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Olox / twentysomething / crybaby cancerian I enjoy good-looking food, historical pretty things and architecture, cats, and some dumb show about wizards and mythological characters beating each other up for a trophy. Amusing Episode Summaries What's this Coffeefic thing? Pop Culture Essay Blog
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here’s my one whole discourse post for pride month. you fucks will never ever ever wean off the radfem shit if you keep trying to give “cis men are evil” nuance. no, it’s not bad because they could be closeted or questioning, it’s bad because gender essentialism is a fucking brain poison and it makes you stupid

this is “not all men” cloaked in progressive-sounding vocabulary

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harry potter blog.

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Anonymous asked:

rin oneesan how do i become creative? ive always wanted to make things but i dont feel like i have any ideas or drive to learn the skills to create something

creativity's less of a cultivated skill and more of the inevitable froth that forms around your mouth as you chew on things you enjoy

the fastest way to "get creative" is by mulling over something you enjoy until you eventually start wishing it were even more suited to your tastes, at which point you can take the ideas you've built up and use them as fuel to practise ways of manifesting them

you'll learn to draw much faster if you're drawing things you care about. the same goes for everything, whether it's music or writing or whatever else

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if there’s one piece of advice i want to give literally anyone ever it’s to get a creative hobby. drawing writing sewing knitting baking singing dancing playing an instrument bullet journaling woodworking photography video editing gardening bookbinding shoemaking blacksmithing romhacking lego building candlemaking it doesn’t fucking matter you need a hobby that lets you have an idea for something to make and then the ability to make that thing. if you don’t occasionally exercise the miraculous human ability to make things your brain and soul will shrivel up and die forreal

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goodreads reviewers aren't human

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metamorphosis

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literally wasnt even going to post it bc it made me so infuriated but the joys of making fun of someone together online won over. check this out. from the #1 RATED GOODREADS REVIEWER

there are no words.

Every time I see a "Shirou is just a bland harem protagonist and is the worst part of F/SN" takes I've come to realize this is largely a take that's predicated on the anime and not from reading the actual VN. It's really important to note that all the F/SN animes are 3rd person, which means we're observing Shirou and not really getting much if any of his internal monologue, while F/SN is in the 1st person. It's told directly from the experience of Shirou, and we get to see all that Shirou is thinking about it, including the ways his trauma literally shapes who he is and how unhealthy attachment to the ideal of a hero at the expense of the self.

But perhaps the funniest thing that really highlights how kind of clear this becomes is that the prologue of F/SN is told from Rin's perspective, and we actually for the only time in the VN really see Shirou from a 3rd person perspective, and he's described as kind of weird. There's nothing really inherently magnetic about him for some bizarre reason, he's actually described as putting people off. He's the kind of guy who will very quickly agree to help you but would rather go to work or go home than actually do anything particularly social. He's maladjusted enough that his three closest friends are Issei, who grew up in a temple and is largely utterly devoted to it, Shinji, who is more of a legacy friendship and actively uses Shirou, and Taiga, who is basically his mom.

The idea that Shirou is bland should probably be instantly destroyed by the time you get through like 5% of the game, because he's actually kind of a creature.