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Hey,I'm a treasure searcher and also a dragon knight.

[sickjacket]

like this is one of the best vampire jokes i’ve ever heard in my life

[bixels]

i can't express how absolutely important it is that when you make an edgy, brooding, badass character who's tough as nails and good at fighting and whatever, you HAVE to give them at least one reason to become completely helpless and pathetic. you have a panic attack quota to fulfill.

[dykealloy]

I call this the create a new problem technique

[heedra]

so far one theme of the 30s for me has been realizing that literally every human being on earth who appears completely cool and collected and together with it at first glance has some threshold past which enough known information about them will shatter that mystique completely. i don't even say this negatively or pessimistically it's just been helpful to keep in mind that we're all like that.

[everyday-cutephoto]

[ailithnight]

This is a worm? Or perhaps some sort of slug?

[marlynnofmany]

And it's gonna getcha

[gospozha-dafina]

[actiiasluna-deactivated20250103]

[batbetbitbotbut]

When I fail to respond it's an homage to letters getting lost at sea

[hikikomoricomplex]

I see we’ve reached the “blame your failures on communist subterfuge” phase of the AI business plan

[mindblank]

"The Theory taking the Babies by storm: Nap time funded by The monsters under the bed?"

[dragon-in-a-fez]

accidentally said "invasive thoughts" instead of "intrusive thoughts" today and actually I think I'm onto something. this thought does not belong here and it is harming the local ecosystem

[homunculus-argument]

New thought:

You can go back in time to visit one (1) historical person, and gift them one (1) animal as a pet. You don't concern yourself with whether or not it would be ethical to keep this animal as a pet, or how would they keep it at all, but the one requirement you have is that this animal does not naturally occur on their native continent. What are you giving, and to whom?

[homunculus-argument]

I think it would be hilarious to give one of these buggers to Sun Tzu. You now own a giant pinecone possessed with intelligence. The fuck are you going to do with that thing.

[lesbianboyfriend]

the best part about having a job is being able to go through doors other people aren’t allowed to use the worst part is everything else

[fakecrfan]

There are few delights in the world like having a friend start to read Jane Eyre for the first time and then as they are commenting on it you slowly realize that they don't know. They don't know Rochester's deal.

This is like the literary equivalent of meeting someone who doesn't know Darth Vader is Luke's father.

So they go "I don't understand why anyone would have a problem with this relationship! Yeah he's older and there is a class/power difference but he clearly respects her as a person and it's so refreshing!" and you just cackle, cackle, cackle behind your screen until the inevitable day you get this message.

Everyone congratulate my friend @anonymoustypewriter, they just found out one of literature's biggest 100+ year old shock twists authentically without anyone spoiling it for them.

[stealingpotatoes]

my cat has been helping me write emails by sitting on my hands and completely covering my screen. very helpful. the helpfulest, even

[thepromiscuousfinger]

[soulren]

Messing up my customer service hotline job and playing a gunshot sound effect over the phone then coming back with a slightly different accent

[stuckinapril]

I think part of getting better is complete ego death. Like you’re not above setting a timer for 5 minutes and focusing on a task. You’re not above doing a very simple 3 minute workout to start. You’re not above reading for 10 minutes a day when you first get out of your reading slump, even if you used to read for hours. You’re not above starting slow and then building up to where you want to be/where you once were. What you are above is total inertia. Doing something really is better than doing nothing. Radically accept where you are, radically accept your limits, and go from there. Don’t let your ego get in the way.

[fus-mar-hoz]

it is the 15th of April, 1919, a calm day in Milan. The recently formed Fasci di Combattimento march towards the office of Avanti!, the newspaper of the PSI. They force their way in and ransack the place, destroying equipment and setting fire to every piece of paper they can get their hands on. An editor faces down the barrel of a gun and realizes: "if only we'd published abstract and experimental art"

April 28th, 1945. soviet forces are bearing down on Berlin like a bulldozer, preceded by a hailstorm of ordinance. the cutting edge abstract art machine guns tear apart the cement facades of Berlin's government district, pushing the hitlerite regime to its limits and over them, Hitler cannot bear the psychological torment of his reality being torn apart by the legions of experimental artists levied to free Europe from fascism.

[yugo-totel]

that original comment is so historically innaccurate too hahahaha. futurism was THE fascism art style! specifically in 1919 in milano!!!

filippo tommasso marinetti wrote both the fascist manifesto and created this type of art:

i'd call this art quite experimental. it was also deeply fascist. as in like, literally.

yet on the other hand... you had... russian futurists who were anti-fascist!

art is a symptom of its times but is ineffective in combating fucking anything. its valuable to analyze it to see how the society reflects in it; its also used as a part of propaganda, art is incredible and very important... but it wont be combating shit!

take it in the modern example - artists raising funds for palestine through raffles or using their art to get more eyes on fundraisers is a very literal and active use of art; its political, its useful, its applied. but it sure as hell isnt stopping any bombs.