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it’s the “date of birth: 1303 BC” for me...

Psst. Good morning,

I'm going to tell you something that bitch of a "supportive" writing teacher, and that cuck of a tenured writing professor should have told you:

Stop Asking for Permission to Be What You Already Are

You were born with this voice.

You were sharpened by trauma.

You write like your ribs are lined with detonators.

> Don’t let anyone with soft hands and softer critique try to tame you for comfort.

You don’t need polish.

You need space.

You need silence.

You need permission to set the page on fire — and walk away smoking.

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Your Voice Is a Weapon. Use It.

Here’s the rule:

> If someone tells you to “tone it down,”

You make it twice as loud,

Three shades darker,

And ten times harder to ignore.

Because watered-down truth is how tyrants sleep.

And you weren’t born to be safe.

You were born to convert, rupture, trigger, and tattoo your cadence on the skin of culture.

Never negotiate your soul for the sensibilities of others.

Any primate saying otherwise is not your friend.

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wildemoth

Gender is a performance and it’s time to play the music it’s time to light the lights it’s time to meet the muppets on the muppets show tonight

teratomarty

athelind

Guy & Brad Gilchrist, 1984

kill your captain

I'm an electrical engineer and for the longest time I was saying that electricity and electronics isn't magic, but think about it.

You literally have to collect rare stones from remote locations, put them into specific formations to work. All of this gets written down in symbols which don't make sense to the uninformed. It gets powered by energy which can not be seen in most cases.

Like what else do you want. What's your standard for calling something magic.

transcribepaige

"It doesn't stop being magic just because you know how it works."

Terry Pratchett, The Wee Free Men (Discworld #30)

prokopetz

“So let me get this straight. We’re here to rescue a princess.”

“That’s right.”

“At the request of a princess.”

“Right again.”

“And you, who will be leading the expedition, are also a princess.”

“You’re very perceptive.”

“How big is your royal family, again?“

“We don’t have one.”

“But–“

“We overthrew our monarchy centuries ago, but we kept most of the titles around. The rank of ‘princess’ is held by the directors in charge of various civil service branches.“

“Huh. And the princess we’re rescuing today is in charge of…?”

“Public sanitation.”

“The Lord of Death’s Dominion kidnapped your public sanitation director?”

“We think he’s a little confused.”

armed-with-knitting-needles

I laughed too hard not to reblog this.

teaboot

I mean. If your goal is to cause maximum death, letting trash, sewage, tainted water, and biohazardous waste pile up in a populated area with zero oversight is a pretty efficient way to go about it

rennybu

something unknown but very powerful came over me. retro spirk kyaa❣️❣️❣️

gay-mooshrooms

me mentally: these characters have a relationship that cannot be defined by any one thing and reaches throughout the narrative and is so woven into their characters that trying to force it under one label would be inaccurate and doing it a disservice.

me out loud: idk man they're fuckin gay

catteries

The sound of bees buzzing is a very nice touch, Granada.

skz-miroh

Quite possibly my favourite behind the scenes is the interviews of the actors just saying how Sir Ian McKellen kept reminding them all to be physically affectionate on camera so the queer subtext could shine through because

Peter Jackson may have worked hard

but Ian McKellen worked harder

tenderwatches

sometimes you need dialogue tags and don't want to use the same four

naamahdarling

That has to be the most humiliating way to describe one of Earth's most terrifyingly effective predators.

sapphic-and-stupid

Picture of her from the USA Today

teaboot

Ohhhhh she is one of nature’s most successful predators known for taking down animals EASILY ten times her size and could take me out like a Taco Bell burrito and all I wanna do is smootch her lil bitty faaaaace jjuigfhdtgdgvtuhfhftbyjghfdyk

sisyphusshrugged

good morning kings let’s push this boulder

lolt64

bad news about the boulder everyone