In the dark, there is discovery

pinning this until I kill Las Oposiciones or Las Oposiciones kill me, whatever comes first

the idea that every summer will be as hot if not hotter than this for the rest of my life is unbearable i need to (remembers suicide jokes are bad for my mental health) murder an oil executive

job interviewer: would you be willing to destroy and betray yourself for nothing?

The BEST trope is when a character tells another “let’s run away together, we can leave all of this behind and start a new life somewhere” and gets rejected. And then the rest of the tragedy unfolds

truly the idea of "this scene is (un-)necessary to the story" is such a fundamentally uncurious and anti-art way of engaging with fiction. the story itself is unnecessary, in the sense that all art is unnecessary, because art is not a fucking optimization problem. that's the beauty of it

i've been thinking a lot the last few days about how so many people, even when they think they're defending art, automatically adopt the position of the STORY being the most important part of all fiction. the plot, the character arc, the worldbuilding, but it's always about moving something forward and building a narrative idea. and like....yes, fine, but sometimes i read books because i like the way the author puts words together! sometimes i watch movies because the images and sounds give me an ineffable human experience! not all art can be experienced via synopsis!!!!!!!!!!!

[video description: Black Sails fanvid set to the Slur Song. The song has a fast electronic beat playing behind a voice that robotically lists homophobic slurs and slang that shouldn't be said in the workplace. The main cast of Black Sails are all paired with a variety of slurs in the song. End ID]