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purpose of this poll: basically im wondering if my gran having a pistol was a typical american experience

#usamerican #did have a friend in college who was rrally surprised when i said my family doesnt and has never owned any guns #he insisted that my parents HAD to have a gun somewhere in the house and decided i just didn't know about it #wild conversation #me: i think i'd know better than you whether my parents would be the type to have a secrect gun somewhere. they really do not #him: impossible

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#milkpost

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Here’s to hoping that every single person with schizophrenia or a schizoaffective disorder or DID or NPD or any other ridiculously demonized mental illnesses has a wonderful day

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Expanding a thought from a conversation this morning:

In general, I think "Is X out-of-character?" is not a terribly useful question for a writer. It shuts down possibility, and interesting directions you could take a character.

A better question, I believe, is "What would it take for Character to do X?" What extremity would she find herself in, where X starts to look like a good idea? What loyalties or fears leave him with X as his only option? THAT'S where a potentially interesting story lies.

In practice, I find that you can often justify much more from a character than you initially dreamed you could: some of my best stories come from "What might drive Character to do [thing he would never do]?" As long as you make it clear to the reader what the hell pushed your character to this point, you've got the seed of a compelling story on your hands.

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I’ve never been a real star wars fan but the phantom menace came out when I was 6 and my older brother was 8 so we were absolutely among the target audience and we had toy light sabers & we spent a lot of time playing star wars but my brothers were anakin and obi wan etc. and my best friend was padmé which meant i had to come up with a star wars oc and since my brother was anakin i decided okay. i would be anakin’s sister.

i made up a backstory that i was his twin sister who also lived on tatooine and i also had latent force potential but qui gon and obi wan didn’t even try to meet me even when anakin mentioned me and they left me behind.

this was an utter betrayal to me obviously, like my brother got rescued and i got abandoned and i could have been him and i should have been him. i should’ve been at his side. i should have gotten training and all else. i should have been a jedi too.

but they didn’t even care to meet me. so i had this intense grudge against the jedi and i ended up developing my skills myself and then i grew up and got myself off tattooine and set out on a mission as a rogue force user to kill obi wan.

and 6 year old me really embodied that role. she felt that. so when I was like 25 & rewatched the original star wars trilogy for the first time since childhood, when obi wan came on I was like ugh. I hate that guy. and my friend was like “WHY?”

and I thought about it and realized it wasn’t actually his character. I was remembering my childhood self insert oc beef.

Like, sorry you wouldn’t get it but obi wan and I have history.

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I feel like many people have a fundamental misconception of what unreliable narrator means. It's simply a narrative vehicle not a character flaw, a sign that the character is a bad person. There are also many different types of unreliable narrators in fiction. Being an unreliable narrator doesn't necessarily mean that the character is 'wrong', it definitely doesn't mean that they're wrong about everything even if some aspects in their story are inaccurate, and only some unreliable narrators actively and consciously lie. Stories that have unreliable narrators also tend to deal with perception and memory and they often don't even have one objective truth, just different versions. It reflects real life where we know human memory is highly unreliable and vague and people can interpret same events very differently

#*points* LIFE OF PI MENTION

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Who is it?💕

#got reminded that this was in my drafts #my phone background is reiko. IM the granddad

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eyes and character design in natsume yuujinchou 🤔

so. many of the youkai-seeing characters in this series have slit pupils.

photos, in order: natsume takashi, natsume reiko, matoba seiji, takuma yousuke, shinobu, yorishima, natori shuuichi

on a sliding scale, the natsumes, matoba, and takuma are at one end, with natori having rounder pupils at the other. yorishima and shinobu sit somewhere in the centre of this scale. here’s where the youkai-seeing outlier comes in:

nanase! has very round pupils. interesting!

but then characters who have little-to-no sight have very round pupils as well.

tanuma and taki! would include other characters but i’ve ran out of images. touko, souko, shigeru, nishimura, etc. all follow this pattern

#think nanase has potential to land either way in terms of 'exception bc it isnt a hard rule' or 'actually has less yokai vision' #but overall i do believe it correlated #natsuyuu

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uhhhh makin this on my main because I'm posting it at such a time

*i.e the villain is redeemed but redeemer dies and villain breaks again

#incomplete or pyrrhic victory is the best name i can think of for it #not quite 'tragedy with one survivor' tho that can fall under it #but like: when the win condition that was set up at the start of the story is impossible #when the goal that set you on this journey has been so twisted (or you so changed) that you don't want it/cant reach it anymore #but the character finds a new way to win #could be a 'i know i'll die but i'm at least taking you down with me' #could be a 'my priorities have changed fundamentally and what i once considered an unimaginable loss is now victory' #could be 'i thought i wanted a return to status quo but now things are forever changed and i'm glad of it' #could be 'we've lost everything but i at least get to do this final 'fuck you' to the world' #but some kind of. we lost what we wanted in the beginning but have still in some way won #idk if thats specific enough to count as an answer it might be too general

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I see a post, that asks the question "you are now married to your phone background, how fucked are you?"

I close the app and look. When was the last time I considered my phone background? I can't even remember it.

On the screen before me is a purple wildflower, a bergamot, or "bee balm" plant, photographed in North Dakota in 2019 in a family member's back yard.

I am married to a bergamot. She is tall and shapely, moreso than myself, though her choice of purple raiments matched closely my own. She is my favorite color. Maybe that's how we met? Why I decided to woo her?

My wife the bergamot is a socialite. She has more friends than I. Every morning she gossips with a cabbage white butterfly, and cruelly shares their secrets with the rusty patched bumblebees, who compete for her affections with the domesticated aapis mellifera, which trail at her purple coattails like lapdogs.

Her favorite friend, however, is the ruby throated hummingbird. More insect than avian though it does contain a vertebral column, it iridesces like green beetle wings and in my heart I feel jealousy as my bergamot bride and the hummingbird kiss.

I sit with her for a season. Under the sun and the heat and the biting flies. She is covered in dewdrops and in spiders. I spare her from caterpillars and lavish my affections on her with a cup of water.

The world turns at last to its cool side, my bergamot changes her purple coat to her dusty toned night gown. She lies down to sleep and is buried beneath a bed of fresh snow come October.

Love so fleeting, marriage so brief, could I forget my bergamot and move on? Could my love be perennial and evergreen even when my beloved is not? It is winter and my bride is dead. How fucked am I?

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bonus:

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does the timeline as we know it line up in a way that reiko could've been why yorishima decided to have nothing to do with exorcists anymore. could she have gone "your coworkers suck, you should ditch them."

#reiko after attending one (1) exorcist conference with grandpa: 'quit your job'

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we do not talk enough about how you get hit front and back by being a jew and supporting Palestine. For a recipe that i want to make during Shabbat I have to scroll through a jewish recipe blog and cringe at the I Stand With Israel posts and then go back.

so a bunch of jewish spaces aren't safe anymore or are landmines. then you're forced to go someplace else. then there's tumblr with the people who think Jews=Zionist.

like oh, you're jewish? they immediately think you support the idf or something and praise genocide or something. your family barely survived a genocide that wasn't even like more than three generations ago and its being used as some sort of crutch to israel's moral defense when israel does NOT give a fuck about holocaust survivors at all except for their pr...

like damn bro im just trying to live my life and cook normally. Palestine has my entire heart. but like the pipeline from Palestine advocacy to accidental antisemitism to purposeful antisemitism is so 😭😭. man. i just wanna say guys jewish people aren't your enemies. the goal is to stop genocide not make the nazis proud of you or something

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On the one hand the jokes abt yorishima being too much of a grouchy old man shut in to have been with reiko (and be natsume grandpa by extension) are very funny and also true. but also consider, the even funnier possibility: yorishima is a grouchy old man shut in precisely because he got ghosted by reiko like 30+ years ago

this man tried to have a relationship one time and fucked it up so bad he decided to never leave his house again

(tho honestly at this point I mostly just like the yorishima grandpa theory entirely because of how much he would hate it. can you imagine, being yorishima, a grouchy old man living alone in the woods minding your own business when suddenly some mildly annoying aquaintence of yours shows up with some random kid and he turns out to be your grandkid that you didn't even know you had? from that girl you dated that one time who ghosted you entirely out of nowhere? and now you have to be an actual parental/mentor figure to this kid? he'd be so fucking mad, it'd be hilarious)

#natsuyuu #if this reveal happens shortly before/after nyanko and natsu get to the point where they can say out loud that they like each other and #wanna stick together for the sake of it. then natsu will have a new position in his life open for grumpy mentor figure that can't admit that #he's sticking around out of more than just obligation #'i have to be in this kids life now. awful' #'he has parents and a lot of friends. his support system has grown into a beautiful thing. you aren't rlly needed if you wanna dip out' #'no. shut up. i am dragging him home from yokai situations'

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#does digimon get the same exclusion as pokemon or can it count #watched it on yt in early 2000's #dubs. fansubs. vids split into three parts. mileage varied depending on the era of digi

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Warrior Cats angst fanfic idea: the forest and field where all the clans live gets contracted out to a construction company. They built a mall over Thunder clan. Dear God

#yeah the cat afterlife picks six cats to go on a quest and find them a new home #cats get captured by animal rescue trying to get them out of the forest before its bulldozed. they break their clanmates out of cages #warriors