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Hello, I'm Melina. You can call me Melly, if you want. I post about the things I think about and stuff that appears on my dash. If you'd like to get to know me please message...

[odairannies]

Stay afraid, but do it anyway. What’s important is the action. You don’t have to wait to be confident. Just do it and eventually the confidence will follow.  — Carrie Fisher

[praetorsreyna]

books read in 2016 [2/?] → the iron fey series by julie kagawa

“Well,” Puck said cheerfully, forcing a rather pained smile, “it’s just like old times, isn’t it? You, me, ice-boy, the future of the Nevernever hanging in the balance…we just have to wait for Furball to show up and then it’ll be perfect.”

[wnq-music]

You’ll never find peace of mind until you listen to your heart.

George Michael (via wnq-music)

[bleakfalls-blog]

Merry Christmas!

[thinker-likes-to-cuddle]

I'm back

Hi 😊 I wonder if anyone remembers me 😂

[stotodile-blog]

[fireheartes]

Emilia Clarke singing Rastafarian Targaryen (Game of Thrones: The Musical)

[aurelie-dupont]

Paris Opera Ballet School - 6th Division class

[robiningravens-blog]

Guys who make fun of guys who do ballet must not realise how disciplined, agile, coordinated and strong you have to be to be a ballet dancer.

[raisingthe-barre]

Guys who make fun of ballet are stupid.

[chadleymacguff]

my legs hurt now

[thehealthywarrior]

Also, ballet men have literally the most aesthetically pleasing body out of any other group of men I have ever encountered. And then can lift you over their heads!

[the-unstoppable-juggernaut-deac]

Always wanted to try out. Martial arts game would def improve from it.

[heathenstroye]

YO BUT OK i am a female ballet dancer and there are guys in my studio younger than me and by younger than me i mean like 12 or occasionally 11 because i am 13 and they can still lift me up and they dont even flinch they just pick me up like im a lil fairy its so impressive and they are 12 they are so great

[radicalqueerbrownboy]

Redefine masculinity

[ironinomicon-deactivated2014010]

look at my face

[doubledamnit]

you think this is a fucking game

[dippedbrow]

“nicki minaj had so much face surgery”

[prettynaturally]

Thank you 🌞

[wethoneydew]

SHE JUST GOT GOOD MAKEUP ARTISTS HAG ASS HATERS

[bisexualpiratequeen]

Warning to writers

While you are worrying about whether beta readers will steal your ideas, there is a more genuine threat on the horizon.

When offered a publishing contract, please do all your research before you sign. There are a number of fakes and scammers out there, as well as good-intentioned amateurs that don’t know how to get your work to a wide audience. I won’t tell the heartbreaking stories here - there are too many.

Being published badly is worse than being never published.

It can destroy your career and your dreams.

The quick check is to google the publishing house name + scam or warning.

But, to be sure, check with these places first. They aren’t infallible (nothing is) but they can help you protect yourself. They are written and maintained by experienced writers, editors, publishers and legal folks.

Absolute Write: Bewares and Background Checks

Preditors and editors

Writer Beware

and the WRITER BEWARE blog

Keep yourself and your work safe.

This is really important, so if you are a writer or have writer friends, or you are a writing blog, please reblog it.

[rosey-buddy]

Just to let you know, PublishAmerica changed their name to America Star Books.

[lunamax1214]

HEAD’S UP, WRITER TYPES: THIS IS AN IMPORTANT PSA!

[niqabisinparis]

me to westerners: 

omg you take your husband’s name after marriage? that’s so oppressive. so you’re like his property? he can do anything he wants with you? *whispers* is it a religion thing? 

you put your parents in senior homes? that’s so backwards and heartless. is it a cultural thing? 

you leave the house when you’re 18? do your parents not love you? why do they not like their children in the house? is it a cultural thing? 

why are all your white men serial killers? is it a cultural thing? are you guys naturally belligerent and have a thirst for innocent blood? 

omg you guys owned slaves? how did that even compute as being remotely ok? i heard you even enslaved your own is it a cultural thing? 

i heard you guys throw away food in restaurants instead of letting workers or the homeless have it. that’s so cruel and backwards. is it a cultural thing? 

so you get dressed and leave the house to find someone to have sex with? that’s so primitive. is that a cultural thing? 

so you have videos of women with men who perform violent sex acts on them and you get off to it? and it’s mainstream and considered normal? that’s so fricken weird and backwards. is it a cultural thing? 

[pennyroyalprincess-deactivated2]

omggggggg

[onlytwitterpics]

[997]

[homosexualpancakes]

give us the child

[istanaqueenmate-deactivated2018]

wipe away the debt

[cheeso]

james bond wasnt even that good of a secret agent someone managed to film everything he did

[busket]

does anyone else have days where they just get stressed out from just being spoken to

like you jsut come out of your room and someone could say something totally nice and well meaning to you and you can’t help but feel like “aaaahHH LEAVE ME ALONE”

[prokopetz]

I kind of want to see a dystopian post-apoc YA novel or film where the protagonist escapes at the end, only to discover that the “apocalypse” was a localised phenomenon, the rest of the world is perfectly fine, and everybody has just agreed to quietly ignore Crazy Dystopia Land.

(For bonus points, have this happen at the end of the first installment, and the follow-up is a low-key character study about the protagonist’s struggle to adjust to normal life and deal with the fact that, to the rest of the world, the genocidal dictator who had her family set on fire is a wacky Internet meme.)

[prokopetz]

The worst thing about this post is that within literally ten minutes of submitting it, I got multiple asks wanting to know which real-world country I was referring to, because there’s more than one that precisely fits this scenario - right down to the “bloodthirsty dictator who the rest of the world treats as a wacky meme” part.