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[ach-sss-no]

when brandon sanderson talks about villains in his famous free youtube writing class video lectures he'll say 'what's the difference between gollum and sauron' and of course he means the villain that's present in the narrative and characterized in a way the audience can potentially relate to or sympathize with vs. the looming threatening anonymous far-off force (among other things). but every time he asks that i think 'well one of those guys tracked down frodo and got his ring back'

[mysteryteacup]

Brandon Sanderson: What's the difference between Gollum and Sauron?

OP: Skill issue.

[corrucyst]

dude, this is really scary, and liminal as well. It's like the bathrooms

[shopcat]

look at this wonderful gif of scallops getting scared and scattering like a flock pigeons

[elioftheasphodel]

whatever. go my scallops

[whitachi]

last night I had the experience of "referencing a tumblr post that you think is widely known but turns out to not be as widely known as you thought it was" last night and it was this post. whatever. go my scallops

[valtsv]

it really is unfortunate that loving someone enough doesn't give you the ability to pass not entirely painlessly but with complete trust and encouragement through the boundaries preventing you from reaching into each other's chests and wrapping your hand around the slippery-warm muscle of their beating heart. then again we would probably all be having less sex if this was an option so.

[nationwidedornermoment]

The last of the classically trained tumblrinas

[orbiten]

I'm here, buddy.

[halondrus]

Draw him alive and well. Ok now draw him playing sudoku

[halondrus]

Now draw him struggling at sudoku in a manner that is no longer endearing and is now embarassing

[saewokhrisz]

senki se menekül

[thebestestbat]

the point of cloth mother is to fuck wire mother like crazy

[thebestestbat]

🔥🔥🔥

[raisinchallah]

everyones trying to divine rpf proof from like wow they looked at each other in a joint interview or performed for a crowd together the real rpf proof is when they stop speaking to each other

[valtsv]

the escalation trajectory of silt verses antagonists is one of my favourite things about the podcast because at no point can you predict where it's going to go next. like:

season 1: nuanced and reluctant cop at the beginning of his disco elysium arc only instead of alcoholism his vice of choice is LARPing (& it's just as destructive to his life and interpersonal relationships)

season 2: joe many liberals does it take to fund a traumatised child soldier-led private militia 😂😂😂

season 3: What If Humbert Humbert Ran For President?

[valtsv]

i do honestly love carson as a character because he's such a well-written despicable human being who manages to be both terrifyingly competent and charismatic yet utterly swagless. genuinely one of the most entertaining things about season 3 is that at any time while people are getting forced into missile silos and starting a worker's revolution after being told to cut their own throats to keep the power grid up and flaying themselves and their parents open at the dinner table to expose their childhood trauma you just know that the used car salesman in charge of the country is out there running people over in his cybertruck while crossfaded off the oxy that targets your ability to feel emotions.

[dragon-in-a-fez]

it really is fucking pathetic that a country with more guns than people can't hit one guy

[dragon-in-a-fez]

if this is how you found out there was an active shooter at the White House yesterday I'm sorry

[qwanderer]

Me: oh it's this post again. Wait. Why does it say "posted 37 minutes ago"

[quinoaphoenicks]

I love you guys but I think a lot of you are the kind of people who are susceptible to falling in with a cult.

[teaboot]

You’re right. We should all band together under a trustworthy and influential leader who can keep us safe from outside threats

[valtsv]

not to ask you to swing a bat at a hornets nest but im not involved in the phm fandom very much, what misogynistic stuff is happening wrt adrian?

no it's okay LOL it's just very typical fandom behaviour where shipping is involved. since adrian is pretty much a total blank slate of a character people have to make up their own traits for them, and unfortunately some people don't examine their biases, or just want a quick and easy template to work off so they can create fan content faster, and end up falling back on negative stereotypes as a result. so i've seen several highly polarising iterations of adrian where they're either what i can only describe as rocky's "bitch wife" (ie: bizarrely conservative (even xenophobic), more emotionally driven to the point of being unreasonable, jealous, overbearing) or this "the bride and the ugly ass groom" deal where they're absurdly out of anyone else's league but settled for rocky because he deserves a hot trophy wife i guess (at least that's the underlying implication, since adrian gets comparatively very little interiority beyond being rocky's hot mate - never mind that andy weir said rocky is reasonably attractive by his species' standards). none of this is to say that those characterisations should be entirely off-limits - adrian being "imperfect" and having a complex emotional response to the changes that rocky and grace's return to erid would cause is interesting and makes for compelling explorations of the relationships between the characters; adrian being attractive and possessing a lot of social capital because of this is likewise something that holds a great deal of potential for fanwork - but often adrian is positioned as this awkward third party obstacle to gracerocky who cannot be more complex and nuanced than either perfectly loving and motherly (like many female characters) or an abusive spouse who doesn't deserve rocky (like many female characters who are the canonical wives or girlfriends of popular male characters). on top of this i've seen more than a few people trying to assign adrian she/her pronouns because it just "feels right" to them, or "seems like something they would do", since rocky got he/him, or he/himming adrian but very clearly positioning them as "the woman" in the relationship. like come on. why do we have to apply heteronormative tropes to genderless rock aliens from another solar system. we've already got quirky fictional m/f couples like jessica and roger rabbit and malfina and connecticut clark can we Please be a little more creative.

[clementine-kesh]

the unfortunate side effect of developing a more critical eye for fan behaviour as a product of society™️ is that new fan takes on a piece of media become fairly predictable. oh the white guy with daddy issues is your favourite? you think the asian man is an adorable subby cinnamon roll? you think the woman in a position of authority is either mom-coded or a total bitch? say less

[corpsebanger]

I took your skull off display because my guests kept saying it looked noticeably gayer than the other skulls

[undertheinfluencex1]

there’s nothing casual about the way i feel anything