#memorized

[doorlene]

regulus, trying to be helpful: maybe if you just put pen to paper?

pandora: i tried that. i thought, "i'll just sit down and write whatever comes. no judgment, no inner critic". merlin, was that a bad idea.

regulus: really? why?

pandora: because my brain is a wild jungle full of scary gibberish: "i'm writing a letter i can't write a letter why can't i write a letter i'm wearing a green dress i wish i was wearing my blue dress my blue dress is with the house elves the aurors wore grey you wore blue 'casablanca' 'casablanca' is such a good movie 'casablanca' the ministry dumbledore why don't i ride a broom i should ride a broom i should really take my bicycle to school bicycle unicycle unitard hockey puck rattlesnake monkey monkey underpants".

regulus:

[liesandnights]

My lips and fingers were pens on her flesh. I memorized her in every alphabet and memorized my memories until they multiplied.

[not-so-rosyyy]

no idea if it's my hormones, what I've seen in the news lately, the weight of living the past few years, or just because it's Judi Dench...but this impromptu performance really made me cry for a good ten minutes, no kidding.

[black-quadrant]

sometimes all you need is one passionate person who goes berserk for your work to keep you creating

[bumblebeebats]

I must say, as a non-american (who even LIVED in the US for several years), all these state polls really look to me like:

[howifeltabouthim]

All at once, the third stanza popped into my head, and I read it straight off some sheet of paper inside my skull as the lady of my heart looked at me all atremble.

Siri Hustvedt, from The Blazing World

[theminecraftbee]

I think the other funniest thing about all the current fish-related shenanigans is. if this season is nearly as long as last season we are going to get well past the point any of this fish stuff was relevant (to anyone but gem, gem fish stuff will be forever). however. this is also the early days. the ESTABLISHING days. people drew scar as an elf until the bitter end of season nine is what I’m saying. xb has been a fish for like three seasons now is what I’m saying. joe STILL has green hair from snips in most of his fanart is what I’m saying. people still give ren his season eight prosthetics from time to time is what I’m saying. doc’s design gets more and more Creature every season, is what I’m saying.

somewhere, there’s a fanartist solidifying their designs for the hermits for the first time and it’s while we’re all making them fish and in a year and a half all the new fans will be staring, baffled, going “okay and explain why pearl is a salmon again???”

is what I’m saying.

and personally I think that’s beautiful,

[ramonapest]

Pressure is, it's kind of my thing

@d20exchange gift for @doodlididi!

[uncanny-tranny]

One reason you might not be very "good" about a trans loved one's pronouns or the language you use for them might stem from memorizing what they want, rather than actually changing how you view them.

For instance, my trans friend came out rather late compared to me. However, since internalizing that I wasn't really correct about who she is, because she's a woman and I didn't know that, it was instantaneous to refer to her by her name, to use language that accurately reflects her instead of what I thought she was.

When you actually internalize that a loved one is actually this way instead of what you thought, it makes it so much easier to truly and actually change your perspective on them.

In short, are you memorizing who they are, or are you actually learning who they are?

[jeremysknoxes]

bro how smart is wylan-

[z0mbgender]

Thinking about the ending for saw x had Amanda and John opening a door and stepping out into the light VS every other movie ending with a door being closed and being left in darkness

[lunarcrown]

What have you done.

OooooOOOOOO

CAT MAID JIMMY REAL!!!!!!

[prokopetz]

One of my favourite things about a certain stripe of indie horror game is the completely random shit you have to deal with. Like, AAA horror games will take great care to ensure that there's a single unified explanation – or, at least, a single unified first cause – for all the horrible things that confront you; conversely, an indie horror title will centre around a mad geneticist creating monsters in tubes or something, then halfway through the game you inexplicably have to fight, like, a ghost that eats human hair. The ghost has nothing to do with the scientist. There are no obviously supernatural elements in any other part of the game. After it's gone it will never be mentioned again. It's just there, and you've gotta deal with it.

[saintarmand]

iwtv is insanity inducing bc every time you google some reference in it you find out theyre doing some 4d chess with the symbolism… like okay playing roosevelt's speech about the us joining ww2 in the background as claudia tells louis shes gonna kill lestat is pretty straightforward, and of course the chess game theyre playing foreshadows how she beats him in the next episode but doesn't "finish the game" ie burn him. and bc claudia later compares lestat to the nazis/hitler, that obviously makes lestat germany and thus claudia is poland and louis is the us/roosevelt in the speech we hear: "I had hoped against hope that some miracle would prevent a devastating war in Europe and bring to an end the invasion of Poland by Germany" etc. BUT THEN you get nerdy and google some of the chess terms lestat uses like the dutch defense and stonewalling which is pretty interesting and then you vaguely remember one of the writers said the scene was based on some famous chess game, and you realize it must be glücksberg vs miguel najdorf which turns out to be literally called the POLISH IMMORTAL. najdorf was polish and glücksberg is some unknown but based on the name likely german. this was najdorf's first famous game, at the beginning of his career when he was only like 19 or something although we dont know the exact details of the game (and ofc you watch a few videos on the polish immortal and they all heavily criticize glücksberg's moves which makes lestat's arrogance even funnier) and ALSO, in 1939 (literally at the same time as the chess scene takes place) najdorf was participating in a chess tournament in buenos aires and since he was not only polish but also jewish, he stayed there rather than return home. his whole family was killed in the holocaust but he lived a long life in argentina. why is this relevant? because BUENOS AIRES which btw lestat also calls "la reina del plata" so you google that and find the 1930 song by carlos gardel and the lyrics are literally— anyway so buenos aires is where lestat planned for them to move to in ep7. perhaps if they had indeed gone to argentina instead of europe… well… perhaps… perhaps…

[tanglepelt]

Dc x dp idea i think 175

Jack and Maddie find out about Ellie and Danny being phantom all at once.

They didn’t take it well.

They couldn’t accept it. They could never experiment on something that looked so much like their son. They couldn’t even bring themselves to hurt the “clone” she too looked just like Danny when he was younger.

Clearly the no good spook had to leave. They kick him out with nothing. Not even his phone.

With jazz in a summer program, sam and tucker out of town he has no where to go. He has to leave before they literally chase him out.

Ellie in her ever so helpful way just pats his shoulders. She has the perfect place to crash until he can get in contact with jazz or his friends.

She tells him all about the clone she met and how they bonded. About how she’d dropped by many times unannounced at his adoptive parents house. About how cool they were. They didn’t even care if she used her parents around them!

Out of all the ways the reveal could have happened he never expected to be sitting in a farmhouse with a plate of pie. He guesses the Kent’s are too bad.

They were even okay to let him stay there until he could figure out what to do next.

[i-ve-been-to-hell]

Matt: is that a dexterity save?

Laura: yeah

Siri, simultaneously: I'm sorry, I didn't get that. Can you say that again?

Everyone at the same time: a DEXTERITY SAVE