#never again tho

[bathroomtrapped]

[liurnian]

I DID 32 FEAR ON HADES 2!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[yourqueenb]

The Problem with TPA

Ok get comfortable y’all cuz this is extremely long. So long that I actually decided to break it up into a series of short essays instead of making one monster of a post 😬 But in my defense, I went into this book expecting to use all of my diamonds only to end up mining it in the end, which means I have a lot of thoughts 😭

The first four essays touch on what I thought were main issues in the story. Gab, Gear, and Garb is more about minor problems and commentary. Without further ado though, the essays are below. If anyone actually reads them (even if it’s only one lol), lmk so we can discuss!

What is a Spy? ~ 1 min. read

Authenticating The Architect ~ 3 min. read

Let’s Talk About Rowan ~ 3 min. read

Agent Gray is… Gray ~ 3 min. read

Gab, Gear, and Garb ~ 3 min. read

The Bottom Line ~ 3 min. read

[obstinaterixatrix]

WON my first ebay bid wow no wonder people do this

[ne0-boy1986]

libbed out too hard on my autism causing vaccines and sex changing hormones I thought men in america were not this fucking bad

[ladykyriaa]

I have not slept a wink for two days i think my furnitures are breathing

[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.

[silly-l1ttle-guy]

I just roller skated to the IGA near my house and back in 35° weather. Would not recommend

[majunju]

scarabia aftermath

[ryllen]

[ x ]

[anxiousapplepie]

After 4 painful Acts and at least a dozen traumatizing experiences that will haunt them forever, Traveler!Bonnie gives the friendship quests a try! And discovers new and terrifying interesting information about the Researcher.

[hinamie]

sidelong

[cosmicwhoreo]

took a stab at drawing ocean lesbians.

[chelscait]

thinking back to the time where i rocked a bob hair cut

[brennan-lee-mother]

Newer Dimension 20 fans might look at Liv attempting to hack Usha’s brain by crushing it just the perfect amount and think “this is completely unhinged and obviously totally unprecedented”, but it is actually no less than the fifth time a PC has done impromptu untrained surgery on another character, the third time on another PC, in D20 history.

So, safe to say it’s practically par for the course at this point.

[disgustinggf]

have you ever liked someone on Tumblr?

this isn't a dating app (yes)