CHAOS, CHAOS!

Dagger | voidgender | it/its | 30+ | bsky: courtjesters

[harlequincourt]

okay hello after putting off reinstalling tumblr mobile after a major update fucked it

hello. i return

[sparrowlucero]

your dark fantasy novel doesn't need a logic-based magic system it needs a bear with a human face

[sparrowlucero]

the human-faced bear principle of storytelling: the amount of people who will remember the exposition about the rules of magic or the history of elf culture inherently pales in comparison to the amount of people who will remember the scene where someone gets mauled by a bear with a human face

[sparrowlucero]

this isn't a call to necessarily include a literal bear with a human face (though you should at least consider it. obviously.) but pointing out that, while a lot of sf/f writing advice places heavy emphasis on fleshing out the small details of a fictional world as much as possible (which can be fine and valuable for many stories), there's often little attention given to the value of including effective "bear attack scenes", for lack of a better term; tense, scary, shocking, weird, or otherwise visceral scenes or concepts (the pale man, the chestburster, the sunken place, the raptors in the kitchen, artax in the swamp, the annihilation bear, the parasite basement, the blood test in the thing, etc) despite those having a significantly higher hit rate of making a story striking and memorable and recommendable to people

[webhoards]

[thecollectibles]

Art by Seok98

[albertserra]

Men don’t go heyyyybatterbatterswingbatterbatterswing like they used to anymore

[albertserra]

We can’t have anything in this fucking world

[eye-5]

love this person knowing enough about baseball to know about the pitch clock and not enough to even approximate the league’s acronym

[blankfaerie]

ALICE: MADNESS RETURNS 𝖁𝖆𝖑𝖊 𝖔𝖋 𝕿𝖊𝖆𝖗𝖘 ৹ 𝔚 𝔬 𝔫 𝔡 𝔢 𝔯 𝔩 𝔞 𝔫 𝔡

[sexchangedotcom]

the internet is a place for reading wikipedia articles and watching every movie for free. social media is an invasive species. never forget this

[etchif]

Bearded vultures will see an iron oxide rich mud puddle and go 'is anyone going to bathe in that' and not wait for an answer

[etchif]

Me when I see an iron oxide rich mud puddle

[tfroika]

[jareckiworld]

Jiang Miao (姜淼) — Heavenly Eyes No. 69 (acrylic on wooden board, with carving, 2022.7.30)

[valtsv]

i love the part of making art where you feel like you need to go missing

[oxbowreality]

A world unbroken... The center unfolding... The carved mountains... ... it calls to you Whatever. Go my seraph.

[neilcicierega]

If someone beats you up for being "cishet white male" and nothing else, is this okay? Did you deserve it?

what if the world was made of pudding

[my-life-is-a-sidequest]

Sometimes not being a person for the first 27 years of your life makes "things" hard

[chickensnack]

TUESDAY AGAIN NO PROBLEM

[chickensnack]

congratulations to me and my funny dog that i drew 8 years ago for getting a million notes

[kelocitta]

3 mothers

[too-chill-ka]

Them being a trio would go hard lol