Tag: writing

relucant:

fozmeadows:

star-anise:

tienriu:

metal-x-chocobo-x:

today in things i hate in television

that episode where a team with only one girl and a lot of guys suddenly has another girl join the team, and everyone loves her for some reason (usually implied to be that shes pretty), and the original girl immediately hates and cannot stand second girl

are you kidding

whenever i have been in an all boy group the appearance of anything even remotely a girl has been an utter relief and total joy are you kidding

My entire professional life has been in teams surrounded by men.  Like, literally, there have been repeated times in my life when I was the only woman on that floor.

On two separate occasions in my working life, I’ve joined a team and the other woman already on that team has later come over to talk quietly to me and say something to the effect of “Thank god, another woman.  I was so happy to find you were joining us.”.

I guess this is how you can tell a guy wrote the script and he had very little real world experience in the environment he’s writing.  When you’re in an all-male team, the only other woman would have to be a straight out sociopath who casually poisoned people around her to make me hate her.  And even if she was, I’d at least try four times before I gave up.  Or maybe consider joining her (I mean she might have a reason for what she’s doing after all).

How to introduce the second female character to the team: Both women are meeting somewhere the male teammates have never been. The more established woman is giving the newbie a detailed profile on every dude in the team, how best to deal with him, and how much of an asshat he’s likely to be.

What happens when clueless male writers assume a lone woman will naturally view a female newcomer as competition for male resources, instead of, as is more often the case, an ally against male dominance. 

man, I played WoW pretty hardcore for quite a long time, and while there are more women who play than dudes like to pretend, still pretty male-dominated. in every guild I’ve been in, the reaction to another girl joining is “OMG YESSS” and an invite to the girls-only channel

chitarra10:

wolfburied:

I think a big part of why I read way more fanfiction than books is that there’s just a hell of a lot less exposition

the first 10 pages of most books are always “these are the main characters and here’s some background on each of them and this is the setting etc etc” and it’s such a fucking hassle getting to the plot sometimes

fanfic is just like “fuck it you know all of this already let’s go”

That’s a really good point.

Quotes Representing The Major Arcana 🔮🌙

witchie–woman:

beneath-the-moon-and-sun:

The Fool: “First you jump off the cliff and you build your wings on the way down”- Ray Bradbury

The Magician: “As your desire is, so is your will. As your will, so is your deed. As your deed, so is your destiny.”- Brihadaramyaka Upanishad

The High Priestess: “There are mysteries within the soul which no hypothesis can uncover and no guess can reveal”-Kahlil Gibran

The Empress: “Be fruitful and multiply”-Genesis

The Emperor: “Set all things in their own particular place, and know that order is the greatest grace”-John Dryden

The Hierophant: “We are all teachers, the question is not whether we will teach, but what”- Anonymous

The Lovers: “Arms wide, we bend toward each other, and a passing angel passes for a moment, standing imponderably on the air, to witness our embrace”- P. L. Travers

The Chariot: “Climb high, climb far. Your goal the sky, your aim the star.” -Inscription at Williams College

Strength: “He who reigns within himself and rules his passions, desires, and fears is more than a king.” John Milton

The Hermit: “Be ye lamps unto yourselves”- Buddah

Wheel Of Fortune: Everything goes, everything returns; eternally rolls the wheel of being”- Nietzsche

Justice: “To be perfectly just is an attribute of the divine nature; to be so to the utmost of our abilities is the glory of man”- Joseph Addison

The Hanged Man: “Humility that low sweet root, from which all heavenly virtues shoot”- Sir Thomas Moore

Death: “There is no death! What seems so is a transition”- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Temperance: “You carry all the ingredients to turn your existence into joy. Mix them! Mix Them!” -Hafiz

The Devil: “If thou hast not seen the devil, look at thine own self”- Rumi

The Tower: “We turn to God for help when our foundations are shaking, only to learn it is God who is shaking them”- Charles C. West

The Star: “It is the nature of the goodness to pour itself out”- St. Thomas Aquinas

The Moon: “Behold, this dreamer cometh”- Genesis

The Sun: “Life is a pure flame and we are lit by an invisible sun within us”- Sir Thomas Browne

Judgement: “God had sounded through them as though through trumpets”- Marsilio Ficino

The World: “Give me beauty in the inward soul, may the outward and the inward be as one”- Socrates

So beautiful and accurate

acarriageapproaches:

clarabeau:

When choosing a perfume, consider how the scent will add to the ambience of your hauntings. Complement the oak rustling over your grave, the low slant of sunlight in your study, the claw-footed bathtub you tragically drown in. 

Do you want your lover to smile through their tears when a breeze lifts the curtains and they catch a hint of Thierry Mugler’s Angel? When your murderer, the heir to your estate, looks up and sees the chandelier falling, do you want his last thought to be “Is that Marc Jacobs Daisy?”

@littlemadworld

college gothic

neither:

indigo-night-wisp:

  • someone in your class mentions communism. they speak about it at length. you are in biology class.
  • you text your mother. she does not respond for 3 days. you text her again and then realize that it has only been 2 hours since your first text.
  • freshmen travel in packs. what are they afraid of.
  • your class is in room 153. the numbers start at 201. you cannot find the first floor.
  • someone is talking about communism. it is not the same person as last time. this is an english class.
  • your transcript says you have an A in philosophy 3310. you do not remember taking this class. what did you learn? what did you do?
  • you meet your elevator buddy. you do not speak. you never do. you ride in silence. one day, they are not there. you miss them.
  • your advisor refers you to the registrar. the registrar refers you to admissions. admissions refers you to both the registrar and your advisor. you have spoken to two people who do not exist and one who has been dead for ten years.
  • the boy who sits next to you wears the same clothes everyday. you think this is strange but when you mention it, he tells you that this is the first time he has worn this outfit. you realize that you have lived this day before.
  • you pass someone sleeping in the quad. he has always been there. stop looking at him.
  • someone answers, “communism.” it is not someone who has been previously mentioned. the question was, “what is an example of the art of ancient greece?”
  • you have a doppelganger on campus. you have never met them. they know all of your friends.
  • the seniors speak only to professors. their eyes are dead. they have given up the safety of the pack long ago.
  • the professor is talking about STD’s. your math class is very strange.
  • the powerpoint is in comic sans. you suspect that your economics professor is an extraterrestrial being after all.
  • “communism,” the man serving you lunch insists. wearily you nod. that’s what everyone says.

Enjoy your precious capitalism