Sunny McCoy

Vegetarian.Auntie.Writer.Wife.

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Montremont, Paris, France

photo via sabrina

[sabonhomeblog]

[ursula-uriarte]

Born to read forced to work = Story of my life 📚

[naprasno]

don’t mess with me fam, i’m a hardcore introvert, i’ve avoided more social events than you’ll ever attend.

[kiramartinauthor]

[butchamy]

Story idea when you try to actually write it:

[calamitycons]

Story idea when you first rewrite it:

Getting closer to what you saw in your head, eh? Keep at it!

[snurtle]

Your story when somebody else sees it:

[starspangledscarf]

hhhhhHHHHHHH

[thatincompetentperson]

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This is a lovely post. It goes to show that when we percieve our own work, most of us have some type of insecurities about our own talents. 

[prettyarb]

Also possibly relevant is that probably when Van Gogh finished Starry Night, he jumped up and down in frustration for a while because it didn’t look as good as it had in his head.

Tolkien used to complain that he could never write anything as well as he could imagine it.  So you know, ‘good enough’ is definitely a thing.

[hungry-like-virginia-woolf]

You know what’s messed up? People make fun of women for reading romance novels in which men are kind, chivalrous and sexually generous to the women they love, but men watching violent hardcore porn where women choke on dicks is considered normal, and ‘shaming’ someone for it is considered more taboo than the porn itself. And women reading romance novels has certainly yet to lead to a culture where men are considered lesser if they don’t emulate the men in the pages. I wonder the fuck why.

[ophelias-revenge]

Holy shit I’ve never put these two things together before now

[nandalorian]

This is literally what I wrote my masters’ dissertation on.

[naamahdarling]

I would love to read that dissertation.

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West Sussex, England

photo via nandi  

[terribletide]

things i love:

-space

-the ocean

things i am terrified of:

-space

-the ocean

[lookingfortheperfectdesk]

[cancerbiophd]

honestly one of the best things grad school’s taught me so far is it’s okay to be wrong or admit you don’t know something. i used to be terrified and embarrassed to be wrong or not know the answer to a question. but now my boss says “i don’t know” all the time. i hear other professors go “huh that’s interesting i’ve never thought about that!” during lectures or seminars. i’ve witnessed nationally renowned speakers say “you know what, i have no idea” to hundreds of people in the audience. and when someone’s wrong they just go “i apologize. that’s my mistake” and it’s great. i have so much respect for people who can admit they don’t know or were wrong about something. because honestly any specialty in science is sooo huge and always changing and it’s just impossible to know everything about anything ya know? so not knowing something or admitting you’re wrong is a-ok and i love it. 

[worldsinmywords]

please, keep writing. keep drawing. keep painting. please keep making your art no matter how many may try to push you down. the world does not have nearly enough artists. 

[theweirdwideweb]

[antarcticabysea]

Reblogging for the sentiment but mostly the shades.

[thismightwork]

New life mantra.

[friendly-neighborhood-patriarch]

@hakuna-tit-tata

[trjoel]

“Millennials are so entitled"

[lucasnoahs]

Actually, the ‘you’re welcome’/’no problem’ issue is simply a linguistics misunderstanding. Older ppl tend to say you’re welcome, younger ppl tend to say no problem. This is because for older people the act of helping or assiating someone is seen as a task that is not expected of them, but is them doing extra, so it’s saying ‘I accept your thanks because I know I deserve it.’

‘No problem’, however, is used because younger people feel not only that helping or assisting someone is a given and expected, but also that it should be stressed that you’re need for help was no burden to them (even if it was).

Basically, older people think help is a gift you give, younger people think help is an expectation required of them.

[humanityinahandbag]

DAMN STRAIT.

[daggers-drawn]

Basic Millennial complaint: “I want shelter and economic security.” Some bitter old man: “WHAT THE FUCK? WHO TOLD YOU THAT YOU DESERVE ANYTHING? THANK ME WHEN YOU BAG MY GROCERIES FOR ME, PEON.”

[lockscreenlock]

[my-feminism]

In the Netherlands, abortion is freely available on demand. Yet the Netherlands boasts the lowest abortion rate in the world, about 6 abortions per 1000 women per year, and the complication and death rates for abortion are miniscule. How do they do it? First of all, contraception is widely available and free — it’s covered by the national health insurance plan. Holland also carries out extensive public education on contraception, family planning, and sexuality. An ethic of personal responsibility for one’s sexual activity is strongly promoted. Of course, some people say that teaching kids about sex and contraception will only encourage them to have lots of sex. But Dutch teenagers tend to have less frequent sex, starting at an older age, than American teenagers, and the Dutch teenage pregnancy rate is 9 times lower than in the U.S.

[teratomarty]

I endorse evidence-based medicine, and evidence-based activism.

[marvelsmostwanted]

Everyone is freaking out about Donald Trump Jr because he openly admitted to colluding with Russia on behalf of his father’s campaign, and meanwhile all I can think about is that scene in Goblet of Fire where they’re in court and the witness is like “it was Barty Crouch….” [dramatic pause] “…Junior!” and everybody gasps