Life Is Beautiful

She/her Microbiology major My mildly nonsensical immunology shitposting sideblog is @incorrect-immunology-facts. My hornyposting sideblog is @apotheosister.

[charl0ttan]

i have personal beef with everybody who has ever taken umbrage with something

[boxocroco]

This vexes me

[homeostasister]

I to am in this episode

[bgm05]

the reason usa birth rates going down is because we have a whole generation of women whose sexual awakening was Sans undertale and none of the men want to wear jorts and drink ketchup and go Er er er

[deep-dark-fears]

We've got you covered. An anonymous fear submitted to deepdarkfears.com/submit - thanks!

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#comics #deepdarkfears

[homeostasister]

@imregenfahrradfahren peer reviewing your comment because that’s such a cute image.

[card-designers-without-borders]

[cbk1000]

So, I lurk in some writer subreddits, and a frequent topic of discussion is prose: what constitutes good prose, how do you write it, how do you improve it, etc. And yesterday I stumbled across one topic about the difference between good descriptive prose, and purple prose. OP asks people to share some of their favourite authors who they think write beautiful prose without tipping into purple. No problem; people are happy to oblige.

One person says that Steinbeck is one of their favourite authors for prose, and then they share an example of what they would consider purple prose. It is so violetly awful that I think the poster must have written it themselves as a kind of parody of purple prose. Other people assumed the same.

But as it turns out, they are quoting from a book written by a YouTuber whose channel ia dedicated to talking about writing (namely, their own writing, which is genius, but often not comprehensible to the drooling plebs).

Naturally, I read the free sample of their book in awe and horror, and I'd like to share some screenshots with you. If you also have trouble defining or understanding what purple prose is, it's this.

Yes, every single fucking page is written like this.

[cbk1000]

Reading some more of the preview for this book, and I realise this is by far not the biggest problem, but I'm begging this guy to just use 'shadow' instead of 'umbra'. I promise I will not accuse you of being a philistine.

[cbk1000]

'Noctilucent orbs'. Even fanfic written by a 14-year-old wouldn't dare.

The author is a man in his 30s, btw.

[the-pen-pot]

*throws this in the face of everyone who has ever accused me of writing purple prose*

[neverwalka1one]

I thought the Amelia Peabody series was purple. I owe the author an apology. Uffda

[real-language-facts]

you may not know this but fishes speak better and more complicated languages than humans

[theblackparadeisdead]

I'll admit it I'm a freak who loves airplane turbulence it's like a roller coaster to me. It's fun and a rush and I'm tired of pretending it's not

[kittyote]

when youre aromantic you still get dead wife flashbacks but its just about that really fucking good sandwich you ate last week

[hellsitegenetics]

im a big fan of how entering "homo" into BLAST's organism-specific search field will show you every way a scientist has ever typo'd homo sapiens

[littjara-mirrorlake]

in the searched field. straight up "homoing it". and by "it", haha, well. let's justr say. My sapients

[cosmonautroger]

jellyfish babies

[cathartidae]

[source]

[homeostasister]

I found a bunch of old Scientific American magazines I had, so I decided to cut out some pictures and make this moodboard celebrating mammals.

Idk, I thought it was kind of fun and wanted to share.

[spaceshipsandpurpledrank]

[anais-ninja-bitch]

unrestrained summer fun

[sylvrndoodles]

angel of death ( ˙꒳​˙ )

[beardedmrbean]

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

I was like "wow that's really dark chocolate syrup" before I realised I was just looking at ants

[homeostasister]

That is really charming.

[devilishdescent]

pokemon is about siccing your dog on a creature that is intrinsically, biologically, a baby mime

[devilishdescent]

pokemon is about an act your dog can perform on someone else’s dog, which sports announcers and scientists alike are calling “gunk shot”

[homeostasister]

Does anyone know a tumblr post that’s like “*panting, covered in blood* I did it for the aesthetic” or similar, I don’t remember exactly what it said but I know it was about doing destructive things “for the aesthetic” and I want it for an OC document I have.

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

everyone jokes about the pope's hat but most people don't know it actually serves an important purpose! evolutionary threat display to assert dominance against rival bishops

[ytposter]

piggest-gaydiest-polterjeist:

everyolle jonks aboube's pepo's pepis butt: doc'tor's don't wanst you to know it infactually perves an AMAZING DIGITAL purpose!

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