Blaze I Need You To Hype Me Up To Study

Happiness Will Come To You.

A stream in Zhangjiajie Park, Hunan

At the end of everything I look to you.

Think I just made the best pot of red braised pork belly (红烧肉) I've ever made in my life

Technology is great.

This is the recipe I followed btw (video has Eng sub in itself; just in case: this is not an ad for any kitchen appliance lol, I'm sure this recipe can be adapted to other types/brands of pressure cookers)

[guy who has handled two conversations well in a row] I think I might be the most emotionally stable person on the planet of earth

commentary about aging. NO ONE has everything figured out in their teens or 20s. you still have your whole life ahead of you; just keep going and everything will be okay. happy belated birthday to these guys.

Frog Alert ‼️ 🚨

Disclaimer that by saying this I by no means mean to insult or exclude non-writers, but: Scum Villain really is a story for storytellers, huh

It's so incredibly meta - so much of it is about the way stories are told, the structures of plot and narrative logic, the way that plot drives character and character drives plot, examination of story devices that make sense in-world and how strange they look when divorced from narrative context, exploring the limits of the suspension of disbelief and the backlash when readers hit those limits and recoil, even without getting into the meditation on external pressures and the warping effect of deadlines and money on a storyteller's craft.

in scum villain the story tools (tropes, framing, character arcs, licensing) are the plot, and the plot is a tool in the story, and the author's problems are Airplane's problems and his problems are the author's problems and the main character is the reader and he brings the reader's eye into the story and his meta-knowledge becomes his greatest asset and also his greatest blindness, just the way that a self-aware reader can get more out of a story but can also by their very cynical meta-awareness block themselves from unabashed enjoyment of it

I think it's not a coincidence that so many people who have spent years writing get so hung up on this series.

I know that many of us—including myself—are going back to school tomorrow and I just want to say this:

I hope that your first day back to school (either grade school or uni) is a good day. I wish nothing more than for you to be happy and be able to have the best experiences possible. Continue to grow and learn new things at your own pace. No matter how big or small your step is, a step is a step forward. Your growth is important and I greatly admire everything that you’ve accomplished so far. Remember that you can do it. You’ve got this! You are capable.

Make it a great year with great strides and memories. ❤️✨