Get the fuck outta here, stickbug

I’m TRYING to jam with Rick! Kay, 22! We out here bugpostin'. 

[fungalfaggot]

self-care phrases to boost your confidence

this shit ain't nothin to me man

I'll fucking kill you

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[navy-leader]

Have been trying out new methods of shading and it's actually pretty fun, but it also makes me feel like this

[thehmn]

The Dark Feminine

An ad for Bhavya Ramesh Jewelry

[thehmn]

The woman with backwards feet is a pichal peri which is the spirit of a woman who suffered an unjust death, usually at the hands of her abusive husband. They are vengeful spirits who come back to take revenge on their abusers but are sometimes said to attract all men but spare all women.

They have backwards feet because either the husband or his family feared she’d return as a pichal peri so they’d twist her corpse’s feed back to make her recognizable as a vengeful spirit to other people.

One interpretation of the story is that the women are in turmoil because of her death, her rage and sadness filling the women who loved her. The woman who sits with the trembling mask floating over her is most likely a furious family member who use magic to help the spirit have her revenge.

Her sitting calmly by the water means she had her revenge and is finally at peace which calms all the other women down.

Don’t look away from the unjust. Stare.

[loveridden1999]

[whisperingsoup]

imagine a park bench underneath

[joy-and-whimsy-official]

Joy and whimsy detected! This post is joyful and whimsical!

[daughterofhylia]

Why???? 😭😭

[hopefulqueer]

[stuckinapril]

I think part of getting better is complete ego death. Like you’re not above setting a timer for 5 minutes and focusing on a task. You’re not above doing a very simple 3 minute workout to start. You’re not above reading for 10 minutes a day when you first get out of your reading slump, even if you used to read for hours. You’re not above starting slow and then building up to where you want to be/where you once were. What you are above is total inertia. Doing something really is better than doing nothing. Radically accept where you are, radically accept your limits, and go from there. Don’t let your ego get in the way.

[sillyimage]

x

[i-suggest-poly]

I have a suggestion

[isuggestswiftmarketregulation]

I also have a suggestion

[i-suggest-poly]

I think I'm in love with you

[cloudabserk]

just watched an interview with james ortiz (rocky’s puppeteer) where he’s like “they were torturing ryan gosling for this movie. it was killing him. he was developing isolation sickness in real life from being the only actor on set for 6 months. i needed to be there for him even when rocky wasn’t in frame to serve as his guiding light and the sole thread tethering him to the concept of love. i was kneeling at the altar” and what

[cloudabserk]

and then in ryan goslings interviews he’s like “i was struggling in the depths of hell. until a beautiful puppeteer angel lifted me up out of the darkness and saved me so completely and understood the character so well we had to make him play the role for real”

[tlirsgender]

"Why are my parents suddenly trying to be my friend now that I'm an adult??" Is crazymaking but putting together "oh, because children aren't seen as fully human so they're acceptable to abuse in a way that I'm not anymore. It was never actually about me as a person it was about children being property" may or may not feel Better. Makes sense though lol. Lmao. Everyone get more youthlib now

[tlirsgender]

Like once you really understand Being A Minor as an axis of oppression & look at things through this framework a lot of really jarring things about the transition to adulthood start making sense. Like. Damn you guys told me there was something fundamentally wrong with me but it was just because I was a child this whole time? The fuck?

[baracatman]

ya boy link can’t dive in botw because he’s just too bouyant. can only float or drown

[artsekey]

So I recently posted some original fiction in an online critique circle. While the experience has been positive overall, I have received some very... interesting feedback.

The story is written in first-person limited. We're talking 'Mr. Unreliable Narrator', "I said, I did". With that in mind, here are some of the (abridged) notes left on Chapter 1 and 2:

"This story switches from first person limited to third person omniscient, and it's confusing. Like here, you say "He is anchored in his chair." That's past tense."

"Is this story in first person, or third person omniscient? Here, you say "I feel the heat radiating off of Character B's face. His breathing is harsh and shallow." How does he know what character B is feeling?"

"I'm confused, I don't know what's happening, and I don't care about these characters. There's no inciting incident, and I don't know where we are." - Reviewer who... did not read Chapter 1.

"It seems like you're actually trying to write third-person omniscient. I think you should shift the whole story to past-tense."

Now I know what you might be thinking. "Artsekey, that's like four different people telling you that you might be writing in third person. Are you sure you're not writing in third person...?"

Pretty sure!

(To be clear, so much of the feedback I was sent was helpful/encouraging! And even these notes were included alongside helpful crit, but this note has come in more than once and I'm starting to feel crazy.)

(((And if y'all see something I don't here, please let me know. I'm being a little dramatic here for funsies, but I'm always willing be told I've goofed lol!)))

[artsekey]

Update: after another read I think I've found the source of the confusion.

Take the following: A: "Good.” It’s like she was waiting to cut me off. “Let’s keep it that way, yes?” B: "Good." Cutting me off delights her. "Let's keep it that way, yes?" C: "Good." She's delighted. "Let's keep it that way." In version A, our narrator is present in the tag and we have admission of uncertainty. "It's like" says "our narrator isn't sure about this." This reads comfortably like first person because it has a little implied clause that says "this is probable, but not absolute". In version B, the narrator is still present but there's certainty from his POV. He is sure she is delighted. This loses some readers because... how can he, the narrator, say with absolute certainty that cutting him off delights her? He can't, so therefore he must have some insight into her interior world. This is ignores the idea that first person is a recount of the narrator's POV, so he can be sure (and incorrect!) about what he sees. That's the point! Version C removes the narrator, cutting it down to just the narrator's observation. I use this sparingly throughout, mostly for rhythm, and it is fucking with my readers. I think this stems from most books being in third person, and the dialogue tag-- "she's delighted"-- would, in isolation, work in the third-person present. In context, though, where everything is filtered through our narrator, I trust my reader to know "he perceives her to be delighted, and for the sake of this story his perception is all you get."

[daggerdoggy]

settings > wound > my wound > reopen

[daggerdoggy]

do not forget this

[mutantrenegade]

You know Jones soda cap, as a tumblr user i can actually say i think I have.

[micahdotgov]

slimy to the moon

[aurpiment]

I wish insomnia at least gave you more usable hours in the day instead of just more hours where you are stupid

[wiskie]

“Remember, nothing tastes as good as skinny feels 😇”

[were--ralph]

the problem with tumblr spells is all of you lil sluts are casting and not giving it time to charge so you're all casting cantrips and not 9th level death spells. everyone wants to be the one to take them down no one wants to be the one who assists

[were--ralph]

we're going to try again witha little but minimal casting

IT will happen in August of 2026. like to charge and reblog to cast but cast sparingly

[were--ralph]

Wait stop. everyone +like now and spread it a little but cast on the same day in August. lets try August 6th or something.

[were--ralph]

CAST NOW