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I laughed so fucking hard at this

#RIGHT #if you want people to understand u then u gotta start with speaking their language #they won't make the effort to learn your language but if you learn theirs then conversations can at least start

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The plague of the avid reader and writer

#writing #so trueee #so true

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Bad End

#oxenfree #oxenfree 2

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The devastating difference between how much time it takes to write something vs how fast people read it lol

#writing jokes #writing

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it’s insane how quickly your life can just. suddenly improve. i used to be so miserable but now i own 5 swords

#weapons my beloved #swords #fencing #flow arts

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I’m terribly sorry, madam. I have absolutely no idea where he learned that word.

#cats

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AND TO THINK THAT I WAS EVER DELUSIONAL WHEN I WAS ACTUALLY CORRECT HE IS SO BACK WE ARE SO BACK

#mistborn

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I know I’m a few years late to the Gravity Falls party, but I can’t get over how effectively the Ford reveal flips the switch on Stan’s character. From what little I’d seen of the show on Tumblr before I watched it, I’d always assumed Stan was a pretty one-dimensional sleazy con man. And since it was a series aimed toward kids, I kind of assumed Stan wouldn’t get that much development or story outside of Dipper and Mabel. I figured if he did have an arc, it would be the pretty common “gruff bitter loner guy who doesn’t like people gets kids and learns to love them” storyline. 

And for like the first half of the show, this kind of seemed to be the case, aside from the mystery surrounding whatever Stan was hiding in the basement.

And then the Ford reveal / backstory happens and you see Stan in a completely new light. 

Stan isn’t a con man because he wants to be. He’s a con man out of necessity - first because he was kicked out of his house and forced to make it on his own at 18, and then because it was helping him work to bring his brother back. He doesn’t just run the mystery shack because he likes to lie to people and swindle them out of their money - he does it because he needed a way to make money and keep the shack while trying to figure out a way to reopen the portal. He has a fake identity because he needed to keep people from snooping around looking for Stanford and the easiest way to do that was to take his place.

All the things that make you think he’s selfish and shady throughout the first half of the series are revealed to be because he’s a desperate, heartbroken man who wants to bring his brother back. He isn’t the traditional gruff guy who doesn’t love anyone until some rambunctious kids come into his life at all - he loves his brother so much that literally everything he does is to get him back. And he lies to the kids in an effort to protect them and keep anything bad from happening to them like it did to his brother.

Great twists / mystery reveals don’t just take the story in a new direction - they cast new light on everything that has come before. And Gravity Falls does that so well.

Just look at one of the first episodes in the series where Mabel makes a wax figure of Stan and Stan appears to fall in love with it and mourns it when it melts, going as far to host a funeral for it. Without knowing Stan’s backstory, this whole storyline just feeds into our view of Stan as a self-centered, ridiculous person. It’s ridiculous he would cherish a wax figure of himself. It’s so egotistical that he would host a funeral for it when it died and get honestly choked up about it.

But then you learn that Stan lost his twin brother and that whole storyline doesn’t really feel like the story of a selfish, egotistical man anymore. It’s the story of a man who felt like he got his brother back again momentarily and then had to lose him all over again.

That’s an effective twist. You can’t learn about Stan’s backstory and then go back and view him the same way you did before it. 

#writing #gravity falls

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@jelimore said: What’s each Animorph’s favorite movie from before 1960?

Tobias: Metropolis. It's cerebral, it's weird, and it's Marxist as hell.

Cassie: It's a Wonderful Life. It's sweet, it's sad, and it shows one person can make a difference.

Marco: Some Like It Hot. Gender is fake, the rules don't matter, and nothing is funnier than the patriarchy.

Jake: Bridge on the River Kwai. It's American, it's cynical, and it's about the power of working together.

Ax: The Wizard of Oz. This is basically his life story.

Rachel: Sleeping Beauty. The O.G. Disney movie where the women slay dragons (and become them) while the men wait to get rescued.

#animorphs

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sometimes i think i wasn't made for the digital age, but then i have quests for knowledge

that i just would not have been able to pursue at any other point in history

#us history #prev tags #i also love that henry was concerned #but not enough to offer HIS bed

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i don’t grow out of my interests they simply become absorbed into me as i get older like tree rings

#yes

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Guys do u know that one meme where there's a girl and like a bodyguard (???) ordering drinks and the waiter give them the wrong drinks so they switch them on the last panel,???????? BECAUSE I C1NT FING IT^

#:)

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i hate when i send someone a meme in another language and they're like "uhm... translate? 😒" fucker i sent you a meme where 90% of the words have an english cognate and/or you don't need to know what they're saying to find it funny. can you at least TRY

#linguistics #language #bruh

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we need to put fandom bloggers into some kind of quarantine until the epidemic of making female characters into moms stops spreading

#SO TRUE #fandom

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died and came back exactly the same but something was so so so wrong with me before and now I have an excuse to really lean into it

#buffy summers #buffy the vampire slayer #btvs #THIS IS THE FUCKING PREMISE OF SEASON 6

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some emergency alert operator just gave me a three minute taste of being an indie horror game protagonist jesus fuckin christ

#asdfghjkl

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#comic