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Wrong: Ada Lovelace invented computer science and immediately tried to use it to cheat at gambling because she was Lord Byron's daughter.

Right: Ada Lovelace invented computer science and immediately tried to use it to cheat at gambling because that was the closest you could get in 1850 to being a Super Mario 64 speedrunner.

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the problem with autism is sometimes you want to do something (brave) but you need someone to gently walk you through each step so you know what will happen. and people don’t like doing that

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Listened to today’s Re: Dracula and one of the passengers was speaking Hebrew!! I was like woah I understand this!!

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HAPPY STAR WARS DAY! | MAY THE 4TH BE WITH YOU

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It's never antizionism not antisemitism.

These are comments in Taika Waititi's comment sections. All he did was sign a letter for the hostages to be released. He has not said anything in support of Israel's actions.

Taika Waititi is a Jewish man.

As you can see from the first picture, he is being told that he can no longer make movies sharing Māori experiences because he signed a letter for hostages to he released. A Māori man is being told not to share Māori experiences because he signed a letter for hostages to be released and because he's Jewish.

This is sickening. It's disgusting. It's trying to erase his indigenous experiences as a Māori all because he's Jewish.

All the other comments are also equally gross.

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feeling nostalgic for fandom meta. Yeah incorrect quotes and memes are cool but have you tried an in depth psychological analysis of your fave with supporting evidence and quotes from their source material? Have you used tumblr’s unique format to your full advantage to ramble on and on about the tropes that they address and subvert and how their arc changes and develops? Have you ever sat down with a spreadsheet to get real autistic about all of their canon iterations and compared it to fanon portrayals?

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Spock + kitty 🐈‍⬛

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Caves are weirder and more varied than you think

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Suzanne Rivecca, Ugly Bitter and True

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– Смотри: я сфинкс….

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Naomi Novik's cardinal rules for writing,

(the second of which felt like a personal attack and destroyed me).

Just write, and write a lot. This is obvious, but tends to get thrown by the wayside. If you're spending a lot of time outlining or researching, what you are not doing is writing. Writing is a verb; you have to actually write. And if you don't actually like writing, you should not force yourself to write. Writing should be a joy. It should feel like making art that you're making out of pleasure for yourself. And if you would rather be drawing, but you feel like you can write better than you can draw, stop. Make the art that makes you happy to create. If you're enjoying the process, then you can love the product.

Finish a lot.

This is a big mistake I see a lot of new writers making. They start one project, and they don't finish it, because they get another great idea that feels more exciting than the last great idea they had, and they go on to the next project. And the thing is, as a writer, that's almost certainly true. Because the more practice you get at something, the better you're going to get at it. If you practice beginning a story, starting your reader off in a story fifty times, you will be quite good at starting a story. But if you never practice finishing the story, you are never going to finish things. You have to practice finishing things.

My number one rule for a relatively new writer is to start by writing short things and work on your endings. There's a problem solving aspect to writing a longer story, especially novel length. The process of getting out of one scene and into the next is, in itself, a problem solving process. And sometimes that problem solving happens invisibly, because the story is just pouring out of you, and you've got so much imagined out. But invariably, no matter how good a writer you are and how passionate you are about your story, you will get to a point in your writing where you are not quite sure where to go, where you don't see where the choice you're making is going to take you. And at that moment, if you don't have the problem solving tools you only build with habit, you will not be able to find your way out, and your story will die there.

I routinely see stories die this way. You see it a lot in fandom. People will write works in progress, WIPs, and post them chapter by chapter, and eventually they get abandoned by chapter 39 or so. Often, the last twelve chapters of that abandoned story have been meandering, where the writer clearly did not know where to go, so they abandon their story and start a new one. That's very bad for a new writer. If you're a new writer, finish what you start, even if you end the story with 'and rocks fell on everybody, and they all died.' Write that terrible ending down, and then see if you can come up with a slightly better ending than that. If there was someone with a gun to your head, making you end the story right there, how would you end it?

This doesn't mean you should write 100,000 words of something you're not enjoying. If you're bored with the story and don't want to keep writing it, maybe that means you should ax the last third of what you write and start over again, from the last place you were excited. But maybe you need to be done with that story so you can move on. In which case, just come up with an ending. Anything. Finish what you start.

Respectfully pilfered and paraphrased from her 88 Cups of Tea podcast interview.

(She also shared a great deal about the importance of having a beta reader, another cardinal rule that deserves its own post. What I really wanted to share was that second rule, which blew out my kneecaps and forced me to sit down and think about my life choices)

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