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No one, not even you, will remember if we were good men or bad. Why we fought, or why we died. All that matters is that two stood against many.
my spotify playlist masterlist for all your quarantine needs
for lazy hazy afternoons
for when itâs past midnight and you need to dance to something trashy and pop
for when you canât remember why you are still here
for rainy nights where you think too deeply
for when youâre only fifty percent human and the other fifty percent is something more feral and monstrous
for anxiety attacks and breakdowns
for when you only want to listen to sad white men singing about sad things
for when youâre drinking soda and the bubbles make your nose tingle
for feeling weightless
for when youâre walking on an uneven pavement and the sun is beating down your neck
for simultaneous crying and bopping
for when one more sad song might make you scream
for your bruised and tender soul
for pretending youâre in an upbeat indie electropop band with your three best friends and youâre all gay
for unconventional alternative love songs
for when you need a reminder of what living feels like because everything feels grey
for pretending you can afford all the things you added to your cart on sephora
for when youâre breaking your own heart
for drifting off into another world at night
for when youâre feeling stuck but also hopeful but also tired but also excited
for when you need your heartbeat to slow back down
for believing in love again
for daydreaming on a hillside under a soft sunset
for when you realize she has the most beautiful smile and looking at it hurts
for when you need the warmest coziest hug
for feeling as small as dust and as infinite as the universe, all at once
for when your heart needs to feel soft and easy and happy
for seeing the person youâre in love with and realizing you need to let them go and start moving on
for when you feel like youâve been set on fire
for putting on makeup in the morning even though it feels like thereâs no point but also you just want to look really fucking cute for no reason
for when you need to be eased into pulling yourself together
for summer days laying outside on your front lawn daydreaming about lemonade
for pretending youâre a depressed mermaid who lives in the arctic ocean
for when youâre daydreaming about the future so that you can forget for a moment how unhappy you are
for being transported back to 2012 when you were trashy and emo and cringey as hell
for staring in the mirror in the dark and thinking about the experience of womanhood
for punching walls and smashing peopleâs heads in
for cutting fruit to make into a cobbler because fuck you want to eat something cozy and comforting then
for when things are ⊠not going quite how you thought they would
for when your life feels like an actual movie and you need to soundtrack it
for unwinding from a stressful day
for when you feel like a ghost running through a forest while itâs raining and foggy
for when you actually yell back for the first time and the adrenaline pumps through your blood
for when itâs raining outside and youâre staring out the window longing to run in the rain but instead youâre stuck inside
for feeling like youâre right inside of a black hole
for when youâre anxiety says something stupid to you and for once you know itâs wrong and you fight back
for when you need to feel bigger than what you are in that moment
for when you put your trust in someone and youâre terrified
for feeling inexplicably sad and upset and lonely
for knowing itâs okay to cry
for when itâs late at night and you canât stop thinking about him
for haunting unholy songs that help you pretend that youâre a demon
for breathing properly, just when it feels like youâll never be able to again
for feeling unformed and unfinished and unknown
for almost being at peace but something is nagging at you
for just really needing to hear james blakeâs voice
for when you love someone so much but you canât talk to them because the words donât come out
for being a teenager at the fucking-things-up-and-breaking-rules stage of a coming-of-age film
Episode 46
Damn okay now itâs Filicide as well. Today has really been A Whole Thing. 3.5/10
Obviously weâre all now On Wei Wuxianâs Side and Lan Wangji Loves That For Us, but at the same time⊠Wow weâre all very quick to Completely Believe these Random Strangers and maybe we should Think About ThiâNo? Vicious Mob? I guess Vicious Mob is good too. 4.5/10
Everybody is being Remarkably Cavalier about his brotherâs potential murder here. Lan Wangji is beginning to think that most of these people⊠may be Kind Of Terrible. 3/10
Canât help but notice that when it was Wei Wuxian that we were all Chanting About nobody wanted to take him alive but now that itâs the Murderous Incest Guy weâre all keen on Fair Trials but okay. 2.5/10
No big deal just doing three bows with the bestie. Showing Respect to the Jiang Clan Ancestors and Doing Absolutely Nothing Else. 9/10
Lan Wangji and Wei Wuxian take it in turns to be Offended on Each Othersâ Behalf. Lan Wangji has brought his Most Angry Eyebrows to this fight and he is Not Afraid to Use Them. 2.5/10
Lan Wangji gets his Full Face involved to express just how much he Disapproves of Jiang Wanyin and his Bullshit. Jiang Wanyin is so close to suffering some Serious Violence if he doesnât Get His Hands Off. 2/10
Look at his Eyes. The Absolute Panic. The Concern. Thatâs Not Where Blood Belongs, Wei Wuxian, what are you Doing. 1.5/10
Lan Wangji is suddenly having A Lot of Regrets about some things he said A Few Years Ago. As if all the Regrets he previously had Werenât Enough. 1/10
Wei Wuxian is so Good and Noble and Self-Sacrificing andâ Iâm sorry 50%?? God heâs So Annoying. Why does he Do These Things to Lan Wangjiâs Peacefulness. 2.5 /10
Quiet loathing of Jiang Wanyin intensifies. 2/10
Lan Wangji and Wei Wuxian both know that this is Thievery. This is an Illegal Lotus Pod. A Crime is being committed before his Very Eyes. 3/10
So this is a Life of Crime. Itâs not so bad. Lan Wangji could get used to this. 8.5/10
Lan Wangji got too wrapped up in his Life of Crime and briefly forgot about the Life or Death Situation that his brother is in. 3.5/10
Lan Wangji is just Extremely Impatient to get into the city please read nothing further into his Facial Expression or General Stompiness. 3/10
Episode 36
Wei Wuxian should Stay Right Here and just Gently Hold Lan Wangjiâs Hand For A Bit. This is Ideal. 10/10
Heâs right, Lan Wangji. You Idiot. You Buffoon. A Chicken? What Were You Thinking. 1/10
Two Chickens. Yes!! Now Weâre Talking. Youâre a Genius, Lan Wangji 10/10
Wei Wuxian? Telling Lan Wangji to be Good? My how the Tables have Tabled. 10/10
Heâs So Angry to have his Good Time utterly Ruined. Completely Unacceptable. The least this Spooky Bitch could do is Stand Still and Let Himself Be Stabbed. 1/10
Lan Wangji takes us on a roller coaster ride of all the Major Emotions: Breaking the Rules, Bunnies, Regretting Everything, and Sad. A truly impressive range. 5/10
Good. Tonight has been a Good Night. Stole some Chickens (for Love), did a Tiny Bit of Vandalism (for Fun), didnât let Some Jerk kill Wei Wuxian (for Love). Plus he got to talk about So Many Feelings. Definitely nothing to feel Embarrassed or Ashamed about later! 10/10
The Shame just rolling off him in Waves. Look at that Averted Gaze. That Clenched Jaw. Someone please save this man from the Consequences of his Actions. 2.5/10
Absolute Panic. Lan Wangji teeters on the verge of a Qi Deviation or maybe just Screaming Internally and Running Away. 1.5/10
Something about this Thick Fog and Portentous Atmosphere tells Lan Wangji that theyâre in Flashback City, Population: Ghosts. Time to make himself Scarce and fight a Mystery Man for a while. 4/10
wait you're actually a catholic and not just for the joke? cringe. unfollowed
-- martin luther to pope leo x on october 31, 1517
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I love this guy. Totally feel you, brother! Cute AF.
i love that whenever wei wuxian gets accused of a crime his default defense is âi didnt do it because if i did i would have a done a better jobâ
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little touches (aka one of the more forgotten wangxian moments)
tfw your sibling breaks your arm but itâs your left arm and you can write as usual so itâs okay
song of clarity make you lose control
cool so you can hide ads for knowing too much now
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probably donât do this!
when you tell facebook an ad âknows too muchâ youâre essentially confirming that their advertisement algorithm is working, itâs just making people uncomfortable because itâs working too well
itâs still positive feedback on them trying to either flood people with advertisements or socially engineer you into buying things by tracking frankly enormous amounts of data on your location, the other websites and apps you use, your conversations recorded through your phone, everything
instead? just mark all ads as "repetitiveâ or âirrelevantâ- something that doesnât give them information on how well the ad catered to your tastes.
donât give huge creepy corporations valuable information on your ad tastes. they will use it against you in any way they can.
robert pattinson could do spider-man but tom holland couldnât do twilight
robert pattinson could do everything and no one could do anything robert pattinson did
Divergent is a bad book, but its accidental brilliance is that it completely mauled the YA dystopian genre by stripping it down to its barest bones for maximum marketability, utterly destroying the chances of YA dystopian literatureâs long-term survivalÂ
please elaborate
Sure. Imagine that you need to make a book, and this book needs to be successful. This book needs to be the perfect Marketable YA Dystopian.
So you build your protagonist. She has no personality traits beyond being decently strong-willed, so that her quirks and interesting traits absolutely canât get in the way of the audienceâs projection onto her. She is dainty, birdlike, beautiful despite her protestations that she is uglyâyet she can still hold her own against significantly taller and stronger combatants. She is the perfect mask for the bashful, insecure tweens you are marketing to to wear while they read.
You think, as you draft your novel, that you need to add something that appeals to the basest nature of teenagers, something this government does that will be perversely appealing to them. The Hunger Gamesâ titular games were the main draw of the books, despite the hatred its characters hold for the event. So the government forces everyone into Harry Potter houses.Â
So the government makes everyone choose their faction, their single personality trait. Teenagers and tweens are basicâthey likely identify by one distinct personality trait or career aspiration, and theyâll thus be enchanted by this system. For years, Tumblr and Twitter bios will include Erudite or Dauntless alongside Aquarius and Ravenclaw and INTJ. Congratulations, you just made having more than one personality trait anathema to your worldbuilding.Â
Your readers and thus your protagonist are naturally drawn to the faction that you have made RIDICULOUSLY cooler and better than the others: Dauntless. The faction where they play dangerous games of Capture the Flag and donât work and act remarkably like teenagers with a budget. You add an attractive, tall man to help and hinder the protagonist. He is brooding and handsome; he doesnât need to be anything else.Â
The villains appear soon afterward. They are your tried and true dystopian government: polished, sleek, intelligent, headed by a woman for some reason. They fight the protagonists, they carry out their evil, Machiavellian, stupid plan. You finish the novel with duct tape and fanservice, action sequences and skin and just enough glue and spit to seal the terrible, hollow world you have made shut just long enough to put it on the shelf.Â
And you have just destroyed YA dystopian literature. Because you have boiled it down to its bare essentials. A sleek, futuristic government borrowing its aesthetic from modern minimalism and wealth forces the population to participate in a perversely cool-to-read-about system like the Hunger Games or the factions, and one brave, slender, pretty, hollow main character is the only one braveâno, special enough to stand against it.Â
And by making this bare-bones world, crafted for maximum marketability, you expose yourself and every other YA dystopian writer as a lazy worldbuilder driven too far by the ârule of coolâ and the formulas of other, better dystopian books before yours. In the following five years, you watch in real time as the dystopian genre crumbles under your feet, as the movies made based on your successful (but later widely-panned and mocked) books slowly regress to video-only releases, as fewer and fewer releases try to do what you did. And maybe you realize what youâve done.
one quibble: hunger games was intense and sincere and the writer had worked for tv and knew exactly what she was talking about when she wrote how media machines create golden idols out of abused kids and then leave the actual people inside their glamorous shells to rot. hunger games had a genuine core of righteous anger that resonated with a lot of people. the hunger games was genuinely angry about shit that is genuinely wrong.Â
but divergent was clumsy make-believe the whole way through. it aped the forms and functions of dystopian lit but the writer didnât actually have any real, passionate, sincere anger to put on the page. she didnât know what it was talking about, so she didnât have anything worth listening to.
thereâs a difference between anti-authoritarianism as a disaffected, cynical pose and anti-authoritarianism as a rallying cry by people who believe in a bitter world. and the former is something corporations and industries and publishing houses are so much more comfortable with. so divergent and the flood of books published and marketed alongide and after it showed how the dystopian genre was no longer truly revolutionary, no longer a sincere condemnation of corporate oligarchies. the mass-market dystopian genre was now nothing more than an insincere playspace for people who were writing dystopia as a safely distant, abstract make-believe stage for their pretty girl heroes, rather than a direct allegory for everything that needs to be torn down in this world today.Â