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Xu Beihong - Stroking the Cat (1924)

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oh ok

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Aphrodite née de l'écume (Aphrodite born of the sea foam) by Georges Antoine Rochegrosse (French historical and decorative painter, 1859-1938)

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Aliens were really, hostile, and invading Earth, but nothing related to that was trending on Tumblr because some big fandom stuff had also happened.

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One of the qualities of rich guys is that they are always in the process of being scammed or have just been scammed, and if you talk to enough of them you will realize this truth. They will talk about a possession or a project and gradually you will realize they don't know anything, that they are describing the world like a very spoiled child who just saw a commercial for the world's most expensive toy. You may be tempted to think in these moments that probably there is some quality or element of whatever the rich guy is describing with such enthusiasm, because you do not understand how someone is unable to detect that they are talking about fifty cents of colored plastic held together with glue which physically cannot do any of what they believe. But no, there is no deeper quality, they are exactly this gullible, the emperor's new clothes may be allegorical but it is also the literal truth - all rich guys everywhere have a cybertruck in their life, draining away money to another rich guy, both equally convinced they have made brilliant decisions with regard to spending.

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Edouard Wolton - Météore (acrylic and oil on canvas), 2015

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my unpopular opinion is that i hate tiktok because now people just publicly watch loud ass videos in public spaces with no regard for anyone else. 100% it was not this bad with youtube, it’s such a different thing with tiktok. put on headphones. you are grown.

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Illustrations by Sophie Margolin for Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre.

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I just think tumblr needs to see this poem.

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My biggest tip for fanfic writers is this: if you get a character's mannerisms and speech pattern down, you can make them do pretty much whatever you want and it'll feel in character.

Logic: Characters, just like real people, are mallable. There is typically very little that's so truly, heinously out of character that you absolutely cannot make it work under any circumstance. In addition, most fans are also willing to accept characterization stretches if it makes the fic work. Yeah, we all know the villain and the hero wouldn't cuddle for warmth in canon. But if they did do that, how would they do it?

What counts is often not so much 'would the character do this?' and more 'if the character did do this, how would they do it?' If you get 'how' part right, your readers will probably be willing to buy the rest, because it will still feel like their favourite character. But if it doesn't feel like the character anymore, why are they even reading the fic?

Worry less about whether a character would do something, and more about how they'd sound while doing it.

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at Jimmy Buffet’s Margaritaville rn and i’m wondering why more musicians don’t have their own restaurants. i would eat at Trent Reznor’s Tavern of Terror