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what i imagine when people on this site talk about "incoherent character thoughts"

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btw I'd also like to mention that Goethe wrote a poem. About Schiller's skull. Unfortunately I can't find an english translation of it so for my non-german speaking followers here's a snippet of what's on wikipedia about it:

I think this passage really undersells just how much Goethe describes finding and taking the skull as a religious experience.

Anyway. I've known he wrote that poem for a while now, but while writing the last post I actually bothered to go read it for the first time and. well. I'd just like to include this part from it under the cut because. haha. I'm losing my mind about it a little.

("This part" means almost all of it whoops but it's just that good. And just sooo so perfect for Sterling and Gale I'm actually unwell about it 👍)

Und niemand kann die dürre Schale lieben, Welch herrlich edlen Kern sie auch bewahrte, Doch mir Adepten war die Schrift geschrieben, Die heilgen Sinn nicht jedem offenbarte, Als ich inmitten solcher starren Menge Unschätzbar herrlich ein Gebild gewahrte, Daß in des Raumes Moderkält und Enge Ich frei und wärmefühlend mich erquickte, Als ob ein Lebensquell dem Tod entspränge, Wie mich geheimnisvoll die Form entzückte! Die gottgedachte Spur, die sich erhalten! Ein Blick, der mich an jenes Meer entrückte, Das flutend strömt gesteigerte Gestalten. Geheim Gefäß! Orakelsprüche spendend, Wie bin ich wert, dich in der Hand zu halten? Dich höchsten Schatz aus Moder fromm entwendend Und in die freie Luft, zu freiem Sinnen, Zum Sonnenlicht andächtig hin mich wendend. Was kann der Mensch im Leben mehr gewinnen, Als daß sich Gott-Natur ihm offenbare? Wie sie das Feste läßt zu Geist verrinnen, Wie sie das Geisterzeugte fest bewahre.

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Ok chat, here is today's Sterling post:

So you know how Goethe kept Schiller's skull after he died?

I like to think that after Sterling dies, Gale keeps his skull. Ideally also on a blue velvet cushion, underneath a glass dome, like Schiller's skull in Goethe's home. I'm sure Gale has some magic he could use to showcase it with instead? Or maybe it's just... floating around somewhere in his divine realm? Idk? But if the skull is the one last remaining tie to mortality that he can't let go of, why not also store it in such an ordinary manner as well?

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Feel free to reblog to have more people to vote. Feel free to explain why you voted the way you did. DO NOT SENT ANON HATE FOR HOW PEOPLE VOTED.

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everyday i get on here, write oc posts and then save 'em to drafts

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my favourite thing about gale dekarios to this day is that there’s literally no reason for him to be talking like that in combat except that he’s having a good time. fully led me to expect some kind of backstory with his combat experience but no he just says things like “i speak, they burn” and “let me recite their demise” for the love of the game

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life eternal

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name-dropping your crush but not your dad is so goddamn funny

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I do not "render." I do not "shade." I do not "paint," I do not "detail" and i do not draw "Backgrounds." I draw BLAND CHARACTERS standing in WHITE VOIDS And if it doesn't look good i GIVE UP.

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I wish there was a better cultural shorthand for enjoying a work for it's badness while also making it clear that it comes from a place of deep love, and a recognition of the self in the other. Consider the relationship one has to the art they made in middle school.

It's often poorly constructed, embarrassingly revealing, poorly aged, etc. You don't want to denigrate it, because it's good and necessary that amateurish art exist. But also sometimes it sucks in ways that are funny and genuinely charming.

For example, I love the Backrooms Wiki. It is clearly a bunch of early teenagers doing their own spin on the SCP format. It is objectively not well written, fails to understand what made the original greentext interesting, etc, because it is made by literal children experimenting with flash fiction for the first time. So many of its entries are The Evil Smiler Who Fucking Gets You. Which rules. I want the backrooms wiki kids to keep writing forever. I remember being at that point in my writing career! I hope these kids continue to write!

But sometimes I mention the backrooms wiki and people say "why are you hating on these kids?" and I struggle to explain that I am not hating, I genuinely love it. Sometimes it feels like people don't believe me! I feel like people have grown so used to kiwifarms behavior that an offhand expression of love for amateurish art is interpreted as malicious hazing. That makes me sad! I wish there were better words for this sort of thing.

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More Goodles

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the thing about being an artist is that sometimes youll be making art and youll hate it and youll hate it and youll hate it and youll hate it and you hate it and youll hate it but your friends will think it is nice. and sometimes thats all you need

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oh so now im the bad guy just because im a piece of shit¿

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Every poll on this blog is about fictional characters only. This request was sent to us and we made a poll in response to it. Send any Blorbo-related question you want to our inbox and we’ll make a poll on which people can vote with their own Blorbos in minds

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is this anything

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