Big Edie's Sun Hat

"You're in the world, Edie. You're not out of the world." Une dork d'une certaine age. F, cis, she/her. Fandom nonsense, pop-culture observations, photo reblogging. AO3: Big_Edies_Sun_Hat.

[reallyreallyreallytrying]

nip over to troy, bit of rough and tumble, big horse, bish bash bosh, back home to ithaca. simple as

[spaceshipsandpurpledrank]

[flowerytale]

“The Midnight Sun Ceremony” from Andrea Zanatelli’s embroidery series

[vincentpriceofficial]

I think for a lot of people “I am completely helpless and powerless” and “I am completely powerful and in control” are both basically comforting fantasies because most of us live our lives in an in between place where we have enough agency to be responsible for our actions but not enough agency to have true control over our lives and the tension between power and powerlessness in the day to day is psychologically wearing and exhausting

[headspace-hotel]

how were so many of the things that were basic writing/plotting advice in Every Single craft book when I was a teenager just completely straight up wrong

[headspace-hotel]

the biggest and worst offender I think was plotting advice that encouraged me to build my plot around my characters "desires" or "goals"

protagonists were kind of forced into a flat dichotomy of 'active' (takes actions to further their own goals, thus driving the story) and 'passive' (is acted upon by events beyond their control, moving them through the plot) with 'active' being considered good and passive being considered bad

I think this framework is very locked within a certain cultural viewpoint... specifically of a 20th century western white male. For one thing it assumes a "protagonist" will have a certain level of agency, to have goals and pursue them, overcoming obstacles in the way. It is not very inclusive of characters that don't have much agency.

It also assumes that desire/want = orienting toward or pursuing.

As far as I am concerned, characters don't have goals. They CAN, but these goals aren't actually the functional gears of the plot, and are instead their conscious rationalizations of what's really running the show.

Rather, characters have instincts and drives. I don't like to say "desires" because desire suggests something that is explicit, a thing that the character can attribute their feelings to.

I realized when reading Shakespeare's Othello that interesting characters often can't be understood in terms of "goals" or "desires" because they don't understand what they want or why they want that and they constantly act in ways that are contradictory to what they want or think they want. What a character consciously thinks is a whole layer on top of their actual instincts and feelings, which are primal and buried in traumas and needs and other aspects of creaturehood, and often is a fiction to resolve contradictions and dissonance in the demands of the creature-self. some characters can reflect upon their own thought processes and some cannot.

real humans don't often act rationally to pursue goals, they just do stuff based upon a seethe of inner instinct and the reasons why are post-hoc rationalizations. i like writing characters that reflect this and exploring the ways they do and don't understand themselves, the fictions they use to understand what's going on in there

[prunsel]

if you've ever pet more than a few dogs you'd Know what dog residue is

[computationalcalculator]

[cheaphalloweencostume]

i love how Indeed is like

tailored for you! here’s your shortlist of job opportunities that perfectly match your preferences and abilities as an artist with clerical career skills:

-booger farmer (45 miles away)

-astronaut (5 minutes away)

[theres-a-hole-in-my-wall]

all job websites are like that unfortunately

Looked for a part time like a store worker and it kept offering me CFO positions ??? Obviously if I applied I wouldn't get them, but wth...

[fuckyeahkitschy2]

[helenvaughans]

[natalieironside]

People get mad @ me when I point out that one of the major hurdles to overcoming anti-vaccine conspiracies amongst the general populace is that the medical-industrial complex has repeatedly demonstrated itself to be unworthy of trust, but listen. Listen.

The overwhelming majority of antivaxxers I've met in real life have been nurses in hospitals. I make it a point not to associate with such people if I can possibly avoid it, so pretty much the only time I would have to hear about it directly is if I'm part of a trapped audience waiting for something else to happen. And so almost all the people I've met who felt moved to take me aside and "warn" me about the fictitious dangers of vaccines have been registered nurses despensing medical """advice""" inside of hospitals.

So if anything I'd say the problem has been grossly, critically underestimated.

[segamascott]

[kat4884]

the gooners

they’re everywhere

[felixcloud6288]

Dat's right boss. Now just tell us what ya need and we'll get it done boss.

[quadtator-lawful-evil]

who needs ta sleep with da fishes boss

[bananapudding752]

sorry bawss, I was too busy searchin up da anime girls boss. real pretty.

[felixcloud6288]

Forget dem anime goils. Dere only temporary. But da boss is forever. Right boss?

[hellsitegenetics]

String identified: t g t’ at' gt . t t at a a ' gt t . ta t a a, a t ac a a g . a tt. gt a g. ta. t a . gt ?

Closest match: Oeneis jutta genome assembly, chromosome: 18 Common name: Jutta Arctic

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[felixcloud6288]

Da boss got turned into a butterfly!!

[pfaugh]

Wadda bea-utiful transformation, boss. goes to show youse gotta preciate the lil things in life

[hraeiou]

ay boss congrats on da metamoiphosis

[birdandmoon]

What to do if you find a baby bunny.

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[soranatus]

found this INCREDIBLY powerful pic of miss piggy from her 1983 calendar

[redlipstickresurrected]

Jorge Pineda (Dominican, b. 1961, Barahona province, Dominican Republic, based Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic) - Untitled (Visitas), 2020, Mixed Media on Arches

[helenvaughans]

[coralreeferband]

Wow died from heart of stone