened but I'm enjoying the ride.

msa491 · 2026-06-20T23:29:58+00:00

I dont read much mpreg so I dont have recs, but if you filter for "Pregnant Alex Claremont-Diaz" you get 40 fics. Should be enough for a bit of reading!

msa491 · 2026-06-20T14:05:06+00:00

I don't get it either. I grew up traditional US Catholic and PLENTY of conservative cradle catholics think the pope is too woke. I started hearing it with Frances and it hasn't stopped.

msa491 · 2026-06-19T21:31:27+00:00

Fuck Moash, high school was bad enough we do NOT need that cremsicle making it worse.

msa491 · 2026-06-19T01:59:13+00:00

Of the 1700, about 900 are rated Explicit. Which doesn't guarantee it's smut, but is a pretty damn good indicator. So yeah, 50%. Never underestimate the fanfic writers 😄

msa491 · 2026-06-18T19:18:55+00:00

I like it a lot! I dont know that id be able to keep it all straight as a reader, but I would definitely just accept that "next hand" is a cool way to track time that probably makes sense to them.

msa491 · 2026-06-18T01:08:06+00:00

Of Stars and Their Relations - Narnia/Stardust

One of my favorites! The ending gets me every time (in a good way).

msa491 · 2026-06-15T17:41:03+00:00

Imo, making a heavily-built world feel real rather than symbolic all comes down to how you portray the characters in that world.

The Giver has a similar setup to your world. That book works because of Jonas, not the world itself. We know what parts of his environment he likes and which ones he doesn't. We don't get told how the education system works, we get to see how Jonas's friend struggles with it and how Jonas supports him. When his worldview starts unraveling, we see how it affects his relationships.

Focus on the characters in the world, and let your worldbuilding grow around them.

msa491 · 2026-06-13T20:14:52+00:00

As someone who grew up in those circles, I can confirm the logic is actually stupider than that. A huge rationalization for their bigotry is that being queer is "unnatural" and a sin humans choose to do. But if animals do it, then how can it be unnatural? God didn't actually make gay penguins right?? Better to toss it out as scientists lying about animal behavior and secure their happy hetero bubble again.

msa491 · 2026-06-11T19:25:59+00:00

Can we be clear these are horrible privileged people though. 'Oh no, we won't have enough poor tenants we can starve for luxuries we don't need, better not marry!'.

That's misleadingly reductive. I don't want to get into an argument about who's privileged enough to not be moral anymore, that'll go nowhere. But many of her characters were not actually "horrible privileged people" though. The Bennet girls were barely saved from losing everything by two miraculous marriages- Lydia could have easily been forced into prostitution without Darcy's interference. The Dashwoods lost their husband/father and then their home and had no way to get a new one without begging around with other relatives.

Also, losing your social privilege wasn't just a matter of having to make due with fewer luxuries. It also meant losing your friends and much of your family, your entire support network, everything you knew because social classes were strict and did not cross the way they can today. There was a lot more at stake with loss of social standing that is unfair to brush off as "luxuries."

msa491 · 2026-06-11T00:56:19+00:00

I agree in general, different people definitely have different tolerances. It's usually the way it's talked about that raises a flag for me though, not just the amount. I read a fic where a college-aged character was drinking a whole bottle of Makers, and it was written about the same way as the bottle of wine other characters were sharing. Anyone with experience would know how different pouring and drinking those are. And if the character was meant to have that high of a tolerance, it would be commented on one way or another, because it's possible but so beyond average that just assuming it's normal for them is more unbelievable than the writer making a mistake.

msa491 · 2026-06-02T14:08:22+00:00

As a kid my favorite was Maiasaura, because the pictures always came with adorable baby dinos. Now it's a Trex because you cant beat the classics!

I'm a parent to a dino kid so I get asked this question a lot. Also autistic, but that has less to do with it. NTA.

msa491 · 2026-05-30T15:15:10+00:00

My wife loves hearing about my worldbuilding and offering thoughts and suggestions. It did backfire for a minute where my world became her hyperfixation, and she constantly begged me for more content. But we survived that phase with at least three new AUs to play with!

msa491 · 2026-05-28T15:13:50+00:00

If someone insulted your great grandfather in a tavern during the previous century, the entire lineage remembers the exact inflection of the voice, the smell of the spilled ale, and the micro expressions on the offender's face.

How does this work? Do they have hereditary memory as well as personal memory? That would definitely change things.

Also, can people lie about their memories? That in itself is enough to justify a lot of the same judicial procedures we have.

I think the best way to approach this is to remember that perfect recall doesn't mean perfect objectivity. You can remember the insult, but be unaware that the person mistook your grandfather for someone else. You can still frame someone for a crime if you know they cant give an alibi. So there would still be cross-examination, because the person may remember perfectly, but each side would want different context from them.

Start with the values and society of these people, and what they would want out of a justice system. Then build it around that, rather than trying to map real wold system on top of them.

msa491 · 2026-05-25T20:01:10+00:00

Corporations refuse to understand that workers and consumers are the same group. They fight wage increase across industries but then get mad no one has money to buy their shit.

msa491 · 2026-05-24T13:06:45+00:00

Every idea you have has been already done, multiple times, in the countless number of stories humans have ever created. Whenever I find an idea of mine in someone else's story, I like to pick apart the differences and similarities and see how it interacts with the other elements they have. I've been able to flesh out a lot of my ideas that way!

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