“Beauty is about accepting yourself for who you are. I believe we were all made a certain way for a reason and living life is just about figuring out what to do with it. Society now places a huge weight on looking “perfect” and I’ve seen people tear themselves apart striving for it, including myself. But when you figure out that none of it matters, life becomes a billion times better.” – Amber Liu
Happiest of birthdays to my hero and role model, Amber. Thank you for staying true to yourself and inspiring all of us. Be happy always and know that you are loved by many.
J. R. R. Tolkien on escapism in “The Lord of the Rings” (x)
“Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory. If a soldier is imprisioned by the enemy, don’t we consider it his duty to escape?…If we value the freedom of mind and soul, if we’re partisans of liberty, then it’s our plain duty to escape, and to take as many people with us as we can!”
I often hear the argument that having major characters die is more
realistic than having them always come through unscathed. Of course it
is. But I personally don’t want my fiction to necessarily be “realistic”
– I want my fiction to be entertaining. For me, that means watching
engaging characters I care about get into and out of dangerous
predicaments, working and thinking together in order to defeat the bad
guys. While some authors (and readers) like the tension of wondering who
will live and who will die, I prefer the tension of seeing how the
heroes are going to think or work their ways out of each difficult or
impossible situation they find themselves in. If I want realism and the
deaths of people I care about, I can turn on the news.
–Timothy Zahn, interviewed by TheForce.Net, 2008
Tim Zahn just summed up my entire issue with adult movies and fiction
I do not want to get invested in a character just to have them die or be violated or whatever, I don’t care that it’s dramatic. It’s not fun, it just leaves me angry and frustrated that I wasted my time on this media.
honestly 👏🏼👏🏼 and, truth be told, the idea of a character going through various trials and making it through them isn’t entirely unrealistic in itself. No, in real life we may not be battling absolute monstrosities and barely escaping, but how often do we face trials and end up making it out and growing?
i LOVE seeing characters grow because I myself love to watch myself and others grow in general (and it’s a love many of us possess).
so it’s kinda hard to have that appreciation and entertainment in a fictional context when everyone’s dying the hecc off
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