Your Songs Remind Me Of Swimming

Which I Forgot When I Started to Sink

[lacetulle]

Joli Poli Couture

[pseudomantis]

[is-the-owl-video-cute-deactivat]

a squirrel or perhaps a cardinal posted this

[phaeton-flier]

How about you mind your own damn business

[happyheidi]

🦔

This is Charles. He wants to go on a journey around tumblr. could you show him around?

[pregnanthudsonwilliams]

i wanna be so offline but unfortunately i love my mutuals and fanfiction

[cozyvu]

via cozyvu

[badassdemonsword]

you have. metal illness?

a lil bitt

[tinhaaaaat]

lovestruck

[hanleialuke]

5 things your character can't do while speaking

Choke. Just think about it, seriously. Think about what choking is and imagine speaking while it’s happening. That would fuckin’ hurt, man.

Hiss. Look, it’s just not possible, okay? No matter how “evil” you want your character to seem.

Snarl. Animals snarls. The Beast from Beauty and the Beast snarls. The Hulk snarls. You know who doesn’t snarl? PEOPLE WHEN THEY’RE SPEAKING.

Shriek. Come on, 99% of the time, “shriek” is not the word you want.Let’s face it: if you put an exclamation point at the end of the sentence, your reader gets the picture. Don’t bring to mind banshees and screaming toddlers.

Sneer. I’m not even going to bother explaining this one. “SNEER” ISN’T EVEN A SOUND.

[phrux]

Choked is not meant to be taken literally, an obstruction in the throat. It means they’re having difficultly speaking, they’re forcing the words out with difficulty. Often used when the character is convulsed in tears or laughter.

Hiss is a low, threatening whisper. Raw, guttural, vicious. It is NOT a literal hiss like an animal, it is a tone of voice that serves the same function. Someone will hiss that they’re going to cut your throat- a message from one person to the other.

Snarl is the same kind of thing. Not literal, it’s a tone of voice that serves the same function. It’s raw and gutteral like a hiss, but more savage than vicious. It’s loud, it’s showy, it’s intimidating. It’s very alpha male, big man, look at how fucking dangerous I am. I’ll take ALL of you on. Even if they’re snarling at one person in particular, nobody better back them up or they’re gonna get fucked up too.

Shriek. Come on, seriously? We’ve all heard people shriek either in fear or outrage. High pitched, loud, out of control, feminine. Men can shriek, but it’s funny and emasculating. Think angry italian women throwing pots and pans or ladies on tables who just saw a mouse.

Sneering is contempt whether it’s a facial expression or a tone of voice or both. There are a hundred different ways to sneer with your voice, but it all adds up to the same thing.

[carnivoredeer]

How descriptive words work 101

[susspirria]

Op radiating cinema sins energy with that list lol

[neopet-euthanization]

OP tagging this as “reasons they stop reading a book in ch 1” yet not grasping like the most basic form of figurative language is… something

[flipocrite]

[dogpuppy]

[capsfromtrek]

[xphaiea]

carved stone face, Villa Aldobrandini, Frascati

[domhnall-tonal]

summer mood

[yinza]

It occurred to me that I'd never actually drawn these two together, so I decided fixing that would be a good way to end Pride Month.

[Image Description: Digital artwork of Xena and Gabrielle, shown from the waist up. Xena wears her standard armor, while Gabrielle has her short hair and red-and-brown outfit from Season 5. Xena is dipping Gabrielle in a kiss, and Gabrielle has one hand cupping the back of Xena's head while the other is flung across her shoulders. /end ID]

[the-electric-monk]

I hate summer. I hate wildfires. I hate smoke. I hate fireworks. I hate asthma and allergies. I hate having to be inside because of the smoke. I hate the nightmares I have always had about wildfires. I hate the threat of fire to homes and forests and animal and human life. I hate selfish people who shrug off the fire danger and set off fireworks or make campfires. Stop it.

[eroscestlavie]

I need to stop replying to “how do you make friends in your 30s?” threads because all my answers boil down to “you have to want to know people instead of have friends” and I don’t think people wanna hear that

[aromantic-goldfishdeactivated202]

genuinely I cannot fathom trying to use Tumblr like any other social media. I just thought to myself “why does Tumblr even have a ‘Best Posts First’ feature? why would I want to see good posts?” and then I had to stop and consider that for a second

[jelatinivan]

huh