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✨These are going to make some Hellenics mad but the visuals are stunning🤩
List from top to bottom:
- Zeus - Hera - Poseidon - Aphrodite - Apollo - Ares - Hefesto - Dionysus - Artemis - Hermes
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I miss buff Grian so here’s a bicep boy. 😌
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Adam and Adora, saviors of the universe. Based on a post by @penguinbaby :3
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hows the streaming selection on tuvi? what about gigi? vumbi and pubu? tobi? Guvu?
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i’m thinking tonight about masterpieces. michelangelo looked at the sixtine chapel and saw; nothing to preserve. virgil wanted his aenid burned and forgotten; only to be saved at the behest of an emperor who thought it flattery. kafka instructed his friend to burn everything he’d ever written - too personal was it, too unfinished.
they were ignored.
instead, their work was taken and held and published and thrown to be gawked at. instead, an emperor, a pope, a friend, took from within the cavities of them their choices; their art.
tumblr rolls out post+. twitter rolls out tip jars. youtube takes half of what creators earn. on social media, there is a ko-fi or a patreon and a polished face in every bio. i show my poems to my mother and she asks if I will publish them before she says anything else. emily dickinson instructed her sister to burn her poetry.
her sister did not listen.
we are a community, says tumblr, we should give back to creators. my last poem had 50 notes. six of those were reblogs that weren’t mine. i lie in bed at 2am and stare at my bright phone screen and the way netflix’s library grows thinner and thinner. the first ad on tumblr that i can reblog is for amazon. amazon takes more than half of what authors earn.
kafka’s friend took barely finished work and hammered it into structure. he is the only reason we know of him.
my father wrote a book and a play when I was barely big enough to reach his knees. when i try to talk to him about writing, he shrugs.
no one wanted to publish it, he says. so i don’t write anymore.
i am filled with poems I have never published, books I haven’t written. There are little snippets of them scattered throughout my life. I link to my ko-fi on my tumblr.
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asked capitalism of the artist: what is art, if not for consumption? who does art benefit, if it is not consumed? why create at all if you do not market it? who are you, frothing at the mouth about someone publishing someone else’s poems? who are you to hate your magnum opus? what is art, if not in relation to its reception? if no one sees it, how is it art?
said the artist, baring their teeth: it’s mine.
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“hi welcome to mcdonalds what can i get for you?”
“yeah can i get a deluxe quarter pounder with cheese?”
“absolutely, do you want the meal or just the sandwich?’
“uuuuuh hold on”
*fishes something out of my pocket*
“mikey what do i do?”
“get the fries. youll need the energy in the coming days”
*stuffs it back in my pocket*
“uhh yes please the meal would be great”
this post legitimately changed the way i think about and consider getting meal deals
Isn’t this the post that got the cease and desist from Michael Jackson’s estate?
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I looked it up
yeah it is, ifdsdhgk
world heritage post
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Scuba Cat from Katamari Damacy
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Also
1. I usually get sick like 2-3 times a year. 2020? None.
2. Allergies exist. Allergies with a mask on are much easier
3. Men can be gross and if a someone wants to not deal with some douchebag telling them to "smile, honey" by wearing a mask, then more power to them
4. Face tracking software is a thing and it's creepy af and face masks make it harder to track your face.
5. It's a fashion thing. Wearing a mask that matches your outfit? Pristine.
6. NO ONE CAN GUESS YOUR GENDER BASED ON YOUR JAWLINE *confetti drops*
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Windex isn’t carbonated
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The use of the princess bride implies that they’re both windex
it also implies that op developed immunity to windex
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oooh have you ever done a post about the ridiculous mandatory twist endings in old sci-fi and horror comics? Like when the guy at the end would be like "I saved the Earth from Martians because I am in fact a Vensuvian who has sworn to protect our sister planet!" with no build up whatsoever.
Yeah, that is a good question - why do some scifi twist endings fail?
As a teenager obsessed with Rod Serling and the Twilight Zone, I bought every single one of Rod Serling’s guides to writing. I wanted to know what he knew.
The reason that Rod Serling’s twist endings work is because they “answer the question” that the story raised in the first place. They are connected to the very clear reason to even tell the story at all. Rod’s story structures were all about starting off with a question, the way he did in his script for Planet of the Apes (yes, Rod Serling wrote the script for Planet of the Apes, which makes sense, since it feels like a Twilight Zone episode): “is mankind inherently violent and self-destructive?” The plot of Planet of the Apes argues the point back and forth, and finally, we get an answer to the question: the Planet of the Apes was earth, after we destroyed ourselves. The reason the ending has “oomph” is because it answers the question that the story asked.
My friend and fellow Rod Serling fan Brian McDonald wrote an article about this where he explains everything beautifully. Check it out. His articles are all worth reading and he’s one of the most intelligent guys I’ve run into if you want to know how to be a better writer.
According to Rod Serling, every story has three parts: proposal, argument, and conclusion. Proposal is where you express the idea the story will go over, like, “are humans violent and self destructive?” Argument is where the characters go back and forth on this, and conclusion is where you answer the question the story raised in a definitive and clear fashion.
The reason that a lot of twist endings like those of M. Night Shyamalan’s and a lot of the 1950s horror comics fail is that they’re just a thing that happens instead of being connected to the theme of the story.
One of the most effective and memorable “final panels” in old scifi comics is EC Comics’ “Judgment Day,” where an astronaut from an enlightened earth visits a backward planet divided between orange and blue robots, where one group has more rights than the other. The point of the story is “is prejudice permanent, and will things ever get better?” And in the final panel, the astronaut from earth takes his helmet off and reveals he is a black man, answering the question the story raised.
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IIRC “Judgment Day” was part of the inspiration for the excellent Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode “Far Beyond the Stars.”
This whole post is liquid gold for writers.
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I saw someone the other day call being against the military “terfy” and now someone is calling the idea that we should be nice to children “terfy” so I think we need to go over how terf isn’t some throw away term for “person whose argument I disagree with that also reminds me of this amorphous group of bad people that exist in my head” and very explicitly refers to a coherent group of radical feminists who advocate for transphobic violence -__-
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HEY WAIT A MINUTE!! Wasnt there a post like that? Like someone liveblogged being attacked and they just played possum because they felt awkward?? Or maybe they pretended to drown in someone’s pool just to be a dick and didn’t know when to stop until they were hidden in a closet. Or something
Am I making sense to anyone?
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You are my hero for finding this
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guillermo del toro’s little brother
every time i see this post i forget the punchline. and it’s always so fucking good
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people in the uk please sign this petition because the uk's trans healthcare system is shit and it needs fixing
the deadline is 4 august 2021 and there hasn't been even half of the required signatures yet. please spread this!!
All british citizens and (official) residents can sign this!
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@t-e-reynolds ok so boom
- smeyer wakes up from a vivid dream on june 2, 2003
- smeyer’s dream inspires her to write twilight
- twilight gets published (2005) and the books and movies become a global phenomenon
- e.l. james writes a bdsm twilight fanfic titled master of the universe
- master of the universe is later published as fifty shades of grey (2011)
- the fifty shades book series becomes wildly popular
- fifty shades of grey gets adapted into a movie (2015), in which dakota johnson is cast as protagonist anastasia steele in her breakthrough role
- the fifty shades movie series also becomes wildly popular and dakota johnson’s acting career takes off
- dakota goes on ellen degeneres’s talk show, where ellen tries to play dakota for a fool and dakota shuts that shit down
- people start noticing that ellen has a tendency to make her celeb guests feel very uncomfortable and is terrible to her employees
- ellen makes the decision to end her talk show in 2022 after 19 years
no because i think we're forgetting some important history