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Maybe the most damming thing about Nolans odyssey is i haven’t seen a single gifset from it

Official joy and whimsy post

Always in a constant state of "hmm maybe I wasn't as normal in that conversation as I thought I was"

people should be allowed to have low ambition, and also be able to feed a family on the salary of a cashier at a convenience store.

'Revenge is bad' to YOU. i love when a character destroys everyone who wronged them. i love when they get to bite and maim and tear and rip and scratch and kill. Sorry ur catholic about it but i'm different

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.

Imagine you’re SIXTEEN and working on a FISHING BOAT. And you CAPSIZE and thirteen of your crew mates DROWN and it’s just you and your captain Peter Balkan and a guy named ADAM on a deserted island. And Peter Balkan has a HEAD INJURY and he’s slowly becoming delusional and he’s convinced he’s a PROPHET. And then ADAM kills himself by putting ROCKS in his pockets and walking into the OCEAN. And Peter Balkan is DYING of his HEAD INJURY and you’re SIXTEEN and cradling his head in your LAP while he DIES. And there’s no HOPE for you and you’re going to DIE ALONE and no one will ever know you were there. And you’re SIXTEEN.