What is a writer?
A miserable little pile of words!


Call me MP or Miz


Fiction attempted, with various levels of success.


Yes, I do need help, thank you for noticing.


posts from @MiserablePileOfWords tagged #shitpost

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caffeinatedOtter
@caffeinatedOtter

Maybe I'm wrong here, but I don't think most people who say they "hate stories about kids" are accurately describing their problem, so telling them they're wrong to "hate stories about kids" isn't going to do anything for anyone.

(It isn't anyway! The flip side of "let people like things" is necessarily "let people not", folks.)

The thing is, most media primarily about kids is also designed for kids, and there's — you know, it's one of the defining qualities of the difference between kids and adults ­— there's a significant cognitive difference between you, an adult and a kid? (I'm presuming you're an adult.) Also, a lot of kids' media serves an agenda which I can't straightforwardly describe as "educational" because that's taken to mean "didactic within a formalised academic subject" but...y'know: intended to teach, however indirectly. To model life lessons. To impart points of socialisation. Sharing is good! Teamwork helps! Be nice to people! Don't kick your friends in the face! Kids' media has particular characteristics, is what I'm saying, and you honestly can't fault adult people if the thing they actually don't want is media aimed at low on cognitive development/literacy curves, and/or media designed to secretly teach children how to grow into reasonable people.


MiserablePileOfWords
@MiserablePileOfWords

Don't hate stories about kids!
Like Otter said, they're mostly there to teach kids things!
(altho I'd like to posit that there's a lot of adults out there that should probably watch them, because they don't seem to have a grasp of the basic human decency these stories usually attempt to instil)

Stories about babies however, are absolutely nauseating and should be banned.



Part 1: There's these teens! And they're being tested/experimented on in terrible ways! But they're plucky, so they escape and survive!
Part 2: Oh no! They didn't escape after all! The evil adults are really after them now! Don't worry, they've started a revolution! But Gasp! There's A Traitor Among Them!
Part 3: I dunno, Mad Max or something. To be honest, I thought they'd stop giving me money after the first book.



amydentata
@amydentata

Usually this is where I'd say something like, "Don't freak out, the Death card isn't literal. It's a metaphor for change," but in this case, ehhhh I dunno,


amaranth-witch
@amaranth-witch

Sometimes the cards just tell a story


MiserablePileOfWords
@MiserablePileOfWords

The swords have accepted me as one of their own.
Uh oh. Was it something I said?
Well shit.