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[rumplestiltsbear]

hi!

i'm salem/bear, any pronouns

i write! (pls ask me about my ocs, i love talking about them!!!)

obsessed with game of thrones/asoiaf/hotd, orlando (the book and the movie), billie eilish, hozier, the left hand of darkness and earthsea and always coming home and every word ever written by ursula k le guin. my ursula k le guin sideblog is @bespok3n

(some of) my other fandoms (though i don't post about them *quite* as much): good omens, star wars, the locked tomb, kingkiller chronicle/the name of the wind, atla, lotr, ted lasso, ...

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[lvmimis]

tbh i love hear me outs but i also love the opposite of hear me outs where it’s like nearly everyone thinks they’re fuckable except you

[vintxgemiseries]

count me outs

[koldefingre]

Im so pissed that they never got to meet

[boomer-mythology-destroyer]

[jetix]

Beetle bread, 2023-08-13

[charlesoberonn]

[narcissistcookbook]

"i've got no qualms about it" meanwhile i'm over here making qualm chowder

[wordfather]

i love it when im rereading a story and i find these little breadcrumbs of foreshadowing the author left. everytime im like "ohoho!!!! i wouldve gotten that before if i had the big picture!!! and now i do!!! delightful!!!" and idk i just love being able to read the same story twice but have two different experiences. i like when a story has so many layers that it can keep you entertained for a long time as you unravel all its secret nooks and crannies. thats a good story.

[writing-is-a-martial-art]

truly some people have no genre savviness whatsoever. A girl came back from the dead the other day and fresh out of the grave she laughed and laughed and lay down on the grass nearby to watch the sky, dirt still under her nails. I asked her if she’s sad about anything and she asked me why she should be. I asked her if she’s perhaps worried she’s a shadow of who she used to be and she said that if she is a shadow she is a joyous one, and anyway whoever she was she is her, now, and that’s enough. I inquired about revenge, about unfinished business, about what had filled her with the incessant need to claw her way out from beneath but she just said she’s here to live. I told her about ghosts, about zombies, tried to explain to her how her options lie between horror and tragedy but she just said if those are the stories meant for her then she’ll make another one. I said “isn’t it terribly lonely how in your triumph over death nobody was here to greet you?” and she just looked at me funny and said “what do you mean? The whole world was here, waiting”. Some people, I tell you.

[coffeenonsense]

Holding a human heart in your hands while looking your mom dead in the eye. Filming ICE & running off to post on your tiktok with thousands of followers so people see them arresting a fucking ER nurse. Comforting a family through the death of a loved one. fuck yeah javadi belongs in the ER

[life-globe-blog]

A female mute swan riding in a New York City subway train after she was rescued, en route to the Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge, in the Queens borough of New York Credit: Ariel Cordova-Rojas via AP

[why-is-it-always-autumn]

It's good and cool to give your characters a single simple, straightforward, non-urgent, super-achievable goal that shouldn't really cost anything or hurt anyone, make that the driving factor for most of their decisions, and then have the Plot do everything in its power to stop them.

[why-is-it-always-autumn]

Goals include but are not limited to:

Wanting to go home

Wanting people out of your house who shouldn't be there

Trying to find a reliable babysitter

Trying to deliver a letter or package

Trying to do a favor for someone

Wanting to see a specific thing, place, or kind of animal

Wanting to collect the money somebody owes you (the lower the debt the better)

Trying to win a bet

Wanting to punch a specific person in the face

[blacknidstang]

"wanting people out of your house who shouldn't be there" is my favorite because that was literally Shrek's main goal

[genericpuff]

Everything Everywhere All At Once is just a movie about a middle-aged Chinese immigrant trying to do her taxes

[mysharona1987]

[beetleandfox]

piranesi on the mind

[homunculus-argument]

I was raised on the strict principle that the driver only drives. Shotgun seat is a duty, not a privilege. Second seat is the first passenger, the second in command. Shotgun does everything that the driver needs done. Driver wants water, shotgun hands them the water bottle, already opened, and closes it after the driver has had their drink. Shotgun manages the navigator, googles things that popped into the driver's head and wants to look up real quick. Reads the driver's incoming texts and texts back as the driver dictates - upon the driver's request. Driver only drivers. If your ass itches you don't take your hands off the fucking wheel, the secondant scratches it for you.

Then you sit down in the car of someone who's an excellent never-had-a-crash driver and watch in horror as they go 80 kmh on a curving forest road, opening a water bottle one-handed while applying lip balm with the other, changing music by pecking their phone's touch screen with the tip of their nose like a bird, all the while steering with their left ass cheek, and you feel your soul leave your body just in case your body is also gonna leave the car after it, through the windshield, in the near foreseeable future.

[beroebluejeans]

Whenever I am thinking very hard about The Locked Tomb, I find it important to remind myself Tamsyn Muir did compare the series to the KFC Double Down.

https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/muir_interview/

[cheetopuffpaws]

Never NOT reblogging this every time I come across it

[feefal]

Bebe pepper inside a pepper…🫑²

[feefal]

Water experiencing itself🐟