@sunspeller I haven't read anything quite like it, but other writing insight books I've enjoyed are Shirley Jackson's Let Me Tell You (leans more into essays/stories she never published) and Natalie Goldberg's Writing Down the Bones (more writing processes)
lessons on editing from george saunders’ A Swim in a Pond in the Rain
(the N zone is the negative zone and the needle is the barometer for the the reader’s experience)
i love figs and i can never find them in the store! my grandma grew them growing up and we ate them fresh and made preserves of them until my brother wrecked a car on the tree in my teens
@ateezbouncy exactly! minors will inevitably explore topics and fandom they just gotta do that in their own cliques and not in these spaces. I regret that I put (presumptive) adults into positions of being inappropriate with a minor by lying to them and it also makes me doubt The Youth now
it has always been important for there to be adult-only spaces as well as dedicated-minor spaces, and accounts/groups with clear nsfw/🔞 tags/bios should be respected just as groups/accounts ran by minors should be kept appropriate
minors inserting themselves into nsfw spaces and discussions not only is wrong, but it also ruins the space for adults to feel comfortable talking and engaging in that kind of content. if a minor truly feels the need to talk about it, i implore you to make a priv acc.
so yeah, having been on both sides od it i *get* why minors want to engage with adult content - and will inevitably do so if they want to - but please let the adults have their own space too. we've been earning this shit since the age of bandom forums and myspace blogs.
granted the purity culture then was not what it is now, so those adults were not scared off of chatting or contributing to forums where they (rightfully) thought everyone engaging was legal, but twenty years later we are all now scared of being inappropriate with the wrong crowd+