#weird vibe

[goodluckclove]

Tangentially related to my last post, if you ever see me kind of dissing the population of writers solely obsessed with angst/whump/pain/trauma, it is absolutely not because I think they shouldn't write those things.

I've been around the block. I have listened to a reading of a script I wrote and considered that maybe middle of page two is slightly too soon for a monologue about finding a partially-formed fetus who is still alive but outside the body. What I mean when I post criticism towards that phenomena is that it is crucial for writers to give equal thrill and attention to writing things other than pain.

Not because pain is bad or trite or cliche. It's because I have proven experience that if you can get really solid in your grasp of a comforting, safe, or even neutral tone, you make the shift to pain so much more effective.

I have read a lot of writing where it's clear they're only interested in the trauma part to the degree that everything else is wobbly as shit to get to the part they like. That's what I'd call trauma porn! I cannot think of a quicker way for me to lose interest in a story!

The exception to this is Lars Von Trier's Dancer in the Dark, which is a movie that starts upsetting and gets progressively worse. But like that's fucking Lars Von Trier. If there's an artist I trust to be absolutely masochistic and sadistic with every movie he makes it's the co-creator of the Dogme 95 movement. But that's a separate rant.

[edwardos]

[captainpirateface]

for all the light, it feels like darkness.

[takunwilliams]

Nathan For you

Nathan Fielder 2024

[orangechickenpillow]

There's something really weird and mentally ill about listening to guns for hands by twenty one pilots at *checks watch* ten-thirty in the morning

[lesbianturrets]

Did everyone die today

[death-rebirth-senshi]

I forgot the new dragon's dogma has cat people now

[happyheidi]

[rosieandthemoon]

oil on canvas, by Rebecca Rebouché

[blumencia]

[quirkymarshmallows93]

The Brother 2023 Holiday Gift guide. I personally relate to the Brother MFCL5705DW Business Monochrome Laser All-in-One Printer with Duplex Print, Scan and Copy and Wireless Networking wrapped in Christmas lights. Why is this so funny to me. Yes they make sewing machines. This is real.

[klanced]

can we start placing bets about the live action voltron movie. everyone download draftkings right now

[edwardos]

[flowerbloom-arts]

That one ending where the Stranger was your first Princess.

[jackalspine]

Jazz and Danno

[cozylittleartblog]

Columbo and the Knight (1984)

put me in the universe where Columbo ran through the 1980s and had a crossover episode with Knight Rider. I think they deserved it, and I am not just saying that because they're my two favorite Old Shows. @telebeast wrote a little fanfic blurb about it and I HAD to visualize it into a comic (which is also the longest comic I have finished thus far at five pages...), so writing credit goes to them.

Autism W!