he was complex or something, right?

chitra, he/him, 19 artist, writer, blogger, man, myth, legend besides the obvious shakespeare i like gintama orv and idolish7 steampocalypse on ao3 and elsewhere mechs sideblog is @lucky-sevens mixed race byf: i post about problematic ships sometimes, also a lil nsfw but i keep it light and/or use the mature post filter

[rosencrantzsguildenstern]

my posts -> #chitra.txt

~in general everything is tagged by either its name or a common acronym and i tag almost everything~

tags u may have followed me for -> #i7 (idolish7) #gintama #trek (star trek) #ragad (rosencrantz and guildenstern are dead) #shakespeare (hamlet used to have its own tag but now it's been absorbed) #text (witty text posts by others that i enjoy) #historical #fashion #cultural #art (by other people, mine is under #my art but i don't post most of it)

more abt me and what i like under the cut vvv

recs

my fave book: tai sui

my fave band: stray kids (#skz) (i've been a little more mid on them recently though </3)

my fave podcast: rusty quill gaming (#rqg) but the BEST podcast i've listened to is wolf 359 (#w359)

fave anime is gintama if i exclude idolish7 and say idolish7 is my favorite multimedia property

fave western tv is star trek...for a while star trek enterprise was my favorite but it must be acknowledged that deep space 9 is pretty objectively the best

i like idols and whump and history and cool aesthetics :D i am quite interested in stories about fate and death and narratives and free will and all that, and if you are too you can find those stories in places like rosencrantz and guildenstern are dead full movie youtube and also in my religion (fire abridgement of mahabharata that takes about as much time as a standard book to read). i like shakespeare quite a bit but i'm more into it for the creative adaptations + a point of reference with the modern theater scene than the original works

i draw and write and if you ask me about either i love you. also if you've got this far: my blog theme is cool, check it out <3

[miloticmiku]

I hadn’t seen one of these yet

[fauxtasm]

they should invent a term for shipping were I don't think they should be in a romantic relationship however I believe they are each others parasite and separating them is not an option

[the-quasar-hero]

Come, you simply must meet my associates! This woman right here is a delightful pervert of sorts, and this fellow here, he’s some kind of a fucking idiot.

[rosencrantzsguildenstern]

just realized the one post person deactivated

[iztopher]

this is one of the funniest pages i've seen from the umineko manga because in context it makes sense but out of context it really looks like they did the most basic arithmetic possible and then talked about how smart they are for it, topped off by battler saying that actually he had no real idea and was just guessing

[goatstrogen]

GIRLS THAT'S FUCKING TERRIFYING,, PLEASE FACTORY RESET YOUR PHONES GET NEW ONES IF YOU HAVE TO GET AN INDEPENDENT SIM card WHAT IS HAPPENING

I'M BEGGING YOU

THEY CANT DO THIS TO YOU PLEASE

[lady-viccy]

that is stalking

[the-kill-all-tmes-lady]

its stalking when it happens to children also btw

[bucketofdeltav]

"My mum won't let me" Okay I am 30 goddamn years old and I still have this thought so let's walk through it together.

What's the worst that can happen if you do it anyway? Genuinely. The literal worst. Catastrophise about it with me for a sec.

Will your mum yell at you? You're an adult. Yelling at fellow adults is Not Okay Actually. (Yelling at kids is also not okay but let's take this one step at a time.) If your mum is yelling at you, a fellow adult, she's the one being weird and out of line. You asked your friend and they said so too (me. I'm the friend.)

Will she cut off your phone plan? That would be a problem. Can you look into whether you can afford to switch to a new plan she doesn't have access to? Most phone companies will let you port your number over pretty easily.

Will she cut you off financially? Run the numbers again. Can you afford for that to happen? If the answer is no, that's okay, I believe you and I know you're making the best decision for your own well-being that you can in the moment. If there's anything you can do to make it more affordable, I do suggest doing that, though.

Will she be physically violent, inclusive of breaking stuff that belongs to you? That’s assault. That's a crime. It's not okay for her to do that and she almost certainly knows it.

Will she stop talking to you? Honestly I gotta say at this point that's not sounding like a bad outcome. It sucks. It really really sucks and I'm sorry if that's a choice you're having to make, but take it from someone who's been there and done that: when someone who is being abusive to you (stalking is abuse! Yelling at you is abuse! Threatening to cut off your funds if you don't do what they want forever is abuse! Breaking your stuff or physically hurting you is abuse!) decides of their own volition to cut you off, it hurts for a hot minute, and then you suddenly realise that you can breathe, and it feels so. Goddamn. Amazing.

Delete the tracking application. Live where you want to live. Change your name. Join or leave the religion. Get the piercing or the tattoo or the surgery. Live your life, because it's yours and not your parents'.

We'll try together, okay?

[videoclubs]

REVOLUTIONARY GIRL UTENA ‘少女革命ウテナ’ dir. Kunihiko Ikuhara

[glovesdown]

he’s fucking him up against the fourth wall

[drizzlemip]

[jacepi-time]

because op turned off reblogs I'm reposting my favorite tiktok of all time ＥＮＥＲＧＹ ＥＮＥＲＧＹ

[currentlycryingaboutlancelot]

hamlet

[penny-anna]

one argument you often see about fanfiction is that it's like 'training wheels' writing? like 'oh it's fine to do that while you're still learning, it's easier than coming up with your own ideas'. and I have to say I have just never agreed with that.

[penny-anna]

in my experience it's actually pretty common for newbie fanfiction writers to gravitate towards coming up with OCs rather than writing about the canon characters (hence the infamous Mary Sue); this suggests that many people find that 'easier' than attempting to write about pre-existing characters.

I would say that recreating the characterisation, mood and general vibes of an existing work of fiction is in fact a skill in and of itself that's acquired via practice. A common compliment delivered to fanfiction writers is how well they have captured the spirit of the original work. Inexperienced fanfiction writers fail to do this.

When creating an original character you can, ultimately, say anything about them and now it's canon bcos you created them and you said so. conversely, well, if you are covering a well known song and start playing the wrong notes people will notice immediately.

In addition: a lot of fanfiction, IMO, is in actuality a form of metafictional literary analysis. a story where two characters sit down and talk about their feelings about a canonical event? literary analysis, which is of course a skill. Sometimes fanfiction is bad bcos the writer is not good at interpreting texts.

finally I have made this point before but you never really see anyone suggesting that fictional works based on existing public domain texts are on 'easy mode'. is it 'easier' to write something based on a copyrighted work than a public domain work? Of course it isn't.

[penny-anna]

I know I said 'finally' but I forgot a point:

A major strength of the transformative work is its ability to create dramatic irony. If a fanfiction's emotional resonance is dependent on being familiar with the source material that's not necessarily a bad thing. sometimes it's a sign that the author has done a really skillful job of engaging with said source material.

[fuckyeahchinesefashion]

OP: Feel the blooming of life, new genre of pole dance.(cr宋瑶)

[rosencrantzsguildenstern]

even if u don’t think individual choices will do anything against billionaires and climate change you should still make all the environmentally friendly choices available to you. in many cases it can improve your QOL and it’s also genuinely worth doing

[crab-milk]

Artfight Attack on tiktio

[monstermonger]

He's worried about stepping on flowers. He loves nature. - (ref)