Have courage and be kind.

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[smilecapsules-deactivated202106]

open a new window somewhere in the world. 

[prokopetz]

Flavours of unreliable narrator:

Lying to the reader

Lying to themselves

Simply misinformed

Not paying attention

Has weird priorities

Assumed you knew

Hates you personally

Bad at communicating

Easily sidetracked

Will believe anything

Has weird prejudices

Just kind of dumb

[glowcowboy]

it is important to cling to wonder btw

[glowcowboy]

many people grow up and forget what it feels like to be a child. we must remember this. we have to remember what a joy it is to play. to learn. to build connections. to grow. to experience. we must hold onto the things that awe us. we are changed by what we love

[firstfullmoon]

aria aber, “my father drives me to düsseldorf airport” / hedgie choi, “salvage”

[mynorthernattitude]

please accept my sincerest oopsie daises

[depsidase]

[persianmom-deactivated20251026]

what will it be, boss? the comfort of misery or the pain of change?

[wizard-of-interesting-failure]

[redarmyscreaming]

[petrichara]

Don’t talk to me about the astronauts of the Artemis mission naming a bright moon crater Carroll after commander Reid Wiseman's late wife. She is literally loved to the moon and back, forever

[carmengonzalez]

“I’m very interested in emotions like sweetness, which have no place in the pantheon of educated concerns, and yet are very important to me. Sweetness is the opposite of machismo, which is everywhere — and I really don’t get on with machismo. I’m interested in sensitivity, and weakness, and fear, and anxiety, because I think that, at the end of the day, behind our masks, that’s what we are.”

— Alain de Botton (via brilaro)

[darkaviarymc]

Tragedy alignment chart. Feel free to use, but please reblog if you do.

[mikkeneko]

And of course the second part of the tragedy, which is: which quadrant did you think you were in vs. which one you were really in

[mynameisrocks]

[hex-urge]

Copious amounts of touching and kissing while watching LOTR Trilogy extended edition when?

[sluttypatrickstar]

HELP

[poorshadowspaintedqueens]

Loving prev's tags:

#you know how in voyage of the dawn treader there's that incredible sequence on the island#where eustace meets a dragon and is entirely incapable of recognizing it as a Dragon#because he didn't read the right kind of books as a child#no one is born knowing things there is always a moment when you learn for the first time#and i grant that fairy and fae are different words#but baby girl#please#the only acceptable way to post this is after you do a MODICUM of research and are admitting this is a thing you just learned!#we do not sit and stew in a soup of our own ignorance forever lest someone else season it with their disdain!!!

But also the fae are the opposite of open-source. They always extract a price.

[the-hearth-and-the-wild]

“Mythos, in Greek,” said Borges, “is not a story that is false. It is a story that is more than true. Myth is a tear in the fabric of reality, and immense energies pour through these holy fissures. Our stories, our poems, are rips in this fabric as well, however slight.”

Jorge Luis Borges, quoted by Jay Parini in Borges and Me

[thememedaddy]

[kat2107]

Let me tell you a story.

I am an archeologist. I specialize in a somewhat obscure but by no means boring or meaningless Neolithic culture in Germany.

It has a Wikipedia page. A well curated, surprisingly extensive Wiki page that encapsulates all the important information about the culture, including literature references for further research.

One day, we asked Chat GPT about this culture. W were curious which details it would get wrong.

ALL OF THEM, except for the fact that it's a culture in present day Germany.

It didn't even get the chronological time frame wrong and called it a celtic culture.

When we told it it's wrong, it came at us with made up literature sources. Literally made up. It took two well known German archeologist who weren't even active at the same time, added a year - both were already dead - and sold that as source.

And it LITERALLY would only have had to quote Wikipedia to get everything right.

THAT is how unbelievably shitty and wrong all those AIs are.

They are making shit up. They are not sourcing information, they're just slapping words together by their most like relative occurance.

Do not trust ChatGPT or any other so-called AI ever.

[unscriptd-deactivated20260317]

Apartment Dwellers on New Year's Eve (1948) John Falter

[maviyenot]

[wordscubed]

tragic heroes

Crime and Punishment, Fyodor Dostoevsky / Macbeth, Macbeth, William Shakespeare Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë / Fantine, Les Misérables, Victor Hugo Infinite Jest, David Foster Wallace Beowulf, Unknown / Achilles, The Iliad, Homer Saint Joan, George Bernard Shaw / Juliet Capulet, Romeo and Juliet, William Shakespeare I Who Have Never Known Men, Jacqueline Harpman Matthew 27:46