#what an utter failure

[bethanydelleman]

So I went to a bookstore yesterday and I found this new version of Persuasion by Paper Mill Press:

Why is Anne Elliot dressed like she lived in the Edwardian era, pray tell???

And Wentworth... is he even wearing an undershirt or just a suit jacket? This is a brand new copy and it's very hard to tell. That gown is 1910, not 1810. WHY? Why in the world?

Also, this looks like something I doodled on my science notes with my fancy pink pen in 10th grade. Do better.

[anti-rop]

ah yes, because that's always what Narnia has needed..."a new take"...and that's always what Narnia has suffered from...a lack of "Rock 'N' Roll." tweet | deadline interview

[caligvlasaqvarivm]

Okay challenge mode. You are a therapist and Eridan Ampora from Homestuck has just walked right out of his intro page into your office. How do you fix him?

put him and karkat in a room with a pile of stuff and tell them they can't leave until they've jumped into it and talked about their feelings

[ahli-stuff]

Seeing Viktor’s heaving vulnerable face as he looks up to Jayce through his lashes on his final death throes with radiohead playing the the bg show up on my feed every 4 videos is kind of like getting viciously punched in the nuts while winding down from previously getting viscously punched in the nuts

[sleevebuscemii]

trying out stuff from that one masterpost

[polysyndetonaddictsupportgroup]

Part of mes like wondering about yuta nanami bonding time and my minds settled on yuta (plus second years) bake nanami a loaf of bread or something and yuta gives it to him in a very clear i wish to run away now way and it freeze frames nanami for like five minutes

No one told him it was for Yuuta specifically to give to Nanami until they were shoving it in his hands and kicking him through a door. Sometimes Yuuta reconsiders this friends thing.

Nanami had to go lie down after.

[skyloftian-nutcase]

Giving myself a spa day and washing my hair while thinking about what would happen if totk Ganondorf actually won is a strange way to relax but ok brain. You do you.

[spookythesillyfella]

Hey man I know you're scared of the new year and change but like. That change doesn't have to be one big life changing thing. You can discover a new song or band. Find out about a cool new hobby. Become friends. Make a piece of art you're really proud of. Take a different path home. Change is gradual

i can totally see where you're coming from . and i really appreciate the help you're trying to offer . but thiz doezn't really help . frankly

if anything . it'z just all the more scary

to never know when something will change – when i'll listen to my favorite track for the last time before i get sick of it . when i'll talk to someone for the last time before they inevitably leave – itz scary

and i don't exactly like to leave my comfort zone in the first place . so the chancez of discovering some fun new hobby are quite low – ive been stuck with drawing and writing for like four yearz already and i haven't exactly found anything else that stickz ://

i get that you're trying to help and i very much do appreciate it – i rarely get people willing to actually offer support or wordz of reassurance – but the fact nothing iz stationary iz still scary ; even the smallest of changez can snowball into something bigger . and the uncertainty of it all only makez it more horrifying

i do hope you have a good new year . kind soul – the best year you could have

[airs-headspace]

Baby -- Child -- Pre-teen

I need to add the shoelaces to Dante's shoes still haha (I forgot about those 🤣🤣), but these are turning out cute... they kinda look like I'm trying too hard to draw in a style that isn't mine, but I think if I draw a "Teenager" stage that'll be a more obvious blend into my own style and then their "Adult" versions are obviously in what I would consider "my style".

[tj-crochets]

Crafting update! This one takes a little bit of explaining lol So, sometimes I am struck by the urge to make a thing, and it is extremely difficult for me to focus on anything else creative until I at least start to make the thing. Usually I finish making the thing, sometimes I don’t, but as long as I start making it, I can work on other things too.  Usually, the thing turns out well.  Last week, I had an allergic reaction that required I take a benadryl during the day, something I try not to do because it can make me a little loopy. I was mostly fine, just tired and getting ready to go to bed, but then inspiration struck: I had to make a hamster pattern. Right then. Immediately. At like “thirty minutes past when I should have been asleep” o’clock. I sat down on the floor and started drawing a hamster pattern, added the seam allowance, cut it out, and was like “okay job done” and went and slept for like ten hours. I woke up the next day to find I’d forgotten hamsters have limbs???? I remembered the ears and the tail, but not the limbs. I’d also been very ambitious with the pattern shaping for something I did exactly zero measuring or comparing seamlines on. Then, today my brain was like “okay hamster time! time for hamster!!” So I have a hamster half-sewn and I have no idea whatsoever what it’s going to look like when it’s done

[jlf23tumble]

Singlehandedly one of my favorite pictures of Harry ever taken. What are your thoughts on it

This is it, uncropped, and my first reaction is that I just love the shrubbery of it all, the composition of the bush/shirt (bushirt). But I love a lot of other parts of it, too: I love Helene's eye and how it matches his (or rather, it doesn't match, but he literally hired her because she COULD match it, he consistently selected the shots she took that he would take), I love that he looks kinda pissed yet still soft (the complexity in the gaze/hand/setting vs. fake-o vacancy), but most of all, I love the hypocrisy, the self-own it caused among the lady-haters back in the day--I'm a petty bitch, it must be said! For those who missed it, when this picture first came out, it wasn't accredited, and lo, everyone who hated Helene and bitched about her constantly swooned mightily! This is good! We love it!!! Die, Helene, die!! But uh oh, when the credit was revealed, homminah homminah, time to back pedal mightily, and u had to laff (well, I did, rip to the hater "professional" who created a whole side blog, trying and failing to point out all of Helene's so-called photographic crimes)

[tariah23]

Polls really were like, one of the only decent things that tumblr has implemented ever tbh…

[frankensteincest]

While DeLillo argues that it may not be possible to find a totalizing structure to make sense of everything, he does think ‘it is possible to make up stories in order to soothe the dissatisfactions of the past, take the edge off the uncertainties’. He has famously said:

I think fiction rescues history from its confusions. It can do this in the somewhat superficial way of filling in blank spaces. But it can also operate in a deeper way: providing the balance and rhythm we don’t experience in our daily lives, in our real lives.

Paradoxically, then, the theory of fiction which Win Everett propounds in Libra and which has been so often quoted by DeLillo critics—that ‘there is a tendency of plots to move toward death’—is contradicted by DeLillo’s s own ideas about the purpose of plotting. [...] In White Noise, Jack gives a lecture in which he espouses the same notion about the deathward motion of plots, telling his students that ‘We edge nearer death every time we plot’. But then Jack immediately asks himself, ‘Is this true? Why did I say it? What does it mean?’ Critics perhaps ought to pay more attention to Murray Jay Siskind’s words on plot rather than Everett’s, since they appear more in line with DeLillo’s own comments about plotting and fiction:

‘To plot is to live,’ he said.

I looked at him. I studied his face, his hands.

‘We start our lives in chaos, in babble. As we surge up into the world, we try to devise a shape, a plan. There is dignity in this. Your whole life is a plot, a scheme, a diagram. It is a failed scheme but that’s not the point. To plot is to affirm life, to seek shape and control....

This is how we advance the art of human consciousness.’

ELIZABETH K. ROSEN, Apocalyptic Transformation: Apocalypse and the Postmodern Imagination

[ntll]

I had one of the worst days of my life yesterday and now I have to just move on and pretend it didn’t happen. Lol

And my brother came over today and we were laughing about it.

But for real I feel permanently altered by it.

[baejax-the-great]

The "The Dawn Will Come" scene in DAI is one of the best bits of storytelling Bioware has ever done.

[knight-engale]

it is very very hard to not feel like a failure right now. maybe i am and i've been tricking everyone into thinking i'm not.