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RIGHT

there’s a lot of people pushing back against “write what you know” as advice for aspiring authors and i would like to speak up in its defence for a moment because i just finished reading a mystery book where the murder weapon was a vicious fighting dog, and in the scene where it was finally revealed we found out that a) the person who had stolen it and was using it to kill people it had been keeping it secret from the police by locking it in his car boot, b) it was an irish wolfhound, c) once freed, it attacked the hardboiled detective across the yard instead of the gormless idiot who had been repeatedly stuffing it in a car boot, and d) its way of attacking the detective in this very dramatic finale was via mighty swipes of its sharp claws, which slashed through his skin like knives

i don’t think this author has seen a dog in his life. i think he might have confused them with lions? write what you know: if you’re writing an animal, be fairly confident that you could point to one in a small child’s pop-up book

emilysidhe

See, the problem with “write what you know” is that WAY TOO MANY writing teachers translate that into “write what you have personal experience of” and people get stuck in really bad writing classes where the teacher will only accept various degrees of memoir. When “write what you know” should really mean “write about things you’re interested in and know stuff about, and do research to cover the holes.”

sportsmancrush

My favourite <3

h0odrich

all I want in my life is peace

tomfordvelvetorchid-deactivated

Hold……..the……queso

sparkitors

With its medley of magical faculty and its ever-changing rotation of Defense Against the Dark Arts professors, Hogwarts could use a little RateMyProfessor action—and we felt obliged to answer the call. If Snape’s rating doesn’t make you laugh out loud, then you have a Horcrux for a heart.

whatlovemeanstome-blog1

Love means being able to see how beautiful they are no matter what they’re doing or how they look.

amargedom

Do you remember when we first met? I thought I had wandered into a dream.

J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings:The Fellowship of the Ring

(via amargedom)

quotemadness

Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return.

Leonardo da Vinci (via quotemadness)

persephoneed

i hate how they gave sirius prison tattoos in the movies like holy fuck all of the inmates are being kept sedated by dementor-induced depression who the fuck is giving people ink

official-azkaban

Dammit dementor jerry is inking them up in the back cells again he has to stop doing this

dat-chem-nerd

This is the best picture

virtuouspagans

whenever I feel bad about having a weird name I remind myself that C.S. Lewis’ middle name was Staples

allieinarden

When I was a kid, one of my family members quoted the first line of Dawn Treader—“There was a boy named Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it"—and I said, “Brave words from a man whose name was Clive Staples Lewis,” and my mom lost it.

awesomenerdyfangirl

THIS POST CHANGED MY LIFE.

timeturnerlord

Hamiltines from the creator himself [x]

lolittlered

So, after listening to the Hamilton soundtrack for like the fifteenth time I decided to look up Hamilton’s last words. I’ve never realized how accurate the characterization was until I read, essentially, “He kept talking for hours after getting shot. Nobody knows his exact last words because he wouldn’t stop talking. The man with so much to say refused to go quietly.”