[a-very-cute-snake]

[maybemacdc]

the destiny of a great kingdom rests on the shoulders of a young boy

[headmastermephistopheles]

Astarion before his vampire days! I love the head canon that he had golden/amber eyes.

[draconym]

do you think two pennies is still enough for the ferryman or has inflation driven up the fare

[draconym]

if he makes me use an app I am simply not crossing the river Styx.

[bananiii-0]

[sandersstudies]

Every 21st century piece of writing advice: Make us CARE about the character from page 1! Make us empathize with them! Make them interesting and different but still relatable and likable!

Every piece of classic literature: Hi. It's me. The bland everyman whose only purpose is to tell you this story. I have no actual personality. Here's the story of the time I encountered the worst people I ever met in my life. But first, ten pages of description about the place in which I met them.

[sandersstudies]

Modern writing advice: Yes your protagonist should have flaws but ultimately we should root for them and like them from the beginning :)

Charles Dickens: Here is the worst ugliest rudest meanest nastiest bitch you’ve ever met in your life.

[sandersstudies]

Modern writing advice: Make sure your POV character goes through a significant arc! Make sure they are changed by the narrative! Make sure they learn a lesson!

Narrators of every book of the 19th century: the lesson I learned is these people fucking suck, sayonara you freaks

[sandersstudies]

Modern writing advice: It’s all about the character overcoming obstacles and learning! They learn their lesson so they can fix their mistakes and make good choices in the future! It’s a character arc! It’s called growth! Readers love it!

Everyone from ancient times through the 19th century: would you like to watch a Guy fuck up twenty times in a row

[coldgoldlazarus]

[mousenemy]

Ive eaten crunchwraps more supreme than this court

[cosmichorrorlesbians]

ttrpg games are insane and make you insane in ways that are fundamental and irreparable. sometimes the best piece of fiction you will ever experience will happen to you and your friends over two to five years of your life. it will be your work and their work and yet somehow exist between and beyond you all. there will only be like three or five of you in the room and nobody else will ever be able to experience this in the way you did. it will be ephemeral and immediate and it will occasionally make you feel so bad you see hell. fuck. what a concept

[lowpolypierrot]

some baby gales to keep me sane during these trying times

[420technoblazeit]

the thing about the hobbit movies is that even with all the extra bullshit they added to have it stretch across three movies, richard armitage is giving a legitimately heartbreaking performance as a noble king trying to reclaim his home and eventually falling to greed and madness. like he's killing it. he's carrying those movies so hard i dont even remember giving a shit about thorin in the book but i was fully crying when he died in the movies. he put his whole thorussy into that performance if we're being real

[julientel]

Tara and her favourite pet

[hicscribere]

my lonely mountain 🗻

[silsol]

The traveling ending Gale

[arealtrashact]

Hey, what do you think of this?

[gummygoby]

[45 minute sketch] been watching a friend play bg3… i like him 😇💝

(no i’ll probably never play this game no i don’t know what’s going on but cmon. hes beautiful)

[aliny-ssuu]

Hood

[chilli-ance]

Now dont get me wrong, I will absolutely ship lord of the rings characters together if i see even an inkling of chemistry

But I also really heavily appreciate the way that Tolkien wrote platonic male friendships. The love between all of the male characters in his stories, Frodo & Sam, Legolas & Gimli, Bilbo & Thorin, etc, is genuinely gorgeous, and its RARE that we get anything like that nowadays