Those loony Christian signs listing all the types of sinners who will go to Hell (ABORTIONISTS SATANISTS GAMBLERS FORNICATORS) always make me feel bad because I know I’d fall under a lot more categories if I just got out more. It’s introvert shaming, that’s what it is.
white shrek
How anyone could not be aware of Shrek 2 after the Fairy Godmother snatched humanity’s collective wig with her rendition of ‘I Need a Hero’, is beyond me
Nobody panic, but Joann’s is filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. All 800 stores will remain open while they reorganize and try to pay off their creditors.
I’ve already seen people freaking about about their favorite cheap craft store closing.
Filing Chapter 11 instead of Chapter 7 means they are going to reorganize and keep operating (or at least try to). But watch out—if they switch it up to a 7, that’ll mean they’re circling the drain
Caption: [Okay, so this is my Wooloo cosplay from 2019. Umm. I don’t know if y'all can see the back. I made everything, even the resin pieces, the little clay hearts. I knitted those bows. Crocheted the headpiece and my bonnet.
I crocheted and knitted everything, yes! It is both crochet and knit. I also made my staff. And I did the clay stuff. So yes, just for anyone that’s gonna ask me did I make this myself, yes. But also! I just wanna show off how cute I am.]
Edit: I just realized they also have a shop, so go check that out!
trans guy who doesn’t realize he’s turning into a werewolf because he assumes it’s all just normal side effects of starting testosterone
trans girl who doesn’t realize she’s turning into a vampire because she assumes it’s all just normal side effects of starting estrogen
post paused, let’s talk about this now
UNDEAD AUSTRALIAN: ah bladdy ‘ell. oim fackin undid. oim a damn creachuh of tha noight. a fackin zombie. wha’ a cunt. this is bladdy orriboh. fack me
depicting sexual assault in media is not an endorsement of it 🤝 it’s reasonable for audiences to expect a certain level of care and awareness in its presentation 🤝 there is oftentimes an over-reliance on sexual violence in creating the backstories, trajectories, and conflicts of fictional women 🤝 sexual violence is prevalent in society and stories about it do need to be told as a reflection of our reality 🤝 sometimes male writers and directors are extremely bad at telling these stories and audiences are justified in demanding better
For the last goddamn time…
“Kill your darlings” means “if something is holding you back, get rid of it, even if it sounds pretty.”
That’s it! That’s all it means! It means if you’re stuck and stalled out on your story and you could fix the whole block by removing something but you’re avoiding removing that thing because it’s good, you remove that thing. That’s the darling.
It does NOT mean
- That you have to get rid of your self-indulgent writing
- That you should delete something just because you like it (?wtf?)
- That you need to kill off characters (??? what)
- That you have to pare your story down to the absolute bare bones
- That you have to delete anything whatsoever if you don’t want to
The POINT is that you STOP FEELING GUILTY for throwing out good writing that isn’t SERVING THE STORY.
The POINT is that you don’t get so HUNG UP on the details that you lose sight of the BIG PICTURE.
Good grief….
Also, you don’t have to like, delete it from existence. Keep a second document full of the Darlings. You never know when you’ll need it later.
i feel that failure could be seen less as a dead end and more of a tense and interesting source of potential energy
got used to asking ‘what’s the worst thing that could happen if I fail?’ but I feel 'What’s the most interesting thing that could happen if I fail?’ is so much juicier. I’ve already spent the time and energy and materials, is it a waste? or is it something that’s now present? brought into the world by your hands, that now has substance, isn’t that more interesting? I think the skills you acquire, the way you learn to work, how your hands shape something, push and pull it into aliveness, how that energy warms with familiarity, brightly sparks under your attention…all these new tensions and delights brought forward as something you have made, much more interesting
a great change and a great way to execute the idea
This reminds me of some of the options in Shadows Over Loathing:
Arachnophobia: Pretty straight-forward, all random encounters with spiders are prevented, and the game won’t let you in one spider-heavy location. Weirdly it DOES let you into another spider-heavy location (probably an oversight), but that place is optional and literally called “The Department of Spiders”, so if you still go there I think that’s on you.
Arachnophilia: Every single combat has a spider added to the enemy side and a friendly spider added to your side.
Arachnophonia: Replaces every single sound effect in combat with one of the ones that spiders make in the game. It is VERY unpleasant!
The Minotaur was named that because he was the son of King Minos. Anyone with a bull head has to be named after their dad, like the Kyletaur or something.
Im sorry you can’t hide this gem in the tags