Enthusiasm, apparently

All opinions are my own, unless reblogged from someone with a different opinion. Basically, distrust everything?

[eldritchpluto]

I feel insane. I just finished sublimation and it’s so fucking good. But this moment in particular made me think about 17776 SO hard.

[thisoneiscarl]

👀 two books i edited 👀

[summoningspark]

have a sublimation meme. more probably forthcoming once my friend returns my copy. have you ever thought about how Australia just wouldn't have happened in that universe

[thisoneiscarl]

and MEMES. and they're making MEMES.

[syrren]

begging on my hands and knees for everyone to go read Sublimation by @isabeljkim

[thisoneiscarl]

THEY'RE DOING FANFIC FOR SUBLIMATION OUT THERE!

[thegaymertrainer]

[jelibaen]

We have underestimated the comedic genius of the elderly when presented with technology

[doodleoo]

what you learn from hobbies:

consistent practice opens up whole worlds of skill that you couldn't imagine

making mistakes in the process of learning is not only natural, it is also essential

activities that you enjoy can give you more energy back than you spent on them

wow everything is so expensive

[may12324]

Agnir and Hadhnri from Fate's Bane

[thisoneiscarl]

THERE’S FATE’S BANE FANART?!?!?!

[butchfagminotaur]

this guy posted this video called “unethical money making hacks” and was like “i’m selling bullshit art!” and he was buying prints from kmart and covering them in joint compound and making interesting shapes in the joint compound and then selling it as “textured wall art” like sorry bro that’s just regular art you made art i know it feels like bullshit but you’re actually just making art rn

[butchfagminotaur]

i know it feels like bullshit because you spent five minutes on it and you don’t think it looks like real art but i regret to inform you you made real art and you’re just being an artist rn and if someone is willing to pay you $200 for it it’s not a scam that’s just what art is like

[butchfagminotaur]

that guy with the urinal is laughing his ass off at you rn sorry bud

[biracy]

Funny tlt thing I've noticed is that while people seem to have latched onto [Necromancer's name] [Cavalier's name] for the full name of Lyctors for some characters (in canon you have Cytherea Loveday and Ianthe Naberius, in fandom you get Mercymorn Cristabel), you never hear "Gideon Pyrrha" or "Harrowhark Gideon." Probably because Pyrrha and Gideon are characters we actually know and it feels weird to use their names that way, but that makes it even funnier that "Ianthe Naberius" is seen as acceptable. Goodbye white boy

[teathattast]

[star-felled]

quite literally the only day you can rb this the last one was 2005

[strange-aeons]

Are you aware about the omegaverse locked tomb Gideon/Harrow Taco Bell au where they they fuck bc Harrow who is an omega had to go into work at Taco Bell even though she was in heat bc she had to cover naberius’s shift bc he got hit by a fucking car

The what

[thisoneiscarl]

Hey it’s illegal for this to show up on my dash actually

[even-disco-baby]

THOUGHT GAINED: INFERNAL ENGINES

PROBLEM

The world is ending. You know it, your neighbor knows it, the dealer knows it, the jailer knows it, the king and all his men know it. All one has to do is look around to see it— the future is curdling into something pale and incorporeal. The infernal machine that is this stupid world is going to blow, sooner rather than later. So what are you doing? Why are you still here? Why is anyone still here?

SOLUTION

You are doing the only thing worth doing. You are living. *Why,* you ask? Try and remember now. Remember your mother’s hand on your shoulder. Remember the taste of a fresh catch. Remember the times when you were kind to the dogs in the valley and they did not bare their teeth. Remember the weight of a child on your shoulders. Remember the stars throwing their light against the wall of sodium and smog. Remember singing until your throat was raw. Remember crying just as loudly and publicly, and the gentleness with which someone opened your curled fist and pressed a handkerchief into your palm. Crying, laughing, running, eating, screaming, haunting, loving, fighting, fighting, fighting. The fight fuels you, and you fuel the fight. You run yourself ragged just for a chance to keep running. You never stop. You cannot stop. The world depends on it. *You* are the infernal engine. You are the world. And, simply put: you want to live.

[easyvirgin-deactivated20160413]

happy Thursday the 20th

[askjennaflorida]

I’d have to wait months or even years for another chance to reblog this, so why the fuck not?

[mx-mythical-deactivated20260319]

next days you can reblog this on a Thursday the 20th

August 2015

October 2016

April 2017

July 2017

September 2018

December 2018

June 2019

February 2020

August 2020

You know, just in case you wanted to set your queue for the next 6 years

[itsquietinsantafe2]

TODAY

[captain-of-the-historicfuture]

Since it’s now August 20, 2020… The next days you can reblog this on a Thursday the 20th:

May 2021

January 2022

October 2022

April 2023

July 2023

June 2024

February 2025

March 2025

November 2025

August 2026

If you wanted to set your queue for the next six years.

[captainofthetidesbreath]

is that piece of media actually bad, or is it just not following the blueprint you projected onto it? is that work actually not good, or are you just demanding something from it that is absolutely antithetical to its themes, genre, tone, and narrative goal? is that story actually poorly written, or do you just dislike that it is not the specific things you wanted from it that it never set out to be, never was, and never is going to become? is it actually bad, or is it actually well-executed and you just dislike the story it chose to be because it isn't catering to your specific desires and expectations?

[captainofthetidesbreath]

People keep misinterpreting this post, and I keep hiding their comments. This is not saying "there is no such thing as a bad piece of media". This is asking that you examine whether your opinion about the quality of the work is actually based on that work's merits and the goals it set out to achieve, not on the fact that it is not what you wanted to force it to be.

There are indeed poorly written and executed works! A great many of them! There is a lot of shit media out there! If you ask yourself these questions and still find that the answer remains "It is indeed a poorly done work on its own merits and fails to achieve what it wanted to do," then congratulations, you've done what I'm asking here.

I've seen a great many tightly written works panned as narratively disorganized because it doesn't focus on the side characters they want or explore an inconsequential implication. I've seen people dismiss a nuanced and deft thematic arc as incoherent because it did not say the same thing as people wanted the work to say. This post is a litany against a very common approach in fandom space that pans a work as poorly written and incoherent SIMPLY because it is not what they've projected onto it and does not do what they personally wanted.

Not everything you dislike is poorly done—just as how, conversely, not everything you like is a technical masterpiece. There are bad works! I am not saying that there is not. What I'm saying is that there is at least a small pattern I've observed in some corners that firmly acts like: "My personal taste is equivalent to whether a work is executed well, and if a work does not match my projected expectations or do exactly what I'm into, then it is objectively bad."

Sometimes, often, a piece of media really is shit for some reason or another. What I'm saying is that some of you on this website act like the overlap between "works that are badly done" and "stuff I personally dislike" is a perfect circle. It isn't. Sometimes, it's well done and just isn't for you, and that's fine.

[comicaurora]

girl help I'm getting they/them'd by well-meaning people who don't know what a tomboy is

[comicaurora]

This feeling is strange and complicated. On the one hand it's legit quite cool that nonbinary pronouns are becoming more widespread! On the other, I've spent my whole life pursuing interests and hobbies and ideals that weren't seen as particularly feminine, and when I was younger this was a major source of bullying and stress alongside some generalized misogyny taking the form of "you can't do or be anything you think is cool because you are innately inferior and to do otherwise means violating your nature," and it took me a while to conclude that this was just straight horseshit top to bottom and I could do whatever I wanted and present myself however I wanted without in any way being Not A Girl, and now it's like the exact same concept has flipped sides and is coming from a point of theoretical validation but still calculates out to "that's not very ladylike of you, you must be something else". anyway she/her thanks gang

[comicaurora]

I think it's like. the understanding that the gender binary is a small part of a much wider space of identities is separate from the understanding that a lot of that gender binary is a false dichotomy that artificially walls off universal human experiences behind specific pronouns and while the first concept is gaining wider understanding the second is lagging a little, which means "I am a girl and I like doing boy things" reads as "oh I've heard about this, you must be one of the Others who don't do the binary" rather than "the concept of 'boy things' is stupid from the jump"

[comicaurora]

just to be 100% clear

what this post is NOT talking about: using they/them pronouns for someone you don't know, aren't sure of, hasn't had a chance to introduce themselves, etc.

what this post IS talking about: my highly personal experience seeing some people "correcting" my commenters that were using she/her pronouns for me, because, despite me exclusively using she/her pronouns and saying so whenever asked, through no action of mine they had gotten the idea that I was using "they/them".

[comicaurora]

girl help I put a nuanced personal experience on the reading comprehension website

[genderkoolaid]

"oh you're bi too? haha attracted to every woman and five men amiright" don't put words in my mouth. don't put your baggage on me. if you saw the men i wanted to fuck you'd hurl.

[themainspoon]

“I like women because they’re amazing and I like men because I can’t stop making bad decisions haha.”

Well when I like women it’s because I’m fucking awesome, and when I like men it’s because I’m fucking awesome. Your take on your own sexuality fucking sucks, I’m better than you.

[bayesic-bitch]

The placebo effect isn't real. Sugar pills actually just cure everything that could possibly be wrong with you.