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Honestly, I think the whole “don’t pay the writers” thing boils down to the notion that everybody thinks they can write. It’s the old saw about the novelist at a cocktail party having to hear someone say, for the millionth time, “I’d love to write a book someday.”

Someone–Stephen King? Pretty sure I saw this in a Stephen King foreword–once said they’d like to say to a brain surgeon, “Boy, I’d love to do brain surgery someday.”

We treat “the ability to put words into a sentence” like it’s just the same as “the ability to form a coherent narrative that engenders a variety of emotions within the reader and puts them in a scene and shows them what they didn’t see before”.

And that’s like me drawing a stick figure and saying I’m an artist.

Writers are constantly devalued because everyone thinks they have a book in them and don’t realize the level of skill and commitment it takes to finish even a short story, much less a whole book.

This goes well beyond fandom, but man, I would’ve hoped fandom would know better.

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***REBLOGS AGGRESSIVELY***

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Sarah Bernhardt (1844-1923) Ophelia, white marble 1880

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The Dance of a Thousand Hands.

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This is so surreal for something that includes zero special effects of any kind

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HOLY SHIT

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If this is the group I think it is (you can find them by searching Dance of a Thousand Hands on YouTube. The dancers are all hearing impared and the orchestra is visually impared. The dancers can feel the music through vibrations in their feet and hearing and feeling each other’s breathing. They are the China Disabled Peoples Performing Arts Troupe and have traveled to 100 countries and counting. They aim to prove that anyone can dance, and anyone can play.

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oh to be a vampire in the 1800s with no responsibilities other than being sexy and luring naive men into my gothic mansion

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the apsara’s daughter

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Any minor inconvenience in my life: happens

Me and my sensitive ass:

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I judge how good a book is based on how disoriented I am with my physical surroundings after closing it.

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me after finishing a good ass book

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overwhelming thoughts. not knowing what to say and not knowing how to say it. i’m learning to recognize when my overthinking spirals into a shame habit.