Zomer

Hydroluminescence

(c) gifs by riverwindphotography,July 2023

Already thinking about tomorrows coffee

THIS IS THE CUTEST SHIT IVE EVER SEENNNN

i dont have like a degree or anything but i think assigning diagnoses to every behavior is probably not good for us in the long run

every few days i see some tweet or something saying “i just found out that ___ is a symptom of trauma” and it’ll be like getting shivers or rewatching movies or enjoying hot showers. even if it was all true i can’t imagine what seeing that stuff all the time would make me think if i was a teenager. at an age when you’re clamoring so much for identity it seems like we’re encouraging young people to identify with suffering just a little too much

every post I reblog is hand picked by myself

2013 tumblr was right everyone start listening to Arctic Monkeys again

vhope @ each other: you’re doing amazing sweetie (cr.)

a hard pill to swallow: if an audience can pick up on where the story is going, it’s a good story.

A kinda related note i hope you don’t mind me adding on: one of the most life-changing bits of story advice i ever received was actually in a class on “Revenge and Vengeance in the Ancient World,” if you can believe it. The professor was talking about how everyone in ancient Greece knew all the Greek myths back to front and told them over and over again - and someone asked why they would keep retelling the same stories if they already knew they ended.

She explained that basically it wasn’t the ending that was the most suspenseful or exciting part, but how you got there. This is why The Iliad spoils its own ending in the opening lines. This is why we have so many different retellings of Shakespeare, of Arthurian legends, of fairy tales. 

There are no truly original stories or truly unpredictable endings. So, IMO, it’s better to focus on how you as a writer/filmmaker/artist/whatever can bring something new to the body of the story rather than trying to shock and mislead your audience. 

jungkook painting a beautiful heart tree that keeps on glowing 🥺 

explaining his painting: