beccaeve

Random thoughts of a word nerd

[lucy-ashton]

[writing-in-the-grave]

Hey y'all why are writers always cold?

[run-remi-run]

...why?

[writing-in-the-grave]

They're always surrounded by drafts!

How many mystery writers does it take to change a lightbulb?

[run-remi-run]

Oh god.

How many?

[writing-in-the-grave]

Two! One to change the bulb, and the other to give it an unexpected twist at the end!

What do writers have for breakfast?

[run-remi-run]

Coffee?

[writing-in-the-grave]

Synonym buns!

Where do all the struggling writers live?

[run-remi-run]

How are you coming up with all these?

Where?

[writing-in-the-grave]

Writer's Block!

What do writers suffer from each spring?

(I've heard a lot of them over the years.)

[run-remi-run]

Allergies. Next question.

[writing-in-the-grave]

you were close; A case of allegories

Why are writers always in great shape?

[run-remi-run]

Circular prose

[writing-in-the-grave]

Nope! It's because we're always running out of ideas!

Did you hear about the famous writer who turned out to be a fraud?

[run-remi-run]

I did not

[writing-in-the-grave]

His life had it's prose and cons...

Why is editing a better job than writing?

[run-remi-run]

It's more rewording?

[writing-in-the-grave]

Correct! I am out of jokes. :(

[beccaeve]

For all my writing friends, especially those doing Nano right now

[sosuperawesome]

Book Purses // Bookarelli on Etsy

[morteraphan]

Bird designs (2020-2021).

[thesnadger]

Today I found out that Mountain Goats aren’t goats and it completely blew my mind.

[thesnadger]

By which I mean I learned mountain goats, the actual animal, aren’t true goats but a different, closely related creature. I’ve known that the band The Mountain Goats wasn’t formed by goats for over six months.

[nocturnal-stims]

Everyday life of Pokemon

Animation by おしるこ | IG

[insomniac-dot-ink]

the goal of hoarding notebooks as a writer is not to USE the notebooks but to feel like they could be used, a mental bolstering tactic such as dragons collecting gold but never spending it.

[aflo]

wakes up on time, showers, gets dressed, eats breakfast, and drinks coffee, then calmly lays back down in bed and goes back to sleep

[cronegloam]

anything can be an artform if you care about it enough (this is about me making fun of people on hinge which isnt my fault it's just that theyre so bad at making dating profiles and im so good at heckling)

[cassandracalin]

[annak1tsun3]

Week one of @stanuary 2022! Brothers! I brothered them!!

[theklaud]

if i had a nickel for every time i played a game with a blue hedgehog in it i’d have two nickels

[random-pan1]

I see this as a win

[prettykikimora-deactivated20250]

Life was good when we made dark fantasy films using muppets. No more captain america no more crisp ratt were doing gelflings some more, and those little shits from labyrinth.

[garbage-empress]

The Dark Crystal series was really good but I desperately want to see what kinda fucked up muppets you can make with a $200 million budget

[weaver-z]

If we give the Jim Henson company $200 million, those felt fucks are going to be sentient

[teathattast]

[tunashei]

I love desire paths. There's something so wonderous about seeing an echo of humanity. Depending on it's location, a desire path can mean so many different things.

In a city, like the pic above, they represent rebellion, and efficiency. The messiness of humanity. We like to imagine we're oh so logical and neat so we design our cities to be logical and neat an then real humans literally trample on that idea. The ego required to think you can design something perfect that checks every box. Life is all about compromise and patching stuff when some new problem arises. Though people have certainly tried! Ohio state univeristy let students carve their desire paths, and then paved them over. It looks pretty artsy.

Some people will try to discourage desire paths, but this is almost always going to fail.

Eventually, people just have to accept them. Humans are too dang stubborn.

Certain desire paths are just adorable. A 0.5 second time saver. You just can't design for maximum efficiency, humans will always find shortcuts!

Though on occasion a desire path can actually be the least efficient way...especially if you're superstitious.

In a wilder area, such as below, they show us the curiosity of humans. A desire path somewhere natural often tells you there's something interesting just ahead. (Though remember some ecosystems are fragile and will suffer if trampled! Stick to paths in these sorts of areas)

And how about desire stairs? I always think these look so cool. We get see humans determination to climb, to traverse every kind of terrain.

And for something really crazy...a desire path used for centuries will create a 'holloway'

All of these pics are off the Desirepath subreddit, check them out for more examples! And many thanks to the users who submitted these photos.

[jessafer94]

out of boredom i decided to scan a stuffed shark. here are the results.

[strangersea]

your work is appreciated

[trainsforbrains]

op i spent entirely too long on this and im sorry

[scarlet--raven-deactivated20230]

It’s 1:30 am and I’m cackling like a deranged witch

[femmedplume]

@paris-aflame Take any movie…😂

[beccaeve]

I'm doing a new series of drawings "Birds the Word." This is the first. It's a crow who says "no."

(Possible merch coming soon. Any interest?)