im about to maul someone.

"stories dont need conflict" girl anything can be a conflict if ur story is about chickens going on adventures the conflict is the fucking fence they gotta hop over. if ur story is about making a lovely cup of tea the conflict can be turning on the stove. like u literally cannot write a story without conflict

ALSO i hate mfers who say this shit and then go "thats why i like ghibli movies cuz theyve got no conflict" OH YOU MEAN HOWLS MOVING CASTLE, NAUSICAA, PRINCESS MONONOKEY CASTLE IN THE SKY ETC THAT ARE ALL ABOUT THE HORRORS OF WAR

even the ones that arent about the horrors of war. in kiki's delivery service kiki growing up and learning to trust people and accept help is the central conflict of the story!! my neighbour totoro's central conflict is how the girls are dealing with their mom being sick and the responsibility they feel this puts on them!! i could go on!!

mei nianqing lifts the sleeping jun wu's mask with trembling hands and finds his three faces hotboxing in there

okay now.... this is cinnaman

Things Odo should have done in DS9.

Don’t take this too seriously. It’s just a bit of fun!

star trek deep throat nine

Not what it’s called

oh yeah? then explain this

Disco night in the alternate universe mining facility

Cosmos Troupe's Casino Royale to get a worldwide livestream subtitled in 8 languages!

The last day of Cosmos Troupe's Casino Royale will get an unprecedented worldwide subtitled live stream via the platform Beyond LIVE!

Dates/Times: LIVE: June 11th (Sunday) 1:30pm (JST) Re-streaming: June 26th (Monday) 4:00am (JST)

Languages: English Korean Chinese (Simplified & Traditional) Spanish Vietnamese Indonesian Thai

(The stream will not include the sayonara show or taidan speeches)

For the vast majority of Takarazuka history, this would have been unthinkable! Please consider buying tickets and attending one of the Beyond LIVE streams (even if you typically watch a Rakuten stream) to show that there is demand for Takarazuka all over the world!

[TICKETS AND INFO]

Quick one today

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love wins happy pride

i really think - contrary to a lot of booktok-esque writing advice - the average reader is absolutely okay with coming across things they don't understand in fiction. i know i've read and watched tons of things full of specialist jargon that went over my head but i was invested enough to understand the stakes, both for real-world subjects and in second world SFF - where it's inevitable! younger me read slightly older books that referenced celebrities relevant only really a decade or so before i was born, but i could vaguely guess who they were via context and it didn't impede on my enjoyment and engagement in any way. this sort of thing is a very common occurence to anyone who isn't american. i'm certain i'm not alone in saying it's far preferable to have a narrative voice overestimate your knowledge in something than have them spell it out for you. please never cut a word or a reference out of fear that most readers wouldn't 'get'

and frankly if you're someone who does insist on needing to understand everything i think you may need to return to the 5 finger rule

i actually think this is really important in the wake of discussions on #ownvoices and how unfortunately surface-level the call for diverse writers is - i can really see how the idea of making things universally understandable as such will, in practice, mean easy to consume for white/western/cishet etcetera.

[ID: a tweet that says "your PFP is your cook. does the food taste good?" end ID.]

some of paul cox’s absolutely beautiful illustrations from the folio society edition of carry on, jeeves

some highlights:

garak what the fuck you are literally in your own tailor’s shop surrounded by thread scissors, if there’s a tiny loose thread on the shoulder of that jacket you don’t need to fucking bite it off with your whole mouth what’s wrong with you

i'll make a bigger post about the whole situation + more ways to help another time but i can't put this off any longer if you or anyone you know in southern california can house me for a month for $1k or less, please contact me i'm a mentally ill + disabled trans man and i'm getting kicked out soon by my mom's abusive bf

i'm putting most things in storage, but i'll have two suitcases, an overnight bag, my computer, and either a monitor or my medium size flatscreen tv (which i use as a monitor) with me if that's not too much, unless you already have an extra monitor lying around that i can use. i can also pay for my own food i have nowhere else to go aside from hotels that'll really eat up my savings fast and won't give me much time. i've just been in this situation too many times and i'm really scared please spread this post if you're unable to help. and please don't tag this as s!gnal b**st, m*tual a!d, or anything that'll get this post hidden by tumblr

Do you guys remember watching the finale for the first time and crying laughing when they threw in a sepia toned jiles montage out of nowhere or was that jsut me