[guerrilla defunct] @guerrillarain@witches.town

I think I ask this like every three months, but like, how do you just wake up in the morning?

One of my former classmates is a writer who is writing things, lovely things, lovely visible things and wow is that imposter syndrome creeping up on me from the pit of hell?

I'm just confused how everybody has these photographer friends taking amazing photos of them

and, not only do I have to *ask* my friends to snap photos of me being picturesque, but when they do, it's blurry and my hair is jacked and there are sweat stains all over my soul

Something's not adding up here. 🤔

I'm still so proud of myself for writing an entire thesis on the merits of AAVE and code-switching as status- and community-oriented, very similar to Japanese keigo and kenjogo (what I was studying at the time).

Your fav could never.

You will never in your life be able to throw shade, Kathy Ann, and that's fine. You're probably good at a lot of other things too. You don't need to throw shade to be cool, and you have no tea to spill so stop trying at that too.

And when your friends get snarky? Stop praising them for dragging folks cause that's not for you and your friend. Just say Toni Lauren was snarky and be done with it. We know what you mean. You don't need to upsell.

I can't sleep so here is another black toot for the masses:

If you're not black, AAVE isn't for you. I don't care if you're not white, still isn't for you.

Yall sound ridiculous, you're probably anti-black or passive in the face of anti-blackness at that, and yall never use it correctly. So nope.

AAVE is an authentic dialect with actual grammar rules. You can't just pepper words around. There. Are. Rules. Words. Mean. Things.

I'm gonna look for a writing group or collective or partner or team. If anyone would like to be my long-form fiction noveling buddy, I'm also open to that.

@shoutcacophony you're still editor bae if I ever reach a finish line.

I work full time idk why that says part time.

So, uh, writer fam:

How do I finish things? How do I make time after my part time job? How do I get the passion and enthusiasm to cover up the exhaustion? How do I write past the lack of feedback?

Starting is so easy. Carrying it to completion is the real challenge.

Sincerely,
I have about 120 unfinished novels/versions out there from over 13 years of writing

If I see another wavy-haired person talking about "curls"... You're taking up space.

Yall all messy

Everybody's canceled

I didn't wake up planning to rant about white people again today, but here I am.