#(not the same thing)

[arrestedexgirlfriendafterhigh]

“Oh but they wouldn’t be like good together yk?”

Um I didn’t say that, I said they were in love.

[im-a-luxury]

i think one of the many reasons people (specifically queer people) latched onto gambit is bc we were desperately in need of a femme fatale character that was actually just a guy

[woman-respecter]

you want trans women banned. congrats on the transmisogyny

quick question what do you think about Palestinians

you’re the one saying animalgirl tankies are trans women not me lmao. mayhaps you’re the transmisogynist here🤔

[regencyama]

Bridgerton is not set in the Victorian Era

(updated for S3)

I haven't received an ask about this but I've seen so many people mistakenly describe Bridgerton as Victorian that I have to explain why it's not.

Bridgerton S3 is set in Spring 1815. This is four years before the real Princess Victoria, the future Queen of England, is even born. (Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story has a faster timeline than that of real history -- going by the last episode of that, the Bridgerton Universe's Victoria will be born later in 1815.)

1815 is the middle of the Regency Era (1811-1820), the time when King George III was unable to rule because of his rapidly declining mental health, so his eldest son George, the Prince of Wales, ruled as the Prince Regent.

After George III dies, Prince George rules as King George IV for another ten years. So, the Regency Era is part of the Georgian Era (1714-1830), which spans the reigns of Kings George I - George IV. George IV's younger brother William succeeded him as King William IV, but since he only reigned from 1830-1837 and things weren't remarkably different, his reign is often considered part of the Georgian Era.

George IV and William IV's niece Princess Victoria then became Queen Victoria. Her reign was so long (1837-1901) and so different that it is known as the Victorian Era.

TLDR: The people during the era of Bridgerton S1-3 are Georgians living in the Regency Era, not Victorians living in the Victorian Era.

[impossiblesuitcase]

I can’t believe my kind exists in Australia. What do you say, “baurlaur bao” ?

No! When I say Chinese words I at least try to pronounce them correctly 😭 I can't speak for other Aussies though.

[cwritesfiction]

Spoiler!!

In both my current WIPs, a character loudly announces to anyone who will listen that they will not do a specific thing (and by the end of the story, they do it)

Send me a “spoiler!” and I’ll post a vague spoiler from something I’m writing!

[platypusisnotonfire]

Ok big embarrassing confession time

I have been confusing Braveheart and Highlander my entire life.

Every time someone is like I love Highlander I’m like oh me too GIRL I LOVE BRAVEHEART WHAT am I stupid??

[crvvys]

talking to nonblack people really does age me sometimes lmao and I don’t realise it until way later. i had to explain what “black famous” means to a friend yesterday bc she was getting snarky when I mentioned I didn’t grow up with mayo in the house (we always had miracle whip which she didn’t even know what that was :/…) which led to me bringing up a black famous movie that jokes about how black people don’t usually use mayo bc it lacks flavour and I didn’t name it bc I knew she’d not know what it was. and she said can’t be that famous if you didn’t name it. No I don’t name black things bc none of y’all watch or know about black things lmao. that’s why some things are “black famous”

that’s why I had to tell a Mexican coworker that Before I Let Go is not a Beyoncé original god.

[call-me-overcomer]

Had a patient call in a prescription and ask me to grab some magnesium sulfate for her too. Weird way to ask for epsom salt, but ok whatever.

Helping her later in the drive thru and after us both being confused for a minute or so, we worked it out. Citrate. She wanted mag citrate.

[finnickodaiir]

Not you all saying Joe was Jake 2.0...

[mrdrhenwardhykle]

Does MatPat know what creative liberties and cartoonish writing is?

[m-jay-gee]

i have a friend that started critiquing inception for not actually having anything to say about anything and how she doesn't like it because its saying nothing deeper.

but also

why cant we just like films for the sake of it

for the cinematography, the acting, the music, the plot, etc.

things dont have to have deeper meaning for you to enjoy it, just enjoy it because it's good

[modernchemical]

watching death note with my family and after the college entrance episode my mom asked offhandedly if anyone had ever pictured L and light as a couple before. it felt like one single white dove had landed on a crystalline lake in a beautiful pure clearing. no i dont think anyones ever thought of that before

[cunning-and-cool]

idk man but something about Stanley "taught himself extremely advance physics/math/probably many other things while running a relatively successful business" Pines and Stanford "is wanted in almost every dimension with a judicial system of some kind" Pines is sooo fucking funny to me

[arosnowflake]

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.

[confusion-core]

You guys do know that Gorillaz are real people though right?

They need to invent more fake celebrities like Hatsune Miku and Gorillaz and the Muppets because it's genuinely the most sustainable way to maintain a parasocial relationship with the entertainer class.