[happydivorce]

what unravels me every single fucking time i think abt flint is how fucking sincere he is. u get introduced to him as the no1 lying liar who lies for fun and profit and then slowly as u peel off the layers at the heart of it he's just so fucking raw and vulnerable and he Wants the people he loves to see him like that. he invites them to see him like that. miranda knows the shape of the wound and that's why they still love each other bc her wound mirrors his bc it's from the same weapon. they recognise each other. and he lets in silver and says this is the wound at the heart of me and i think you have one of these too and yours might be like mine or at least close enough for us to understand each other. i recognise something in you. and then silver fucking flinches

[theshunbun]

Goes for your art, music, writing, hobbies, etc 🖤

[commodoresays]

So when I was making this post of James and Thomas talking with their backs turned, my original intention was to include Miranda, just assuming she has the same habit, like how all three are nerds who give books to make points.

There are times she talks when someone walks up behind her and times she keeps talking as she walks into a room, but she usually turns pretty quickly.

But this is the longest I could find her intentionally talking with her back to someone, and it’s more for dramatic flourish than avoiding eye contact, as so many characters so frequently do to her.

Just an interesting bit of physicality from a character I find endlessly fascinating and will likely be turning around in my brain for years to come. (She will be turning herself around, I suppose.) I will always love her. And I will always respect that when Miranda Hamilton has something to say…

…she looks them right in the eyes.

[korkiekenobiconfirmed]

[elliot-geltz]

[whatagrump]

there’s no way this hasn’t been done before

[goldeneko]

characters can have a tragic backstory so long it requires days of scrolling on their wiki to read and they still won't come close to long john silver's single line, "you know of me all i can bear to be known."

[queerofthedagger]

"i asked chatgpt" well i asked james flint and he said this is how they survive you must know this you're too smart not to know this they paint the world full of shadows and then tell their children to stay close to the light their light their reasons their judgments. because in the darkness there be dragons but it isn't true we can prove that it isn't true. in the dark there is discovery there is possibility there is freedom in the dark once someone has illuminated it all this will be for nothing we will have been for nothing. defined by their histories distorted to fit into their narrative until all that is left of us are the monsters in the stories they tell their children

[grey-wardens]

I have one regret. I regret ever coming to this place with the assumption that a reconciliation could be found. That reason could be a bridge between us. BLACK SAILS — EPISODE XVIII.

[elliot-geltz]

Literary Merit: The SCP Wiki

[andhumanslovedstories]

There’s such a delicious enjoyment for me in scenes that are fights between two people that are so brutal because of how intimate their relationship is. They WILL bring up ancient history, they WILL stab you in all your weakest parts, and yeah most sexy of all, they WILL say things to each other they can never unsay. It’s fighting as an act of intimacy (derogatory). Evil sex scene. Nothing better

[mumblingsage]

I'm wondering if, as a society who cares about vulnerable people, we could stop saying "traumatize" when we truly mean "upset"?

I am sick of hearing sad books or movies "traumatize" their readers. I simply do not believe that happens. A traumatic experience might be adjacent to books (I have vivid memories of books I was reading around certain experiences and even how the contents of those books affected my processing of the experiences). But it's not caused by the book. And, y'know. The weather is Christofascist Censorship Attempts outside.

Meanwhile from the other side I continue to be surprised at just how badly people fail to understand trauma and traumatic experiences in general. Watering down the term isn't helping. Find other hyperbole to express that The Bridge to Terebithia gutted you, chewed on your heartstrings, and made you cry your first pair of contact lenses right out of your preteen eyes.

[mumblingsage]

#meanwhile actual trauma is not always experienced as consciously upsetting! #people may act extremely chill while being traumatized! #only to then be judged by a peanut gallery on how they handled things

I added those tags as an afterthought but upon reflection I want them in the main body of the post too.

[mumblingsage]

This post is taking off and I'm wondering if it may have been because of my tone, which was harsher than I truly like to be. Still,

We have got to be cautious of talking about books as if they're dangerous

We've got to be wary of the idea that talking about upsetting topics in general is dangerous (usually silence is far more harmful!)

We could stand to be a bit more accurate in how we discuss traumatic events and their effects

[tabloidsores]

On the topic of horror/Lovecraft writing: the best example of "maddening knowledge" I've seen was in a Delta Green game my friend ran

Long story short my agent is holed up in a sweaty motel, and has learned basic initiate ritual magic which allows the practitioner to see concealed/"hypergeometric" effects. Upon casting my agent sees that all of the sharp corners and angles in the room are actually yawning gateways from which an extradimensional predator (hound of tindalos n all that) that had been stalking us could jump out from.

So she takes about an hour and duct tapes all the hard angle corners she can find to make them smooth. She wasn't able to sleep without that safety, it was a perfectly logical and smart move to make. To the housekeeping, she looked like either an asshole or a freak. The GM had perfectly coaxed me into doing something that made me look totally unhinged to the rest of the players and the characters around me; it's still my favorite example of how "maddening" knowledge doesn't actually make anyone mad, it's just fundamentally shattering your worldview and assumptions

[dragons-locator]

So she takes about an hour and duct tapes all the hard angle corners she can find to make them smooth.

dragons

DRAGONS LOCATED

[tomhoppusdelonge]

pretty sure i was born with big hands so I could grope boobs I think

[beardedmrbean]

[monchursouls]

🌾🌾🌾

Harvesting my wheat

[rat-in-the-grain]

Hehehehehe

[monchursouls]

Can I fucking help you?

[valtsv]

i was so sad, i drew a little bat so i wouldn’t be sad. and now i am no longer sad.

[valtsv]

here is a little bat to banish your sadness

[conquerorwurm]

This nice little bat reminds me of this other nice little bat who was drawn in the 1200s:

[trekmemes-deactivated20220205]

[manipulated-pieces]

This is the only website where I routinely see people say things like “oh this reminds me of something I recently saw from the 1200s”