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Isometric concept art for Bleakfalls Barrow in The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
Art by Adam Adamowicz
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If you're reading this...
go write three sentences on your current writing project.
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Reblog to let your followers know that despite your current obsession your previous obsessions still exist and are simply lying dormant until they awaken and strike again
trouble discovered: when you make a new friend and tell them about your book and they're like "hell yeah I want to read it when it's ready" but their name is only one letter away from the evil king's name.
You'd think the solution would be to change the evil king's name but. unfortunately. There are puns to be maintained. what do I do
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Because why wouldn’t Krem use Bull as a sled, I mean, really?
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If you see this you’re legally obligated to reblog and tag with the book you’re currently reading
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This:
always makes me think
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have realized that while i am not a fan necessarily of "people meet and immediately fall in love" i am a fan of "people meet and are immediately obsessed with each other." the love can come later but the absolute fixation should be immediate
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dagna should burst into some sort of mad scientist cackle at a minimun of three times per day (for her enrichment). i mean, the undercroft even seems to have great acoustics for it. i don't care how harrit would feel about this btw
Me, writing a bisexual man: he is going to love his wife SO MUCH
(and then I am going to give them an absolute troublemaker of a boyfriend.)
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carlos luna is character creating harder than anyone has ever character created before
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you're laughing. charles dickens had a son named plorn and you're laughing
HE HAD A SON NAMED
WHAT
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Plorn
NICK I LOOKED IT UP AND SAW NOTHING OF THE SORT IS THIS A PRANK
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technically his name was edward but everyone called him plorn
Edward “Plorn” Dickens. my god.
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I have something worse
oh???
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imagine getting stuck with the nickname Plorn
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imagine getting sent to live in the Australian outback when you were sixteen
WHY WERE THEY SO CRUEL TO MY BOY PLORN
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I have an answer to that one too
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The face of a man whose father nicknamed him Plorn.
Born without a groove 😔
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hey did you know that uhh
- i. the monster's body is a cultural body
- ii. the monster always escapes
- iii. the monster is the harbinger of category crisis
- iv. the monster dwells at the gates of difference
- v. the monster polices the borders of the possible
- vi. fear of the monster is really a kind of desire
- vii. the monster stands at the threshold… of becoming
oh shit i didn't expect this to actually get notes lmao
these are all direct quotes from jeffrey jerome cohen's "monster culture (seven theses)" (full pdf linked) i highly encourage you to read it yourself!
that said, while i think cohen's writing is evocative, it can be a little dense, so while i'm here, here's my capsule summary (you can also hear me talk about this in the first episode of my podcast) (listen to @ghostswerepeopletoo)
- i. the monster's body is a cultural body - The monster is a work of fiction to be analyzed through tools of literary and sociological theory.
- ii. the monster always escapes - As long as the cultural fear from which the monster stems persists, the monster will reappear in retellings, reimaginings, and sequels.
- iii. the monster is the harbinger of category crisis - Monsters defy binaries and challenge easy comprehension or categorization.
- iv. the monster dwells at the gates of difference - The monster represents the Other.
- v. the monster polices the borders of the possible - Tales of the monster exist to discourage unacceptable or taboo behaviors.
- vi. fear of the monster is really a kind of desire - Subjects can vicariously participate in the disruption of the social order through the monster.
- vii. the monster stands at the threshold… of becoming - Within the monster we find information about the self.