you know what i'm gonna get sappy for a second bear with me

there are a lot of posts and memes for writers about how hard writing is and how annoying it can be and how dispiriting it can feel when we don't make progress the way we'd like to. and those are true, and relatable, and funny! i've been there!

but maybe it doesn't get said enough in the other direction, so I'm gonna say it: I love writing. i love the process of putting phrases together and testing them for cadence and flow; i love knowing that there is a word for exactly the thing I want to convey, even if I just can't think of it right now, and going onto a thesaurus and being like there she is, that's the one!

but more than anything, I love the ritual of constantly asking myself "okay, and then what happens?" and feeling the same sense of delighted surprise every single time when somehow, a part of me I wasn't consciously aware of knows the answer. that experience, where my brain provides me solutions I didn't know it was working on, feels like a miracle every time. and getting into a productivity groove where I keep knowing the answers is one of the best feelings on the planet.

and sure, sometimes I don't know the answer, and it's hard and unsatisfying and see above about how easy it is to joke about how writing's the pits, but... that just makes it even more special when I'm firing on all cylinders, you know?

anyway, yeah. w r i t i n g.

Writing is magical. Sometimes you feel blessed, sometimes cursed, but nothing beats chaining together words and producing feelings as a result.

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weird unprompted opinion but i think out of all the storytelling mediums.....theatre best portrays loneliness

hamlet: [walks onto a movie screen] now i am alone

me: i guess

hamlet: [is left on an empty stage] now i am alone

me: fuck yeah you are

#it's about the sucking hungry silence of a hundred people holding their breath and very intently watching #the one single person on this bare piece of elevated floor that has been filled with so much #artistry and make-believe that it has become a true and real place #good theater sucks the air out of the room #an empty stage echoes (via @aethersea​)

the way that lae'zel's shyness about kissing the player character in public probably clues us into a githyanki cultural more...lust doesn't have to be confined behind closed doors in a creche but displays of tenderness and affection—of "weakness" for another person—are typically reserved for moments of absolute privacy. she doesn't want to kiss the player character in front of other people because she's too obviously enamored with them and can't not betray her hardened warrior image by going for it like a smitten austen hero

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like a house on fire 🔥

Feeling absolutely devastated thinking about sylvari commander and aurene rn. something something they both had to grow up too fast because the safety of the world/reality demanded it something something sylvari commander trying to let aurene have as much of a childhood as possible because they didn't get to have much or any time as a sapling and it breaks their heart that their daughter is a victim of destiny like them

People who have anon asks enabled, I gotta ask, why? What good comes of it?

Reblog this picture of me holding a Family Size box of Honey Nut Cheerios? I’d really appreciate it.

How can I say no to such a great photo and such a polite request?

i will always support this post

@mooserattler back on my dash!

Why isn’t this at a million notes, yet, Dante???

I’m not sure. Hey lovely people who have taken me over half way to a cool million! If you’d like to reblog again, I’d love that, if not, I still love you, and hope you’re having a great day. I’m gonna go do some stand up tonight.

god come on we’re so close. this is like the only meaningful thing that this website could ever achieve

@hellsite-hall-of-fame this post is from 2015

And we’re still reblogging it. Because we can. Because this picture of a guy holding a Family-Size box of Honey Nut Cheerios meant something, even if we’re never going to be sure of what.

Portrait of Josephine Cherette Montilyet, Ambassador of the Inquisition

I had to wait a whole year to post this 😂

Only Imperial Stormtroopers are so precise.