With a Dash of Flamethrower

Hi, you can call me Julie. This is my personal blog, which means a little bit of everything will be on here at any given time, but I warn you that there is an awful lot of Glee, Klaine, Chris Colfer and Crisscolfer on here, as well as (lately) an awful lot of Veronica Mars and Harry Potter. I'm a PROUD Hufflepuff. Sometimes I write. It makes my day when people talk to me, so PLEASE message me about anything all! c: HUFFLEPUFF { wear }

[recommend]

Ikea recreated the living rooms from ‘The Simpsons,’ ‘Stranger Things,’ and ‘Friends’ and you can buy everything (x)

[squided]

you enter my house and it is only these three living rooms nothing else

[lushywitch]

my all black cat is licking my tarot cards for no reason and if they aren’t charged as hell after that i’m gonna lose faith 

[lushywitch]

i don’t know what it is about my cards but he still does this semi regularly 10 months later and my readings have never been better

[1-800-witchiest-moved]

Favorite charging method: Cat

[rosemarywaterwitch]

i love this

[talesfromyourlocalcashier]

Customer: *threatens me by saying she’d like to talk to my supervisor*

Me: Oh sure, you mean the guy I’ve been through customer service hell with? The guy I see every day and have worked with for the past two years? The guy whose family members and pets names I know off the top of my head? My buddy? My friend who is definitely not going to take the side of some crazy b**** throwing a tantrum in a supermarket because the sale on pears ended 2 months ago over me? Yeah, I’ll call him.

[wintersbookofmagic]

A tarot deck where The Fool is just a tiny mirror that reflects your face

[tinyrosed]

Important tiny dan

[theonion]

[coaztal]

Legitimately one of my favorite Onion articles

[gondwana]

God I love Ohio this gas pump has a teeny tiny little screen on it and all it does is show teeny tiny little bible verses on it and boy they’re the ominous ones

[gondwana]

A gas station pump telling you you’re a tresspasser in gods territory is like. American Gothic Satire.

[digitaldiscipline]

Ohio is God’s territory because nobody else wants it.

[sinkingtothebottom-deactivated2]

[libraford]

"If you dabble in things like tarot that are not of The Lord, then you invite demons."

Uuuuuuuh.... sure.

[cat-bat]

[powerfulwizard]

I’m at goodwill right now and there is a frame with a picture of an fucking outhouse on it with “home is where your hearts are” written next to it

[powerfulwizard]

[bisexualwario]

cass have you seen a single proverbial hornets nest on this site that you haven’t immediately swung at with full force

[powerfulwizard]

you gotta swing hard to be hard

[frognonbinary-deactivated202412]

i’ve been doing my homework on how to break into a writing career and honestly. there’s a Lot that i didn’t know about thats critical to a writing career in this day and age, and on the one hand, its understandable because we’re experiencing a massive cultural shift, but on the other hand, writers who do not have formal training in school or don’t have the connections to learn more via social osmosis end up extremely out of loop and working at a disadvantage. 

[frognonbinary-deactivated202412]

like, i didnt know about twitter pitch parties!! i didnt know about literary agents and publishers tweeting their manuscript wishlist, in hopes that some poor soul out there has written the book they really want to read and publish!! this isnt some shit you learn about in school! you really need to know the ins and outs of the writing community to be successful! 

[frognonbinary-deactivated202412]

for anyone interested, here’s what i’ve learned so far in my quest for more writing knowledge:

1. Writer’s Market 2019 is a great place to start– it gives you a list of magazines and journals that you can send your work to depending on the genre as well as lists a shit ton of literary agents that specify what genres they represent, how you can get in contact with them and how they accept query letters. this is a book that updates every year and tbh i only bought it this year so i dont know how critical it is to have an updated version  

2. do your research. mostly on literary agents because if you listed on your site that you like to represent fluffy YA novels and some asshole sends you a 80k manuscript about like…gritty viking culture, you will be severely pissed off. always go in finding someone who you know will actually like your work because they’re the ones who will try to advocate for you in getting published.

3. learn how to write a query letter. there are slightly varying formulas to how you can write an effective query letter. you’re also going to want to get feedback on your query letter because its the first thing the literary agent will read and based on how well you do it, it could be the difference between them rejecting you outright and giving your manuscript a quick read

4. unfortunately, you’re gonna want to get a twitter. Twitter is where a lot of literary agents are nowadays, and they host things like twitter pitch parties, where you pitch your manuscript in a few sentences and hashtag it with #Pitmad #Pitdark, some version of pit. a lot of literary agents and publishers will ALSO post their manuscript wishlists, which is just the kind of books they’d like to represent/publish, and they hashtag this with #MSWL (it is NOT for writers to use, only for agents/publishers)

5. connect with other writers, literary agents, publishers at book events. you will absolutely need the connections if you want to get ahead as a writer. thats just kind of the state of the world.

[promptsforthesoul]

[mintycanoodles]

listening to no good deed and thank goodness on repeat put me in a mood

[purplethedragon]

one of those days…

[weddingbellklaine]

You were at the Listen Up Nashville concert? Can you tell us about hearing "I Don't Mind" please? The videos I've seen are very compelling. The audience seemed hushed.

I was in Nashville for the Listen Up Tour. Darren singing “I Don’t Mind” was something that I can’t put into words. The crowd was completely silent. You could hear a pin drop. It was something magical IMO and I think everyone in that room felt blessed he chose Nashville to debut that song. I truly hope that song ends up on Darren’s eventual album. 

And regardless of the theories about him pulling out his cell phone for the performance (which he never once looked at after he placed it on his thigh), I think everyone can agree that it is a phenomenal song. I’ve not heard one single negative word about it. Nothing but positives.

[crissncolfer]

[cute-animals-only]

[thefingerfuckingfemalefury]

“Come with me

I shall teach you how to cat”

[pixiebutterandjelly-deactivated]

Big cat: Everything the light touches belongs to us

Tiny cat: what about the shadowy stuff

Big cat: that also belongs to us. Everything belongs to us.

[pareidoliaklaine]

Melanie [Valerie Bertinelli]: Have you ever acted before?

Tony [Chris Colfer]: No, but how hard can it be? Acting is just pretending to listen to your director and sleeping with the other actors, right?