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Things I currently like

[faircastle]

The Road to the Spear (S03E04) THE WHEEL OF TIME (2021—)

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[scottbaiowulf-deactivated201805]

Male writers writing female characters:

“Cassandra woke up to the rays of the sun streaming through the slats on her blinds, cascading over her naked chest. She stretched, her breasts lifting with her arms as she greeted the sun. She rolled out of bed and put on a shirt, her nipples prominently showing through the thin fabric. She breasted boobily to the stairs, and titted downwards.”

[m1ssc0mmun1cat10n]

‘ She breasted boobily to the stairs, and titted downwards’ is the greatest fucking sentence I have ever read.

[silly-activites]

THE ORIGINAL??

[caspar-david-friedrich-paintings]

-Riesengebirge Landscape with Rising Fog-

[aeshnacyanea2000]

I’m writing scenes which are good, and I don’t know where they are going to fit in the book. But it’s what I call ‘The Valley Filled With Clouds’ technique. You’re at the edge of the valley, and there is a church steeple, and there is a tree, and there is a rocky outcrop, but the rest of it is mist. But you know that because they exist, there must be ways of getting from one to the other that you cannot see. And so you start the journey. And when I write, I write a draft entirely for myself, just to walk the valley and find out what the book is going to be all about.

-- Terry Pratchett - A Slip Of The Keyboard: Collected Non-fiction

[taurzza]

[nat111love]

THE WHEEL OF TIME ↳ Season 3 ↳ Episode 8

[fuckonami]

Security Units have morning routines too.

[untrustyou]

November 9, 1989 

The fall of the Berlin Wall

[shinsticks]

I wrote another thing

Dead men don't bite 27,796 words | Silverflint post-canon AU Summary: Rackham does not wait for Silver to return with the cache and leaves him marooned on Skeleton Island with Flint, Hands, Gunn, and Morgan.

[ltwilliammowett]

Ghost Ship, by Theodore Victor Carl Valenkamph (1868 - 1924)

[samuelroukin]

TOBY STEPHENS as James Flint in BLACK SAILS (2014—2017) Chapter III

[follettina1111111111]

[cuthalions]

I have known you like no other, so I love you like no other. LOUISE BARNES as MIRANDA BARLOW & TOBY STEPHENS as CAPTAIN FLINT BLACK SAILS (2014 - 2017)

[softieskywalker]

i think the key difference between george lucas’s star wars and disney’s star wars is that lucas is a man with an ideology. someone with a point of view, and all that entails. which comes with ideas of revolution, anti-imperialism, challenging the status quo, cultural appropriation and racist stereotypes. complex and contradictory ideas because that’s how artists are: complex and complicated people. disney is not. disney is a corporation. a corporation can’t have ideology, because ideology defeats the purpose of profit. and when the only thing you do is to turn on the movie manufacturing machine before you sit down and plan what ideas are you trying to convey to the audience, then your results are going to be washed out corporate garbage. and because when you’re a giant corporation who only cares about selling to the widest audience possible, you can’t take sides. you can’t decide on an idea. because you want to sell your product to people who are on the entire political spectrum. which results in movies without ideology, without purpose, without soul.

[david-talks-sw]

I have been looking for this post for years after I came across it and it’s finally here and I need to reblog this because it is absolutely and entirely accurate.

[loveinstreams]

Dame Maggie Smith with newborn son Toby Stephens, 1969

[dais-yyyy-deactivated20250224]

Dame Maggie Smith

1934-2024

[stephen9260]

Black sails people am I going crazy or was there once out there a post about a parallel between the gunshot and birds flying away in 4x10 and the string snapping in The Cherry Orchard by Chekhov? Because I am so so sure that post existed at some point and it did a whole analysis on the finale and wether Flint was dead or not and it's the thing that got me into Chekhov in the first place and now I can't find it aymore

[shinsticks]

Do you mean this analysis by @freedom-in-the-dark, OP?

Hello! I’m here to discuss, at length, what I personally have analyzed and think about the ending. DISCLAIMER: If you prefer to think there’