darbyshire

hi. im chesca and i like reading books and watching youtubers and tv shows

[karlaosouzadaily]

Karla Souza photographed by Pablo Castillo

[anakkin]

me: i’m a strong, confident, independent woman who don’t need no man boys: roll up the sleeves of their hoodies me: [softly] what the fuck

[b00kstorebabe-deactivated201709]

tfw when you’re reading an exciting part of your book and your eyes keep jumping ahead and skimming paragraphs bc you’re so desperate to know what happens and you’re like hey self, calm down, take it easy and enjoy the ride.

[historyy]

things to normalise

- gay parents - female masturbation - guys showing emotion - they/them pronouns

[alkjira]

-periods -women in positions of power -gender neutrality -adoption

[zorrabelle]

-breast feeding

[ogsplendapapi]

-men supporting each other emotionally

[alltheworld-willbeyours]

So, my whole life I thought my favorite color was purple. “What’s your favorite color?” “Purple.” Always. That was my answer. And it wasn’t a lie. I truly believed my favorite color was purple.

And then my sophomore year of high school, someone I had just met in art class asked me if my favorite color was green. I have her a weird look and responded, “no, purple.” She shook her head “nope, you literally wear something green every day. Your favorite color is definitely green.” And I laughed it off. We’ve been friends ever since, and she hasn’t let it go. “Where’s the green?” “There’s the green!” And I never thought twice about it.

But lately I’ve started noticing that my closet is full of green clothes. And while I do find the color purple very beautiful, I actually prefer green. And I find the color green just, very attractive. And I realized that green is my fucking favorite color.

This makes it sound like green being my favorite color was forced upon me, but honestly it was nothing like that. Green has always been my favorite color, I was just not able to see it and accept it.

And I’ve also recently realized that when I write this short story, you could replace a few choice words and this would be the explanation of how I realized I was gay.

[fallenangels2000]

Please read this entire thing

[princenaveen]

Human screentime of Disney PoC characters in 3 of the last 6 PoC-lead WDAS films

*sips her tea*

[reign-sl]

That’s what I said

[misterclarkrogers-deactivated07]

oh no

[twofacetoo]

It’s funny how there’s still ‘pee-oh-see‘ (let that phrase fucking die) characters in Disney movies who ARE HUMAN FOR LITERALLY THE ENTIRE FILM

But hey, you wanna know who else wasn’t human for the majority of their movie?

CAPTAIN WHITEBOY MCFURRY HERE

TRANSFORMATION IS A PLOT POINT OLDER THAN FICTION ITSELF

IT’S NOT RACIST.

GET OVER IT.

GO OUTSIDE.

[thebuttkingpost-deactivated2021]

I find this especially funny since literally every character in the emperor’s new groove is the same race as kuzko

[gravity-engineer]

Newsflash, everyone in Kuzko is Peruvian.

[tony-starkesarchive]

The Most Important Scene.

Or the scene in which we are all Jim:

[atiredgemini]

[sprigday-remade]

School was over and summer stretched before them. Gansey had bid for a gap year and won; Henry had already planned on one. It was all convenient, as Blue had spent months planning how to cheaply hike across the country post-graduation, destination: life. It was better with company. It was better with three.

[insrgence]

<blockquote><b>Aristotle and Dante discover the secrets of the universe

[ironinkpen]

writers:

break up your paragraphs. big paragraphs are scary, your readers will get scared

fuuuuck epithets. “the other man got up” “the taller woman sat down” “the blonde walked away” nahhh. call them by their names or rework the sentence. you can do so much better than this (exception: if the reader doesn’t know the character(s) you’re referring to yet, it’s a-okay to refer to them by an identifying trait)

blunette is not a thing

new speaker, new paragraph. please.

“said” is such a great word. use it. make sweet love to it. but don’t kill it

use “said” more than you use synonyms for it. that way the use of synonyms gets more exciting. getting a sudden description of how a character is saying something (screaming, mumbling, sighing) is more interesting that way.

if your summary says “I suck at summaries” or “story better than summary” you’re turning off the reader, my dude. your summary is supposed to be your hook. you gotta own it, just like you’re gonna own the story they’re about to read

follow long sentences w short ones and short ones w long ones. same goes for paragraphs

your writing is always better than you think it is. you just think it’s bad because the story’s always gonna be predicable to the one who’s writing it

i love u guys keep on trucking

[ironinkpen]

say your dialogue out loud and see if it flows like an actual conversation two real people would have

keep your vocab relatively simple. trust me on this. if your reader has to keep toggling between your story and dictionary.com, you’re alienating them, not showing off your “writing prowess.” It’s okay to throw in a few fancy words in once in a while to spruce things up, but don’t use things like “he extrapolated” too often

synonyms are great, but don’t go overboard. instead of “he pronounced, retrieving the container” just say “he said, picking up the box.” again, keep it simple

doesn’t matter how in love they are. they still need lube

if the only thing carrying your plot is an easy-to-fix minor miscommunication/misunderstanding, you might wanna throw something else in there to keep your reader on their toes

describe accents, but try not to put them into dialogue. “Iz cold up een Russia”??? just tell your reader the dude has a russian accent and have him talk

ur all beautiful and i still love u

[gqansey]

@sunsetters

[sunsetters-deactivated20190612]

@gqansey

[starrose17]

Walking to work going past my Pokemon gym that I’ve owned undefeated for the past week and I see a kid sitting by it obviously battling my Golbat I left to defend it. I ask him, “What team you on?” He looks up, “Mystic”. So I grin, “I’m Valor, and that’s my Golbat you’re battling.” I hold out my hand for him to shake, “Name’s StarRose, gym leader.” He looks down at the username of the Golbat and sees it matches, grins back and shakes my hand, and that is simultaneously the coolest and dorkiest moment in my life ever as I genuinely introduce myself as a pokemon gym leader.

[starrose17]

I WALK HOME FROM WORK AND THE LITTLE SHIT HAS TAKEN OVER MY GYM!!!!!

[yourstory]

There are moments that the words don’t reach There is suffering too terrible to name

[anatomygrey]

That’s what makes it h a r d.

[adriansydney]

Ghost, Halsey

[emariedraws]

this might literally be my favorite scene in the whole series

bless this friendship

[jadedsea]

Finally finished my TRC inspired 360 book! Surprisingly, I never cut myself in the process.

*An added bonus: for anyone who is interested, check out this video to get the full effect!  https://youtu.be/AGvry3LUe1U