The Thirty Years War (1618-1648)
Every 21st century piece of writing advice: Make us CARE about the character from page 1! Make us empathize with them! Make them interesting and different but still relatable and likable!
Every piece of classic literature: Hi. It's me. The bland everyman whose only purpose is to tell you this story. I have no actual personality. Here's the story of the time I encountered the worst people I ever met in my life. But first, ten pages of description about the place in which I met them.
Modern writing advice: Yes your protagonist should have flaws but ultimately we should root for them and like them from the beginning :)
Charles Dickens: Here is the worst ugliest rudest meanest nastiest bitch you’ve ever met in your life.
Modern writing advice: Make sure your POV character goes through a significant arc! Make sure they are changed by the narrative! Make sure they learn a lesson!
Narrators of every book of the 19th century: the lesson I learned is these people fucking suck, sayonara you freaks
Modern writing advice: It’s all about the character overcoming obstacles and learning! They learn their lesson so they can fix their mistakes and make good choices in the future! It’s a character arc! It’s called growth! Readers love it!
Everyone from ancient times through the 19th century: would you like to watch a Guy fuck up twenty times in a row
saw someone refer to not knowing how to keep track of your money as "girl math" ......why are we in this weird era of treating women like idiots but repackaging it to sound cute and quirky. We All Need To Stop
at this point i also take issue with those tweets/posts that are of the genre “girls were meant to sit in their bed with treats and do nothing all day” it was fun and #relatable maybe the first few times but it’s really just feeding into this weird mass objectification and dehumanization of women going on all over every social media platform now
i think everyone needs to adopt "i didnt say it was good, i said i liked it" into their vocabulary right now. it did me wonders
i had a dream where i watched a quali session live but it was in an indoor karting circuit and i didnt know it was even for f1 until i opened the f1 app and literally every single picture was of lewis and apparently he was on pole for the sprint shootout. so yes do with that what you will
Sit back and enjoy the feeling of flying in the streets of Singapore in Lewis Hamilton’s Mercedes.
Considered as one of the greatest qualifying laps ever done, Lewis Hamilton put the Mercedes on pole when it already seemed impossible in 2018. The lap exceeded Mercedes simulation times and could not even be beat in 2019 when they had faster cars. Battling with millimeters of precision along the street circuit, Lewis Hamilton had made history. - flatoutjournal via IG
The rumors are terrible and cruel. But, honey, most of them are true. 1989 (Taylor’s Version) drops October 27 (sound familiar?). Pre-order now! 🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵
how i thought i would feel walking out of the theater:
how i actually felt:
REAL.
pastassassins
reblog if your name isn't Amanda.
2,121,566 people are not Amanda and counting!
We’ll find you Amanda.
this has almost 11 million notes what is this
I’ve never seen this post once in 10 years on this site
I’ve never even heard of this before tho??? Wtf??????????
oh my god, I didn’t think there were any surviving versions of this post left
For those who weren’t around in the Deep Lore times, this is one of the relics of the editable post era. This post has THE SINGLE HIGHEST NOTES of ANY post on this site, bar none, but with more than a dozen variations. Every single post you’ve ever seen with more than 3 million notes has been a different version of this one.
This is the “Dean’s Gym Shorts” post. This is the Flubber post. This is the original “Reblog if you support gay people” post. it was ALL of them. before half the site got nuked, it had even more notes than it has now - at one point, well over 15 million, and that was years ago.
This, with no exaggeration, is the ONE TRUE heritage post
World Heritage Post
no body no crime feels like it was written about gone girl
i love this illustration i'm losing my mind
look at her. go crazy aaaaaa go stupid aaaaaa
love writing. writing is awesome. it’s a shame that it involves writing though
people whose native language ISN’T english
please reblog for more votes? 😇
bonus for english speakers; if you’re speaking (for example) american english and talking to someone who speaks (for example) british english, do you expect them to pronounce your name the way you do? or is it okay if they pronounce it with their accent?
being desi on main but honestly its a fucking shame such few people here know urdu/hindi bc now how am i supposed to explain the feeling of listening to a.r. rahman in the middle of the night
there is no one braver than those of us that navigate fandom spaces and also hate taylor swift. shes fucking everywhere