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NO FEAR. The actors who played Long John Silver and Captain Flint in Black Sails FULLY ACKOWLEDGE that the Muppet adaptation was the best

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saint-batrick

alder-knight

hi i hope i get to be the one to break this news on Tumblr, because

I am reading Tim Curry’s 2025 memoir, Vagabond

and in it, he not only devotes a chapter to Muppet Treasure Island, but also references this very post

so, to recap

no, Tim Curry is absolutely NOT a Muppet; however

yes, he and Miss Piggy ABSOLUTELY fucked

wolfythewitch

furthest we've ever been

clearwingedmaven

Gonna go sob now

#project hail mary

mosslingg

My liege im sorry to break it to you but your advisor that's actually evil and wants you dead turned out to be straight. I know you really wanted to have an enemies to lovers situation with him. Yeah I'm afraid the poisoning didn't hold any romantic intent behind it. The king of the enemy kingdom is bisexual though, I could send him a letter? Yes, I'll make sure to include multiple threats of homoerotic nature. You will have your toxic yaoi, my liege

centrumlumina

An analysis of the top fanfic relationship pairings on Archive of Our Own from 2013–2024.

The Pudding wrote an article based on my AO3 Ship Stats project. They first contacted me several months ago asking permission to license the use of my data (not just reposting it uncredited like some sites I could mention 😒), and they also interviewed me and allowed me to give feedback to make sure that my work was accurately represented. I had a great experience working with them on this piece!

Please head over to the finished article to check it out!

millionsknives

oh edward elric bleeding out and nearly dying impaled by a massive steel beam shaving pieces off his soul and years off his life because he chose not to kill the objectively worst guy he's ever met but he's just like. ah. if this is the price i have to pay for mercy i'm glad to pay it. 16 years old, unshakeable belief in the value of a life, shortest fuse in the world, mad as hell at all times, heart of gold for all of humanity. no one is doing it like him

millionsknives

it had to be kimblee too. it's a necessary part of any hardline pacifist's story to come up against the worst guy ever and still choose principle. anyone less evil would have been worth risking his life for. kimblee wasn't worth it at all. still ed doesn't mind. a lesser story would have made this the turning point where ed learns that he should kill but nope, that's not who he is, this doesn't change anything, the value of a person does not change. he's gonna live with his decision. he knows kimblee's never gonna change he knows his mercy is wasted he knows everyone thinks he's stupid but it's the principle of the thing. and it's the outflow of the action. mercy won't save kimblee but it saved his 4 men. it's a beacon for miles. it saved winry. it can save scar. as soon as 1 person isn't worth it, none of us are because one is all and all is one.

silentwalrus1

tags from @parkersgeorg

circumference-pie

Website idea: Writers of all nationalities give each other advice on how to name OCs from their native culture/language.

For example, a native English speaker can tell you that "Henry Edward" is kinda weird and evokes Tudor kings, and a native Chinese speaker can tell you that, I don't know, "mīmī" sounds cute but means titties.

supernumerarianism

Re: Chinese names, there is something cool people should know about, (maybe you already know):

Using this database, you can access the names and biographical information of real people across Chinese historical periods and dynasties. You can go on here and find the names (not just given names but courtesy names and other sorts of honorary aliases, depending on the period) of thousands of real individuals, though it's almost entirely men in the older dynasties. Very few women.

Need a character name for your Tang Dynasty official? Check out the CBDB and find a *literal Tang Dynasty official* to grab a name from!

#useful #ressources #names #writing

teaboot

Too bad the prophet Cassandra never met Odysseus

teaboot

They say if she made a prophecy Nobody would believe her

edgar-allan-possum

I’ve gotta say, that is exactly the kind of stupid thing that probably would circumvent a curse.

elidyce

Cassandra: YOU ARE ALL GOING TO REGRET THIS SO MUCH YOU DON’T EVEN KNOW.

Odysseus: Regret it why?

Cassandra: You won’t believe me if I tell you. If I prophecy, nobody believes me. That is my curse.

Odysseus: … I’m Nobody. Fill me in.

*A couple of months later*

Odysseus: HELLO PENELOPE, I AM HERE PRECISELY ON TIME AND NOT YEARS LATE incidentally I rescued and adopted a Trojan seer while I was away, she’s great, got me home really fast, Cassandra this is your new mother who’s not going to treat you like shit.

Penelope: … I’m going to need more details, but okay, sure.

Cassandra: *in tears* I love you, new family.

cipheramnesia

Cassandra: Penelope, I’ve had another vision.

Penelope, sighs: Go tell your father.

val-the-bun

sankta-wraith

the original? on my dash?

absolutely-esme

Apollo: you’re the one who unleashed your little freak of a trouble maker on my Greek tragedy! You don’t get to blame me for this.

iheartvelma

via

#project hail mary

rainintheevening

Okay, we got a new one, boys.

fleshengine

Close enough welcome back Chekov's gun.

comma-souptra

Prev you can’t bury this in your own tags

#writing

higgsbison

happy glorious 25th of may

drop-of-infinity

I don’t think we talk enough about how the entirety of Wicked is built on the irony of No One Mourns the Wicked. The musical exists because Glinda feels the need to tell Elphaba’s story, because she is in mourning and entirely alone in that. Glinda’s love is what creates the musical because no one mourns Elphaba except her, and that is an incredibly lonely place to be. She’s just lost two of the most important people to her, and all she’s trying to do is make someone, anyone else see how important they were.

tunemyart

Wicked is a frame story. This often gets lost in the stuff that happens inside the frame. But it's wildly important who's doing the framing - Glinda - and why - because she's grieving.

But! It's not just grief! It's a decision. It's a character point! It's very much akin to the moment where a young Galinda stepped onto the floor of the Ozdust and started to dance opposite a young Elphaba... and just as delicate a moment.

Because what we definitely don't talk about enough is that Glinda is telling this story in a way that explicitly breaks a promise she's just made to Elphaba near the end of the story. Glinda, panicked and distraught at realizing what's about to happen and her own inability to stop it, cries, "I'll tell them, I'll tell everyone the truth!"

To which Elphaba immediately says, "No. They'll only turn against you."

"I don't care!" Glinda says.

"Well, I do!" Elphaba retorts. "Promise me you won't try to clear my name."

Overcome, Glinda promises in the face of Elphaba's fervor for her safety... and then turns around and immediately breaks that promise.

The thing I also love about this is that we don't see the reprecussions of her decision. We have no idea how it goes for her - if in fact "they" turn against Glinda. Chronologically, the last we see of Glinda in the show is her hovering on the decision to tell the story. "Yes, I was her friend. Yes, I loved her. This is how it happened, and this is what it meant."

Whether or not they turn against her is irrelevant. The fact that Glinda's telling the story at all is her final triumph over her character, her absolute culmination of self. That it's also a testament to Elphaba and their friendship - ultimately the final and most important thing to her - is beautiful. Here, whatever else comes, she's found not only strength, but peace.

elusivemellifluence

#god you are so right #because after all – she already lived that! she already had power & acclaim for the small price of lying #lying about the wizard. lying about her best friend. lying and lying and lying and lying and-- #'I couldn't be happier!' she chirps at the opening of act 2 and it's a desperate cry for help #she has stifled the truth and had the life she always dreamed of and it's been choking her #and elphaba doesn't know that. how can she? they don't exactly correspond #all she sees is that her friend is safe and beloved #and on the news she's always smiling #so elphie begs – demands – 'don't tell the truth about me. don't stop lying.' #what she's really asking is 'don't sacrifice your happiness for the idea of me. I'm lost anyway.' #but glinda isn't sacrificing her happiness for elphie #she's doing this for herself #maybe she couldn't be happier. maybe she can't. maybe this is as good as it gets and all other options are worse. #but if they turn on her and her life is ruined--well. at least it will be HER life #and not this paper-doll facsimile she's let herself be turned into (via aethersea)

editing is so funny because it's like "damn, i wrote 'before' two times within three paragraphs. they are going to stone me in the town square for this"

#writing

azurele

*packing my suitcase for a 3 day trip* hm, but what if I need my terracotta warriors..

fansplaining

Part of why reading fanfiction in our own languages can feel so “cringe” has less to do with the language itself and more to do with who we think owns certain storytelling spaces. Fanfiction, by design, is playful and deeply participatory; it thrives in environments where readers feel free to take apart and rebuild stories. Right now, those environments are overwhelmingly English. Most global fandom platforms operate in English, and that’s where this culture of rewriting, joking, experimenting, and pushing boundaries has already taken root. So English becomes the default language of escapism; it’s where fiction feels fluid and open to play. By contrast, our local languages haven’t been as visible in these fan-driven, low-stakes creative spaces. We’re used to encountering them in more formal, “serious,” or real-life contexts. When they suddenly appear in something as unserious, imaginative, and indulgent as fanfiction, it can feel jarring—not because they don’t belong there, but because we haven’t been taught to see them as languages of play.

— in our latest, Soila Kenya writes about the complicated ways linguistic capital, colonialism, and cultural hegemony can separate English (for fanfiction, fun) from non-native speakers' local languages (for Serious Literature, everyday life).

Read the whole piece or listen to Soila reading in an audio version: