Sometimes I complain about writing but at least I don't have to know anything about colour theory. God truly gives his hardest battles (figuring out shading and anatomy) to his strongest warriors (artists)

sometimes i complain about art but at least i don't have to know anything about good dialogue. god truly gives his hardest battles (figuring out plot threads and character development) to his strongest warriors (writers)

Love that the response to this post is either:

has anyone ever actually seen a shareholder or are we just supposed to believe they actually exist

I did once when I was working in a coffee shop. He was on a business call loudly talking about some tech speculation. When I asked him how it went a few days later, he panicked and asked how I knew such sensitive information. From this I gather they are of weak constitution, and startle easily

Reblog if you will never. Ever. Use AI in your writing.

posts that are poems to me

on your belly you shall go and dust you shall eat all the days of your life, you said to me but the man and his wife returned me my feet with the knowledge i did sow

Look at this! Look at my mutual!

This is glorious. Almost all of the same text was preserved, but it was structured in a way that A). Reveals more of genesis. B). Has an ABCDCBA rhyming structure, which is like... the chiasmus of rhymes. And chiasmus is like, one of the only poetic structures that is actually preserved through the funhouse of translation layers that the bible has suffered. C). The syllable counts match in each thing as well, just as a flex. D). The poem is comparing man to God, and the D line is structured so that the comparison happens over that line, and it's... I don't know what the word for it would be. It is just really, really fucking clever to have a mirror point in a poem that's essentially about comparisons.

Just. Holy shit.

Hey. Hey. Watch the video.

That is absolutely not what I expected the video to be like

"and this is a fish abandoned by god"

I already did the blocking, but apparently I need to lower the rent around here again: I am a Mormon. I was a missionary. I'm also a leftist and entirely pro-LGBTQ+. There are complexities and intricacies to my faith that you may have never comprehended in your life, but you will not impress me by saying "I wish all missionaries would die". Whether or not you believe that they do good or harm or some combination of the two, they are teenagers. Adult teenagers, yes, but still not even 20 on average. The leftism leaving your body as soon as you hear the words "organized religion" is audible and, frankly, unimpressive.

a scene must be included PRIOR to sex where the characters READ their birth certificates OUT LOUD so the reader will know they were born on the SAME DATE to avoid any disgusting AGE GAPS

"Teens need to know how to be safe online" and "Teens shouldn't be banned from online spaces because they're the only places some of them feel safe" can and should co-exist by the way.

love when games with romance options make it clear that even if you don't choose a certain character or especially if you pick someone else they still have feelings for you. and by love i mean it's evil and always hurts me deeply but i appreciate the realism and enjoy the angst

Tag game reblog this and put Baby’s First Blorbo in the tags like who was the first Character to move into your head and live there back when you were still figuring out how to tie your shoes

oh shit we got december tomorrow…

you're lying

WE GOT DECEMBER TOMORROW

My favorite thing is when a piece of fiction is like "what if we took the Christian heaven and hell and improved the concept?" and then they just reinvent LDS doctrine.

Joseph Smith, circa 1837

hey why are the Van Helsings always the Vampire Hunting Family in modern Dracula stories. Abraham Van Helsing might be the guy who knows stuff but his family is off in the Netherlands and/or dead and totally uninvolved in the plot. Abraham's great-great grandson has no reason to be doing backflips and chopping off heads or whatever

You know who is a family who hates Dracula so so much and would totally teach their kids how to hunt vampires? The Harkers. Give me a modern vampire story where the protagonists are about to die when out pops Quincey Arthur John Lucy Abraham Murray Harker the Fifth, armed with a giant knife and an encyclopedic knowledge of train schedules

too much emphasis put on mutuals on this site.

ilu followers i never followed back. ilu people i follow who never followed me back. every post on here about mutuals applies to you too.

having a hard time focusing today. i've also had a hard time focusing for the previous 15 or so years leading up to now but this post is about today.