#the first sentence is crazy

[hffhifjou]

You are aware you are not God right? It is only normal for your interpretation of already existing fictional characters to look similar to other already existing fictional characters. Openly shaming your followers for not being on your blog 24/7 and know every single thing you approve or don't approve is not cute. "How dare you not compliment my art the way I want you to compliment it?!!??!!" And your reasoning doesn't even make any sense. Simon is not even your OC.

my first hater ‼️‼️‼️

[starbylers]

I think I got it. I think I got what he’s saying in the beginning of the video. Genuinely < 1% doubts about this:

“What if you prefer us more as friends?”

If you think you can’t see the ‘us’, try speaking the sentence aloud and you’ll notice that the formation of the word is all in the tongue and doesn’t show from the outside, it kinds of blends in between ‘prefer’ and ‘more’

I figured this out from an AI enhanced vid that this user posted (thank you sm!) and referencing it against the original vid to make sure it looked right. And it does!

Update: I have now captioned most of the video here

[the-algebra-thing]

runaans character is sooo sososo fascinating to me. and I don't even see much more of myself in him than I do any other character that's not the draw. there's just something so compelling to me about how it must all fit together for him: his massive respect for all life/talented assassin career thing from bloodmoon huntress, and his relationship to rayla, and her parents, and his prejudice against all humans, etc. and I feel that this is all going to come together to form such an interesting mindset to study/internal conflict in general in season 7. the idea that he's been gone—half-living trapped in an altered state of consciousness utterly corrupted by an insane depth of love twisted into gut-wrenching guilt, at that—for the two years in which elves and humans have begun to try to coexist for the first time in centuries, missed all that time and gradual change completely & dumped into a completely new political landscape, contrasted with his position as king killer, contrasted yet again with his position as father to one of the most relevant and devoted catalysts to this world-bending change is going to blow up in his face sooo bad as soon as he puts on his slutty little shirt and starts listening to the story. and I think the entire thing is just the most uniquely enthralling quagmire I've ever encountered

[figofswords]

somebody rec me some good books. and they do actually have to be good. don’t rec me something just because it’s gay or it’s popular, it has to also still be good. like both the story and the writing have to be good none of this good concept bad writing or good writing horrible story. fantasy or soft scifi preferred, especially if it’s nontraditional fantasy. I am bored and sick of the internet and I want to get back into reading more but I’m kinda meh about most of what’s on my shelf

*edit: when I say “soft scifi” I don’t mean cozy I mean not hard scifi, as in stories that are more fantastical than grounded in hard science. for example the Martian is considered hard scifi, so not that. Star Wars would be closer to a soft scifi bc it’s all bullshit on the science end and it’s more about the vibes

[lupins-hehim-pussy]

I wanna know ur Fontaine msq criticisms 👁️👁️👂I’m all ears

I'm not sure if you wanted me to talk about this secretly or publicly but! Here I go!

The TLDR: Fontaine MSQ aestheticised prison, poverty, child abuse, the justice system/court and didn't properly address any of it.

More:

Focalors/Furina has way too much of a sympathetic angle for a dictator who's lets people drown with her inaction.

Neuvillette feels Bad for sentencing some people to death/prison, but that's it. He's one of the most powerful people in Fontaine. If he felt like there are systemic injustices, I.E sending an abused Child to prison, he should be the first person to DO something about it, not just cry and be sad so the audience can be like aw, that's complex character writing isn't it? No it's not! And guilt doesn't absolve you!!!!!!! (These are stuff we deal with in OTCOJ read my fic now /j)

Meropide has children in it, both Sentenced there (Wriothesley) and BORN THERE (Lanoire), and this is just a quirk of the place. Not only that, Meropide accepts prisoners of all genders and crimes. There are abusers and abuse victims in one place. Do you know how bad that is? How much potential for crimes to happen in a place like that— oh wait, Meropide isn't under Fontaine's jurisdiction. If you are assaulted as an inmate it literally means nothing to the court.

Wriothesley had no qualifications when he took over. Depending on how long he lived on the streets, how old he was when he killed his parents, how old he was when he was first taken in by the orphanage, etc, the man might never have more than 4–5 years of formal education. Sigewinne probably had to teach him how to write reports. And do Meropide's spreadsheets. Edit because I forgot to elaborate on this one: This isn't a point brought up anywhere, which is bad, because when poverty and incarceration robs you of a proper education (and the rights to vote in many places too, too, by the way), it reduces your prospects for jobs, reduces many people's ability to get a home etc etc. Wriothesley was just, narratively, Given his position.

Meropide is an industrialized prison, and they portray this as a good thing. Prisoners are paid in coupons for their labour, and this is also portrayed as a good thing.

The One-Meal-A-Day reform was something Paimon gushed about being so great of a perk, that people might want to go to jail for food (could be interesting and reflective of systemic poverty if MHY had brains, but they don't, so I was just Pissed because essentially all Paimon wanted to say was "Prison isn't so bad, but still don't go to prison guys! Prison labour is really hard!"). By the way, in most real-world prisons they are obligated to feed you three meals a day. Because that's how much food a human needs. MHY went with one meal just so they can say "if you want to eat more, you have to work." And then the welfare meal is a goddamn gacha. So imagine you're a starving child who's too weak to work in the fucking robot assembly line, and you wander up for your first meal in 24 hours, only to luck in with a shit one. I'd kill myself.

They wrote Wriothesley, who's a victim of the system, into a guy who's say shit like "I'm the Duke I can do whatever I want" for a cool moment where he choke-slams an inmate (I know he was a bad guy. But also, in copaganda when cops are violent/disregarding protocols, they are always only portrayed to do that against bad guys, so what does our critical thinking tells us about this one?) They wrote Wriothesley, who was an inmate of a prison so bad, so notorious that it is the literal boogeyman of Fontaine, that has a legal (???) fighting pit, with an administrator who abuses his position to be unreasonable, to willingly stay in the place and become an Administrator who would choke-slam an inmate while saying a cool line about how he has the power to do whatever he wants. They wrote him, the guy who had to be fed on the streets by melusines, to think one-meal-a-day was a good enough reform (while he spends god-knows how much on his boat). This wasn't a victim-turns-into-abuser narrative either, they want all this to be seen as positive character growth.

And then, the final kicker is, they gloss over his entire abuse. You can only read about these shit in his profile, which most people don't because they don't Have Him or doesn't care to unlock it/read it online, and they jammed his entire backstory into a flaccid info-dump at the end of his character story quest. This man isn't Allowed to feel abused and neglected and show any reaction to it within the narrative of Fontaine itself, because if they actually Gave Weight to what happened to him, they'd have to confront THE FUCKING JUSTICE SYSTEM they had NO PLANS on criticising. I don't think they ever explicitly said the fucking Crime-Theatre nonsense was Bad either.

I could go on, but this is already so long. But yeah, I hope this gave you an idea.

[gen4grl]

from artistic mental breakdown to 5 wips simultaneously lmao

[superhell]

ok so it’s fully established that house has an incredibly hard time verbalizing his emotions (specifically the positive ones) due to a fear of rejection and a deep deep aversion to displaying vulnerability

which makes the incredibly few times he’s admitted to someone that he cares about them, well, incredible. to list every single time that i can remember off the top of my head here: 

instance one: he tells stacy he loves her directly before he goes into a coma.  the statement itself is undeniably romantic in nature. 

instance two: he tells cuddy he loves her after they hook up and she gives him a whole long speech on how she doesn’t want him to change. this is the culmination of years of dancing around each other. the statement is undeniably romantic in nature. 

instance three: he tells wilson their friendship means more to house than any patient

instance four: he tells wilson he likes him

instance five: i mean i can keep going. there’s wilsons transplant surgery there’s everything with amber theres just so much. anyway

all of which leads me to the conclusion that of the three people house has ever sincerely expressed affection for two of those are people he’s canonically in love with which means that the third one must also be someone he’s [gunshots]

[vigilskeep]

“the sort of mage the templars would have kept a close watch over. makes her the best kind of warden. or at least, i would have thought so. maybe the templars aren’t wrong about everything” chewing on him

[sprolden]

reading older books is so crazy bc it shows how many things we consider almost unbreakable rules of writing have been invented like maybe 40 years ago at most. i feel like compared to other modern art forms writing comes with a lot more rules to adhere to if you want your story to be "good" and i guess this just really emphasises to me that this, too, is just a moment in art history

[leavesdriftinginthewind]

First/Last Sentence Tag War

I have been putting off my turn in this game for quite a while because my writing motivation was in the gutter for the last week and a half BUT Hunter's Instagram post tonight has, ah... inspired me.

Tagged by: @wednesdayandherhyde (x4) @writerrose1998 (x3) @therulerofallpotatos (x2) @anotherbluesunday @cosmic-lullaby @ablatheringblatherskite @chaoticstupiddm @galpinlvr (x2)

Both my first and last sentence today are from a so-far-untitled WIP I just started tonight that may or may not see the light of day. The Wyler 18+ Server knows what this is meant to be... 🤭

First Sentence

The entire day had been torture.

Last Sentence(s)

Planting Wednesday on a beach full of noisy patrons on a bright summer day in July was like dropping a polar bear into the Sahara and expecting it to thrive—it shouldn’t be done.  But for Tyler, she figured she could endure eight hours of suffering.  She just didn’t anticipate the sexual frustration.

Tagging back all those who tagged me and also throwing @nouklea @badmoodbatflowers @persephoneed @realmermaid333 @suchaladyy into the mix!

[pebblezone]

🦭

[addictivewhispering]

"Ceci étant dit, à partir du moment ou je l'ai heurté, je me devais de régler ce problème avec lui. Je lui ai tout d'abord envoyé ce que j'avais déclaré puis, le soir, je me suis rendu dans sa chambre pour une explication. Il semblait en effet blessé et m'a reproché d'avoir parlé dans les médias au lieu de lui parler directement. J'ai repris ma déclaration en lui montrant qu'à aucun moment, je ne l'avais pointé du doigt. Une discussion s'en est suivie que je ne souhaite pas exposer. Le lendemain, l'histoire semblait être rentrée dans l'ordre. Lors du l'entraînement, nous avons disputé un match dans la même équipe et nous nous sommes bien trouvés. J'avais tiré un trait sur cette histoire. Il lui a fallu quelques jours pour oublier…"

—olivier giroud in his autobiography (updated 2021) on him and kylian mbappé during the euros translation in replies!

[augustsails]

I’m actually this 🤏 close to stopping working on my homework to write a very specific fanfic I’m already about halfway through.

Like sure this is due tomorrow, but what if I worked on a fun fic with absolutely no deadline instead?!

[emdotcom]

Thank you Astral Spiff for combating the narrative that Post Shift 2 is a hard game o7

[lelianaslefthand]

ive been getting the urge to make pinterest boards so bad lately and it seems like the perfect opportunity to think about potential rooks but my brain will not let me formulate characters without seeing all the options in the cc with my own 2 eyes

[simcardiac-arrested]

as a russian who doesn't talk to russian people online what the shit is happening there hello

look man i myself have put in the effort to Not talk to online russians for like (checks hand) 7 or so years (of course i’ve met some really great ones but this isn’t about them and they probably know it) but i’m sure the community didn’t change much. actually from the glimpses i see it seems to have gotten worse. don’t even get me startedddddd man