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This might be the smallest of nitpicks i had with Moffat's era, but my mom is a nurse and I was constantly irritated by the implications that being a nurse was less than being a doctor. Nurses do twice the physical work for half the money/praise. They have to have a good bedside manner and should have a certain kindness to them that a Doctor doesn't necessarily have to have.

There was an angle that could have been played in the actual show if the writers were interested in Rory as a character rather than a prop. We got it occasionally like in the doctor's wife with Rory asking how the doctor just moves on from death/closes Idris' eyes, but most of the time it was just played as him being a lesser version of the doctor which irritates me because there is something gendered about the concept of nursing being lesser even though nursing is not a women only field (my uncle is also a nurse).

And I know that Moffat/the writers thought exactly on those lines, like nursing somehow emasculated Rory instead of being a strength, and it would have been SO EASY to make his skill useful (which I think is why I liked the handling of Rory being a nurse the most in 7a which is ironic because I mostly hate 7a but he got to help heal both when it came to his Doctor and in the hospital). There could have been something INTERESTING in the concept of Rory as a caretaker, Rory as the one who heals hands-on, Rory finding a purpose. This TARDIS team could have been equals, but because Rory was only ever a stand-in for the “right sort of man” for the writers, he was never going to be fully-fleshed out & never a true equal to 11amy.

#rory williams #eleventh doctor #meta #11amy #moffat critical #listen gender in moffat's era is covered so extensively with amy and my constant analysises of her but Rory's treatment is gendered too #justice for nursing #Rory as a nurse and Martha as a Doctor are not utilized/explored as well as they should be as parallels/foils to the Doctor #it's about HEALING #about CARING #about teaching the doctor that it is never a crime to take a moment to pay attention to care to help #it's a STRENGTH #(also the Doctor needed to be checked when it came to undervaluing Rory as a nurse/Martha as a Doctor) #NURSING IS NOT LESSER THAN #IT IS EQUALLY IMPORTANT #rory pond #doctor who

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Once my boyfriend told me: "You're not a burden. A burden is something you're forced to carry against your will. I freely choose to be a part of your life and that means you aren't a burden to me." I'm passing it on in case some of you need to be reminded of that.

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genuinely save me

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Ref Recs for Whump Writers

Violence: A Writer’s Guide:  This is not about writing technique. It is an introduction to the world of violence. To the parts that people don’t understand. The parts that books and movies get wrong. Not just the mechanics, but how people who live in a violent world think and feel about what they do and what they see done.

Hurting Your Characters: HURTING YOUR CHARACTERS discusses the immediate effect of trauma on the body, its physiologic response, including the types of nerve fibers and the sensations they convey, and how injuries feel to the character. This book also presents a simplified overview of the expected recovery times for the injuries discussed in young, otherwise healthy individuals.

Body Trauma: A writer’s guide to wounds and injuries. Body Trauma explains what happens to body organs and bones maimed by accident or intent and the small window of opportunity for emergency treatment. Research what happens in a hospital operating room and the personnel who initiate treatment. Use these facts to bring added realism to your stories and novels.

10 B.S. Medical Tropes that Need to Die TODAY…and What to Do Instead: Written by a paramedic and writer with a decade of experience, 10 BS Medical Tropes covers exactly that: clichéd and inaccurate tropes that not only ruin books, they have the potential to hurt real people in the real world. 

Maim Your Characters: How Injuries Work in Fiction: Increase Realism. Raise the Stakes. Tell Better Stories. Maim Your Characters is the definitive guide to using wounds and injuries to their greatest effect in your story. Learn not only the six critical parts of an injury plot, but more importantly, how to make sure that the injury you’re inflicting matters. 

Blood on the Page: This handy resource is a must-have guide for writers whose characters live on the edge of danger. If you like easy-to-follow tools, expert opinions from someone with firsthand knowledge, and you don’t mind a bit of fictional bodily harm, then you’ll love Samantha Keel’s invaluable handbook

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AO3 Subscribers Poll

(please reblog and share for a bigger reach <3)

#somewhere in the 500s #the advantage??? to writing in so many different fandoms #thank you to the ever changing cycle of bimonthly hyperfixations #ao3 #aletterinthenameofsanity

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File: [Unknown, Ophelia]

Approximate number of times [Unknown, Ophelia]:

sleeps easily: 4; sleeps troubled by nightmares: 7; sleeps alone: 15; sleeps with a girl: 3; sleeps with a boy: 0

kisses someone: 42, loves a man: 3; loves a woman: 1; falls in love: 1

lies to a friend: 5; lies to her father: 11; lies to her king: 3

contemplates death: 18; contemplates own death: 5; contemplates Hamlet and his family and how death seems to follow them like a wretched stench: 2; contemplates Signe’s death as a consequence of their relationship: 3

runs her fingers through Signe’s soft, kinky hair: 32; kisses Signe’s cheek: 24; kisses Signe’s lips: 15; kisses Signe’s bare collarbone: 3; holds Signe’s hand: 17

feels strong: 4; feels strong when she is with Signe: 3; feels ashamed when she is with Hamlet: 6; feels ashamed because she feels ashamed when she is with Hamlet: 5; feels hollow: 3; feels tired of putting up with it all: 2; feels suicidal: [?]

spreads flowers with a distant smile: 1; acts is the fool: 3; is the fool: 1

falls from a branch: [?]; commits suicide: [?]

dies: 1; rises to heaven: [?]; falls to hell: [?]

The way [Unknown, Ophelia] loves:

passionately, madly, coldly, roughly, unkindly, nimbly, caringly, warmly, brazenly, abruptly, softly, toughly, languidly, viciously, purely, sinfully, briefly and forever, thoroughly, without remorse, lustfully, recklessly, honestly

The way [Unknown, Ophelia] lives:

Briefly, rarely mentioned in the page scrawled by a man who paints her the damsel.

Briefly, tumbling from a crib to a kitchenmaid’s bed to a watery grave beneath a tree.

Briefly, in a blaze of fire that tears the castle down.

The way [Unknown, Ophelia] dies:

not floating to her watery grave, the waves and her skirts enveloping her in a poetic embrace

The people [Unknown, Ophelia] has loved:

her father, her prince, her kitchenmaid, her brother

The two things [Unknown, Ophelia] did not say:

1. I love you.

2. I want to die.

Things [Unknown, Ophelia] is not:

fragile

The way [Unknown, Ophelia] dies:

not cursing the heavens for the injustice of her story being overshadowed by a man's, of her life being sacrificed to feed some prince's pain

Truthful thing [Unknown, Ophelia] said to the playwright:

“I was the more deceived.”

The things the playwright decided [Unknown, Ophelia] was not important enough for:

a backstory, a faithful lover, dignity, a kiss, a say in her own future, a birthday, a mother, reciprocated love, a spine, sanity, a life

[Unknown, Ophelia]’s story is entitled:

Hamlet, filed under Tragedy.

The way [Unknown, Ophelia] dies:

not watching her life flash before her eyes, every mistake and good choice falling into the water with her

The first time [Unknown, Ophelia] falls in love:

the world splinters also everything burns also it’s a woman also the Prince is the furthest thing from her mind also her heart sings also fuck her father also Signe’s hair runs soft and crinkly under her fingertips also is the only time

How [Unknown, Ophelia] imagines her lover:

age 5: a boy who will play hoops with her, who will join her on a quest to find buried treasure beneath the castle walls

age 10: a Prince, reckless and dark-eyed, with a smirk already starting to develop

age 15: nothing like herself- a beautiful girl, a princess like she could never be

age 20: a kitchenmaid named Signe, with dark hair and dark eyes and dark skin, curves glistening in the candlelight and smile a beacon of hope

The things [Unknown, Ophelia] does on-page:

drifts from man to man, goes mad in her mind, falls in a lake, drops flowers into people's laps, passes quips to a prince in a theatre, breaks apart into a million insane fragments for a Prince's sake

The things [Unknown, Ophelia] does off-page:

drifts across the underside of a lake, goes mad in her heart, falls in love, drops kisses onto Signe’s cheeks, passes bread between hands in a darkened hallway, breaks a girl's heart with her death

The flowers [Unknown, Ophelia] gave away:

Rosemary, for remembrance

Pansies, for thoughts

Fennel, for you, and Columbines

Rue, for you to wear with a difference

A Daisy, for innocence

But no Violets, for they wither’d all when her father died

The flowers [Unknown, Ophelia] gave herself:

Rue, for repentance, regret, everlasting suffering, and sorrow

The way [Unknown, Ophelia] dies:

[?]

The scene about [Unknown, Ophelia] that ends up immortalized:

Her descent, into madness and death, written by a playwright who writes suicide romantic rather than devastating.

A descent, then:

When Hamlet descends into madness, it is heroic. It is princely. His suicide by sword- for what else is it, truly- is considered truly regal.

When Ophelia descends into madness, it is tragic. It is delicate. She is the flower wilted, the rose with its thorns cut. She is the aftermath, the prequel, the death unimportant save to further a plot.

[Unknown, Ophelia]’s name becomes:

an insult, a title for a lover scorned, a derisive nickname, a contemptuous glare, a metaphor for madness

not a compliment, an appraising glance, a name for a lover true, a loving pet name, a simile for sympathy

What happened to [Unknown, Ophelia] after the funeral:

The story does not say.

The way a kitchenmaid grieves:

Unnoticed, in the midst of death after death. First her lover, then the Queen and the Regent and the Prince. In a kingdom enveloped by grief, a kitchen maid's tears go unnoticed.

A princess’s hair ribbon:

Tucked under a kitchenmaid’s skirts.

The way [Unknown, Ophelia] dies:

Loved.

#hamlet #fairytale retelling #ophelia #sapphic #lesbian ophelia #poetry #writeblr #my writing #i wrote this ages ago but i rediscovered it and i LOVE it #tw sui implied #at least that's one interpretation #shakespeare #retelling

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bring back tumblr ask culture let me. bother you with questions and statements

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happy "everyone forgets that icarus also flew" monday. i want to throw up !

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This Rotten Work Has Been Published!

Do you like Carry On or NBC's Community? Do you like messy lesbians in an enemies-to-lovers dynamic? Do you want to know what happens to Chosen Ones after they defeat their villain? Do you wish for a version of Harry Potter that isn't transphobic, homophobic, antisemitic, and racist? (Did you enjoy the seventy million fics I wrote about the mentors coping with the aftermath of the Hunger Games?) Do you like messy background poly bisexuals?

Well, here it is, y'all: all of the edits are done and my book baby has been published! Rachel and Daiyu are finally here for y'all to meet! I'm ordering my own copies now (and will definitely update y'all with photos when they arrive, especially now that I can get a photo with BOTH of my books), but for now, I just wanted to give y'all the link so you can check it out. I'm going to put the blurb below to those who are confused as to what this might be!

Amazon.com: This Rotten Work: 9798879537734: Jenkins, Kenna: Books

The moment Chosen One Rachel Barsky finally kills her magical high school’s evil Headmaster, she’s out. No pressure, no politics, and certainly no more death tournaments for her. She ditches the Magical Realm for a far more chill Normie community college with her two best friends, determined to finally get some blessed peace and quiet—maybe even a good nap. It’s what she deserves after giving up her teenage years to a prophecy that nearly killed her more times than she can count.

But of course Rachel can’t catch a break. Her first day of classes, tragedy arrives on campus in the form of Daiyu Nightbane, Rachel’s archrival and the annoyingly attractive daughter of the now-dead Headmaster. Daiyu’s acting suspiciously normal, Rachel is pissed, and her friends are preaching forgiveness and peace. What gives?

Rachel expects to have to grit her teeth and soldier through the annoyance of her rival haunting her early retirement, but she quickly learns that expectations are never made to last. After an explosive duel that ends up with one of them knocked off of their feet, Rachel is forced to see a kinder side of Daiyu than she ever glimpsed during high school.

Over a school year filled with Shakespeare, lightning magic, and quite a lot of kosher BBQ, Rachel finds herself toppling head-over-heels into an unlikely romance with her rival while she struggles with nightmares, grief, and lingering questions from her high school years. Is it possible to finally make a life for herself? Can the Chosen One really have a happy ending with the golden girl that ruled the school?

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And to all those who have been following this saga (or liked my fics with similar premises/themes), I think I've managed to gather all of your usernames here for the official publishing!

#MY BABY IS HERE Y'ALL #kenna jenkins #this rotten work #rachel barsky #marcel oathkeeper #daiyu nightbane #aaliyah khan #michael goseyun #lefstebany acosta #self publishing #my writing #writing update #nightbarsky #rachel x daiyu #enemies to lovers #sapphic #dark academia #shakespeare #carry on #nbc community #listen this definitely carries a lot of the same themes as my mentor-hunger-games ficsl #recovery healing from the aftermath of a shitton of trauma #figuring out who you are after your world has ended #same goes for community #who are you after you have failed everyone's expectations #except you also have magic! #hunger games

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Daydreaming about my book:

Writing my book:

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In mine and many other east Asian cultures, the dragon traditionally symbolises things like power, wealth and strength (imperial symbol and all)

I think we often forget that in the story of the Great Race, the dragon came in fifth because it'd stopped to give people rain. Then it'd stopped again to push a rabbit adrift on a log across the wide river so it reached the shore safely (that's why the Rabbit year comes before the Dragon).

Dragons aren't meant to just be powerful - they are meant to do good with such power, and to help those in need.

So in this lunar new year, I hope you gain more power, so that you might be able to help others. I pray you have abundant resources so you may give to yourself and those around you. I wish you courage, endurance, kindness and generosity, for yourself and your people.

I hope you, and I, will be rain givers, life preservers, joy bringers.

I hope we will be dragons.

#I've been doing so much research into dragons in different cultures for my sci-fi trilogy #am so glad to have found this #koji watanabe #we meet at the end

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I still haven’t forgiven Tom Hoper for cutting out Grantaire’s solo in Drink with me

It lasts less than 40 seconds, was it really necessary to take that from us 😭

#this scene is a direct inspiration for a scene in this rotten work #daiyu playing grantaire #les mis #grantaire #daiyu nightbane

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#ah yes but i incorporate that into the actual writing process! #Write all that shit down on a second google doc and then slide into the “general-ish outline” where it's supposed to go #and then once you're at about 40k start sewing that shit together #add in the transition sentences and the like #it might sound like utter insanity but it works so well for me personally #writing #my writing #writing process #writing progress

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The thing to me about the Doctor's companions is that they are, at their very cores, ordinary. And that's not an insult. They are human, flawed and messy and chaotic and petty and obsessive and clingy and kind and mortal and ordinary. And yet the Doctor chooses them again and again. Every Doctor is given a moment where they could choose to leave them behind. To keep moving. To go find someone else. To let them be ordinary. And yet the Doctor chooses the companion, sees some extraordinary in all of these ordinary people, because seven billion people and counting and the Doctor's never met someone like them.

#there are so many appeals to doctor who but this is one of them #the appeal of being chosen #the appeal of being SEEN #the doctor/companion dynamic is the opposite of the “mortifying ordeal of being known” #being known and yet STILL BEING CHOSEN is the fundamental appeal of the doctor/companion dynamic #doctor who #bill potts #amy pond #rose tyler #martha jones #donna noble #yaz khan #jack harkness #rory williams #clara oswin oswald #ruby sunday #ryan sinclair #graham o'brien #dan lewis #ninth doctor #eleventh doctor #tenth doctor #thirteenth doctor #twelfth doctor #fifteenth doctor #meta #listen i'm out of this hyperfixation but dw posts sometimes still cross my blog and I get dragged back in a little

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Yes I re-read my own fics because I wrote them for ME

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from the questions of fun things to be asked: 28

As a matter of fact, my friendo, I do collect things! I collected snowglobes for the longest time and unfortunately I don't have any photos on hand thanks to the fact that I moved across the country to Missouri and into a studio apartment so I had to leave them behind in my Nana's garage, but I think I had over 70 when I left. People gave them to me over the years and I would collect them whenever I went somewhere cool!

I also have my junior ranger badges from when I was a kid (though I did get my most recent one last year). For anyone who's not aware, when you go to a National Park/Historic Site/Monument/etc., you can do a Junior Ranger program and get a junior ranger badge. Since I now work for as a National Park Ranger, you can say that I really fulfilled that dream! Here's a photo of some of my junior ranger badges now. Since I was never a girl scout, my Nana put together this sash for all of my badges (not including my actual one for work).

#my asks

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questions I think would be fun to be asked

what are 3 things you’d say shaped you into who you are?

show us a picture of your handwriting?

3 films you could watch for the rest of your life and not get bored of?

what’s an inside joke you have with your family or friends?

what made you start your blog?

what’s the best and worst part of being online/a creator?

what scares you the most and why?

any reacquiring dreams?

tell a story about your childhood

would you say you’re an emotional person?

what do you consider to be romance?

what’s some good advice you want to share?

what are you doing right now?

what’s something you’ve always wanted to do but maybe been to scared to do?

what do you think of when you hear the word “home”?

if you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be?

name 3 things that make you happy

do you believe in ghosts and/or aliens?

favourite thing about the day?

favourite things about the night?

are you a spiritual person?

say 3 things about someone you love

say 3 things about someone you hate

what’s one thing you’re proud of yourself for?

fave season and why?

fave colour and why?

any nicknames?

do you collect anything?

what do you do when you’re sad?

what’s one thing that never fails to make you happy/happier?

are you messy or organised?

how many tabs do you have open right now?

any hobbies?

any pet peeves?

do you trust easily?

are you an open book or do you have walls up?

share a secret

fave song at the moment?

youtuber you’ve been obsessed with and why?

any bad habits?

(this post was stolen from @teenage-mutant-ninja-freak, since it couldn't be reblogged anymore)