At least the effects were decent.

Love when you try to take a screenshot but fuck up the timing of the volume down lock button combo and are left sitting there with slightly softer music and a black screen and you just have to sit there looking at your reflection on the locked phone and contemplate your failure for a bit

Obsessed with the way the kangaroo runs straight at them and attacks like a hostile mob in a survival game

This is my favorite comic

Posts that would kill a peasant from 1173

i’ve reblogged posts featuring these two separately, but they go great together

Thinking about The Blue Castle and that specific genre of literary fiction that's like "it's not fantasy because the magic is all Imaginary and the main character has to give it up and learn to live in the Real World" and how The Blue Castle actually understands the point of imagination. The point of imagination isn't that Valancy wants a castle, it's that Valancy wants a better life for herself, and needs a way to imagine that. I mean, I know this website is full of people who understand the Emotional Support Daydream, but I have read a depressing number of stories (particularly children's books) where the goal is to make the character abandon the daydream so they can improve their real life or as part of "growing up," rather than help the character improve their life so they can have a healthy relationship with their imagination rather than maladaptive daydreams. Because people actually do need to maintain an imagination ecosystem in order to be okay.

this is beautiful

that second one has really stuck with me.

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'