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just seen someone criticize the divine comedy by saying that it's not relatable which is of course incommensurably stupid because relatability should never be the only criterion through which one can judge the validity and quality of a piece of work &c but also. just because you tedious unimaginative losers have never been on a journey to hell and purgatory with your long dead favorite writer doesn't mean others haven't. happened to me
WHO PUT THIS IN THE TAGS
hot girl spring is out. mary lennox spring is in. get in loser we’re frolicking in the garden; we’re talking to birds; we’re getting lost in the heather; we’re wandering gothic manors in the dead of night and discovering secret cousins concealed in attic bedrooms, we’re jumping rope
we're buying a little set of garden tools with our pocket monies; we're planting seeds in the dirt; we're digging a fire pit and roasting potatoes and eggs to build up our strength; we're learning to do the things most people learn as little kids but were lost to us through parental neglect; we're preparing to surprise the ever living bejeebus out of our absentee relative when he finally comes home; we're believing in the magic
Here’s the thing.
I read a lot of scripts. A lot. From professionals to aspiring writers to complete newbies. Features and pilots. Specs and treatments.
And 8 times out of 10 the fan fic that I’ve read over the last, oh, 15 years is leagues better than this stuff. It’s more inspired. It’s more compelling. It’s genre bending and creative and heartfelt. It’s well-paced and intense and funny and sexy and meaningful. It’s smart and thoughtful and good. It’s novel-quality. Better than, sometimes.
Rare is the script I don’t want to put down, but how often have we stayed up until 3am to get to the last chapter of a 100k fic? And it’s not even a fan fic author’s day job. This is what they do on the side. In their spare time. For free.
So my point is, fan fic authors, you’re good. You’re good writers and great storytellers. I know it doesn’t always feel like it, especially if you’re one of the authors who’s not a BNF and doesn’t get the notes/hits that a few do. And because some people still view fic as “not real writing.” You guys know the shit that gets made into movies. You’re better than that. So be better than that. If writing is what you think want to do, then just know you’re already doing it. You’ve already started.
And you’re more talented than you might think.
I’m a “multiple interpretations of a character are valid” person until I see an interpretation that explicitly contradicts canon and then I start chewing on the drywall.
Me: “they are fictional characters and you can have whatever thoughts or interpretations you like! You may be close to the creators intent, you may not! What does it matter! There is joy in the exploration alone”
Also me: blorbo would not fucking say that
“This character is multi-faceted and has many valid interpretations of them, but there are also aspects of them that are so set in stone that if you take them away, you’re basically talking about a totally different character.”
Your so annoying. . Unfortunately in a kinda sexy way. ...
Oh it's over for you idiot now I'm in your head
This is Jim to Seb at least once.
i think one of the best things leverage does for the archie/parker dynamic is the "kiddo"/"sir" dichotomy. like thats it right there. that tells you everything you need to know about what their relationship is and has been. the way she snaps to attention and calls him "sir." places him in this authoritarian position like the perfectly honed weapon he's trained her into. and then immediately after he undercuts it by calling her "kiddo" because there is love there. its muddy and definitely not all that kid Parker deserved but its there. and it wouldve been so easy to fall too far to one side of that but they keep it right in the middle there and it makes for such a compelling dynamic between the two of them.
“They all want me. Suddenly, I'm Mr Sex. ”©
so the current main character of twitter are the algae tanks that are meant to function as "liquid trees" if u wanna call it that and people are very mad at them despite them being a cool and potentially useful concept. before anyone gets mad on this post in case it gets Literally Any Notes, notes:
ANYWAY, with those common things no one on twitter seems to understand out of the way, honestly im frustrated but (mostly) not ANGRY at the ppl not understanding that stuff. like, if u read past the headline u would know it, and i really wish yall would, but hey at least i understand being mislead by that awful fucking headline. i get it!!
"but ohhh it looks like SLIME and DYSTOPIAN and blah blah blah" fuck YOU that slime is my BOYFRIENDS and i LOVE THEM. look at that gastly green color! it looks straight out of a mad scientists lab! its BEAUTIFUL!
i love algae and they are my friend and my lover and i will not stand for this fucking slander. you are all just too fucking weak to see the beauty in their hard work. you are blinded by tree propaganda, and just like bee propaganda you forget that there are OTHERS working day in and day out too. i love trees and (i LOOOOOVE bees btw) but do NOT forget the hard work done by algae.
if these things are as efficient as they claim then YES AMAZING LOVE IT, throw the cool slime benches hither and thither! mayhaps decorate them with a lil cool etched art (without compromising the efficiency) or some Fun Facts about how cool algae is and how NO THEY ARENT TREE REPLACEMENTS THEYRE TREE FRIENDS!!! THEY ARE FRIENDS!!!!!!!!! i would love nothing more than sitting at a bus stop under the green glow of my algae friends and i have been on this fucking train since i first saw cool concept art of this shit like a decade ago on tumblr. you CANNOT convince me giant green tanks of slop are anything BUT perfection.
and if anything i think they should fucking lean in to the slime thing. make some that look like giant test tubes. get nickelodeon to sponser a couple. teenage mutant ninja turtles crossover. stop listening to the fucking normies trying to convince you that Slime Bad and think of the fucking posslimbilities. EMBRACE THE SLIME.
I'd like to see some of these folks try to grow trees in the Sahara 🤦♀️
Seriously people if your first thought was "instead of" and not "in addition to" you need to reset your brain to factory settings because someone has programmed you to think everything is adversarial
Terrible horrible print day but I got this beauty out of it!! My last print for a while ;-;
happy autism month. remember that if I see anyone promoting A$ blue puzzle piece bullshit I'm gonna vaporize you on sight with my Autism Blast. fellow autistics feel free to do the same with your various autistic weapons of mass destruction.
Rewatching the Nigerian job for the twentieth time (as you do), and it just hit me how funny Parker taking Sophie down the stairs is. Like, it's literally the ONLY thing Parker does in that sequence. There is no other reason for her to be there. And she has an extra harness! Which means that - what? Parker was hanging out in the stairwell, with a harness already set up just in case? Did Nate tell her to do that? Is that plan E.2? Or was that her own initiative? Does Parker bring a rig and an extra harness everywhere she goes just in case she needs to rappel someone down a stairwell? Idk which is funnier.
Or even better: Parker came along just for funsies and knew from their recon that there was a giant stairwell in the building, so she brought her rig to take advantage of the rappelling opportunity. And you know, you always have to have backup equipment, hence the second harness.
He didn’t invent anything
1920′s Colorful lame evening jacket, self-ties to neck and lined in gold lame. From Kerry Taylor Auctions.
*covered in blood & in visible distress* i just need to write a list
Every week I see a new art form on Tumblr. It’s amazing how creative humans are.
1918 c. Tea gown by Lucile. From the Museum at FIT.
one fun thing about being a teacher in march 2023 is that chess is a literal epidemic among teens. we are starting to have meetings about how we can STOP teenagers from playing too much chess which is like if we were trying to figure out how to stop them from reading for fun. When i was in high school five years ago chess was nerd shit only but now it is transcending every social and language barrier and is absolutely rampant. kids aren’t on their phone texting in class anymore it’s ONLY chess.com. kids are playing chess on their phones while playing chess in real life. this is still better than tiktok because at least the kids are developing an attention span from this
the worst part of this is that they’re on chess dot com instead of getting an education. but the BEST part of this is watching high schoolers develop the weirdest goddamn strategies I’ve ever seen. One of my students invented something he calls the “evil advisor gambit” where he gets a third person to give out constant terrible advice to both teams hoping that his opponent falls for it straight-up or that his opponent thinks HE fell for it and will act accordingly thus worsening their own strategy. he has won every game he has been able to pull off a coordinated evil advisor gambit in. this is chess innovation never before seen in its 700 years on earth
House Sprimont-Rottiers
Tisseltsesteenweg 31, Willebroek, Antwerp, Belgium
Architect J. Ottelohé, Willebroek, 1937
It’s for sale!
The house was built for C. Sprimont-Rottiers, son-in-law of Adeline and Emmanuel Rottiers, the founders of the Rotiers Tile Factory in Tisselt, Belgium
https://inventaris.onroerenderfgoed.be/erfgoedobjecten/1799
