#it’s not good enough

[zak-dar]

Happy Orthodox Easter (?)

I don't know about you guys, but it's already Easter for me. I decided this time to paint a couple of eggs with portraits of angelic little Vash and Knives. They didn't come out very similar to each other, unfortunately, and the wings had to be made with feathers, because my relatives would have questions about why one of the angels has a black wing, and the other has a sharp one. And I decided to take not the classic combination of red/blue, or as in the new anime purple/green, and blue for Vash and green for Knives. I think it's more symbolic, because when they were children, they were less different from each other, and therefore emerald and ultramarine are well suited to show their closeness.

[captain-lovelace]

🔥 Paleontology

Silly opinion: the fact that the paleontology tag on tumblr is “palaeoblr” sucks. Like I know it’s to avoid interfering with paleo diet blogs using “paleoblr” but also we deserve that tag and they don’t

Slightly more serious opinion: While I understand that making an argument for why your research matters is important in science, I also just. Am so so tired of justifying my entire field of study. People don’t see paleontology as immediately applicable to their lives (which is unfortunate given that understanding the history of life on earth is hugely important, but I’m not going to get into that), and I don’t work in a particularly “entertaining” part of paleontology either, so there’s a lot of mainstream ignorance on a scale from a well-meaning lack of knowledge (which is fine) to disdain and dismissal (which sucks). I would kill to never answer the question “why do you care”, as asked by someone who doesn’t care, again. Unfortunately, though, that’s not how the world works.

[sanguinarysanguinity]

Expanding a thought from a conversation this morning:

In general, I think "Is X out-of-character?" is not a terribly useful question for a writer. It shuts down possibility, and interesting directions you could take a character.

A better question, I believe, is "What would it take for Character to do X?" What extremity would she find herself in, where X starts to look like a good idea? What loyalties or fears leave him with X as his only option? THAT'S where a potentially interesting story lies.

In practice, I find that you can often justify much more from a character than you initially dreamed you could: some of my best stories come from "What might drive Character to do [thing he would never do]?" As long as you make it clear to the reader what the hell pushed your character to this point, you've got the seed of a compelling story on your hands.

[spitblaze]

I don't see people gas up gnc and butch transfems nearly enough, can we get a fuckin round of applause for gnc and butch transfems

[nightgoodomens]

Michael Sheen retweeted this and my love for him grows every time he calls his Angel out on his bullshit and sides with poor Crowley

[essektheylyss]

"must a story have conflict?" yes. hope this helps <3

[idlestories]

not just ‘he would not fucking say that’ but ‘he would not, under torture, admit that’

[squidsmeister]

dungeon meshi is my favorite road-trip comedy film

[allysketches]

"I loathe him. And, despite myself, I respect a worthy opponent...Which he isn't because he's a demon and I cannot respect a demon. Or like one."

decided to draw a small part of the bookshop opening deleted scene bc not one day goes by where I don't think about it 🥺 we lost so bad by not getting this one 😭😭 especially bc it contrasts the season 2 finale so well… I could write entire dissertations about it 🤧

[ronanlynchbf]

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

[unusualshrimp]

internet safety tip: to protect your identity, you can start going by a "fake name" online. But Watch Out

[circuscountdowns]

many centuries down the line they can manage to have a civil enough family game night.

[sanzundertale]

babygirl i will invent stages of grief you have never seen before

[samglyph]

I’m not immune to slasher comedy coming of age musicals. Apparently