[courtdraws]

9 loaves, the feline bakery! (click for hq)

[digivolvin]

dear young creative people,

please don’t post your concepts on here unless you intend for them to become free domain. 

if you’re an artist or a writer and you think out loud like “what if there was a story where [original concept] happened?” somebody will take it and write it for you. somebody will draw it. somebody might make a kickstarter and get it funded without ever crediting you. if that’s your intent, that’s great. but really, don’t post your ideas if you want to be the one to make them happen. 

way too often i’ve seen someone start musing about a concept and then 10 replies later someone has drawn art and developed a novel around it, without the OP ever saying they could. hell, movies are being made off of tumblr posts at this point. 

so 1) if you’re a creator and want your ideas to stay your own, be cautious! it might be tempting to get the immediate validation, but i promise you it’ll be more rewarding to see your own idea to fruition than to get 50-100k notes of people who borrow your thoughts and forget you were ever the source.

and 2) if you see someone throwing their ideas around, don’t write/draw/expand on them until you’ve been given permission.

[vampireapologist-archive-deacti]

Cannot stress this enough!! I’ve had a few fun ideas about Vampires, thinking I’d never use them. literally over 1 million notes combined later, comic, fanfics, and short stories, I’m sitting here actually writing a book of Vampire short stories, and I’m like! I hope I beat all those people to actually publishing something, because it was MY idea. Whoops!!!

[digivolvin]

and then you have buzzfeed and facebook out there yanking our text posts without credit, so our ideas are getting spread much further than our cultivated blogging platforms. smfh!

[chescaleigh]

if it’s too late and an idea/phrase of yours is going viral, spend $10 and buy a domain before someone else does. use the domain to redirect to your original post and include your contact info for licensing/hiring purposes.

also watermark your videos/photos with your twitter handle or website domain. if someone rips your clip & it goes viral you want people to know where to find you.

[chackiin]

[violentwavesofemotion-deactivat]

It is so important. To be proud of the person one loves. It is essential. It is deep, deep. There’s no wound more bitter to love than not be able to be proud of the other. It is the unpardonable offence, I think.

Katherine Mansfield, from a letter to Dorothy Brett written c. October 1927 (via violentwavesofemotion)

[bostonpoetryslam]

I think that people have this idea of poetry with a capital P that is very outdated, and it’s white, very male, and very digestible. That’s not the power of poetry—the power of poetry is to be able to respond to real life and to politics and to one’s body and the most intimate thoughts; to render it in a way that is surprising and sonically interesting, and allowing the reader to feel playful in language, and to push the limits of what language can do.

Morgan Parker, interviewed by Sydney Gore for Nylon (via bostonpoetryslam)

[forestbeasty-deactivated2017110]

scarlet

[peppermintsdicks]

me: “i love to draw! it’s such a fun, relaxing hobby!”

me:

[minimalistgrufti]

@love.little.sampsons

[tastefullyoffensive]

(via meanboysclub)

[millennial-review-deactivated20]

[lasturlontheleft]

“lol is everything offensive these days?”

[wrovv-deactivated20191106]

[x]

[visvya]

[gyarados]

You’re welcome

[lady-gorthaur]

This is the most useful thing I’ve ever reblogged.

[danwasonfireonce]

i used to think when people said my cousin twice removed that their cousin must’ve did some fucked up shit to get kicked out of the family twice

[colivertrash]

whoa i hardly ever go on here anymore and dude my url lol i haven’t watched htgawm in so long i’m just a mess rn and also i have a kidney infection and am probably withdrawing from my classes even though it’s the last week heya 

[thenatsdorf]

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[lilpicassa-deactivated20180724]

OH MY GODDDD

[swank-bc]