Throne Of Fiction

Raine |19| Sarah J. Mass fangirling and fan art

[chloelovesu]

[neenarchive]

fantasy could be the best genre but unfortunately there are too many weird horny men writing it

[antique-symbolism]

[witchesversuspatriarchy]

Sirens (and other supernatural creatures like this)

[valleyhowler]

me: *wailing dramatically in a long Victorian dress with a lit candelabra down one of the many dimly lit corridors of my gothic mansion at midnight*

my spouse: *turning on the hall light* we fucking talked about this

[one-time-i-dreamt]

Okay, I need like 50 right away! Found them on Amazon in case anyone wants to check them out.

Amazon.com : Myard Fireproof Imitated Human Fire Pit Skull Gas Log for NG, LP Wood Fireplace, Firepit, Campfire, Halloween Decor, BBQ (Qty 1

[visionaryness]

I mean I just use regular skulls…

[alsedes]

Right? It’s like buying a bag of pine cones. It’s sad people are too lazy to just bleach the skulls of their slain enemies anymore. Go outside! Plunder a city!

[creepled]

If you can’t harvest your own human skulls, store bought is fine.

[neutralgoof]

Millennials are killing the skull harvesting business

[dankmemeuniversity]

[dragonagegenerator]

ancient god (self-diagnosed)

[grlreign]

no cool girls in 2019. only nagging harpies and hysterical bitches allowed

[flower-swift]

you can’t spell disappointment without men.

[deariohn]

just say you hate successful women and go

[stumbleonhometomycats]

full offense, but, I Did Something Bad makes me want to put on lingerie and heels and beat up every man who has ever wronged me 

[taylorswift]

For years I asked, pleaded for a chance to own my work. Instead I was given an opportunity to sign back up to Big Machine Records and ‘earn’ one album back at a time, one for every new one I turned in. I walked away because I knew once I signed that contract, Scott Borchetta would sell the label, thereby selling me and my future. I had to make the excruciating choice to leave behind my past. Music I wrote on my bedroom floor and videos I dreamed up and paid for from the money I earned playing in bars, then clubs, then arenas, then stadiums. 

Some fun facts about today’s news: I learned about Scooter Braun’s purchase of my masters as it was announced to the world. All I could think about was the incessant, manipulative bullying I’ve received at his hands for years. 

Like when Kim Kardashian orchestrated an illegally recorded snippet of a phone call to be leaked and then Scooter got his two clients together to bully me online about it. (See photo) Or when his client, Kanye West, organized a revenge porn music video which strips my body naked. Now Scooter has stripped me of my life’s work, that I wasn’t given an opportunity to buy. Essentially, my musical legacy is about to lie in the hands of someone who tried to dismantle it.

This is my worst case scenario. This is what happens when you sign a deal at fifteen to someone for whom the term ‘loyalty’ is clearly just a contractual concept. And when that man says ‘Music has value’, he means its value is beholden to men who had no part in creating it. 

When I left my masters in Scott’s hands, I made peace with the fact that eventually he would sell them. Never in my worst nightmares did I imagine the buyer would be Scooter. Any time Scott Borchetta has heard the words ‘Scooter Braun’ escape my lips, it was when I was either crying or trying not to. He knew what he was doing; they both did. Controlling a woman who didn’t want to be associated with them. In perpetuity. That means forever. 

Thankfully, I am now signed to a label that believes I should own anything I create. Thankfully, I left my past in Scott’s hands and not my future. And hopefully, young artists or kids with musical dreams will read this and learn about how to better protect themselves in a negotiation. You deserve to own the art you make.

I will always be proud of my past work. But for a healthier option, Lover will be out August 23. 

Sad and grossed out,

💔

Taylor

[deadcatwithaflamethrower]

people I still want to stab over a decade later:

Creative Writing Professor at a former college: Welcome to creative writing! By the way, you will not write fantasy, ghost stories, pranormal, or science fiction in this class, as this is a creative writing course.”

[morgynleri]

What the ever loving fuck is with “creative” writing professors who think that speculative fiction of any stripe ISN’T CREATIVE?

[thebibliosphere]

I still remember my own creative writing teacher telling me this because he saw the Terry Pratchett book on my desk and got this smug smirk on his face like “aha, gotcha”. He had the nerve to pick it up and call it “popularist fiction”, like somehow being popular and easily accessible made it less inherent in intellectual value.

I had it in my back pack because I did my final thesis on the evolution of mythology and folk tails into fantasy and sci-fi and the societal importance of telling stories (before anyone asks, no I don’t have it, I lost it when I moved continents), and I used Terry Pratchett because there wasn’t a single humanitarian issue the man did not touch on.

Which I told him. And then he kind of floundered and went “ah, well but, it’s…well I mean it’s not exactly high brow”, like neither the fuck was Shakespeare or Dickens you self-important turnip. Dickens was literally selling his stories by the chapter. He was the popular author of his time. Shakespeare was too, he fucking made up words and phrases all the time because the language he needed to express himself didn’t exist in the way he needed it too.

Intellectual elitism is nothing more than a hold over from class warfare and the belief that only certain people should get to be truly educated. And it needs to be smashed.

[10-3-1988]

[succubarbie-deactivated20190205]

i miss the era where rapist and pedophile men were rounded up and slaughtered at a festival in honor of the goddess artemis, protector of girls

[jacksondiesattheend]

Let’s bring that back. How do we do that?

[succubarbie-deactivated20190205]

by rounding up all the rapist and pedophile men and slaughtering them at festivals in honor of the goddess artemis, protector of girls

[samirah-the-valkyrie]

All in favor reblog to round up all the rapists and pedophile men and slaughtering them at festivals in honour of the goddess Artemis,protector of girls

[king-monky]

yeah i understand women. they all want daggers and swords. it’s quite simple really

[siksta]

[nudityandnerdery]

Still some of the best advice I’ve ever read.

[jennipowell]

Wisdom.