*not counting people you knew irl first. use your discretion for other edge cases

FOBtwt really liked this tweet for some reason so I thought I’d share

This is the world capitalists want to return to.

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A detailed and thorough analysis of why my ship will get together and be happy together forever:

sending my most loyal knight on increasingly dangerous missions because i want to see him crawling back bleeding out within an inch of his life or see him get possessed by the cursed blade as his morals start to crumble as he grows more bloodthirsty and ruthless but it turns out he's too good at his job so he just returns perfectly fine every time. what's even the fucking point

Do not write fanfiction. One second you're normal and the next you're downloading a calendar from 2004 and tearing your hair out over what specific date every event in your fic happens

puttering around the house is an underrated form a self-care. make some tea or coffee. put on a podcast. sort the mail. tidy some pillows and fold some blankets. start the laundry. thaw some soup. just casually wander around aimlessly doing little things to make your space and life a little nicer. who cares if you get distracted or only do a little. you aren't being productive. you're puttering.

my favourite part of ao3 not having an algorithm is that i can click on any random fic, out of whatever curiosity (morbid or otherwise) i may have on a whim, knowing I won't spend the next three months having ''similar'' content constantly shoved in my face in a desperate attempt to keep me engaged while i stab the not interested button over and over with a growing rage bubbling beneath my skin

oh they really just don't give a fuck lmfao they're just doing pinterest moodboards and vibes and calling it a day ahkdjdkcjjfjc

It's not liminal, it's surreal.

It's not liminal, it's surreal!

It's not liminal, it's surreal!!

Stop calling it "liminal" when what you mean is "surreal"!

A dying mall is liminal because it is in a state of transition.

A dead mall is not liminal because it is in a settled state. It can still be unnerving or creepy or weird, but it is not liminal.

Liminal = occupying a position at, or on both sides of, a boundary or threshold; relating to a transitional or initial stage of a process.

The painted cloud walls in The Truman Show are surreal. Truman standing in the open doorway in the painted cloud walls is in a liminal state/place.

Something can be both surreal and liminal, but liminal has a particular meaning and I'm getting tired of the linguistic drift.

Also if it strikes you like a thunderbolt, and invokes a kind of terror which also induces admiration of greatness, like witnessing a tornado touch ground — a combination of pleasure-terror-awe/veneration based in nature

— then it is sublime.

So looking off of a bluff into the vast ocean is existing in a liminal space (transition between land and sea) but also witnessing the sublime:

I'm actually not sure a dead mall is inherently or technically surreal (elements of surprise, illogical or dreamlike juxtaposition between scenes and ideas, resolving contradiction between dreams and reality to create super-reality, aka surreality), but the backrooms are definitely surreal.

And specific images from dead malls probably invoke the surreal so I'll take it.

Oh, but the New World Bangkok mall which is totally flooded is liminal:

Because it is now a transition point between the wildness of nature and industrialized mankind — the boundary point between organic and unplanned and inorganic and constructed.

And it may invoke the sense of the surreal (fish by the escalator) or perhaps the sublime "nature is great and terrifying and will inevitably consume everything in its path, including humanity."

Oh related: when Disney makes a perfect Disney town that is unnervingly perfect and is a reconstruction of something that never actually existed, or even Disney's main street recreating an idealized "good old days" that never were — that is simulacra.

Realizing the writing doesn't have to be done alone and is often more fun and more engaging when you're doing it with friends is a life changing experience.

I don't mean co-writing either. I mean having a friend or two who you talk through plot ideas with, who you bounce ideas off of, who you trust to tell you if something doesn't work.

Nothing is created in a vacuum and nothing can be created alone. Sharing drafts and ideas is a vital part of the creative process and it's a really fun part too.

watching Practical Magic for the first time, and despite the low Rotten Tomatoes score, I do think "drugged my sister's violently abusive boyfriend to subdue him, but accidentally killed him > panicked and resurrected him with witchcraft to avoid jail time > he woke up and was still violently abusive, so I killed him again" is an objectively hilarious premise

Dropout cast members as things to never say to someone who just came out

See: this article

Brennan Lee Mulligan

Jess Ross

Jacob Wysocki

Vic Michaelis

Mike Trapp

Rekha Shankar

Lily Du

Zac Oyama

Izzy Roland

Ally Beardsley

Ify Nwadiwe

Raph Chestang

Lou Wilson

Tao Yang

Siobhan Thompson

azune comforting murray after another awful fruitful day in dol-makjar

guys….,, being friends, like actual friends, with people you have systemic privilege over is going to involve some good-natured ribbing. it’s going to involve them complaining about [insert privileged group you belong to] in front of you or even to you. that’s not a personal attack, it’s because they think you’re cool enough to hang. it’s because they think they can express their frustration to you without you attacking them. you really want to prove them wrong?

i love seeing my friends interests mentioned somewhere. its like woaaah. thats My Friends interest. from My Friend. wow. epic friend reference