I was in Iraq & even in an actual theater of war,unless you were immediately fired on we had several steps to go through before kill shots. we had rules of engagement and escalation of force cards my command made us carry on us at all times with those regulations. even when a car possibly carrying explosives was barreling down on us, we were taught to exhaust several steps of warnings before killing: hand signals, flags, pop smoke/flares, warning shots to the sides, disabling shots THEN kill shots. so for the life of me, I can’t figured out why on the streets in the United States of America, police officers go immediately to murder and people are just like “well, in the heat of the moment…”
Reblog if you’ve ever read fan-fiction that actually set the bar higher.
#yup#it’s so hard to read published fiction now#so much of it is just sooo baaad#but like#part of the gate keeper effect to publishing#is that they don’t get inundated with all these stories using similar tropes#tropes don’t get refined like they do in fanfiction#published fiction ends up feeling cliche and clunky and incredibly slow#where fanfiction works through every possible iteration of a trope or a technique in a matter of months#and then comes back and turns old beloved tropes on their heads#while published fiction is still floundering with the basics of something that fanfiction explored in depth years ago#it’s like when someone shows you a ‘cool new funny meme’ from fb#and you’re like#that was on tumblr in 2007#and it’s not even a particularly good example of the meme#it’s a mediocre example at best#from before the meme really got going and people got really imaginative#that’s how published fiction feels to me these days#in comparison to fanfiction#anyway#tag talking#fanfiction#reading (via)
me when i’m broke: why did I foolishly spend that 75 cents my mom gave me on candy in 1998
me: *designs an oc*
me: *thinks of the kind of personality my oc has*
me: *gives oc a backstory as well as friends and love interests etc*
me: ah yes but what is your name
writers be like
reader: omg I’m so curious what happens next chapter!!
writer: me too haha!!
,me when my therapist appointment is several weeks away: suffering severely, mentally and physically, from my mental illness’s that plague me, ready to speak out about the agony i go through everyday, have the courage to ask for help and actually desperately need someone
me when my therapist appointment is tomorrow: i am in a good mood. i feel happy. there is nothing much wrong with me and i find it hard to remember what to even say.