Being Made New

former english major using her powers for good and mischief tolkien, twenty one pilots, project hail mary, and all things nerd she/her 26

[trenchkoat]

[voidsetup1]

and out of the darkness - you you you you you

[stellaluna33]

I can't believe we live in a world where there's an AI company unironically called "Palantir," and it isn't a parody. It's a real thing. I remember seeing a picture of an advertisement on here and thinking, "This HAS to be a joke. This is too on-the-nose to be real. They wouldn't honestly name an AI company Palantir, after the Seeing Stones from Lord of the Rings that are supposed to offer knowledge, but famously also might be feeding you misinformation from evil sources because 'we do not know who else may be watching.'" But then here I am listening to the BBC News discussing why the CEO of Palantir just published a Manifesto that sounds like it was written by a supervillain.

[hailed-marys]

is it normal to get so overwhelmed with emotion when thinking about movie that you cant speak. im asking for a friend

[agender-ryland-grace]

the rockster

[perequiste]

things will work out + it’s still early + not everything is lost + trees

[theskydoesgreatthingsnow]

LOTR abridged

[januarydivide]

any Twenty One Pilots concert

[copper-leaf]

friend was talking to me about an actual person named adrian the other day and I literally had a full five seconds where I nodded along and assumed they were talking about the alien rock adrian. yes my close personal friend the space rock yes of course

[gayteensupreme]

arts degrees r so funny because you go in class and theyre like What Is A Poem? we dont know for sure... and then moral of the story is we don't know what a poem is. and then the worst part of it is that theyre right

[fireproofs]

happy mother’s day to that mom who sold y/n to one direction

[mumblesplash]

andy weir was pretty funny for the names in this one you gotta admit. hi here are my characters their names are Strategy and Mercy and you’ll never guess their most prominent traits

[mumblesplash]

eventually we are introduced to my third character who is, by all appearances, a sentient rock. and his name? …heh. well,

[gen-png]

A Savior with their wings cut

Reblogs greatly appreciated!

[graves-yard]

Colt Seavers I’ve always loved you so glad your stupid autistic brother is bringing your movie to light

Here’s a shitty drawing that i just wanted to draw

[intosnarkness]

Here’s the thing: authors know when they get a rec on an older story. There’s a telltale uptick of kudos (with a 10-15% comment rate if you’re lucky) in your digest email.

The thing is, there’s no way to know where these people are coming from. In the before, when fandom was more in the corners we all knew about, you could search LJ or a message board or whatever social bookmarking site we were using. You could join the community and participate.

You could get a little dopamine hit by seeing someone tell their friends why they loved your story.

Anymore, those recs are hidden in discords, or in tiktoks or instagram slideshows that you can’t search for. They’re inaccessible, not discoverable unless you’re already there. You may never know why 27 people left kudos on an old story of yours, what they liked and found in your writing. You just get the thumbs up and a kinda lonely feeling, cause these could be your people. You could like them, maybe. You could be friends.

But you’ll never find out why they stopped by, or what people are saying about you behind your back, and that’s sad.

So thank you to the people who still do public rec lists on this webbed site. You are my sunshine, and I’m appreciative of all of you.

[saathi1013]

If you are recced a fic and enjoyed it, leave a comment telling the author where you came from! We like to know!

[vampirejuno]

Can you imagine being stuck in space completely alone with only the corpses of your friends for company, and the first living thing you meet after 46 years of that misery is a fucking weird alien creature who just rolls up with crazy advanced tech and goes "hi let's work together" and makes it possible for you to save your world through the power of friendship and molecular biology. AND THEN you find out that in this creature's language, its name means "mercy". Happened to my good friend Rocky btw

[quantumpoem]

Forgive me for another Ryan Gosling post but I've watched like 10 of his movies in the past month so. Y'know what I think is crazy about him, as an actor? If you looked up charisma in the dictionary there would be a picture of this guy, if you watch his interviews he plays very well off his costars, he's a great storyteller, etc etc. But then he doesn't ever play the popular guy with lots of friends. There's this thread of heartbreaking soul crushing loneliness running through every character he plays, all in their own individual way.

Officer K has no one, will never have anyone, and resorts to playing house with a hologram. Ryland Grace is liked but not close with anyone on Earth. Lars is terrified of people. Driver is a loner. Jacob is suave but detached. Holland March lost his wife and his job and is drinking himself to death for grief. Colt Seavers almost loses the love of his life because he can't be vulnerable. Even Ken, ridiculous and comic relief-y as that character is, is desperate for his girlfriend to see him and love him like he's a real person. I saw an interview where he said he took that role because he saw his daughters leave their Ken doll face down in the dirt and thought "his story must be told" but like. That's kind of all his parts. He's got insane range it's true but his typecast is "guy who's afraid he might never figure out how to be human". And Gosling SELLS it too, wears his heart on his sleeve for the camera if not the other characters. You can see the despair and longing behind his eyes. It makes my chest hurt to watch. He is such a good actor it's insane

[lokiusmybeloveds]

the best part of the nice guys (2016) is when holland march discovers in real time that he is an actual cartoon character and is incapable of death

[rotten-m3]