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An assortment of things that I find interesting.

[transfemininomenon]

good god when the onions and garlic hit the olive oil..........

[bumblebeesnees]

Panties hit the FLOOR

[transfemininomenon]

you know it sister

[prettycolors]

[snoopyoftheday]

snoopy of the day

[starrynet]

problematic olympics roster age gap

[animentality]

[poppyseed-art]

[knightkays]

I kind of want to talk about something that I see commented often both here and on other platforms about the moment where an anguished Obi-Wan says, "You were my brother, Anakin! I loved you!" because the comment that I see about it is is often "oh my god, obi-wan broke the jedi code when he told anakin that he loves him" Which annoys me because to me it's like. It's so close to the point that I think that scene was trying to convey (besides just the heartbreak, the betrayal, etc.) but it misses it! Obi-Wan telling Anakin that he loved him does not break the Jedi Code, but Obi-Wan not finishing that fight by killing Anakin absolutely does. Darth Vader goes on to become a SCOURGE unto the universe. I can only imagine his death count and then his death count by direct proxy in training the Inquisitors. The amount of harm that Anakin does to the galaxy is genuinely hard to understate. When the Jedi Code warns against attachments I imagine that not finishing that fight is EXACTLY what it is talking about!

TDLR: Obi-Wan did break the Jedi Code but it isn't that Obi-Wan loved Anakin Skywalker and it certainly isn't because he told him. It's because Obi-Wan could not place the universe above his brother and an untold amount of innocent (and non innocent) people died because of it.

[catchingbigfish]

also i know it's a meme that we all hate writing but that's not true. i fucking love writing. i am so serious, it's okay to love writing. you don't have to hate it to be a real writer. this shit rocks.

[qi-mera]

More of you need to learn about these ☝️

[jadenebula]

[pronouncingitwang]

at some point in your life you will be boiling fruit, water, sugar, and lemon juice in a pot to make a syrup or jam. the instructions will tell you to simmer for a certain amt of time. your timer will go off and you will look at the pot and go, "hm, this doesn't look thick enough. maybe i'll let it go for another 10 minutes." this is the devil speaking. it's only so liquid right now because it is at boiling point. it will thicken when it cools down. learn from the follies of my youth and do not let this happen to you

[yokowan]

at some point in your life you will be making a sauce or a stew in which you need to add cornstarch to thicken it. and you will prepare a slurry of starch in cold water and think "this looks like way too little starch to thicken this amount of liquid." this is the devil speaking. cornstarch instantly polymerizes at 95°C and if you add too much it will turn into an impossibly thick goop.

[le-jardin-inculte]

at some point in your life you will be making some sort of cream based dessert that requires gelatin to thicken it. and you will soak some gelatin sheets in water and think "this is too few gelatin sheets for this amount of cream." this is the devil speaking. it will thicken in the fridge and if you add too much you will end up with milk jelly

[shithowdy]

at some point in your life you will be baking cookies. you will take the sheet out after twelve minutes as the recipe instructs and the cookies will still be glistening and soft. "these don't seem cooked enough," you will think to yourself, "i should place them back into the oven until their edges are nice and golden." this is the devil talking. this is how you get dry, overdone cookies. the cookies will continue to bake on the warm sheet for several more minutes and then harden up after sitting on a rack for a while. trust the process. trust the process.

[whitachi]

at some point in your life you will be adding a small pasta to a soup and you will think "that is not enough small pasta." this is the devil talking. the pasta will absorb the stock and expand. this is how you end up with a soup that is a solid mass of soggy ditalini.

[araceil]

At some point in your life you will be adding garlic to a dish and you will think "that is not enough garlic." These are angels speaking. They are correct. Add more garlic.

[yellow-cat]

i could be your pet rock. id be very good at it

[yellow-cat]

ive had some time to think and honestly i dont think id be a very good pet rock. i dont know what i was thinking. theres too much anger in me

[thetrekkiehasthephonebox]

the best fanfic is the one the author had fun writing actually.

[thetrekkiehasthephonebox]

the second best is the one the author used to work through some issues.

[mikkeneko]

the third best is the one the author wrote out of spite due to some really dogshit discourse going on in their fandom

[rpfwasfine]

it takes 10 layers of the water filter to completely drown a tumblr screenshot if anyone was wondering

[rpfwasfine]

[shutinthenutouse]

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Don't worry the audience extrapolated it back out. You zip the file and communicate it, they unzip it.

[stitchlingbelle]

This is the best explanation of the reader's contribution to art I've ever heard.

[mxrderscenes]

writing is so funny because i could write nonstop for 9hrs and then hit a block where im like "how do i transition between this moment and the next?" and then i just dont touch it for 6 months

[galadrieljones]

Serious advice tho if this happens, it's likely because you already wrote past the end of the scene and wandered too far from the more logical transition point, and you should go back to the last time the writing felt "unforced" and cut everything after.

You can also just skip the transition. Really good writing can span years in a single sentence, like you can just authoritatively state fact and your reader will go with it.

[xalphafox]

This is GOLD! You just saved me like thousands of therapy costs lmao

[headspace-hotel]

When I was writing my fic last few months the strategy I used was "just skip all the scenes I don't want to write" and it worked great in my opinion

[homunculus-argument]

My dash is full of struggling writers rn.

[king-carnivore]

what really fucks me up about watching the truman show in 2025 is how it's not fictional. truman is fictional, but the truman show isn't.

there's thousands of truman shows. you find them on youtube, tiktok, instagram... family and mommy vloggers, sad beige moms and now the trend of neglectful moms showing the "reality" of parenting. all of them using their kids for entertainment. each child their own truman; living a life manufactured by their parents, a camera watching their every moment, broadcasted for the entire world to see.

[king-carnivore]

tbh, i didn't even think about that when i made my post and holy shit you're so fucking right

[kosmogrl]