Icarus 🚦

She/they/he | 🇮🇹 I like animation, literarure, art, philosophy, history, and other stuff that makes me look sophisticated and probably insane

[icarusesdickarus]

inshallah jk rowling loses her fortune and all her hateful deeds are returned to her x10

[alivingtypo]

you can pry starting sentences with 'and' or 'but' out of my cold, dead hands

[today-till-tomorrow]

op how does it feel to be the most correct person on earth

[what-even-is-thiss]

A lot of my vegetarian friends don’t get why I still eat meat even though I mostly eat vegetarian with just occasional meat when left to my own devices and at the end of the day it’s because I just don’t have the same moral issues involved with killing animals that they do.

Yes I love animals. I don’t love them because they’re cute and I feel bad for killing them though. I love them as part of the broader ecosystem. I respect them. Probably more than they respect me, because at the end of the day I know that a chicken wouldn’t hesitate to eat me if it had the means and I don’t see why I shouldn’t strike first.

[nosimpincurly]

You’re not depressed. You just need $250,000 in your bank account.

[catherinebunnington]

Reblog to materialize $250,000 in prev's bank account

[youthincare]

people should be allowed to have low ambition, and also be able to feed a family on the salary of a cashier at a convenience store.

[aetherograph]

And! We need cashiers. And convenience stores. And I think it's kind of broken that society says people who want to do stuff like that have "low" ambition (not you OP, I get you're using it illustratively because that's what society labels said jobs) and don't deserve to live at the same standard as people with "high" ambitions.

If we need someone to do a job, that job is a role in the community and deserves not just a salary but cultural respect for the role.

"high" ambition jobs are all jobs that involve domineering and controlling others. "low" ambition jobs are all jobs that involve service to others. Have you noticed? Because I have noticed.

But serving others is actually more needed than controlling them.

[the-haiku-bot]

But serving others

is actually more needed

than controlling them.

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

[sentientsky]

repeating this to myself forever and ever

[greenbloods]

oh sick someone paved this whole road with good intentions. i wonder where it leads

[aspiringsorceress]

[bebsi-cola]

actually pigs shouldn't be at pride even outside of uniform. fuck those guys

[bebsi-cola]

if you decide to become a police officer then that outweighs any other marginalised identity you can rustle up like. not sorry, who asked you to willingly become a pig

[pekkhum]

I have heard of black people warning their kids that the race of a police officer is cop and you should not expect solidarity from them. The same applies to other types of minorities.

The sexuality of a police officer is cop.

The gender of a police officer is cop.

When you become the enforcer and protector of capital, you are making the deal to be slightly favored by the system over others like you, in exchange for being its servant. Your solidarity is with the system that you serve, even if it hates you.

If you want solidarity with those the system hates, you cannot be the system's servant and defender.

[angrylittlesliceofpizza]

similarly, the social class of a police officer is cop.

[the-haiku-bot]

similarly, the

social class of a police

officer is cop.

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

[icarussomehow]

Another day of being totally normal about platonic relationship

[swallowtail-ageha]

Im happy whenever a travel influencer has a bad experience/complains abt italy because i am always well thank god you wont come here again leave us alone. But also a lot of it and the comments in response are very disheartening because it always ends up being the weirdly orientalizing bullshit of italy and italians are so hot ajd sexy and beautiful but are angry malicious savages that want to scam you if they dont suck you the tourists dick and dare to exist or live in areas that arent #mediterraneangirlaesthetic enough

[artozea]

a (dangerous) dance

(click for better quality!)

[dovesick]

the god of surveillance

[what-even-is-thiss]

Sometimes I think that I ought to write an epic poem about a piece of American history or something but then I remember that I hate writing in iambic pentameter and I’m not a hyper nationalist and also that sounds like a lot of work

[icarussomehow]

[unheardoracle]

Your dialogue is stiff because everyone is being too honest

Great dialogue can come from radical emotional honesty. But in most real conversations, people

dodge questions

answer indirectly

lie (badly)

change the subject

crack jokes to avoid serious answers

lie (convincingly)

say half of what they mean

tell the truth but get so anxious/angry/defensive others now think they're lying

If your dialogue feels unnatural, it might be because everyone is saying exactly what they think, or articulating their thoughts too well. Try letting characters hide things instead.

Subtext is where tension lives.

[spiribia]

I like when healer characters are the blunt ones. Your paladin woman needs to be the sweetiepie who cares about the wellbeing of the group and your healer woman needs to be like House MD. she should be like if you’re not wall to wall pulling I’m not healing you

[theblackparadeisdead]

One day ur a suicidal 15 year old and then suddenly you wake up and you're 22 years old and genuinely debating the merits of iceberg vs romaine lettuce in the salad ur making. Life goes on ig

[myuminji]

winter time modern au