Writing and Weeping

Writblr who occasionally posts

[stormwaterwitch]

This is a support post for those who are not excited about Christmas:

You are not alone. 

Soon it will be over, and then life can resume back to normal.

Until then hang in there for me okay?

[quotefeeling]

“It hurts knowing you did your best and know it still isn’t good enough.”

— Unknown

[halfagony-halfhope]

stop glamorizing “the Grind” and start glamorizing whatever this is

[zagreusavenger-deactivated20200]

If y’all wanna know the true power of hate, just remember that Alan Turing, the breaker of the enigma code in WWII, was driven to suicide by being forced to undergo chemical castration as a punishment for his homosexuality.

Historians say he saved 14 to 21 million lives.

I’d also like to say in the time we studied WWII in school, the history textbooks never mentioned him. I had never heard of the guy until I watched “The Imitation Game” which I 110% recommend you watch if you haven’t.Alan Turing was a blessing to humanity who saved (once again) 14 to 21 million lives, and he is left out of history because he was gay.

And this is just one example?? So many brilliant and heroic people are left out of history because of their race, their gender, their sexuality, their religion, and it’s just because some bigots in positions of influence get to decide what parts of history are remembered.

[outlanderalien]

This man has had a profound effect on the world, it’s estimated he shortened the war by 2 years, saved countless lives and was the father of modern computing. Without him the world would be a very different, and very dark place.

[piss-bong]

He wasn’t just chemically castrated. The injections they have him were intended to decrease his libido as part his sentence for “gross indecency”. About 2 years after his trial he was found dead in his apartment next to a half eaten apple that was filled with cyanide (which became the inspiration for the Apple logo).

Turing is one of the most amazing people in all of history. He developed our modern method of computing (see: the Turing Machine) and advanced computer science by immeasurable amounts. And he dies when he was 41. Just imagine if he lived in a world where he was accepted. Imagine the technology we would have today and how many more lives would have been saved. No person deserves what Turing got, especially not someone as brilliant as him.

[nikola-like-tesla]

TEACH. CHILDREN. ABOUT. ALAN. TURING! WHEN THEY LEARN ABOUT WWII, THEY DESERVE TO KNOW ABOUT THE MAN WHO ENDED IT!!!

[studyblrhomeschooler]

Scary Life Update.

So... This account may actually become a study blog? I’m applying to community college, in either this fall semster or next, aiming for a B.A in Pschycology.

Key word is aim. 

I’m nervous and excited and NERVOUS. 

But I think this is the right time and the right subjet. 

Stay tuned, invisible friends. 

[studyblrhomeschooler]

Fanfiction ideas

Hey ya’ll! I’m feeling deathly un-inspired, but I really want to write. If you have a fanfiction idea for any of these fandoms, HMU or repost this and I’ll write it! Just need a way to get back in the game. 

- Frozen/ any disney princess film

- Harry Potter 

-Riverdale

- Gilmore Girls

-(open to suggestions, these are just ones I’ve done and can think of off the top of my head.) 

Thanks in advance! 

[lecataste]

[lcrdbyron]

Richard Brautigan, Trout Fishing in America

[local-decadent]

Dark Academics

The vampire who has greasy hair and breath that never ceases to smell like coffee. They are failing all their classes, but spend whole nights fixated on their true passions, which are so niche that they can hardly find classes that touch on them. The garbage is overflowing with instant ramen packaging and coffee filters. They are often too tired to interact with anyone, but as soon as their interests are brought up, something seems to awaken within this academic, propelling them into heated and animated discussions. They never seem to sleep.

The punk. They despise how inaccessible academia is. The paywalls, the overly complicated language, and the eurocentrism all piss them off. They will not hesitate to call you out and shred you in the process. Their laptop is (metaphorically) heavy with pirated books and papers. They scan and upload textbooks to the internet for anyone to use, and they routinely sneak people into dining halls and sneak food out. Their notes app is filled with chaotic poetry they write while crossfaded. Their relatives call them a commie jokingly, but, little do they know, they might be spot on.

The daydreamer dressed in tweed. They have messy hair, a sharp gaze dulled by sleeplessness and reading for many long hours, and a fascination with the cursed. They read Donna Tartt. They can recite Shakespeare. But at what cost? They speak in iambic pentameter and spend every inch of their academic life wishing their university wasn’t some 20th century brutalist hunk of cement but an ancient stone building weathered by the centuries. Their view of academia can be eurocentric, but the more they’re exposed to different perspectives, the more they seek them out. They romanticize their caffeine addiction and terrible sleep schedule even though it’s very bad for them.

The decadent. They are a wild one with a Dionysian character. They drink and indulge more often than not. They write drunk poetry and perform it to their friends. Their fashion sense is eccentric: it’s sheer shirts that look like something a vampire would wear, faux fur with a tiger print, loud makeup. They read ravenously, devouring their books. Paperbacks beware: this academic will shred you with the sheer voracity of their note taking. They will destroy the most sentimental pages with copious tears. There is a shrine to Oscar Wilde in their bookshelf, which is entirely composed of different editions of his works. This academic reads essays from the 19th century, the more horrendously decorative the prose, the better. They are always yearning on main, whether it’s for a person or for an experience.

The romantic, a classic manifestation of the dark academic. They’re a lover of Sappho, Byron, Keats. They cry at the Romantics’ depictions of nature. They seek out the Sublime in every aspect of their life. The sunset, the moon peeking through the clouds, the cacophony of birds, and the rustling of leaves in a summer breeze. Every step they take is a symphony of organic strings singing through motion. They collect pretty notebooks, filling them with flowers. They feel every emotion deeply, allowing each one to boil and simmer within them. They love the world so deeply even when it hurts them. They’re a bit of a masochist in that aspect, as they believe that bit of pain amplifies the pleasure.

The artist, the academic who reads The Picture of Dorian Gray and sees themself in Basil; the academic who reads The Worshipper of the Image and knows that they, too, would fall in a tormented and passionate love with Silencieux. The art they make displays their adoration for the subjects they portray. There is a facet of them in every stroke of their creation, and to be viewed by the eyes of this academic is to be made art by their perception. Their characters and motifs have familiar faces and voices. There is a speck of someone you know mixed in with a speck of someone else, all filtered through the lens of the artist-academic.

[glazedeye-s]

— sylvia plath, the unabridged journals of sylvia plath.

[introvert-unicorn-deactivated20]

Words to describe someone’s voice :

adenoidal (adj) :  some of the sound seems to come through their nose.

appealing (adj): voice shows that you want help, approval, or agreement.

breathy (adj): with loud breathing noises.

booming (adj): very loud and attention-getting.

brittle (adj): if you speak in a brittle voice, you sound as if you are about to cry.

croaky (adj): they speak in a low, rough voice that sounds as if they have a sore throat.

grating (adj): a grating voice, laugh, or sound is unpleasant and annoying.

gravelly (adj): a gravelly voice sounds low and rough.

high-pitched (adj): true to its name, a high-pitched voice or sound is very high.

honeyed (adj): honeyed words or a honeyed voice sound very nice, but you cannot trust the person who is speaking.

matter-of-fact (adj): usually used if the person speaking knows what they are talking about (or absolutely think they know what they are talking about).

penetrating (adj): a penetrating voice is so high or loud that it makes you slightly uncomfortable.

raucous (adj): a raucous voice or noise is loud and sounds rough.

rough (adj): a rough voice is not soft and is unpleasant to listen to.

shrill (adj): a shrill voice is very loud, high, and unpleasant.

silvery (adj): this voice is clear, light, and pleasant.

stentorian (adj): a stentorian voice sounds very loud and severe.

strangled (adj): a strangled sound is one that someone stops before they finish making it.

strident (adj): this voice is loud and unpleasant.

thick (adj): if your voice is thick with an emotion, it sounds less clear than usual because of the emotion.

tight (adj): shows that you are nervous or annoyed.

toneless (adj): does not express any emotion.

wheezy (adj): a wheezy noise sounds as if it is made by someone who has difficulty breathing.

[studyblrhomeschooler]

Author...?

I really don’t feel like I’m ready for anything- NanoWrimo especially. I’m trying to outline, but I’m just digging myself into bigger and bigger plot holes. I don’t know if any of this makes sense but I just need some encouragement/ validation. If you feel this too let me know! We’re all in this together! 

[hustlerose]

freud: EVERY dude wants to fuck his mom and and EVERY girl wants to fuck her dad and also wants to be a man secretly 

men: WOW!!!!!!!!!

[powerfulwizard]

“In the 1890s, when Freud was in the dawn of his career, he was struck by how many of his female patients were revealing childhood incest victimization to him. Freud concluded that child sexual abuse was one of the major causes of emotional disturbances in adult women and wrote a brilliant and humane paper called “The Aetiology of Hysteria.” However, rather than receiving acclaim from his colleagues for his ground-breaking insights, Freud met with scorn. He was ridiculed for believing that men of excellent reputation (most of his patients came from upstanding homes) could be perpetrators of incest. Within a few years, Freud buckled under this heavy pressure and recanted his conclusions. In their place he proposed the “Oedipus complex,” which became the foundation of modern psychology. According to this theory any young girl actually desires sexual contact with her father, because she wants to compete with her mother to be the most special person in his life. Freud used this construct to conclude that the episodes of incestuous abuse his clients had revealed to him had never taken place; they were simply fantasies of events the women had wished for when they were children and that the women had come to believe were real. This construct started a hundred-year history in the mental health field of blaming victims for the abuse perpetrated on them and outright discrediting of women’s and children’s reports of mistreatment by men.”

— Lundy Bancroft, Why Does He Do That?: Inside the Minds of Angry and Controlling Men

[lesbianchemicalplant]

Why Does He Do That? [EPUB] and [PDF]

[delphinidin4]

WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK ARE YOU KIDDING ME

[northafrican-rad]

what the fuck did i just read

[maria69dulebianka]

That gave me chills; we’ve been living a lie, freudian theory is even worse than we thougth

because

he was quite right with his previous ideas, but changed his mind under pressure

[thewriterswitch]

Cheat Sheet for Writing Emotion

Anger:

Grinding teeth

Narrowing eyes

Yelling

A burning feeling in the chest

Heavy breathing

Unjustified or justified accusations towards other characters

Jerky movements

Glaring

Violence

Stomping

Face reddening

Snapping at people

Sadness:

Lack of motivation

Messy appearance

Quiet

Slow movements

Crying

Inability to sleep

Frowning

Red eyes

Isolating oneself

Fatigue

Not concentrating

Keep reading

[authorinmyhead]

[paris-geller-was-straightwashed]

amy sherman-palladino, pointing to paris geller: look, I wrote a heterosexual character!

the rest of us: you fucked up a perfectly good lesbian is what you did. look at her. she has anxiety and inappropriate relationships with men now.

[academiaandarson]

Why is Alex Dunphy from Modern family not a study icon like Rory or Hermione?

She is a nerd and she is proud of it. Highschool Valedictorian. She gets into Caltech!!!!

She's FIERCELY competitive.

And she is a scientist. She is really successful.

There was a whole frigging episode focused on how much she is dealing with. (5×12 "under pressure") But she still manages to be Valedictorian.

But for some reason there aren't many aesthetics surrounding her study methods on tumblr or even pinterest.

Am i the only who gets motivated watching her study?

[studyblrhomeschooler]

I used to LOVE her and her motivation. She was truly inspiring- and a woman in STEM! 

[dstroym]

Astrophysicist gets magnets stuck up nose while inventing coronavirus device

Australian Dr Daniel Reardon ended up in hospital after inserting magnets in his nostrils while building a necklace that warns you when you touch your face

You have to read this one - it keeps getting funnier and funnier as you continue through the story.

[tawghasa]

[mr-chatterboxs-column]

 - the photo in the link image, where he looks comically grumpy about being photographed, was the one he himself provided

 - “he was trying to liven up the boredom of self-isolation with the four powerful neodymium magnets”

 - ““I accidentally invented a necklace that buzzes continuously unless you move your hand close to your face,” he said.”

 - “Before attending the hospital, Reardon attempted to use pliers to pull them out, but they became magnetised by the magnets inside his nose.”

 - ““My partner took me to the hospital that she works in because she wanted all her colleagues to laugh at me.””

[jabberwockypie]

I lost it at “Denies further magnets”

[adorhauer]

Whoever says that kooky scientists are overdone in stories, I present to you a real-life example