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#if all you tell me is 'it's queer!!!' then... no. why would i read a book based on two words?#i don't like romance stories (straight or queer) where the focus is Only Romance #if someone just tells me 'it's queer' then that means it's either romance or coming of age (which i've kinda grown out of)#i need details #is it fantasy? adventure? scifi? fiction? give me something to fucking work with here so i can make a choice #tumblr polls

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Nice going man, you've become indistinguishable from that which you sought to destroy

#tropes

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#twin peaks

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local woman who claimed she will "cross that bridge when she comes to it" arrives at said bridge

#MY GIRL #the witcher

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In writing, epithets ("the taller man"/"the blonde"/etc) are inherently dehumanizing, in that they remove a character's name and identity, and instead focus on this other quality.

Which can be an extremely effective device within narration!

They can work very well for characters whose names the narrator doesn't know yet (especially to differentiate between two or more). How specific the epithet is can signal to the reader how important the character is going to be later on, and whether they should dedicate bandwidth to remembering them for later ("the bearded man" is much less likely to show up again than "the man with the angel tattoo")

They can indicate when characters stop being as an individual and instead embody their Role, like a detective choosing to think of their lover simply as The Thief when arresting them, or a royal character being referred to as The Queen when she's acting on behalf of the state

They can reveal the narrator's biases by repeatedly drawing attention to a particular quality that singles them out in the narrator's mind

But these only work if the epithet used is how the narrator primarily identifies that character. Which is why it's so jarring to see a lot of common epithets in intimate moments-- because it conveys that the main character is primarily thinking of their lover/best friend/etc in terms of their height or age or hair color.

#YEAH #i just read a book where someone refers to their nephew as [niece's name]'s brother #because he had essentially died and Come Back Wrong and his aunt was the only one willing to admit aloud that he was Wrong now #incryptid #tropes

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when you can’t remember the word for ‘cremation’ so you have to google ‘corpse incineration.’

#uh oh

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big if true

#no fuckin way /j #lmao

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mellkellyismyhero · 13 hours

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Not pictured: me, yanking the steering wheel to screech into a parking lot so I can take a pic of this after my sisters and I absolutely lose it upon seeing this truck

#asdfghjkl

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Has anyone done these yet

#lockwood and co #though lucy is more likely to want to talk to a ghost than shoot it

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in Disco Elysium I was expecting there to be some kind of “addiction mechanic” that would add a long-term downside to taking drugs, and was surprised not only by the absence of any such mechanic but also that the benefits of drugs greatly outweighed the cost. anyways fast forward to the late game and I was downing three bottles of pyrholidon and smoking an entire pack of cigarettes before attempting any check, and it was only then I realized there was in fact an addiction mechanic

#goddamn #games #video games #psychology

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one subreddit I have no business following but follow anyway is /r/ApplyingtoCollege

#OH NO #college #sometimes people say things that are Very Seventeen Years Old

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I love the old timey phrase "you forget yourself". bro that was so impolite like do you even know who you are rn

#so true

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#have lived on the west coast for longer but east coast will ALWAYS have my loyalty #america

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#tumblr polls #fun

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god it’s so unfair that I have like, really an abnormal number of scars, and not a sine one of them is a cool facial scar. i need to land on my face next time. and there Will be a next time I fear

#lmao #tumblr

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i do enjoy in survival-esque escape-type movies when someone gets hurt and someone else is like “i can help, don’t worry i’m a doctor.” like. they’re probably not lying, but they totally could be

#a series of unfortunate events #asoue

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I love a good transgender headcanon but the way yall draw top surgery scars on a guy sometimes makes him look like he got his titties yanked off by a alligator

#RIGHT #transgender

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