Life, as I know it

Life is a pie, and I'm dishing it up, one slice at a time.

[mcnallykids]

Ursula K. Le Guin refuses to blurb a story collection with no female writers. 

“Gentlemen, I just don’t belong here.” This is what a badass sounds like. 

[bookavore]

100% perfect letter.

[elysemarshall]

Best.

[ebbzster]

What a fearless leader looks like. 😏

[ebbzster]

"He who smelt it, dealt it racism??" - Jon Stewart, on the Ferguson travesty on The Daily Show http://thedailyshow.cc.com/videos/qtvov3/race-off---live-from-somewhere

[thegroupiewitch-deactivated2019]

[ebbzster]

Block’s wife, the writer Veronica Belmont, called Comcast to cancel the current service because the household was switching to Astound. Per Block’s explanation: “The representative (name redacted) continued aggressively repeating his questions, despite the answers given, to the point where my wife became so visibly upset she handed me the phone. “What I did not know is how oppressive this conversation would be. Within just a few minutes the representative had gotten so condescending and unhelpful I felt compelled to record the speakerphone conversation on my other phone.

[brokeymcpoverty-blog]

A Definitive Ranking Of Old School Dances From The 80s And 90s

[bookgeekconfessions]

[hard-on-for-hiddleston]

[ebbzster]

One of my fave scenes in the film

[notsaulgoodmans-blog]

[ebbzster]

Really need to do a rewatch of Firefly. Captain my captain.

[mariahcareydaily]

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#Fitspiration for my daily workouts. Don't wanna be skinny, just healthy and fit.

[xavir-blog]

inspired by { this } beautiful post

[ebbzster]

Love this collection o' gifs

[neil-gaiman]

How do you know if a story should be told in first-person or third-person limited perspective? I've been struggling with a story I've been working on forever trying to figure out which route to take.

I still haven’t figured it out. I wrote the first chapter of AMERICAN GODS in first person, then sighed and unpicked it, and put it into third person, because I felt we always had to see Shadow from outside.

[ebbzster]

The first question I ask myself whenever I start to write a story...

[samesonic-differentdoctor]

If you’re a fan of Doctor Who or Community, you would know about Inspector Spacetime. For those of you who don’t know Inspector Spacetime is a parody of Doctor Who that was featured in the show Community (and has spurned its own fandom since it was introduced). 

The episode that this was taken from is the third episode of the fourth season (Conventions of Space and Time) where the study group go to InSpecTiCon. During the episode Pierce and Shirley join a focus group for the American remake of Inspector Spacetime. And then this gem is said. 

During my rewatch I noticed how much this one sentence explains why I, and many others, watch Doctor Who. It’s not only about the time and space travel, it’s about the clever plot twists, the pseudo science that doesn’t sound like pseudo science and the fact that it isn’t straight forward. But the part that I want focus on the most is the last gif

and doesn’t talk down to its audience

That is the best way to describe it, Doctor Who doesn’t treat its audience like they’re unintelligent or dimwitted and it never over explains concepts. But what I found the most interesting is that the Moffat era is the one that fits this description almost perfectly (I haven’t finished watching Classic Who so I’m not going to include it my statement). The Moffat era is full of smart twists that may seem complicated, but it’s only because we’ve grown accustomed to the somewhat simplistic and not so timey-wimey RTD era. I’m not saying that the RTD era was not clever, but it didn’t make me think all that much. But on the other hand, the Moffat era was far more complex and yet I didn’t need an explanation, I didn’t feel like I was too stupid not to comprehend what was going on.

Because everything was explained, but not blatantly. It was subtle hints and chances to make up your own conclusions about things. Some say lazy writing, I say not exactly. Why? Because it makes the fans think, to theorise about events and most of all, it makes you seem like you’re clever because you’re the one who came up with it (when you’re actually not because all the clues were there). With RTD’s era I felt like everything had to be explained for the purpose of the audience. And often times, it was the Doctor explaining to the companion who acts as a stand in for the audience. Yes, there were times when they would figure things out before the Doctor, but I mean there was just a tendency to over explain things sometimes. 

Back on topic, I believe that the Moffat era really grasps this concept perfectly, I feel like the show isn’t going downhill, but rather going back to some roots. And that is a really fantastic thing to see. Basically tl;dr I feel like Moffat gets a lot of hate for something that he’s actually doing a pretty good job at because when I sit down to watch Doctor Who I don’t feel like I’m getting a watered down basic version of a story, I’m getting the full experience with all the twists and paradoxes. Has anyone else noticed that Moffat is a fan of paradoxes?

[samesonic-differentdoctor]

#i don’t know if it’s fair to say rtd didn’t make me think as much  #moffat’s stories generally require more puzzling  #but a lot of rtd’s stories seemed really satirical and harshly critical of our current society  #by showing us the logical conclusion of some problematic aspects of our culture  #moffat doesn’t go in for that stuff as much  #which isn’t a criticism  #he just prefers to play with time and space and paradoxes  #whereas rtd never really did so much with that sort of thing  #they both have their strengths in storytelling i wish people would stop forcing others to choose one or the other  #and defend their choice til the death  (X)

This post is getting quite a bit of traction lately and I’m only realising now that I wrote it in a bit of a hurry. Which means I didn’t explain myself well. The tags above have pointed out a mistake that I just want to rectify with regards to my wording. When I said that RTD’s stories didn’t make me think I was talking about the fact that he didn’t really utilise the space/time aspect of the show. I love Russell’s era and what I loved about it was that it was more of a statement on the society that we live in today. And he does do it better than Moffat, because that’s what he’s good at. Although, I prefer Moffat’s way of writing personally, I don’t want anyone else’s opinion on who they prefer to change. I made this post to just explain why I think Moffat doesn’t deserve the amount of hate he gets on this website, but I wasn’t trying to bring down RTD in the process (which it may sound like to a few people). 

[ilovemykaopheliabering]

Allison Mack Sings at Megacon, 2014-03-21

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THIS. Day making stuff right there. Love Allison Mack!

[isntthatwizard]

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Is it august yet??

[bookgeekconfessions]

[hard-on-for-hiddleston]

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One of my fave scenes in the film

[notsaulgoodmans-blog]

[ebbzster]

Really need to do a rewatch of Firefly. Captain my captain.