#that they'd understand!

[inkskinned]

please i love you i'm begging you bring back suspension of disbelief bring back trusting the audience like. i cannot handle any more dialogue that sounds like a legal document. "hello, i am here to talk to you about the incident from a few minutes ago, because i feel you might be unwell, and i am invested in your personal wellbeing." "thank you, i am unwell because the incident was hurtful to me due to my childhood, which was bad." I CANT!!!!

do you know how many people are mad that authors use "growled" as a word for "said"? it's just poetics! they do not literally mean "growled," it's just a common replacement for "said with force but in a low tone." it's normal! do you hear me!! help me i love you please let me out of here!!!

[stinkbeck]

keep trying 2 write this fucking novel but i just stare at it being like "i'm wasting my time on this earth sitting here trying to put my heart and soul on a document people will rip to shreds instead of hanging out with my brother and my parents and my aunt and my friends."

[generouskittentidalwave]

Life advice

Percy: Man, I wish the gods noticed us for once-

Odysseus: *Grabs Percy by the shoulders* No you don't.

Percy: Wha-

Odysseus: No, you don't. Go live your life, run free, stay in school, start a family whatever you do just don't be a favorite of the Gods. Stay neglected by them, trust me.

Percy: Wait- you're Odysseus, that's so cool! Wait aren't you a favorite of the gods-?

Odysseus: Yes and believe me when I say it's not as glorifying as you think it is-

Zeus: OOOOH ODYSSEUS~!! WHO WANTS SOME GOOD CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT US GENEROUS GODS WANNA OH SO DEARLY GIVE TO YOU~!?

Odysseus: FUCK THEY FOUND ME-! RUN! SAVE YOURSELF-!

[countess-of-edessa]

the world is so fucked up and i can't help but think the damage is irreparable when i see people talking about how unusual and prudish it is to wait six to ten dates before having sex with someone. ten dates??? roughly like twenty five hours of interaction????? ten old timer burgers and mango iced teas from chilis equals sex?????? the possibility of pregnancy, STDs, emotional devastation, lifelong consequences, not to mention just straight up the possibility of getting murdered, with a STRANGER you have hung out with for maybe like two months???? and that's a LONG TIME???? and if you feel weird about that and don't want to do that that makes you NOT HETEROSEXUAL????? THATS AN ORIENTATION???? BECAUSE ITS SO OUTSIDE OF THE NORM OF HUMAN BEHAVIOR ????? i hate all of you i hate you i hate you i hate you every day i hate and I hate and I hate you

[zivazivc]

just found about this funky fish that can walk around on land and the thing looks straight out of the trolls world. look at this thing, i love it!

anyway, floyd grew up in a cage and hed grew up in a city, i doubt they'd be thrilled to see one of these things for the first time. I know I would have shat my pants if i saw a 1.5 meter long catfish walk out of a lake towards me

[mumblesplash]

he's not even that light impulse is just really strong

[a-most-beloved-fool]

The trouble with TOS Spirk is that I know in my heart that Captain Kirk would use 'baby' as an endearment.

But I hate that endearment. So much.

And there aren't a lot of good alternatives, y'know? I do think he might say 'sweetheart', but that's the sort of endearment that's only used on special occasions. Like, if Spock is injured, he may do an "I've got you, sweetheart, it'll be alright,' type thing, but it wouldn't be frequent.

He might, might, use 'love', but even that's a bit of a stretch. I don't think he's really the sort to use 'beloved' or 'darling' or 'dear' (though that isn't to say that I haven't read some fantastic fic where he uses those endearments). AOS Kirk would use 'babe' (which is only very slightly better than 'baby') but TOS Kirk would not.

But Kirk would say 'baby'.

[puyoupuyou]

staring into the sun

partly inspired by a video essay, a great watch even tho there’s nothing relate to zelink lol

[neechees]

also xenophobia in general is just very stupid, because never ever has there been a time on earth where one area was 100% ethnically singular. Borders of Countries are fake and arbitrary, and race is a modern construct. Blood Quantum is fake and colonial. The vague definitions of ethnicity and those cultures and their languages change over time. People have been traveling and moving and having kids with other peoples for thousands and thousands and thousands of years. If you tried to tell your ancestors from 200, 500, or 1000 years ago what your and their race/ethnicity/culture/Nationality was they'd all probably disagree with you and each other. the whole concept of an ethnostate is ridiculous, impossible, and contradictory.

[sysig]

Ah, childhood memories (Patreon)

[elexuscal]

types of taskmaster contestant outfit

a) literally just ordinary street clothes

b) Snazzy street clothes (optional: with some Queer Flair)

c) low-key costume party

d) Fully Committed costume party (optional: that makes tasks Actively Harder to complete)

e) Phil Wang's Kill Bill jumpsuit

[phoenixcatch7]

An idea I'd love to see is bingqiu time travel... But individually.

Shen Qingqiu dies in the city, travelling back to when he was first transmigrated via the system.

A few years later, luo binghe finds some artifact or mcguffin in his attempts to find a way to resurrect Sqq, and, with the chance of making it so Sqq never died in the first place, takes it.

And they both don't figure out the other also time travelled for ages.

Sqq: wow, butterfly effect works fast! He's even stickier this time around! What a little sheep.

Lbh, internally: if I was even more shameless shizun could have been giving me headpats for EVEN LONGER?? *sees lqg in the background having a sexuality crisis* oh no we don't--

[starks-hero]

There was so many heartbreaking things about the final scene but possibly the part that hurts the most is that Aziraphale still believes heaven is good. He knows what they tried to do to him during the body swap, he knows what they did to Gabriel and he knows better than anyone what they've put Crowley through. But he still has so much faith and belief and still clings to the idea that they're the good guys. Now imagine how heart crushing this is from Crowley's perspective. Because not only does Aziraphale choose heaven, (the institution that quite literally sent him to hell) over him but by doing so and insinuating that they're still the hero's in this war, he implies that Crowley was always in the wrong because heaven is good. That it was Crowley's fault that he fell. That despite everything, Crowley is still on the other side.

[brother-emperors]

ADMINISTRASYONG PANGMADLA

raise a toast to the makers of rome; the bureaucrats, kingmakers, and administrators. or, more specifically to this illustration, lucullus and crassus.

[itsajollyjester]

Not too close.

[navree]

"rhaenys could have ended the war by dracarysing all the greens right there" yes because a distant relation to the throne deciding to barbecue an anointed and publicly positively hailed king and his entire family who is well loved within the city and in multiple other parts of the country for the sake of the succession of a far-away princess no one was ever on board with who hasn't been seen by the populace in literal years, her psycho husband, her three obvious bastards, and two toddlers from the psycho husband would go over super well with westeros and especially in king's landing where scores of the still-cheering population were killed for no reason by that same dragon who would do the barbecuing, because when targaryens act unilaterally without thinking of how the people would react there's never any problem, which is why the storming of the dragonpit and robert's rebellion were actually just collective delusions dreamed up by readers who hate rhaenyra and not key parts of the story and house targaryen's history that directly contributed to their demise and are intrinsic to the plot

truly team black stans are made up of only the most genius and media literate amongst us