Follow me into the endless night

marius pontmercy

let your character fuck up. please. let them fuck up on a scale so massive that this particular thing cannot be salvaged. let their fuck up have permanent consequences. and stoooooooooooooooop having them being the smartest person in the room who always has a sharp comeback to put their enemies down, and who always handles their enemies with grace or at least an air of superiority that s justified because they’re so cool and smart and clever™ let them bleed for their mistakes, let them MAKE those mistakes, and let that bleeding be ugly and disgraceful. let them suffer for their own mistakes, and let them suffer in knowing that they cannot fix. and let other people hate them for the shit they’ve done, and for once let the haters not be ‘petty bad people’. Let the haters be right.

@muffinlance i just want to say i just read through towards the sun and you are a master of doing this, i love how well you write characters doing things and the consequences of those things. iroh fucking up so incredibly bad with his relationship with zuko, as well zuko starting a goddamn civil war??? aang condemning people to a fate worse than death on accident, breaking the trust of the people of the fire nation and striking fear into their hearts??? chefs kiss. everyone is wrong and everyone is also right and everyone has their own reasons for doing things and everything feels so real.

in salvage as well, that fractured relationship between katara and hakoda is just so devastating and tentative and sad in the way that they’re still family and they still love each other so so much, but katara probably wont necessarily see him in the same way as she did before he left ever again (which he had a REASON but he still broke her heart and its heartbreaking that they both make complete sense in why they had to do and why they felt the things they did)!

you make characters feel SO human it’s genuinely incredible 💕

that ship is toxic to YOU. to me it's a complex, multi-layered, essay-worthy dynamic that'd take numerous hours to dissect (during which i'll spend crying screaming tearing my hair out)

I am what I am.

oh no my pornography is turning into an angst-filled character study

Oh no my angst-filled character study is turning into pornography

sometimes i need to remind myself that i'm writing fanfiction for free and i'm allowed to have a shitty sentence or two

so many of my fics have remained buried in my drafts because i wrote the cool scenes first and then didn’t have “connective tissue”. but i’m freeing myself from that and just adding shitty “and then a week passed” or “they got to their destination” connections and just posting them and it’s so! freeing! try it!

I can't tell you how many times I've agonized over a scene transition, only to fill in the missing space with, like, a sentence.

Write the parts you wanna write and then go in and slap scotch tape over the rest of it.

Sometimes when I’m feeling self conscious I’ll go and pull a book off my shelf to see how whichever author handled time transitions, and it’s really REALLY common that it’s just, like, “October came and went.” And that’s SO freeing. Just fast forward. Just do it.

Hardest part of writing is accepting that some people will not fucking get it & you just have to like cope with that because over-explaining it just makes it worse

I will not over-explain my art to the stupidest people on earth. I'm writing for people who know what I'm talking about. Mantra that will save you. David Lynch was right

these tags are perfect and I think everyone should see them

this was so not worth crawling out of my grave for

me when the plot won't plot like it should

Your #1 assignment for the next four years is SURVIVE.

We can rewrite laws. We can re-appoint judges who are fair and just. We can rebuild property, transportation lines, education systems.

We can't re-alive people.

They want us all too frightened to act, too confused to concentrate, too outraged in too many directions to work together. Every instance of courage or cooperation or kindness is a victory. Every bit of confidence, every moment of calm, every instance of delight is a reminder that they don't control the world.

They're lashing out because they know that. They are brainweasels writ large - they can't actually win; they can just cause a lot of damage while they're losing.

Mitigate the damage where you can, and survive to make a better future. Hold on to hope.

And if you run out of hope - hold on to spite, because defiance and ferocity are also survival tools, and sometimes kindness is being able to say "yeah, it SUCKS" to someone who thought they were the only one who still cared.

However you do it, hold on until we can find each other and build the future we've been working for.

“i am a monument to all your sins” is such a fucking raw line for a villain it’s amazing that it came from halo, a modernish video game, and not some classical text or mythos

classic texts have nothing on the crazy people come up with in modern times tbh

– Joshua Graham, Who Is A Fallout New Vegas NPC, Something Most People Throwing This Quote Around Don’t Realize

– Shadow the Hedgehog in what is widely considered one of if not the single worst game in the Sonic the Hedgehog franchise

this is the source for this text and it haunts me on a regular basis

Huh, it’s almost like art isn’t just fine art…

this is my addition to this ever growing list of raw quotes originating from unexpected sources

#discovering that the profound is lurking behind the absurd#just waiting for the chance to peek through like sunlight through the clouds#is one of the best things in life once you start to notice it

this is a beautiful way to put it and i’m gonna cry abt it

this post has gotten so much better since the last time I saw it

I would like to add

- Technoblade from Dream SMP

- A Stucky fanfiction

Truly the best shit on the internet here.

Ahem @bettinalevyisdetermined could you please do a video with this?

also “you’re not brave, you’ve merely forgotten the fear of death. Allow me to reacquaint you.” Is the rawest line and it’s from dominus ghaul from destiny 2’s vanilla story when it first released.

How can we forget the quote that sums up this entire reblog chain:

Why do you people feel profound thought has to come from high places? The gutter looks at the stars too

“Spare me this mockery of justice!” (A few minutes later, a with a different character) “Silence! Or you shall be held in contempt of court!” “I have nothing *but* contempt for this court!” The Transformers: The Movie (1986)

“For every kid that dreams up the electric lightbulb, there’s one who dreams up the atom bomb.” - Mr. Electric, The Adventures of Sharkboy And Lavagirl (2005).

“I like turtles!” - turtle kid

“If the sea were of ink and the sky parchment I could not begin to write my love for you.”

Grandma Arbuckle reading a love letter in A Garfield Christmas.

Grandma Arbuckle

reading a love letter in

A Garfield Christmas.

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

@tenebrisimpyris

[comes out of my mutuals blog breathless and blood stained] didnt even fidn the . fucking post

The biggest misconception in public schools is that literary analysis is about proving you can be right or wrong about a book you read

Literary analysis isn’t about the book

It’s not even about being right

It’s about performing an investigation and presenting your case to the jury

It doesn’t matter if your defendant killed that guy or not. If you can convince the jury he didn’t, you’ve won

And the incredible life skill of spinning bulletproof bullshit out your ass with a handful of facts and a prayer is soooooooo much more valuable than anyone’s ever gonna tell you

my favorite part of CoS is the end when the four of them live happily ever after

idk how to comic but my headcanon on the braid!