#on a totally unrelated note

[apollos-boyfriend]

does anyone have that post about like. the horror mary must’ve felt gazing upon her newborn son and knowing his fate. that he’d die a martyr and there was nothing she could do to save him. it’s haunting me rn but i can’t find it

#icarus speaks #on a totally unrelated note #might start studying christianity. as a side gif #gig*

[eggonthemoon]

HELP IM SO USELESS!!

So so

I’m trying to cure my artblock right?

Well I had an idea

Except it’s uh

Uhhhhhhh

Super sussy….at least for me

And now I’m too embarrassed to work on it

LMFAO

#on a totally unrelated note #I got demsin brainrot #NOT RELATED AT ALL #totally not <.< #haha…ha #demsin #totally just tagging it for mentioning it in the tags #no real reason #at all #<.<; #ramble rumble

[rohirric-hunter]

I've been trying to put this into words for a while now and I think I might have something -- most of the time when people examine storytelling tropes, especially experts in a related field, especially historians and medical professionals, they are setting out to disprove the trope.

Even if they're not, once they find some evidence that the trope doesn't work in real life or isn't how it was done historically, they often expect that to be the end of the conversation. Historically, people did not go adventuring with two-handed greatswords strapped to their backs -- and therefore you should not have it happen in your fiction, and the conversation ends there. In real life, having a character get hit so hard on the head that they pass out for several hours would demand immediate medical intervention and likely cause permanent brain damage -- and therefore you should not have it happen in your fiction. End of discussion.

These people fail, I think, to understand the reason these tropes exist. It is not because people are just uneducated and think that's how things work. In fact, I would go out on a limb and say far more people are already aware of these things than these experts assume. The attraction of the trope doesn't come from the belief that it is accurate.

These tropes exist because it is widely agreed that they are cool, sexy, emotionally fulfilling, narratively convenient, or any number of other things that really have nothing to do with whether or not they are accurate to reality. I'm not quite sure what it is about most of these experts that makes them unable to understand that, or unwilling to play the game that the rest of us engage in, where we all quietly pretend that it does work because it's harmless and enjoyable.

Really the only people I've ever seen who understand that and try to work their own expertise on the subject into the tropes in a cohesive and satisfying way are Shadiversity on YouTube and blumineck on here. Both in the martial arts categories, which ties mostly into history -- I've yet to find a medical professional online who's willing to play the game.

#on a totally unrelated note #if anyone knows when someone has fallen into freezing water and is at risk for hypothermia #all the articles i can find online say to get them warm and change them into dry clothes #but none of them say what to do if you dont have any dry clothes #is it better to leave them in their wet things until you can get some dry clothes or take them out of the wet things #even if you dont have any dry clothes to put them in #yes i KNOW theyre probably just going to die at this point if thats what you were thinking then you have no sense of narrative tension #and yes i KNOW this is why you always take a change of clothes whenever youre going hiking in the cold #the clothes fell into the freezing water too OKAY #sorry if this is like aggressive but im so tired of hearing the same few responses that dont actually answer my question #do these people think im looking for actual medical advice??????? #im writing a story! the characters are going in the Situation whether they like it or not #im not planning for my own life just in case i ever find myself in this situation #the fact that i thought of it for the story ought to tell you ive already thought of how to prevent it for myself

[prestonmonterey]

hey im very normal and ok today and not stressed at all

#on a totally unrelated note #if anyones ok with me venting uuhh plz dm me

[liverpool-enjoyer]

anyone ever listen to their favorite love songs n pretend youre a world famous artist who wrote it for your high profile footballer boyfriend??? no?? yeah me neither lmao thatd be weird

#on a totally unrelated note #alexa play shes got a way by billy joel

[kiss-this]

Rotten luck of the week: Rush! makes me wanna jumpjumpjump but I had a (very minor) surgery and if I mess with my stitches my doc yells at me 🥲

#on a totally unrelated note #Tumblr works so badly today what's going on? #måneskin #Rush! #it's a hard life

[gotham-response]

Calendar Man ate nothing but brownies today. Don't ask me how I know this

#on a totally unrelated note #how do you get vomit stains out of work pants #only in gotham #gotham city

[youraveragefoongustrainer]

Does anyone else ever get the urge to just put your normal life on pause and just, go to a different part of your region and lay down or something, or is it just me who does that?

Like, for some reason the past few days I've just had an urge to go to the desert resort and just lay down in the sand?

Is this something that normally happens or am I just weird?

#On a totally unrelated note #should I go do that? #pokeblogging #pkmn irl #pokemon irl

[sunflowersand-bees]

Hot take: The Owl House ending could've been better.

I was expecting someone to die. To me, an ending only meets the bar if it makes me cry. Honestly, TOH's ending didn't even get close to that.

And a definite contributing factor was that we only got three "special" episodes to wrap up the entire show. It was a cumulation of two seasons that got condensed into a time period that was definitely too small to be suitable.

So it could've been better. I believe the creators could've made it better. But I also know it's not their fault. And I am fairly happy with the ending we did get, it just subverted my expectations for what show finales usually are, and I'm still on the fence about whether or not I prefer this completely happy ending or a bittersweet one.

#on a TOTALLY unrelated note #i finished the good place today #so thats definitely not helping my pickiness #but also #i wrote down these thoughts before i watched the finale so #something was always up w it #toh #the owl house #watching and dreaming #watching and dreaming spoilers #toh spoilers #the owl house spoilers #riv rambles

[aroace-polyshow]

me when i fuck up once and suddenly i am the worst person alive

#marlo’s stuff #I FUCKED UP!!!! #AND ITS SO GODDAMN STUPID TOO #ITS SO FUCKING STUPID #I AM UNBELIEVABLY STUPID #ITS SO MINOR AND UNIMPORTANT GOD IM SO STUPID #dying #i am in agony #on a totally unrelated note #do you ever like. get overwhelmed for no reason by everything and you feel paralyzed where you sit and #saying literally a single word takes a million times more effort that it usually does #cause i definitely don’t. totally didn’t just happen. < lying #anyway shower time

[blueseakelp]

why do ppl say “thank you for doing xyz” when what they really mean is “please do xyz” it fucks with my brain

#nt ppl are so weird <- undiagnosed #on a totally unrelated note #choir is stressing me out these days 😭 #i want to like my director sm but i think we’re incompatible ppl

[ask-the-snek-man]

Ehehehe- how do you feel about c a t s?

“Why are you still asking me things, i’m clearly trying to sleep here.”

#tss janus #ts janus sanders #ts janus #ask janus sanders #ask janus #janus ask blog #janus sanders #janus #feel free to keep bothering him #on a totally unrelated note #did you know that being overly tired and sleepy is similar to being drunk? #this is also why you shouldn’t drive when sleepy #tw swearing

[connectionviperror]

if ur man cant dress like the entire cast of queer eye is out for his blood, then is he really ur man?

#on a totally unrelated note #working on more art for the stupid ahh fnafic #dont get ur hopes up too high!! #i can smell it. #and will be going on hiatus for another 6 months #so be disappointed!!

[generalenemybluebird]

do you ever have the thing where your feeling really sick, usually cramps or a headache and you tell your parents and get to stay home cause it hurts to move and exist but then like 5 minutes later it just,,, goes away,,, and youve gotta pretend its still happening cause otherwise it looks like you were faking?

#sick #on a totally unrelated note #im not going to school today

[attyattlaw]

its trad art weekend. have a law warm up before i go to zine dungeon

#my ass thought it would be relaxing to paint the flower patterns manually #trafalgar law #one piece #hiding this here but to the person who sent an ask yesterday and i gave a heart attack by replying: #dw abt it i answered privately (i think) #totally unrelated note i had a calout post against me a day ago for some pro/anti thing and if you saw that and are still here thank you ilu

[anonknows]

Sorry about the severe lack of art recently. I've been doing thumbnails for my boyfriend's YouTube channel and they've been taking me all day because I am sloooow.

#on a totally unrelated note #you should subscribe to Zayoosh on YouTube #for no reason in particular :)