still here, huh?

'if you come to the circus, don't be surprised when you meet the clowns' -ancient proverb

[pjackk]

Last time i was in baltimore i stepped on a pregnant rat

[nayohme]

addicted to lying

[pjackk]

Its name was your name actualy

[georgesantosapologist-deactivat]

[diagnosed-overthinker]

love it when people link wikipedia pages instead of explaining the point. The url alone conveys so much disdain and contempt. Here is the information you desire, i found it with ease.

[probuccalfat]

whenever people say canada is an unserious country or a zany joke it pisses me off and not because i feel like mocked or anything but because i find it wild rude and disrespectful to the indigenous peoples that have been harmed in this nation… genuinely nothing funny about the residential schools or the 60s scoop or the highway of tears or the forced sterilization of indigenous women

[probuccalfat]

“some of your money smells like maple syrup so silly and unserious 😂” sometimes our police officers take indigenous men who are struggling with addiction and mental illness or otherwise homeless, mentally unwell, addict men and drive them far far away from the place they know into the canadian wilderness and abandon them to die from exposure to the elements. it’s called starlight tours.

[sentientsky]

"your prime minister cuddled up with hudson williams. canada is such a cute and silly country 🥰💗" the RCMP and the military are forcefully invading Wet'suwet'en territory in B.C. and arresting Indigenous land defenders at gunpoint so that enbridge can build a fucking gas pipeline. none of this is cutesy. they are trying to distract you from the violence. do not avert your gaze

(source)

[historium]

South Africans celebrate the end of Apartheid, June 30, 1991

[nazarenefedayeen]

our day will come too.

[thepromiscuousfinger]

I love very specific cakes

[easily-evi]

I had to redraw this cake 🍰

[schoolhater]

Crips for eSims for Gaza

Crips for eSims for Gaza is a collaboration between Jane Shi, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, and Alice Wong. 

[raangmanch]

Please boost. This is urgent. There is a need for esims more now, than ever.

[sigmundfreud]

richard siken - anyway // the worm king’s lullaby

[yourbuckies]

I mustn’t look at you too much, or I won’t be able to take my eyes off you at all.  ― Franz Kafka, Letters to Felice‎

[blumenundpoesie]

We have always loved and we will continue to love. Oh, the beauty of human connection!

[taylornprice]

laguna beach

[nexpire]

i have a problem.

[and-so-on]

[jingerpi]

[serial-kissing]

who up pushing their boulder

[spooksier]

hey mickey! hey hey hey mickey!

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[sparrowlucero]

your dark fantasy novel doesn't need a logic-based magic system it needs a bear with a human face

[sparrowlucero]

the human-faced bear principle of storytelling: the amount of people who will remember the exposition about the rules of magic or the history of elf culture inherently pales in comparison to the amount of people who will remember the scene where someone gets mauled by a bear with a human face

[sparrowlucero]

this isn't a call to necessarily include a literal bear with a human face (though you should at least consider it. obviously.) but pointing out that, while a lot of sf/f writing advice places heavy emphasis on fleshing out the small details of a fictional world as much as possible, there's often little attention given to the value of including effective "bear attack scenes", for lack of a better term; tense, scary, shocking, weird, or otherwise visceral scenes or concepts (the pale man, the chestburster, the sunken place, the raptors in the kitchen, artax in the swamp, the annihilation bear, the basement in parasite, the blood test in the thing, etc) despite those having a significantly higher hit rate of making a story striking and memorable to people

[sparrowlucero]

#okay but those things are only striking and memorable BECAUSE of the well fleshed out laws of the narrative#we understand the world we’re inhabiting in those texts so when the weird stuff happens it doesn’t break suspension of disbelief#i agree that without the weird and wacky sf/f can be pretty boring and lame#but you need the weird and wacky to be grounded in the world you’ve created#otherwise it’s just either tacky or makes readers confused and angry

I'm sorry i just don't think people remember the horse drowning in the neverending story because of the fleshed out narrative laws around it

[syllarinfirinne]

While this is an interesting theory, I disagree with the OP and agree with the notes he posted. For example, I think the Mistwraiths and Koloss from Mistborn and the Vaesen attacks in Bloodsworn work and are cool and memorable because of the world that we are introduced to prior to meeting them. And, while it's possible I'm in the minority if a bear with a human face suddenly appeared in a story to maul a dude and it was never explained how and why there are manfacebears or at the very least that there *are* manfacebears or this was a *singular* manfacebear I'd feel let down.

[sparrowlucero]

try this

[throathole]

If you think about it…. the acronym KYS isn’t saying “kill yourself,” it’s saying Kill Your Self. Three words. As in, kill the concept of the “Self” - your consciousness’s perception that it is an individual, that it has one meaningful isolated identity that is “you,” that it is not but a droplet in the grand ocean of interconnected souls of all living beings in this universe. I think this is beautiful. Embrace ego death and become one with everything. Everyone should KYS

[florencvassy]

[throathole]

Who is that white man

[musdswo]