Kaiseaya

if I were an illiterate peasant getting kicked out of his home because a bunch of blue bloods showed up waving a scrap of paper saying I could no longer farm the land I had been farming for generations then I would probably also think the devil was obsessed with contracts and legal procedure.

The reason you can't be the next J R R Tolkien isn't because you don't have the talent, but because you're not the right kind of unwell. Tolkien wasn't bent for fantasy worldbuilding; he was bent for constructed languages, and got into fantasy worldbuilding in order to provide a material context in which to ground the notional evolution of the languages he invented. If you want to be the next Tolkien, you can't start with the worldbuilding; you've gotta find something extremely specific to fixate on, and develop it in such depth that inventing a world to contain it is genuinely the most logical next step.

what i’ve learned in my life is if someone is treating you poorly and youre asking yourself “what magic words can I use to make this person treat me with basic respect,” those words don’t exist and they never will.

I need to admit something to the US Tumblrinas. Philadelphia isn't a place to me. It's a cream cheese. You say "philadelphia" or "philly" and I immediately, and exclusively, think of the cream cheese. "Twelve people die in Philadelphia disaster" wow that must've been a Molasses Flood style event

One of the most heartbreaking things about Quifrey’s situation to me is that everyone he loves (Beldaruit, Olruggio…) is always telling him to calm down with his search for the Brimmcaps and to just live his life, they believe he is risking his life recklessly in trying to search for something that is long gone (his memories). They don’t know that he would absolutely love to calm down and live his life in peace if it wasn’t for the tiny fact that if he calmed the fuck down he would literally die and he’s desperately trying to find the Brimmcaps so he can maybe learn how to cure himself and live :) it would break their hearts to know that they’re literally asking him to stop researching the thing that could literally save him

just watched a star trek episode about a planet that relied so heavily on it's computer system that they all forgot the basics of their own knowledge. and that allowed them to miss the fact that they were being posioned with radiation and nearly ending their civilization. because they couldn't use their own knowledge to figure things out. i bring this up for no reason in particular

lisa simpson could replace light yagami and successfully trick L but light could never handle having bart as a brother

Uh oh, the player character is coming this way. Quick, engage in mindless small talk which comments on recent events or location relevant details

if you want your female characters to both have agency in the story and be complex human individuals then sometimes bad things have to be their fault