infinite IKEA

🔪arin, lvl15, boy🔪 🥰i hate bts🥰

[akitchen]

pokemon but with living beanie babies

[headspace-hotel]

I feel like we really don’t appreciate TvTropes enough; that site taught me more about literary analysis than any class ever did

[headspace-hotel]

Especially because TvTropes focuses mainly on WHY stories work for their audiences.

Figuring out how to tease some abstract “theme” or “meaning” out of books doesn’t do much to teach you how to construct stories or even how to understand them. Every deep insight about that fucking conch shell in the Lord of the Flies in the world would not have helped me learn how to make a story with compelling symbolism.

Whereas TvTropes’s terms usually apply to how the audience is made to feel/think/respond by a certain device. “This symbol connects X thing to Y abstract idea” is nice but ultimately pointless in most cases. “The audience suspends disbelief for X because of Y” actually shows the functionality of a story.

(If a story needs a dedicated army of English teachers to shove its insights into readers’ brains, it doesn’t have functionality. But I digress.)

[h-brook-writes]

That site is a godsend. I learned more about writing craft from there than I ever did from an actual English class, not least because English class tended to focus more on regurgitating accepted interpretations than it did on personal insight. 

At least TVTropes contains examples from all kinds of media, is guaranteed to cover at least one story that any given person loves, and breaks things down into layman’s terms while also giving each trope and technique a clear name to reference. 

How could I not know how to put a story together after reading their entry on Avatar: The Last Airbender?

[brunhiddensmusings]

people complain that after tvtropes made it easy to understand tropes then all they ever saw was the tropes something is made of. which irritates me they see it that way complaining that a piece of media is made of tropes is like complaining that a house is made of bricks understand the bricks, how to use them, why to use this kind over that kind, then build yourself a tropetastic castle motif outhouse

[chuckdrawsthings]

u ever see a pigeon on public transport and wonder if it knows what the hell it’s doing

[softhospital]

https://twitter.com/kurosiro0801/status/805743040316903425

[b1rdwatch3r]

I feel like I don’t see enough stuff about curvy/chubby boys! We are so valid and hot!!

[2miles-deactivated20240310]

if you keep liking my posts we gonna end up like dis

[takethemedicinemoved-deactivate]

us…

[megan-renee]

love is real

[hilariousgrindr]

Phenomenal pick-up line

[spivity]

[tartresponse]

[hilariousgrindr]

When you post your tour dates on Grindr

[bitchycode]

[peacocklady]

i like the cut of her jib

[hilariousgrindr]

When you have therapy at 5, but a dick appointment at 6

[braindeadshockjock]

you look like scooped from a jar

you look like two scoops from a jar of something.

[piesandswords]

checking your phone in the middle of a task

[timsutton]

After spending two days rewatching Marble Hornets on twitch with my buds (you) so far my biggest takeaway is that this is the best scene/episode of the whole show

[deactivated-blog]

every time i see the word peonies without context

[spacemancharisma]

I MAY NOT KNOW MY FLOWERS

BUT I KNOW A

BITCH

WHEN I SEE ONE

[navajolovesdestiel]

This is a marigold:

This is a peony:

[renthebarbarian]

And this is a bitch

[pipewrench-scratch]

[lostfootagefoundepisode]

i really want to remind everyone that the original slenderman game (not slender, this was before slender) looked like this