What Would A Telepath Get When Trying To Read The Mind Of Someone Who Has 0 Internal Dialogue.

What would a telepath get when trying to read the mind of someone who has 0 internal dialogue.

Like, head full of thoughts, but no voice?

Or images??? What about those people with no internal dialogue AND aphantasia?

Love how tumblr has its own folk stories. Yeah the God of Arepo we’ve all heard the story and we all still cry about it. Yeah that one about the woman locked up for centuries finally getting free. That one about the witch who would marry anyone who could get her house key from her cat and it’s revealed she IS the cat after the narrator befriends the cat.

Shout out to all the Black ppl that can no longer participate directly in the fandom they love because of the stresses of racism 👍🏾 you contain multitudes of value and I'm sorry that the color of your skin and the power of your voice makes people not want to acknowledge that.

Mom appreciation post

So my mother has recently (these past few years) started reading after learning that

apparently people are out here making up their own images in their brains and it’s not just some cartoon bs

she can sort of recall images so she uses that info to assign actors and whonot to characters in her books

And it’s just so funny to me that my mom went from “I don’t understand how you read so much” to “omg I can’t find any books I like” and “I’ve read three 200+ page books in the last 24 hours and just found out there’s a 4th book in the series and I’m pissed”

I honestly love it, it’s so adorable to watch my mom be able to appreciate books in a way she couldn’t growing up. Now I get to just walk outside and go “hey mom did you finish that book you were mad at?” And the I get her cliff notes ADD version of the book and have a conversation with her about it and I love it.

Hey btw, if you're doing worldbuilding on something, and you're scared of writing ~unrealistic~ things into it out of fear that it'll sound lazy and ripped-out-of-your-ass, but you also don't want to do all the back-breaking research on coming up with depressingly boring, but practical and ~realistic~ solutions, have a rule:

Just give the thing two layers of explanation. One to explain the specific problem, and another one explaining the explanation. Have an example:

Plot hole 1: If the vampires can't stand daylight, why couldn't they just move around underground?

Solution 1: They can't go underground, the sewer system of the city is full of giant alligators who would eat them.

Well, that's a very quick and simple explanation, which sure opens up additional questions.

Plot hole 2: How and why the fuck are there alligators in the sewers? How do they survive, what do they eat down there when there's no vampires?

Solution 2: The nuns of the Underground Monastery feed and take care of them as a part of their sacred duties.

It takes exactly two layers to create an illusion that every question has an answer - that it's just turtles all the way down. And if you're lucky, you might even find that the second question's answer loops right back into the first one, filling up the plot hole entirely:

Plot hole 3: Who the fuck are the sewer nuns and what's their point and purpose?

Solution 3: The sewer nuns live underground in order to feed the alligators, in order to make sure that the vampires don't try to move around via the sewer system.

When you're just making things up, you don't need to have an answer for everything - just two layers is enough to create the illusion of infinite depth. Answer the question that looms behind the answer of the first question, and a normal reader won't bother to dig around for a 3rd question.