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twilight-zoned-out · 10 days

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Things I noticed about The Great Gatsby that might help put the book in perspective:

-It takes place during Prohibition. Although the book is constantly filled with people drinking, the making and selling of alcohol was technically illegal and had been since 1920.

(Note: this is also why everyone gets mad at Daisy when she wants mint julep when they get to the hotel. Unless they smuggle in alcohol from home, it’s a ridiculous thing to ask.)

-1920′s humor included absurdism and wit, which combined humor and intelligence or ‘sharp’ intelligence. Daisy makes witty comments throughout the book. When she talks about Ferdie in a ridiculous way and Nick continues the conversation as if he thinks she is being serious, they are essentially joking with each other in the conventional way of the period.

-Nick is older than Tom, Daisy, and Jordan. He is not only an outsider in terms of location and wealth, but in terms of a (slightly) older culture looking in on the newer generation. When Nick leaves Jordan with the comment that he is “5 years too old to lie to [himself] and call it honor,” his insult carries extra weight because he is saying she is too young to mature herself enough for a reasonable conversation.

-It takes place after World War I, during a time when the US aggressively pursued an isolationist stance. The US did not want to become involved in any overseas wars. Most of the main characters in the book served in some way during World War I.

(Note: This story was written before Germany began to loom as a threat in the years before World War II. When Nick calls the deaths at Gatsby’s mansion a Holocaust, it did not have the same connotation it has today.)

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ahomeganeyatsu · 1 year

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He wasn't running.

It's what he tells himself when he hastily exited his own room. Back pressed against the door, his hand on his chest. He wonders if hearts should be able to beat this hard. Because his feels hell bent on breaking out of his own chest.

It's not the first time they kissed. Far from it really.

He Tian has developed a habit. And although Momo goes near ballistic every time it happens, he doesn't exactly stop him. He knows He Tian knows this. Momo pretends but everyone and their grandmother knows he wears his heart on his sleeve. People just choose to ignore it.

So he knows. He Tian is aware of the fact that he gets overwhelmed. That he fights himself about wanting this, if he deserves it, if he could have this. And that's why He Tian always makes it clear to him that yes, you can, if you'll let it.

He Tian's shit at masking his emotions as much as Momo. Or maybe he's just good at reading He Tian now. Still, the wordless exchange earlier had been too much.

Too much to process. Too much to feel. Too much that he feels he'll burst if he stayed any longer. Or he'll never be able to stop. Or want it to end.

So okay, maybe he was running away. But not from He Tian. Well, maybe from He Tian. But not in the sense that he used to run away.

Fuck. That kiss really did a number on him.

He buries his face on his hands and nearly screams except—

"Are you okay, sweetie?"

He hopes his face isn't as red as it feels. "Y-Yeah, I'm good, Mama." There's a look on his mom's face that tells him she doesn't believe him. That she knows something but won't say a word.

"If you say so," she just says. "You should get He Tian to wash up. He'll sleep a lot better that way."

Momo nods. Not able to trust his voice. She turns around to leave, but she glances back. She taps her lips, and smiles. She leaves her son stunned, face burning and something far more gentler and warm blooming in his chest.

#tianshan #coda fic #he tian #mo guan shan #mo guanshan #momo #19 days fic #19 days #made some edits

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masteroffakesmiles · 8 months

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Lime

#made some edits #lime cookie #cookie run #cookie run kingdom #crk #my art #fanart #gijinka #humanization #anime #cookie run fanart

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f1yogurt · 2 years

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NIKI LAUDA

#sorry guys I’m obsessing over this pic #made some edits #niki lauda #lauda archives #classic f1 #photography #my edits #favorite pics #wish I could pin this

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shotgunyuri · 7 months

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“Good luck. And DON’T fuck it up.”

#just to clarify I didn’t make this edit. this is an old tumblr post that the website made inaccessible for some reason. so I recreated it #it’s smth of a historic restoration effort with saw heritage posts. check their addition (also part of the original post)#loutown #saw

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dilemmadraws · 1 month

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Updated profile picture since my hairs been short for 2 years

#if you saw me post this yesterday no you didn’t #made some edits #my art #dilemmadraws #artists on tumblr #illustration #digital art #sketch #procreate

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magnusbae · 10 months

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To illustrate this post by @mayahawkse I would like to visualize to you the difference:

A post in 2023:

A post in 2014:

A zoom out of the same post:

This is what a community looks like.

See how in 2023 almost all of the reblogs come from the OP, from their few hours/days in the tag search. Meanwhile in 2014 the % of reblogs from OP is insignificant, because most of the reblogs come from the reblogs within the fandom, within the micro-communities formed there. You didn't need to rely on tags, or search, or being featured. Because the community took care of you, made sure to pass the work between themselves and onto their blog and exposed their followers to it. It kept works alive for years.

It's not JUST the reblog/like ratio that causing this issue, it's the type of interaction people have. They're content with scrolling and liking the search engine, instead of actually having a reblogging relationship with other blogs in their community.

Anyways, if you want to see more content you like, the only true way to make it happen is to reblog it. Likes do not forward content in no way but making OP feel nice. Reblogs on the other hand make content eternal. They make it relevant, they make it exist outside of a fickle tumblr search that hardly works on the best of days.

If you want more of something, reblog it.

#i said i wont ever rant about this bc it's unseemly but HONESTLY.#you simply cannot complain about not having enough of A or B or C and then never reblog / interact with the content you love.#If you LOVE something you cannot just leave a like and silently wait for more to happen #I know countless of content creators that simply stopped doing art/writing fic/making edits #You need to understand that fandom content is made FOR the fandom FOR the engagement FOR the entertainment and fun it makes.#If a content creator does not have fun IN the fandom-- why would they spend the scares free time they have on making this content?#And we're not talking about things that you don't like-- no one expects you to reblog things you don't like.#However I think it's safe to say that when a post has more than 5k it's not some random shitpost with no value.#tumblr issues #tumblr #content creators #buns.txt #something something please don't starve your local clowns

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watcher0033 · 10 months

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Y’all, the Archive admins are made up of VOLUNTEERS. And they have been working for 12-13 HOURS STRAIGHT.

I better not hear any complaints when donation period comes around. OR ELSE.

cosplay by @woahchriswoah on Twitter

EDIT: How do we show appreciation to the volunteers? For me reading these deep dives on OTW issues u guys apparently it's been said multiple times that one of their objective statements is to have paid staff for ao3 and there's a surplus of donations they haven't used up or the other community solutions that needs to address. For those more financially literate feel free to analyze, snipe me or add to the discussion etc. linked here by deepa. They’re cool and these yearly analysis they did aint no joke.

But Seriously what can we do for these volunteers? The probable burn out from this entire fiasco would be no joke. @ao3org

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inkskinned · 10 months

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at some point it's just like. do they even fucking like the thing they're asking AI to make? "oh we'll just use AI for all the scripts" "we'll just use AI for art" "no worries AI can write this book" "oh, AI could easily design this"

like... it's so clear they've never stood in the middle of an art museum and felt like crying, looking at a piece that somehow cuts into your marrow even though the artist and you are separated by space and time. they've never looked at a poem - once, twice, three times - just because the words feel like a fired gun, something too-close, clanging behind your eyes. they've never gotten to the end of the movie and had to arrive, blinking, back into their body, laughing a little because they were holding their breath without realizing.

"oh AI can mimic style" "AI can mimic emotion" "AI can mimic you and your job is almost gone, kid."

... how do i explain to you - you can make AI that does a perfect job of imitating me. you could disseminate it through the entire world and make so much money, using my works and my ideas and my everything.

and i'd still keep writing.

i don't know there's a word for it. in high school, we become aware that the way we feel about our artform is a cliche - it's like breathing. over and over, artists all feel the same thing. "i write because i need to" and "my music is how i speak" and "i make art because it's either that or i stop existing." it is such a common experience, the violence and immediacy we mean behind it is like breathing to me - comes out like a useless understatement. it's a cliche because we all feel it, not because the experience isn't actually persistent. so many of us have this ... fluttering urgency behind our ribs.

i'm not doing it for the money. for a star on the ground in some city i've never visited. i am doing it because when i was seven i started taking notebooks with me on walks. i am doing it because in second grade i wrote a poem and stood up in front of my whole class to read it out while i shook with nerves. i am doing it because i spent high school scribbling all my feelings down. i am doing it for the 16 year old me and the 18 year old me and the today-me, how we can never put the pen down. you can take me down to a subatomic layer, eviscerate me - and never find the source of it; it is of me. when i was 19 i named this blog inkskinned because i was dramatic and lonely and it felt like the only thing that was actually permanently-true about me was that this is what is inside of me, that the words come up over everything, coat everything, bloom their little twilight arias into every nook and corner and alley

"we're gonna replace you". that is okay. you think that i am writing to fill a space. that someone said JOB OPENING: Writer Needed, and i wrote to answer. you think one raindrop replaces another, and i think they're both just falling. you think art has a place, that is simply arrives on walls when it is needed, that is only ever on demand, perfect, easily requested. you see "audience spending" and "marketability" and "multi-line merch opportunity"

and i see a kid drowning. i am writing to make her a boat. i am writing because what used to be a river raft has long become a fully-rigged ship. i am writing because you can fucking rip this out of my cold dead clammy hands and i will still come back as a ghost and i will still be penning poems about it.

it isn't even love. the word we use the most i think is "passion". devotion, obsession, necessity. my favorite little fact about the magic of artists - "abracadabra" means i create as i speak. we make because it sluices out of us. because we look down and our hands are somehow already busy. because it was the first thing we knew and it is our backbone and heartbreak and everything. because we have given up well-paying jobs and a "real life" and the approval of our parents. we create because - the cliche again. it's like breathing. we create because we must.

you create because you're greedy.

#every time someones like ''AI will replace u" im like. u will have to fucking KILL ME #there is no replacement here bc i am not filling a position. i am just writing #and the writing is what i need to be doing #writeblr #this probably doesn't make sense bc its sooo frustrating i rarely speak it the way i want to #edited for the typo wrote it and then was late to a meeting lol #i love u people who mention my typos genuinely bc i don't always catch them!!!! :) it is doing me a genuine favor!!!#my friend says i should tell you ''thank you beta editors'' but i don't know what that means #i made her promise it isn't a wolf fanfiction thing. so if it IS a wolf thing she is DEAD to me (just kidding i love her)#hey PS PS PS ??? if ur reading this thinking what it's saying is ''i am financially capable of losing this'' ur reading it wrong #i write for free. i always have. i have worked 5-7 jobs at once to make ends meet.#i did not grow up with access or money. i did not grow up with connections or like some kind of excuse #i grew up and worked my fucking ASS OFF. and i STILL!!! wrote!!! on the side!!! because i didn't know how not to!!!#i do not write for money!!!! i write because i fuckken NEED TO #i could be in the fucking desert i could be in the fuckken tundra i could be in total darkness #and i would still be writing pretentious angsty poetry about it #im not in any way saying it's a good thing. i'm not in any way implying that they're NOT tryna kill us #i'm saying. you could take away our jobs and we could go hungry and we could suffer #and from that suffering (if i know us) we'd still fuckin make art.#i would LOVE to be able to make money doing this! i never have been able to. but i don't NEED to. i will find a way to make my life work #even if it means being miserable #but i will not give up this thing. for the whole world.

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whackknight · 10 months

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Cosmor: Introduction

The court was silent as Volantis sat restrained in the centre of the chamber by a large pure white archway. It had dozens of geometric runes carved into it's surface and each one hummed violently whenever Volantis moved. A loud voice echoed above him causing Volantis to cease moving and look up to the source. He stared at Viznatul's form as he spoke. "Volantis, for crimes committed against the high order you are to be imprisoned in the Aeon Vault and cast out into the Ethereal Hollow until you are no more. Movnadis, commence the procedure."

Volantis fought violently against the archways restraints as a harmonious sound began to fill the chamber, black crystals began forming on the pure white vessel that was his body, each crystal resonating with the sound, slowly draining energy from his form. "No, please don't do this!" Volantis screams as the sound grows sharper and begins shattering his form, each piece of his body being encased in black crystal and preventing him from reconstructing himself.

His body was trapped, immobile within the black crystal, but his mind was unimpeded, forced to witness his fate, his new prison drifting through the Ethereal Hollow. In the distance he noticed a figure within the Aeon Vaults chamber, a Nobolin like himself, though its form was pitch black and warped like its voice when it spoke.

"Poor Volantis, trapped in a prison of his own design by the ones he once thought of as allies. I wonder if you will last longer than the others, after all you devoured the very thing you swore to protect."

The figure stopped speaking. There was a flash of light behind it. It turned and stared into the darkness as a huge flash of light suddenly detonated and flooded the chamber. Volantis's prison had cracked for a second and allowed him to absorb some of the energy from the blast, but unfortunately it wouldn't help him escape his prison because the crystals soon regrew and filled the crack. The figure was gone. Volantis was left to witness something that no one else would ever see, something extraordinary.

He had lost track of time, the flames and colours that swirled endlessly outside for so long began to mix with one another. He didn't notice they had begun to form great orbs of light, the chamber had also changed. Grey stone began building up in the corners and crevices, more flashes of bright coloured light filled the darkness, bodies of stone crashed into one another and merged becoming orbs of magma. How long had he been witnessing?

Why was he here? He could not remember. He tried to move but could not. Why can't he leave? He remembered his imprisonment, how could he forget. He watched as streaks of light flew through the Ethereal Hollow, but was it still the Ethereal Hollow? It was supposed to be empty, devoid of anything but those who broke the commandments, he knew not what to think of this.

#writing #sci fi #science fiction #fantasy #space #I'm scared this is my first actual post #original story #original writing #Made some edits

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scp-113 · 2 years

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i do trust sonic... but now i'm a lil bit suspicious

#EDIT: yall need to check the notes. there's art lol #there are some sonic the hedgehog games on google play store #the permissions page made me cackle #sonic the hedgehog #sega #talkingdemon

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kizzer55555 · 1 month

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DP x DC: The Most Dangerous Card Game

Ok so Danny has essentially claimed earth as his. And he is fully aware that there are constant threats to the planet. Now he can’t stop a threat that originates on earth (that’s something he’ll leave to the Justice league) but he can do something about outside threats. Doing some research on ancient spells, rituals, and artifacts, he cast a world wide barrier on the planet to protect it from hostile threats so they cannot enter. This will prevent another Pariah Dark incident. However, barriers like this come at a price. You see, there are two ways to make a barrier. Either make one powered up by your own energy and power (which would be constantly draining) or set up a barrier with rules. The way magic works is that nothing can be absolutely indestructible. It must have a weakness. The most powerful barriers weren’t the ones reinforced with layer after layer of protective charms and buffed up with power. Those could eventually be destroyed either by being overpowered, wearing them down, or by cutting off the original power source. No, the most powerful barriers were the ones with a deliberate weakness. A barrier indestructible except for one spot. A cage that can only be opened from the outside. Or that can only be passed with a key or by solving a riddle. So Danny chooses this type of barrier and does the necessary ritual and pours in enough power to make it. And he adds his condition for anyone to enter.

Now the Justice league? Find out about the barrier when Trigon attempts to attack, they were preparing after he threatened what he would do once he got to earth. How he would destroy them. The Justice league tried to take the fight to him first but were utterly destroyed, so they retreated home to tend to their injuries, and fortify earth for one. Last. Stand. Only when Trigon makes his big entrance…he’s stopped.

The Justice league watch in awe as this thin see-through barrier with beautiful green swirls and speckled white lights like stars apears blocking Trigon and his army’s advance. The barrier looks so thin and fragile yet no matter how hard the warlord hits, none of his attacks can get through and neither can he damage said barrier. That’s when Constantine and Zatanna recognizes what this barrier is. Something only a powerful entity could create. For a moment, the league is filled with hope that Trigon can’t get through yet Constantine also explains that it’s not impenetrable. And clearly Trigon knows this too for he calls out a challenge.

And that’s when, in a flash of light, a tiny glowing teenager appears. He looked absolutly minuscule compared to Trigon and yet practically glowed with power (this isn’t a King Danny AU though).

And that is when the conditions for passing the barrier are revealed. And the Justice realize that the only thing stopping Trigon and his army from decimating earth. The only way he can get through….is by beating this glowing teenager in a card game.

Not just any card game though. The most convoluted game Sam, Danny, and Tucker invented themselves. It’s like the infinite realms version of magic the gathering, combined with Pokémon, and chess. And Danny is the master. So sit down Trigon and let’s play.

(The most intense card game of the Justice league’s life).

After Danny wins, this happens a few more times with outer word beings and possibly even demons attempting to invade earth, yet none have been able to beat the mysterious teenager in a card game. Constantine might even take a crack at it and try to figure out how to play. He’s really bad though. Every time this happens, the Justice league worry that this might be the time the teenager looses. Yet every time, he wins (even if only barely).

Meanwhile, Danny, Sam, and Tucker have gotten addicted to the game and play it almost daily. Some teachers might seem them playing the game are are like ‘awww how cute’ not realizing this game is literally saving the world. Jazz is just happy they aren’t spending as much time on their screens playing Doomed.

#DPxDC #dcxdp #Danny makes a card game to save the world.#Technically he worded the ritual so that they had to ‘beat’ him as those are the most powerful barriers and most reliable.#keys can just get lost or stolen (like the one to Pariah’s Coffin)#A riddle would be useless once someone figured out the answer. Like how no one takes the sphynx seriously anymore.#(Sorry Tuck. But it’s true).#And there is NO WAY Danny is just leaving a hole open for anyone to pass through. No thank you!#So…beating him. But it’s not like Danny wanted to fight so…he edited the ritual a TINY bit. Card games are good. Much less painful too.#Danny Tucker and Sam made the most complicated card game they could imagine.#It’s based on their strategies for fighting ghosts. Capturing them in thermoses. And MUCH based on a on field battle strategy.#It often requires spontaneous thinking on the spot. So Danny? In his ELEMNT. It doubles as practice for his actual ghost battles too.#They had SO much fun making this.#Sam added an entire series of plant cards that act as traps and healing ointments and duds that just take up the field.#Tucker added legitimate hyroglyphics combined with Latin as well as English and ghost speak.#Yes. You actually have to speak that language to play. With proper pronunciation. (Amity Parker’s think the three are talking gibberish.)#I headcanon Sam and Tucker are fluent in Ghost.#Constantine WILL figure this game out SO HELP HIM!#Some of the cards also have combinations related to constellations either in name or placement on the board.#By the way the board is based on a Hexagonal summoning circle with Rhunes along the edges #And the placement of the cards on the board and on what rhune MATTERS.#Also the cards move disintegrate and have certain abilities. Think of Harry Potter Wizard Chess.#But they are normal when Danny plays at school. This is just for ✨effect✨ Against invaders.#Danny faces multiple opponents. He also halts alien invasions.#While Danny COULD stop crime on earth he’s not sure how to fight a normal human and hold back so he sticks to ghosts.#The Justice league are going crazy trying to figure out who this entity is and after deep research are convinced this is some sort of #Ancient being who has protected earth for millenia. They have paintings on ruins and everything.#Danny is not aware they think this.#Raven starts praying to Danny as if he is a god and wrangles the other Teen Titans into doing so as well. Danny is still unaware of this.#Danny is not a King or an ancient. Just a very VERY strong ghost.

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hugs-and-stabbies · 3 months

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[ Part 1 / 6 ] A sweet gesture from Vince?? 🤨🤨😳

I had a couple of Valentine's Day requests for Rody/Vincent :] So I'm making a short little comic for it! I'll be posting it in parts as I finish them ♥

[ link to part 2 ]

#dead plate #rody lamoree #vincent charbonneau #rody x vincent #rodince #?#rodent #?? 😂😂#whatever ship name you prefer #dead plate fanart #edit: made some changes to the dialogue to include it being Rody's birthday!#i didnt know his birthday was on valentine's! it fits him hahah

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constantlyfalling · 4 months

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