[luna-azzurra]

Me: I have a whole scene playing in my head, dialogue and everything

Also me: opens laptop, types "the man walked into the room" and stares at it for 45 minutes

[luna-azzurra]

Your character doesn't need to be likeable. They need to be legible. The reader needs to understand every decision they make even when it's wrong, even when it's ugly, even when they want to shake them. Likeable is easy and forgettable. Legible is what makes someone stay with you for years. Make the logic of every bad choice visible. The reader doesn't have to agree with it. They just have to follow it.

[luna-azzurra]

Something neuroscience-y that helps with prose: attention is selective. A character will not notice everything in a room. They will notice what matters to their goal, fear, desire, training, wound, or obsession. A jealous character notices hands. a hungry character notices food. A soldier notices exits. A lonely character notices pairs. Description becomes character when attention has a bias.

[theconcealedweapon]

[guerrillatech]

[thatoneangryduck1]

Bear: "Who even cuts people's hair in the middle of the night?"

Nikki: "I do! They call me "The Midnight Barber""

Bear: "Yeah well that's an infringement of people's liberties"

Nikki: "Is it?"

Bear: "Yeah, so don't ever be doing that to me."

[lastoneout]

honestly the discourse on this site is so bad that I have a new hot take: if you use tumblr at all fuck you

[i-wanna-be-cute]

Checked their account: turns out op is a fucking tumblr user themselves so????? Idk :/

[lastoneout]

[lastoneout]

which one of you motherfuckers reblogged this again

[orthoscheme]

supermarkets should have benches

[orthoscheme]

everywhere should have benches

[kmac3000]

@isuggestrevolution would your suggestion help with this one?

[isuggestrevolution]

for sure

[captain-price-returns]

[anarchopuppy]

for all the complaining ppl do about online ads i almost never see anyone put the blame on whos actually responsible: google. the vast majority of ads uve ever seen on the internet went thru the ads by google service

all the blatantly pornographic ads on tumblr were provided by google. all the ads for scam mobile games w ai-generated footage that looks absolutely nothing like anything ingame were provided by google. all the ads for social security scams on the weather app that i cant uninstall from my phone were provided by google

in other words, google does advertising for identity thieves and fraudsters in exchange for a cut of the stolen money. it isnt exaggerating to say that google is the linchpin of an entire industry of cybercrime that wouldnt exist if they were expected to moderate the ads they approve like any other advertising service does. billboard companies and tv stations dont get to profit from running ads for scams, why does google get a pass?

if google wanted to they could report these scammers and have them taken down, or at the very least stop putting their scams on every app on ur phone, and the entire internet would be much safer. but why would they do that when theyre raking in so much money from ur grandmas stolen credit cards?

[isuggestrevolution]

i have a suggestion

[fairycosmos]

my dead wife. the ad free internet

[fairycosmos]

watching dreamily recorded footage of a web forum from 2003

[ace-disgrace-on-the-case]

It’s wild how when you’re fat or even just not skinny you don’t get to wear fucking anything

[transfemininomenon]

🤨

[seracadash]

(goverment voice) we need to protect the children from pornography so our plan is to remove their eyes so they would never see something so traumatic. if you are against removing children's eyes you are basically a pedophile

[destructionfanq]

we all know that beinq introduced as "???" with a black silhouette as sprite feels qood as fuck BUT. you must imaqine beinq introduced as "!?"

[imjunebitch]

yeah

[ouroborosorder]

the problem with writing fantasy is that i have to constantly stop myself from having people say "jesus fucking christ." jesus didn't exist here dammit. i need a fake swear that means the same thing i think

[herpsandbirds]