just dust and stars.

professional procrastinator who likes to write things sometimes

[mrywrites]

so this is a very exciting time!! I'm officially taking a few of my old story ideas (namely Death of an Echo) and preparing the draft of it for publication!

however, the story has changed SO much since I last posted it here in 2019. It's gay, for one. And the whole thing has basically been stripped down to the core idea and redone.

alas, if you see "Death of an Echo" anywhere, know that it was so lovely hearing all of your thoughts and feelings on it! <3

[seijouhigh]

i burned through jjk in record time and all i have to show for it are traced memes

[auro-cyanide]

Yuuji has two hands

[pillow-boi]

Jujudads

[xiaoap]

guess who’s going through a bit of jujutsu kaisen brainrot 😪

[kinbari14]

Don't you just love found precious but annoying family tropes?

[tovanori]

I feel like this is an accurate depiction of their dynamic, right?

[josyuss]

good bois

[xiaoap]

tastefully ignoring shibuya arc by drawing happy and healthy jjk 👍

[cocoriart]

♥︎

[diznam]

Sunday drive with the boys

[joker-ace]

had a collection of drawings of these 3 snuggling and had to make a comic out of it

[pillow-boi]

I love one (1) dumbass

[wandavisionedits]

The Making of WandaVision

Elizabeth Olsen + Paul Bettany: Consummate Professionals™

[fruithoods]

good literary shit

- when the first and last line are the same in a book

- WHEN THE TITLE IS AN IMPORTANT LINE SOMEWHERE IN THE SERIES AND YOU DONT UNDERSTAND UNTIL YOU READ THE WHOLE THING

- when a character does something 100% against what others believe of them, but we the audience knew their true colors all along (this can be good or bad both ways it’s good)

- unapologetic villains with a dramatic flair and sense of humor

- when people you thought were good turn suddenly bad and you’re sitting there with whiplash

- characters who know what they want and actually get it (though maybe not through the way you think)

- morally grey characters being friends with good people (™) characters and it actually working

- a male/female friendship that’s wholesome and intimate but doesn’t end in romance

- when the author completely tricks you and it’s amazing. for example: I read a book a few years ago and there was an ancient society with a saying “come eleven hither thee” and it was built as this Ancient Knowledge that Had to be unlocked. turns out it was just a guy in the 16th century calling his dog and a drunk writer wrote it on his wall. he promptly forgot what it meant and started a secret society on it.

- when characters say “it’ll be fine” and then fall promptly into a disaster

- when the only reason a character helps the protag is so they can get what they want (this can range from intense manipulation to “if this bitch leaves I can get back to my book”)

- when an “all powerful” character does something and people take it seriously and they’re like; no wait?? I didn’t mean it like that?? come back I don’t actually want a statue!

- drunk idiots doing harmless but funny things

- selfish characters hiding their good deeds but their love interest/teammate finding out and exposing them

- female villains. that’s it. they’re all amazing.

- feel free to add your own

[retropopcult]

On the set of The Princess Bride, 1986: Producer Andrew Scheinman, Cary Elwes, Robin Wright, André the Giant, Christopher Guest, Director Rob Reiner.

[hedgehog-moss]

One uncanny aspect of translating is when I am grappling with a sentence that would sound particularly wrong if I tried to preserve any part of the original structure or idioms, because nothing about it matches the way one would phrase such an idea in my language, so what I need to do is mentally divorce the sentence from its syntax and vocabulary, to try and find how my language would give form to the same concepts. It always makes me wonder, what am I working with here? What is left when you remove the grammar and specific word choices from a sentence? I don’t know, a shapeless mental porridge of pure meaning, a nebulous feeling of what another brain has tried to express. I find it amazing that your mind knows just what to do with something so unfathomable—that it’s just like “right, right, give me a minute” as it distillates meaning out of words like it’s nothing then lassoes it down from the platonic realm of forms to give it a completely new shape. What is ‘meaning’ and how does it exist in your mind in this liminal moment after you’ve extracted it from a foreign language but haven’t yet found words in your own language that can embody it? I don’t know.