Reprieve from Reality

This reprieve combats reality with: all things Norman Reedus, The Walking Dead, Boondock Saints, The Hunger Games, Avengers, The Big Bang Theory, American Horror Story, Buffy: The Vampire Hunter, and more.

[leilaorgana]

[sansastarkt]

 I want to weep. I want to be comforted. I’m so tired of being strong.

[remusjohnslupin]

asoiaf meme: four deaths [1/4] → robb stark & catelyn stark

[the-eagle-said]

Why purple?

[ruiningvoldemortday]

Time to answer rhetorical questions yo!

Purple is the color of regality, and most of the villains who wear it are either royals, nobility, or very wealthy.  It’s also the strongest wavelength in the rainbow (the next wavelength up is UV which is harmful to humans), and most of the villains are after power of some sort.  Finally, and this really only applies to a few of them, it symbolizes magic and the supernatural, so it makes sense for the witches and sorcerers to wear it.

[draelogor-blog]

Now explain why most disney girls start off in blue!

[left-handed-jasper-deactivated2]

Because the color blue is the harshest color for our eyes to see. In fact, it’s the last color babies’ eyes can process, but it catches our eyes the best because it is so harsh. When the Disney girls wear blue, they want your eyes to immediately be attracted to them specifically; to pay the most attention to them. It as if their saying “This is who you should be paying attention to,” just in case you couldn’t figure it out. Also, in pioneer times, blue was the required color of a child to wear if she had blonde hair and blue eyes, such as Sleeping Beauty or Cinderella. It’s simply traditional.

[milkysaint]

crayon will-chan

has this been done already um oops

[referenceforwriters]

Writing songs can be extremely relieving when you’re feeling like you need to let all your feelings out. Whether you’ve never written a song or you’re looking to improve your songwriting, we hope we’ll be able to help you. While there is a lot to say about this...

[doctorwho]

Recipe for a Red Velvet Dalek cake

3 tbsp boiling water

1 1/2 tbsp red gel colouring

60g cocoa powder

375ml buttermilk

525g plain flour

1 1/2 tsp baking soda

1/4 tsp salt

335g unsalted butter, room temperature

525g caster sugar

2 tsp vanilla extract

5 medium eggs, lightly beaten

Preheat the oven to 160°C / 140°C fan / Gas mark 3 and grease the Dalek mould really well (spray grease is best for this).

Mix the water and colouring in a small bowl. Add the cocoa and buttermilk and mix until smooth. Put to one side. In another bowl, mix together the flour, baking soda and salt. Put to one side.

In a large bowl, beat the butter using an electric mixer until light and creamy (should take around 3 minutes). Add the sugar and vanilla extract, and beat for another 5 minutes. Add the eggs one at a time, beating until fully combined before adding another….

Continued at DoctorWho.tv

[montagemode]

The best Pokemon name in the world.

[adapadapa-deactivated20130918]

oh god i’d heard about the “i won’t commission artists who undercharge for their art” post and now it’s making its rounds on my dash.

please understand that this concept does not actually help anyone. the sensible thing to do if an artist is undercharging is to tip them for what...

[redcrane]

GAME OF THRONES KEY CHAIN GIVE-AWAY: PART 2 TARGARYEN Hello, Tumblr! Here's part 2 of this Game of Thrones give-away. Congrats to the winners of the Stark key chains--thanks again for participating! If by some chance you really want a Stark key chain and you didn't win one, you can order one for $5.00, shipping included. Just drop a note in my ask box. Please keep in mind that there's only one of me and I can only make so many at a time. :< Be gentle.

For anyone who wants to know: these key chains are crafted from ShrinkyDink. They’re high gloss and are double-sided. I’ll be posting a giveaway for most if not all of the houses. Hope you’ll stick around to see!

Rules: 1) There are 4 key chains; one key chain per person. 2) If you’d like a key chain, reblog this post once. 3) Winners will be chosen at random. 4) Winners will be declared on Oct. 1st (2 weeks from now). 5) Once winners have been determined, I will message them to let them know. Please respond to me within 48 hours to accept your winnings. Please make sure all asks are on! 6) If a winner does not respond within 48 hours or declines his/her winnings, someone new will be chosen.  7) I will ship winnings to respective winners. Shipping costs are covered by me. Keep your eyes peeled for more key chains!

[awesomewinchesters]

Three days later another car rolled off that same line. No one gave two craps about her, but they should’ve. Because this 1967 Chevrolet Impala would turn out to be the most important car… no, the most important object in pretty much the whole universe.

[kitketkat]

Went to Japan Expo 1st Impact on Saturday:

1) Beginning of the day as No Face @Kinokuniya booth

2) Getting cheered on by the unique cheerleading group Gamushara Oendan!

3) End of the day with Kikkawa You

4) Dead tired at home

If anyone has photos, I would appreciate it if you could forward it to me =]

[jonsnows]

No rivers and no lakes, can put the fire out . I’m gonna raise the stakes; I’m gonna smoke you out .

[writeworld-blog]

Anonymous asked: do you have any tips for writing poc characters when you, yourself, are white?

[writeworld-blog]

The simple, honest answer is that you need to be very careful because you have never been a POC and therefore are in danger of portraying a group of people insensitively, unfairly,...

[writeworld-blog]

This is super opinionated it isn’t even funny. This opinion does not belong to all of the admins on writeworld, just me.

We get a lot of questions about POCs. Just like most questions we get, we don’t answer a large number of questions about POCs, but…

[truffledmadness]

Throwing my two cents in: I think the OP was actually giving shittily phrased decent advice. From what I could tell, they were saying don’t write characters you think you “should,” if you don’t have fully fleshed ideas about them as characters. The dumb part is that they didn’t mention things like: if you think your story would be more realistic/interesting with a diverse cast (you are probably right, just don’t pull a Captain Planet and do tokenism), but you don’t know a lot of POC/disabled people/lgbtq people/ etc., that’s fine! Just write your characters as, like, characters, and take literally one sentence in the physical description or somewhere to mention that they’re black or Asian or gay or whatever. This may, depending on context, actually be more realistic! People’s race or orientation or whatever does not have to be their defining feature! In fact, it’s usually not! Obviously, there are cases where that would not work: in a story set in the antebellum South, it would be hard to write a character’s race as incidental, etc. But if your story is set in, say, modern-day Boston, a spaceship in the year 3000, or a fantasy realm, it works fine!

On the other hand, as for re: why a writer might be more intimidated writing POC characters if they don’t know a lot of POC vs. writing, like, elves: IT’S BECAUSE ELVES AND DRAGONS DON’T EXIST. I know if I write my elves in an unrealistic manner, I’m not going to offend a whole bunch of my elvish readers. And I certainly know I won’t be accused of trying to speak for elves, when I myself cannot know what it’s like to be an elf. Btw, this happens to literally EVERY group besides rich straight white men: I once was at a workshop with the author of Winter’s Bone, and a whole bunch of MFA students were asking him how to realistically write poor people. It does speak of a certain narcissism that a writer is already worrying about critical response before you’ve written anything, but the real problem is laziness: if you want to write a character a certain way, and you want to make it central to them, and opposed to incidental for a realistic/pleasant balance of diversity, just do your research! Read some books, meet new people. These are enriching things.

I generally feel like representation is at its best when character’s minority status is only part of their character, not all of it. An awesome example (and amazing book) is The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern— there are POC and queer characters in it, but if someone talking about the book mentioned “the biracial gay man,” you wouldn’t know who they meant at all; if they said “the guy who holds the Midnight Dinners who Marco works for, and who builds the museum at the end” you’d go “Oh! Chandresh,” while also knowing that yes, he is “the biracial gay man.” To me, that’s the hallmark of a well-developed character who is contributing to representation, as opposed to tokenism or caricature.

Whew, this got long. Hope it makes sense.

[writeworld-blog]

So, O posted a reaction piece a few days ago in response to the overwhelming number of questions we receive on “Writing the Other” (for more on Writing the Other, see this post), and now I’m going to have my say.

While standing by O’s right to his opinion and with deference to his...

[houseofwolvesv2]

[redcrane]

You jumped down the mountain and killed Orell, and afore I could get my axe you had a knife at my throat. I thought you’d have me then, or kill me, or maybe both, but you never did. And when I told you the tale o’ Bael the Bard and how he plucked the rose o’ Winterfell, I thought you’d know to pluck me then for certain, but you didn’t. You know nothing, Jon Snow.