#The book is weird tho

[r3dr3ality]

As a hooray for the last part of the stich event coming out I have weird drawings

[inkskinned]

this is just my opinion but i think any good media needs obsession behind it. it needs passion, the kind of passion that's no longer "gentle scented candle" and is now "oh shit the house caught on fire". it needs a creator that's biting the floorboards and gnawing the story off their skin. creators are supposed to be wild animals. they are supposed to want to tell a story with the ferocity of eating a good stone fruit while standing over the sink. the same protective, strange instinct as being 7 and making mud potions in pink teacups: you gotta get weird with it.

good media needs unhinged, googling-at-midnight kind of energy. it needs "what kind of seams are invented on this planet" energy and "im just gonna trust the audience to roll with me about this" energy. it needs one person (at least) screaming into the void with so much drive and energy that it forces the story to be real.

sometimes people are baffled when fanfic has some stunning jaw-dropping tattoo-it-on-you lines. and i'm like - well, i don't go here, but that makes sense to me. of fucking course people who have this amount of passion are going to create something good. they moved from a place of genuine love and enjoyment.

so yeah, duh! saturday cartoons have banger lines. random street art is sometimes the most precious heart-wrenching shit you've ever seen. someone singing on tiktok ends up creating your next favorite song. youtubers are giving us 5 hours of carefully researched content. all of this is the impossible equation to latestage capitalism. like, you can't force something to be good. AI cannot make it good. no amount of focus-group testing or market research. what makes a story worth listening to is that someone cares so much about telling it - through dance, art, music, whatever it takes - that they are just a little unhinged about it.

one time my friend told me he stayed up all night researching how many ways there are to peel an orange. he wrote me a poem that made me cry on public transportation. the love came through it like pith, you know? the words all came apart in my hands. it tasted like breakfast.

[welcometogrouchland]

Disgustingly messy and crusty sketch dump but I couldn't get my own terrible theory out of my head and ended up making a bunch of sketches about it. Also at the end a bonus dickbats and Damian doodle bc I was reading an issue of their Batman and Robin run (IDs in Alt)

[eyes-of-nine]

early hualian dynamic my beloved(there's so much wrong with both of them but it's too early to get into it)

[cardiobirds]

the entire gravity falls community right now:

[ text: SO THE STAN BROTHERS BEGAN AN ADVENTURE OF A LIFETIME, THE KIND OF ADVENTURE THAT WOULD MAKE A GREAT MOVIE, HONESTLY. MAYBE A MINISERIES? IS THAT TOO MUCH TO ASK?

HONESTLY, WOULD IT KILL THEM TO GIVE US SOME NEW ADVENTURES? AFTER SUMMER COMES FALL, A WHOLE NEW “SEASON,” IF YOU WILL. I CAN’T BE THE ONLY ONE WHO WANTS ANOTHER SEASON, RIGHT? RIGHT?!

I’VE INVESTED SO MUCH TIME IN THESE CHARACTERS’ LIVES, THEY CAN’T JUST LEAVE ME! BY LUCIFER’S BEARD, WHAT WOULD IT TAKE FOR MORE GRAVITY FALLS?! ]

[zuko-sokka]

AVATAR: THE LAST AIRBENDER 1.20 — The Siege of the North, Part 2

[happyheidi]

[sunshineandlyrics]

🙌🏼 Louis showing that you can get away with anything as long as you have the right attitude!

📺⚽️ Lottie talking about how The Hero of Glastonbury (aka Louis, aka man with biggest heart) took a tv into Glastonbury so everyone could watch the England vs. Slovakia game in Euro 2024 on 30 June 2024 (1 August 2024).

[wehavekookies]

Hexblood themed reading list for the summer be like.

[haldora]

Some Blood & Gold era Marius and his bros, Mael and Avicus

[danersion]

I just rewatched Gravity Falls, and it has been on my mind lately.

It's pretty obvious everyone has a soft spot for Mabel, but Bill in particular put her in a bubble where everything she ever wanted came true. I mean, she could handle Weirdmageddon pretty well—heck, she did! He could have just bailed or made her a stone, but she practically had her own penthouse in his new domain. He definitely has a soft spot for the shooting star.

So does Bill see himself in Mabel? They almost had the same sparkles in their eyes when Bill was a kid. Innocent, cute, and also:

"Just a little more summer (she was gonna lose Dipper and not see her friends for years if not forever)" or "He wanted to show the stars to everyone," -they have the same vibes [and the silliness y'know]

Wanting to share something beautiful with the people you care about just once or try to lengthen the time because it will never come again (also I'm really glad people are defending Mabel, she was just a kid).

Bill was just trying to justify that action by fitting it in his narrative, and it does! (déjà vu) So we glossed it over, but now it might be plausible.

tldr: Bill sees Mabel as his younger, innocent self and wanted to comfort her in his twisted way with a little spin to make it sound like it's just part of his plan.

[endsofthearth]

so I found out ab Duo Nina gushing over legally distinct Persona 5 yaoi in her voicelines and I immediately had to pull her............

[lovemyromance]

Lucien: "you're my mate"

Elain, the entire fandom, Nesta, SJM, Feyre, Azriel, the dead suriel:

[reds-skull]

I'm researching Scottish mythology for the Cyberknights AU, and I was skimming through the wiki entry for the Glenmasan manuscript (I'd tell you what it is, but I haven't actually finished reading yet), when I read this sentence

Like what are the fucking chances

[bananonbinary]

oh my god sorry to be a shill but i bought B Dylan Hollis' cookbook on a whim while at a bookstore, and the recipes we've tried are going to ruin my life. i can't eat this many sweets theyre so so so good. im eating this spice cake from before the 1910s and its the best fucking cake ive ever had. the sour cream cookies were like eating a cloud. what the fuck.

[bowsbar]

pillowbook thoughts because ive been thinking about them all day!