with all this second-hand love

i'll take my time. and i'll wait my turn. and i'll let her know before i get myself burned. all this second-hand love i've got enough for both of us. 'cause i've said too much and she thinks i'm a liar — has she ever seen a man when he's been set on fire.

[kidzbopdeathgrips]

ngl if you're doing the whole Blogging thing right you shouldn't need to put your disorders in your bio bc your followers will just figure it out on their own. it's kind of a "show don't tell" type of thing

[gr8writingtips]

writing tip #4177:

find someone really rich who will pay you to sit around and write (if you are really rich i Am available)

[freakinggeekazoid]

[loontattoo]

see unfortunately I have this condition where if I am not explicitly told that I am a part of the ingroup then I will assume I must be part of the outgroup

[cosmicanger]

[kosmogrl]

okay first of all unclench your jaw

[cheapthrilling]

once i get deeper into one piece (hit ep 208 last night) it's over for you fucks, i'm gonna be so obNOXIOUS about zosan and mishanks once i'm no longer in heavy spoiler territory OH it's gonna be sickening how involved i get, bet.

[finrays]

Thinking about it, I’m pretty sure my ancestors would be horrified with me.

Not because I’m lazy or unworthy or anything like that…

…but because one of my distant uncles was among the eight survivors of the Essex, the ship that inspired the ending of Moby Dick and sank after being rammed by a whale, and what do I fuckin do after my bloodline has this Ordeal at Sea?

I get a fuckin degree in Marine Science and go back the fuck out there.

[retroactivebakeries]

#op its your job to kill that whale

[gaygalaxys]

[bbnotumbl]

🫰💖

[chefpyro]

oh

[persistentmanlyagitation]

wait

[it-a]

i am tired and i will never be free

[uprincipled]

it's probably been said multiple times already but it is so obvious that opla is made for the fans. sanji showing vulnerability so early on making us love him even more. sanji and zoro being not openly aggressive with each other but borderline flirty. not just nami being close with vivi but pretty much everyone else as well. usopp being actually praised by his crewmates for his achievements. mihawk having no actual reason to appear in season two but being there anyway because steven john ward is a fucking delight. so much robin from the get go because lera abova is just so wonderful and they knew we will want more of her. cameo of brook so early on. reference to ace. mugiwaras being kinda both platonic and romantic towards each other. i can keep going. just so much love radiating from the screen. it's a love letter to the viewer in a way.

[butch-witches-deactivated202412]

what doesnt kill you is still valuable data points for a graph im working on titled "how to kill you"

[rosie-dear-rosie]

[folsaeure]

HOMOEROTIC VIOLENCE. media featuring male pairings that are coded to be, or canonically are queer, who's feelings for one another can on screen only climax through brutality. song: red sex by vessel / media featured: the Passenger (2023), Hannibal NBC, Ravenous (1999), the Hitcher (1986), the Terror S1, Fight Club (1999), quote by Wolfgang Tillmans for Interview Magazine, the Frontier (2016)

[willgrahamscock]

when a tv show doesn't shy away from portraying fucked up themes, and there's love in the violence and the characters are doomed and codependent and there's a power imbalance and the cycle keeps repeating and they're miserable with and without each other and also they’re gay

[proudfreakmetarusonikku]

i NEED people to realise foreshadowing is. in fact. a literary device. and not a Bad Thing. the audience picking up on your hints is a Good Thing. because. it makes the story and it’s conclusion make sense. and some people will not see those but enjoy seeing them on a second read through. red herrings are one thing but if your novel consists of nothing but red herrings it’s not a coherent story it’s just a collection of paragraphs that don’t actually plausibly link to one another. you're not fighting with the audience you don’t look clever you look like you don’t know how basic fiction works. be vulnerable for once in your goddamn life and don't treat writing like a game to be won where the audience losing is a good thing.

[ineffectualdemon]

Getting to the end of a story and going "THE CLUES WERE THERE THE WHOLE TIME!" is always joyous for me whether or not I picked up on the clues leading up

If I saw the clues and caught the hints then yes! I am clever and me and the author/creator/artist etc were in on it together the whole time!

If I didn't notice the clues or got fooled but can clearly see them in hindsight then "Ha! You won this time storyteller! I am delighted by this game we play!' and then I enjoy putting the pieces together afterwards and enjoying how clever it was. I feel like the creator respects me as an audience

If there is a "twist" that comes with 0 clues or foreshadowing at all I'm annoyed. I'm pissed off. I feel like I'm being condescended to and patronised. It's not clever or interesting and makes me annoyed I ended up caring about characters and plot points that ended up meaningless.

Because it's not that these stories don't have foreshadowing or plot clues. They just abandon it for a "surprising twist"

A story that pays off the clues is letting me into the fun and makes a participant in the story

A story that just gives me a "shock" but no pay off is telling me not to engage or get attached or care. So why would I watch?

[s-n-arly]

OMG! THIS!

Random plot twists that don't connect to anything in the story are not clever. If we don't see it coming because the writer didn't provide any clues, they aren't clever and it's totally unsatisfying (and I will NEVER read this writer again). These clues need not be lit up in neon with a parade of elephants and showgirls. But they need to be present

I'm a writer and am rarely surprised. Often, if I am surprised it's because the writer was a dumbass and included a "twist" that makes no sense (and therefore isn't really a twist, it's just random bullshit). If a writer genuinely surprises me, without being an absolute dumbass, I am FUCKING DELIGHTED! I will tell everyone I know to read the book/see the movie/watch the show.

[ardentmystacina]

Foreshadowing is the reward for paying attention. It's the story letting you in on the secret like a co-conspirator because you're the clever little audience member who has been picking up on the clues the writer has been setting up.

It even makes watching/reading again more worthwhile because if you didn't notice the foreshadowing the first time you have the joy of being able to notice the things you missed!

[treecitysessions]

[treecitysessions]

[peniswakt-deactivated20210717]

what the fuck did you even DO in 1971 when don mclean dropped american pie