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Docor/companion relationships

BFFs and weird about it

Romana

Sarah

Clara

Jamie

Amy

Rose

Yaz

BFFs but, like, in a healthy way

Donna

Mel

you know what I'm putting Anita here too even though it was 1 episode because it was a whole year for him

Just regular friends with added time and space

Leela

Tegan

Martha

Ryan

Graham

Zoe

Ruby

Why am I here? (companion pov)

Ian

Barbara

Ben

Polly

Harry

Peri

Why are you here? (Doctor pov)

Turlough

Rory

Also Harry tbh

Dodo

Stephen

Mentor/mentee situation that got out of hand

Bill

Ace

Vicki

They ARE an assistant, whether they know it or not

Liz

Jo

Nyssa

Dan

That is his actual child

Susan

Adric

Victoria

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Knives Out 2019 | dir. Rian Johnson

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My son egg n his brother cheese

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I know it’s not the same thing but Hardison and I are gonna be here for you forever.

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products are so bad now that i have to do approximately 8 hours of research before i buy anything

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Map of the United States but now each state touches the ocean

@mapsontheweb @the-real-numbers

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you can tell a lot about someone based on their phone background. it shows what’s most important to them

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A lot of fiction these days reads as if—as I saw Peter Raleigh put it the other day, and as I’ve discussed it before—the author is trying to describe a video playing in their mind. Often there is little or no interiority. Scenes play out in “real time” without summary. First-person POV stories describe things the character can’t see, but a distant camera could. There’s an overemphasis on characters’ outfits and facial expressions, including my personal pet peeve: the “reaction shot round-up” in which we get a description of every character’s reaction to something as if a camera was cutting between sitcom actors.

When I talk with other creative writing professors, we all seem to agree that interiority is disappearing. Even in first-person POV stories, younger writers often skip describing their character’s hopes, dreams, fears, thoughts, memories, or reactions. This trend is hardly limited to young writers though. I was speaking to an editor yesterday who agreed interiority has largely vanished from commercial fiction, and I think you increasingly notice its absence even in works shelved as “literary fiction.” When interiority does appear on the page, it is often brief and redundant with the dialogue and action. All of this is a great shame. Interiority is perhaps the prime example of an advantage prose as a medium holds over other artforms.

fascinated by this article, "Turning Off the TV in Your Mind," about the influences of visual narratives on writing prose narratives. i def notice the two things i excerpted above in fanfic, which i guess makes even more sense as most of the fic i read is for tv and film. i will also be thinking about its discussion of time in prose - i think that's something i often struggle with and i will try to be more conscious of the differences between screen and page next time i'm writing.

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Artem Chebokha

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i keep trying to phrase a post as like a helpful tip for people who like worldbuilding but. i have to be honest with myself. it is not a helpful tip because no one asked for it. i just want to rant about kinship terminologies.

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the way percy talks about annabeth will never not make me cry

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Journey to the men's washroom

English added by me :)

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dont care 2 fing original meme this is how it's been

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Me: I don't really believe in gatekeeping a field where anyone can learn with enough work. The training we get in academia isn't impossible to self-teach.

Also me: The number of people calling themselves "historians" or pretending to educate about history on social media when they're just reading Wiki or telling you fun facts is way too high. The job title has meaning. You wouldn't call yourself a mathematician for knowing how to make your graphing calculator make graphs.