MY CABBAGES!

Hello and welcome. You can call me Elenwë. French, catholic, perpetually struggling writer and aspiring poet, selling books for a living. I reblog what strikes my interest. Who knows what I'll hyperfixate on next?

[markovchaingang]

americans are a saudi oil baron's idea of classy. brits are an american's idea of classy. the french are a brit's idea of classy. unfortunately the chain ends here since the french's idea of classy is also the french

[nightblood]

[chronophobica]

what they DONT tell you about clarinets is that you have to fucking build the damn thing every single time. "what instrument do you play" fucking legos man idk

[alphabetizing-posts]

about build clarinets damn do DONT every fucking fucking have idk instrument is legos man play" single tell that the they thing time. to what "what you you you

[howverychaotic]

I really need to start reading the blog name because I thought I was having some sort of moment right there.

[melancholygirls]

I passed a flower shop next to a tattoo shop and at first I laughed because I thought it was ironic and then i freaked because IMAGINE YOUR OTP IN A FLORIST/TATTOO ARTIST AU

[stillalittlekid]

OMG I COULD TOTALLY IMAGINE THEM LIKE THAT IT WOULD BE SO PERFECT

[christ-with-a-why]

[melancholygirls]

I cannot BELIEVE a post I made when I was 13 is circulating! And also apparently started this trope? I thought somebody had the idea separately and it blew up that way😭

[puppyboywinger]

hey guys… guess who’s Back.

[dontblamethewitches]

tumblr is like the nokia of social apps

[izzysketches]

into the mountain

[sherbertilluminated]

You've heard of tumblr ads trying to make you a Jacobite. Now get ready for

[cutecumber-flower-deactivated20]

[leseigneurdelorage]

everytime I think "oh well this fandom for which i write is actually pretty well adjusted" and then i write a fic in which a character dies because I mostly write angst and crimefics, and someone i've never heard before pops out of the woods to comment that they're glad to see someone else hating that character and wanting them dead and i'm like. ok i killed them off because i liked them actually. but beyond that here's one more hidden face of the fandom i actually like to not have interacted with so far.

[leseigneurdelorage]

Reasons to kill off a character that are not "the writer hates them"

Writer wants to show how much everyone loves them by having them grieve the character.

Writer wants to show how important that character was to the plot by showing how much their death would change

Writer wants to lament how little importance they have in canon by showing how little their death would change, and yet love was still there etc.

Writer wants to lament how little importance they have in canon and invents a ton of reasons why their death would change canon beyond return even though it's unlikely it would have happened that way.

Writer isn't sure to do justice to their canon writing and prefers to kill them off so they're this unattainable ideal that they do not have to actually write.

Writer knew there was no way this character to whose glory they have written 150 drabbles would be suspected by the readers so they had them murdered at the beginning of the crimefic to throw off their readers.

Writer knew that objectively if someone was to die it was their fave because they have enemies / wouldn't kill someone else so can't be suspect / allows to explore what could bring another character to kill this well liked character.

Writer is sick of the fandom putting that character on a pedestal but they themself are pretty neutral about 'em so they just kill 'em off at the beginning of the fic to not add to the number of people who wrote about 'em.

Writer realised too late that there wouldn't be enough place in the plot for every character so let's kill one that probably no one will miss except a couple hardcore fans.

Writer can't afford so many characters but in this specific setting The Character they're least interested in writing wouldn't be absent unless forcibly removed first and by forcibly removed we mean murdered.

Writer is actually doing an homage to another story where the equivalent of that character is dead or has to die

Writer is feeling petty that day but holds no real inimity to that character

Writer is killing that particular one off just to torture one of their mutuals who loves that character.

the plot needed someone to die and they did a PickWheel about it

the actor didn't renew his three seasons contract

[kvalme-deactivated20250122]

o lord, make me an instrument of your peace. where there is hatred, let me bring love. where there is discord, let me bring harmony. where there is pain, let me bring joy, and where there is despair, hope.

the flowers of st. francis (1950)

[brentunderjaw]

ANNIE & ABED COMMUNITY 6.11 Modern Espionage

[greencatalystcomet]

Waiting

[notes-from-sarah]

Downton Abbey reaction gifs

[unheardoracle]

I love characters who are like "I'm a terrible person" but when you look closer it's more like

"I adapted to survive something and now I don't know how to stop being that version of myself."

[eldritchdilf-deactivated2025061]

Contrary to popular belief the biggest beginner's roadblock to art isn't even technical skill it's frustration tolerance, especially in the age of social media. It hurts and the frustration is endless but you must build the frustration tolerance equivalent to a roach's capacity to survive a nuclear explosion. That's how you build on the technical skill. Throw that "won't even start because I'm afraid it won't be perfect" shit out the window. Just do it. Just start. Good luck.

[myfairkatiecat]

Reading Russian literature is crazy cause everyone has a billion names and reading British literature is crazy because everyone in every family seems to have the same name

Reading Russian lit is like “okay so Raskolnikov is also Rodion Romanovich is also Rodya” and reading British lit is like “Miss Crawford told the other Miss Crawford that Mrs. Crawford was visiting Mr. Crawford so Mr. Crawford (different guy) told his brother Mr. Crawford that their father Sir Crawford is in town with Lady Crawford”