Deal by readergirl37
Elena Gilbert makes a deal with an ancient god of death. She hadn’t expected him to be so nice.
christopher citro, “our beautiful life when it’s filled with shrieks” / @inkskinned‘s poem about love between women
nina lacour, everything leads to you
frank ocean ft. tyler the creator, golden girl
Love is a shared plate & you will know it by the taste of mouth that goes wanting in order to fill your own
alice isn’t dead, chapter 4: the factory by the sea
New York Times “What to Cook Right Now” newsletter by Sam Sifton
Jonathan D. Spence, “The death of Woman Wang” || Sinners Welcome: ‘Disgraceland’ by Mary Carr || Richard Siken, “Snow and Dirty Rain” || Kendrick Lamar, “Opposites Attract” || Loyle Carner ft. Kwes, “Florence” || Gary Soto, “Oranges” || Ernest Hemingway, “A Movable Feast” || Wendy Cope, The “Orange” || Of Montreal, “Tim I Wish You Were Born A Girl”
2000 was almost 14 years ago
2000 was almost 14 years ago
2000 was almost 14 years ago
hey op guess what
oh nevermind you’re died
In Resident Evil 2 (1998), you could unlock a secret minigame featuring a piece of tofu as its protagonist. The minigame was a parody of the 4th Survivor minigame featuring special agent from the Umbrella Security Service HUNK. It’s the hardest mode in the game as Tofu is only given a knife and a few herbs, and the mission is timed and ranked.
Headcanon time!
I think canon implies otherwise but how Beholding would it be if Jon's office was actually open and seen by others? Like, it's a separate room but there's a huge window looking out to the archives and his assistants can see everything he does because the blinds are always malfunctioning and the window is somehow always very clean. Because of that Jon doesn't feel like he has the right to take a break or leave the office before others because they'll see him 'slacking off' and doesn't feel like he's allowed a moment to show weakness, to look nervous, to breathe and have a moment of privacy.
Jon from the very beginning of being head archivist feels fully alone and trapped being seen by everyone he works with, constantly scrutinized through the clear window like a screen to see if he's meeting expectations. He's wrong, of course, no one would judge him. But that's the feeling this setup gives him and makes him act even more distant and strict like he does in season 1.
— Hayley Atwell is Mary Crawford in Mansfield Park
We don't have a good Mansfield Park adaptation, but Hayley Atwell was the perfect Mary Crawford. Could we build something better around this character???
Some of you have never shipped a rare pair and it shows.
Some of you have never invented a rarepair, written the only fic for it, and then wallowed alone in your special mud pit of crack pairings and it shows
Do u ever read a friend’s fic and it’s like holy shit how do you consider me qualified to talk to you?
No
Y’all need better self-esteem
Alright I have been enabled so I’m gonna say somethings.
Fatalistic sarcasm is a thing, however, it usually hides deep feelings of insecurity, and whether you consciously recognize this or not, it validates them. Seriously, I used to constantly make jokes about how other people’s work was better than mine, and it did nothing for my self-esteem, it was a tool to deflect from my own feelings of inferiority and it actively worked against me thinking critically about my own and other people’s work. If it was a joke I could put myself down instead of analyzing why someone’s work was better and trying to incorporate that into my own
As someone who took creative writing courses I was constantly surrounded by other brilliant people, if I hung my head in shame every time I read something as good or better than mine I never would have lifted it.
As someone who has watched a lot of writers with very good idea’s crash and burn I mean it when I say you either develop a healthy sense of respect for your own work or you stop writing.
There’s three things I really wish more people consider
1. Do you think their work is better because it’s a different style, one that you like? There’s an element to ‘the grass is greener on the other side’, I have seen people work in some amazing styles that I wished to god I could replicate, some I managed, some I never did, but there’s nothing wrong with either. having a different style Is Not the same as having a bad style, each has their own strengths and you can admire one without putting yours down
2. Knowing someone who is a better writer is a blessing and if they knew you were using their work to bring yourself down they would not be happy, mooch off that friend, analyze their work, ask them to edit your shit, as long as you’re not annoying them be shameless about it. the best thing creative writing did for me was give me the confidence to ask people to critic my work and shamelessly better each other for that sharing
3. People need to normalize being confident in their work, the quality of your work has literally nothing to do with your worth as a person, the quality of your work has nothing to do with your worth as a writer. You can write something really shitty and the only thing I’d say to you is that your trying and I respect you for that
Literally every writer I know needs to read this.
The entire reason I started writing fic was because I was too sick to be anxious about it, and after that, whenever I would get down on myself my work would stagnate, so I learned to follow sick Magpie’s lead and just say fuck it.
I write because I enjoy it. I write because I love it. And I write because I want to share a piece of myself with the world and say this is me, take it or leave it.
Learn to give yourself grace. Learn to get better at writing because you love it, not because you hate what you create. And most of all, learn that no one is able to write exactly like you do, and that is amazing.
<3
You know Callum and Rayla complaining to each other about how Janai won’t let them go to Lux Aurea might literally be one of my favourite scenes in the season. The way Callum says “They treat us like children!” Callum my lad you have literally never sounded more like a whiny teenager in this whole show and I love that for you. Janai is trying to save you and you’re being oh mean aunt Janai won’t let me go to the zombie infested library. Bad aunt. And I loved that. Like yes give me Callum and Rayla being dumb teenagers rebelling against authority that just has their best interests at heart. Give me Callum and Rayla going “How dare Janai try and protect us! She doesn’t understand! We’re going anyway!” I love the fact that yes, Callum and Rayla are heroes willing to risk danger to save the world, but they’re also cranky teenagers and I love the moments where that comes through
