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Every 21st century piece of writing advice: Make us CARE about the character from page 1! Make us empathize with them! Make them interesting and different but still relatable and likable!

Every piece of classic literature: Hi. It's me. The bland everyman whose only purpose is to tell you this story. I have no actual personality. Here's the story of the time I encountered the worst people I ever met in my life. But first, ten pages of description about the place in which I met them.

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Modern writing advice: Yes your protagonist should have flaws but ultimately we should root for them and like them from the beginning :)

Charles Dickens: Here is the worst ugliest rudest meanest nastiest bitch you’ve ever met in your life.

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Modern writing advice: Make sure your POV character goes through a significant arc! Make sure they are changed by the narrative! Make sure they learn a lesson!

Narrators of every book of the 19th century: the lesson I learned is these people fucking suck, sayonara you freaks

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Modern writing advice: It’s all about the character overcoming obstacles and learning! They learn their lesson so they can fix their mistakes and make good choices in the future! It’s a character arc! It’s called growth! Readers love it!

Everyone from ancient times through the 19th century: would you like to watch a Guy fuck up twenty times in a row

lobotomycas

*pounds a monster at 9pm* why can't I ever sleep at night

lobotomycas

WAIT.I MEANT. THE DRINK LIKE I.M

pranpats

MILK PANSA and LOVE PATTRANITE as INK and PA in OUR SKYY 2

secondlina

Crow Time - Statue 1

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It brings me joy! It validates my bird obsession!

[Holy crap there's a Part 2??]

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redglassbird

I will NEVER get over the fact that I can write stories. Like I can weave threads of whimsy in a whole new world and make people feel things if I weave them well enough???? Stories are worth so much!!! Lines of poetry are literally currency to me like I get to write little lines and then writing little lines helps me notice things when I read other peoples' lines????? Magic! Whimsy! Characters! Words! Words! Words!

raointean

You mean? I make thing? Thing that didn't exist before? Rad.

ohfandomfuntime

Me: Its alright if no one else comments or kudos my fic. I wrote it for me and not only was it fun to create, but I can read and re-read it at any time. Plus there's always a chance that somebody else will find it and enjoy my story at a later time :)

Also me, 2 seconds after posting my fic and wanting immediate validation:

Originally posted by fineillsignup

theknightswhotilrecentlysaidnee

Every line in this video is iconic

rootbeergoddess

I would watch this drama 

ultraviolet-techno-ecology

Hot take but the nonsensical portrayal of the third world being entirely made of absolute destitution is an important propaganda element that keeps workers in the first world (Particularly the USA) complacent with a lifestyle that will literally kill them. 

ultraviolet-techno-ecology

This rice farmer survives on $2 a year! Think about how much they must be suffering! Now get back to your third job stocking shelves so you can pay the $1,500 rent for your studio apartment and eat your 25¢ ramen packet like a good little wage-slave. 

hug-your-face

The question that we should be working to inject into such conversations is not “my god how can those people survive on so little” but rather “why does our own survival require so MUCH?”

ultraviolet-techno-ecology

This is an excellent framing - and there is an answer. 

When average people have their needs met - they are no longer desperate for basic survival. Comfortable workers have the most energy to challenge the hegemony and organize their community, thus material security and comfort is a direct antagonist to capitalism. 

In a society that has an abundance of resources, desperation must be artificially created through material barriers (needing a smartphone for work, etc) and increasing sources of debt obligation. (Rent, student loans, etc.) 

In other words - we do not require so much, rather new requirements are perpetually created to keep the proverbial carrot just out of reach and the stick chasing our tail. 

This is also why public activities are discouraged in favour of individual distraction. The loss of parks where people may meet without payment. The lack of folk schools which might foster skills in the community. The lack of workshops where people might engage in non-industrial manufacturing. 

And for clarity I do not condemn entertainment as frivolous when I say distraction. That we do not have public (as in “a free community space”) theatres and arcades, is another way to deprive a community of social bonding opportunities. 

cinderteethe

THIS

thisautistic

3 Will Be Free ep 4

dir. Jojo Tichakorn