A Queen on Fire

Queen. Connoisseur of all things Fandom, specialising in Fanfiction. Geek. Nerd. Flirt. Biromantic Demisexual. ISTP

[thebossbaby-official]

[abdesignoriginal-blog]

WHOEVER MADE THIS I LOVE YOU AND I HOPE YOUR FRIDGE IS ALWAYS FULL

[fangirltothefullest]

It’s weird because like, even the movie footage itself has their skin darker than the merchandise- it’s REALLY weird- the bottom one looks much more natural!

[yarpfish]

I just love the whole “Aurora’s dress is fucking blue okay” aspect

[lil-miss-choc-deactivated201812]

And Cinderella’s was white.

:-D

[heyyitsjayy-blog]

Ariel’s was pink!

[skrood]

AND CINDERELLA FINALLY HAS HER STRAWBERRY BLONDE HAIR BACK

[bittersweetbonbon]

bizarre neurodivergence things

Nesting

Hoarding things

Taking things apart

Wandering

Shitty memory

Needing pressure on your body to sleep

[authenticautistic]

“why are you inside the blanket”

“you don’t need that many ????”

*takes pens apart constantly*

“so you mean to tell me you go to town to walk around the shops and that’s it?”

*in a familiar area* “where to ____” “idk sorry”

*tries to balance weighted lap pad on my shoulder as I sleep*

[no-spoons-given-deactivated2018]

Fucking mood

[glittercontusion]

We’re all just confused, vaguely nomadic dragons

[sludgecoffee]

I support this theory!

[allllltheautism]

Reblog if you’re a confused, vaguely nomadic dragon, too

[cheshirelibrary]

These Clever Illustrations Of The ‘Same’ Words Should Help You Differentiate

 [via Woke Sloth]

If you’ve ever accidentally written “aisle” instead of “isle,” then please direct your attention right over here, because this important lesson is just for you.

Homophones, Weakly, a blog masterminded by Bruce Worden, endeavors to illustrate similar homophones using funny and informative visuals.

…

Click through to see more.

[rejectedprincesses]

Sarah Biffin (1784-1850): The Artist Who Painted With Her Mouth

Full entry here. Patreon here. Books here – yes, the second book is out!. 

And if you’re around HeroesCon in North Carolina this weekend, I’ll be there at Artist Alley table AA-1924! Come say hi! 

Art notes after the cut.

Keep reading

[resumespeak]

How to put “wrote fan-fiction” on your résumé:

Leveraged an inventory of established fictional character and setting elements to generate a disruptive custom-curated narrative entertainment asset.

[xeno-lalia]

I worked in HR, handling applications and interviews, and if someone turned in that string of techno babble nonsense, I would have rejected them out of hand.

A resume doesn’t need to sound fancy or overly technical, it needs to tell us why we should hire you.

“Independent novelist/writer” is more than sufficient here. If you want to express the skills that fan fiction taught you, something like, “creative writing, editing, and publication,” will get you a lot further than… Whatever that just was.

A resume should be tailored to the position, if you can afford the time and energy for that. But if not, then just think about what writing got fandom taught you. How to respond to criticism, how to present a professional pubic face, how to correct punished mistakes, creative thinking, project planning, persuasion via emotional leverage, html formatting, office suite fluency.

There are a lot of actual, marketable skills that go into fan fiction.

[fivewrites]

How to put “I was in a zine” on your resume

Writer:

Published short fiction stories for anthology collection

Able to write short fiction within a designated word count for layout purposes (900-1500 words, 1500-2000, 3000-5000)

Wrote short articles for independent publication

Assisted with editing short stories for publication

Able to reduce or expand written content based on layout needs

Able to check for basic spelling, grammar and syntax

Familiar with Microsoft Office and Google docs

Artist:

Produced full-colour digital illustration for independent magazine

Able to produce digital illustrations optimized for both online and print display

Produced full-colour 2-page spread for art anthology

Published 4-page short comic in anthology collection for charity

Able to transfer traditional art to digital illustration

Illustrated the cover (always brag if you’re on the cover) of an independent art publication

Familiar with professional illustration tools such as Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, Clip Studio Paint and stylus tablet

Merch artist / graphic designer:

Designed 2″ clear decorative double-sided keychain charm as bonus sale item

Designed 5″ x 6″ sheet of graphic stickers included in art anthology

Able to design bold graphics that are measured for laser cutting production

Designed layouts for 65-page art and writing magazine, focusing on (art placement, text layout, etc)

Able to keep layout design simple and in accordance with the project director’s chosen theme

Created promotional art, icons and banners tailored for social media sites like Twitter, Tumblr, Facebook, etc

Familiar with professional layout and design software such as Adobe Illustrator and InDesign

Running a zine

Produced an independent art and writing collection for sale / for charity

Managed (10, 20, 30) independent artists and writers out of over 500 applicants to create a short-run independent magazine

Worked in online sales and social media promotion selling an independent comics anthology

If it’s really spectacular you can brag about specific numbers

Our book raised over $4,000 for charity in under six months of production

We sold over 750 copies in two weeks of online sales

Produced a digital PDF and printed version of anthology, mailing to recipients all over the world

Communicated with printers and manufacturers of plastic accessories and paper goods, assembling professional packages of our merchandise for mailing.

Built a custom digital storefront and navigated professional market and payment systems including Paypal and Tictail / Bigcartel / Wix etc

Created promotional events to boost sales, including raffles and giveaways over social media

Organized participants through mass emails and use of social media posts on tumblr and twitter

Familiar with organizational software such as Microsoft Excel, Google spreadsheets and Trello

[fivewrites]

Added some more

[jumpingjacktrash]

everybody wants to be a sexpert

i think i get why fics involving heavy bsdm tend to devolve into lectures on safe practices and terminology, but it seriously breaks immersion. it’s usually really obvious that it’s the author lecturing the readers, no matter what character’s mouth you put it in.

[roachpatrol]

i get really irritated whenever characters start ‘educating’ each other on terminology, because it so rarely matches up to the character’s lived experiences? like it just tells you the author is trying for a perfect Woke score.

[jackofbriars]

On the one hand, as a semi-experienced kinkster (been doing Actual Kinky Shit for literally twenty years now, but it’s been broken up by looong dry spells), I roll my eyes at people who feel the need to turn every fic into BDSM 101.

On the other hand, twenty years ago, when I was an idiot child of sixteen, I had little access to BDSM safety resources, and I was stuck with BDSM as it was portrayed in the media, which led to some hilariously awful ideas, which could have seriously hurt me or my partners. Luckily, the worst that happened is a yeast infection from using a Popsicle in ways that Popsicles should not be used. Sugary things do not go in vaginas, kids. This includes fruit and honey, no matter what Anne Rice’s porn tells you. And, I mean, I’d steal my parents’ copies of The Joy of Sex and More Joy of Sex (the fucking old versions, where the illustrations had all their body hair intact), but the BDSM information in there was actually, iirc, horrendously unsafe.

So what I’d like to see is not necessarily lectures on safety and terminology, but organic incorporation of the safety into Hot Fun Times. Give me the bottom squirming impatiently while the top checks to make sure the ropes aren’t too tight. Give me a hand to the bottom’s throat and a growled, “Tell me your safeword.” Don’t stop the action to deliver a lecture, but incorporate the safety into the action like actually happens in real life.

…I know not everyone may have the benefits of doing this shit in real life, but I promise, after the initial getting-to-know-each-other phase (where yes, you do have to sit down and do the boring work), we generally incorporate this shit as we go.

(There’s a whole rant I could go into about character’s lived experiences, but I suspect that’s me reading it wrong, and that it’s meant to be like, “This character who grew up raised by wolves in Siberia is an expert on enema play now?” instead of, “I refuse to accept this character knows anything about BDSM because they’re just not that kind of person!” when bitch I talked to three similarly-normal-seeming people just last week and we had an excellent conversation on fisting.)

[jumpingjacktrash]

yeah, exactly. i mean, i very much enjoy when characters actually DO things safely. it’s the lectures i find jarring.

that and the enshrinement of safe bdsm as some kind of – idk, dojo scroll secret wisdom thing? martial arts course? marital arts course! where you must learn the proper terminology and treat it all with great reverence.

i just read a fic where a dom encouraged a new sub to spend like two weeks ruminating on the perfect safeword, even though there had been absolutely zero indication so far that the guy wanted any kind of non-con play.

like, no one in fic seems to grasp that a safeword is for if you don’t want what you say during a scene to be taken as real. if you actually want ‘stop’ to mean stop, then you don’t need one, you just need your partner to understand that stop means stop. ficcers treat a safeword like your secret magic name or something.

realtalk, kids, my spouse and i don’t use one. because basically my safeword is “ow” and “slow down” and “stop” and occasionally “ARGH TICKLISH NO” and on one fondly remembered occasion busting out laughing and shooting a vibrator across the bedroom. kinky sex is not ninjutsu, and it’s not deadly serious, and you don’t need to be Initiated Into The Mysteries. it’s just two (or more) people consensually exploring the body/mind connection and finding out the weird cool things it can do.

it’s ok to just write safe kink instead of having your characters give the reader a crash course.

it’s also ok to write characters having UNsafe kinky sex! just tag accordingly! you are not a sex ed instructor! the fact that a lot of kids get their sex ed from fanfic is a failure of the school system, it doesn’t mean that you are in loco parentis at all times. please relax.

[ilredeiladri]

Tom Hiddleston reciting Prince Hal’s monologue as Loki *_*

“I know you all, and will awhile uphold The unyoked humor of your idleness. Yet herein will I imitate the sun, Who doth permit the base contagious clouds To smother up his beauty from the world, That, when he please again to be himself, Being wanted, he may be more wondered at By breaking through the foul and ugly mist Of vapors that did seem to strangle him. …”

[darklittlestory]

THE VOICE 😩😩😩

This has probably already circulated through all the Tomsexuals & Loki people but… BUT… just in case it’s just VERY IMPORTANT. Shakespearean Voice Pornnnnn:

@writernotwaiting

@raven-brings-light

@philosopherking1887

@fictions-stranger

@wolfsmom1

[writernotwaiting]

I will never forgive the director of H IV for having Tom deliver this soliloquy as a voiceover. That was an INCREDIBLE waste.

[cacodaemonia]

Man Combines Random People’s Photos Using Neural Networks And The Results Are Amazing

These bizarre images, created by users via Russian website Ostagram, are the product of an art technique known as Inceptionism, where images are combined using neural networks to generate a single mind-bending picture.

[hyperchaotix]

Whoa what the fuck

[weshallrideatmidnight]

@taakitz

[gazeteur]

“Surely I am a better mistress to serve?”

“You are more beautiful, Your Majesty.” The queen smiled again before I finished. “But she is more kind.”

So much for discretion. The smile disappeared. You could have heard a pin drop onto the stone floor as her alabaster cheeks flushed red. No one could ever accuse the queen of Attolia of being kind.

[leiaaorgana-deactivated20190720]

female awesome meme: [1/5] female antagonists 

➢ morgana pendragon

i don’t want to be brave. i just want to be myself. i don’t want to be alone anymore.

[teacher-seeks-pupil]

Summer Reading List

[izzydoodledump]

Jinkies!

[crooked-djinn]

Someone fucking photoshop Fred in that place. Please.

[izzydoodledump]

Ask and you shall receive!

[lumpawaroospaceprincess-moved-d]

You know I had to Scooby Dooby Doo it to ‘em.

[amor-ascetico]

[tremblingadored]

Corsican vendetta knife with floral detail

“may all your wounds be mortal”

[jhaernyl]

This is beautiful. Though, it’s not “all your wounds” (tutte le tue ferite) but rather “May my wound” (la mia ferita). It’s feminine singular and I do kinda love the personalization of the writing.

But it’s also … it’s kind of grammatically incorrect but it’s also very colloquial and dialectal.

Che la mia ferita sia mortale is more than just a saying … it’s almost an invocation.

It’s also less ‘may’ and more ‘that’ so it should be more like …

That my wound be lethal

[dovewithscales]

Oh this is lovely. An object that’s actually cursed rather than just in the aesthetic meme sense.

[discardingimages]

ladyhawke

Apocalypse (‘The Cloisters Apocalypse’), Normandy ca. 1330

NY, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Cloisters Collection, 1968, 68.174, fol. 22v

[despazito]

me

[jabberwockypie]

@copperbadge

See, Sam? If her wings were out and all physically manifested and stuff all the time, her kirtle and chemise wouldn’t fit.

[copperbadge]

I’m just saying sooner or later some assbro, probably the one who came up with “take her to a pool on the first date so you can see her without her makeup on”, is going to demand Wings Or GTFO. 

[foreverlostinliterature]

Source

[thewalkingdeadgifs]

Danai Gurira photographed by Dennis Leupold for Ebony Magazine – June 2018

[theacemagpie-art]

I found this quote in Dutch and just had to translate it so I could share it.