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quotespile · 22 days ago

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Touch a limit of your understanding and it falls away, to reveal mystery upon mystery.

Marilynne Robinson, The Givenness of Things

#literature #quotes #Marilynne Robinson #The Givenness of Things #quote #books #lit

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egophiliac · 24 days ago

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missed the mark by (looks at calendar) uhhh. hm. but I really wanted to do something for the 5th anniversary! happy five years to these idiots 🎉

#art #twisted wonderland #twst 5th anniversary #i'll stop for a while now i promise i just wanted to get this out #genuinely feels a bit weird to be 5 years in already huh!#that combined with having finally finished up episode 7...#oh no all the milestones hit at once help #hold on while i reminisce for a moment #because MAN i did not expect the anime disney boy game to become so special to me #(especially my little wet rat dragon and his family)#to be fair 2020 onward was uhhh let's say prime timing for a piece of silly and unapologetically indulgent media #(not to get too real here or anything but let's just say that. some of the stuff in 7 specifically did hit a bit harder than it should've.)#but also just. you know how it goes.#sometimes a thing doesn't so much speak to you as it reaches out and grabs you by the throat #with an intensity that shocks and bewilders no one more than you #and sure you can ignore it because having any emotions about media beyond faint scorn is of course the epitome of ~cringe~#but you could also just throw yourself wholeheartedly into it #and lemme tell you one of those options is a hell of a lot more fun #idk i'm just kinda rambling here #it's been a weird five years but i'm glad to have had these guys for it #and hey if nothing else it gave us meleanor #the inside of my brain at any given point is just the 'do it for her' meme covered in pictures of our late great dragon princess #i would not have it any other way

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sanguinarysanguinity · 2 years ago

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Expanding a thought from a conversation this morning:

In general, I think "Is X out-of-character?" is not a terribly useful question for a writer. It shuts down possibility, and interesting directions you could take a character.

A better question, I believe, is "What would it take for Character to do X?" What extremity would she find herself in, where X starts to look like a good idea? What loyalties or fears leave him with X as his only option? THAT'S where a potentially interesting story lies.

In practice, I find that you can often justify much more from a character than you initially dreamed you could: some of my best stories come from "What might drive Character to do [thing he would never do]?" As long as you make it clear to the reader what the hell pushed your character to this point, you've got the seed of a compelling story on your hands.

#writing #writing advice #my writing #I think 'ooc' is a bogeyman that casts too big a shadow for fanfic writers #stop thinking 'is this ooc?'#and start thinking 'have I given this character a good enough reason to do the thing?'

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corkinavoid · 3 months ago

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My favorite flavor of Danny Phantom in the dpxdc universes is the ordinary on the first glance teenager who stands before an unimaginable, indestructible threat and throws his hands up to yell BITCH DO I LOOK LIKE I GOT TIME FOR THIS I GOT FINALS NEXT WEEK FUCK OFF and the threat retreats and crawls back where it came from

#peak badassery #danny phantom #dpxdc #dc x dp #like yeah he looks like your normal kid #but he can and will throw fists with the big bad thing from the depths of hell #the amount of fucks given: zero #cork prompts

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adobe-outdesign · 1 month ago

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Seeing a lot of people saying they don't want AZ to give you his Floette just so the player can have the Eternal Flower form, but honestly given that he's immortal I think they can just do what they did with Cognita/Enamorous in PLA. like during the endgame he just goes "oh btw Floette wants to hang out for a little bit, do you mind watching over her for like 80 years? I'll pick her up at your funeral"

#pokemon #pkmn #pokemon legends z-a #plza #az #floette #outdesign posts things #they could try to come up with a different eternal flower floette but given the lore surrounding it they'd REALLY have to bs it #greatest hits

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heywriters · 2 years ago

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If you want to write a dumb little story with a dumb little plot and ridiculously silly characters. No one's stopping you. Genuinely, no one should be allowed to stop you. Write that dumb story with your whole heart and don't hold back.

#look I've deleted fics that made me feel awful #There's a time and a place #A good idea will come back to you again #But some things should be given time to settle #writeblr #writing tips #writing #writer advice #writers on tumblr

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nabexis · 4 months ago

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I'm sure someone's already brought this up but like. Viktor is still wearing the goddamned Blanket™️ here. Look at the inner part of it. It's red. The outside is sun-bleached and covered in arcane corruption, but that interior is still the SAME COLOR AS THE BLANKET. It has a bit of corruption on it, but at least for me, this is the same blanket. He kept it.

#Nabexis thinks #Viktor #Viktor Arcane #jayvik #Arcane Spoilers #Arcane Season 2 #Arcane #the man was given a blanket and it turned into his forever security blanket #Jayce is always with him in a way #even when he leaves #maybe even especially because he leaves and the blanket is one of the only things he takes with him #Also it being sun bleached? He stands in the sun with Jayce('s husk) ALL THE TIME for it to be that bleached. You can't tell me otherwise.

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oars · 2 years ago

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#i feel like tge fact im apprehensive about posting this is kinda proving my point #the way everyone talks about both weight gain and weight loss is just horrendous #like idek if i could fit all i wanna say in here especially while im at work but #i so badly wish people could be normal about weight gain and talking about it #its like if youre not in some constant state of wanting to lose weight people want to kill you #god forbid you want to put on weight to feel more comfortable in your body outside of muscles and a butt #fatphobia is a given thats a whole other few paragraphs #im grateful i have mutuals and friends who are normal but ill have or hear these convos and go #ok i feel sick. why do i feel this way why do you feel that way.#anyways i think fatphobia is one of the worst things to ever happen

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friedunicornstudio · 4 months ago

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We painted a new Shiranui zodiac piece this year featuring all the brush god constellations!

(Shiranui themself is in front of the Hanagami, but we did paint them. They're still there. It counts)

#Okami #Shiranui #Ishaku #okami fanart #okami art #artists on tumblr #constellations #digital art #fried unicorn studio #hi i think im legally required to stop forgetting to post our new okami stuff given the news #this one and another one I will be posting later were a really funny collab #we both had rough paintings done but couldn't quite realize the whole thing until we handed them off to one another #which is very great and gay of us i think #its always fun to do some alphonse mucha art nouveau inspired stuff #who doesn't love foliage and good lines

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rumble-bee-art · 2 months ago

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a local homosexual deals with an unfortunate crush by chewing on his hair and contemplating murder (we’ve all been there)

#I feel like Eddie with the crush would have great get out of my school energy #I deeply love the idea of him having a thing for Steve and hating it before s4 #especially because it would have given Steve a legit reason to not be that convinced he is not a murderer initially #imagine hearing some dude allegedly killed someone when this same dude kept looking at you rather murderously for the last couple years #you’d be like duh #steddie #stranger things #steddie fanart #stranger things fanart #st s4 #steve harrington #eddie munson #steve harrington x eddie munson #my art #artist on tumblr

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quotespile · 8 months ago

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We are moved to respond to the fact of human brilliance, human depth in all its variety because it is the most wonderful thing in the world, very probably the most wonderful thing in the universe.

Marilynne Robinson, The Givenness of Things

#literature #quotes #Marilynne Robinson #The Givenness of Things #quote #books #lit

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morganbritton132 · 7 months ago

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One of the perks of living in Gotham is that occasionally you’ll walk past a Wayne having the most batshit insane conversation anybody has ever had.

Walk past Dick Grayson on the street and hear him say into his phone, “I don’t think he’s anti-vax, but Superman is definitely not vaccinated.”

Stand outside of the downtown WE building and see Tim Drake walk out with his tall friend only to pause and say, “Hold on, I just got the mental image of Lex Luthor pregnant. Thanks for that.”

A lucky few who ride the same subway line as the newest Wayne edition, overheard Duke tell Stephanie that living in Wayne Manor is, “Alright, but when I moved in Jason and Damian gave me a knife and said I had to kill Tim. Said it was tradition.”

“It kinda is. Did you do it?”

“No!” Duke says, to the relief of the overhearers. “Get this…he stabbed himself.”

“…yeah, I should’ve guessed that.”

The downside to living in Gotham is literally everything else.

#the second best thing about living in Gotham is overheating the robins have the most batshit insane convo you’ve ever heard #overhearing*#Duke showed up at Wayne Manor was given a knife and when he told Tim about it #Tim took the knife and stabbed him self (a little) and then shouted to Bruce that Duke stabbed him #because and I quote ‘they won’t leave you alone until you do it’#Duke was just like: WTF am I getting myself into here #batfam #Gotham #dick Grayson #Tim drake #Duke Thomas

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idontmindifuforgetme · 1 year ago

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lived my whole life in guilt bc i thought i was responsible for people's feelings. newly realizing that other people are responsible for their feelings and reactions, even if they make it seem like i'm the problem. a lot of the time it really has to do w them and their own emotional regulation. i can't keep thinking i'm not allowed to have space bc of other people's insecurities. like i literally refuse to dim myself. other people are responsible for their feelings just as i'm responsible for mine.

#like i'm always gonna operate from a place of kindness but i've had to deal w so many people who're bad at communication/confrontation #which led me to think i'm the problem #that i deserve to be given the silent treatment or dismissed disregarded belittled etc #that's j not true. i'm far from perfect but i think so few people deserve that kind of reaction. and my biggest revelation is i do not #even if people want to make me think i do / that their reaction is justified / that i'm a burden etc #my biggest problem is i humor people like this for too long bc it's been normalized behavior to me #does this make any sense to anyone. it's the end of the year and i'm reflecting on so many things #p

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egophiliac · 10 months ago

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