Victor Kwang

@kizu_skip That is the best theory about Joffrey's poisoning I've heard so far

My favorite part about Joffrey's poisoning was that someone made up a theory that Olenna, Littlefinger, Tywin and Varys all had him poisoned without being aware of each others' plans. They just all happened to poison his cup 5 times over. The truth was not as funny.

Too many people in their 30s and 40s are afraid of being out of step with the youth. You *should* be out of step with the youth. You need to be discovering very niche genres of music. You need to develop a fixation with an historical era. Welcome to being gloriously uncool.

Honestly, some of the best artists I know hyperfixated on a fandom or a character and got god-level skills by obsessively, relentlessly drawing fanart. The secret is to draw what obsesses you.

if you’re not highly protected or running serious security details, read this carefully: 1. never take pictures outside your gate and post them, your gate is a map. 2. blur your plate number when posting your car or better, don’t post it at all. 3. if you must show lifestyle, never expose your house, not the exterior, not the interior, not the entrance or exit. vlogging is not oversharing. 4. stop announcing your location in real time... just landed, i’m here, pulling up = all breadcrumbs for anyone watching you... post after you leave, not before or during. 5. be careful posting your family, especially your kids... love is private and safety is priceless. even if you think you are broke, understand you’re still an asset, your organs are insanely expensive so protect your privacy, you must. repost, bookmark and share, someone you know might need this. buena suerte. 👍

whimsy is actually a form of resistance against a world that wants us to be miserable

one of the reasons i HAVE to be proper rich is so I can heavily fund the arts. libraries, theatres, craft stores, galleries, book clubs, studios, etc. EYE will be there with my purse.

I am the most accomplished Singaporean author you've never heard of. Hugo and Dragon Award nominated author, the first in Singapore. 20 novels across multiple genres. Singapore doesn't care. I write the wrong kind of stories for Singaporean publishers. I have the wrong identity markers for foreign publishers. I have the wrong politics for most Singaporeans, including the Singaporean writing scene. Small wonder that my own country has only heard my name a handful of times, most recently when my own government sought to cancel me. In my younger days I tried building a 'social circle' of my peers. Everyone I found were, without exception, hobbyists. There's nothing wrong with that, but if you want to be a professional, you cannot think like a hobbyist. You have to think about things like distribution and market demand and income, and so many other things that simply aren't on the hobbyist's radar. The one group I used to be a part of quickly fell apart after two of the members started dating and got married to each other. A third member wrote the right kind of story, so she was published, and so for a brief, glorious moment, she was a shooting star, burning out just as other rocks fell from the heavens. By every measure and KPI the government uses to measure art, I have accomplished little. What grants and funds I may apply for by way of the NAC is hostage to their whims, and unlike my fellow creators, I expect there to be no one who will speak for me if those monies were pulled. And why wouldn't they be pulled? Why would they even be granted to one such as I? Singapore is built on the logic of the technocrat, the engineer, the assembly line worker. Without credentials, without social proof, without the ability to keep your head down and do as you are told and ask no questions, you are as nothing. To be an author in Singapore is to choose one of the hardest paths that exist in the country. Hard enough if you seek to publish but one book. Harder still if you write the right stories and seek to make something of a career out of it. For someone like me? You write because you are a madman or because you are called to it. No other reason will sustain you.

STEM and the arts are so often pitted against each other nowadays. It would seem nonsensical to Leonardo da Vinci, who was both an artist and an engineer. We need science to improve life, and art to give meaning to it. It’s a partnership, not a war.

First they came for the em dash and I did not speak out. Then they came for the Oxford comma…

@TheWindGodVonte Nah fk Callisto.

One of the darker moments of XWP in my opinion. Xena had the option to save Callisto and instead, she let her sink into the quicksand. Xena’s killed before in her warlord days or in self defense but this? To allow Callisto to die when she could’ve prevented it definitely provided a huge roadblock in morality during her journey to redemption. Granted, Callisto did kill Gabrielle’s husband and we know Xena is going to step behind Gabby every time but Callisto begging for her life and Xena just watching her sink into the quicksand was cold af. This arc really challenged the status quo of what a hero is suppose to mean and what lines are they actually willing to cross. They don’t make em like this anymore! ⚔️

Feel like this understates her actual point

If you’re a writer you should be reading and if you’re filmmaker/actor you should be watching movies. I don’t why these are controversial statements

hate when people r like “singaporeans are so boring! when they go out with their colleagues for lunch they only ask how’s ur gf how ur bto” BRO i don’t wanna talk politics or philosophy with my fuck ass colleague ITS CALLED SMALL TALK

When comic/cartoontwt talk about wanting more “mature” stories, what they really mean is that they want gore, safe horny content, Reddit discourse, and for people to say the fuckword a lot. They don’t actually want anything that’s disturbing or morally challenging.

I hate that it’s always “please get help, please talk to someone” and there’s never actually anyone who can help. No one takes insurance. Out of pocket is $300 an appt. Society doesn’t make getting help easy until a tragedy happens and it’s like “why didn’t they just reach out?”

Because wired earphones are better.v

Wired earphones actually making a comeback 🚨 After all that wireless hype, people are going back because : - Sound quality is different (real lossless, no bullshit compression) - No more charging anxiety or dead buds in the middle of nowhere - They just work, no random disconnects - Way cheaper than those fancy AirPods Plus the Y2K nostalgia feels real, everyone's tired of battery drama Even some celebs and Gen Z are rocking with wired earphones again

Tell Cersei it was me

Every name is popular among Singaporeans. My nieces are named after Greek goddesses, my cousins after British queens. My baptismal name is Cornelius. If you google [name] Lim whether the name is Cyrus or Xander or whatever, you will find Singaporeans.

em dashes and oxford commas and good grammar are all signs of my masters in english degree pls leave my children alone