the enlightened despot

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[sino-666]

The question I was answering Q: Do you ever crave a certain food so much that you can't fall asleep?

[normalcei]

Not all dogs have jobs and I think they should get to wear little vests too

[sino-666]

A crossover between Devil May Cry and the game Hollow Knight. Drawing the "bugs" was an absolute pleasure!

[slowlikehoney1996]

If your lover lives in Hong Kong and cannot get to Chicago, it will be necessary for you to go to Hong Kong. Perhaps you will spend your life there, and never see Chicago again. And you will, I assure you, as long as space and time divide you from anyone you love, discover a great deal about shipping routes, airlines, earthquake, famine, disease, and war. And you will always know what time it is in Hong Kong, for you love someone who lives there. And love will simply have no choice but to go into battle with space and time and, furthermore, to win.

James Baldwin, Nothing Personal

[wavelette]

like, the most compelling ships for me always stem out of one thing: the characters have a profound, ongoing effect on each other’s senses of selves. when they are apart, the characters’ actions are still affected by each other. the way they approach the world changes because of the other. 

which is this deeply Austenian view of ideal romantic relationships as mechanisms by which we come to know ourselves better and become better versions of ourselves. good romance, for me, is always tied in with a sense of self-actualization, and the way in which a beloved partner allows a person to know themselves better.

[heartofaspen]

i love it and hate it when a character in a story is so obviously created to be cool and awesome and then i do think they're cool and awesome. like fuck, yeah, ok, they're fucking epic. swag as hell. you got me you coolbaited me ok? i'm coolbaited.

[lettuccine]

role swap? age swap?

[redstonedust]

the problem with movie remakes is that they always remake something that was already good, meaning at worst you ruin it and at best your remake is largely redundant. to make a truly good remake you need to start with source material that is absolute dogwater. ignore the pull of nostalgia. redeem the sins of moviemaking past.

[seaeyri]

Quick Dissidea Duellum Lunafreya because I've been playing it a lot lately, and I miss her, and I wanted to design her outfit.

I really want her in game. 😢

[potoh]

A jungle for the house tigers.

[valeron99]

Height difference.

[goanairis]

You've got mail, Kupo!

[lanimaluu]

[fairycosmos]

there's just nothing that beats being at home. the world will try to convince me i should be doing more and it's like yeah but im at home

[fairycosmos]

like if youre at home right now just take a minute to be like UGH yes im at home 

[youzicha]

It’s usually best to not use diacritics. If you stick to the standard spelling your text will be easy to understand, and all English words can be written using just the 26 basic letters, so why add weird dots and dashes to the letters? It’s confusing. Keep it simple, stupid.

But one cannot be too draconian. Sometimes, using an accent mark is the only way to convey an important distinction, say between rose flowers and rosé wine, or between the verb expose and the noun exposé. Sometimes, spelling a word without diacritics would mislead the reader about the intended pronunciation, like writing saké or Pokémon without the accent. And sometimes, the spelling of a word using diacritics is so established that not using it would draw unwanted attention. Writing a text requires judgement, and we would be naïve to think that a rule as simple as “don’t use diacritics” would always maximize clarity.

And moreover, why should we be slaves to clarity? Great art is challenging! Rather than accommodating a blasé reader with an “easy” text, like a simpering salesman (remember Antonín Dvořák’s advice that “art, as such, does not ‘pay’”), sometimes we must preëmpt the clichés and shock him into attention, make him coöperate. So althô diacratic embellishments often just add a soupçon of style, their rôle can also be to pull the reader off balance—like an aikidō move. Writing should be supple and flexible: spelling should not be table d'hôte, but à la carte, or even a smörgåsbord of delectable options.

[catchymemes]

[anxietyproblem]