Random Rants

arlo // 33 // bi // pronouns: they/them mostly supernatural but also your resident anita blake expert and whatever else i happen to have watched at the time

[lizard-spams-your-dash-too]

I think it's funny how the marketing for tvl was like "the music is awesome! Rock star lestat" and then the first episode everyone, including lestat, is like "this shit is middling to bad"

[skyrigel]

[skyrigel]

[ponyoisms]

one hyperfixated tumblr mutual has the power of six hundred thousand ad campaigns

[littlegirlinvisible]

INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE 3.03: Toronto TVLTwT/IWTVTwT Version.

The Vampire Lestat is now streaming on AMC+. If you have the chance, please support the show by tuning in on the official platforms. Every view counts! 

[punkyboysblog]

Bruh what if we lived together 😳😳😳and had a garden😳😳😳😳

[bisexualrozanov]

#girl who is clearly healed and doing okay

[skyrigel]

[rylandsgrace]

INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE 2.07 I THE VAMPIRE LESTAT 1.03

[hesitantlyhappy]

iwtv seasons one and two was like being tucked into bed and read a heartbreaking story by Louis du pointe du lac. The Vampire Lestat is like your blackout drunk uncle trying to tell you an anecdote at a family gathering

[tarmairons]

idea from dmthinkr on twitter

[uncle-knobheads]

Fic authors deserve more credit.

Story time: I started a book about 23 hours ago and just finished it. Also in that time I slept for 10 hours, spent time with family, was at work, etc. Anyway, I enjoyed the book (Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda). But it felt like it flew by, so after I finished I looked up the word count because what are pages? Pages are meaningless. I only function in word counts anymore.

The estimate I found was 58,580. My immediate reaction was “oh, that’s why. That’s nothing!” But what a shitty response. Because no. That’s not nothing. That’s a whole. Damn. Book. An entire novel! And Fic authors regularly bust out 30k, 50k, 100k, 150k words. AND THEY DO IT FOR FREE. WHILE WORKING AND LIVING THEIR LIVES.

So anyway, thank your favorite fic author today because they deserve it. Because they’re amazing. They’re the MVPs.

[galadrieljones]

Some rough word count equivalencies for you, via famous novels, just to give you an idea of what OP is saying:

30k fic = Animal Farm by George Orwell

50k fic = The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

75k fic = Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger

100k fic = To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

150k fic = The Two Towers by JRR Tolkien

200k fic = Moby Dick by Herman Melville

250k fic = Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by JK Rowling

300k fic = A Feast for Crows by George RR Martin

350k fic = Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry

400k fic = Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell

[a-shakespearean-in-paris]

I WROTE SOMETHING AS LONG AS MOBY DICK AND I DIDN’T EVEN KNOW

[princesweetpea]

I can’t believe I’ve surpassed Animal Farm.

Holy shit.

[iffeelscouldkill]

This is awesome. With that said, huge appreciation also to fic writers who write shorter fics - 10k, 5k, 1k, 500 words. Because yeah, huge long fics get a lot of love, and a lot of labour goes into them, but the same is true for tiny fics as well. Not everyone is banging out huge great novels, but little ficlets are fantastic and still bring readers a ton of joy.

So if you’re feeling a bit downcast because you can’t write that 50 chapter epic or your latest WIP is “only” 2k and it still took you ages - that’s amazing. Seriously. Not everyone is naturally wordy or prolific. And you can say a ton with just a few hundred or thousand words.

Props to short fic creators - you guys are awesome.

[corancoranthemagicalman]

The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe = 38k fic

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory = 30k fic

Of Mice and Men = 30k fic

Breakfast At Tiffany’s = 24k fic

For those writers who discredit themselves because they feel they aren’t writing the novels that others might, you’re still writing a novella, my dears. You’re still putting time, effort, and passion into something. Well done.

(honestly shout out to all fuckin fic writers. You didn’t have to give us shit and still y'all out here living ya best life and doin something you love. Bravo.)

[spooky-scary-virgil]

in conclusion: all you fic writers are amazing and deserve more love

[prismatic-bell]

The most amazing, disturbing, heartrending, worldview-shaking story I have ever read (There Will Come Soft Rains by Ray Bradbury): three pages long. It can be read in fifteen minutes.

I can’t find a word count online. But DuckDuckGo tells me that in English, you get an average of 500 words per page.

So it’s about 1500 words, give or take. I cry every fucking time I read it, and I have read it many times.

Novels and novellas and fanfics of that length are great. But if you’re the shorter type—

—know that part of my heart stands forever on an empty hill in a fictitious city in California in the year 2026, crying for a fictitious child who never caught a ball, and it has been crying on that hill for over twenty years.

Your few words have more impact than you know.

[nocubiclebeau]

i have a problem

and that problem is i have too many books and no idea where to start

because i should probably be on a book buying ban

but unfortunately

buying books is the only thing that brings me joy so

i should probably read some of them

suggestions on how i should choose what to read?

[biologicalstepfather]

If you know who Emmett Till is please reblog.

I’m trying to prove a point to my dad.

[json-derulo]

Whenever they gave us one of those "read through ALL the instructions before you begin!" trick assignments in school where the steps lead you on an increasingly ridiculous goose chase until the final one tells you to just put your name on the paper and turn it in without doing anything else, I was always like, "Okay, but what's the point? Surely the REAL world won't be anything like this." And then I grew up and discovered that not only is the real world often exactly like that, some people won't even read the first line of the instructions even if they make perfect sense. And these people are called "co-workers"

[nocubiclebeau]

I dont have a book buying problem okay

I have a problem where there aren't enough hours in the day to read everything I have bought

[imsobadatnicknames2]

9 out of 10 times I see people on here celebrating a new "landmark piece of anti-AI legislation" the legislation in question is inevitably some variation of "we propose making IP laws more restrictive but presented through the language of opposing AI". But that one from germany about holding google liable for the words of its AI overview feature is legitimately good I think. If they actively choose to shove that thing in everyone's face as the first thing they're going to see when they make a google search then they shouldn't be able to dodge accountability for the information it provides with a little "gemini AI can be inaccurate, please remember to double-check information teeheehee" disclaimer.

[theothin]

the germany ruling is good because it's targeting something that's bad to do whether it's done by an AI or a human