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im just fucking with you my liege

#merlin #the funnies

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Costume study. And small color experiment.

#art #fashion #this is very pretty

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Working on the sequel to A Bout of Insanity 💓

Snippet for accountability because why not :>

Liam's heart was hammering. He still felt the warm pressure of Theo's mouth against his own, and now that he was home, with his mother puttering around in the kitchen, he almost felt like the truth of what he'd done was written all over his face in permanent marker.

He'd kissed Theo. He'd kissed him twice! Well, technically Theo was the one who'd kissed him first, and Liam had punched him for it – which, wow, in retrospect? Not one of his finest moments – but the second kiss was on him. He still had no idea what had come over him.

#thiam #thiam fic #thiam fanfic #theo raeken #liam dunbar #teen wolf

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Just a timelapse.

#one of the most beautiful things i've seen #art #on the shelf #animation

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faking your death to protect someone you care about really is i think the best example of how profound love can lead to doing profound hurt

#about stories

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can the cost of living like... chill

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gay knights and dames collages part two

#art

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i'm listening to gathering moss, by robin wall kimmerer, and she is talking about a very odd job she was consigned to do, where an eccentric millionaire recuited her to consult on a "habitat restoration". when she arrives, the job they actually want her to do is to tell them how to plant mosses on the rocks in his garden. he wants it to look like a specific, beautiful wild cliff in the woods nearby, with centuries-old beds of moss growing thick and strong. she tells him it is impossible. such a thing would take decades to accomplish.

later, she is called back to look at the progress of the moss garden and is amazed by the thick, well-established mosses. how did they do it? she asks.

then they take her out to the woods and show her that they have been blasting huge chunks of rock out of the cliff, packaging them in burlap, and moving them to the owner's garden.

#spilled ink

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"A story doesn't need a theme in order to be good" I'm only saying this once but a theme isn't some secret coded message an author weaves into a piece so that your English teacher can talk about Death or Family. A theme is a summary of an idea in the work. If the story is "Susan went grocery shopping and saw a weird bird" then it might have themes like 'birds don't belong in grocery stores' or 'nature is interesting and worth paying attention to' or 'small things can be worth hearing about.' Those could be the themes of the work. It doesn't matter if the author intended them or not, because reading is collaborative and the text gets its meaning from the reader (this is what "death of the author" means).

Every work has themes in it, and not just the ones your teachers made you read in high school. Stories that are bad or clearly not intended to have deep messages still have themes. It is inherent in being a story. All stories have themes, even if those themes are shallow, because stories are sentences connected together for the purpose of expressing ideas, and ideas are all that themes are.

#writing #themes

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gulls are proof that a) there is a god and b) that god enjoys the pain and suffering of birders

#birbs #the funnies #🐅

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stop looking for quick tricks to get better at writing

there are no shortcuts to improve at a skill. and that's what writing is at its core, a skill

it will take time, patience, and a lot of work.

#writing #read a lot write a lot #and most importantly: enjoy the journey

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#gargoyles #etymology #📄

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Alexandre Vauthier Couture Spring 2014

#fashion

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sorry, it's a GOOD thing if cishet people use non-conforming pronouns or dress in non-conforming ways or whatever else. for one, that person may not be cishet. but more importantly, living in a society where more people feel comfortable exploring their relationship to gender and sexuality is an undoubtedly GOOD thing

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Circling the Sun, Angela Lane

#art

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Some of your books make it seems like you believe in actual literal magic, do you? ()

I can write down a few words and make people thousands of miles away, whom I have never met and will never meet, laugh tears of joy and cry tears of true sorrow for people who do not exist and have never existed and never will exist. If that isn't actual literal magic I don't know what is.

#writing #neil gaiman

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eepy chonky boi 🤍

#cats #cats of tumblr