A grup of frogs is called an army. Also, a chorus. Salamanders are a band. Rimac. Mai and Jet defense squad. Ecology major and bat enthusiast. Ask me about animal facts.
Life update? Living in Budapest, finally doing a MSc in Ecology. Just hope to get those 2 years over. The cat is still alive and with no tail. Living by the So it's gonna be forever, Or it's gonna go down in flames. Not exited. Want to go back home. Missing everyone and everything
why is it that whenever I am disillusioned with the world I go back to the epic of Gilgamesh
“It is the story of their becoming human together.”
This is it. This is the oldest written literary work that we know of, and it’s a story of becoming human together.
This is a story about love, and it’s a story about death, and we told this story thousands of years ago, THOUSANDS of years. We have always, always, always been wrestling with this profoundly beautiful existence and with knowing one another, while knowing that we all will die and be forgotten.
We become human by loving, but we also become human by knowing death.
And I’m just sitting here touching other human beings, another human experience, from across millennia, feeling a bit more human too through it, and I am trying very hard not to cry.
love how sam is a like christianity fangirl and hes like omggggg the angelss of COURSE theyre reall and hes like totally fangirl girlgasming over there kicking his feet praying to jesus or whatever with his purple fluffy glitter gel pen and going to bed thinking about christ and heaven or whatever the jesus fandom thinks of. and then he meets cas and hes like omg hiiii girl- Cas Voice. Hi Stupid Blood Slut. Cease activities . Kill Yourself Or Ill Do It For You. Bye. I am going to have Gay Freak Sex with your Brother (walks a foot away and stands and stares into deans eyes in the corner unmoving)
Hey btw, if you're doing worldbuilding on something, and you're scared of writing ~unrealistic~ things into it out of fear that it'll sound lazy and ripped-out-of-your-ass, but you also don't want to do all the back-breaking research on coming up with depressingly boring, but practical and ~realistic~ solutions, have a rule:
Just give the thing two layers of explanation. One to explain the specific problem, and another one explaining the explanation. Have an example:
Plot hole 1: If the vampires can't stand daylight, why couldn't they just move around underground?
Solution 1: They can't go underground, the sewer system of the city is full of giant alligators who would eat them.
Well, that's a very quick and simple explanation, which sure opens up additional questions.
Plot hole 2: How and why the fuck are there alligators in the sewers? How do they survive, what do they eat down there when there's no vampires?
Solution 2: The nuns of the Underground Monastery feed and take care of them as a part of their sacred duties.
It takes exactly two layers to create an illusion that every question has an answer - that it's just turtles all the way down. And if you're lucky, you might even find that the second question's answer loops right back into the first one, filling up the plot hole entirely:
Plot hole 3: Who the fuck are the sewer nuns and what's their point and purpose?
Solution 3: The sewer nuns live underground in order to feed the alligators, in order to make sure that the vampires don't try to move around via the sewer system.
When you're just making things up, you don't need to have an answer for everything - just two layers is enough to create the illusion of infinite depth. Answer the question that looms behind the answer of the first question, and a normal reader won't bother to dig around for a 3rd question.