sometimes literary analysis does feel like taking a hit of cocaine and i think that’s a fair thing to say
The nature of Tumblr not showing follower counts is that every mid-sized blog will have a small subsection of people absolutely convinced they're following/mutuals with a celebrity.
"Wow, I'm friends with a lot of queer folks. Wonder why that is?" - cishet on the verge of making a huge discovery
New tumblr users I am begging you. You don’t need to do all of them, but you need to at MINIMUM have a profile picture, a title, a blog description, and/or have liked a non-porn post, just one, or you’re gonna end up blocked and reported like a wildfire. Literally just one of those things flags to people that you’re not a bot. The more the better.
now i dont condone cheating but u have to admit the historical importance adultery had on good music
The Lighting of the Beacons
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) - dir. Peter Jackson
the summer is like well what if it was unbearable outside and you can't wear any cool jackets. and everyone's going to tell you that this is the best time of the year. and you're the crazy one
Um yes HELLO but if you aren't reading The Long Way Home what are you doing with your life. Read if you like:
- Hill House style haunted places
- Greek mythology
- Tim and Jason being shitty in the Realest way possible
- Tim and Jason being utterly Unshitty in the Realest way possible
- Enemies-to-reluctant-allies-to-brothers pipeline
- Weird ass ghosts doing weird ass things in extremely interesting and creepy ways
- Really good writing? Like oh my god it keeps taking me off guard?
Idk man, this fic deserves like 10000 more hits than it currently has, I'm obsessed, I'm being really normal about it, I read it today instead of doing my adult marketing job. I'm so jazzed to see where it goes. I literally yelled and threw my phone at the end of chapter 11.
Anonymous asked:
Sp did you ever figure out what was up witht he noodle dragon?
oh anon I'm ill about it
every time i see a post claiming jason is tim's favorite robin i just. y'all put some respect on dick grayson's name or so help me god,
It's important to me that Dick Grayson is a fashion disaster. That he's the subject of 'is this trendy or is it just that Dick Grayson is wearing it' twitter threads at least once a month. I want him to dress exclusively like Chris Pine in paparazzi pictures is what I'm saying. Examples for visual learners--
the first rule of detective fiction is that the detective in question should ALWAYS just be the nosiest person alive and never be a cop
even if you're not a supernatural fan, if you've been on tumblr long enough you are, like, culturally. like cultural christianity in america except it's the cw's supernatural. you may never have watched an episode or set foot inside the tag but your regular life shuts down on their holidays and all of your world news is delivered through that point of view. something to think about
Been thinking a lot about fiction-writing AI software. Been thinking about how people want to be writers but don't ever put a word down because they're scared of getting it wrong or doing it badly. Been thinking about how using bots to create the parts of a story you struggle with will stop you from learning that skill and will make you a fundamentally worse writer. Been thinking about how some writing communities get mean with new writers on wobbly baby horse writing legs who call unpolished or unpracticed work "cringe" or "bad" or "not worth salvaging" and don't give feedback in good faith. Been thinking about how people aren't allowed to be bad at things anymore. Been thinking A Lot about how writing communities are a large part--not the only part or biggest part, but still--of what's driving these new or wannabe writers to the AI platforms so they can avoid being shamed when they share their work.
Anyway. Be nice to each other. One way to push back against AI fiction and AI stories is to foster kind and encouraging writing communities where we all help each other up vs. tearing someone down so you feel taller. Don't let the bots win.
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imo the best way to interpret those “real people don’t do x” writing advice posts is “most people don’t do x, so if a character does x, it should be a distinguishing trait.” human behavior is infinitely varied; for any x, there are real people who do x. we can’t make absolute statements. we can, however, make probabilistic ones.
for example, most people don’t address each other by name in the middle of a casual conversation. if all your characters do that, your dialogue will sound stilted and unnatural. but if just one character does that, then it tells us something about that character.
