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imagine…..riftan courting maxi in secret when he visits croix castle….sneaking kisses in empty hallways and stealing glances during banquets…🥺❤️‍🔥

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Come on, girl - it’s been like ten days (or ten minutes, or something 🤭)!

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My original intention for this post was just the first panel (it was supposed to be something lovely and sentimental) but as I was working on it, things took a degenerative turn 🤭 most of you should know what I’m like by now 🙂🤭

Anyway, I love this book series! ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

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Thought this would be loved here…

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A few years ago I had this idea of dnd characters playing a human version of dnd…Finally made a small comic about it lol

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This feels like the start to a horror movie and I love it

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This feels both ominous and hopeful? Like glass half empty glass half full, but I'm not sure why my brain thinks that.

I am a door guard. In the morning, I stand by the entrance and watch visitors try to open the door. They jam the handle. There is a 'click', but the door does not open. The door is locked. It is 7:45. At 8:00, the doors will be open.

The receptionist asks me what I'm doing. I tell her I'm watching visitors try to open the door. She laughs. I don't. I tell her about The Cobra Effect.

The story goes that when the British invaded India, they wanted to get rid of all the venomous cobras. To do this, they offered to pay for every dead cobra they received. For a short while, this worked. But then people began to breed cobras, hundreds of them, and when the British found out, they stopped offering payment. The farmed cobras lost their value, and were set loose into the wild. In the end, there were thousands more cobras in India than there had been before.

I say that while this story might not be true, it demonstrates that on occasion, the measures we take to produce a desired outcome actually do the opposite.

"There is a sign on the window that says that the doors unlock at 8," I tell her. "And every time someone tries to open it early, I wonder if they're pushing to get in, or if they're pushing to see if it's 8."

The receptionist says that I do a lot of thinking.

I tell her that I do a lot of standing.

She begins working on the computer.

I stand by the entrance.

Today the doors opened at 8:02.

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momento mori 👁

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Link to the Go Fund Me for Leneal Frazier:

https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-raise-money-for-leneal-frazier?utm_campaign=p_cp+share-sheet&utm_medium=copy_link_all&utm_source=customer

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i was worried my cat is dehydrated because i never see him drink water so i’ve started leaving a cup of water that’s “mine” (aka he sees me drink out of it once before he does) in my room so he thinks he is being a rebellious naughty by drinking out of it but rlly he is just following my plan & being hydrated .

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a good and sensible adventure story.

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Why does it always take someone dying for you to start caring? It’s great that so many men are trying to make women feel safer after Sarah Everard (similar to how a lot of people started educating themselves on racism after George Floyd was murdered). But why didn’t you before? We told you already, why didn’t you listen then? Obviously there have been men allies for a long time, and it’s not too late to start now. But can you speak out on issues that affect marginalised people before someone becomes a big news story because a police officer killed them? And will you still continue to do so after it’s “trending”?

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When The Onion isn’t even doing satire anymore...

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some of the best writing advice I’ve ever received: always put the punch line at the end of the sentence.

it doesn’t have to be a “punch line” as in the end of a joke. It could be the part that punches you in the gut. The most exciting, juicy, shocking info goes at the end of the sentence. Two different examples that show the difference it makes:

doing it wrong:

She saw her brother’s dead body when she caught the smell of something rotting, thought it was coming from the fridge, and followed it into the kitchen.

doing it right:

Catching the smell of something rotten wafting from the kitchen—probably from the fridge, she thought—she followed the smell into the kitchen, and saw her brother’s dead body.

Periods are where you stop to process the sentence. Put the dead body at the start of the sentence and by the time you reach the end of the sentence, you’ve piled a whole kitchen and a weird fridge smell on top of it, and THEN you have to process the body, and it’s buried so much it barely has an impact. Put the dead body at the end, and it’s like an emotional exclamation point. Everything’s normal and then BAM, her brother’s dead.

This rule doesn’t just apply to sentences: structuring lists or paragraphs like this, by putting the important info at the end, increases their punch too. It’s why in tropes like Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking or Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick, the odd item out comes at the end of the list.

Subverting this rule can also be used to manipulate reader’s emotional reactions or tell them how shocking they SHOULD find a piece of information in the context of a story. For example, a more conventional sentence that follows this rule:

She opened the pantry door, looking for a jar of grape jelly, but the view of the shelves was blocked by a ghost.

Oh! There’s a ghost! That’s shocking! Probably the character in our sentence doesn’t even care about the jelly anymore because the spirit of a dead person has suddenly appeared inside her pantry, and that’s obviously a much higher priority. But, subvert the rule:

She opened the pantry door, found a ghost blocking her view of the shelves, and couldn’t see past it to where the grape jelly was supposed to be.

Because the ghost is in the middle of the sentence, it’s presented like it’s a mere shelf-blocking pest, and thus less important than the REAL goal of this sentence: the grape jelly. The ghost is diminished, and now you get the impression that the character is probably not too surprised by ghosts in her pantry. Maybe it lives there. Maybe she sees a dozen ghosts a day. In any case, it’s not a big deal. Even though both sentences convey the exact same information, they set up the reader to regard the presence of ghosts very differently in this story.

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my sister having studied behavioral disorders is so weird because we will be watching some tv show and ill start cringing away from the screen and covering my ears bc i react very viscerally to secondhand embarrassment and fiona will just turn to me and go "rejection sensitivity triggered again huh" and i have to be like damn queen lay it all out like that i guess

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Ha!

And here I just thought I ... fuck I don't know what I thought honestly- and obnoxious squick maybe-but I didn't know it had an actual proper name!

Whelp...I don't know why I'm surprised, but now I know what it's called.

THATS A SIGN OF REJECTION SENSITIVITY??? I THOUGHT THAT WAS A COMPLETELY NORMAL HUMAN THING TO DO???

oh honey