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[philosophronia]

Hi!!! Hope you’re doing well! Are you still working on your time travel AU?

Hi, anon! I hope you're staying safe as well ❤ I am definitely still working on it. I just haven't had a whole lot of time to sit down and write, unfortunately 😭

[miiriya]

[insiggious]

People have this weird belief that if you're critical of a system or tradition, then it must be because you failed to live up to that system or tradition. The idea of having a principled stance, regardless of whether or not *you* personally benefit from society accepting that stance, is foreign to so many people. And this belief is really fucking important for and beneficial to the elites of this country. If you can get the masses to equate criticizing you and the institutions you control with abject personal failure, congratulations, you've just made yourself immune to accountability

[creekfiend]

Also, as a failure of the education system: we need to spend more time listening to the people our systems leave behind. "Well of course you're critical of this; you failed" should not be a conversation-ender even if it is true.

[autisticeducator]

We shouldn’t be dismissive of those “expected to succeed” by society standards but failed because they can’t function in the way society is set up.

When you try to tell most people that, they get really vicious about it. The phrases “smart but lazy” and “just didn’t try hard enough” start getting used to shut down the conversation and demoralize the people seeking help, as society keeps telling them they are smart enough to hack it on their own. This is where the social construct of intelligence starts to really fall apart.

[athenastudying-deactivated20220]

destroy the idea that intermediate goals aren’t important. maybe you can’t play the entire piano piece yet, but you can play the right hand and that’s good. maybe you haven’t figured out your major yet, but your minor or your field and that’s progress. maybe you can’t hold a full conversation in your target language yet, but you can ask for directions and that’s fine. setting high goals is good, but don’t diminish the small goals you achieve on your way there. they are just as important.

[briannabakerarchive]

#period!

[mindlesslittlefreak]

what is a writer, if not a miserable little pile of ideas and half written google docs

[homunculus-argument]

One thing I’ve learned about writing is ”give everything a face”. It’s no good to write passively that the nobility fled the city or that the toxic marshes were poisoning the animals beyond any ability to function. Make a protagonist see how a desperate woman in torn silks climbs onto a carriage and speeds off, or a two-headed deer wanders right into the camp and into the fire. Don’t just have an ambiguous flock of all-controlling oligarchy, name one or two representatives of it, and illustrate just how vile and greedy they are as people.

it’s bad to have characters who serve no purpose in the story, but giving something a face is a perfectly valid purpose.

[tlbodine]

This is the real heart of “show don’t tell”

[drizzhled]

me: *a hopeless romantic without a single ounce of romance in her life*

[thesassybunnies]

This bunny is so cute 🐰😍 

(via)

[contagiousrhythminmybrain]

2020 ISU Skating Awards host announcement - Chanith bloopers

[michonnegrimes]

HAMILTON - “The Schuyler Sisters”

[philosophronia]

I didn't notice until now that you were posting on ao3 again!!! I am so happy you are back!! Also how is your fam?? Is your little one still doing gymnastics??

Hi, anon! Aw, thanks so much! We’re all rolling around at home for the most part. Little one’s still staying active, thank the lord. I don’t know what I would do if she didn’t take part in a sport. She’s incredibly energetic! I hope you and your family are staying safe! <3 

[philosophronia]

gurl. i feel you. after vm i was like i ain't shipping another ice dance couple and then stepanova/bukin start kissing at the kiss and cry. like what. never thought i'd say this but they have a more confusing relaitonship than vm

Gosh, same here, anon... same here. That moment at NHK was adorable as was their kiss after their free skate at Russian Nationals, but it was... very unexpected. 

[ivorydice]

I did that thing where I was checking out a wip I haven’t touched in a long while, and before I knew it I was really sucked in and just reading it and enjoying it, and then it just fucking ended abruptly during a good scene and I nearly started screaming, and then I remembered it’s my own fucking wip and that means I have to be the one to fix this and finish it and I really really nearly started screaming and just asdfghjkl

[ukulelekatie]

You’ve heard of one shots, now get ready for none shots! It’s when you think of an idea for a fic and then don’t write it

[isthespringcoming]

mood

[girlwithseriousproblems]

Not diagnosing a child doesn't mean they won't notice they're different. It just means that instead of thinking "I'm struggling because I have autism/adhd/anxiety/depression/schizophrenia", they will just conclude that they are struggling because they are stupid, weak, annoying, unlovable, etc.

[leave-her-a-tome]

I don't have "abandoned" or "on hiatus" wips. I just put them on simmer for a bit. Indefinitely.