I Should Be Sewing

I'm terrible at short, pithy descriptions...can we just pretend this says something clever?

[ach-sss-no]

when brandon sanderson talks about villains in his famous free youtube writing class video lectures he'll say 'what's the difference between gollum and sauron' and of course he means the villain that's present in the narrative and characterized in a way the audience can potentially relate to or sympathize with vs. the looming threatening anonymous far-off force (among other things). but every time he asks that i think 'well one of those guys tracked down frodo and got his ring back'

[mysteryteacup]

Brandon Sanderson: What's the difference between Gollum and Sauron?

OP: Skill issue.

[inthetags]

Reblog and put in the tags your favorite lyric from the last song that you listened to.

[syrenki]

your daughter is a pleasure to have on the dashboard

[bismuth-soup]

Reblog if prev is a pleasure to have on the dashbord

[grapehyasynth]

Heated Ravelry: forbidden romance between two competitive knitters

[redstonedust]

tragic when a thing gets hate for being 'woke trash' and you look into it and its not even that woke. like cmon man i was promised monacle popping gay commie propaganda. this is just a video game with a woman in it.

[terror-billie]

it's a weird emotion when somebody goes "doesn't this just shake you to your core and rewrite your dna and change who you are as a person" and your honest experience of it was that it was ok

[fellshish]

i’m so glad goncharov happened pre ai slop era

[questions-about-blorbos]

If your Blorbo had to wear the clothes (or the lack of clothing) you are wearing right now (assuming it could be made to fit them, no matter what size they wore), would they be happy to be wearing it (or to not be wearing anything at all)?

Yes, they’d be happy with it

No, they wouldn’t be happy with it

Neither of the above. They wouldn’t care or have a strong opinion on it anyway

Voting ended onJan 7

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[bleepabloopa]

two lonely kiddos

[amarguerite]

@chimericaloutlier what is it like to be so right

[hazelhills]

Got The Scholomance trilogy for Xmas, so I'm rereading it AGAIN and it occurred to me to use Google translate on the Arabic briefly used in A Deadly Education.

The voice whispering in her ear is teaching her how to pronounce "murder" and "screams", in case you were also wondering.

[songofsaraneth]

every time i ask people if they do any new years resolutions its all ooooo i dont like making them bc i fail or ohhhhh no i couldnt keep up wiht that and then when they ask me and i tell them about Pasta Quest (i am eating as many different pasta shapes as possible in the space of a year) or when i did Fruit Adventures (every time i saw a fruit i had never eaten before id get one and eat it and read the wikipedia article about it) theyre like hang on i forgot you can make Fun Ones i want a fun one

[songofsaraneth]

while i actually made this post back in May, since New Year’s is approaching here’s some of my fave suggestions from the tags if you’re looking for inspiration!

other favorites from the notes I didn’t get screenshots of at the time:

learn the names/species of local plants, bugs, and birds where you live (iNaturalist or Merlin the bird app help with this)

learn the rules to 10 new card games

steal the colored paint cards from hardware store paint aisles and use them to make art

try out every different apple variety you can find and rank them

similarly LOTS of people in the notes doing soup quests, and a few cheese quests also

similarly lots of people reading/watching certain amounts of media over the year, and tracking/rating it

track the number of cats/dogs/etc you see over the year

there’s plenty more in there too :)

[hazelhills]

Ooh I did the apple one too! Completely unscientifically - I didn't even keep count. But I must have tried at least 30 varieties.

Favorites: Sugarbee, Hunnyz, Evercrisp, Envy

[augmentedpolls]

What was the cause of the worst (physical) pain you’ve ever experienced?

chronic pain/chronic illness

break/sprain

kidney stone

labor

period cramp

an actual weapon

getting hit in the balls

something else

results

Voting ended onJan 6

[eldritchwyrm]

very funny when people describe naomi novik's scholomance as dark academia because yes of course it's a critique and subversion of dark academia as a trend in fiction & as an aesthetic about desiring certain forms of power and prestige. so yeah i guess it's dark academia in that it's participating in the genre, except for the fact that the novels consist of the protagonist hitting the genre with a steel chair until the genre gives up and admits that colonialism is bad maybe.

but also like yeah it is dark academia in the sense that the light conditions in the scholomance are fucking terrible. broken lights constantly. also everything is grimy. no one is showering properly and nobody has brushed their teeth with toothpaste in 4 years. dark academia in the sense that the characters are barely visible under a layer of dirt. just try turning THAT into a pinterest board

[warmfigure]

i am massively overdue for a very very good week where not a single bad thing happens and everything is easy

[unlettered-heathen]

reblog to give prev a very good week where not a single bad thing happens and everything is easy

[hazelhills]

Chief Scott: Blanc

Helen/Marta/Jud: Mr. Blanc/Blanc

Suspects: Mr. Blanc/Blanc

His freakin Husband: Blanc

Lt. Elliot: Benny

I need some backstory here dammit

[carouselcometh]

Devastating! Art museum gift shop doesn’t sell prints of specific and unpopular painting that struck a cord with you!

[thepromiscuousfinger]

[chaifootsteps]

#Please little bird

[meriwetherwrites]

I love that the modern-day tumblr post equivalent of chain emails only requires me to reblog a relatively pleasant image instead of forward an email to a bunch of my friends and family members to quell my raging anxiety.