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A problem I have when reading romance novels is I cannot empathize with disliking someone but finding them attractive regardless. If I dislike someone I'm like "You are like a wadded up ball of sweaty socks and I want you to burn in a pyre, undying and screaming for days"

parkchanwoohoo

"He infuriated her, though she was willing to admit he was a handsome man" I couldn't begin to tell you what the people I dislike look like because I see red instantly. If you were like "Is he the blond one" I'd be like "idk he's the one who most looks like he should die"

#random #same

luminarai

listen, I’m not the biggest fan of kids but if a child looks at me then you bet I’m gonna smile back at them. kids deserve to experience the world as a kind and safe place to explore okay.

scarlet00rose

But the world is not kind or safe.

citizen-zero

then Fucking do your part to make it that way.

#random

moonlightduelist

i would make an excellent goon. i’d be like ”on it boss” and then i’d fuck it up instantly.

#random #gpoy #queue

dantesparda-moved

The Temple of Styx is the gateway of the Underworld, and acts as the barrier between the surface world and the land of the dead. At the back of the temple, the watchful hellhound Cerberus assumes his post, devouring any soul attempting to leave. The Temple is the 4th and final biome Zagreus must fight through in order to escape the Underworld, after surviving the perils of Elysium.

LOCATIONS IN HADES [1/?]

#hades #hades game #temple of styx #gif

notebooks-and-laptops

Varric looks at Hawke and calls Hawke his 'business partner' and from that moment on is just like 'I would follow you. I would follow you anywhere. I would follow you to the damn deep roads. I would follow you to the stupid storm coast. I would follow you away from here and every comfort I have ever known and loved.' He avoids his brother for three years after his brother attempted to murder him and then Hawke shows up and he's like 'I can confront him actually, but only if you're there by my side.' He sees Hawke lose so many family members and says 'when I tell this story you will get closure even i can't give it to you in real life', he says 'when you have nobody left you will have me and I will remind you that you have others who we have collected who are just as devoted.' And when everything goes to shit and the world explodes around them he says 'I will not let them demonise you/your sister; when they think of you they will see sympathetic mages trying to do the right thing and not needing a circle to cage them regardless of the fact that you were directly involved in the destruction of the kirkwall chantry that so many people are using to justify horrible treatment of mages'. He looks at the statue of Hawke by the docks that looks nothing like Hawke and says 'this will not be your legacy. I will make them see you how I see you not as some marble figure without your likeness'. And when people come with chains for Varric and tie him up he says 'I cannot follow you right now Hawke, but I can lead them away from you. I can make them stop looking. I can protect you even if it means I'm dragged halfway across the world and away from my home.' It's a level of devotion that is unparalleled.

#dragon age #dragon age 2 #varric tethras #hawke #text post

atanertheartist

+/- 30 min doodle of my fav apostate

#dragon age #dragon age 2 #anders #fanart #queue

jentrevellan

Barkspawn! As voted for via my twitter 💜

#dragon age #mabari #barkspawn #fanart #Cute

theminttu

I’m back to work and there’s some cool stuff coming up later this year maybe huehue but for now I only have half-assed sketches…

Ages ago I saw a post floating around about how Hawke’s favor for Anders would be the ribbon for his hair so

#dragon age #dragon age 2 #handers #fanart #hawke #anders #OMG

sketchingsparrow

“They say your Inquisition is a place of refuge and redemption. I must say, I could use a little of both right now, if you will accept my services.”

caed-nuas

[Start ID: A drawing of Anders from DA2 from the knees up, his face is in portrait. He’s looking to the left, his eyes glowing blue. He’s wearing mage robes, with black, feathery shoulder pads, a green overshirt, grey shirt and brown pants. In his right hand, by his knee, he’s holding his staff. And in his right, in line with his chest is a blue, glowing orb. End ID]

#dragon age #anders #fanart #queue

sawasawako-archived

people really just read books like “no thoughts head empty 🤪”

sawasawako-archived

between white women on tiktok saying they only read books for the romance and people on tumblr forcibly applying ao3 tropes to narratives i’m beginning to think maybe you all should’ve paid more attention in 10th grade english class

bernard-black-books

I was talking to this girl on hinge and we got onto the topic of books (i work in a bookshop), and she asked me if i had any favourite tropes to read? And for the life of me i couldn't figure out how to respond? Like Ms, i dont read fanfic, i dont understand what youre asking. I dont think 'tropes' can be used interchangeably with 'genre'. We dont have a section at work for shit like 'enemies to lovers' im sorry thats not how real literature works

werewolfmack

I thought this post was gonna go somewhere relevant and interesting for a full second, but I guess not. Tropes are older than dirt. The idea of a trope has existed as long as humans have been making things, and it’s not empty-brained to ask what tropes someone might enjoy reading. For example, someone could answer: haunted houses. rivalries that span decades. tales of revenge. generational family dramas. coming of age stories. stuck in a snowstorm with a killer. The word trope is just a way people currently talk and think about concepts in literature that we’ve been thinking and talking about for ever. It just adds a layer of specificity. If you can’t comprehend someone asking you what tropes you like to read, you might not totally understand what a trope is, and that doesn’t make the other person dumb.

What I was hoping this post might touch on is how people cling to book reading as a hobby that will make them automatically smarter or more superior than those who aren’t, no matter how little mental engagement they actually put into reading. There are people who shit on novels like Things Fall Apart, The Jungle, and Invisible Man for not being “entertaining enough.” There are people who base their entire personality on being an avid reader who chose to never think critically or challenge themselves. There are people who think reading makes you more empathetic by default, when in reality anyone, even terrible people, can project themselves onto the hero if they can’t think critically about their own life and choices.

People can just be into romances, that isn’t inherently stupid. Nor are knowing what tropes they enjoy. That’s just how some people engage with books, and we shouldn’t be looking down at people for that. I have way more issue with the white goodreads users who rate Things Fall Apart as two stars and start their review “I guess I’m racist for not liking this.” I too am annoyed at the failure of public education, and I too was flabbergasted when someone on reddit asked “what’s the point of comparing two very different books to each other” when I pointed out that American Psycho kinda has Lovecraftian themes. But you’re falling off the mark here, to go on about how you hate tropes because they can also be applied to fanfiction tags. 🙄 This attitude is how people start calling themselves sapiosexual.

headspace-hotel

“That’s not how real literature works”

If you think “real literature” doesn’t “work” that way, you’re not thinking substantially about literature, neither in individual instances nor in the broader scheme.

What do you think a tragic hero is? What do you think a quest narrative is? How do you think we can conceive of Seven Basic Plots? What do you think Comedy and Tragedy are? Do you think the Aeneid popped out of nowhere without referencing any of the patterns of Greek epics that made it compelling to its audience? Do you think Shakespeare was popular because his plays were “original” ideas with storylines that would have been surprising to his audience? Do you think fairy tales sprung out of the air as discrete individual units? Do you think no one has ever written anything that follows the patterns of Greek epics, Shakespeare, or fairy tales intentionally? Do you think “literature” contains no works that intentionally evoke an existing pattern in their plots and characters?

“Genre” as bookshops use it is not somehow superior to “tropes.” Fantasy, Westerns, Paranormal Romances, those categories are like, less than one or two centuries old and also damn near useless for anything except marketing. Genre is a hot fucking mess and pretty artificial. Tropes on the other hand? Those have always existed. They are, quite literally, inherent and natural parts of stories.

What “genre” is the Epic of Gilgamesh? What “genre” is the Odyssey? Fantasy? Do you think it is in any way appropriate to “genre” these stories using categories that would have been nonsense to their ancient audiences? What the fuck is fantasy?

Over and over again, we have told stories about heroes destroyed by their hubris, about mortals struggling against the inevitability of death, about the antics of trickster deities, about clever young boys outwitting giants and other malicious characters, about young girls swept into royalty, about brothers in conflict with one another, and the ability to identify these patterns and explore why they have persisted is…basically what literary and folklore studies is.

Just because you consider fanfic or romance to be “lesser” doesn’t mean they can’t be analyzed, or that the mechanical components of those things don’t exist in Real Literature. 10th grade English class clearly didn’t do any good for the people that did pay attention, if people are growing up thinking tropes were invented on fanfiction websites.

And it’s just a depressing point of view to be so preoccupied with how people “should” tell stories that how people do tell stories is not even interesting.

xiaq

All of the above is A+ but I'll add one more thing: do you know what I just finished filling out for my publisher? Of the book that will be in bookstores next year? Paperwork listing the genre and...the tropes. For marketing and sales purposes. This is standard procedure. It's how my book will be marketed online upon release. It's how my book will end up on suggested title lists. It's how Amazon's algorithm knows that such-and-such book is the bestseller in two niche categories and 20th in a broader category as well as 56th overall in YA titles. So aside from the fact that "tropes" have existed far longer than "genre" as folks have stated above, the people/companies who make "real literature" right now literally require authors to provide lists of tropes included in the novel at the front end of the publishing process.

So if you're working in a book store and don't think tropes exist outside of fic, that's a self-own so devastating I'm getting secondhand embarrassment right now.