rabid lamb enjoyer

‘They may pay me,’ the Comte says, ‘but they have not bought me. If someone would trust me, I wouldn’t need to be so devious.’

[ach-sss-no]

when brandon sanderson talks about villains in his famous free youtube writing class video lectures he'll say 'what's the difference between gollum and sauron' and of course he means the villain that's present in the narrative and characterized in a way the audience can potentially relate to or sympathize with vs. the looming threatening anonymous far-off force (among other things). but every time he asks that i think 'well one of those guys tracked down frodo and got his ring back'

[mysteryteacup]

Brandon Sanderson: What's the difference between Gollum and Sauron?

OP: Skill issue.

[chujellys]

there's a family of local sandhill cranes that adopted an abandoned goose last summer and they're STILL together today even after migration.... i love them + they're local celebrities + nature is beautiful

[chujellys]

yesterday’s update… 📸 everyone is paparazzi when ur this famous…

[malice-kingdom]

I somehow just realized Vulcan and Erid share the same sun.

[mens-rights-activia]

[mens-rights-activia]

I would like to note that I left flowers for her afterwards, just as a “sorry for using your grave for content”

[hollowboobtheory]

I support the "fiction isn't real so nothing matters" mindset but tbf at a certain point it can tip over into "the curtains are just blue" territory

[hollowboobtheory]

like yes actually there is a conversation to be had about how a characters actions are framed and how they thematically fit with the rest of the story and it can in fact reflect the author's beliefs. some authors are even trying to make a point

[hollowboobtheory]

not all depiction is glorification but sometimes it is and you need to be able to tell the difference. not because your immortal soul will be tainted by reading The Bad One, but because you need to have reading comprehension skills

[hollowboobtheory]

peer reviewed

[hollowboobtheory]

[uinferno]

[pocketss]

It was important to me that she puts emphasis on the TOK

[sunshinemoonrx]

HUH?

Most cop thing I've ever read. what the fuck are you talking about. The posts you're looking for might be on this website but we won't show them to you???

[sunshinemoonrx]

I'm sure all my settings are set to "yes show me mature content no don't filter anything" what are you TALKING ABOUT

[sunshinemoonrx]

the posts are ON THE WEBSITE. I can't search dirty words?? am I five??? is this club penguin??? when I get you

[noticesghosts]

What the hell

[noticesghosts]

What is going on

[error-404-fuck-not-found]

just so you know, if you completely ignore the search feature on the website and just type "tumblr.com/search/term" into the address bar, it bypasses all of this. broken-ass website

[pseudomantis]

[is-the-owl-video-cute-deactivat]

a squirrel or perhaps a cardinal posted this

[phaeton-flier]

How about you mind your own damn business

[lastdecembersmoon]

kris_piano_shop (played on an out of tune antique shop piano)

[godlessondheimite]

A YA romantasy writer filed suit against another writer for copyright infringement, and as is always the case with these things, she padded her claims with delusionally spurious examples. The judge issued a 160-page ruling against the plaintiff where you can tell from the start how resentful they (or whatever clerk actually did the work) are to have been forced by duty to have read the works in question.

[vonlipvig]

amazing conclave x succession edit i found on tiktok that just killed me dead, had to share it

[byjove]

I think a lot of people are pro-life because they know they would have been aborted, that is secretly their motivation and not actually a misguided interpretation of Christian theology or a belief that life begins at conception. They’re say shit like “What if your mom aborted you?” like, okay I wouldn’t be here, that really wasn’t on the table because my parents really wanted me and was on fertility treatments to try to have me. Would your mom have aborted you? Is that what this is all about, you wouldn’t have been born if your mother wasn’t coerced/forced to carry you to term and give birth to you so you feel like everyone else should be forced to give birth to their annoying baby?

[365filmsbyauroranocte]

Penda's Fen (Alan Clarke, 1974)

[probablyprobablydefinitelynot]

This movie is an all-timer, god damn.

[abz-j-harding]

Penda's Fen (1974) : Alan Clarke : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

Summer 1955, and pastor's son Stephen must come to terms with his identity amid societal pressure, religious guilt and his own imaginings.Th

On Internet Archive for those who want to watch.

[raylangivins]

has everyone seen the website that gives you a rothko for your local weather?

[werewolf-transgenderism]

Margery Kempe's husband: what if a guy with a sword showed up and threatened to cut off my head unless you slept with me?

Margery Kempe:

[werewolf-transgenderism]

[macklesufficient]

hard to swallow pills dot jpg. the reason people don’t like when you infodump about your uwu favorite things isn’t because they don’t like hearing about deep sea ecosystems or anime blorbos or whatever it may be. it’s because talking /at/ someone is selfish. have you asked the other person any questions? do you care what they have to say? would you willingly listen to them infodump the same way or would you (be honest) stand there and wait for your turn to talk? people not responding well to your tedtalk on the thing you like isn’t because they’re normies who hate ‘nerd stuff’, it’s because you have substituted conversation for verbal masturbation. hope this helps

[mojana]

I understand what you're trying to argue as far as normative social conventions. But infodumping in this way is usually discussed in the context of autism, and I find it imperative to point out to you that autism is a disability specifically marked by struggles in nonverbal communication. This is also why the etymology of autism ("aut" -> self) implies selfishness and why autism historically was known as a "low empathy/sociopathic" disease.

I am going to assume your goal was not to be ableist. So I will explain how this differs in autistic communication: As an autistic person, if someone else infodumps I do not see this as selfish. I might not be interested, but I don't ascribe meaning to it as selfish. I just think, "wow this person really loves X!" And i know that if they spent 30 minutes listening to me, I owe the same to them. It is a way of sharing interests and directly getting to the point in conversation.

Neurotypicals will observe this dynamic differently and again ascribe or assume it as selfish, but its a different communication paradigm. I genuinely prefer listening to someone infodump for 2 hours than dance around conversation topics that are superficial at best. Calling it masturbatory implies an intent that I don't think is there when someone is not aware or able to understand certain social rules. Struggles with turn-based communication is literally in the diagnostic criteria. This is, again, what defines autism as a disability.

If you have an issue with how someone else is communicating, then don't engage with them. Just as much this person "should be aware" of the social rules and dynamics, you also have the responsibility and ability to disengage or leave if you're not interested. You have always three options: share back (match their communication style), steer (emulate turn-based communication) or completely disengage. You are within your right and choice to not communicate or engage with someone you find annoying, you don't have to "listen" because you think it would be rude to not.