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from now on, whenever you see an art style you wish you had, instead of going "oh I WISH I could, I want ALL the art styles and yet I am CONFINED to only ONE, and anyway I am not GOOD enough to do that one!!!", repeat after me: "ooh, I wanna try that later."
like, yes, yearning feels Passionate and Artistic and Emotionally Intense, and by going "I could never do that" you leave the art you love with a kind of Legendary Mystique--as if you are a child watching a magic trick.
but you can also switch your brain to "how did they do that" mode instead and play around with anything you want. you can learn the trick for yourself. and it may seem less dazzling afterwards, but that's the price you pay to make your own magic.
in short, basically, you can do whatever you want forever.
โ๐๐ง ๐ฏ๐๐ข๐ง ๐ ๐ก๐๐ฏ๐ ๐ฌ๐ญ๐ซ๐ฎ๐ ๐ ๐ฅ๐๐. ๐๐ญ ๐ฐ๐ข๐ฅ๐ฅ ๐ง๐จ๐ญ ๐๐จ. ๐๐ฒ ๐๐๐๐ฅ๐ข๐ง๐ ๐ฌ ๐ฐ๐ข๐ฅ๐ฅ ๐ง๐จ๐ญ ๐๐ ๐ซ๐๐ฉ๐ซ๐๐ฌ๐ฌ๐๐. ๐๐จ๐ฎ ๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ญ ๐๐ฅ๐ฅ๐จ๐ฐ ๐ฆ๐ ๐ญ๐จ ๐ญ๐๐ฅ๐ฅ ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ ๐ก๐จ๐ฐ ๐๐ซ๐๐๐ง๐ญ๐ฅ๐ฒ ๐ ๐๐๐ฆ๐ข๐ซ๐ ๐๐ง๐ ๐ฅ๐จ๐ฏ๐ ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ.โ
i love you betrayals between people who still love each other i love you devotion to the point of destruction i love you selfish choices made in the name of love i love you devastating consequences of those choices
Baldur's Gate III | โถ dev. Larian Studios
making art is just like showeringโฆโฆโฆcanโt get up and do it, canโt stop when youโve started. you want to crawl out of your skin if you donโt do it often enough. everything in the world is the exact same
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escapist media in general is an ongoing fascination for me. media written with escapism as a main priority typically requires very little thought from the reader - the whole point is to kick back and live vicariously through a fun story, after all. they're narratives written to prioritize reader comfort.
but because they are written to be as unchallenging as possible, they often come with a set of underlying assumptions that can be just fucking fascinating to unpick. like yeah, why IS it assumed to be escapist and indulgent to enjoy colonial wealth without thinking about it in regency fiction. why IS the self inserty female protagonist, who is assumed to be as universally relatable as possible, written to be sweetly naive and sexually inexperienced. why does this "queernorm" contemporary world replicate patriarchial structures exactly but just with Gay People Allowed. why are these ideas assumed to be easy and comforting? can the writers not imagine anything better than the status quo but except maybe with more gay people and poc if you're lucky?
the fact of the matter is that "unchallenging" fiction tends to just simply replicate dominant cultural narratives as a point of comfort. we won't challenge the reader, so we won't think about the way we write certain things. everything we think of as comforting and safe are, of course, universal, and could not be founded on any harmful ideological assumptions. there is nobody who could be alienated by this.
and that's the sticking point to me, in terms of escapist fiction: it's always necessary to ask whose comfort is being prioritized. you've got to interrogate who gets to escape and the mechanisms by which that escape happens. escapism can be good and necessary to survive the current world, but it does not exist in a vacuum separate from the real world, even if it pretends it does!
I understand the "I will die for you" ship dynamic, but what about the "I will not let you die, I will not let myself die- we will, at any cost, survive" kind of couple?
Opposite of "came back wrong" is "stayed exactly the same." Oh you want so badly to pretend that you have changed. You changed your face, you changed your name, you started leaning into a whole new role, but I know you. I know you. I know who you used to be, and I can see that person shining through you still. You can fool the world you can fool your friends you can fool yourself but you will not fool me.
biologists will be like this is a very simplified diagram of a mammalian cell
chemists will be like this is a molecule
Blush-y Boy ๐ โณ:Touchstarved
Congratulations to Dustin from The Scarlet Hollow for being declared Tumblrโs Littlest Guy!
I like to think that Kuras scamming the Senobium people wasn't something that he has done for the first time. I imagine that he somehow manages to regain their trust with his charming personality, only to scam them again and again. He is sooo petty and silly I love him so much. Also I hope he is making a living out of scamming Senobium people out of their money since he treats patients without charge
Attention men: if you have a slutty grabbable waist please report my my office IMMEDIATELY.
Happy (late) birthday Mhinยฏโ \โ _โ สโ โฟโ สโ _โ /โ ยฏ