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do you guys ever like forget you're interested in something until you start engaging with it again and you go "oh wait i'm like crazy crazy about this yeah"

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i am in yearning

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i am nothing without my love of literature. my desire to write and feel and create while learning and reading and analysing. i am nothing if i can’t read books that remind me of myself, i am nothing without the comfort of feeling understood, i am nothing without loving the people i see myself in when i can’t love myself.

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Fang Runin, The Poppy War trilogy by R. F. Kuang

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I don’t understand why we collectively decided that being kidnapped by fae is like a bad thing. You don’t know me nor my situation. Maybe it will be an upgrade for me. Just let me step into the circle of mushrooms and sit on a throne made of moss covered log. Let me live my best life.

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Casa Tejocote by GOMA https://thisispaper.com/mag/casa-tejocote-by-goma

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Every character in a Donna Tartt book:

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This is the funniest way you could've put it

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'Does such a thing as 'the fatal flaw,' that showy dark crack running down the middle of a life, exist outside literature? I used to think it didn't. Now I think it does. And I think that mine is this: a morbid longing for the picturesque at all costs.'

(love this book, some real dark academia vibes)

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Tiles! I want to have a kitchen wall full with different designs

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Fangxin guoshi

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A note to all creatives:

Right now, you have to be a team player. You cannot complain about AI being used to fuck over your industry and then turn around and use it on somebody else’s industry.

No AI book covers. No making funny little videos using deepfakes to make an actor say stuff they never did. No AI translation of your book. No AI audiobooks. No AI generated moodboards or fancasts or any of that shit. No feeding someone else’s unfinished work into Chat GPT “because you just want to know how it ends*” (what the fuck is wrong with you?). No playing around with AI generated 3D assets you can’t ascertain the origin of. None of it. And stop using AI filters on your selfies or ESPECIALLY using AI on somebody else’s photo or artwork.

We are at a crossroad and at a time of historically shitty conditions for working artists across ALL creative fields, and we gotta stick together. And you know what? Not only is standing up for other artists against exploitation and theft the morally correct thing to do, it’s also the professionally smartest thing to do, too. Because the corporations will fuck you over too, and then they do it’s your peers that will hold you up. And we have a long memory.

Don’t make the mistake of thinking “your peers” are only the people in your own industry. Writers can’t succeed without artists, editors, translators, etc making their books a reality. Illustrators depend on writers and editors for work. Video creators co-exist with voice actors and animators and people who do 3D rendering etc. If you piss off everyone else but the ones who do the exact same job you do, congratulations! You’ve just sunk your career.

Always remember: the artists who succeed in this career path, the ones who get hired or are sought after for commissions or collaboration, they aren’t the super talented “fuck you I got mine” types. They’re the one who show up to do the work and are easy to get along with.

And they especially are not scabs.

*that’s not even how it ends that’s a statistically likely and creatively boring way for it to end. Why would you even want to read that.

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Hood

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Nie Huaisang: remember fellas! when all else fails curling up into a ball by yourself and transforming into a sobbing mess is always cathartic!

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Friendship is not background noise to your love life!!!! Friends are not secondary characters in your romance plot!!!!

Fall in love with your friends! Treat them well! Treasure your friendships!

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Fang Runin Portrait

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