The Void

Any Pronouns (except she/her) | Call me Anxious

[joons]

“i like this villain!”

oh no, you don’t! you haven’t filled out the appropriate forms! you need better credentials. first fill out the following*:

do you admit–publicly, loudly, and continually–that you do not: 

✔ condone  ✔  accept   ✔  understand

any of the villain’s immoral behavior, and that you do not:

✔  enjoy  ✔  tolerate  ✔  see any value whatsoever in 

reading about actions that deviate from Current Puritan Norms, regardless of their merits as devices of narrative tension, character believability, and explorations of morality and empathy in a literary work?

X __________________

*you may waive signing this form if you can answer yes to the following question:

do you like the villain because you’re coping with a traumatic experience? if so, please describe your experience in as much detail as possible and publish the form for public viewing.

now you can say you like a villain on your blog! 

[the-messenger-hawk]

there are actually people unironically like this on this site. truly wild

[kerryweaverlesbian]

What if the Truman show did a queerbait arc

[kerryweaverlesbian]

What if the Truman show did a queerbait arc but then they found out Truman was gay for real and had to recalibrate and their tv network would have to take a definitive stance on homosexuality, yay or nay in the late 90s and it's not like they can recast Truman. They would have to either plot him into an it's okay to be gay fake happy relationship like they did with his tv wife or try and scare him off homosexuality by doing homophobic gay misery storylines at him to try and keep him firmly in the closet.

[i-want-a-bagel]

adding my favorite tags by @clarafordahwin

[unyieldingsilence]

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[literary-sparks]

“Why don’t you use ai” idk man beyond the obvious environmental and “this machine causes psychosis and encourages people to kill themselves” thing I think asking the equivalent of a solid D student who is also a pathological liar if they can answer my question/do the work for me seems pretty fucking stupid

[ceruleanheaven]

time to lock in everybody turn off the little screen and turn on the medium sized one

[unyieldingsilence]

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[distinguishedenthusiastcatt]

In Pride month, I think it's important to remind you of this iconic dialogue. You don't have to talk about who you are if you don't want to❤️

[charl0ttan]

had a terrible nap dream about something called a "website"

[circusheart]

I do think the post that's like "when they torture you to insanity and then torture you for being insane 😂🤣" is one of the most succinct and foundational analyses of interpersonal violence and conflict that had ever been written

[divorciada]

something I haven't seen people mention about The Hunger Games trilogy and movies is how it genuinely revolutionized the Minecraft server scene

[somedeimi1]

Pride

[gremlininho]

[lustcannibalism]

going into the fandom tags can be a form of self harm

[thebardsystem]

@funnier-as-a-system

[natalieironside]

"'I don't know' isn't an answer" alright man then I'll just. Fuckin. Enter my philosophical mind-palace and check the fuckin akashic records. Real quick lemme just catch and cook and eat the Salmon of All Knowledge. Tell me ur question again so I can real quick climb to the highest branches of the Yggdrasil and lay it at the feet of Freda the all-wise Queen of Heaven. Dickhead.

[chuckdrawsthings]

time wasted

[starr-angelofnarnia]

[foeofcolor]

Only day you can rb this

[transgenderization]

its easy to be right aboutt everything on account of just changing my opinion whenever it turns out to be wrong. i dont know why more people dont do this

[transgenderization]

some people are reblogging thisdespite being wrong about things. thatsnotright its no good. engage my method better

[helenvaughans]

[itsmistybitch-deactivated202605]

These posts are sisters

[lierdumoa]

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[Image IDs: Image #1: Tweet from bitchyByers reading: i fear everyone on this app needs to read this

Tumblr post from jesncin reading: my high school english teacher would often critique our literature analysis work by pointing out: "you're treating these characters like they're real people. They're not. They're characters." And it took me a long time to understand what he meant by that. Because I always thought "isn't that the point? That writers want to write characters to be so three dimensional that they act and feel like real people?" but that's not it.

Characters are tools a writer uses in service of a story. Of course characters can be written with depth to the point the feel real to us, but they exist in service of their narrative. Something real people aren't beholden to at all. When discussing characters, I think it's easy to accidentally see these characters as "real people" and not extensions of the author's beliefs. Tools for a narrative. Means of storytelling.

Quote tweet from Inkfy (@/ inkfyCreates) reading: People have developed unhealthy attachments to fictional characters. "A character can't be a narrative tool, they make you Feel things so therefore they are Real to me" is a major problem for literature nowadays. People can't engage with what's actually being showcased.

Image #2: Tweet and reply from rea (bubbles emoji) (@/ lyfjiaberg) reading: Half the reason why we cannot get genuine readings of characters anymore is because people project too heavily on them and treat them as extensions of themselves so when the character is criticized it feels like a personal attack on their own personhood

No matter how strongly you relate to a character you are not them you are not the one anyone is ever talking about. Who are you. We don't know who you are. /End IDs]