#that fucking ruled.

[creepymutelilbugger]

[ysabelmystic]

Very excited for this ngl

[bugtransport]

[fallen-goldfishcracker]

Wyll is so fucking funny and no amount of acknowledgement about this could ever be enough. He's literally walking around being so casually hilarious completely under-the-radar. He calls Halsin a "thick hunk of an elf". He once accidently implied that he was fucking an ogre instead of killing it and then proceeded to absolutely stumble his way through explaining. He gets excited by Lae'zel talking about carnal pleasures. He canonically tells his pessimistic thoughts to shut the hell up. He volunteers to babysit Shadowheart's hypothetical werewolf babies as long as she gets him gloves. He tries to give Gale a hero moniker like his own. He jokes that his father, the Grand Duke of Baldur's Gate, can't spell. He calls Astarion "Mister Fangs". He makes up storybook chapter names for his own fucking adventures. As a child he got chased by the Flaming Fist for stealing fruit, nearly drowned trying to find mermaids in the harbor, and almost successfully broke into the Counting House. He reads monster erotica, and is not ashamed to tell you about it. He ranks eating pudding among life's greatest moments. He will, without shame and completely unprompted, meow at you. He is 24 years old.

[the-alpine-glow]

fuck elon and fuck x, formerly twitter

[nonebinary-leftbeef]

DEVASTATING the lyric you've been mishearing is better than the real one

[entamewitchlulu]

this is popping off a bit so here's some other things from my college writing degree that pissed me off

when I interviewed at the college and talked to the then-head of the writing department, I told him I had been writing since I was 9 years old and he wrinkled his nose at me and said something condescending about how "when people get started in this degree course we usually have to unteach you a lot of what you've learned". I do not know why I chose to go to that college after that.

there was a creative writing degree available but there were no classes on genre, and we weren't allowed to write anything bordering on genre in class at all. we were only allowed to write realistic fiction because "we don't have time to teach you the rules of genre, and all genre is formulaic".

which like. 1) sure there are formulas involved in genre, and a lot of mainstream publishing will follow certain general arcs, it's nowhere near as rigid as my teachers insisted it was. Like, as an example, the only real "rule" for the romance genre is that it should have a happy ending. anything else is like, whatever you want. This sort of thing would take about five minutes to show you a worksheet about story arcs.

2) why would setting a story in the future or another world "ruin" my ability to learn how to write "properly." It's not like we're learning fucking welding or something where if we don't learn the basics we take someone's eye out. Fiddling with genre tropes isn't physically dangerous. What is the worst that could happen, genuinely. What were they all so afraid of.

3) can you imagine being in an intro to art course and being told "you are ONLY allowed to use acrylics because we don't have time to teach you about watercolors. Mixed media is also not allowed and we won't do any pencil drawing.

Again, like. All they had were basic creative writing classes. They said they were teaching us the basics but then they didn't even give us the option to branch out.

In my attempt to write something I actually gave a shit about in this class I ended up making my main piece a story about a nonbinary kid dealing with the death of zir aunt who was the only one who had understood zir and respected zir identity. My teacher proceeded to tell me the story would have more weight if I misgendered my character until the end of the story so that ze would "earn" zir pronouns.

I cried on the college green for like twenty minutes after that workshop

No I did not know I was nonbinary at that point yet. wonder if that had something to do with it. anyway.

anyway. college writing fucking sucked and almost took away all of my love of writing in general as I struggled to squeeze out some lame ass story that fit the requirements but didn't mean anything to me personally.

On the topic of genre again like. My teachers all wanted us to make stories that "meant something" but in the course of trying to force meaning, especially in ways that I didn't enjoy, sapped all the joy out of writing. Since then I've read dozens of really fucking incredible spec fic short stories that used the trappings of genre to tell some really jaw dropping stories, and I think we should have learned about those alongside the other dry short stories we were forced to write and study. But for whatever reason, there's this deep-seated disgust of genre and genre-adjacent fiction in academic settings.

I truly think the fact that we're such a language-based species, we get all tight assed and weird about writing more than we do about other art forms.

And yea of course it's a skill that can be honed, but it's also an art, and more intro to creative writing classes should be devoted to playing around, experimenting, and making weird shit the way a basic intro art class would be. We need an injection of whimsy.

anyway. That's my two cents.

once i was in a creative writing class in college, and in a bit of humor i wrote the line:

"Um," I said, eloquently.

And my teacher was so adamant that I had to remove it because "um is not an eloquent word, so it makes no sense" and i was like my brother in christ it's called Irony

[maeamian]

Part of the reason that Republicans are so desperately acting like they will never lose again is because they are deeply terrified that this is their last real chance to win. The big orange dipshit came in and gutted the party of everyone who wasn't a loyalist, which left it full of nasty little gremlins who have gaping voids where charisma and human decency is supposed to go.

They still hold a lot of power, but if we stop them this year the next presidential election may not be the Most Important One Of Your Life™, that's not a guarantee or anything, but if they don't win here and now their future looks grim, this dipshit is the only guy they have left and he's extremely diminished and has his brains leaking out of his ears at this point. We can beat him into the ground.

So that's what we're gonna fucking do. We're gonna break these fucking fash. They will crash upon us and we're gonna break their fucking necks. When they come for us they will lose because they're fucking losers and we have each other's backs which is something they fundamentally are incapable of comprehending.

[nando161mando]

"First rule of gender is to have fun :3" (EN: English)

[buttdumplin]

yeah simon is the one to scare people away when they get too close you, using his size and movement to intimidate, simultaneously shielding you behind him

yeah soap is the one barking loud, creating a spectacle and calling people out, and warning them away

yeah kyle is the one humiliating people, mocking offenders until either their own actions dawn on them or they finally recognize the venom in his eyes

but price is the one that launches into swinging. there is no warning, no hesitation. taking a step, even a single word against you, warrants immediate action in his mind. it's no laughing fucking matter. you are a top fucking prize, his prize, the best the world has to offer. john is rabid in his protection, bearing tooth and boot and claw and fist. there’s no point in talking to him or trying to negotiate, an offense is an offense and he won’t meet it halfway. someone looks at you the wrong way? they won't be able to see out of swollen eyes after headbutts them, crushing their nose. someone whispers something nasty about you? good luck even eating with that jaw wired shut. god forbid someone touches you, the other three boys can barely hold him back. john will break countless bones in every way he knows and beat his knuckles bloody if your smile starts to drop. 

[bakersfield-row]

A drama in two acts

[comfymoth]

i’m mad this is my most liked post right now so look at my cat instead lol

[the-alpine-glow]

[lucabyte]

something about marine biology and benefits

bonus:

[spooksier]

what’s a bad miracle?