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There are mysterious happenings early in the morning, and the crows bear witness--and have the gossip for you! Prints in my shop~

#i love the little swirls and colors on the main branch! and the needle details on the pine trees and the grass tufts and #all the little implied details and texture and stuff are so pretty n make it fun to stare at #also incredible how the color scheme is like. it looks like you could walk out and just see this scene but it's also very red + blue??#which is not typically colors u associate with a forest or like a nature scene! even tho some coniferous trees are v blue #... also i just realized i entirely missed the ghostly apparitions bc i was so busy examining the trees #i am easily distracted by plants okay

scleroticstatue

Yes, that is my circus, and, yes, those are my monkeys, but I am not on shift yet.

the-beard-of-edward-teach

prokopetz

My problem with the term "hubris" in literary analysis is that folks like to toss it around in contexts in which it just plain doesn't apply. The notion of hubris inherently presumes that humans have assigned stations beyond which it's morally – and, often, metaphysically – wrong to reach. Most modern fictional milieux simply lack such an implicit hierarchy. That character isn't guilty of hubris; they're guilty of negligent risk management.

prokopetz

Folks will analyse a fictional character who accidentally blew up half a city and act like the resulting seven-digit body count is purely ancillary to the real crime of aspiring to exceed one's God-given place in the Great Chain of Being.

manorinthewoods

The definition that I feel is being thrown around is:

Hubris is when a character has an expectation of their ability to perform a great feat that significantly exceeds their actual ability to do so and possibly the ability of anyone to do so; it causes a dramatic downfall because the character's failure is inevitable and its consequences are catastrophic.

This justifies the use in the context of "blew up a city trying to ascend to godhood" without presuming that the ascension itself was inherently wrong. Though, that belief might still be there anyway?

prokopetz

The problem is that, in my experience, even when folks think they're using that definition, in very short order it usually collapses back into talking like the desire to exceed one's grasp was itself the principal crime, rather than the subsequent lack of heed for the consequences.

kosmogrl

manwhorewednesdays

This is actually such a crucial part of healing from neglect and abuse and I have to add to this.

Because indeed, people who like you will not roll their eyes and sigh at the idea of accommodating your needs, they will value your voice and be upset with you about injustice done to you, not at you for "being difficult". They will be happy when you find a way to live a better life, and help you to get there. If you are struggling, someone who loves you wants to see you smile, not tell you to smile because "you have it so good".

prinnay

Basically.

alientitty

💀

spazzbot

I don’t say this often, but you really should unmute and listen to the song

skulandcrossbones

whats YOUR deadly sin

pride

greed

lust

envy

gluttony

wrath

sloth

Remaining time: 2 days 12 hours

no nuance just pick one

#pride. surprisingly #i was gonna say sloth but i do technically get a lot of projects done yknow? im just bad at sleeping reasonable hours #and im always convinced i could be doing... more? better?#like i have wildly high expectations of myself n my gut says ''dude u could totally reach those heights if u just lock in''#therefore my problem is not productivity... it is in fact hubris

thegirlwiththemooglehat

Friends, romans, people who are nonbinary except at work, lend me your ears,

inkjie

soliloquy by an immortal cave painter.

pencil, ink, and ochre on paper

magical-soup

There is no such thing as “the evil kill-people disorder that makes you kill people”; it has always been a myth made up by demonization to sell more ableism.

pyrose-the-flame

"the evil abuse-people disorder that makes you abuse people" is also a myth, no matter what people on TikTok try to tell you

ot3

pros of an original setting: you're not constrained by the politics, geography, history, or even physics of the real world even a little bit

cons of an original setting: you have to Name Everything now. Good luck!

marsadler

A reminder that darker fiction has a right to exist and explore themes that people are uncomfortable with. Yes, even if it's romanticized. Yes, even if you personally don't like it.

Authors have always written about things that they don't agree with morally, and I hope to god they always will, despite how shitty people treat them for doing that now.

foxglovedforest

#fave <3 #makes me giggle every time #esp the part where she's like ''uhh his bffs are not ur best friends *I* am your best friend you're Mine- oh! see u do have a type''

quasi-normalcy

Whoever invented the word "dead" to describe things that aren't alive was really going off. Love how monosyllabic it is, with a hard final consonant. Very definite. Very fatal. Good word.