[amythewicked]

Watching 9-1-1 Lone Star season 2 and it feels like a great inside joke to have Rob Lowe and Lisa Edelstein playing lovers again 😅

[amythewicked]

Hiya!

Haven't been here in six years.

How's everyone doing?

I'm basically barely scraping by to survive, mentally speaking, so that's what's up.

[actuallyvady]

A limerick:

[toothlessrebel]

Doesn’t look like a limerick to you? Try this:

A dozen, a gross, and a score Plus three times the square root of four Divided by seven Plus five times eleven Is nine squared and not a bit more.

THE HECK HECK HECK HECCCCCKKKKKKKK

[celebrity-pharmacist]

POETRY WAS NOT MEANT TO BE USED LIKE THIS

[janothar]

Fine, fine, we’ll kick it up a notch:

Integral zee squared dee zee From one to the cube root of three Times the cosine Of three pi over nine Is the log of the cube root of e

[shut-up-hippie]

first of all fuck the both of you

[anarchapella]

@whatsapigsfavoritebread

[shades-of-blue-ff]

How fast can a Puddle Jumper go?

That was a question I recently had to answer when writing Azure. My main character is an expert engineer and can make complicated calculations on the fly. I, on the other hand, have never been good with math or sciences. (I totally blame the school system in my country.) Which means I have to strain myself to come up with believable techno-talk.

My characters in the story are talking about Puddle Jumpers and how fast it is. I’ve looked in the Stargate Wiki and all, but the information I found there was insufficient. So I investigated the matter a bit more on the forums and then sat down to make the calculations.

Keep reading

[amythewicked]

I done math and I’m very proud of it.

[shades-of-blue-ff]

U.S. Air Force Uniforms

Hi there!

So, while writing a story set so deeply within the reality of the United States Air Force, one has to do quite a bit of research, especially when one has never even been to the United States. Thank goodness for the Internet! One of the things I’ve researched quite extensively are uniforms. There is a whole Air Force Instruction (36-2903, Dress and Personal Appearance of Air Force Personnel) that talks about how enlisted and commissioned servicemen and women are supposed to look, down to how long their hair can be or where they can tattoos and of what kind. A big part, of course, are uniforms.

Keep reading

[taptrial2]

writing an autistic character when you are not autistic - a masterpost

completely double spaced version on google docs here – this post is more blocky for the sake of people’s dashboards, but still long so people will be less likely to glaze over it. my apologies if that makes it hard to read

things to look for and avoid in an autistic character

• symptoms only manifesting as “nonverbal and rocking” • super smart / living calculator • super dumb / doesn’t understand anything • all the symptoms you can come up with for them are “awkward” and “has special interest(s)” (please do more research) • trains, technology, and/or math as special interests • acting like a child • getting treated like a baby • unreasonably cruel and uncaring about others’ reactions to them being cruel • if they’re comparable to sheldon from the big bang theory, start over • animal comparisons • a lack of feelings • please no stories about what it’s like to be autistic told by allistics

the right way to write an autistic person

• lots of symptoms, including secondary ones not included on a general diagnosis requirement list (here’s a list i rather like that was made by an autistic person – their blog is also a good resource) • having a good amount of general knowledge and actually talking about it (i cannot believe that i have to say this) • talking about things outside of special interests (again…. come on……….) (special interests are usually the default things our brains go to when theres no stimulation or we want to entertain ourselves – it isn’t literally all we think or talk about ever. if a conversation has no connections to a special interest, reconsider having your autistic character bring it up in a context that is not an introduction.) • explicitly expressed to be capable of attraction and romantic feelings – if your character is an adult, add sexual feelings to this point • capable of general functioning, just with a disability that makes it more difficult – not a walking disability (….sigh) • a wide amount of feelings and emotional turmoil (but perhaps only being able to express it in limited ways) • we’re people • just people whose brains are wired differently

things to avoid in research for an autistic character

• autism moms / autism blogs and websites not run by autistic people • any affiliation with autism $peaks means you should walk away and never look back • a scientist trying to create explanations for what autistic people do without actually asking / not mentioning asking autistic people • anything about a cure for autism • a person that “worked with autistic kids” phrased in the same way as “worked with animals” • talking about autistic people as if they are mysteries, are like animals, or are otherwise othered weirdos instead of people

things to look for in research for an autistic character

• actual autistic people talking about their experiences and symptoms • just stick to that and you’re good but it’s hard to find sometimes ngl. just look for the above red flags

things i would personally like to see in an autistic character

• less easy to swallow sadness and more destructive anger. i would love to see a canonically autistic character who was frustrated easily by small things and had trouble communicating why • not a story about being autistic, a story that happens to have a character or characters who are autistic – it isn’t pointed out or questioned, they’re right at home with the rest of the cast and not othered (a la symmetra from overwatch) • intensive sensory issues / small sounds making large reactions • clear communications about not liking x sensory thing (for example being touched) • poor motor skills / clumsiness and not being laughed at for it • walking funny (body bent downwards, walking very fast, walking slowly, big strides, shuffling, stiffness, etc)  – no one treats it as if it’s funny or something totally strange • a big personality that has a presence so they can’t be cast aside (but feel free to have quiet characters too) – if this was along with being nonverbal they would probably leap to being one of my favorite characters ever • a fear of asking for clarification on sarcasm or jokes because of past experiences and an arc about the character becoming more comfortable asking questions

>> if any fellow autistic people want to add something, feel free <<

allistics are encouraged to rb this

[shades-of-blue-ff]

Hi there.

This is Amy, your friendly author for Midnight Blue and Azure (which hasn’t been published yet but it’s already in the works.)

A few of my readers (okay. exactly two. look at the lengths I go to for you, people!) expressed a wish to see behind the scenes of the fanfic. Since I keep detailed notes anyway, I though I could give it a shot. Si here it goes.

Thanks for reading me, folks. You have no idea how much I appreciate it.

Thank you so, so much.

[amythewicked]

Just gonna leave this here as a blatant self-publicity.

[amythewicked]

Writer's curse.

[littleturtleduck]

I edited the new Winter Soldier poster a little to make Natasha look a little less like a mannequin and a little more like a kick-ass assassin.

Original on the top, my edit in the middle, and a nifty comparison gif on the bottom.

[electricalice]

oh look! ANATOMY!!!!

[becausehiddles]

Tom Hiddleston’s screen test for Thor [x]

[amythewicked]

Man that is weird. Kinda glad he got Loki after all.

[amythewicked]

me: what's so terrible about Germany that they'd send me a Travel Advisory regarding it!?

colleague: *dead serious voice* German women.

everybody: *dies of laughter*

[writerswritecompany]

The Top 10 Best Opening Lines Of Novels 1. Cat’s Eye, Margaret Atwood, 1998 “Time is not a line but a dimension, like the dimensions of space.” 2. Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury, 1953 “It was a pleasure to burn.” 3. Gone With The Wind, Margaret Mitchell, 1936 “Scarlett O’Hara was not beautiful, but men seldom realized it when caught by her charm as the Tarleton twins were.” 4. The Gunslinger, Stephen King, 1982 “The man in Black fled across the Desert, and the Gunslinger followed.” 5. The Hobbit, J. R. R. Tolkien, 1937 “In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. 6. Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov, 1955 “Lolita. Light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul.” 7. Middlesex, Jeffrey Eugenides, 2002 “I was born twice: first, as a baby girl, on a remarkably smogless Detroit day in January of 1960; and then again, as a teenage boy, in an emergency room near Petoskey, Michigan, in August of 1974.” 8. Peter and Wendy, J. M. Barrie, 1911 “All children, except one, grow up.” 9. Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen, 1813 “It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.” 10. Slaughterhouse-Five, Kurt Vonnegut, 1969 “All this happened, more or less.”

by Meredith Borders via LitReactor

[amythewicked]

I'd add Leo Toltoy's: "Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way." from Anna Karenina, 1873-1877.

(Also this list is very English-centric, let's add some more quotes from non-English writers!)

[missjia]

ADORABLE little girl meets her daddy’s twin for the first time & gets CONFUSED! HILARIOUS!!!!!

[theartistformerlyknownastheart]

[cumberbum]

Removed the text from the CQ cover. Please link back if you’re going to use it.

[forgivenalwaysandcompletely]

[nunlaser]

this gifset is very important.

[amythewicked]