A Jesse Surprise

I love seeing characters make the wrong choice. Like logically, morally, whatever. It should be so easy, so obvious, to do something right for once! But they don’t see it or they don’t care. Their instincts always lead them to choose poorly. Bad for them but great for me because it’s so interesting and I like to watch the suffering. ^_^

this is so nostalgic. tumblr rolls out something terrible. everyone complains. it breaks several people's dashboards. for some reason it only rolls out to a few people at a time with seemingly no warning. the community collectively and immediately searches for a browser extension that undoes the change. i know we've all gotten burnt out on all social media sucking but this is genuinely The tumblr experience. everyone who hasn't gotten it already gets an achievement. welcome to the club

if tumblr explodes my mutuals and i are all going to move into a giant haunted house and we’ll just keep those of you that have each other blocked in separate areas

MY GOD WHAT HAVE I FOUND XD

I'm not sorry for having you know this exists XD

Something I really appreciate about LotR is how much everyone just adores Bilbo. Frodo loves him unconditionally, never gets spiteful about how Bilbo left him or gave him the most cursed Ring in the world, he just has cute hobbit cuddles with him and tells him "I'm afraid I lost it". Aragorn is so kind to him, teases him gently, comes specifically to visit him and helps him with his songs. And Elrond! Elrond literally lets him live in his house and basically adopts him, and he's just so kind and considerate, doesn't even mind when Bilbo's singing about Earendil in front of everyone. During the Council, no one laughs at Bilbo or makes fun of him for wanting his lunch or tells him to shut up when he rambles about his adventures. Gloin is the only one who even smiles, and his smile comes from good memories. Everyone knows Bilbo, and everyone loves him. Except for the Sackville-Bagginses, but they're special.

I love it when artists maintain separate NSFW and SFW art blogs, but all the characters depicted in the latter's content are still very clearly purpose-built. Like, no sir, nothing naughty going on here! *posts a series of cute little fantasy adventure tableaux starring a pair of best friends forever, a seven-foot-tall ogre with conspicuously baggy trousers and a three-foot-tall hobbit with a dumptruck ass*

'can i copy your homework?'

'yeah just don't make it obvious'

environmental storytelling

the cumbrian cunt council will decide your fate

"we live in an uncaring universe"

false. i care very deeply. am i not a part of this infinite universe?

the universe is the sum of all things. you are a part of the universe. so are your friends. so is your cat that snuggles with you every night. so is the mcdonald's worker that purposefully put an extra chicken nugget in your meal. the universe doesn't just exist at a macro level, but a micro level too.

funniest thing about the thing (1982) is that the titular thing is both a master manipulator who can perfectly replicate anyone but also a big bundle of nerves who flips out and starts screaming and turning into 5000 meat parts at once the INSTANT it’s found out

like at one point the thing replicates a guy who has a heart condition, promptly has a heart attack, and then gets so freaked out by the defibrillator it starts biting people

the thing is a master actor who is absolutely awful at improv and the show keeps going wrong

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imo the best way to interpret those “real people don’t do x” writing advice posts is “most people don’t do x, so if a character does x, it should be a distinguishing trait.” human behavior is infinitely varied; for any x, there are real people who do x. we can’t make absolute statements. we can, however, make probabilistic ones.

for example, most people don’t address each other by name in the middle of a casual conversation. if all your characters do that, your dialogue will sound stilted and unnatural. but if just one character does that, then it tells us something about that character.