[valkugo]

✨️ karma (dunk) is my best friend. ✨️

[redstonedust]

it bothers me when someone brings up misogyny in shounen anime and people shrug it off with "its designed for teenage boys, what can you expect." like well. idk i think its actually pretty important that shows for teenage boys are normal about women. i mean i think all media should be normal about women but teenagers are impressionable i think we could put a little bit of feminism in the teenage boy shows. it might do some good. you never know.

[wordfather]

not my circus not my monkeys but thanks to my mutuals i know some of the lore

[ulysses-but-somehow-more-transer]

take my ass to torture city where the grass is ouch and the girls are hit me

[armpits-are-crying]

nope. funkytown again

[ulysses-but-somehow-more-transer]

come on

[byjove]

how many people do you think use speech to text to write fanfiction like how many people in this world are sitting alone in their living room vividly reciting the nastiest sex scenes with perfect diction

[armadillorollup]

know the difference!

[eldritchbauble]

I can't fuck with people who are fundamentally uncurious.

[eldritchbauble]

I also can't fuck with people who are fundamentally unkind.

[zooophagous]

I have been a sheep caretaker for like two days and already I'm like. Wow. I get it.

I get why these were some of the earliest mammals to ever be domesticated. They look up to humans with this sort of dumb but all at once innocent and pure and trusting expression. They're happy to see you. They follow you around. They like to be rubbed under their chins. Maybe its just some latent Scottish highland shepherd DNA I still have in me but I look at my sheep charges and suddenly I see why the love of God for humanity is so often described as a shepherd and his sheep. I'd fight a wolf for these guys. I'd go way the Hell out of my way for them. I'd carry their young for miles on my own back.

[upward-bound]

nearly 80k reblogs and how many of you eat lamb

[zooophagous]

The ancient shepherds I'm referencing also ate lamb lol

[banhmigoddess]

My one boring tip to anyone in their 20s is to resist the temptation to rot in your room every time you get a free moment. Dismiss any neuroses you have about going outside and "being perceived". Be a dictator about it, plan your hangouts like they are binding commitments. No excuses! Go to the bar with your friends. Be kinda hungover at work. Socializing is like exercise; even if you don't feel like you want to, you should still do it because it's good for you.

[blumineck]

Be yourself as best you can whenever you can.

[what-even-is-thiss]

I run into people on the internet who seem to assume that everyone secretly wants to live a rural life as a farmer and at a certain point I’m like okay man if you believe that so hard why aren’t you getting a degree in agriculture or something?

Or are you just staring at solar punk and cottage core drawings and yearning after a reality that will never exist

[what-even-is-thiss]

Come on bitch, get into plant biology. Study supply chains. Start shoveling cow poop. Spend all day trying to figure out what’s eating your tomatoes. Make the reality you want for yourself.

[what-even-is-thiss]

Study the science of agriculture. Spray some chemicals. Release the ladybugs. Come on now.

[what-even-is-thiss]

Like seriously there’s organic farming communes out there you could join. One of my cousins lives that life.

I’m serious. Do you actually want that life? Like actually? Picking spinach out in the sun? Living communally? If you actually want that there’s ways for you to do it.

I know I don’t want that because I’ve grown my own food before. But if you want it there’s not much stopping you. You could drop your current life plans and go back to school for agriculture anytime you want.

[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.

[dopedyk]

more so,

people don’t always speak in full sentences,

slang can change depending on age range, demographic, etc. &

don’t be scared of vocal pauses (uhm, uh, err)

[a-method-in-it]

The best advice I ever got on dialogue is a) to listen to people talk and b) realize that you've never actually done that. No really. You haven't.

People don't speak in full sentences. They start sentences over. They pause to search for words. They use filler words and phrases. They use tons of nonverbal communication to get their point across.

And more than anything else, they are speaking extemporaneously. They don't get to pause indefinitely the way you, the writer, do in order to find the perfect way to say something. And they don't say things perfectly.

So go sit in a public place and listen to people speak and actually pay attention to the words they use. You will be shocked.

[clovreat3r]

My two favourite parts from my favourite Russian series lmfao

[couldtheycatchkira]

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[h0n3yl3m0ns]

The Three Bogatyrs

Figured I may as well post the three divas here too! Plus the bonus of them all seperate, which I now realize makes more sense for the blue fade out -_-

also realize that i forgot to add the patterns I wanted on their dresses...

[eilraee]

Slay queens

[dogpuppy]