#yeah. yep

[avellino]

[onlymosalah]

[nitw]

[onebizarrekai]

I had a dream last night that someone made an animatic of joe tazuna skateboarding to chip the ripper

[echthr0s]

perfectpiety replied to your post “whoops, got lost in a tag again”

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[echthr0s]

"Soon after A Wizard of Earthsea came out in England it received a review in a science-fiction periodical which took the book to task for being "consolatory" and "reassuring". Well, fair enough, I thought, if the consolation is false, if the reassurance is unwarranted; but are consolation and reassurance inherently false, unwarranted - foolish, soft, silly, childish - sentimental? Are we writers only to threaten, terrify, and depress our readers with our ruthless honesty: have we not as good a right to offer them whatever comfort we've come by honestly?

I wrote the reviewer and told him what I thought, and that I thought I had Tolkien to back me up. He wrote back nicely enough saying that of course he hadn't been thinking of the book as being written for children. Apparently it is permissible to reassure or console children, but not adults.

Such an attitude seems to me to be based on a strange notion that the Common Reader is so happy, so foolishly confident, so stupidly trustful, that the Common Writer's whole duty is to convince him that life is hard and full of grief and that there is no consolation. Most adults I know already know that life is hard and full of grief; and they look for both confirmation of this knowledge, and consolation for it, in art."

from that Ursula K LeGuin article that's been goin around

[phantasmagoria1985]

big country flame of the west dot mp3

[clarabosswald]

okay so my birthday is coming up (two weeks before s9 premieres; for a long while i was hoping it’d air on the same day - knowing it’d be september this year - but yeah that didn’t happen) and i was thinking that maybe i’d make a wishlist of stuff in case any of you don’t struggle financially and actually think buying a birthday gift for a complete stranger is a good idea and i think i’d rather make it p soon since shipping time is a thing that needs to be considered now thing is idk which site i should use so here’s a poll come express your opinion (there’s also an “it’s a bad idea” option for those of you who disapprove so don’t feel bad to choose it bc i myself don’t know if i should do this at all)