Meanderings

[prokopetz]

Unreliable narrator abruptly realising they've mixed up which narrative thread is the red herring and which is the actual plot and they've been deceiving the audience about the wrong thing the entire time.

[sawbuckplus]

[uncle-beanbag-mojave]

[brosef-von-dudehomie]

"The more mundane aspects of American life"

Ma'am there is nothing "mundane" about a Buc-ee's or Bass Pro Shop. Mundane is a bodega, Buc-ee's is a fucking mall with gas pumps

[beaked-whales-in-exile]

I hate how you can hear the sneering condescension in that journalist's voice. Fucking enemies of the people.

[treesandbones]

The best part of this is that before the world cup you had a lot of people saying shit like "omg you guys are going to hate it here it's so bad you all will finally see how horrible and ugly this country is!" And then when people came it was literally the exact opposite. Lol

[taurzza]

sun-God

[bdalak]

the more i talk w/ leftist friends the more i start to realize that they think culture is only defined by food or "traditional" (i.e. "ethnic") garb and nothing else

mentioned how white americans do in fact have a common culture and they genuinely thought i was joking. culture isnt something only granted to the Cool People of Color. just feels like among progressive groups there's this dichotomy created in which only the virtuous oppressed minorities have culture and anyone who is privileged some sort of void cultureless being

[pigeonsplease]

When I visited Chicago, the very first thing to weird me out from the airport was… how almost everywhere had revolving doors.

I’m Australian. Sure, we do have those doors, but the vast majority of places in Sydney are automatic sliding doors or old-fashioned manual push/pulls because we don’t need to block out the cold and wind the same way here.

So every day I experienced a culture clash with something as basic as what doors were normal for me.

Americans who say they don’t have a culture are plagued with defaultism beyond belief. Culture isn’t just made up of costumes and language and the largest stuff, it’s constructed of a billion small things you do every day that you never even consider could be different because that’s just “normal” to your daily life. No one has no culture just because they’re not adhering to the biggest markers they can consciously recognise.

[the-library-alcove]

Yes, I have these saved for exactly this reason.

[parakeet]

You will not die at the hands of quicksand. Ask me how I know this

[bearthethirdwheel]

Please, how do you know this?

[parakeet]

quicksand does not have any hands

[frankensteins-mt-dew]

[feefal]

The moon! Did you know the phases appear different depending on where you’re viewing it from?

[heedra]

one thing that sucks creatively is when you have like multiple different story concepts strongly based on the same root flavor of idea and you have no idea which one is the horse you wanna actually go with

[ultirex]

“feeling like a person again” collection

[so-much-for-subtlety]

[lesbian-moon-gf]

Girl you are an obligate carnivore

[trans-girl-nausicaa]

her ball

[biglawbear]

The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want.

He maketh me to lie down in green pastures; he leadeth me beside the still waters.

He—wait. Why dost the Lord hath clippers.

[biglawbear]

The Lord sheareth me.

[teaboot]

“Jesus Shaves”

[cryotrash]

Did you know that most plot holes can be fixed by making your characters canonically stupid

"This doesn't make any sense, why would he ever-" my man hasn't stumbled onto a thought in years

[rhysintherain]

Fun and easy ways to temporarily make your smart characters stupid:

Sleep deprivation

Drugs

Pretty girl

Pretty not girl

Hungry

Stressed out

Got bored and stopped listening

[revretch]

Don't forget obsession! Charles Darwin once was collecting beetles, and already had one beetle in each hand. But then, he came across a *third* beetle. So, he stuffed one of the beetles into his mouth.

That beetle was a bombardier, known for spraying a foul fluid that literally explodes.

[socialistfremenist]

[ashstfu]

forever in awe of people who pay attention. people who wait for you while you tie your shoes while the others have walked away. when they continue listening intently while the rest of the group stopped listening. noticing your moments of silence when everyone else hasn’t. “this made me think of you” noticing things you never even noticed about yourself. people who say “text me when you get home safe.” people who make you laugh until you cry. childhood friends who keep in touch. people with genuine intentions. people who are soft when the world has given them every opportunity to turn hard. the “let’s get ice cream” at 3am friend. the turn up the music in the car and sing friend. people whose actions match their words. people who make the world feel less chaotic. kindred spirits. the trustworthy and honest. hard workers. good listeners. clear communicators. people who love you for who you are. people who don’t ask you to be anything other than yourself. people who choose you. people who stay.

[dogpuppy]

[bakersfield-row]

[rainintheevening]

Okay, we got a new one, boys.

[fleshengine]

Close enough welcome back Chekov's gun.

[comma-souptra]

Prev you can’t bury this in your own tags

[justbreakonme]

I also like the idea of showing something as a problem before it’s shown as a strength. Almost every character trait has two sides, and by showing the “bad” side first, it sets things up to not only make sense, but to also be very satisfying.

[greelin]

what i miss most about being a chocolatier (besides the honor of gayest job title imaginable) is we had these massive bars of chocolate for tempering that were 10lbs and we had to break them into smaller chunks. by using a sledgehammer of course. i LIVED for that shit

[greelin]

all the other people in production HATED busting them especially at the end of the shift but i fucking loved it. give me the hammer. i can be trusted with the hammer. And everyone did in fact trust me with the hammer because again they all thought it was tedious and painful. me? i was having the time of my life. even if i had to pick up the slack for other people i would be annoyed for all of five seconds before the euphoria of getting to smash things set in. and the production areas had windows too so customers often just got to watch me beat the shit out of a massive chocolate bar. with a hammer. like a zoo animal. i was getting paid to do that. every day i miss it.

[viralfrog]

[cameoamalthea]

Things to do with your twin