Do you want to know why the arts are declining?
High art like opera, ballet, theater never made money. They used to be supported by an elite made of wealthy patrons who spent a fortune on those things because they liked them.
This is your “elite” now. Tasteless, gauche.
ASOIAF fans getting our first hit of new story/lore in 15 years and it's not only ambiguously canon but also being relayed entirely in missives from across the sea describing a play that only a few hundred people have seen. we have suffered more than anyone in history.
my dream is to open a hipster-y cafe with fun seasonal flavors that is a place where ppl like to work from and has events and open mics and idk board games for ppl and cute stationary to buy
can i be honest. i've always felt like wattpad was part of the problem bc of the formula that was preferred on there and thusly followed. that mindset carried into ao3 in a lot of harmful ways. people who primarily engaged w fic/fandom on https://t.co/mJGqsJOKpx, lj, tumblr, or +
spoiler for the poem: this is exactly what the odyssey is, a bunch of famous as greek people ending up as no-line extras even though they were the main characters in the iliad
we're going to a wedding in spain in a month and i was nervous because the only people we really knew are the groom and his family but i finally met the bride today and all of his girl friends and they were all angels i'm so fucking excited now!!!
criston and gwayne is cute but they truly put him with the wrong hightower one hit of ormunds blunt of religious psychosis would have criston moving with a madness only targs could dream of
and when i write novel that's clearly thinly-veiled dramione fanfic just to get my name out there, y'all have to g with it ok because dramione fans will read anything