the looking-glass

currently obsessed with dragon age and bg3 my ao3 / art tag (faust / 20s / they/them)

[ilgattopatata]

am i wrong???

[threefates]

and for the lady, perhaps a devout knight?

[eroscestlavie]

Genuinely incredible single serve site I just found: a guy made a search tool so you can find completely empty AMC movie screenings in your area and enjoy a private or near-private theatre.

[bayesic-bitch]

crazy to see "I can't believe these young scholars let the homunculus do their homework" coming from wizards who I know copied all their spells from Sparikus's Commentaries on old grimoires when they were apprentices

[nananarc]

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[bippus]

Thinking of succumbing to something later

[artist-rat]

[ceilingfan5]

MEASURE NEVER

CUT WHENEVER

LIVE FOREVER

DIE ON ANY HILL

[ivipl1]

nastiest trick in the book is getting you genuinely deeply attached to a character whose name sounds fucking stupid in any other context. this WILL happen to you at some point in your life.

[rohie-deactivated20191102]

“Years ago a friend of mine had a dream about a strange invention; a staircase you could descend deep underground, in which you heard recordings of all the things anyone had ever said about you, both good and bad. The catch was, you had to pass through all the worst things people had said before you could get to the highest compliments at the very bottom. There is no way I would ever make it more than two and a half steps down such a staircase, but I understand its terrible logic: if we want the rewards of being loved we have to submit to the mortifying ordeal of being known.”

— I Know What You Think of Me, Tim Kreider for the New York Times

[owlmylove]

after YEARS of seeing this quote online and finding it to be the most deeply and resoundingly profound writing i finally found the source article and absolutely nothing could prepare me for this opening paragraph

[bi-icon]

Okay but the whole article is really interesting and also contains this quote which I’ve never heard before but really like:

“Anyone worth knowing is inevitably also going to be exasperating”

[enchantedbook]

'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland' illustrated by Mervyn Peake, 1954

[somegavethemwhitebread]

Wait, Mervyn Peak did ALICE ILLUSTRATIONS? How come I only learn this now!

[mask131]

This was me discovering Mervyn Peake did an illustrate version of Alice in Wonderland X)

[thewritingumbrellas]

Writing advice from my uni teachers:

If your dialog feels flat, rewrite the scene pretending the characters cannot at any cost say exactly what they mean. No one says “I’m mad” but they can say it in 100 other ways.

Wrote a chapter but you dislike it? Rewrite it again from memory. That way you’re only remembering the main parts and can fill in extra details. My teacher who was a playwright literally writes every single script twice because of this.

Don’t overuse metaphors, or they lose their potency. Limit yourself.

Before you write your novel, write a page of anything from your characters POV so you can get their voice right. Do this for every main character introduced.

[writerlyn]

This is legit good writing advice, especially the first bullet point! In playwriting class we did a bit where every bit of dialogue had to be an accusatory question and it was glorious.

[chic-a-gigot]

L'Art et la mode, no. 33, vol. 36, 16 octobre 1915, Paris. Mlle Depressle, du Théâtre Impérial Michel, de Pétrograd. Habillée par Tollmann, 35, rue de Miromesnil. Bibliothèque nationale de France

Robe en mousseline de soie rose incrustée de Malines; bretelles de velours "saphir" terminées par des roses. (Dress in pink silk muslin inlaid with Malines; straps of "sapphire" velvet finished with roses.)

"Camargo" Robe en tulle noir drapé, garnie de jais et de girandoles. (Dress in draped black tulle, trimmed with jet and girandoles.)

[holdingcaulfields]

on identity

ojibwe / noah kahan / richard siken / unknown / elliott smith / oamisoa / cameron awkward-rich

[dragongirlbunny]

you don't like mourning dove? hwoo hoo hoo hoo?

[incognitopolls]

This is asking only about your DIRECT genetic ancestors: parents, grandparents, etc. Do not count aunts/uncles or anyone who is not related to you by blood.

How many of your direct genetic ancestors (parents, grandparents, etc) are still alive?

None

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9 or more

Unknown– I have someone who may or may not actually be a genetic ancestor

Unknown– I don't know who they are and/or if they're still alive

Voting ended onJan 17

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[dozydawn]

holly smart in the english national ballet’s alice in wonderland.