[orpheuslament]

terrifying when you watch a movie or a show or whatever & youre like that was fun but it felt a little redundant they didnt need to hammer the point home that much & then you go online & theres thousands of people going that was so weird i did not get it what did that mean google.com ending explained please?

[grynwood]

Your honor, I love them, they're so horrible

[jackfrostdoll]

there is something so perfect. so emblematic of the pop culture landscape we live in. that for the next however long, the canonical ending of doctor who is that the doctor turns into billie piper for absolutely no fucking reason

[minloafie]

I'm a bit late but happy birthday Honglu!

[celestial-fang]

Abyss-shattering sunset

[Canto V fanart]

[minloafie]

Canto 3

[mimi-maru]

[vvenli]

meursault and some others

[nylilcosmos]

Edelgard von Hresvelg 𑁍ࠬܓ

[tanoraqui]

I just love love love that there’s a guy wandering about Dungeon Meshi going, ‘but what are the socioeconomic and geopolitical consequences of this fantasy quest adventure, both while it’s ongoing and after its inevitable completion?! The skillset required to find and kill a Mad Mage is different than that required to responsibly, benevolently and effectively rule a kingdom. I personally must either find a good candidate, somehow make one, or, most likely, take on the whole Mageslayer/King role myself.” Except he doesn’t have the first skillset, and his whole party keeps dying while these highly competent chucklefucks wander past, kill and eat the monster, and save their bodies for the nth time. Kabru would demand to know if Aragorn is familiar with Gondorin tax law. His isekai energy is off the charts, because this is all exactly what I would do if dropped into a fantasy quest adventure, right down to repeatedly dying due to not actually being suited to the genre conventions.

[chuukiyouwu]

Happy birthday to my precious one 🥞 0602

[pansy2025]

goo goo dolls if they were in dune: and i don’t want the worm to see me

[mezzodical]

[cheaphalloweencostume]

The iron hook slid free from his shoulder with a wet metallic shriek. Something black and arterial splashed across the stones between them.

The torturer stepped back instinctively. Not out of mercy. Out of surprise. The prisoner laughed. Not loudly. Worse than loudly. Softly. Like he had just remembered a private joke older than civilization.

“You still think pain is a language,” he said.

Another blow. This time across the mouth. Teeth cracked. Blood sheeted down his chin in long ribbons.

The interrogator hissed through clenched teeth. “Tell me where God went.”

The prisoner turned his head slowly. There was blood in his smile now.

“There are organisms,” he said, “living beneath Antarctic ice that have never seen the sun and have still learned how to eat.”

The room had gone very still. Somewhere in the dark, machinery groaned.

The interrogator grabbed him by the jaw hard enough to bruise bone.

“You think this makes you immortal?”

The prisoner spat a clot of red onto the floor between them.

“No,” he whispered.

“I think it makes you temporary.”

The torches flickered.

For one impossible second, the interrogator became aware of his own pulse. The heat in his veins. The soft wetness of his eyes. The damp animal electricity inside every living thing. The prisoner watched realization bloom across his face and smiled wider, blood running between his teeth.

“You cannot threaten a creature from the dirt,” he said, “with returning to the dirt.”

— excerpt from Shit I Just Made Up To Exemplify How All This Tumblr Prose Sounds

[cheaphalloweencostume]

i am not mad at the sweethearts in the comments and replies going “but i like this!” and i will write a weird hook torture scene in whatever i work on next just for you. with more beautifuler words and actions and dialogue that Means

[marzipanandminutiae]

this is fascinating to me- I feel like people think it's good because it sounds superficially Smart

it uses figurative language ("there was blood in his smile" rather than "his mouth was bleeding"), a somewhat advanced vocabulary, and lines of dialogue that hint at deeper thematic meaning. so it's writing by a Smart Person and therefore Good! Bad writing sounds Stupid, which is what makes it Bad. duh!

except that it does not, as OP says, Mean. the dialogue is a string of one-liners rather than a conversation, both characters talk in exactly the same voice, nothing is described directly and therefore the oblique and/or figurative descriptions become stale rather than evocative, and the "deeper meaning" is nothing

"you still think pain is a language?" what does that MEAN, in this context? the torturer isn't trying to communicate; he's trying to get information. that line is a total pretty non sequitur, but it's pretty. so people assume it is Good

what a masterclass in the need to read things that aren't fanfic if you want to write well, even if you ARE writing fanfic. because if you don't, you've just created an echo chamber of people learning from good fanfic written by people who DO read non-fanfic, and mistaking which aspects make it good

[mcaelius]

star wars is so fucking stupid. yoda can't just have a walking stick he Has to have a magic wookiee painkiller gimer stick full of nutritious juices. ?

[mcaelius]

sucking the juices out of yodas walking stick. ?

[cheaphalloweencostume]

i need to come up with a way to say “i mean like, movies for grownups” that doesn’t make me feel like a villain

[cheaphalloweencostume]

*peeks in the replies* *gets really nervous and locks my house up and leaves*

[cheaphalloweencostume]

well, i mean more like La Piscine or Mulholland Drive,

[cheaphalloweencostume]

i think i am going insane

[mrblackhaironthestreet]

Apparently it is impossible for Tumblr users to think of a not ageist way to describe their tastes, because everything must always be compared to how inferior children are -- despite the fact that it is pretty much never the choice of any child or children when media aimed at them is dumbed down etc.

Things when bad: kids and children are involved!

Things when good: this is very Adult this is specifically Adult only Adults can understand or want this

[cheaphalloweencostume]

i literally just don’t want to watch Kung Fu Panda

[cheaphalloweencostume]

okay we’ve come all the way back around. let’s pack this up. this post is done. “who asked” you just walked into my post that i made on my blog..? who asked YOU?? am i losing my fucking mind?????

[lady-of-math-and-rope]

"I want to watch movies where the writers assume the audience can handle complex themes and sensitive material."

"Do you mean porn? Or are you being ageist? You're ageist if you don't like Kung Fu Panda."

[charl0ttan]

is it good when this is the best praise you could have used for your movie commercial

[sannuiz]

thank you for 5 seconds of screentime king