#fictionally obv but that’s not the point

[braisedhoney]

(can you see? can you see how much they need one another?)

[deathricedrawn]

i'm ready to try

[lilithofpenandbook]

Mauraders fandom: FUCK JKRRRR!!!!!!!!!!

Also Mauraders fandom: Well, acktually, JKR said Death Eaters were nazis so Snape's a NAZIIIII

[wildfairies]

AH it was so fun to do this @infamous-if oc template by @cozmiccore for gracer! & obviously couldn't resist adding an old post version of her ig for extra seven angst <3

[finelythreadedsky]

when odysseus says ὁρῶ γὰρ ἡμᾶς οὐδὲν ὄντας ἄλλο πλὴν | εἴδωλ᾽ ὅσοιπερ ζῶμεν ἢ κούφην σκιάν i am SO tempted to translate it as something like "i see that we who live are nothing but characters and fiction"

[deputyrook]

I’m in such a bad mood rn I gotta log off before I start picking fights on random posts lol

[recareels]

sobbing over the thought of mr reca calling you ‘my little starlet’ >.<

but he says it like my leetle starrrlet! ｡ﾟ(｡ﾉωヽ｡)ﾟ｡

[diddlesnap]

what is with ppl insisting katniss is bi on posts abt ppl headcanoning her as a lesbian like 😭😭😭 shes actually written to be heterosexual. so we're both wrong. let's move on.

[tangents-within-tangents]

Sigh I swear the bar is so low with writing sometimes.

I’ve just been remembering how much it bothers me when there’s no lasting consequences or acknowledgement for things. When everything resets like nothing ever happened at the start of the next episode, or even the next scene sometimes. How cool and rare it was that Wally’s arm was in a cast for a whole 5 episodes of Young Justice. How relieved/excited I was when Mulder actually still had bandages on his fingers the episode after he broke them because FINALLY something carried over! Or when Hook was leaning on someone for support in the background after the fight scene in Pan. How impressed I was to see Katniss still crying hysterically for Rue a few scenes after her death. How surprised I was to actually see a hint of the effect of Echo’s extremely traumatic experience when he panicked in the medbay. How my heart soared when he insisted on rescuing Gregor because omg he’s acting in a way that makes sense for his character! Clinging to every small scrap we get to see of clones showing real emotion when so often they seemingly never bat an eye at their losses and never mention their fallen brothers again.

I love these shows I swear, but it just gets so frustrating! Like I’ll literally be so nervous no one will be affected realistically, or react like a human, or behave in-character and then I get so excited on the rare occasions they do. And then I realize wow the bar is so low, shouldn't that just be, you know, writing 101?

Like I remember some episode of some show (the Seeker? Or something idk) where a character was captured and tortured and not ten minutes after being rescued his friend was like “hmm you sure are quiet today” like YEAH I SURE HOPE HE IS?!

[violetshine-appreciation]

yknow that post thats like "UGH this story would be soooo much better if every character was always correct and rational and made the Right Decisions all the time" or smth like that. thats what certain warrior cats criticism sounds like to me

[harrowscore]

i think i finally found a semi-famous (?) blog that blocked me lmao

[gibbearish]

a weird little thing abt me is i will definitely mock shitty ai art but it never feels right doing it about the hands simply by virtue of the fact that a lot of them look indistinguishable from the hands i was doing years ago when i first got a drawing tablet

[mekatrio]

damn what a coincidence i was literally just researching lolicon phenomenon this week and now theres a kpop controversy abt it

[neige-leblanche]

gonna maybe play devil's advocate on the depiction vs glorification discourse and bring up how writers letting you know how much they Don't Condone a thing is a really really easy way to break the immersion of the story, and i'm being subjective, but it often comes off a little patronizing. (does anyone else remember hearing "the grinch had an awful, evil idea" as a kid and thinking "we get that you want us to know it's bad, please just say what it is")

this is absolutely not to say writers don't simultaneously Tell A Story and Make A Point all the time, but it's a skill in itself. demanding that every story has a practicable Moral will just get you a lot of beginning authors cramming preachy schlock into their writing, entirely disproportionate to the number of those who set out to tell a story vs those who set out to philosophize and/or proselytize

[astrxealis]

leveilleur twins favorite twins best twins no competition

[macroglossus]

look most of the hannibal stuff i can be like okay. hes a freak. hes the weirdest freak possible. but the murasaki thing...