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[thesaurus-lover]

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[hauntedhousesforsale]

redraw of this really fun comic

[gogo2712]

Birth 🥖

[dfsdgaefh]

fly high, haikyu-!

[thesaurus-lover]

it doesn't sound like just a dream anymore 🥹

[thesaurus-lover]

some alternate ones i made cuz i love 「ROCKET」 so much already lol and these lyrics make me emotional. personally "everyone is an astronaut" is my favorite <3

[thesaurus-lover]

it doesn't sound like just a dream anymore 🥹

[prophetic-writer]

When you've been a writer for long enough, commas become more of a spiritual practice than a grammatical one.

Could I explain the actual rules of how they’re used? Absolutely not.

Do I rely on sensing a tremor in the force to tell me where to use them? Yes and this has never failed me even once.

[thesaurus-lover]

coffee shop au where Character A is Brewmaster Final Boss (competition-level latte art, smoothest foam you've ever seen) but is shit at talking to customers while Character B is the certified front-of-house charisma butterfly (can make the grumpiest customers leave with a smile) but doesn't know how to make a cappuccino

[thesaurus-lover]

in line with this i present the effective parallel of grumpy x sunshine: milk x coffee

[thesaurus-lover]

coffee shop au where Character A is Brewmaster Final Boss (competition-level latte art, smoothest foam you've ever seen) but is shit at talking to customers while Character B is the certified front-of-house charisma butterfly (can make the grumpiest customers leave with a smile) but doesn't know how to make a cappuccino

[thesaurus-lover]

there has to be a word for when a person is so deeply intertwined in your life that in the alternate universes without them you are so drastically a different person that it can barely be called you

[scattered-under-moonlight]

[thesaurus-lover]

HAHAH Yes this is basically what my last post was talking about

[thesaurus-lover]

i love that ody's response to "let's have open arms instead" in Odysseus is hell no. it just feels so necessary; and not just for the obvious purpose of cementing his ruthlessness.

to me, it also reads as him finally being able to separate the ideas of the open arms philosophy from polites in his head. hell, i think it was the only time when the words "open arms" weren't sung in the open arms melody (though correct me if i'm wrong).

because i'm sure that, whether consciously or not, a big reason that it was so difficult for ody to let go of the open arms philosophy was that doing so may have felt like the equivalent of forgetting his best friend. which of course is not true!

in real life, you don't have to agree with someone just because you (or, in order to) love them. especially if you're in vastly different circumstances that have called for different things—that's just how it goes. and that doesn't change just because the other person, well. dies. it's not like the open arms philosophy is the only thing that can keep polites' memory alive.

yes, odysseus is ruthless now. no, that doesn't mean he's not still just a man who is haunted by his sins and dearly misses those he lost.

[thesaurus-lover]

if kuroo tetsurou, captain of team connect, JVA promotions division mastermind, king of lowering the net, does not narrate the volleyball rules monologue at the end of the anime then see you all in the next life

[creativepromptsforwriting]

You want to learn to write better dialogue? Become a bitch who has whole conversations and debates in her mind all the time and you'll become a natural.

[thesaurus-lover]

what if. mutual pining book where depending on which side you start reading from you get a diff pov and then the end of the story is actually in the middle where the two povs meet. does that make sense. How would this work logistically

[enigmaticpink]

I think some people forget that some literature and some media is meant to be deeply uncomfortable and unsettling. It's meant to make you have a very visceral reaction to it. If you genuinely can't handle these stories then you are under no obligation to consume them but acting as if they have no purpose or as if people don't have a right to tell these stories, stories that often relate to the darkest or most disturbing parts of life, then you should do some introspection.

[vsaintsin]

I’ve read some things that deal in sad/dark/actually depressing and disturbing subject matter. I’ve loved them and the points they make without endorsing the events portrayed.

It’s always disappointing to get online and see that the conversation is “X thing shouldn’t exist” on the grounds that it made somebody feel badly. It was meant to make you feel that way and it’s normal that it did - it’s okay that you stop reading it or don’t finish it but I am BEGGING you to consider why it made you uncomfortable and why the author felt the need (if the answer isn’t immediately obvious, as it can be). There isn’t shame in something putting you off so badly that you shelve it.

The sterilization of reality is a detriment to all who exist within it. To censor stories with painful themes is to erase the reality that such stories are based in some horrific truth and works to erase the reality that many people have endured.

This trend or whatever we want to call it has gotten so bad that I listened to an entire lecture from somebody about how awful a book was and how it shouldn’t exist at all, how the author was a terrible person for concocting it and how it hurt people. When I asked what the book was, this person not only could barely recall the name but HAD NEVER READ IT. I bought the book. I read the book. It accomplished its task beautifully and I found it to be a cathartic experience. I also understood how it could make people so uncomfortable and would never judge anybody for setting it down.

It’s okay not to like something and distance yourself from it. Remember that those rules apply only to you, though, because they speak only to your own psyche.

[tlbodine]

Periodic reminder that one of the many roles of fiction is microdosing on big scary feelings so you build resilience, empathy, understanding, and defense against the real thing.

[thesaurus-lover]

the prompt? pick up the nearest book, go to the 7th page, take the 7th word, and use it to write within 7 sentences.

"Felt like a mess." 

I sat on the edge of the bed, lips pressed together, eyes on the floor but not really looking—stuck in the thoughts that slammed on the walls inside my head.

She huffs, vaguely, in the corner of my vision. "Felt like there was nothing I could do, like I was there but useless. Do you know how frustrating that is?"

"I... I know," I say quietly.

"Do you, really?"