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Do other writers ever get this like, hyper-specific dialogue exchange drop into their brains and you know exactly where these character are standing and what they’re doing and how they’re saying these words but that’s all you get. You don’t have much other context and this specific moment that exists only at this time in your headspace??

#writing

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it feels like there should be a million hours between 5 pm and 10 pm but theres only like two

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Congratulations! You are now a Magic-User!!

#oil paint

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Big Finish fans 🤝 podcast fans

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i got distracted making a meme

#🗡️

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don't talk to me about the kingdom of heaven. i don't want to talk about it

the actual worst Stock Medieval Character Film is the variety where the narrator is an Aspiring Hero who goes on a holy pilgrimage to whereverthefuck only to find that all the men around him are french bloodthirsty and violent brutes driven only by greed, savagery, and wealth, unlike his holier-than-thou pious devotion. this journey breaks his belief in christianity as he becomes disillusioned with the men around him and how they have strayed far from the supposed kindness of jesus christ. the Cynical (Post-9/11) Atheist arrives to tell him "look at the truth of what your religion is, the destruction it causes, stop believing in sky daddy sir underdog of downtrodden" and then he saves the day by stopping believing. and he gets the girl obviously

#🗡️ #this is a lie please talk to me. about how SHIT its message is #i mean fine it's a modern morality tale #abstracted through the past #but pleaaaase #i just want my guy/sibylla romance...

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beyond the unflinching nihilism and frankly the offensiveness of this not only to christians but to literally everyone (since it presents a view of atheism so stereotypical that right-wing stand-up comedians would be offended and so flat that a 2d shape would be intimidated), it perfectly encapsulates the problems of how we as a modern, secularised [european/anglophone] society approach faith and greed in the past. the key problem, i think, is that we try to separate violence, faith and desire for wealth into three distinguishable things, but a twelfth-century crusader is unlikely to have seen things that way! for one thing, consider holy war, wherein god's grace and fighting infidels are inextricably linked; for another, consider the wealth of the medieval church, and the idea of lands and riches as a reward from god rather than just pure, isolated greed. it's perhaps difficult to understand, but it was perfectly possible in the past to be deeply (or ordinarily) devout and also see no problem with killing and plundering in the name of god. particularly in the form of crusading [against heretics/infidels], pilgrimage, masses for the dead, and just plain war to protect your inheritance/expand your domains... everyone wants god on their side, and everyone wants more land, which means more status and more power and which involves performing piety, because the more wealth you have, the more you have to give to god and the poor! there is no beginning or end to wealth and piety, they intermingle and seep into each other just as blood and dirt did from the men they killed. certainly no knight would be disillusioned in such an obviously modern way, making such clearly modern distinctions. it's disingenuous, and says far more about us than anything historical.

the actual worst Stock Medieval Character Film is the variety where the narrator is an Aspiring Hero who goes on a holy pilgrimage to whereverthefuck only to find that all the men around him are french bloodthirsty and violent brutes driven only by greed, savagery, and wealth, unlike his holier-than-thou pious devotion. this journey breaks his belief in christianity as he becomes disillusioned with the men around him and how they have strayed far from the supposed kindness of jesus christ. the Cynical (Post-9/11) Atheist arrives to tell him "look at the truth of what your religion is, the destruction it causes, stop believing in sky daddy sir underdog of downtrodden" and then he saves the day by stopping believing. and he gets the girl obviously

#🗡️

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the actual worst Stock Medieval Character Film is the variety where the narrator is an Aspiring Hero who goes on a holy pilgrimage to whereverthefuck only to find that all the men around him are french bloodthirsty and violent brutes driven only by greed, savagery, and wealth, unlike his holier-than-thou pious devotion. this journey breaks his belief in christianity as he becomes disillusioned with the men around him and how they have strayed far from the supposed kindness of jesus christ. the Cynical (Post-9/11) Atheist arrives to tell him "look at the truth of what your religion is, the destruction it causes, stop believing in sky daddy sir underdog of downtrodden" and then he saves the day by stopping believing. and he gets the girl obviously

#🗡️

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"i kissed a girl, and i liked it" is such a raw line, you'd think katy perry wrote it. but no; it was shakespeare

#🗡️

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literally one of my favorite tweets ever

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too lazy to masturbate can you do it for me

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[id: a gif of the text, "we have your son," in the style of dancing red letters with limbs. /end id]

internet ransom note where instead of magazine letters it’s just jpgs of letters found on google

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I need a way to say this character makes me feel insane amounts of lust but not in a sexual or romantic way

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"you should engage with [marginalised group]'s poetry more" here's an idea: maybe they should write good poetry

#🗡️ #90% of poetry is bad

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i keep thinking about that review calling taylor the better adele like the more i think about it the crazier it is that writer needs to be dunked head first into a bucket of tomato juice

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so sad that people got sick of "doomed by the narrative" and decided it was cringe, because fate and free will in fiction has been a major interest of mine for like eight years, but alas so it goes. anything that gets popular is destined to become reviled in short order. it's like some sort of unstoppable, uncompassionate, avaricious cycle of rising and falling and rising again. like whatever happens, no matter the intentions, it will always result in the same tragic ending. you could almost say it was d