#and these are real examples too

[haydenthewitch]

study tips from like five years ago: Okay, so you take notes during class. and then you go back and highlight those notes that night. only highlight key terms :) once you've done that, you make a fake quiz. write your notes out as questions, and then come back to the questions in an hour and try to answer them, to see what information you've retained! this method makes you think critically about the assignment and is WAYYY better for retaining information then just "Copy and pasting" memorizing, haha. Now go get that A!

Study tips now: Hey stupid baby idiot! do yooooouuu wanna study without actually doing any work? Yeah? Okay, here's how you do it! go to MY new ad-ridden shitty website, stupidbabyidiotcan'tstudy.com and copy and paste all of the lecture slides/ readings you don't want to do into my chat-gpt ripoff chat bot! then the horrible evil AI will spit out the "Most important" bits, and read them to you in a funny voice, because you OBVOUSLY can't retain information unless SPONGEBOB is telling you about how quantum physics will work. and ohhhhh my god are you a girl??? hey evil AI ripoff bot, tell me history like it's GOSSIP in a NAIL SALLON because this GIRL can't fucking read hahahahaha! this will guarantee you a 40% grade on your final! witch is JUST enough to pass the class hehehe! isn't that soooooooo quirky and cool? isn't it so cute and cool that you don't know how to THINK on your own??????

[bacchuschucklefuck]

truly this one's just for me. I can do what I want foreverrr

[abd-illustrates]

Sorry to bother you. I wanted to ask if you were willing to give advice on how to avoid the 'Friends Who Never Hang' tropes? Because I'm hesitant to make more main characters because I'm not sure if I can make their bond close between all of them and you seem to have a grip on the Heartless gang's relationship. Thanks.

I had to google what that trope meant haha - but that's a rlly interesting question!

At least for me and my storytelling preferences, I think my stance would be that there's actually no need to worry about making a close bond between *all* of your main characters at all!

It's a bit hard to articulate, and I'm definitely thinking from more of a manga mindset so bear with me lol -- but trying to make sure that everyone on your main cast all get along with everyone else on the main cast, and feeling the need to give a 'proper' spotlight to every possible combination of characters to convince your audience that 'they really are all friends with a close bond, see how they all hang out!?' Can run the risk of looking like this:

and leave your story feeling bland/stagnant as you kinda slog through unnecessary scenes between characters just for the sake of proving that they do all interact an adequate amount.

Whereas - (again, at least in my experience) - building a group primarily around their ties to your Main-main character(s) like this:

is a method that leaves much more room for you as a writer to both focus on the character that's specifically meant to be at the forefront, while also making it easier to explore which other combos could then actually be fun to give more screen time to in order to *build up* those close bonds, rather than worrying about the end result and just trying to make everybody get along right from the get-go!

(Also! Don't feel like if you start out with a bunch of varied colorful connections that they all have to be turned into bright green friendly bonds by story's end! Making some characters a bit closer over time but still not besties is a-ok! They can unite for a common goal but still get on each others nerves forever! There are no rules! Be cringe, be free!)

[heartless-aro]

People when a character is aromantic or aromantic coded: Wowie! They’re aroACE! Because they aren’t interested in romance! Look at how aroace they are!

People when a character is aroace or aroace coded: Isn’t it cool that this character is asexual? Asexual icon! They’re such great asexual representation :)

[bvckbiter]

fandom talks too little about hylla and reyna. reyna killed her father when she thought he'd killed hylla. hylla dragged them out of puerto rico and found them sanctuary and employment on circe's island AND became one of circe's favorites. then when they got captured by blackbeard hylla also got them out of that situation by out-pirating literal immortal pirates. then in a span of three years, they split up, found their own ways to the amazons and cj, and became the leaders of their respective factions. when hylla's queenship was being threatened by otrera in son, she plotted a counter-coup and defeated an amazon queen who couldn't die two nights in a row in one-on-one combat, THEN led her cavalry to camp jupiter. (ik this woman slept like a corpse for a week afterwards). hylla used reyna as an absolutely ruthless bait-and-switch to capture orion, and all reyna said in response to that was, "bet." reyna carries insurmountable amounts of both guilt and gratitude towards her sister. even though they havent seen each other in a while, hylla still drops everything and does everything in her power to save her baby sister when she knows reyna needs her.

[gammija]

ig another annoying thing about the 'this transcends language 😲😱' comments about the most obvious of cognates and literal english loanwords, is that it's another example of how native english speakers (and, by virtue of their population size, mostly USamericans) are the arbiters of what gets seen as 'universal' vs what's weird and foreign on the anglophone internet. cause to me as a dutch speaker, a lot of german compound words would '''transcend language''' - but the tweets that go viral about those kinds of words are about how they're silly little nonsense words to laugh at, can't be a real language, can you believe anyone speaks that!

[moonchild-in-blue]

You know, looking at Damocles through the lore lens is SO interesting. Because the one thing we do officially have is how Sleep Token came to be.

From their 2017 Metal Hammer interview:

"Vessel encountered Sleep in a dream, with promise of glory and magnificence if Vessel followed Him."

Success, fame, power in exchange for worship. Seems easy enough right? Vessel took the deal, and sure enough, the glory came. But it all comes to a price doesn't it? To worship was the condition, not the payment - it's just that Vessel didn't know how big the cost was. He wanted to get to the top, but didn't realise how steep was the fall.

This reads like a fae's trick, like a twisted granted wish from a genie. A crossroads deal with the devil.

There are many theories about the moral nature of Sleep - are They benevolent or malicious? Is there space for ambiguity? Do They have any regard for their mortal worshippers, or is divine power the only thing They crave?

Regardless of where one stands on it (and really, it's such an open concept that there's definitely space for all of these to co-exist), Damocles to me cements how malevolent and capricious Sleep is. Because if pain and despair is what They crave, why would They warn a mere feeble human of the consequences of the success they so desperately seek?

Especially after TMBTE - we thought that Vessel would finally retaliate, and it was precisely after that decision to fight, to bite back, that they reached the top and saw what was awaiting there. Almost as if Sleep lulled him into a false sense of security, let him hope for the best, gave him a taste of grandeur, and let him find out for himself his golden palace was just another cage - one built with his own flesh and bone.

And how is he supposed to escape from that prision, when the warden is himself?

[faunandfloraas]

fav skz // Sick as!

[mazzystar24]

Just saying if they wanted us to believe Bobby was dead they should’ve gone the traumatising buffy “the body” route 🙄🤚

[902186]

"In the time we have traveled together, I have come to see how you are with one another. Closer than brothers. [...]" Minstrels, perhaps, see too clearly.

[todayisdeadinside]

ever notice how fetus larry's hugs were always so... stumbly? like they always sort of stumbled into each other's arms and i think thats so cute and precious.

[nonbinary-octopus]

sometimes I forget that other people have object permanence about me

like, I'm in a bookbinding discord with a pets channel, and every now and then someone will respond to me talking about my cats, with information I had mentioned some time prior. I talked about progress they're making towards being able to coexist peacefully, and someone comments it's been a while huh? and I'm like, you remember how long it's been? like yes, but you remembered that? I told them October comes when he's called, and someone responded "Another point for the 'October was raised by dogs' column" and I'm like, you remembered I said that theory?

and it's just. wild, sometimes. you remember me, the things I've said, things I've done. I left a mark behind me. wow

[lunarlicorice]

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pwyw is still misspelled. not fixing it. sorry

edit 6/3/25: new examples :] i need to draw more furries.

[blatantprinterpropaganda]

so far in the world of thamepo we've seen over and over that silently sacrificing your own happiness for the good of someone you love is ultimately never the way to go (thame tried it for the sake of the other mars members, jun for thame, and inevitably all the sacrifices po made for his ex who then promptly dumped him also feature in there), so my god, i hope that this well-intentioned lie of gam's comes to light at some point asap and she and pepper still get their happy end

[thecoppersoulbox]

Gotta say, it’s fun to see AJ playing an Everyman type of character, I feel like that’s not something we see very often. Like when Mark answered the phone I had a moment of “oh yeah he is just like. A guy huh. A guy who got dealt a bit of a shitty hand.” Meanwhile everyone around him is falling apart over this DIY wedding and all the other shit they got going on.

[gay--dog]

bb anthology of the killer is like the most transfem character ever i feel like theres so much you could interpret as transfem subtext/coding its insane . its so much it feels intentional but i dont have any proof that it is so it probably isnt.? shrugs