but you care enough to do what needs to be done

#the sass is strong with this one

Actually, I think girls in middle school and high school should still feel comfortable having fuzzy pillows and lava lamps and glitter pens and sequin tops and a colorful wardrobe and whatever else they think is pretty or cool. Maybe we shouldn’t, like, try to beat the personality and life out of the youngsters, neither should we expect them to act like anything other than their actual age.

People wonder why kids are so obsessed with video games when I see grown adults telling *elementary schoolers* that they’re too old to play with dolls or play food or train sets, or that they’re being “ridiculous” for pretending to be animals or Frozen characters. I’ve met so many kids who are completely ashamed that they want to play with my toys when I offer because it’s for “babies” despite desperately wanting to.

Also as soon as you hit 22 you will be running straight back to the fuzzy pillows, lava lamps and glitter pens there's just this bizarre spot where you're a teenager when society says you shouldn't do those things

Most people my age have at least one stuffed animal in their bed, trust me you don't actually need to let that shit go

*waves this C.S. Lewis quote*

people in their 20s are always reblogging posts about being in their 20s

touch starved on main. lovesick fool, absolutely begging for affection on main

do y’all remember before direct messages tumblr had a dumbass ask limit of 10 per hour and communication was impossible until they introduced dumbass fan mail and we were basically sending telegraphs back in forth trying to communicate those were…dark times

Do y'all remember when they finally gave us direct messages and instead of doing it normally, they gave it to a few people at a time and we had to infect each other with it like a virus

remember when any post with more than like 6 people talking was unreadably smushed except for the last few additions remember when any post of over 500 characters became a link back to op’s blog readmore style remember when video and audio posts had about a 10% chance of working when you click play

As a recent user I love finding out shit like this from older users. What the fuck guys???? Why were you USING IT AT ALL?!??

believe it or not, we liked that more

its worth noting that immediately after these updates that made everything better, we were all angry about it

i just had to see with my own two eyes “asking authors for a summary beyond ‘it’s gay enemies to lovers’ is telling them to succumb to spoiler culture and you should feel bad, that’s a perfect summary” and it’s like. ah. so you don’t know how to make an actual story with a plot then

The tiktok and instagram trend of listing tropes for a book was born out of fanfic tags. But the thing is, it’s perfectly okay to tag a familiar work with “friends-to-lovers” or “klutzy main girl” because the plot is already familiar. No matter what an MCU fic is tagged as, we’re already all familiar with the basic plot, the world, and the character dynamics. So you can just label it as “fake engagement”, and all of the stuff in the previous sentence is baked in.

But in a new book, one that nobody’s ever heard of, you need to establish the plot. You need to tell us about the world/city/village. You need a story hook. You need to actually say what the book is about and who your characters are.

“Coffeeshop romance” is not a character. You can tag an MCU fic “coffeeshop romance” because we already know that the character is Steve Rogers or Bucky or Tony, etc. We already know the characters and the world.

Who is the character in your book? What is their relationship with the other main character/s? You can’t just make a little doodle of a book, slap on fic tags, and expect it to be read by selling it on meaningless tropes.

I cannot stress enough how professional authors use these terms because they usually have no marketing budget and they’re one of the few tools authors have to hit that algorithm right and get noticed. Does it work? Probably not, but they are heavily pushed by their publishers to do it anyway.

Trust me, they know it’s not helpful for describing the book in the long run and they know it annoys people, but when publishers are saying “just get noticed on TikTok!” because it’s the shiny new thing, most authors - especially new authors - have little choice but to play along.

I think I love tumblr the most bc I don’t owe anyone anything. I can come on here and reblog the most unhinged ridiculous shit and then leave. I’m not giving any explanation.

Luther wants to throw you a big stupid party so you feel loved.

THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK (1980) RETURN OF THE JEDI (1983)

An iconic moment from every B99 episode: Sabotage 2x19 

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"The magic system is never fully explained" yeah that's how life works. Imagine having a story set in modern day America and the characters have several pages of exposition on combustion engines and telecommunication networks before we get to the plot

i think this is absolutely correct and good writing advice but also victor hugo would like to have a word with you about the parisian sewer system circa 1832

I don’t want to answer emails I want to make breakfast in a sunny kitchen with the radio playing and drink coffee in the sun

Let me tell you a fucking thing about costume design. That’s some in depth, difficult shit to learn. And the fact that this goddess can ramble this shit off the cuff means she knows her shit. ELLE WOODS IS A GODAMNED GENIUS AND IT’s NOT A STRETCH TO BELIEVE SHE GOT INTO HARVARD LAW MMMK?

FUCK YEAH ELLE WOODS OR DIE

this movie is literally about an attractive woman who loves to party having to prove over and over again that she’s also intelligent and hard-working to those who judge her based on her looks (who also empowers and fights for other women, and fosters unlikely friendships instead of engaging in girl hate) and if you don’t think that’s some great feminist shit then I don’t know what your problem is

Let’s not forget that in the end when the guy wants her again, she turns him down because she knows she deserves better.

Thing is though, she’s not just showing that she’s generally smart.

She’s also showing that she can:

In other words, all of the qualities that go on to make her such a good lawyer.

In fact, this scene mirrors exactly how she ends up winning her final case: she acts dumb so that the witness lets her guard down, fixates on seemingly trivial details (“you were in the shower?” “How many perms have you had?”) and then pulls out some extremely specialised knowledge (“ammonium thioglycolate”) that proves the witness has been lying all along.

This scene is arguably one of the most important in the film, because it’s the scene that makes all the rest of the film— Elle succeeding at Harvard as well as she does, and becoming such a good lawyer in such a short time (“like it’s hard?”)— make sense.

It’s not just that Elle is intelligent. That on its own wouldn’t be enough to explain her huge success. It’s that she already has the specific talents she needs to become a good lawyer, even before she decides to become one. She was just using them in a different area, so they didn’t get picked up on.