We Are Not Completely Useless

Hello, you beautiful people! This is a blog about whatever I find funny. Or sad. Or groundbreaking. Basically anything I want. Enjoy, or, whatever!

[pissvortex]

now why are they shortening the notes

[pissvortex]

tumblr staff just frantically rearranging furniture to make the place look nicer because a bunch of unexpected guests (twitter refugees) are coming over

[glubtier]

[thewritingumbrellas]

Writing advice from my uni teachers:

If your dialog feels flat, rewrite the scene pretending the characters cannot at any cost say exactly what they mean. No one says “I’m mad” but they can say it in 100 other ways.

Wrote a chapter but you dislike it? Rewrite it again from memory. That way you’re only remembering the main parts and can fill in extra details. My teacher who was a playwright literally writes every single script twice because of this.

Don’t overuse metaphors, or they lose their potency. Limit yourself.

Before you write your novel, write a page of anything from your characters POV so you can get their voice right. Do this for every main character introduced.

[writerlyn]

This is legit good writing advice, especially the first bullet point! In playwriting class we did a bit where every bit of dialogue had to be an accusatory question and it was glorious.

[opticallyaroused-deactivated201]

A Painting Made From Pieces of Glass

[intergalacticju]

[turnthehourglassover-deactivate]

that’s amazing

[the-stray-liger]

i just realized it’s not just pieces of glass

they’re shaped as paper planes

the piece can be complete and aesthetically pleasing even when there is no projection this is so good and it makes me so happy

[uumans]

THIS IS ALSO SCIENCE. SCIENCE ART. THE BEST KIND OF ART.

[fleurdulys]

it kinda annoys me when people post these things and they don’t give credit to the artist. so the artist’s name is Rashad Alakbarov and he’s from Azerbaijan and he’s done several other pieces using shadows :

[blackout501st]

What is this resident evil 7

[fierceawakening]

When people say they hate modern art I can’t help but look at things like this and ???

[broken-seal-deactivated20240220]

When people say they hate modern art it’s because they’ve been shown a Jackson Pollock and have rightly asertained that it’s pretensious crap. Where they go wrong is thinking that all modern art looks like that.

[sweatermuppet]

i love stories about betrayal i love depravity i love tragedy i love miscommunication i love backstabbing i love when characters encourage each other to be worse i love dysfunctional partners i love misfits & i love it most of all when they are bisexual

[animatedamerican]

boom de yada boom de yada

[animatedamerican]

well, this was gonna happen sooner or later

I love betrayal, I love depravity I love a backstab, I love a tragedy I love a failure -- to just communicate Boom de yada, boom de yada Boom de yada, boom de yada

I love when partners -- are so dysfunctional I love especially -- when they're bisexual I love when characters -- just make each other worse Boom de yada, boom de yada Boom de yada, boom de yada

[thepowergame-deactivated2015091]

the cheese always falls off the top shelf if i open the door too fast

[laughcentre]

this is truly a magnificent beautiful picture of cheese falling down

[pantywitch]

Its like cherry blossoms cascading from trees in the wind

[cosmic-deeds-undone]

Okay but in all honesty?

“Silence, or you will be held in contempt of this court.” “I have nothing BUT COMTEMPT for this court!” has got to be the greatest exchange of word in human history and it came from the 1986 Transformers Movie.

[febeeary-deactivated20190323]

op i hope you don’t mind me adding, but “you, who are without mercy, now plead for it?” is also absolutely fucking metal and also comes from the 1986 Transformers movie

[depsidase]

[boychic-deactivated20230922]

there are no universal afab/amab experiences and there is no experience of gender that is not racialized

[suspiciouslyqueeraardvark]

i beg to differ. have u ever been rlly thorsty and had a cup of water? that’s some afab/amab universal experience right there

[suspiciouslyqueeraardvark]

i may have momentarily misunderstood the post, i get what it was saying now. my bad

[boychic-deactivated20230922]

you are forgiven but only because that was hilarious

[tastefullyoffensive]

(via cottoncandaddy)

[taylorzrealm]

LMFAO THE LAST PART

[disasterbisexual-moved]

chaotic dorks

[the-british-pineapple]

I love how they are both as ridiculous as each

[urbanfantasyinspiration]

“All you came back with was hot Cheetos” literally me

[mrspider-deactivated20221213]

“dont wish ill upon a stranger” is great advice but remember if someone has slighted you they are no longer a stranger but an enemy ❤️ i hope this helps

[tiktoks-for-dead-pope]

[tiktoks-for-dead-pope]

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[hellboywearshotpants]

My primary joys as DM:

Players going “woah, cool” to settings I designed

Players getting attached to NPCs I designed

Players roleplaying in-character arguments OR bonding moments

[jakey-beefed-it]

Absolutely, all of these, co-signed.

[tabletop-rpgs]

Any time the players take the game and run with it while I sit back and watch them rp amongst the selves or with me as an npc, no mechanics just a narrative moment we’re all keeping alive.

[grimlykid]

Dolores "I cannot keep my cousin Mirabel's secret for even a minute but if tio Bruno wants to live in the walls for ten years then that is HIS business" Madrigal

[sabishiinaq]

Telling Mirabel’s secret ruined the dinner with the man of her dreams who was supposed to propose to Isabella. Tattling was a strategic move. 👍

[astrodidact]

[animate-mush]

My favorite thing about tumblr is the way we all come together as a community to help each other turn off whatever new feature just got rolled out

[argumate]

tumblr is a war between tumblr and tumblr

[funnytwittertweets]

[onlypositivememes]

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