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YOU ARE THE REASON
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I still can’t believe that fanfiction is free
I sometimes have to pay for water, but with a phone and some wifi, I get to read whole novels about my favorite characters for exactly zero additional dollars
How goddamn rad is that
all the love to the fanfic authors who make this possible, y'all are the best
Bill Nye for most of his career: Imma do science for kids. Science without politics. Nice, tame science for the kiddos.
Bill Nye now:
nah I think we should really stop glorifying cigarettes
you sound boring.
You sound like you’ve never had the scent of cigarette smoke ingrained in your clothes to the point where people in middle school thought you smoked at eleven because your parents couldn’t be bothered to go outside. You sound like you’ve never had your mother flick cigarette ashes out of the car window and have them fly into your face. You sound like you’ve never been kept up at night by the sound of your dad hacking up a lung because he has to get up for his midnight smoke. You sound like you’ve never had to run into a convenience store to get your mother cigarettes as soon as you turned eighteen and cringed at touching the box because you know they’re not only killers but government sanctioned killers because they can not only tax the shit out of them but ensure people buy more at the cost of young lungs and a once beautiful home now plagued with the smell of smoke and ash. You sound like you’ve never had a great grandmother who stopped smoking 30 years before her death who still got lung cancer and subsequently died. You sound like a Fucking ignoramus. Smoking isn’t Fucking cool, it isn’t fun to glorify, it’s disgusting and makes not only you but your children smell bad. Makes not only you but your children cough, get cancer, get sick.
You sound like a Fucking moron. Smoking isn’t cool. Grow the Fuck up.
No, you grow the fuck up. There’s mountains of constant judgment when it comes to smoking. How about you leave people alone and let them do what they want with their bodies.
There is a REASON. It’s not just their bodies they’re fucking. It’s never just their bodies with something fucking airborne. Especially when you have CHILDREN AND PETS.
My grandfather smoked in his house decades ago. We moved in. We started working on it. After just one day of having the AC off so it could be worked on, I could no longer stay in the house because the smell was coming out of the walls <I>so strongly</I> and triggering my asthma to the point where I couldn’t breathe. My grandfather is dead and his smoking still managed to effect me that negativity. It is not just their body.
My aunt took up smoking in secret as a coping method for her depression. My cousin found out and she was so scared for her mom’s health that she hid the cigarettes. But when my aunt noticed they were missing, do you think she had a calm conversation about the whole thing with my cousin? Nope. She stormed into her room in such a rage, my cousin was too scared to even argue. She just gave the cigarettes back and prayed for her mom to leave the room. There was no explanation for why she took up smoking, for why she was trying to hide it, no reassurance for her worried daughter, not even a question as to why my cousin took them… there was just addiction-fueled anger. Directed at a child who had no control over her environment.
And then there’s my own mother, who has never taken up smoking, but who grew up with two chain-smoking parents. My mom who has permanent lung and throat damage from a lifetime of breathing in smoke that she didn’t ask for. My mom who now takes daily medication so her throat doesn’t ache.
But, tell me again how smoking only affects your body?
I grew up breathing not only my step-dad’s cigarette smoke, but all his friends as they’d frequently hang out in the living room together creating a cloud of smoke that permeated the whole house. I got asthma at 10. I found a growth in my left lung at 30. I now have 1 lung. 1 lung and I’m still asthmatic. Fuck people who smoke around children.
If you can’t agree with this, then fucking unfollow the shit out of me. Too many people in my family have died. My grandfather lost his wife to Lung Cancer. He still smokes though. And my dad who stopped cold turkey when my oldest brother was born and went through hell to make sure his first kid wouldn’t have to also. But did it help? No. Because his mom didn’t care that she had a newborn inhaling her goddamned secondhand smoke. Don’t you dare say it only affects the smoker. Don’t you dare.
Don’t smoke around other people. Don’t smoke around pets. Don’t smoke in places folks /have/ to frequent. Nothing with lungs and a nose should have to be affected by your habit. That goes for vaping as well.
Don’t smoke in public places, like restaurants and parks.
some writer snob somewhere: Do not start sentences with But or And because doing so is grammatically incorrect.
me, writing my fic: But I don’t care. And you can’t stop me.
Sometimes…..the flow of your creative prose…..is more important….than grammatical guidelines,,,,,,
Don’t assume malice. Assume ignorance. Life is easier, the world is kinder, and you can educate. Actual malice is pretty rare, I find.
Always remember Hanlon’s Razor–”Never assume malice when incompetence will suffice as an explanation.”
That’s said, never forget Fred Clark’s Law, either: “Sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice.” There’s a certain point at which ignorance becomes malice–at which there is simply no way to become that ignorant except deliberately and maliciously.
Just remember. There is no such thing as a fake geek girl. There are only fake geek boys. Science fiction was invented by a woman.
Specifically a teenage girl. You know, someone who would be a part of the demographic that some of these boys are violently rejecting.
Isaac Asimov.
yo mary shelley wrote frankenstein in 1818 and isaac asimov was born in 1920 so you kinda get my point
If you want to push it back even further Margaret Cavendish, the duchess of Newcastle (1623-1673) wrote The Blazing World in 1666, about a young woman who discovers a Utopian world that can only be accessed via the North Pole - oft credited as one of the first scifi novels
Women have always been at the forefront of literature, the first novel (what we would consider a novel in modern terms) was written by a woman (Lady Muraskai’s the Tale of Genji in the early 1000s) take your snide “Isaac Asimov” reblogs and stick it
even in terms of male scifi authors, asimov was predated by Jules Verne, HG Wells, George Orwell, you could have even cited Poe or Jonathan Swift has a case but Asimov?
PbbBFFTTBBBTBTTBBTBTTT so desperate to discredit the idea of Mary Shelly as the mother of modern science fiction you didn’t even do a frickin google search For Shame
And if you want to go back even further, the first named, identified author in history was Enheduanna of Akkad, a Sumerian high priestess.
Kinda funny, considering this Isaac Asimov quote on the subject:
Mary Shelley was the first to make use of a new finding of science which she advanced further to a logical extreme, and it is that which makes Frankenstein the first true science fiction story.
Even Isaac Asimov ain’t having none of your shit, not even posthumously.
You know what else was invented by women? Masked vigilantes, the precursor to the modern superhero. Baroness Emma Orczy wrote The Scarlet Pimpernel in 1905. The character would later inspire better known masked vigilantes such as Zorro and Batman.
Got that?
Stick that in your international pipe and smoke it
I have literally been telling people this for over a year.
the first extended prose piece - ie a novel, was not, as many male scholars will shout, Don Quixote (1605) but The Tale of Genji (1008) written by a woman
The first autobiography ever written in English is also attributed to a woman, The Book of Margery Kempe (1430s).
The day may come when I find this post and do not reblog it, but it is not this day.
Does this sound familiar to anyone else?
Your mom is always doing all the chores and housework. Your father is there, but he won’t help without an ordeal. You have a brother, but he ignores your mom’s requests and locks himself in his room immediately after school and after dinner. Exhausted, your mom turns to you and asks for help.
When you were a child and were asked to help, you always used to point to your brother and whine, “but why doesn’t HE have to?” What you couldn’t see was that he would inevitably refuse, throw tantrums, and do a purposefully bad job, which your mother would wind up having to do over again anyway. In this way, asking your brother (or father, even) to do a task doubles the time it takes to complete it. And your mother has come to understand this. So although she will call both of you and give you both chores, she only enforces it with you. Because despite the fact that you hate it, as every child does, you do not act like your brother. Your chores get done, not without whining, but they get thoroughly done.
When you got older, you’d do what she requested without whining.
Now, years after that, you don’t even have to be asked.
You are keenly aware that only half of the people in the house do the chores. That half is all female. You and your mom. You resent this, but you love your mother, and will always help her. When there is a family gathering, there is still that gendered split. Again, you resent this, but you care about your mother, and her mother, and your aunts, so you will always help them.
And that’s how it was for your mother when she was a girl. And hers. And you realize that this is probably how it has always gone, that this is how things came to be how they are. And what can you do about it? Nothing, except for picking up the next dirty dish and taking solace in the knowledge that you are not alone in your anger.
This is something I noticed when I was nannying. The female child was always “so helpful!” Because it never even occurred to her that she could say no. She did what grownups asked her to do. The male child would mouth off, throw tantrums, get violent, and even threaten self-injury because you asked him to put his laundry in the drawers. (Except, of course, when his father asked.) It never even occurred to the girl to act that way. It certainly never occurred to her that she’d get what she wanted if she did.
Except it did occur to her to protest or tantrum, years ago, and she was punished for disobeying, while her brother’s resistance was not. We learn early on that the rules are different for us than they are for boys. We learn at such a young age that we forget how we were punished and praised and molded to this path, and thus our obedience seems natural to everyone around us, including ourselves.
And in addition to being punished more for disobeying, female children have empathy for the older women who slave over the housework all alone, and feel compelled to help them out of kindness. Male children don’t feel this because they’ve internalized ideas about the inferiority and subservience of women, and are already learning to see this as morally ok.
this happens at work! i replaced a male coworker when he got promoted. and found out he never did the admin work the job required. much to the frustration of the quality manager and admin who were both women. they ask me, i do it. it needs to be done but he would literally tell them he wasn’t doing it. it was part of the job he didnt like and he said no? and no repercussions. he got promoted! and i am like still reeling over it because if i just said no to a part of my job i would get fired.
And people still have the gall to act as if feminism wasn’t needed anymore or some bullshit like that…
Alllll of this!!!
i wrote half an essay in 20mins today when it’s not even due for another 4 weeks, reblog this to have a productivity lightning bolt strike you like it did me today
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#real #not to be salty but this is what ive been saying#like everyone out here really still acting like fanfic isnt really writing#like its subpar and like it cant be good and have amazing lines#even fanfic writers treat it like its LESS and like theyre PLAY writing and not actually writing#like friend buddy ican ASSURE YOU that fanfic is every bit as real and good as writing from books#the only difference between fic and actual books is that books go through several stages of processing and editing and filtering#and are worked on by professionals who studied the craft of editing#while fanfiction cuts that filtering and everyone gets a chance to be heard and to be read#and instead of editors we have peer editing and reviewing#dont be fucking tricked by the mass notion that anything that young girls and queer people are interested in is immediately bad and subpar#bc it is fucking not #i will FIGHT for it #fanfiction (tags by @crossroadswrite bacause they add so much to this post)
The real irony is there is plenty of fanfiction that goes through more rigorous editing than some published fiction. So the difference in quality between fanfiction and “professional writing” is totally arbitrary and made up. Except that some things that are more expensive are worse.
Fanfic has really raised my standards for what constitutes good writing.
this sign left no survivors
“they’re burning all the witches”
ARTIST CREDIT
And there it is
And meanwhile, assholes with no sense of irony or history refer to the naming of sexual predators as a witch hunt.
reblog if ur bi, ur not biphobic, or ur best friend is a beautiful valid bisexual
Greek Gods as things I’ve heard at my school
Zeus: At this point I’ll bang anything *grabs cactus on windowsill* HERE I GO
Hera: *shrieking* MY BOYFRIEND IS A W H O R E
Demeter: *has been addressing all plants by their scientific names for a week* Today I have a solanum lycopersicum and cheese sandwich
Hades: Death is the only thing left that will cure my anxiety
Poseidon: Somebody told me that I have the mental capacity of a fish. Jokes on them, I am a fish *gargles water loudly*
Hestia: Fire warm. Man need fire.
Apollo: You were saying something but all I heard was G A Y
Artemis: Boys are stinky gross bastards, fuck boys….wait no
Athena: Somebody got mad at me for saying I was upset I got a 93%. Little do they know I have been getting straight 82% and I just broke my lucky streak
Hephaestus: *pounding aluminum foil into a ball with a mallet* SHINY
Hermes: I just picked the lock on the home ec room door and stole like 7 loaves of bread who wants toast
Aphrodite: *gets told they’re pretty* I think you mean smoking hot.
Ares: No one tells you that punching people hurts. I punched someone and then cried, which is the opposite of menacing
Dionysus: *blackout drunk and standing on a table, shirtless* RESPECT WOMEN
He was unusually informed bc of his job & specialized training - plus he had an attorney on the phone who also said he was on his way over. I’m sure this too served as a deterrent to ICE abuse.
If he was a black man he’ll have been dead by 0.30secs of this video
LADIES!
If he says, “If you love me, you’d have sex with me”…
This is the one and only time Im ever gonna fucking tell you to listen to this asswipe of a lion.
This goes for everyone, dont think women dont do this shit to.
If anyone says “If you loved me you’d…” just leave
Wished id have realized this at 18.
