do it with passion

or not at all

[mournfulroses]

Marcel Proust, from a poem featured in The Collected Poems; A Dual Language Edition

[firawren]

Pride and Prejudice 1995 text posts, part 1 of ? - next set

More: Persuasion 1995 text posts | Sense and Sensibility 1995 text posts | Northanger Abbey 2007 text posts | Emma. 2020 text posts

[gentlekiss]

gk

[kaijudove]

happy make a terrible comic day!!! i haven't stopped thinking about this post since i saw it. in 2018 a common merganser was spotted with 76 (SEVENTY SIX!!!) chicks!! that's SOOOO many baby. so much success.

[meraki-sunset]

literally this

[xiuxiueig]

Estany dels desmais

Santiago Rusiñol

[blignick]

[dailyclassicart]

Theodor Kittelsen - "The key as a White Horse" (1907)

[oliviawhen]

On my way!! 💐

[llovinghome]

[lanndscape]

[ayy-junipei]

Yarn holder

[ayy-junipei]

The slurperrr...

[elysiumwaters]

i need a 4 hour video essay on the downfall of nanowrimo. its gone to shit and i need a comprehensive analysis of it all. the mods, the allegations, the AI, the sleazy partnerships, the staff walkouts, the forums. there's probably more

[damienthepious]

watching @nanowrimo within a single hour:

make an awful, ill-conceived, sponsored post about "responsible"/"ethical" uses of ai in writing

immediately get ratio'd in a way i've never seen on tumblr with a small swarm of chastising-to-negative replies and no reblogs

start deleting replies

reply to their own post being like 'agree to disagree!!!' while saying that ai can TOTALLY be ethical because spellcheck exists!! (???) while in NO WAY responding to the criticisms of ai for its environmental impact OR the building of databases on material without author consent, ie, stolen material, OR the money laundering rampant in the industry

when called out on deleting replies, literally messaged me people who called them out to say "We don't have a problem with folks disagreeing with AI. It's the tone of the discourse." So. overtly stated tone policing.

get even MORE replies saying this is a Bad Look, and some reblogs now that people's replies are being deleted

DISABLE REBLOGS when people aren't saying what nano would prefer they say

im juust in literal awe of this fucking mess.

[airplanned]

☕️

[tgraywrites]

Woooow

[magess]

NaNo When It Started: Join our challenge to bootstrap your own creativity. Write! Let it be bad! Trying is the point and will feel good when you are done!

NaNo Now: Skip the effort. Cheating is for everyone. Get that badge. Pay us.

[crittizen]

this is a poem

[wa-u-moved]

i couldn’t not draw this

[i-say-ok]

ok…!

[luxury-nightmare]

babe are you okay, your reblogging the subway rat poem again

[marvelmaniac715]

It’s been a long week

[here-am-i-sitting-in-a-tin-can]

oh i saw this in a sofia isella post lmao

[the-haiku-bot]

oh i saw this in

a sofia isella

post lmao

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

[muzzledmikey]

the need to talk about the characters vs the fear that all of my analysis is just empty prose and surface level understanding

[modeus-the-xenofeminist]

Me 20 seconds after saying anything about my favorite characters:

[luriuan]

I love how whenever ATLA recognizes Sokka is smart enough to solve a problem but it’d be too fast they just stick him in some kind of situation. Like he COULD’VE stopped jet from drowning a town so they tied him up and dumped him in a forest. He COULD’VE figured out what that spirits deal was so they lost him in the spirit world for 24 hours.

[sailing-ever-west-deactivated20]

One time they just stuck him in a hole in the ground for a whole episode.

[ectojester]

This is how writers should deal with characters who are too smart for the arc instead of making them suddenly dumber for no apparent reason.

If you frequently find yourself in random situations while your friends happen to be experiencing problems maybe you, too, are too smart for the narrative.

[cicadacrossing]