Cake is a lie (But Pi is Forever)

Virgo if you like 'scopes/Homestuck. Mostly Bioware, but really anything I find cool or funny. I have forgotten more about Dragon Age 2 than you ever knew. Speed Racer is the best Wachowski film. I draw things sometimes. Asexual. Biromantic.

[toastyglow]

defying gravity came on shuffle while I was driving home and I ended up making myself ultra mega emotional imagining a transfem elphaba singing it. my god...

[crazysodomite]

im kind of obsessed with this graphic.

[unheardoracle]

Your dialogue is stiff because everyone is being too honest

Great dialogue can come from radical emotional honesty. But in most real conversations, people

dodge questions

answer indirectly

lie (badly)

change the subject

crack jokes to avoid serious answers

lie (convincingly)

say half of what they mean

tell the truth but get so anxious/angry/defensive others now think they're lying

If your dialogue feels unnatural, it might be because everyone is saying exactly what they think, or articulating their thoughts too well. Try letting characters hide things instead.

Subtext is where tension lives.

[kellyscabin]

no piece of supernatural commentary will ever be as impactful as ‘what happened to all the pussy on supernatural’

[kellyscabin]

Been on my mind

[groupthinker]

plutonic lesbian friends (that do nothing for me)

[flyingboatfortressthingy]

[the-bedheaded-league]

There are so many theories about Columbo’s wife not being real (she’s a complete fabrication, she’s secretly his boyfriend, he’s actually talking about a very opinionated cat, etc) and I love all of them but tbh he really gives off major “out of touch but super supportive straight man with a trans wife” vibes.

His wife was one of his guy friends for a while and when she finally came out to him he was like “Oh, wouldja look at that! This is VERY convenient. See, I’ve never been into guys myself. Nothing against fellas who like that, just not my cup of tea. So I’ve been trying to figure out for ages why I want to ask you out on a date. Confusin the heck out of me. Again, nothing against it, just never something I’ve been into before. I was having a whole identity crisis over it, Yknow. But I guess that clears all that up! Whaddaya say to dinner?”

[muzzlesbian]

ublock origin is not enough i need advertisers to feel physical pain

[storybookhawke]

sometimes I look at DA2 concept art and go "that's so hot"

[briannyssey]

Oh easy mistake. Yearning actually rises from the floor and longing hangs from the ceiling

[briannyssey]

🥺🥺

[prokopetz]

Flavours of unreliable narrator:

Lying to the reader

Lying to themselves

Simply misinformed

Not paying attention

Has weird priorities

Assumed you knew

Hates you personally

Bad at communicating

Easily sidetracked

Will believe anything

Has weird prejudices

Just kind of dumb

[wintersoldierfell]

#13. forgor (x)

[orional]

me when I’m on TikTok and someone starts criticising the dndads cast for things that are central parts of their character’s development

[fryuitcup]

I will follow Him (Wherever he May Go)

[blackheartbiohazards]

I'm gonna say it.

It's unhinged to assume that someone's taste in fiction equates to what they believe is moral or good, or is something they want to see or experience in real life.

That is a bonkers assumption to make.

I'm tired of humoring people with long arguments about it when the simple fact is it is a totally fucking absurd reach to accuse someone who enjoys something in fiction of being in favor of it in real life.

I'm tired of pretending like this is a legitimate position to hold-- that they should be afraid of fiction's dire influence on a reader's moral decay or that it's a sign of what the author secretly wants for realsies in real life.

[blackheartbiohazards]

I promise you it is still getting me death threats in 2024.

[depsidase]

[it-appears-that-bruno-has-deact]

[ambatya]

[solarprominence]

I maintain that the best summation of my feminist beliefs are that men and women are not fundamentally different. There are a few quantifiable differences if you average out every woman and every man, but they are not qualitative. And most of them are socially constructed, and would be fixed if we started treating men and women the same. Neither is inherently smarter, neither is inherently kinder, neither is inherently more stoic or stronger or angrier or softer. Everyone is obsessed with the differences between women and men, with finding them and creating them and distancing themselves from the "other half". It's fucked up

[valle-de-sombra-de-muerte]

The only "Odyssey" I care about was manufactured in 2013 by Honda, speaks Japanese, and drives in the Forgotten Realms.