fix your hearts or die

[paintings-from-the-past]

Venetian Wineshop (1898) by John Singer Sargent

[weltenwellen]

Rainer Maria Rilke in a letter to Lou Andreas-Salomé, published in Rilke and Andreas-Salomé: A Love Story in Letters

[daisywords]

not everything in a story has to or should be "realistic" but in my opinion there's a level of illusion that should be maintained, and I think that's the actual problem that many people try to pinpoint with the "unrealistic" criticism. Dialogue shouldn't be written like an actual transcript of human speech, but should contribute to the illusion of a real person speaking. A character is a tool of the story, not a narrative, but we're trying to maintain the illusion that they are a person. Worldbuilding should exist to serve the story, not to be a perfect simulacrum of how every aspect of nature/society etc. would actually play out for real. But there should be the illusion that it could be real, that organizations and systems would operate in such a way, that people might behave in such a way.

in conclusion: "Is this realistic?" <<wrong question. "Does this serve the illusion or disrupt it?" <<now we're talking

[dailynarnia]

is jake gyllenhaal gay??

why would you ask us, a narnia blog, this

[helloitsbees]

happy pride month to this post specifically

[rogers-carter]

THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE RETURN OF THE KING 2003 | dir. Peter Jackson

[rubysharkruby]

#and he never forgave, and he never forgot

[wardengrill]

Ingrid Bergman as Paula Alquist in Gaslight (1944)

[cristinaricci]

BEFORE SUNRISE (1995) Julie Delpy & Ethan Hawke | dir. Richard Linklater

[angeliquemaretti]

dear every cat ever

I love you

[spiralstaircased]

I like when people like a character so way too much that it transcends even self shipping or kinning and becomes more of a patron saint that you pray to type of deal

[zendeyas]

Anya Taylor-Joy as Emma Woodhouse – EMMA. (2020)

[sgtjakes]

THE TERROR 1x4 — PUNISHED AS A BOY

[orpheuslament]

i need (abruptly stops talking & stares at some random fixed point with a vacant expression)

[barry2018-2023]

literally one of the most normal things you can do is be born in the 90s

[soupy-sez]

Mikey and Nicky (1976)

[maxxie-or-smth]

i wish i could go to sleep and never wake up ever ever ever but i'm not dead im just sleeping so no one is sad or anything silly like that

[blessyouhawkeye]

forever thinking about that girl at my uni orientation who, after being told to pour out her water bottle before entering an event, looked at me and said "they tell us to stay hydrated and then make us pour out our water, this is like totally kafkaesque" and then poured out what was very obviously an entire water bottle full of whiskey. hope she's doing well.