#i really loved the book

[megumibex]

I've just read volume 5 of thousand autumns and I loved it to pieces but couldn't help but notice a lot of errors in the translation. Some were (imo) relatively minor things like typos which I'd let slide. But there were a few instances where the translator mixed up character or sect names. The one that stood out was a line that said Bai Rong was part of Huanyue sect rather than Hehuan.

Dear sevenseas,

The plot is already confusing and dense enough don't make things harder by not hiring a proofreader.

[talaraleya]

Now I know what I didn't like about the colour of revenge.

Dustfinger does not have a first name. He does not need a first name.

[vikkerli-art]

Howl but based on the book

[razzafrazzle]

Just Checking In! (aka Something About Red Triangles)

[maibeloved]

Guess who is back in their gravity falls phase! (After it being dormant for almost a decade!)

[sowlmates]

gotta give it to the percy jackson fans, you really do love your main character. for other franchises, fans usually place the #1 blorbo title on a specific side character. but in percy jackson you really love your percy jackson

[doctorsiren]

The books reveal that Ford is actually a secret partier

(Available as a print on my Etsy Shop)

(wips under cut)

[kesopan]

warmth in the cold

[adriles]

when we’re done with our overwhelming grief we’ll eat i guess

[chloesimaginationthings]

Michael learns of Jeff’s pizza from FNAF Into the pit

[happyheidi]

𝗂𝗀: 𝗌𝖾𝗋𝖾𝗇𝖾𝖾.𝖼

[eyes-of-nine]

pls assume i'm thinking about this moment 24/7 all week every week

[ronanlynchbf]

tshirt that says NO LIVE ORGANISM CAN CONTINUE FOR LONG TO EXIST SANELY UNDER CONDITIONS OF ABSOLUTE REALITY

[inkskinned]

this is just my opinion but i think any good media needs obsession behind it. it needs passion, the kind of passion that's no longer "gentle scented candle" and is now "oh shit the house caught on fire". it needs a creator that's biting the floorboards and gnawing the story off their skin. creators are supposed to be wild animals. they are supposed to want to tell a story with the ferocity of eating a good stone fruit while standing over the sink. the same protective, strange instinct as being 7 and making mud potions in pink teacups: you gotta get weird with it.

good media needs unhinged, googling-at-midnight kind of energy. it needs "what kind of seams are invented on this planet" energy and "im just gonna trust the audience to roll with me about this" energy. it needs one person (at least) screaming into the void with so much drive and energy that it forces the story to be real.

sometimes people are baffled when fanfic has some stunning jaw-dropping tattoo-it-on-you lines. and i'm like - well, i don't go here, but that makes sense to me. of fucking course people who have this amount of passion are going to create something good. they moved from a place of genuine love and enjoyment.

so yeah, duh! saturday cartoons have banger lines. random street art is sometimes the most precious heart-wrenching shit you've ever seen. someone singing on tiktok ends up creating your next favorite song. youtubers are giving us 5 hours of carefully researched content. all of this is the impossible equation to latestage capitalism. like, you can't force something to be good. AI cannot make it good. no amount of focus-group testing or market research. what makes a story worth listening to is that someone cares so much about telling it - through dance, art, music, whatever it takes - that they are just a little unhinged about it.

one time my friend told me he stayed up all night researching how many ways there are to peel an orange. he wrote me a poem that made me cry on public transportation. the love came through it like pith, you know? the words all came apart in my hands. it tasted like breakfast.

[0039pf-third-blog-hooray]

[egophiliac]

I have SO many thoughts about everything and they are in no kind of order yet, so here's just some quick little bits in the meantime!

I am not normal about any of these characters!