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happy tau day

Across the Spiderverse is mind-numbingly good

life alteringly good

ive seen it

so many times

and im not gonna stop this is the most incredible work of art ive ever seen

idea for a project im probably never gonna make

www.timetravellersguide.com

a database of everything any potential time travellers would need to know before they leave. 

you'd input what year you're time travelling to and it'd give you a list of all the classic stuff

-lottery numbers for that year
-what stocks increased the most in the near future after the time you arrived
-what teams won all the big sports matches
-any huge societal disasters in the near future

allllllll that stuff, and in actual detail, explaining exactly how to use the winning lotto numbers or the best way to bet on sports at that time. 

like whenever someone brings up the classic question "what would you do if you went back in time 20 years" it's always "invest in google" and "look up winning lotto numbers" but would you rly know how to do that?

it'd be funny to have a "recently arrived" section to, for any time travellers coming to our time from the future. a list of celebrities who are still alive, recent movies that came out / which ones are only announced, stuff that they'd need to know to blend in better. 

can we talk about how awesome of a name "The Force" is

if ur like me you just grew up surrounded by star wars

so it doesn't even really sound like anything. the Force is just the Force. the star wars thing. 

but like its such a great classic fantasy name

"hmmm what do we call this strange unknown force that drives all life in the galaxy?"
"i got it. we capitalize it. the Force."

its such a perfect classic fantasy naming scheme i love it

just realized i've been to the exact spot where Mistborn was first thought of

was watching this new brandon vid
From Imagination to Reality: Mistborn Origins - YouTube

and we've all heard the story right, he's driving through a fog bank at 70 mph and is inspired by how the fog moves. But what I hadn't previously known was where he was driving. He was driving along the highways from Provo, Utah to Idaho Falls, Idaho. I've driven that highway many times. I'll bet a lot of you have too lol

Obv i don't know exactly where this fog bank was
but it's on that road somewhere
so i've been there

ima say it

spirited away wasn't that good

finally watched it
and idk if it was just way overhyped for me
but it was just....alright

howls moving castle was way better

remember when silksong was supposed to come out before yesterday

random writing advice

empathy vs sympathy

empathy is when you are able to relate to what a person is going through

sympathy is when you feel sad for that person

you can be sympathetic without being empathetic, and you can be empathetic without being sympathetic 

and now the writing advice
empathetic villains are hecking awesome
(clarifying: not villains for whom the reader feels empathy, but villains who feel empathy themselves)

it makes them 100000x more evil

being able to relate to the suffering that they're causing.

conciously acknowledging that yes, they DO relate, and they KNOW the pain of their victims.

but they still lack the sympathy

they still do it anyways.

its

so

good

if you want your readers to vehemently HATE your villains, do this. i think its maybe the one bar that separates good villains from great villains. 

there's a critical role legend of zelda one shot, and because matt mercer is the VA for ganondorf, everything that happens in it is canon because i said so

new hyperfixation just dropped

balisong flipping

its so fun

deadline in the revival round is today

if there's no more submissions i'm gonna assume there's no more interest and hide the thread

lots of status updates today huh gang

time for one more to plug the photo editing comp again

last chance revival, it ain’t my fault if it dies this time

BREAKING NEWS
 

dannnex DOESN'T just ignore a project until it dies and actually tries to revive it????????

more at 11

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i'm getting my mom all her kitchen knives sharpened professionally 

What makes stories like Coraline, Howl's Moving Castle, Alice in Wonderland, A Wrinkle in Time, or Chronicles of Narnia so appealing? I've had this thought brewing in the back of my mind for a while and I think I'm ready to put it to paper.

First off, you might be wondering why I'm grouping these together in the first place. They're very different stories with different themes, settings, styles, etc. I myself find it hard to describe, but there's definitely some je ne sais quoi that they all have in common. Something that makes them all feel... wonderous. Fairy-tale-like. They all feel...soft. Both in magic system and in tone. Like a bedtime story. Not soft as ih gentle, these stories can still be very intense, but they all have a similar underlying feeling of quiet wonder, don't they?

I don't know if I've managed to define exactly what qualifies a story to be in this category, but I do think I've found a very strong common factor.

They all value courage over nearly any other attribute. A character will almost never be punished for bravery. And I absolutely love it. Its an ancient archetype, and one of the best imo. Our most ancient myths and legends are filled with characters like these. 

I'm not really sure what else I'm trying to say here, I just really appreciate stories like these, and I'm very happy I've managed to put a finger on at least a portion of what makes them so special. 

just realized i'm in the older half of shard members now

i'm user number 24893, and the newest member rn is number 55655.

i'm in the bottom 45%

just spent forever looking through my big folder of pfp edits looking for the LoZ edit I was sure I had made, only to realize like 10 minutes later that I was thinking of this and that I've never actually made a zelda edit.

well i know what i'm doing tomorrow

so its like may 4th or whatever so i got something to say

star trek is better than star wars in every way

but also i just started andor and its really good

but not as good as star trek

that is all