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You know what? Create that new WIP, and don’t feel bad about it. Add to your tally, even if you already have a bunch of stories that has still to be written. 

If you’ve got more worlds to explore, more characters to meet and lessons to teach, then there’s nothing stopping you. Go ahead. Write that story. 

It doesn’t mean that you’re neglecting any previous WIP. Just means that you want to write something else. And that’s okay. You don’t have to feel bad about being creative? 

It’s okay to work on multiple WIPs. So go wild, have some fun. You are a creative soul. Don’t hinder yourself.

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Here’s the thing: it is absolutely possible to tell a compelling story in a sandbox-style game, but about 80% of the time when you hear “sandbox” you should read that as “we had our writers compose a general blueprint for the setting and then fired all of them.”

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Hey

Haven't been here in a while, but I think I'm going to revive this blog. I've been thinking of some semi-decent ideas lately, have some stuff I'm working on, and I think I'm in an ok place to post stuff. We'll see how it goes, but I'd like to get back into writing fic, even if it's only self-indulgent stuff

#writing #mine

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happy almost valentines day this is a reminder that singles, aromantics, and asexuals are valid and that a lack of romantic or sexual interest does not devalue you as a person

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i’m so sick of arguing with canadians. their delusional brand of “at least we’re not american” patriotism is probably one of the reasons why social change is so fucking slow to pass in this country

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the depiction of anxiety attacks on One Day at a Time is so, so important for so many reasons, but I really love Alex’s reaction to them especially.

when Elena has an anxiety attack in front of her mom for the first time, Alex is there. he watches Penelope calm Elena down by helping her breathe and showing her pictures of cute dogs in wigs. Alex doesn’t say much, he just watches closely, then asks a few questions to make more sense of what anxiety is and how to help his sister and his mom get through it.

later in the season, Elena has another anxiety attack before taking her driving exam. Alex immediately knows what to do, he recognizes that she’s having an anxiety attack before even she does, and he does the same things their mother did to help her calm down.

Alex is such, such a good kid. they let him be a typical teenage boy, but he’s also gentle and kind and understanding. 

he’s so vain and he loves to flirt with girls and he makes fun of Elena, but he’s also empathetic 

and his best friend is his grandmother. he paints her nails for her when she’s comatose in the hospital. 

I want to see so many more boys like Alex Alvarez on TV

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Oh yeah, thinking about Nes//ryn’s storyline and it’s kinda messed up that she became a guard because she was bullied for being an immigrant and wanted to change the system but then got sideline and ended up in a place where she really can’t do anything to change the racism within the ranks of the guard/on an institutional level within Adarlan

but at least she’s an empress now? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

#Mine #Text #anti sjm #anti tog

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What's with all the geese hate :(

i’m canadian

#Ask #same

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concept: a character in a high fantasy setting who’s just… straight up allergic to magic. 

#Text #the legit funniest concept I've seen in a while

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Victorian High Top Roller Skates

#Image #I want these

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You have no idea how much I love this

Percy has a heart-to-heart with Leo and frequently describes rich boys in the first book as "white kids" while also pointing at the strangeness of seeing a bunch of blond, grey-eyed kids (like in the Athena cabin) at the same time. He's Latino.

Don’t really have anything to add to this, but valid :)

#Ask #The similarities btwn me and Percy keep adding up! #I really hope that means one day I'll get a cool pen sword #pjo

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I was wrong about Buttercup

Okay, so I just watched The Princess Bride again, and I had a new realization: I have always had an unfair hatred for Buttercup. I’ve always thought of her as window dressing, but she has a surprising amount of agency in this movie.  Think about it:

The very first chance she gets to escape from Vizzini, Fezzik, and Inigo, she does it. She leaps into a sea full of SHRIEKING EELS.  Mind you, this is right after she tells them they will be hanged if they are caught.  Buttercup has no problem telling people off when they need it.

Then, she tells off the Dread Pirate Roberts the second she figures out who he is.  And then pushes him down a hill just because she can.

After their adventures in the fire swamp, she agrees to go with Humperdink to save Westley’s life with NO HESITATION WHATSOEVER.  Just because that is the only way she can save him.

And then is my favorite part: she tells Humperdink off.  She confronts him on his cowardice, knowing that he legally owns her at this point.  And she doesn’t care, because that fucker needs to know what she really thinks of him.

After Westley is seeming killed, and she is forced to marry Humperdink, she decides that killing herself is the only form of agency she has left.  And she’s fully prepared to do it.  Until Westley is there to remind her that she has perfect breasts (he’s got a point).  

And then Westley gets all the points for understanding that this was not a consensual marriage for Buttercup.  “You didn’t say it, you didn’t do it.”  Can we get that on t-shirts?

Buttercup is not an action girl.  She’s not going to pick up a sword and start beating up on those that hurt her, but that’s not a reason to hate her.  Every chance she gets, she tries to be an equal partner in this relationship.  And, let’s be honest, this movie isn’t even about her.  The agency she has in this movie is really impressive.

This is important because we need a wide range of women in our media.  They can’t all be Xena Warrior Princess because that’s not what all women are like. But we need to appreciate the other types of women out there.  The ones who won’t fight or do anything that’s considered traditionally masculine, but still deserve respect anyway.  

@klunkyboots

#I.AM.THE.QUEEN. #Text #she has a line in the book that made her my favorite character #yes bae you are

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I got real petty over on the Facebook page and IT WAS GLORIOUS.

#Image #do they need an intern #cuz I can be their intern

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i’m starting to hate the frequency of pinterest as a google result more than i hate pinterest itself. listen, google, googly-mate, pinterest isn’t a fuckign source. I want the sites those pictures came from because those are the ones with information such as dates, which is the entire point of the thing I am googling.   

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#Image #god I love old school fantasy stuff like this

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Okay, some fandom history, why show writers and authors say “for legal reasons” the can’t read fan fic.

Back in ancient times in the 1970s there was a show called Star Trek the Animated Series.  It was on the air as fandom culture around Star Trek was really taking route and there were many fanzines (things on actual paper that people bought) being published and the first conventions to attend.

David Gerrold was a writer for Star Trek the Animated Series who had also written one of the most famous episodes of the original series The Trouble with Tribbles.  While he was around the production office for STtAS he was introduced to a couple of fans who proceeded to tell him all about their ideas for an episode–essentially a sequel to his famous episode–which it so happens he had already written a script for.  When that episode aired he received a letter from one of those fans lawyers demanding “credit”.  It so happened that he could prove that the episode existed before the meeting but the involvement of lawyers and a threat to sue became widely known.

Marion Zimmer Bradly was, before recent horrifying revelations decades after her death, a titan of fantasy writing.  She also welcome fan fiction and published it in anthologies and in a magazine she published.  One day she opened a story sent to her and the plot of the story was essentially the plot of a a novel she had nearly finished writing.  More than a years worth of her work was now unpublishable because it was provable that she had read this story with this similar plot and she couldn’t prove the work on the novel existed before she saw the story.  She stopped publishing anthologies and fan fiction and in particular the MZB story is the one a lot of professional writers know as representative of the dangers of fan fiction.

So when a writer says they can’t read fan fiction for legal reasons it’s that their own lawyers are protecting them from outside lawsuits.

And this is why knowing your fandom history matters.

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PLEASE WATCH THIS SHOW PLEASE!!!!

#Text #please watch this it's amazing!