eukytrees:

Something about a mockingbird piloting a JANUS with its Harpy, not being able to truly know who has it better or worse.

northernfireart:

read the whole story> here by @clarionglass :)

hashtagloveloses:

@ BBC you can save doctor who if you get jodie whitaker and michelle gomez back to kiss on the mouth. can we have doctor/master yuri. it will make 10 million dollars

beatrice-otter:

pitviperofdoom:

I try not to fall into the “I never liked their work anyway” ditch when an artist/creator reveals themself to be a terrible person

BUT

a feeling I do have and will stand by is “While I enjoyed their work overall I did have some gripes that I overlooked out of affection and whimsy, but now that my loyalty is gone and my affection tainted there is nothing holding me back from enumerating my many grievances, to which the revelations of the creator’s shittiness may or may not provide a new and infuriating context.”

#such a good summation of this actually#because yeah there’s usually things that were always present#but which were easy to overlook or give the benefit of the doubt#that suddenly become relevant after a revelation about the creator#and it’s really not the same thing as the self-defensive “’I never liked it anyway’

tags via chimaerakitten

robotslenderman:

Vampires in 2020: *Shitting themselves because phones and CCTV are everywhere*

Vampires in 2025: My Prince, I know my childe slipped up and their Masquerade violation is now on Reddit, but I think you should let this one slide because half the commenters are saying it’s staged or AI

00000066:

do u ever feel like this

swordtit:

the best thing you can do to a character make them averse to touch and absolutely starved for it

derinthescarletpescatarian:

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derinthescarletpescatarian:

I love Andy Weir’s books but this man is dumb as a bucket of rocks. Dude you have your characters turn to the reader and explain what the social commentary of the book was. You know it’s there because you include the sparknotes in the story itself. What the fuck are you talking about.

This is the real actual ending of The Martian.

This is in the last chapter of Artemis.

This man does not know what the words “politics” or “social commentary” mean.

#this is really disappointing and honestly baffling to hear from andy weir#st#the martian

Yeah I think he just literally doesn’t know what social commentary is. It is simply not possible that he doesn’t know what his books are about. They’re too clean to be unintentional, and as noted above, he usually tells you there on the page directly near the end. I think he thinks that ‘social commentary’ means 'pointing at a black character and telling everyone how important racial equality is in a clumsy and badly written way’ and absolutely nothing else. I think he just means that he doesn’t make a big deal about the diversity of his cast and he’s absolutely blind to how any other topic is social or political.

“I no longer speculate on the outcomes of a story because I know that the universe of the book will conspire to ensure that the author’s political agenda is validated” is an absolutely wild take, though, from the author of The Martian. Where we knew immediately that the universe would conspire to save Watney and validate the importance of his own inventiveness and the efforts of the people trying to save him. Like yeah that’s how stories work. Absolutely nobody would’ve read The Martian if it was written poorly enough that we thought Watney might die in a random explosion with no buildup or story closure. You’re complaining about the thing that you did really well, the thing that made your book good.