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28. She/her. Icon by @ponypokez, header done by me. Apart from drawing I also write, over-analyze my current hyper-fixations and think of fics I never finish

[nooneinnportant]

I don't want to say that every single person who dares to critique or hate a female character is inherently a misogynist. People are allowed to have their opinions without it being directly linked to some external issue.

But. I have seen some people hate Jasnah for the EXACT SAME reasons that they loooveee male characters like Dalinar. "But she killed all those people in that alley that one time." GOOD. I hope she does it again.

Nothing, and i mean NOTHING Jasnah has ever done or will ever do can even come close to the atrocities Dalinar has committed. Yet she's the one that gets hated on??

"We want more complex female characters!" And you couldn't even handle her. You couldn't even handle her.

[candymay]

Mind you it was just a talent show night at a beautiful italian villa they did NOT need to do all of this at all

[shymagnolia]

so I got into grad school today with my shitty 2.8 gpa and the moral of the story is reblog those good luck posts for the love of god

[shymagnolia]

okay so i just got my dream job??? a week after applying to it?? and now i’m thinking….maybe this is the good luck post

[flagellant]

…..not even six hours later i got an offer of a well paying full time long-term job with free room and board in queens in nyc, allowing me independence and a way to escape an abusive situation and an unhealthy environment

likes charge reblogs cast, folks, this is the good luck post

[coffee-or-hot-cocoa]

i need all the help i can get for finals

[finnglas]

Hey so

the last time I reblogged this post right before I got a great job, in a permanent work-from-home position, with benefits, retirement, and a salary literally 3x what I was making before, doing something I really like. 

So you know. 

This might be the real one, y’all.

[ach-sss-no]

when brandon sanderson talks about villains in his famous free youtube writing class video lectures he'll say 'what's the difference between gollum and sauron' and of course he means the villain that's present in the narrative and characterized in a way the audience can potentially relate to or sympathize with vs. the looming threatening anonymous far-off force (among other things). but every time he asks that i think 'well one of those guys tracked down frodo and got his ring back'

[mysteryteacup]

Brandon Sanderson: What's the difference between Gollum and Sauron?

OP: Skill issue.

[swagspren]

I love Kaladin from szeths pov bc it’s the only time he seems his age. Szeth doesn’t think him a hero or powerful enemy he’s just some fucking annoying guy who plays shitty flute 20 yards away from him every evening and insists on making a soup he invariably gets upset with

[teliimus]

Every time someone calls Shallan’s sense of humor cringe without realizing that it is part of her character… an angel loses its wings… my brother in Vorinism, she’s a 19-20 year old (in earth years) girl who spent all of her life in a horribly abusive household and developed her humor as a coping mechanism to make herself and her brothers feel better about living with The Worst Guy Ever. She’s not meant to be amazingly funny. She tells dumb dad jokes and that’s so stupidly endearing. Do u not get it. Kaladin is allowed to be cringe with his emo boy dialogue and no one complains about it…. Why can’t she……. The story is about 20 year olds Doing Their Best of course they’re going to be cringe

[determinedskipping]

my favorite fraud shallan diva-r and a bonus veil

[mageglassess]

Ok guys

Guys you gotta hear me out

Hear me out on this one

Guys

If/when the cosmere gets an animated series, they GOTTA do this thing

Make every planet have different artstyles, like in spiderverse's different dimensions

Every shard influences the people it has power over differently

And you can see what planet worldhoppers are from, but this doesn't affect the plot

Guys please spread my genius

[chilliesh]

Hi adolin... long time no see...

Inprnt | redbubble

Details!!

[dreamquestofunknownkadath]

One of my favorite genres of post

[dreamquestofunknownkadath]

[vanilla-kitty]

[sylveondreams]

i gotta show yall a our discord classic

[kyotospartyart]

Continuing the Baldur saga!

My takeaway is that men are a bit less exciting. Or maybe it's just every non-Karlach character who is less exciting. I am indeed biased.

[iselpehache]

Three Hearts In Halves - Update!

It's been... a while. Phew. A few weeks ago, I stumbled on this fic again, I read everything I had -uploaded and yet to upload- and I decided to give it another try. I don't know if I'll finish it or not, because I can tell you it still has a long way to go, but I really like this idea and at least I wanted to make another attempt.

So, for those of you who don't know, chapters 19 and 20 have been recently uploaded to AO3. Today, I'm also uploading chapter 21 and, although I won't promise anything, I will try to upload every two weeks (or at least at a better pace, rather than a few chapters every 4 years).

As always, if you have something to say or ask, you can hit me up here as well as in AO3's comment section :) See you around!

[ahumanbeena]

Did you know that after they switched to blind auditions, major symphony orchestras hired women between 30% to 55% more? Before bringing in “blind auditions” with a screen to conceal the the candidate, women in the top 5 major orchestras made up less than 5% of the musicians performing.

[shwetanarayan-deactivated202504]

so I believe it was actually more complicated than that, in interesting ways. Because at first, when they did blind auditions, they were STILL hiring more men.

…Then they put down a carpet, so that high heels didn’t clack on the floor,  and BOOM women were suddenly getting hired.

The testers didn’t even know that’s what they were picking up on, which just goes to show how tiny of a cue it takes for misogyny to kick in.

[isaacsapphire]

The case of blind auditions for orchestras and how it dramatically changed the gender makeup of orchestras is a very illuminating example of gender bias, and an interesting possible way of countering it.

[small-witch-big-hat]

You can be sexist without knowing it. You can be racist without knowing it. This is not a moral failing; it is a moral imperative to remember that you are fallible, and take steps to limit the damage your squishy ape brain’s foibles can cause.

[mindfulwrath]

The final chapter in Malcolm Gladwell’s Blink (2005) describes this in detail.

What you don’t usually hear about when discussing this blind audition process is that after the blind auditions were implemented, when women had gotten many positions in the orchestra, men no longer saw being a member as prestigious and the salaries for the entire orchestra dropped.

[madeinthecosmere]

One of my favorite things about Sanderson's books is that when you start one you never know what completely normal thing you're going to stop being normal about by the time you finish it. Sometimes it's rock stacking. Sometimes it's metals. Sometimes it's crabs. Sometimes it's a very stubborn stick.

[fckmyylife]

they were made for barbieland

[lamaery]

I don't know what it is about your Kaladin that I just want to hug him and tell him it's okay he can cry

He is a very sad, sad man. I am looking forward to be able to draw him in better days. But I would be lying if I say that I don't enjoy visualizing his misery. Let's have self-care Kaladin as a treat in-between.

[dkettchen]

I'm just sAYING-