Nothing, Just Tolkien Originally Writing Down The Hobbit Because His Son Christopher Kept Complaining

Kendrick Lamar - Not Like Us

Alfred Pennyworth is the literal definition of the meme "Call for an ambulance! But not for me!"

Image Source: The Batman's Grave #10

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.

Being a Batkid doesn’t mean pushing through pain just for the ego or superiority win. It means pushing through pain long enough to make it somewhere safe to get help. It means not giving anyone, even an ally, a chance to parse weakness.

Dick finishes a rough mission with the Titans where he got thrown hard into a wall, smiles and jokes with everyone, and then zetas back to the Cave where he promptly throws up and collapses because almost every bone in his left arm is broken and not a single person noticed.

Can't mansplain manipulate manslaughter my way out of this one

Reminder that in Gaza alone, around 90-95% of the water supply is contaminated and unfit for human consumption...

If you dont believe israel is capable of this evilness (that they've been enforcing for OVER 50 YEARS) read it for yourself, from AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL

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I be like "omg, i have so much to do" and then go lay down

honestly you all are so annoying because motherhood IS interesting but fandom people are simultaneously obsessed with deciding that every woman has motherly qualities and completely disinterested in actually exploring motherhood as a role that informs a character. I do think exploring a character being a mother can be wildly interesting if they are canonically one, but because of misogyny, people just view motherhood as a totally unremarkable naturalized state that all women must inhabit!

if a book has 'popular on tiktok!' written on the cover i will not be reading it. i'm about to start flipping those tiktok tables in waterstones. yes this is mean and snobbish of me idc the fandom-ification of the publishing industry may be what pushes me to violence