I'm tired

The idea of going into the corporate world after i finish my PhD and having to go through interviews/having a job where my snakebites or hand tats might be disqualifying makes me sick. There would be an explosion of alt and goth people in daily life if they didn't have to take it all off 5 days a week. Thousands of scene kids getting choked out of expressing themselves past like age 18 bc they got bills to pay and Karen from HR thinks that a lip piercing means you're a serial killer.

you can be peeling a boiled egg and think to yourself wow. that was so simple. and then you peel another one and it’s like being in the throes of war. shell everywhere. egg mangled. tears in your eyes. that’s how god keeps you humble

i feel like a lot of people just don't understand this

I think we all know the reason the fanfiction sweet spot is essentially mediocre franchise writing, which is that fanfic happens when you’re craving catharsis that the original story doesn’t give you. This is a weird paradox if you’re a writer coming out of fan spaces and wanting to write your own original fiction because if you’re aware of this, then you know that if you make your story complete, there’s less to talk about, and if you’re in fan spaces you’re aware that fanfic is good marketing, so there’s almost a perverse incentive to make your story less complete. Or maybe I’m overthinking it and no one else has bothered to notice this

You definitely aren't overthinking it. I wouldn't say that mediocrity is a requirement per se, but one way to drive fan engagement is for a work to raise more questions than it answers. It's easy for a mediocre work to do that by raising questions that seem really interesting, then moving on without ever answering them. But a well-crafted story can accomplish the same by creating a sense that the world and/or characters have more going on beyond what the reader/viewer sees.

Yes absolutely thank you you completed my thought lol

Whenever they gave us one of those "read through ALL the instructions before you begin!" trick assignments in school where the steps lead you on an increasingly ridiculous goose chase until the final one tells you to just put your name on the paper and turn it in without doing anything else, I was always like, "Okay, but what's the point? Surely the REAL world won't be anything like this." And then I grew up and discovered that not only is the real world often exactly like that, some people won't even read the first line of the instructions even if they make perfect sense. And these people are called "co-workers"

[tumblr]人は、人形のようにｊｐｅｇで遊ぶことが大好きだね。。。

hello 👋 i am the worlds smallest bug 🐛 and ☝️ i too would like to “fag it up” if i may

red mackerel tabby

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Shapeshifter who gets horribly grotesque and mutilated when flustered

Yeah okay this is going on main

furiously searching online "what do animals do out in a rainstorm" while it's raining

nobody worry too much because they all produce various oils and have different densities of fur to keep them dry and warm as well as seek out shelter under thick vegetation

Libraries should get enough funding to be equipped with gaming computers and I'm not fucking kidding.

I’m reading this book about the changing arctic and the author stayed with the Nunamiut people of inland alaska for a while and talked to this high school kid who was like “ugh I hate going to school in the spring I wish I was hunting caribou” and I thought that was charming. you often hear about people who are devoted to preserving their traditional culture and knowledge but it’s rare to hear about someone who’s invested in the old ways out of pure teenage selfishness. school is lame and hunting caribou is awesome