crack open a cold and broken hallelujah for all the fandoms whose top kudoed ao3 pages are all tagged Time Travel or Everybody Lives/Nobody Dies or Both
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’
Brandon Sanderson: What’s the difference between Gollum and Sauron?
One time I was leaving a friend’s place and an older lady with basically no English came up to me and communicated that she was very cold and needed a ride. She pointed to tell me where to go.
I got there and her daughter or granddaughter came out and was like omg her phone died we were worried
And then the older lady said something and the younger lady translated.
“She knew she could trust you because you have pink hair”
I thought it was funny at the time. But when I think back on it I think she was basically saying “you had a visible sign of not vibing with the system I was afraid of”
