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© | Mike Palmowski (Do not remove credits)
A great book for a cold night! Now if only I could remember my tea before I sit down..... Anyone else always leaving their tea sitting somewhere? *HASHTAGS* #tea #bookstagram #booksofinstagram #robinhobb #foolserrand #greatbook #fantasy #readersofinstagram #nightlife #goodbook #tealover https://www.instagram.com/p/CLIqwC4gufN/?igshid=7fuzh9iwkasd
i feel like people have forgotten how to be a generous audience when they read/watch something. like sometimes you have to buy into some bullshit plot points or a deus ex machina or a few loopholes as the price of admission for an otherwise fun time. sometimes these things are just gears that get us to where the story really wants to be, and too many people get caught up in those gears. sometimes you gotta meet a story halfway.
WIP I forgot how much I love painting fur..... #tiger #wip #painting #art #artistsoninstagram #digitalart #csp #wildlife #animals #realismpainting https://www.instagram.com/p/CJWkWzjLoDo/?igshid=1l8eu05hck024
i need this tattooed to me
What you can say instead of the word Sad :
Unhappy
Bitter
Heartbroken
Sorrowful
Cheerless
Disconsulate
Bereaved
Low-spirited
In grief
Sick at heart
Downcast
Dejected
Troubled
Lugubrious
Morbid
In the dumps
Blue
Heartsick
Gloomy
Heavyhearted
Hurting
One Liner Prompt list #11
1- “Are you ok? You sound like you’ve been gargling glass.”
2- “No no no, sorry! I just-… I honestly didn’t think you even knew my name.”
3- “For once, this isn’t actually my fault.”
4- “….Did you just sniff me?”
5- “Give me back my keys! I’m fine!”
6- “You’re my boss, not my mum. Why are you so worried about me all of a sudden?”
7- “I’m not going to like what you’re about to tell me…. am I?”
8- “I can’t believe you told them you were my fiancé.”
9- “I didn’t know you had a cat.”
10- “What the fuck did you do to all of my clothes?!”
11- “Excuse you, I can be as dramatic and ridiculous as I want, outside of work hours. You can’t stop me.”
12- “Did you know that you talk in your sleep?”
13- “Don’t be sorry…. It was kind of cute actually.”
How To Reference Romantic Attraction Between Your Characters:
Person A’s inability to make eye-contact for long periods of time while Person B is constantly looking into A’s eyes. (extra points if Person A looks away and blushes)
Interest Copying (When interested in another person, humans tend to copy that person’s movements, stature, etc)
Cute nervous ticks while around one another (Dont just use blushing and stuttering! Other ticks exist! Shuffling, fiddling their thumbs, scratching the back of their neck, bouncing their leg, nervous laughter, picking at their palm, biting the inside of their cheek, etc!)
Remembering little details about one another (How person A never eats the beans on their plate, or person B’s favorite color, the color of their eyes, where their birthmark is, are they a morning or night person? Bonus points if they figure this information out by observation, not by being told!)
Constantly smiling or laughing around their love interest
Confessing their love (but only in Spanish)
November Prompts 🍂
Word prompts to use for doodling or writing
crisp air
memories
tea time
rainy
carriage ride
star gazing
mysterious
early sunsets
historic
cozy
shooting stars
gloomy
cuddling
scarecrow
gratefulness
stellar constellation
blanket
rainboots
hugs
mist
fireplace
steaming mugs
wind
puddles
moonlight
Thanksgiving
grey sky
smoke
apple cider
lanterns
Some 20s lingo
Idk why but villains with standards will always be the funniest thing to me. like you'll get someone who will take absolute pleasure in doing the most vile things but paying their minions less than minimum wage? how dare you insult their honor. there'll be a guy who just loves terrorizing people but if you say something sexist about his sidekick he'll punch you in the throat and step aside with glee to let her pummel you. villains who are like "murder is fine generally but if you're a homophobe then I'll tie you to a boulder and catapult you into the ocean". Idk there's just something innately hilarious about a villain who is very definitively bad, like extremely morally reprehensible, but like there are just certain things that even they won't stoop to, thereby implying that those who do are worse
For evidence that Terry Pratchett understood humanity on a deep and fundamental level, look no further than the breed history of Dalmatians, because that shit is straight out of Discworld.
Someone ask me how Dalmatians became associated with fire departments, it’s fucking hilarious.
I KNEW I COULD COUNT ON YOU TO ENABLE ME.
So, Dalmatians are at their core a stagecoach guardian. That’s what they were initially developed as.
(This can take people by surprise when they get a Dalmatian as a pet, sometimes. Mind you, some show-line Dalmatians are bound to perfectly nice pet-quality dogs who don’t have much of the actual breed instinct left; but these are not meant to be low-energy dogs, and they’re not at all programmed to be super friendly toward strangers by default.)
So, they’re stagecoach guardians; a well-bred, breed-typical Dalmatian was meant to run alongside a stagecoach for…basically ever, and to snap at anyone who got close enough to threaten the coach or risk getting in the horses’ way.
A brief digression away from dogs for a second, to talk about pre-automobile fire departments.
The essential detail here is that we’ve had fire departments since basically ever (and they were….not infrequently straight-up protection rackets of the “nice place you got here. shame if it caught fire and nobody was willing to come put it out for you” variety, but that’s another story). And we’ve had fire engines for much longer than we’ve had automobiles.
These fire engines (here’s one example) would be drawn by a team of horses, as fast as they could manage in the streets, to the scene of a fire once the alarm was raised, same as today. They’d have bells clanging and alarms going off, same as today. And, same as today, once they got to the fire, all the firemen on board would pour off, throw on the brakes so the engine didn’t roll away, and, you know, focus on fighting the fire.
At which point, because people have always been people
There was a very real problem in which bystanders would steal the fucking horses.
Like…these were powerful, fast-but-strong, extremely well-trained coach horses! They were valuable as hell! And it’s not like you’re stealing the fire engine, after all, right? It’s parked, taking the horses doesn’t mean the building burns down or whatever, you’re just….gonna walk off with them all casual-like.
So obviously, fire departments would prefer to not have to constantly purchase expensive horses and train them to be safe around fire all the time. So they needed guard dogs to watch the horses while they were distracted by the burning building. And the dogs needed to be nimble–no big slow heavy mastiffs–and able to keep up, and have an intrinsic instinct to guard horses. And if they were easy to (haha) spot coming, even better.
So yeah.
Dalmatians are firehouse dogs because opportunistic thieves were doing the 1800s equivalent of stealing fire engine hubcaps and putting the pump up on cinderblocks while everyone was looking the other way.
GNU Terry Pratchett.
Maybe my life wouldn't be better if I had magic powers but I'd at least have different, sexier problems.