"Old friend" is a gayass thing to call someone
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I call upon the fan fic writing gods to bless you with the perseverance to finish one of your unfinished drafts.
May your fingers dance along the letters upon your device with ease, may the devil of distraction stay far from you, and may your work not need much editing.
I pass this blessing upon every fan fic writer out there.
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Jiang Cheng with a young Jin Ling
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idk when we decided that explaining yourself shouldn't be part of an apology but like. if someone was a dick to me and apologizes but I still don't understand why they did it I'm not gonna feel any better
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Person who wants to do stuff trapped in a body that needs to lie down
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Jason ‘big bro Jay’ Todd
okay but what if Jason just never became red hood and instead became Damian’s older brother first and foremost? After Talia Al Ghul revived him, he may Damian and decided ‘fuck Batman, I’m adopting the kid’
Damian has not clue why everyone looks so terrified when his big brother comes over- and who on earth is ‘Master Todd’? Its ’big Brother Jay’ duh!
on Jason’s first visit back to the manor, Damian introduces him to Bruce, expecting them to get along due to their ‘gloom doom and serious energy’
instead Bruce just looks like he’s seen a ghost, and Jason (who has firmly decided he will protect this demon child, and batman is just a small roadblock) sticks out his hand and says
“Jay. Nice to meet you. I’m Damian’s older brother, what did you say your name was? Brian?”
Bruce dosent come out from his room for another three days
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Anyways when I was sixteen I wrote a story about a spaceship's communications officer (think Uhura) who was given a brain implant when he was a baby that automatically translates every language in the universe, but which interferes with his ability to perceive and process subtle changes in tone. He hears an emotionless automated translator voice inside his head rather than hearing the real voices being physically carried by air vibrations. So he has the ability to interpret every word in every language, but he can never interpret tone of voice. And the ultimate message of the story is that understanding every possible text isn't enough -- if you don't understand subtext, you'll be isolated. The "communications officer" actually struggles to communicate more than anyone else on the ship.
You'll never guess what they diagnosed me with a year later.
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THESIS: the real reason that people stay on this hellsite is not “chronological order” or “the drama” or whatever (per se), but is instead linked to how tumblr, unlike most social media, is not optimised to give content as short of a half-life as possible, but instead is optimised to let content continue to cycle for months, years, even decades. this has in turn led to a more consistent centralised site “culture” in which there is more coherent linkage among different areas of the site, thus also explaining why its content permeates so thoroughly throughout the internet.
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artist who hasn't drawn up in like a week nor has warmed up as they draw: why am i like actual literal shit at this
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'you never read anymore, you used to love reading' and i have 200 safari tabs open. it never stopped it just got weird
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cannot recommend more putting secrets and hints in your creative work that you dont expect anyone to figure out
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speculative fiction writers i am going to give you a really urgent piece of advice: don't say numbers. don't give your readers any numbers. how heavy is the sword? lots. how old is that city? plenty. how big is the fort? massive. how fast is the spaceship? not very, it's secondhand.
the minute you say a number your readers can check your math and you cannot do math better than your most autistic critic. i guarantee. don't let your readers do any math. when did something happen? awhile ago. how many bullets can that gun fire? trick question, it shoots lasers, and it shoots em HARD.
you are lying to people for fun. if you let them do math at you the lie collapses and it's no fun anymore.
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