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me, unloading a fitted sheet from the dryer: *squinting* what's that you've got in your mouth
fitted sheet: nothing :)))))))
me, prying open its twisted jaws: na-ah!!! give it to me RIGHT now!!
fitted sheet: *resentfully spits out a wad of 3 very damp dishtowels, a pillowcase, and a pathetically sodden washcloth*
Kudos to this post, I think of you every time I do my fucking laundry
So much this.
Reblog if you write fan fiction
Doesn’t matter if you write in a frequent basis, or once in a blue moon, just how many of us are there?
Have been for more than 50 years.
on “the blond,” “the older man,” and other crimes against third-person limited
You know that thing where a story is written in tight third person limited — we’re meant to be inside someone’s head, seeing the world through their thoughts — and then suddenly the narration says “the blond frowned” or “the shorter woman sighed” about a person the POV character knows really well?
That’s called antonomasia — using a descriptive label instead of a name. And it’s fine when we’re talking about strangers: “the cashier handed her the receipt,” “the tall guy blocked the door.” The POV character doesn’t know their names, and we just need a quick way to tell people apart.
But the moment it’s used for someone the POV character already knows, it breaks immersion. Because that’s not how our minds work. We don’t think “the older man smiled at me.” We think “Mark smiled.” Or maybe “my boss” if that relationship matters in the moment.
Third person limited means the narration sits inside someone’s perception. Their inner monologue is the story’s voice. So when you switch from “Mark smiled” to “the blond smiled,” you’ve pulled the camera away from their mind and turned it into an outside shot.
If you want to create distance or irritation, you can do it on purpose —
“The idiot from accounting emailed again.”
That’s character voice. That’s judgment. That works.
But otherwise?
As soon as your POV character knows someone’s name, use it. While we do tend to worry about repetitions, names rarely register as such to the readers.
If you need variety for rhythm, use relational or emotional identifiers that make sense in their head: her friend, his partner, their teacher, the person they loved.
Because inside someone’s thoughts, there are no “blonds” or “brunettes.”
There are only people they know.
Let’s commit health code violations with mama
Part 14 :)
Nothing more disarming than a man drooling on his pillow.
‘The Patient’ is now available in Australia on SBS Viceland and SBS On Demand! 🇦🇺 Tune in! ❤️
Domhnall is intercoursing amazing in this!
genuinely like. imagine being a lukeleia fan in 1983 and then going to see return of the jedi CONVINCED your ship was about to be #confirmed. i think about that so much. we in the modern era of fans have never been vibe checked like that. i’d lose my goddamned mind.
lukeleia fan on may 24, 1983, 11:55 pm if tumblr existed: lukeleia forever hanleia doesn’t even make SENSE he’s BASICALLY DEAD. hanleia people are just delusional. boutta go see my otp get confirmed and live happly ever after 🙏 can’t wait for the perfect ending to this perfect trilogy ❤️ ❤️ ❤️
lukeleia fan on may 25, 1983, 2:30 am if tumblr existed: 😧
The first paperback continuation novel had Luke and Leia creeping towards couple hood. Lucas hadn't told anybody yet. Maybe he hadn't even thought of it yet. I had that book back in the day.
Incredible post 10/10
It’s not just that the leaves will break down on their own (and enrich the soil while they’re at it!). During the winter, all sorts of insects use leaf litter for shelter, and they’re the first food available to larvae in early spring. Leaves also insulate the plants under them during the winter, which is important if you’re in an area prone to frost heaving.
One of the best thing you can do for native pollinators in your area is Leave the Leaves!
My mom stopped raking her leaves when she found out about this but her neighbor used his leaf blower to clear out her yard the first year she decided to try. So she started posting a Leave the Leaves sign in the yard each year with an explanation about why it’s good and two winters later only one house still rakes their lawn each year.
We’ve seen a dramatic increase in the biodiversity in the neighborhood since. We have birds that we haven’t seen since we moved into the city from living rurally and those birds are starting to nest in the trees and gardens in spring. The swallows and bats are back at night. The single woodpecker we would only occasionally see visits daily and even has a friend that has joined it. We have more squirrels and rabbits and shockingly fewer moles and voles. We heard an owl outside last fall.
Leave the leaves indeed.
I don't rake my leaves because I am too f*cking lazy.
Not to be a pretentious asshole but yes there is a problem with people no longer reading the classics. A lot of the YA literature romance novel crowd perpetuates the myth that the classics are inherently boring and stuffy and there’s nothing you can relate to or learn by reading them. And they’re not. These beautiful universal things we enjoy, comedy, romance, tragedy, family strife, they’re still so poignant centuries after they’re written.
Truer words were never said 👍
I’ve read classics since I was young and I agree with you totally 👍
Also, reading them critically can help to understand how people in the past thought and to recognize the different ways discrimination can happen at a narrative level and how prejudice can blind even smart observant people (for example, both Giovanni Verga and Luigi Pirandello were definitely great intellectuals and understood human condition well but they were misogynists like many men of their era too).
And one can discover how minorities managed to write their own texts, just look at Sappho, Hroswitha, Kassia, Murasaki Shikibu and Hildegard Von Bingen, and the first examples of feminist literature, like “The blazing world” by Margaret Cavendish and “The faerie queene” by Edmund Spenser or fairytales like “The Snow Queen” by Andersen and “Alibaba and the forty thieves” and “Tatterhood”.
And authors of any genre can find interesting ideas and inspiration in it too, just look at the strange countries and planets invented by Lucian in the “True history” or the bizzarre adventures featured in Ancient Greek and Roman novels and Medieval Chivalric literature or in fairytales, and how ancient some tropes and stories actually are, for example in the Shahnameh by Ferdowsi that collects ancient materials from Preislamic Iran there’s a version of “Rapunzel” and the “Vis and Ramin” by Gorgani presents many elements of “Tristan and Iseult” while being older than the latter and one of the many tales of “The Seven princesses” by Nizami of Ganja presents an older version of “Turandot”, and how many tales were very different from the modern interpretation and versions, like many older fairytales belonging to the “Snow White” type don’t feature a wicked stepmother but an abusive mother.
NOBODY read the Earthsea trilogy anymore. Just the flower and the sword. Or the throne and the teacup. Or the icky thing and the not icky thing.
THE SANDMAN
2.06 - Family Blood
I couldn't decide if the guy playing Dream was the worst actor in the world or if the directors made that choice. But he was so dull I gave up on his boring pouty lips without finishing the series. SO tedious.
Adam Driver in Father Mother Sister Brother (2025)
He does sad so well.
Revive
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by mheb
The heavy, ornamented door opened on a circular chamber. White flames burned bright and cold in their sconces, throwing the shadows into sharper, blacker relief. It was a Temple, older than sin. Older than the High Republic, judging by the carvings in the walls. The Dark listened in this place. ‘Grandfather was right’, Kylo thought. He’d found a coordinate cube within the dusty shelves of glowing data files – blocky, outmoded things instead of the sleek cylinders the First Order used, and all of them covered in cobwebs. The timing of it now seemed more than fortuitous, that cube falling into Kylo’s hands just before Hux’s condition blindsided him. Knowledge had come too late to save Kylo’s grandmother. It was likely Darth Vader never made this journey. Another way in which Kylo would outpace him.
Words: 9831, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English
Series: Part 2 of Rot
Fandoms: Star Wars Sequel Trilogy
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Categories: M/M
Characters: Armitage Hux, Kylo Ren, Rey (Star Wars), Leia Organa, Poe Dameron, Finn (Star Wars), Rose Tico, Dopheld Mitaka
Relationships: Armitage Hux/Kylo Ren
Additional Tags: Post-Star Wars: The Last Jedi, Duel of the Fates, Armitage Hux is Not Nice, Kylo Ren is Not Nice, villain victory, Darth Tantrum and his Evil Space Ginger, That’s Not How The Force Works, Seduction to the Dark Side, Force-Sensitive Armitage Hux, Evil Plans, Terminal Illnesses, Dark Magic, Millicent makes an appearance, Sex, Blow Jobs, Dry Humping, Force Shenanigans, Body Horror
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The link doesn't work. Darn.
Galaxy Quest (1999) (✚)
This is one of those moments that all great comedies have where it stops being funny for just a while and you have to take it absolutely, deadly seriously.
It’s heartbreaking, but I don’t think it’s dead serious. On some level, there’s still something camp and ridiculous about it (that line is inherently silly, regardless of context), and it’s the combination of silly and serious that makes it so poignant. We’re not doing something different than before, we’re just looking at the same thing from a different angle: “what if that objectively silly and camp thing made someone happy, and gave them peace in their last moments?” And that’s what makes it moving and powerful. That’s the whole point of the movie, and that’s why Galaxy Quest is the best Star Trek movie ever.
Whereas, in The Princess Bride for example, there’s NOTHING funny in the line “I want my father back, you son of a bitch.” It’s unambiguously raw. We shifted gears completely, we’re doing another thing altogether. We’re not repeating the funny line any more, and the funny line (“My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die.”) was not funny inherently, only in the delivery (calm, gentle, with a smile) and the repetition throughout the movie. When you stopped saying it gently to the void and started saying it angrily to the actual killer, it stopped being funny. Shit got real.
Two different ways to accomplish the same thing, both wonderful.
It’s a wonderful encapsulation of the theme of Galaxy Quest. The show is silly, the show is fake, but belief in the show makes real things happen.
It's also proof that Alan Rickman was a superb actor. In that silly make-up, he made that stupid line WORK.
Republicans embracing Nazi authoritarian policies in 2025 across all branches of government and conservative culture like legacy media/social/influencer as they finance prisons, defund health care, and destroy tourism is firmly making all things worse for the country.
Targeting critics of the "make everything worse" movement as they coddle the symbol of child rape and exhausting gaslighting, you would think the party of petty grievances could find one grievance with how bad things are going.
Hair color
Dear Fan Fiction Authors:
Do NOT constantly refer to the characters by their hair color. Gen. Hux is not the "redhead" or the "red-headed man" over and over and OVER. Learn to use plain nouns or pronouns. Referring to their hair color every other sentence is really annoying.
Thank you.
