[lostanomoly]

[versegm]

Literally cannot emphasize enough that my #1 writing advice is to stop being afraid. Stop being afraid of sounding too cringe, or too stupid, or too horrifying, or too horny, or too weird, or too much, or too little, or too you. You need to put your entire pussy into your art. Sure, it won't be to everyone's tastes, but if you keep yourself to the blandest tamest safest roads possible you will be of no one's tastes, not even yours.

[teantacles-deactivated20200702]

A cut transgirl romance comic by Garun

[curioscurio]

ANIME'S REAL, RIGHT?!?!

Anime is real

Anime is not real

Voting ended onJul 19, 2023

[rongzhi]

Making a Chinese lacquerware bracelet

song: 兰亭序 - 周杰伦

English added by me :)

[weaselle]

me 75% or the way through this video:

“this looks like it takes so much skill and knowledge, but ... istg this ugly ass thing looks like a damn mall pretzel, idk what the hell it’s supposed to-”

me the last 6 seconds of the video:

[lesbianbloodritual]

i think tumblr urls in the old superwholock fandom style are like those old household appliances that got discontinued because they had asbestos or uranium or whatever in them - maybe you have a beloved cousin or old high school friend who still has a dean-and-loki-in-the-tardis and sure it's not great but what are you gonna do, make them get rid of it? come on, that's katie's url, she's had it forever, it's fine. but if you find someone that has a brand new castieldrinkingteawithsherlock then something dark is afoot. they have regulations against making any more of those. you should be able to cut tumblr users open and count their rings like trees. i bet some of you got horny reading that last sentence

[boxingcleverrr]

I mean, we knew, but it's nice to hear so succinctly

[tigbiddygandalf]

hold on

let me change into something more comfortable

[madhyanas]

obsessed with the opposite of the childhood friends trope. what if we were just some guys meeting for the first time with like. no significance

[madhyanas]

what if we never had that long and complicated history that leads us to continually justify each other’s actions. what if i never had any hand in your sculpting and now i’m left with the final, hardened figure you’ve since become. what if loving myself and loving you were suddenly two different things. there’s no overlap between you and me. then what. then i’d have to know you on purpose

[waltzingbi]

*me, literally sick with want* whatever

[smugpugchimera]

An Angel

[smugpugchimera]

just feel like sharing some trivia since a lot of ppl seem to like this drawing. This creature's appearance was inspired by bomb chipped concrete I saw a lot when visiting a friend in Irpin :0

[jawsstone]

Proud but angry

[metanarrates]

escapist media in general is an ongoing fascination for me. media written with escapism as a main priority typically requires very little thought from the reader - the whole point is to kick back and live vicariously through a fun story, after all. they're narratives written to prioritize reader comfort.

but because they are written to be as unchallenging as possible, they often come with a set of underlying assumptions that can be just fucking fascinating to unpick. like yeah, why IS it assumed to be escapist and indulgent to enjoy colonial wealth without thinking about it in regency fiction. why IS the self inserty female protagonist, who is assumed to be as universally relatable as possible, written to be sweetly naive and sexually inexperienced. why does this "queernorm" contemporary world replicate patriarchial structures exactly but just with Gay People Allowed. why are these ideas assumed to be easy and comforting? can the writers not imagine anything better than the status quo but except maybe with more gay people and poc if you're lucky?

the fact of the matter is that "unchallenging" fiction tends to just simply replicate dominant cultural narratives as a point of comfort. we won't challenge the reader, so we won't think about the way we write certain things. everything we think of as comforting and safe are, of course, universal, and could not be founded on any harmful ideological assumptions. there is nobody who could be alienated by this.

and that's the sticking point to me, in terms of escapist fiction: it's always necessary to ask whose comfort is being prioritized. you've got to interrogate who gets to escape and the mechanisms by which that escape happens. escapism can be good and necessary to survive the current world, but it does not exist in a vacuum separate from the real world, even if it pretends it does!

[alicedrawslesmis]

hwey guys did you know that les mis is good. did you know this. not a lot of people hwre know this.

[shitpostingfromthebarricade]

WHAT??????????

[petz5]

i’m curious how i compare- how old were u when u realized u were lgbt. not a feeling something was different abt u but when u could finally put a name to it (even if its since changed)

under 10

10-12

13-15

16-18

19-22

23-25

over 26 (put in tags if u want)

i’m cishet/see results

Voting ended onJul 13, 2023

(no shade if u realized over 26 i just didnt want the list being a mile long)

[jezifster2]

You know. Reading is important. Because I'm like always trying to make every line I write this groundbreaking mindfucking art but like. A book is 90% just saying what happened. "I hugged him around the waist." "The chair was brown and overstuffed." "I woke up alone." Etc etc. Like normal ass lines. I just keep comparing my boring, necessary to set a scene lines, with famous authors' absolute best lines and like.... every line doesn't have to shatter the earth. Sometimes someone just sits in a chair and the lines that wreck you come later, one at a time, here and there. It's alright.

[kagaintheskywithdiamonds]

[yorhaw]

Hi I’m op of the twitter post. I was referencing this tumblr post I saw ages ago. I didnt expect it to blow up.

[footlongdingledong]

hi I’m the guy that made that post. Yours is funnier