Trying my best

(she/her) this is my fourth attempt at a Tumblr account

[enlightenedlady]

So I finished Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr a couple months ago and have been going CRAZY because I cannot find anyone else who has read it.

Is anyone free to freak and nerd out via dm's?? (Me by the end of the book ↓)

[analogbooks]

A text–a book–is a resting place for the memories of people who have lived before.

– Anthony Doerr, Cloud Cuckoo Land

[eventuallavender]

them: A non existent Martin Scorsese film can't hurt you

me: *sobbing* If we really were in love you wouldn't have missed

[aloy-despite-the-nora]

Make some Stranger Things dice 😊

[artsystargazer]

Bell's Hells as Major Arcana.

[brewerssupplies]

In your travels you may encounter that which wiggles and all things else that are slimy! As an oozer you are able to harness the power of ooze! Yes folks! The oozer is finally here, after a few rough drafts I got it done! Hope you enjoy!

[PDF]

[brightwanderer]

I think a lot about how we as a culture have turned “forever” into the only acceptable definition of success.

Like… if you open a coffee shop and run it for a while and it makes you happy but then stuff gets too expensive and stressful and you want to do something else so you close it, it’s a “failed” business. If you write a book or two, then decide that you don’t actually want to keep doing that, you’re a “failed” writer. If you marry someone, and that marriage is good for a while, and then stops working and you get divorced, it’s a “failed” marriage.

The only acceptable “win condition” is “you keep doing that thing forever”. A friendship that lasts for a few years but then its time is done and you move on is considered less valuable or not a “real” friendship. A hobby that you do for a while and then are done with is a “phase” - or, alternatively, a “pity” that you don’t do that thing any more. A fandom is “dying” because people have had a lot of fun with it but are now moving on to other things.

I just think that something can be good, and also end, and that thing was still good. And it’s okay to be sad that it ended, too. But the idea that anything that ends is automatically less than this hypothetical eternal state of success… I don’t think that’s doing us any good at all.

[enlightenedlady]

I had to pitch a video game concept based on media that already exists for a school project. I decided to do mine on The Power by Naomi Alderman and now I can’t stop thinking about how cool this game would be.

[flysafepapi]

Bones is great because 99% of the time it’s just “Here’s a dead body, we have to examine the evidence to find out what happened to them, it’s all very scientific and technical” and then that 1% of the time it’s “A ghost helps Booth escape from being blown up in an old ship”

Get you a show that can do both.

[ryegarden]

Something I was going to submit for a competition but then I didn’t.. inspired by The Power