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jetix

2024-09-21

#photography #creature

orpheuslookedback1

#buffy the vampire slayer #florence the machine #one of the greats #btvs #🐢#text post

plumstreet

WHERE is that poem about that person learning all about their partners hyperfixation before getting dumped the last line is like "love is a stack of books on my nightstand with a bookmark near the end" I need it to feel whole help me please

cielosky

NYT Tiny Love Stories, 2/11/2020

A Bookmark Near the End

He loves history. He wanted to write a biography of John Quincy Adams. I, shamefully, knew almost nothing about John Quincy Adams, so I went online and bought every biography of him I could find. One day, he called me, claiming that we wouldn’t work out long term. He said he loved me but that we had different interests. “What does love mean to you?” I said. “That’s an impossible question,” he replied. I, however, find love to be quite simple. Love is the stack of biographies on my nightstand with a bookmark near the end. — Julia Nicole Camp

zephyr-of-death

how am I supposed to stay sane after reading this smh

#poetry

anexperimentallife

caxycreations

This isn't very hard when you know some of the most genius strategies in human history were incredibly stupid, circumstantial events that led to victory by sheer luck of that strategy working.

Case in point: Tsun Zu's rival defended a city with 10 men against Tsun's army of hundreds by disarming his own soldiers, dressing them in plain clothes, INVITING Tsun's army to come in, and it only worked because Tsun knew the guy was an ambush master and thought "if we attack the city he's inviting us into, we will die." and left without even trying ON THE BASIS OF HIS RIVAL'S REPUTATION AND NOTHING MORE

Another example: Tsun Zu, on being told his soliders were out of arrows during a battle against a city across a river from them, had his men craft scarecrows, put them on a boat, send it out on a line, leave it there for half an hour, then pull it back in and used the arrows the enemy had fired at the boat to restock their own ammunition. It only worked because it was foggy and the enemy couldn't tell the difference between the scarecrows and actual soldiers.

Stupid things like that work INCREDIBLY WELL if the circumstances favor them, so you really don't need to come up with some multi-layered, Shikamaru-esque strategy. You just need to come up with a strategy you like for the characters involved, then write the circumstances (weather, environment, individuals involved) to favor it enough that it works.

ariaste

Even better cheatsheet: Study history, steal liberally. Those genius plays listed above? Free for the taking, and I guarantee 99% of your audience will have never heard of them.

True genius is simply in knowing how the guy before you did it.

#🐢#someone’s gotta say it

epicsause-official

just got an idea for a banger couples shirts design

#🐢

deadpowol

naamahdarling

I love the implication that, as Larry is an "unpaid trainee", the dog is paid.

#incredible work #cat

saltcirclesigil

The first one on the second row will always be my favorite hehe

#supernatural #spn #castiel #destiel #gifset #gif

bigger-rat

Vladimir Serov, The Worker (1960) and The Builder (1964)

lieutenant-sappho

transition timeline

estrogenesis-vaporeongelion

winding up for a thunderous soviet slap on th ass

#art #🐢

enochianwardingsigil

#rowena macleod #supernatural #spn #spn text post

thingsfromthedirt

200 (1976)– trippy, kaleidoscopic, government funded short film for the United States Bicentennial in 1976. Created by animator Vincent Collins ( Malice In Wonderland ), and produced by the now-defunct United States Information Agency.

#animation