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oozey mess
we're not kids anymore.
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Love Begins
Cosimo Galluzzi
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if i look back, i am lost
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Not today Justin
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Three Goblin Art
Sweet Seals For You, Always
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@sugarglazed
didi, she/they, 22, desi-american, lesbian
i mainly talk about random shit on here, but i have a stranger things sideblog @stoncyish and d20/dropout sideblog @thistle-caster. you can also see my interests in my carrd.
you can read my fics on ao3! i haven’t set up a tag for my wips but once i do it will be up here :)
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This is incredible work!!!
me: so you see, even if andy weir says he didn't intend for your story to be political, there remains an intense underlying political message in your earth's journey to survival. hope and collaboration are just as political and perhaps even more radical as dystopia in this day and age. and to just throw all that away and say we're all reading into it is a disservice both to the readers who fell in love with you, and to the very ideals you represent.
book!Grace, who i just transported into a pocket universe specifically to rant to him: RYAN GOSLING??? I'm RYAN GOSLING??
me: yes obviously, now stay on topic here. what im trying to tell you is that all art is political, no matter its supposed intentions. the global trolley problem of it all, ortiz's portrayal of rocky as an alien who gets to be as weird as he wishes he could be, the world's decision to choose a woman to be the scapegoat of humanity's survival--
movie!Grace, also trapped here: they did what to antarctica???
“bits to use in everyday conversations”
TED LASSO — 2.12: Inverting the Pyramid of Success
The problem with being a Creative Person is I want to create all the things. I want to draw a little drawing. I want to write a fic. I want to write a book. I want to paint with watercolors. I want to paint with oil paints. I want to animate. I want to make something out of clay. I want to sew a dress. I want to play a song on the ukulele. I want to play a song on the cello. I want to play a song on the harp. I want to write a song. I want to write a musical. I want to make a webcomic. I want to make a video game.
I want to do EVERYTHING but I don’t have the TIME or MONEY or MOTIVATION
I'm losing it so here's a collection of all the Langdon to Noah Kahan edits on TikTok I have saved in no particular order.
Call Your Mom - One // Two
Orange Juice - One // Two // Three // Four // Five
The Great Divide - One // Two
American Cars - One
Doors - One // Two // Three // Four
Porch Light - One // Two // Three
Dial Drunk - One
No Complaints - One // Two
Godlight - One // Two // Three
Dashboard - One // Two // Three
Haircut - One // Two
23 - One // Two // Three
Willing and Able - One // Two
Paid Time Off - One
Deny, Deny, Deny - One // Two // Three
Orbiter - One // Two
over and over, by me
i was having thoughts so i made a poem about them
[Image description: a collage made from excerpts of online text. It's in different fonts, sizes, and spacing. Text reads:
The time loop or temporal loop is a plot device in fiction / characters re-experience a span of time / Over and Over Again / a clockwork mechanism not unlike eternal life, / A need to tell and hear / It is our innate nature to connect the dots.
This article is about the general concept of art.
I've told you what's coming / This is an old story. "Once upon a time" There was, there was not... / A hero a victory triumph Blessed / A villain a fall tragedy Doomed / Setting, Plots, Perspective, Style, Theme, Character / till death us do part, If even a single person remembers you then maybe you never really die at all / stories are kept alive Human nature ove and shelter / characters re-experience a span of time / Over and Over Again
[long space] Thank You. We'll Meet Again.
End image description.]
official time loop post
I love the idea of a timeloop but the whole story is told from the pov of the person not stuck in it. suddenly this random person they've never met before comes up to them and demands the craziest thing, seems to know them more intimately than anyone, appears to not have slept in months, and has the most peculiarly haunted look about them like they've faced death a hundred times over. bros go on an adventure. how does our protagonist respond to every sentence finished for them? to every wistful look their new companion casts their way? What about the mindless efficiency with which they avoid hidden dangers? Imagine the quiet atmosphere when the looper makes the protagonist's coffee exactly the way they like, without needing to be asked, and the protagonist finally gets it--"we've been here before, haven't we?" how often do they cry?
there's also huge comedic potential. oh? random guy you've never met runs up and kisses you on the mouth? the two of you embark on the weirdest conceivable journey to complete a litany of unthinkable tasks? you make it home in time for dinner and they somehow know your grandmother's secret meatloaf recipe by heart? you wake up the next morning to find the stranger (are they really a stranger anymore?) making you waffles in your kitchen?? the coffee is exactly how you like it????
official time loop post
fuck this time loop im leaving (walks into a different, worse time loop)
official time loop post
SINNERS (2025) — dir. Ryan Coogler
looper
official time loop post
i think some of you dont like narratives or stories or characters i think you just like fanfiction tropes
protagonists can and will be sexist, racist, insensitive, cruel, stupid, etc, especially towards the beginning of a story. these are called character flaws and they are a surprise tool that will lead to narrative fulfillment later
And sometimes "narrative fulfillment" doesn't mean "the character overcomes their flaws" or even "the antihero is punished for their flaws"! sometimes it means the narrative says "wow was that fucked up or what? anyway i'm rod sterling"
i think the reason "fiction affects reality" trips so many people up is because they think it means "engaging with media that depicts uncomfortable subjects will taint your soul" when really all it means is that "fiction is meant to reflect certain ideas of the world intentionally or not, and it's going affect your perception of it, if you don't go in with a healthy bit of skepticism"
like playing a first person shooter isn't going to turn you into a school shooter, but that doesn't mean that Call of Duty isn't like. explicitly military propaganda.
or (for a more specific but also weirdly common example) enjoying horror movies isn't going to turn you into a serial killer, but if you watch a lot of horror where the killer is "a gender confused man who kills women whilel dressed in drag, because his repressed female split personality hates his attraction to women because it gives her gender dysphoria" than you should like. be a bit criticial of what you're enjoying. or something like that.
the return of gc!jeremy x refereeno is something that is so important
you'll get the urge as an artist or a writer to say out loud the things you're worried about "the proportions are off" "kind of out of character" "i'm not good at summaries" "didn't get as much detail as i wanted" "i made a mistake and here's how" and that's the self-conscious part of your brain telling you "it's bad and if you don't tell them you know it's bad then they'll think you're stupid" but you've got to ignore that little voice and pretend you think it's good or else that little voice is going to ruin your life
Some of the best advice I have ever gotten was from a creative writing professor. She said never apologize for your work. Never critic it before someone else does.
Her reasoning was you are the creator. You made your work from nothing and can see all the flaws and seems and holes. But your audience may not see any of it. Maybe they will; maybe they won't. But if you TELL them about the holes and the mistakes and the problems....they will 100% see them. So don't tell them. Don't sabotage yourself just because you think you're not good enough.
The whole point of critic is to get an outside perspective. Self critic serves no purpose.
holy shit just remembered i’m here to laugh and jump and cry and sing and dance and hug and run and play and scream and weep and eat and drink and blast music and have fun and love and love and love and love and love!!!!
