Lioness Steals A Photographers Camera, Gives It To Her Cubs As A New Toy

Lioness Steals a Photographer’s Camera, Gives It to Her Cubs as a New Toy

Ten more favourite tropes:

Character multitasking an extremely critical task with an extremely trivial one  

Character displaying jarring shifts in demeanour as they switch between different activities  

Character dressed in a manner that’s conspicuously inappropriate for their current situation, without explanation  

Character reacting to an unexpected or frightening turn of events with an implausibly seamless change of mental focus  

Character describing a situation in a way that’s both complete and correct, but emphasises entirely the wrong thing  

Character offering a very unlikely explanation for something with no indication that they’re aware how unbelievable it is  

Character remarking on an unfortunate happening in a way that vastly understates its import  

Character willingly participating in a fun activity while maintaining an impenetrable poker face  

Character demonstrating notable proficiency at something with which they firmly insist they have no prior experience  

Character treating a ridiculous undertaking with enormous gravitas

“Novels help us to resist the temptation to think of the past as deficient of everything that informs the present. When we read Pride and Prejudice or Middlemarch, we’re not tempted to believe that because the characters wear funny hats, get about by horse and don’t talk explicitly about sex that they’re innocents. This is because we are allowed full access, or carefully arranged partial access, to their feelings and thoughts, their dilemmas. Assuming we’ve been carried along by the narrative, they appear before us, these characters, intact, as contemporaries, unscarred by unintended ironies.”

— Ian McEwan, interviewed in The Art of Fiction No. 173 (via theclassicsreader)

~There’s nothing more horrifying than a miracle.~

Wanda Maximoff || The Scarlet Witch

Red autumn by Yuriy  Zaveryukha

Ramps should be the standard. Automatic doors should be the standard. Elevators in multi-story buildings should be the standard. ASL interpreters at events should be the standard. Braille menus at restaurants should be the standard. Accessibility should be the standard. You cannot meaningfully support Disabled people without supporting accessibility.

— zipporah@coffeespoonie