Do People Read These?

oh hi thanks for checking in I’m still a piece of garbage

the oldest reblogs for this post that i can find are from january 2nd of 2013. this can has been getting kicked around tumblr for almost 13½ years now

And yet somehow this is my first time kicking it!

and a cannon is a large mounted gun, usually on wheels, that uses explosives to fire projectiles.

It's important to note that Chekhov's Gun was not originally about foreshadowing, but a piece of advice to playwrights about how every element in a play should have narrative relevance. The corollary to Chekhov's Gun is that if a gun mounted on the wall in act 1 is never used at all in the entirety of the play, then it should be omitted from the play entirely.

Very funny example of writing advice that is very specific to its medium getting overapplied outside its scope. Can you imagine how awful set design would be if people tried to apply this to movies. 60 minute post credits scene in the Matrix where Neo has to fire every gun that appears in the "lots of guns" scene

Btw, if you ever wanted an indicator of the ideological censorship that now exists, and how pervasive it has become? The poem I was looking for, with its implication that maybe it might not have been a bad thing to blow up parliament way back when, was published in a children's book two decades ago. Without incident. Now I can't even SEARCH for that poem without receiving a telling off for its contents.

4. The price of memory has more than quadrupled in the past six months

Context for anyone who is wondering: Lamine Yamal's parents won an UNICEF raffle for a charity photoshoot in which Barça players posed with kids, and 5 month old Lamine happened to get 20yo Messi. Which is like. Literally insane

thinking about the canaan house "never open a locked door unless you have permission" rule. given how loose that rule turns out to be, in essence just meaning "just don't break down locked doors; if you have the key that is permission in and of itself," dya reckon harrow had "permission" to open the locked tomb? jod didn't intend for there to be more copies of his cells out there, but harrow still (literally) got her hands on em, would that count as permission for this rule?

it's normal and actually good for your health to see yourself in the most guilt ridden character you've ever seen in your life

Burt you beautiful bird. I own the only one in the world right now, I want to change that.