The V's Are So Funny To Me. They Own Some Of The Biggest Media Companies In Hell. They're A Bunch Of

In my~sev era~ again :fanfic rec

Jeverus

Redemption

Knowledge of the Gods

snakes symbolise healing and rebirth

Gen

The Gryffindor Sort

Cripple Me

For a Muggleborn

I Pretend to be a Cynic

Snarcissa

What Lies Beneath

Reverus

Variants of Gray

Y’know, sometimes you just want to fuck a TV. And you know who doesn’t ask questions? Tumblr. Tumblr fucks that TV with you.

I listened to Deviser this week, which is a sci-fi horror podcast about what happens when bad literary analysis goes unchecked

Candyman Candyman Candyman Candyman Candym-

Based off this

I do genuinely believe that the Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (and arguably the Zelda franchise as a whole, though i myself have played literally none of these games) is closer to fitting the description of ‘Tolkien-esque Fantasy’ than most other movies/shows/games/books etc that claim that label

Like, compare this post by tumblr user wufflesvetinari, which makes an important point about Tolkien’s worldbuilding, and also lives in my head rent free:

and then these quotes from Jacob Geller’s “Every Zelda is the Darkest Zelda”

and his conclusions about the messages in Zelda games are thematically very similar to the through-lines about friendship and love in LOTR, and what a lot of authors miss about what makes a fantasy story personal and memorable:

“A world without joy and humor isn’t a compelling world to fight for” is exactly why there are so many pieces of fantasy media out there that just feel like carbon copies of each other (i’ve seen many posts that explain this better than I can though I can’t find any specific ones at the moment, just know that I didn’t invent this thesis). You’ve got the cool swords, you’ve got the wizards and the spells and the battles, but first and foremost you need the LOVE.

ok satellites are all alone up there just searching for everything and anything and it’s so beautiful and I hope they aren’t lonely

saddest fucking tag i've ever seen in my life. why not just cut off his dick while you're at it

I just got a complaint on one of my fics that having an aromantic character love their family and want them to not die horribly at the hands of the villain is "amatonormativity" and I am BEGGING people to just learn to say, "I don't like it" rather than co-opt words pertaining to important concepts in the aro community. Not wanting your family to die is not a sign the author is beholden to the amatonormative agenda. It just means that your brother owes you 10 bucks so that asshole can't die yet and Mom hasn't told you the secret to her homecooked chicken yet so we can't let her go and fuck it, Dad's good at fixing stuff, let's not have him die, either, while we're at it.

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