roobabaga @roobabaga - Tumblr Blog

as a lover of information since i was a child, the concept of "useless knowledge" never sat right with me. they should re-name trivia to something else. essentials.

#reblog

clementine-kesh

imo you get the most out of engaging with media when you strike a balance between treating characters as people (reading interiority into their actions, considering the effect of various aspects of their identity, etc etc) and as vehicles for storytelling (what narrative purpose do they serve, how do their actions and personality function to convey the themes of the work, etc etc). because of course characters are literary devices but also there’s a reason we use literary devices written to embody realistic people in order to tell stories

#analysis

#the magnus archives #tma #jonathan sims #tma fanart #arting #had a lot of fun with this

officialfoxsquadron

audiences have no idea how to be uncomfortable anymore

officialfoxsquadron

watch movies that make you uncomfortable read books that make you uncomfortable go to plays that make you uncomfortable watch tv that makes you uncomfortable look at paintings and sculpture and artwork that makes you uncomfortable. it is spiritually and morally and ethically and artistically really really good for you. think about why you are uncomfortable. what biases do you bring to art? what biases does the art bring to you? how do you reconcile this? how does your worldview grow and expand and change? all this and more will be answered and available to you if you just engage with art that does not coddle you and treats you like an intelligent human being that can sit through discomfort

estridd

red valley s2 ep8 spoilers

#red valley pod #this animation motivated me to listen #obsessed with your bryony design ngl #cool art tag

h11tch

#the magnus archives #cool art tag

mishoru

i am so normal about this podcast

#the magnus archives #cool art tag

evercelle

hunger

#dungeon meshi #cool art tag

nat-20s

Just thought to myself "can't women have a bad time in fiction without rape being involved" which really shows you how much you're in the fucking trenches if you are both a horror fan and women fan

nat-20s

Anyway. There's lot of places for these stories don't get me wrong but HUGE shout out to women in horror stories that have terrible things happen that don't involve: pregnancy, motherhood, and/or sexual assault. You too deserve to have a cronenburg eqsue body horror transformation because you trusted a glowing green liquid to solve your problems

babehoneydarling-rb

unironically this is a huge reason why I love the magnus archives so much.

There are so many interestingly written women and it's a GRITTY horror podcast with basically every awful thing that could happen but sexual assault has never been used as a 'character builder' or even been used at all (?). it has over 300 episodes with people having a Bad Time in each one and by god what a relief it is to never have to brace for rape as a plot device.

#tma #tmagp #i love it when women get to have a bad time #thanks jonny

luna-azzurra

Your First Draft Is Supposed to Be Awful

Somewhere, in some cursed corner of the internet, a writer whispered the dangerous idea that your first draft should be… good. And like all bad ideas, it spread. Suddenly, everyone’s trying to make their draft read like it could be printed and shelved in the bookstore tomorrow. Which is ridiculous.

Your first draft isn’t a book. It’s… well, it’s barely even a thing. It’s the ugly braindump you slap down before the real work begins. The plot doesn’t make sense yet. Half the characters sound the same. There’s a paragraph in chapter six you don’t even remember writing. And that’s totally fine.

Right now, your only job is to get the story out of your head and onto a page before it rots in there. Forget about making it pretty or “good.” You’ll get to that later. <3

#writing