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
had a dream last night that miraculous gave us canon aged-up designs of adrien and marinette and adrien looked like this and i was PISSED
hm. thats not right
The only visible text being "Hey guys we noticed every other web(site) failing. We really wanted to throw our ha(t in)" REALLY adds to this post
Ah, the preview of collapsed posts is going well I see
Yes, there is a bouncy castle and a ball pit!
date of origin: 12th of july, 2014.
happy anniversary everyone
Just sos you knows, AO3 is down under a DDOS attack right now. They’ve been coming back in little blips and then disappearing again. It’s been several hours. (For reference, it’s currently 3 p.m. eastern, July 10, 2023.)
The culprit (as with a few other DDOS attacks recently) is Anonymous Sudan, a group that is likely Russian, not Sudanese. The ‘reason’ they gave–that AO3 is “full of disgusting smuts and other LGBTQ+ and NSFW things,” is thin and probably not completely legit, though still legitimately concerning.
Reporting on AS: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-06-28/anonymous-sudan-does-group-behind-microsoft-cyberattack-have-ties-to-russia (you can use archive.ph to get this one, 12ft doesn’t seem to work)
As noted here, https://twitter.com/honeyskeleton/status/1678449598703050769:
DDOS protection is expensive especially for a high traffic site like ao3. And it’s uniquely vulnerable as an independent site without ads or other corporate support. SPECIFICALLY targeted bc of its queer works and yet ppl will still complain every time they ask for donations lmao
So, again, when AO3 comes back online, please don’t go hard with refreshing all your tabs. Please do remember to download fics you love early and often as you continue in your whole ~reading journey~. And please do support AO3 through a dono or becoming a donating member, if it is possible for you to do so.
I didn’t realize this was about wind I just thought the lady was having a bad day
how does it feel to be the funniest person on earth
So poor people don’t deserve to have money?!
THEY’LL JUST WASTE IT ON SURVIVAL!
Also, if you’ve taken more than a high school economics course taught by someone who has never stepped foot in a college economics class,
Giving $500 to poor people multiplies it REALLY FAST. That $500 immediately goes into the economy and ripples more purchases until it hits a rich pocket.
Giving $500 to a billionaire takes $500 out of the economy permenantly. You could have set it on fire and made no difference.
That is such an important part of the conversation that rich people seem to purposefully misunderstand whenever it’s brought up
Money exists to be spent, not hoarded. Yes, people should have saving, but no one should be sitting on a pile of money too big to spend in a single lifetime. “The economy” as a concept only works if people are spending money, and the people hoarding the money are so quick to blame the people who barely have any when the economy starts to fail
Having a big string of numbers in an offshore account doesnt make you an economic genius, it makes you a parasite that is ruining the economy for everyone else
no one seems happier in life than those eccentric old ladies who wear all one color or collect frogs or have wacky hair colors and usually live alone with some funky pets and have weekly book club meetings with their equally amazing friends
Anonymous asked:
What would you do if you found out your Girlfriends guilty pleasures were South Park, Attack On Titan & Helluva Boss? Since she would be problematic, would you break up with her, cancel her, both, or something far worse?
It's truly hypocritical how you liberals abandon your "morals" and harasses & beat down others because of inconsequential & meaningless interests. You people don't care about a better & enqual future for all, you never have. All you ever do is sit like vultures & wait for your prey so you can tear them to shreds. All "cancelling" is is an excuse to justify mob mentality.
sorry i just had to post this, this is the funniest ask ive ever gotten LMAO
joy if i ever ask you to watch south park with me i want you to kill me ok
Sorry to everyone who’s enjoyed the last 130 years of science and culture journalism, but Disney needs the money to fund Toy Story 9
Throwback to when I took painkillers and woke up with Photoshop open on my computer to this image I had made
Hi this currently has 37 thousand notes and I just want to ask - why?
Big Things Are Coming
big things are coming
BIG THINGS ARE COMING
hey netizens! i'm not sure how many people are aware, but youtube's been slowly rolling out a new anti-adblock policy that can't be bypassed with the usual software like uBlock Origin and Pi-Hole out of the gate
BUT, if you're a uBlock Origin user (or use an adblocker with a similar cosmetics modifier), you can add these commands in the uBlock dashboard (under My Filters) to get rid of it!
youtube.com##+js(set, yt.config_.openPopupConfig.supportedPopups.adBlockMessageViewModel, false) youtube.com##+js(set, Object.prototype.adBlocksFound, 0) youtube.com##+js(set, ytplayer.config.args.raw_player_response.adPlacements, []) youtube.com##+js(set, Object.prototype.hasAllowedInstreamAd, true)
reblog to help keep the internet less annoying and to tell corporations that try shit like this to go fuck themselves <3
Ughhhhhh Peeta GOT IT and saw through EVERYTHING. The first step to breaking tyranny is understanding exactly how they control you, and Peeta did it so naturally.
He didn’t want the games to “change him.” He recognized that Snow relies upon turning humanity’s “most innocent” into murders to prove that humans are all terrible (what Dr. Gaul argues about people being inherently vicious), and absolutely OBLITERATES this idea.
Peeta’s character says “humans cannot be inherently, unquestionably evil because I am good” and it drives me absolutely FERAL.
Sure, not everyone everywhere can afford to keep their hands clean, and even Peeta knows he might have to kill people. But the whole point of killing Coin at the end is that evil beating evil isn’t worth anything. If all you do is get a new tyrant, then you’ve changed nothing. In order to really win, GOOD has to replace evil. In order to have good, you have to have good people, and Peeta is good. Peeta is important to keeping Katniss not only physically on the rebel’s side, but also morally on their side as she battles everything inside of her.