#It's going GREAT.

[averbaldumpingground]

"I'm not saying you're a bad cook, but even the flies in the kitchen wear gas masks."

The goblin with the dirty purple whiskers burped. "I thinks the chickens like this one."

"Chickens still sick. Gorbachev vomit on flowers."

Jareth sighed. Dramatically. The large Brahma hen, apparently still queasy from his previous attempt, let out a couple of pathetic clucks where she was resting near the overturned pot with the horribly wilted monstera. He could relate to her distress.

"King use magic now?"

"No." Forfeiting the wager with that infernal mortal girl was not an option. He pointed at a chicken at random. "That one."

The goblin with the colander cheered. "Jane Austen likes pancakes!"

The rooster crowed indignantly, menacingly flapping his wings.

"Be good now, Jane Austen," the goblin prodded, "King make good pancakes!"

#Fanfiction #Labyrinth #Jareth #December 27 2023 #Late because I feel asleep last night and then didn't have time before work. #Will also do today's. #Sorry this one doesn't actually use the quote as intended. #Sarah gave the goblins an encyclopedia if you can't tell. #It's going GREAT.

[when-wax-wings-melt]

making my own studyguide everyone 😘😘

#it's going great. #just finished period 2 and the test is in like 5 days #summer rambles

[stoportotouch]

hey everybody guess how many job applications i’ve made since march 23rd

that’s right: 82.

and guess how many of those job applications have resulted in an interview

that’s right: 2.

#ollie considers #text #it's going great.

[kind-of-a-shitty-wizard]

making ur pfp a pictue of ur favorite guy is great. the modern equivalent of some guy in the 50s pulling out his wallet and there being a picture of his wife inside and him sighing fondly at it

#enochtalk #i get to go oh! its him! every time i open up my tumblr. its GREAT

[mcapriglione-art]

what do you want!!!!!!!!

#great #thanks #cat #comic #cats #my art #she's literally been screaming at me all day #and im cleaning so im moving about the house and she's just following me going MEOW ME WO M WOWM ME WO MEOW #and ill pet her and give her treats and shes like mewo mwow meow meow meow

[so-many-ocs]

"why does writing take so long" because 60% of it is coming up with a sentence, realizing that sentence doesn't work the way you want it to, and staring at a wall

#🌿 writing #nanowrimo's going great #writeblr #writer memes #writers block #writing memes #writing humor #writer problems #bangers

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

the fact that shakespeare was a playwright is sometimes so funny to me. just the concept of the "greatest writer of the English language" being a random 450-year-old entertainer, a 16th cent pop cultural sensation (thanks in large part to puns & dirty jokes & verbiage & a long-running appeal to commoners). and his work was made to be watched not read, but in the classroom teachers just hand us his scripts and say "that's literature"

just...imagine it's 2450 A.D. and English Lit students are regularly going into 100k debt writing postdoc theses on The Simpsons screenplays. the original animation hasn't even been preserved, it's literally just scripts and the occasional SDH subtitles.txt. they've been republished more times than the Bible

#due to the Great Data Decay academics write viciously argumentative articles on which episodes aired in what order #at conferences professors have known to engage in physically violent altercations whilst debating the air date number of household viewers #90% of the couch gags have been lost and there is a billion dollar trade in counterfeit “lost copies” #serious note: i'll be honest i always assumed it was english imperialism that made shakespeare so inescapable in the 19th/20th cent #like his writing should have become obscure at the same level of his contemporaries #but british imperialists needed an ENGLISH LANGUAGE (and BRITISH) writer to venerate #and shakespeare wrote so many damn things that there was a humongous body of work just sitting there waiting to be culturally exploited... #i know it didn't happen like this but i imagine a English Parliament House Committee Member For The Education Of The Masses or something #cartoonishly stumbling over a dusty cobwebbed crate labelled the Complete Works of Shakespeare #and going 'Eureka! this shall make excellent propoganda for fabricating a national identity in a time of great social unrest. #it will be a cornerstone of our elitist educational institutions for centuries to come! long live our decaying empire!' #'what good fortune that this used to be accessible and entertaining to mainstream illiterate audience members... #..but now we can strip that away and make it a difficult & alienating foundation of a Classical Education! just like the latin language :)' #anyway maybe there's no such thing as the 'greatest writer of x language' in ANY language? #maybe there are just different styles and yes levels of expertise and skill but also a high degree of subjectivity #and variance in the way that we as individuals and members of different cultures/time periods experience any work of media #and that's okay! and should be acknowledged!!! and allow us to give ourselves permission to broaden our horizons #and explore the stories of marginalized/underappreciated creators #instead of worshiping the List of Top 10 Best (aka Most Famous) Whatevers Of All Time/A Certain Time Period #anyways things are famous for a reason and that reason has little to do with innate “value” #and much more to do with how it plays into the interests of powerful institutions motivated to influence our shared cultural narratives #so i'm not saying 'stop teaching shakespeare'. but like...maybe classrooms should stop using it as busy work that (by accident or designs) #happens to alienate a large number of students who could otherwise be engaging critically with works that feel more relevant to their world #(by merit of not being 4 centuries old or lacking necessary historical context or requiring untaught translation skills) #and yeah...MAYBE our educational institutions could spend less time/money on shakespeare critical analysis and more on... #...any of thousands of underfunded areas of literary research i literally (pun!) don't know where to begin #oh and p.s. the modern publishing world is in shambles and it would be neat if schoolwork could include modern works? #beautiful complicated socially relevant works of literature are published every year. it's not just the 'classics' that have value #and actually modern publications are probably an easier way for students to learn the basics. since lesson plans don't have to include the #important historical/cultural context many teens need for 20+ year old media (which is older than their entire lived experience fyi)

[daisywords]

One of my biggest nitpicks in fiction concerns the feeding of babies. Mothers dying during/shortly after childbirth or the baby being separated form the mother shortly after birth is pretty common in fiction. It is/was also common enough in real life, which is why I think a lot of writers/readers don't think too hard about this. however. Historically, the only reason the vast majority of babies survived being separated from their mother was because there was at least one other woman around to breastfeed them. Before modern formula, yes, people did use other substitutes, but they were rarely, if ever, nutritionally sufficient.

Newborns can't eat adult food. They can't really survive on animal milk. If your story takes place in a world before/without formula, a baby separated from its mother is going to either be nursed by someone else, or starve.

It doesn't have to be a huge plot point, but idk at least don't explicitly describe the situation as excluding the possibility of a wetnurse. "The father or the great grandmother or the neighbor man or the older sibling took and raised the baby completely alone in a cave for a year." Nope. That baby is dead I'm sorry. "The baby was kidnapped shortly after birth by a wizard and hidden away in a secret tower" um quick question was the wizard lactating? "The mother refused to see or touch her child after birth so the baby was left to the care of the ailing grandfather" the grandfather who made the necessary arrangements with women in the neighborhood, right? right? OR THAT GREAT OFFENDER "A newborn baby was left on the doorstep and they brought it in and took care of it no issues" What Are You Going to Feed That Baby. Hello?

Like. It's not impossible, but arrangements are going to have to be made. There are some logistics.

#idk what to tag this #worldbuilding #writing fiction #historical fiction #fantasy #a real-life example: my dad (a pediatrician) was once entrusted with the care of a baby who was born with a rare condition #this was in a place without great hospital/medical access and anyway they were going to fly the baby over #and he specifically asked them to bring the mother and baby #they show up with baby and...the baby's uncle #and he was like. y'all. do you think I asked for the mom to come just for fun??? We don't have formula here. what is the baby going to eat?

[insecure-amphibian]

"haha I am gonna paint my room."

"Actually since I'm moving things around why don't I get a bed frame finally. And I will swap mattresses with my brother and sister in law bc I really don't need a queen sized mattress so I will take their full."

"Hmm. No I'll get a new dresser too I've had this one for nearly a decade and it's falling apart."

"... Yeah mom you're right I should just tear out the carpet."

Anyway I am redoing my whole room.

#i don't have acess to my PC rn and probably won't until the end of next week at the earliest while I do thid #but ive got a good progress made over three days. i should have waited a lil longer to start though. #mostly bc of my work schedule. #i work nights so I can't use the table saw for the flooring and so I have to wait until Monday at the earliest #Tonight im gonna finish the back wall and the portion of yhe ceiling connected to it for painting. #hopefully get flooring in asap to start on the other half of my room. #like i am literally moving things around my room rather than putting things in the hall bc of already poor organization #it's going great.

[poisonpercy]

Gotta be honest, the popularity of blond Percy thanks to the pjo show is driving me insane because every time I see pjo fanart, I have a crisis over what little blond boy is being depicted

#walker you’re a great percy #but we need more hair color biodiversity #i miss the ease of knowing the black haired boy was percy #this is so stupid #but i’ve been going insane about this for months #pjo #percy jackson #skys post

[roach-works]

pokemon theory i just thought of: new pokemon appear in the pokemon universe when they're designed in this one. they're created ex nilho but they have retroactive realness; they weren't here yesterday, but today they've always existed.

pokemon researchers have had to suss this out on their own over decades, and it's a really unpopular theory, made worse by the fact that no one can come up with a better one. from their perspective pokemon generate spontaneously but in both chronological directions, and the similarities of many pokemon seem to be detived from a conscious and creative understanding of the world--their world, though? what other world could there be?. there are ice cream pokemon and pokeball pokemon and sword pokemon and trash bag pokemon.

there are so many pokemon with both wings and a beak. is this like swords? is there an ur-flying type that this class evokes? there are so many canine pokemon. but what is a canine? is there such a thing? there's only one set of sword pokemon, right. one tea-set line. is *feline* a coherent category? would the ur-feline have two legs or four? why do so many pokemon have humanlike bodyplans-- but then again, why so few?

pichu has always been the prior form of pikachu. why didn't it get counted in order? why do we call it that instead of saying pikachu is the middle evolution of the pichu line? why can so many trainers remember finding this out well into their journeys? why didn't ash start with one?

this is why pokemon researchers do a lot of labwork, drink heavily, and use ten year olds for field research. you can't have an existential crisis if you don't even know what time is yet.

#pokemon #ash: i just found a new region called jotoh! #oak: hey cool so apparently the world is round now #ash: wow! #oak: was the world round yesterday #ash: sure? #oak: great talk im gonna go have some grownup lemonade now bye

[solmesia]

the mosquitos sure are big around here

#bg3 #astarion #halsin #shadowheart #gale dekarios #karlach #my art #my astarion origin run is going great #i still haven't told anyone im a vampire #bg3 fanart #halstarion

[golyadkin]

it's because i wouldn't let you kill the bounty hunter isn't it

#he's so mean 2 me #bg3 #baldurs gate 3 #astarion #bg3 tav #these files were titled 'asstarion' on my computer #that'll show him #managed to redress my finger so i can draw #but seeing as this is my first time drawing asstarion i'm not gonna go full lineart and colour #it was fun though he's got a great face #hate drawing his hair though #sorry you don't want to fuck me astarion #sorry you don't have good taste 😤 #also i gave my tav pure black eyes and now every time he frowns it looks like he's got these big puppydog eyes i love him so much

[emberglowfox]

”discord is for gaming” “discord is for talking to classmates” discord is for popping open the general chat in a server at 3 in the morning to go “hey guys i just remembered i can recite all of psalm 24 king james version from memory. im gonna type it” and then doing that

#i was like. 80% accurate. fucked up like 2 lines and some words. but not bad it’s been a while #sparks speaks #college transition going great btw /unsure #containment breach #for some reason

[itsadancingdinosaur]

I'm so glad the fnaf movie just kept Balloon Boy as this creepy mf. No explanation. Why is he here. Who is he. Who cares? All the jumpscares with him were great

#fnaf #fnaf spoilers #fnaf movie #the movie was great #all the haters just hate fun #i genuinely havent felt that happy as i was watching the movie in a long time #and im going to see it again tomorrow im pretty sure lol #its just #it was amazing #five nights at freddy's #balloon boy #fnaf balloon boy #lol forgot those tags

[ayo-edebiri]

#Tommy said 🤨❔🏳️‍🌈

#911 #911 abc #911 spoilers #oliver stark #tommy kinard #911edit #userrlaura #alivedean #userisaiah #911net #mialook #useraudrey2 #usersaoirse #usernicolo #tuserlou #useralien #ajlook #jddryder #useraish #userabs #userriel #tuserpsi #i just need to gif that before going to bed #kissing a guy is a great act of allyship #byaurore