The Pier Glass Train

ALL ABOARD!!!! Wasteland Writer is my writing blog. The Gray Divide is my vent blog for D.Gray-man, which is my hell fandom.

[p-h-i-l-o-s]

Clients who want an “expert writer” who will get everything they want exactly how they want it, with zero revisions the very first order, and are only willing to pay the bare minimum of your commission scale:

[the-dodo]

Isn’t it satisfying when big cats fit perfectly in small boxes?

[gaylor-moon]

WHICH ONE OF YALL MADE THIS 😂😂😂

[julieschulerart]

[julieschulerart]

In 1930, Helene Adelaide Shelby patented an apparatus for obtaining criminal confessions.  The police put the suspect into a darkened chamber where they are confronted by a human skeleton with glowing red eyes that questions them with a voice transmitted from the interrogator behind it, through a megaphone in its mouth. A camera concealed in the skull was to record the confessions

[slimy]

WHAT

[creative-classpect]

ANSWER THE SKELETON OF JUSTICE

[spillywolf-deactivated20190920]

Do you ever just wanna pull a Luke Skywalker and disappear to an island in the middle of nowhere and dramatically stare at the ocean for awhile

[novi-la]

Fun Facts about Plants from Your Friendly Botany Major

• Cacti are some of the only plants to photosynthesize from their stems. Their needles are really just modified leaves.

• Avocados are only around because people pollinate and disperse them by hand. The large seed is indigestible to small mammals now. It was originally eaten by giant sloths who would poop them out far away from the parent tree so they can grow. This is called an evolutionary anachronism.

• Banana candy does not taste like bananas because it was designed to taste like the Gros Michel banana which was eaten in the pre-1950s. It was wiped out by a fungus called panama disease. Since bananas are asexual all of them are genetically identical making it easy to wipe them all out at once. However fungus is sexual so it evolves more quickly. This means eventually we may lose the modern banana, the Cavendish, to it as well.

• There are actually three different types of photosynthesis: C3, C4, and CAM. Which type is used depends on the aridness of the environment, and are increasingly more efficient as listed.

• Moss is amazing. The fuzzy part of the moss is called the gametophyte stage and it is haploid meaning it has one set of chromosomes like a sperm or an egg cell in humans. If you look closely, sometimes you will what look like little tiny seeds on stems coming out of the main body. This is the sporophyte stage and it’s diploid, or has two sets of chromosomes, like our body cells. Moss is the oldest type of plant.

• You can usually tell what animal pollinates a plant by the color and shape of its flowers. Red flowers are hardly ever pollinated by bees because bees cannot see red well. Butterfly flowers have long deep centers. Bird pollinated plants can bear weight and are wide and open. Bat pollinated plants usually smell strongly and are darkly colored.

• Almost all American native elms and chestnut trees are extinct because of fungi. Asian chestnut and elm have replaced them, because they are resistant to the strains.

• There is a type of fern that has over 1200 chromosomes. For reference, humans have 46.

• If you shine consistent low level red light on a plant it will grow extremely tall, because red light tells the plant it is being shaded by and competing with other plants. If you shine consistent green light on a plant it will not sprout or die (if already sprouted) because plants absorb red and blue light to use. This is also why plants are green, because the unused green light is reflected back out.

TLDR; Plants are frickin cool and should get as much love as our animal friends.

[maddymayobsesses]

Writing tip

M-most people don’t t-talk like th-this when they st-stutter from n-nerves.

It’s more…it’s more like going back and…and starting over. Maybe repeating some, some words.

Bonus tip: this is ESPECIALLY true in thoughts. Thoughts are a lot more fluid than speech because there’s no physical barrier to get past when they form into words.

[humanityinahandbag]

SO TRUE!!!

Hardly anyone does this from nerves! Ever! In fact, it’s much more realistic to write in actions of hesitation! Swallowing, fidgeting, toying with the hem of your shirt… There are so many actions and uses of dialogue that can convey more than the all too easy and incredibly overused n-nervous s-s-stutter.

Unless a character has an actual stutter, which can be addressed as an intriguing and thought provoking part of their addressed humanity, there’s barely any need for it in terms of adding or relieving the author’s built tension.

It might take more time to add details, but it’s worth it. Don’t subvert to lazy tricks. Wow us with the visuals of a complexity you’ve designed.

[suzie-guru]

As someone with a stutter, I really can’t thank you enough for addressing this. I tend to do both, but the later is MUCH more usual for me. 

[tiger-in-the-flightdeck]

See, I stutter e-e-e-exactly l-l-l-like this when I’m ner-ner-nervous. So d-d-d-do whate-ever comes most naturally for y-y-y-your character.

[shadrow]

The smash hit of the summer.

[alexacadia]

I’M SCREAMING!!!!!!!

[slayfulness]

I’m… shook

[livelegatolagrange-deactivated2]

[strongorcbutch-deactivated20220]

Well I heard this with my own ears and now you must also.

[nest-of-bears-blog]

JESUS

[ookumspookumswastakensomehow]

Y’KNOW WHAT THIS SOUNDS LIKE IT BELONGS IN?

[mothgeist]

[samusisnotasextoy]

[goud-guy-deactivated20160528]

I’ve been lied to the entire game and that bitch ran off with my legacy

[calledforhelp]

Everyone is happy except for that one character that everyone fell in love with in five minutes worth of screen time.

[playghosttrick]

You punch the shit out of your dad, who is the Villain, and then a castle rises in the distance when you win

[silverwitch316]

HE WAS THEIR DAD THE WHOLE TIME

[2rsquared]

Capitalism is eradicated

[invadernav]

Defeat the tornado of darkness in the underwater cabin to write a book.

[i-can-hear-the-empty-sounds]

Your brother is actually an AI trying to save the world from itself.

[rakarchive-deactivated20191109]

A COMMISSION OOOOOOOAHHHHH very glad i got to draw them 2getha

[archive95205-blog]

This Man Did Something That’s Already Expected Of Women But He Gets Extra Praise Cause He’s A Man

[obviouspseudonym]

No. A lot of women don’t go to cosmetology classes to learn how to do hair, they have the experience from growing up-their mom doing their hair, Then experimenting which what they can do themselves. This guy probably had short hair his entire life with no clue on what to do. He didn’t just look up how to do a ponytail, he paid for actual classes so that he could do his little daughters hair in cool and creative ways so that SHE gets the learning experience and learns how to do it her own and then can go to school with fabulous. This is A+ daddy right here, he went above and beyond because he knows that he lack in certain areas where a mom would pick this up. Please don’t destroy nice things that men do simply because they are men and you want to hate them.

[ayesha-on-air]

Please don’t destroy nice things that men do simply because they are men and you want to hate them.

Shots fired.

[armeniangenocidehistory]

Yepraksia Gevorgyan, 110

Armenian genocide: survivors recall events 100 years on

[cataclysmic-writer]

To this day, the quote I read in a survivors biography in 7th grade still haunts me. “Who does now remember the Armenians?” 

You know who said that? Hitler. Adolf Hitler, as a way to justify the Holocaust. Because the world turned a blind eye to the Armenian genocide, he thought the world would turn its back to the Holocaust.

The worst part is, he was right. America, Europe, the governments knew what was going on. And they ignored it. Now, more than ever, remember the Armenians. Remember the Cambodians, Rwandans, Jews. Never again means now.

[bepeu-deactivated20171202]

the void is so kind … we are all just yelling at her n she just sits n listens …

[here-there-be-lesbians]

Reblog to thank the void

[huntydraws]

Friends

[myalgias]

@wrenhaven

[geeeeeeeeeeeeeeenji]

when u cant draw ur favORITE CHARACTER

[titodelcuba-blog]

when you cant draw your owN CHARACTER 

[i-can-hear-the-empty-sounds]

So my personal laptop is dead.  I’m on a family computer, but is slower than a snail.  I’m waiting for it to catch up with my typing.. I’m surprised this hasn’t been complete gibberish.  I feel like Samantha Carter  from that that one episode in SG-1 where a Tok’Ra brings  a device to the SGC she can’t test on a snaked person and and SG-1 gets super powered and she’s typing a million miles an hour and her laptop is just...not able to handle how fast she’s going.

Needless to say, I’m not going to be on much until I can replace my pc.  I’ll try to say book every now and again.  That’s all this computer could handle anyways.