what if the world was made of pudding

kiwi / chinese american / ze/zir / 24 / id prefer if proship did not interact if possible

[sapphling]

let's all have a fun time looking up new words when we encounter them to see what they mean before incorporating them into our vocabularies

[wileycap]

[godsfavoritespecialangel]

The chances of your fish committing credit card fraud is low, but never 0

[tuxankhamun]

[gryffon]

[infertilityidol]

[lockkeyy]

Fuuuuckkk dude. My exact age? Fuckkk

[kingcatnine]

i know it's not fair to compare the writing of recent debut tumblr authors to Terry Pratchett no matter how much they want to be him but reading a discworld really is making me despair at ppl not understanding what makes a metaphor good. Pratchett just hit me with "the silence of the room crowded in like a fist slowly being clenched" and you want to try my patience with sharpened bananas. go home.

[rebellum]

Hard disagree!!!

I really like it, its a good simile. It tells me how ridiculously oversized the claws are. If it were just "giant claws" I'd assume normal giant claws, like a grizzly

But with this description I'm imagining like

[kingcatnine]

yes, it tells you that the claws are the size of bananas. but it says "like sharpened bananas", invoking the spirit of the banana: soft. yellow. sweet. it invokes the size, but not the menace, of huge fuck-off claws, and distracts the reader from a high-action moment by inviting them to imagine trying to sharpen a banana to hurt someone with

[badassdemonsword]

[spaghettiwoman46]

Ugh they are always doing this

[keepcalmandcarriefischer]

Little freaks

[only-cat-memes]

[anchovy]

Made a lowball offer on eBay as a joke and it got accepted. uh oh.

[anchovy]

I’m so fucked

[hokkotarumae]

theres this one kind of phenomenon happening on occasion thats sort of the inverse of the usual where fans of smth become convinced a piece of art has a theme intrinsic/loadbearing to its story or presentation that careful scrutiny will tell you was Not the artist's intention and thus isn't factored into how their long term plan is thought out so you have to watch them stuck in a sisyphean battle where they get frustrated with the focus piece for not following through on/going against what it never had anything to intentionally say about in the first place

[9cl]

Driving around my town trying to find one single burger just one burger or a hot dog but Unfortunately everythings just rubble and twisted scaffolding upstretched and rotting and theres shit on fire and a big black ass sky

[official-kircheis]

[9cl]

Guess i cant do shit anymore Cause the sewers are all muddied with a thousand lonely suicides... And yep, you guessed it: a dark wind blows.

[a-book-of-creatures]

This is stupid! Were you born yesterday? (the mayfly’s big limpid eyes fill with tears as it looks at me) oh god I’m so sorry oh no oh god

[mortalityplays]

remember like 15 years ago when black bloggers were talking about this exact shit, 'digital blackface', white internet users appropriating images and clips of black people and using them as cartoonish exaggerated expressions of absurdity or high emotion. straight line from minstrelsy to your reaction gifs and nobody fucking cares any more. white people just decided not to acknowledge it and it went away, just like every other time black users have ever tried to criticise any aspect of online culture.

[neuronflyeater]

[clementine-kesh]

the unfortunate side effect of developing a more critical eye for fan behaviour as a product of society™️ is that new fan takes on a piece of media become fairly predictable. oh the white guy with daddy issues is your favourite? you think the asian man is an adorable subby cinnamon roll? you think the woman in a position of authority is either mom-coded or a total bitch? say less

[szyszkasosnowa]

Andor makes me want to write a Star Wars fanfiction but it's so scary. What if I write "Glup Shitto was sitting on the balcony, drinking coffee and reading his favourite book", but someone comments "didn't you mean he was drinking glop-goppy and reading a holo-journal? 🤨" so I open wookiepedia to check it out and it turns out that they also never invented balconies in the star wars universe and Glup Shitto can't read because of the freak accident he suffered in the episode 10 of the 2024 show "Jar-Jar and Babu Frik". What then.