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[birlinterrupted]

its crazy that the old british boys school model actually existed and wasn’t invented as some sort of upper class gay guy bdsm thing

[birlinterrupted]

british boys boarding school is the closest an actually existing society has ever been to what i have heard of a/b/o

[bidonicart]

doodled one of my favorite Disco Elysium quotes on a paper scrap at work

[tarmairons]

idea from dmthinkr on twitter

[american-gothic]

[kitmarlowe]

What a great '90s film you all are.

[videofame]

[aspirationalbrand]

amazing things happening in late series columbo episodes

[junglejim4322]

Haven’t seen the vampire lestat yet and I don’t need to because I know it’ll just be this

[cognitohazardous]

no one is stupid in quite the same way as a tumblr user

[bourtange]

the only thing you're allowed to watch between the ages of 0 and 17 is barney the dinosaur and the only thing you're allowed to watch once you turn 18 is cannibal holocaust

[deervsheadlights]

wish everyone could perceive the Vague Concepts in my head because i just know you would looove my Vague Concepts. you would think im so smart if you saw the misty clouds of Vague Concepts floating around in my head. #MyVagueConcepts

[strawmanfallacy]

[strawmanfallacy]

[bgm05]

[california-112]

They are emailing eachother

[taskmastercentral]

TASKMASTER 16.03 | 21.10

[plq-to]

Joanna with the greatest post-win photo of all time

[eesttm]

Greg summing up series 21 for me

+ bonus:

[cuunos]

okay this is an insane poll but for context: as a lot of people know, in fashion and styling, different people have different complimentary palettes. some people look better in cool tones, some people look better in warm tones, some in bright colors, some in pastels, etc etc. however, this also applies to metals, specifically gold vs silver. so,

do you know whether you "should" be wearing either silver or gold

yes, i know which looks best, and i stick with this

yes, i know which looks best, and i don't care

no, i don't know

nuance button

Remaining time: 3 days 12 hours

[cuunos]

i very much want to clarify before people get mad at me: i am not saying this is a thing that matters genuinely literally at all ever. i just am curious if most people care or are even aware of this.

[sarahtaylorgibson]

Writing a novel when you imagine all you stories in film format is hard because there’s really no written equivalent of “lens flare” or “slow motion montage backed by Gregorian choir”

[audacityinblack]

You can get the same effect of a lens flare with close-detail descriptions, combined with breaks to new paragraphs.

Your slow-motion montage backed by a Gregorian choir can be done with a few technques that all involve repetition.

First is epizeuxis, the repeating of a word for emphasis.

Example:

Falling. Falling. Falling. There was nothing to keep Marie from plunging into the rolling river below. She could only hope for a miracle now, that she would come out alive somehow despite a twenty-foot drop into five-foot-deep water.

Then there’s anaphora, where you write a number of phrases with the same words at the beginning.

There were still mages out there living in terror of shining steel armor emblazoned with the Sword of Mercy.

There were still mages out there being forced by desperation into the clutches of demons.

There were mages out there being threatened with Tranquility as punishment for their disobedience, and the threats were being made good upon.

Mages who had attempted to flee, but knew nothing of the outside world and were forced to return to their prison out of need for sustenance and shelter.

Mages who only desired to find the families they were torn from.

Mages who only wanted to see the sun.

This kind of repetition effectively slows the pace of your writing and puts the focus on that small scene. That’s where you get your slow pan. The same repetition also has a subtle musicality to it depending on the words you use. That’s where you get the same vibe as you might get from a Gregorian choir.

[sarahtaylorgibson]

Damn I made relatable reblog- bait post and writer Tumblr went hard with it. This is legitimately very good advice. 

[ariaste]

For more neat tricks (aka figures of rhetoric) like epizeuxis and anaphora, read THE ELEMENTS OF ELOQUENCE by Mark Forsyth. It’s both educational and delightful, not to mention overflowing with wry wit. Great book. 

[learlir]

The Elements Of Eloquence epub (google drive)

another good one is Writing With Clarity And Style (pdf on google drive)