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the problem with having to work on the sofa is primarily that it exacerbates my neck and shoulder pain because i can't get my laptop screen at eye level AND the keyboard at the right angle for good posture. however a secondary problem is that if my dog joins me, she inevitably ends up trying to push my lap-tray off my lap because it's where she wants her head to be, which is obviously the more serious issue of the two (for her)

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According to Know Your Meme, on August 18th, 2005, Erwin Beekveld brought forth this work into the world. HAPPY TEN YEAR ANNIVERSARY, THEY’RE TAKING THE HOBBITS TO ISENGARD.

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settings I would love to see more in fantasy:

Deserts, but like, positive. Deserts portrayed as beautiful places full of life and wonder. Desert as homeland, desert as a place of beauty and intrinsic value.

Mountains. Andean-style settings where the world is mountainous and the land is organized into altitude zones, where uphill/downhill are more meaningful than east/west

Island archipelagos. We’ve gotten a few in fantasy recently but 1) I want More 2) I want someone to do a Fantasy Kula Ring

Something inspired by Tiwanaku or Chavín de Huántar

Independent city-states. They all are unified by basically the same culture but they are all also politically independent variously at war, making alliances, happily trading, in a trade war, conquered and subordinate to other city-states, founding new city-states, travelling to the central temples of other city-states’ patron gods, etc.

Full of prehistoric animals that never coexisted with humans but they do in this fantasy world because they’re Cool

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if you are writing a character who is morally reprehensible I promise you can convince everyone that they're awful without making them fat or "ugly", giving them poor personal hygiene, or otherwise labouring over descriptions that tell us how "disgusting" they are in appearance or behaviour.

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noooo I've been physically active all day but haven't really done anything mentally engaging, so I'm completely done in but also My Brain Is Restless, despite the brainfog. i do not like this feeling at all

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me when my disabilities disable me:

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a healthy queerplatonic partnership

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The main character of the last TV show you watched is now your therapist. How’s it working for you?

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friend?

junicorn day 16

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"why did you stop writing your story!!! never stop writing!!!!!!!!!!!" well you see the character had to drive one mile to a new location and the sentence "she got into the car" was quite simply my undoing

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these are my mutuals. they know who they are

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Oh man I had to scroll back to like 2023 to even find any fictional characters, and it was DEFINITELY worth it :3

Jeremy Brett's Sherlock Holmes fuck yeah

(leaving this an open tag :])

^tagged by @soctherapy but the post was getting too long

this isnt a win for me.......

Tags!: @rae-unbeloved @lil-gae-disaster @fictionalcharactergraveyard @livelaughlovelams @alexanderhamiltonhasafatass

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I'm about to have a hot take and I would say it shouldn't be controversial but this is Tumblr so who knows.

A few weeks ago, I saw Jurassic Park for the first time, and there is a scene in there I think every aspiring filmwriter should be forced to watch and dissect. You may be thinking it's a Big Moment, like the timing on getting the power back on, or whatsisface IT guy shutting down the system to go steal embryos. You may think it's the kids and whatsisface who kinda looks like but isn't Harrison Ford* seeing the brontosauruses for the first time. Or the moment the first T-rex crashes the fence. But it's not any of those.

No, it's when Ellie finds Hammond in the dining room and he's eating whatever was supposed to be served for dessert and he's like "it was melting. I didn't want it to go to waste."

Because there is so much humanity in that line. It's not some big, grand theme statement. But I guarantee each and every one of us has been in a situation where life is going to hell in a handbasket for whatever reason, and we sit down and we may not be crying outwardly but we're screaming inside, and we wash the dishes. Or fold the laundry. Or eat the leftover Chinese so it won't be thrown away. We have exactly one point of control over one tiny little thing that seems (and often is) absolutely futile, and fuck it all, we need that control. Just for a moment. Just to feel something that isn't black screaming despair.

Hammond's guests and grandchildren are in grave danger. There is nothing he can do about it. Ellie's fiance is one of those guests. There's nothing she can do about it. They're in a severe thunderstorm in a place with mostly dirt roads in the middle of the night and all of the power is out and there are animals that dwarf skyscrapers outside. They. Can. Do. Nothing.

So they sit down and they eat the ice cream.

And then when Ellie says "it is good," Hammond just very quietly says "spared no expense."

His entire dream is in ruins. I know in the book he's more morally dubious, but in the movie I think he really genuinely believed he was doing something that could be wonderful and got stars in his eyes. In this moment he's grieving the potential loss of his grandchildren. The knowledge that even if (if!!) they survive, they will likely never see him the same way again--nor will his children. He's grieving because his beautiful dream has killed multiple people and he's realized he created a nightmare. He's grieving because he's in a hell of his own making and there's nothing he can do about any of this.

The animatronics are amazing, the CGI is top-notch (especially for its era), the story is solid, the cinematography is ace, but the moment that made that movie to me was that scene in the dining room lit only by the lightning, where two terrified human beings eat a dessert they almost certainly aren't really tasting, and say "it was melting" and "it is good" because if either of them says what they're really thinking, even breathes so much as a "do you think--", they will both scream until they go insane.

We've none of us faced dinosaurs run amok but we've all of us eaten the ice cream. And I think every prospective filmwriter out there, and a whole lot of shitty execs who wouldn't know a real emotion if it danced naked in front of a neon sign, need to see that scene and be forced to really sit with it.

I think movies would be the better for it.

*I would apologize for only learning half of these characters' and/or actors' names but frankly my facial recognition was already bad and has gotten worse in the last couple of years so you'll just have to deal with that.

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@thorlokibrother im fucking HWEEZING. very clearly picturing someone rushing out the supermarket with their arms full of groceries. a small child has smushed their snotty face against the passenger window and waves cheerfully at the car's ex-owner, who can only watch their vehicle be towed off. their box of eggs slides off the pile of shopping in their arms and smashes over their shoes.

I think if someone parks smack in the middle of the bus stop bay, the bus driver should be legally allowed to duel them to the death with a sword they keep in their lil driver booth for that exact purpose.

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sitting here working, and I keep thinking "wtf is that weird noise. It sounds like someone very far away is scraping a shovel over dirt or something". then I got up to refill my water glass and saw that it's my dog having THE most sleepy comfy cosy time behind me

[Video description: a dog is sprawled on her side on a fluffy blanket, panting in her sleep so her cheeks keep puffing out. The curve of her mouth makes her look a bit like she's smiling contentedly. /End description].

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Btw this post was brought to you by someone in a big af car pulling into the middle of the bus bay so they were basically blocking the entire thing, then going into the supermarket to do their shopping. while two (2) busses got backed up behind them, stopping traffic and slowing everything down at a pretty busy time of a day. I get that it's frustrating if you gotta go shopping in a rush and there's nowhere to park, but it's just so,, self-centred. like you're going fuck all the people who need to use the bus and everyone on those busses who had places to be and also all the other traffic that gets snarled up.

....on second thoughts, busses should have reinforced fronts so the driver can cheerfully pancake any car that someone does this with. bus drivers should still have the swords though

I think if someone parks smack in the middle of the bus stop bay, the bus driver should be legally allowed to duel them to the death with a sword they keep in their lil driver booth for that exact purpose.

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Shields now down to 10%...