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Silver tetradrachm, Athens, Greece, 470-450 BC

from The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts

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want to be clear that if i ever talk about a headcanon and then later discuss a headcanon that is directly contradictory to the first one, that’s because headcanons exist in a quantum state where they are all simultaneously true and not true up until the point where i discuss it in detail, in which case that is the one that is true in that instance. schroedinger’s headcanons

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Kassandra! 😍🙏💪🦅

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Not a popular opinion on tumblr I know but I would argue character death is good for stories, actually, and often a death with long narrative consequences is much better use of a character than having them linger with no more important plot beats to hit.

Character death isn’t writers being mean to viewers or something characters don’t “deserve,” it’s an important part of narrative and plotting to give stories stakes and emotional beats. The work making you have an emotion is in fact the point, not something to avoid.

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SPACEBALLS 2: THE SEARCH FOR MORE MONEY

Director: Mel Brooks Year: 2027

"After 40 years we asked, what do the fans want?... but instead we're making this movie!" - Mel Brooks

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But I am an artist too, and therefore a liar. Distrust everything I say. I am telling the truth. The only truth I can understand or express is, logically defined, a lie. Psychologically defined, a symbol. Aesthetically defined, a metaphor.

—Ursula K. Leguin, in her Introduction to The Left Hand of Darkness

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Under the storm |  Patryk Biegański

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remember when you’re writing a gross and terrible power dynamic that you should be asking yourself constantly how you could make it worse and sexier

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I don't care if she commits atrocities, bro, she's justified by the narrative

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the best thing that happens in iphigenia among the taurians is when orestes goes "and odysseus has been lost at sea," and iphigenia responds like "inshallah they never find him. who else?"

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terrible news: the only way to find out if something you create is gonna be good or bad is to actually create it

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Obsessed with this bit in the preface to the 10th Anniversary edition of Ancillary Justice:

Specifics aside, "I thought this would be fun and relaxing. It was not." is a great summation of what happens with like 80% of creative endeavors.

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me as a kid reading Dune: I appreciate the detailed world-building that justifies why everyone fights with swords and has mental powers, but the idea of a Butlerian Jihad against computers is pretty silly

me in 2025, trying desperately to find the three (3) places you need to go to to disable the latest helpful AI assistant that's inserted itself into my work chat and is advising me to do things that would be a breach of federal law: Oh Now I Get It

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not ignoring canon nor strictly adhering to it, but a secret third thing (taking the small bits and crumbs canon barely spent time developing and running absolutely hogwild)