JupiterPlease

sleepy. call me jupiter. she/her, mostly fandom reblogs but sometimes I post stuff, too. art advice is always appreciated.

[isabelopaque]

when the character is genuinely unsaveable and was doomed from the start

[prokopetz]

At this point I've seen like three unconnected pieces of American media set in a superficially idyllic small town with a big fuckoff lake that functions as a liminal boundary between the Known and the Unknown and in which a major character attempts suicide by drowning, and now I'm wondering if the Liminal Death Lake is just a thing American small towns have.

[jupiterpleas]

she by elvis costello is so iwtv............

[theyurimustflow]

Jane and Max never got to talk about California

[madmax-in-wonderland]

do you ever think about how steve was originally written to die but they liked joe so much they let him live. el, on the other hand. it didn’t matter how her story developed or how good millie was. she was always going to die. how am I still finding new things to be mad about with this stupid fucking show!!!

[aropride]

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[photo of the character]

i love my this. the charactr

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charac te r. ... ... . .... #FUUUUCK. THE CHARACTER.

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DOES ANYBODY EVER THINK ABOUT .THE CHARACTER

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[1.5k word essay about the character] #but like idk maybe im wrong

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character i love youso badly.

^dash when someone is possessed by The Character core (this post is positive)

[nhyhu]

she wanted to say yes,

[yenvengerberg]

INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE Season 1, Episode 4 | Season 3, Episode 5

[kookiedeadbutterflies]

You can tell the difference in Lestat’s intent based on who was telling the story.

In Claudia’s version of events, Lestat was being cruel by making her watch Charlie burn. Grabbing her with his hands and forcing her to gaze as his face melted. His face is serious as he tortures her with this lesson.

In Lestat’s memories, he was holding Claudia’s hand the entire time as she watched Charlie burn in front of her. His face is melancholic and tearful as he likely recalls Nicki being burned by Armand. He was enduring the pain with her in real time.

Claudia never knew any of this because she never looked back to see his face.

[cloudabserk]

actually men getting off to lesbians has been a mainstream idea for a long time. basically every sitcom for at least the past 30 years jokes about it. and yeah there are some homophobic or disrespectful women out there but imo the average woman engaging with boys love content is far more considerate and thoughtful about men’s inner worlds than the average man jerking it to girl on girl porn is towards women’s.

maybe men should start writing several thousand word fanfics on women’s complex nuanced lesbian love affairs. and women should start ignoring men’s inherent humanity while jacking it to videos of two shirtless guys making out. would that be less of a double standard?

[paperandpencilsandskips]

[digitalkiddo]

If you're writing anything involving cons, scams, heists, or morally questionable characters who are very good at lying, here are some free resources I've been using for research. Saving you the "why is this in my search history" anxiety.

1. The FBI's Famous Cases & Criminals archive (fbi.gov/history/famous-cases) has detailed breakdowns of real fraud cases, Ponzi schemes, and confidence operations. The language they use is clinical and precise, which is perfect for getting the procedural details right.

2. The FTC Consumer Sentinel Network publishes annual reports on the most common fraud tactics in the US. Great for understanding how modern scams actually work and what makes people fall for them.

3. The Smithsonian's American Art Museum has a free digital collection of forgery case studies. If your character forges documents or art, this is gold.

4. Court Listener (courtlistener.com) is a free legal database where you can read actual court transcripts from fraud trials. Want to know how a real con artist talks under oath? This is where you find out.

5. The Internet Archive's collection of old newspaper crime sections. Search for "confidence man" or "swindle" in papers from the 1920s through 1960s and you'll find incredible real stories that would feel too dramatic for fiction.

Bonus: The Psychology of Fraud section on the Association for Psychological Science website has accessible articles about why people trust, how deception works cognitively, and what makes someone a convincing liar. Essential reading if you want your con artist characters to feel psychologically real.

Reblog to save for later. Your WIP will thank you.

[bookwyrminspiration]

sometimes I think about how Wymack made the foxes because he never wanted another kid to go through what he did only for his own son to qualify. and then i stare into the sun

[girlovid]

kevin day should’ve been an ancient greek tragic heroine and instead he got stuck in a self published 2010s contemporary sports/crime thriller… and he didn’t even get put on the woke team so he doesn’t know about estrogen or bisexuality

[bassenji]

what they don't tell you about sex is that it doesn't have to involve sex

[evvergreen]

tumblr is the website for if you're just someone's weird sister

[wanderingcoasties]

“The LEGO Movie was my favorite movie of 2014, but it strikes me that the main character was male, because I feel like in our current culture, he HAD to be. The whole point of Emmett is that he’s the most boring average person in the world. It’s impossible to imagine a female character playing that role, because according to our pop culture, if she’s female she’s already SOMEthing, because she’s not male. The baseline is male. The average person is male. You can see this all over but it’s weirdly prevalent in children’s entertainment. Why are almost all of the muppets dudes, except for Miss Piggy, who’s a parody of femininity? Why do all of the Despicable Me minions, genderless blobs, have boy names? I love the story (which I read on Wikipedia) that when the director of The Brave Little Toaster cast a woman to play the toaster, one of the guys on the crew was so mad he stormed out of the room. Because he thought the toaster was a man. A TOASTER. The character is a toaster. I try to think about that when writing new characters— is there anything inherently gendered about what this character is doing? Or is it a toaster?”

— Bojack Horseman creator Raphael Bob-Waksberg commenting on how weird gendered defaults in entertainment are, and why we should think twice about them. Excerpted from this longer original post. (via 360degreesasthecrowflies)

[jupiterpleas]

i just want to live in a well-lit apartment and not feel this gaping hole inside me