Bad Wolf

Haven't been on here since like, 2014

[fen-ryr]

Haven't been on here since like, a thousand years so hi I guess

[quotemadness]

“You get a strange feeling when you’re about to leave a place. Like you’ll not only miss the people you love but you’ll miss the person you are now at this time and this place, because you’ll never be this way ever again.”

— Azar Nafisi

[quotemadness]

“From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.”

— Edvard Munch

[amarveloustune]

what's a non-covid reason that you like wearing a mask for? mine is that it hides my mouth-breathing on long flights of stairs

[quotemadness]

“I’m not much but I’m all I have.”

— Philip K. Dick

[tiktoksthataregood-ish]

[rodokrosite]

@granpuff

[hymnsofheresy]

i was with my mother’s family and they were talking to me about my religious studies major. my great aunt asked me what the definition of hell was, and i responded “well i suppose it depends on who you ask.” and nearly all the protestants in the group decided that hell was “the absence of god” which i suppose is a fair answer, albeit not a universal one. my cousin’s wife was playing with her 3-year-old daughter and she says “well mommy says that hell is a mcdonald’s playplace” asdfghjhgfd

[hymnsofheresy]

this 3-year-old girl is so fucking hilarious. her mothers have signed her up for a toddler yoga class, and so she has adopted a very unique language. this child also has an imaginary friend named “mom” which is, in her mind, the boss of her two mothers. for example, my cousin’s wife explained to me how her daughter got mad at them one time. the little girl situated herself in the corner of her crib, pretended to type on a cell phone and said  “im writing an email to mom right now and telling her how bad you two are. namaste.”

[hymnsofheresy]

the family’s Big Theory about “Mom” is that both my cousin and her wife are referred to as “Mommy” and “Mama.” The nickname “Mom” is not used in the house because it would just be confusing. However, when interacting with the world, people tell their daughter that they will “tell her mom” if she is doing something wrong. so this child automatically assumes there is this greater “Mom” figure that is responsible for distributing universal justice. 

[alexaloraetheris]

To be fair to the toddler, that’s pretty much how religions get started.

[dantescandlestick]

Our Mom, who art gonna hear about this,

[versegm]

A psa to my youngest followers:

- An older adult solely hanging with younger teens (I’m talking 25yo & 15yo) and who doesn’t seem to have any other adult friend is a red flag.

- An older adult talking to a younger teen and saying stuff like “you’re the only one who understands me” “I’d hurt myself if you weren’t there” “You’re my only friend” is a red flag.

- Someone (regardless of age) who constantly ends up in discourse & drama is a red flag.

- If you’re afraid to talk to your friend(s), if you feel like you’ve got to tiptoe as to not set them off and get yelled at/ostracized/worse, that’s a red flag.

Please take care.

[homo-sex-shoe-whale]

If you’re gay you had at least one of these phases growing up:

Greek mythology

Ancient Egypt

Outer space

Emo music

[shadowkat678]

All four bitch

[podcastwizard]

i'm watching howl's moving castle and i've decided on a new maslow's hierarchy of needs

[logicallythyla]

I have an alternative I would like to humbly submit for consideration:

[podcastwizard]

only two genders

[ghost-cassette]

This is Calcifer erasure. What if I want to eat while merrily crackling away in my cozy fireplace?

[roguemortal]

[podcastwizard]

three genders

[starrymothwings]

art…Hard

[wildnya]

writing… hard

[starrymothwings]

[byelacey]

may i add

[everythingfox]

Delivery for somebody sad

[aspiringwarriorlibrarian]

You think that Game of Thrones’ utter failure to live up to his premise would be proof enough why “anyone can die” is bad writing when divorced from story, narrative, and theme.

You have to actually have CHARACTERS to make a story work. You can’t just kill them off over and over again for shock value because that would leave the audience with zero investment, either in new characters who are just there to die, or in established characters who will survive everything because The Plot Decrees It. The idea that “anyone can die” is a lie, even in the most grimdark of stories, because death is a plot device. Every character you kill just because you can is another character that can’t develop, affect the plot, or reinforce the theme. Death is an important narrative choice and has to be made in conjunction with character arcs, story, and theme.  That’s why GOOD writers make use of multiple consequences to their stories (amputation, loss of friends or family, trauma, depowering, character development, severing of alliances, loss of home) rather than just death, because it keeps the stakes of the conflict without having to resort to death to “prove” that their story has meaning and that their characters’ actions matter.

Game of Thrones figured this out too late, and it’s glaringly obvious with how many characters gain plot armor or how many armies respawn or how many decisions turn out to not matter because the writers wanted to play grimdark but didn’t respect the consequences. And yet you still have people who cling to this simple binary of “death makes good stories” and think Game Of Thrones is bad in later seasons because enough people didn’t die, not realizing how earlier seasons being careless with character and plot were what CAUSED those later seasons.  It’s not the writers forgetting how things worked, it was the inevitable result of bad decisions from the beginning.

Death isn’t the point. Consequence is. If you don’t know how to handle consequence, it doesn’t matter how many people you kill, the story will fall apart and cease to matter. While good writers can keep their stakes high without the characters ever being in danger of dying, because the reader/watcher/listener knows that there will be consequence.

[belles--rose]

Maddie Ziegler didn’t even want to take the title role in “Music” at first, and she cried and had emotional breakdowns repeatedly when filming because she was afraid that Autistic people would think she was making fun of them.  Sia. Basically pressured her into taking the part and going through with it. So on top of everything else, the main actress was manipulated and exploited as well (especially since Maddie was 15 I think when they filmed it). Just gross all around.

[kelbremdusk]

It’s true. Fuck Sia. Trash human.

[porphyra]

maddie was 14 during filming [x] and sia started planning music around her when she was only 12 (contradicting the claim that she originally tried to hire a neurotypical actor to play the lead). [x] but we really need to talk more about the very intense and dependent relationship sia has with maddie, starting from when sia was 40 and maddie was 12:

sia stated that she “can’t do a project without [maddie]” and “wouldn’t make art if it didn’t include her" [x]

maddie has been said to have slept in sia’s bed on multiple occasions when she was 12 [x]

maddie stated when she was 15 that she “lived with [sia] more than i have with my actual family" [x]

sia has been referring to herself as maddie’s “sister” and “bonus mom” since maddie was 13, and has admitted to having control over maddie’s career, public image, and even her security team [x]

maddie is sia’s employee AND a child. this is not an even power dynamic.

[enby-life]

Bitches be like “I’m panphobic” go outside and get a hobby, goddamn.

[enby-life]

If “exclusionist” is a central part of your identity in the year 2021, please GOD get off of tumblr and talk to actual real queer people. Hold a conversation. Touch some grass.

[fitzefitcher]

#not to be rude but if you genuinely believe your biggest threat as an LGBT person are LGBT identities you don't like existing#genuinely go outside. speak to an LGBT person over 25. read something other than posts.

[sandersgrey]

[ID: The "at home on a Friday night?" Sonic meme, but it's been edited to say "You're an exclusionist in 2021? God, you're pathetic." End of ID.]

[thenatsdorf]

Dad who didn’t want a cat. (via)

[ghostlyss]

[awesome-bluehair-universe]

In case you writers ever wondered. Made by Carrie Patrick on Facebook.