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...Maybe I should actually focus on my writing here?

SO! I recently made a new account. @greyjohnnyx8 That is most likely gonna be my regular, post/repost-whatever-my-interests-are blog.

With that, I should make my “official blog of an author of Awoken” this one. Post creative writing bits, share ideas, etc. Can’t get too carried away ;) don't want someone to try a double whammy on me by a false copyright claim.

Any way, sorry to interrupt the evening/morning/afternoon with a spill. Thought I’d post.

#creative wrting #it's been a minute

the-memedaddy

Meirl

starsowing

gods

(happy belated 413!)

scienceampersandfantasy

neurodivergent-crow

THIS IS WHAT I MEAN WHEN I SAY TREES ARE COOL

costamacncheese

How do I explain to my family that Brie Larson can hip thrust 400lbs without making it sound like the gayest fact I’ve ever learnt

queer-things-and-stuff

HoW!?

queer-things-and-stuff

lumikinetic

thefingerfuckingfemalefury

Embrace the gay

EMBRACE IT

big-bad-bastard

Are we gonna ignore the fact that she literally gets a cookie at the end as a reward for her hard work?? I mean, look at how FUCKING HAPPY she is!!!!

poetry-protest-pornography

*sweats in bisexual*

Also, the cookie thing? Is adorable?

bulbiedorf

Dear People Who Smoke

I don’t know if you have considered this but stop smoking in areas where people are forced to wait at. Don’t smoke at crosswalks. Don’t smoke outside doorways. Don’t smoke at bus stops. People with asthma or other breathing conditions or people that idk DON’T WANT TO BREATHE IN YOUR CIGARETTE SMOKE are trying to get to places and need to be able to breathe. Stop smoking in crowded areas. stop smoking in crowded areas. STOP FORCING NONSMOKERS TO SECOND HAND SMOKE.

introvert-celeste

That goes for anyone who is doing something that produces are strong smelling vapor or smoke. Please don’t vape indoors. Please smoke weed with the same courtesy you would cigarettes (not indoors and not too close to other people/near doorways or bus stops).

toastbutteregg

i quit smoking two years ago and even till now, whenever I smell smoke in public, I just feel like smoking again

so to all smokers, please do smoke in smoking areas because you’re not only endangering everyone physically but you’re also torturing some of us mentally

now that probably sounded selfish but I just had to say it so I’m sorry if it offended anyone

petr1kov

keeping up with the american elections while not being american like

xizark

keeping up with the american elections while being american like

jackthebard

Just remember. There is no such thing as a fake geek girl. There are only fake geek boys. Science fiction was invented by a woman.

sourcedumal

shuttersmiley

Specifically a teenage girl. You know, someone who would be a part of the demographic that some of these boys are violently rejecting.

foxsan-deactivated20140515

Isaac Asimov.

sim0nbaz-deactivated20170205

yo mary shelley wrote frankenstein in 1818 and isaac asimov was born in 1920 so you kinda get my point

fancyeliza-deactivated20200804

If you want to push it back even further Margaret Cavendish, the duchess of Newcastle (1623-1673) wrote The Blazing World in 1666, about a young woman who discovers a Utopian world that can only be accessed via the North Pole - oft credited as one of the first scifi novels

Women have always been at the forefront of literature, the first novel (what we would consider a novel in modern terms) was written by a woman (Lady Muraskai’s the Tale of Genji in the early 1000s) take your snide “Isaac Asimov” reblogs and stick it

even in terms of male scifi authors, asimov was predated by Jules Verne, HG Wells, George Orwell, you could have even cited Poe or Jonathan Swift has a case but Asimov?

PbbBFFTTBBBTBTTBBTBTTT so desperate to discredit the idea of Mary Shelly as the mother of modern science fiction you didn’t even do a frickin google search For Shame

cryptovalid

And if you want to go back even further, the first named, identified author in history was Enheduanna of Akkad, a Sumerian high priestess.

gunthatshootsennui

Kinda funny, considering this Isaac Asimov quote on the subject:

Mary Shelley was the first to make use of a new finding of science which she advanced further to a logical extreme, and it is that which makes Frankenstein the first true science fiction story.

deathcomes4u

Even Isaac Asimov ain’t having none of your shit, not even posthumously.

velocigrey-deactivated20160825

You know what else was invented by women? Masked vigilantes, the precursor to the modern superhero. Baroness Emma Orczy wrote The Scarlet Pimpernel in 1905. The character would later inspire better known masked vigilantes such as Zorro and Batman.

geekinlibrariansclothing

Got that?

bettieleetwo

Stick that in your international pipe and smoke it

la-knight

I have literally been telling people this for over a year.

athenadark

the first extended prose piece - ie a novel, was not, as many male scholars will shout, Don Quixote (1605) but The Tale of Genji (1008) written by a woman

thepsychicclam

The first autobiography ever written in English is also attributed to a woman, The Book of Margery Kempe (1430s).

ladynorbert

The day may come when I find this post and do not reblog it, but it is not this day.

fragments-of-sappho

Women invented language while men were hunting. I mean…

x-manawesomeness

Interesting. Keeping note. Gotta show this to quite a lot of fellow developing authors

piesandswords

when your teacher says you can’t use first person pronouns in your writing

piesandswords

WAIT SHIT

darkshrimpemotions

They sent pipe bombs to Obama, Clinton, CNN, and a major Democratic donor. They marched through the streets chanting “Jews will not replace us.” They jailed and brutalized and outright killed Black protesters. They ran a woman down with a car for protesting their hateful rhetoric.

They threatened from the start to resort to violence if they didn’t get their way, and then got their way…and resorted to violence anyway. They are the purveyors of a body of politics that sees most of us as subhuman and undeserving of life, and actively works toward our destruction.

Remember that during this election.

This is not a matter of choosing the “lesser evil”. This is flawed politicians vs. actual fucking terrorists. This is human failings vs. inhumanity. This is not being progressive enough vs. silencing the opposition with violence.

No fucking contest. Get out and vote.

runcibility

It was a terrorist attempt on several people, including two previous presidents. And our current president decided that the best thing to do tonight would be to hold a political rally.

You have to vote. Lives are on the fucking line here.

what-alchemy

People have already died. Heather Heyer of course, but let’s not forget that the lack of response to Puerto Rico resulted in the deaths of thousands. That level of racism and neglect is state violence.

Don’t be precious about your vote. Your lives, all our lives, depend on it.

katrinageist

When I explain cultural misappropriation to children, I use the example of The Nightmare Before Christmas.

It’s effective because especially for children, who don’t have enough historical context to understand much of the concept, you can still fully grasp the idea.

There was nothing wrong with Jack seeing the beauty and differences in Christmas town, it’s when he tried to take what is unique about Christmas town away from those it originally belonged to without understanding the full context of Christmas things is when everything went wrong.

When Jack tries to get the folk of Halloween town to make Christmas gifts for children, etc., children understand that the Halloween town folk do not have the full context for the objects they are making, and they are able to see that the direct repercussions and consequences are very harmful.

jumpingjacktrash

what i like about this is the implication that if jack had taken the time to understand christmas town, bringing christmas to halloween town would not have been harmful. that’s how it works, folks. cultural sharing is GOOD, it’s only misappropriation when it’s done in ignorance and disrespect.

kelseyridge13

There’s an interesting level here in that Jack tried to understand Christmas town. He could see the magic while he was there, and he did try to explain it that way to citizens of Halloween town. But they weren’t interested in the kind of life he was describing, so he started “rebranding” Christmas so that it was not like Christmas but was like Halloween. The people of Halloween town, never having actually encountered Christmas, have no way of knowing that what they’re being told about Christmas and “Sandy Claws” is inaccurate. Jack also tried to study Christmas and its culture, though he couldn’t quite get it; eventually, he literally decides to take it for himself, even as he knows it’s not really for him. He started out feeling sad the others in Halloween town didn’t ‘get it,’ but he then decided it’s not important to fully ‘get it’ but instead to have it.

So it’s not just accidentally removing things form their context; he has intentionally disregard the meaning of the rituals he purports to be recreating, making them more fun for the recreaters but not like what the rituals are supposed to be and without the related significance.

calamitycons

This is the best way to conceptualize the wrong way to share culture I have ever seen and I think I finally get where people are coming from when they talk about “cultural appropriation.”

okayilubuhbye-deactivated201611

This is an EXCELLENT explanation through example!

figureyourlifeout-deactivated20

This is PERFECT. I’m using this in my classroom.

everydayanth

THIS IS PERFECT FOR ADULTS TOO!

x-manawesomeness

Wow. That is a fantastic way to explain it!

keepingupwithlinmanuel

Lin performs Dear Theodosia at the Families Belong Together march in DC

[source] [alternative video]

x-manawesomeness

I know I’m getting this video late, BUT IT MADE ME CRY, MAN!

blackatdp

Bruce winning a fight against an unbeatable foe with compassion.

atomic-darth

“IT’S OKAY TO BE ANGRY. USE THE ANGER TO MAKE CHANGE.”

sammi-fae

@a-black-pegasus

ingot-unit

Heartfelt moment, you’ve seen it here folks, only on Ingot blogs news.

creatageneticist

@doomedgods

–「 You’d think after all of these sweeps, you’d have calmed down to a lukewarm, as opposed to a boil. But when you see him, the heat under your skin is searing, and you’re reaching in your bag for a weapon that doesn’t exist. You remember thinking that if he came sniffing for you, then you’d settle the score for good, somehow. You don’t know how, but you’d find a way. Even if you had to use a stapler.」

「 A tiny part of you knows it’s a horrible idea. So you shoot him a warning glare, as if to tell him he’d better fucking not, before pacing down the street. But you’ve dealt with Eridan. You know empty apologies are a caeger a dozen.」

「 You turn. You’re going to regret this. 」

“I’M GOING TO WARN YOU ONE TIME. I DON’T WANT ANYTHING TO DO WITH YOU, AND IF YOU SO MUCH AS THREATEN HER AGAIN, I’LL TEAR YOU APART.”

–「 He might not even remember anything. You’re not sure if you care. No. You don’t, you know you don’t.」

“WALK AWAY, ERIDAN. NOW.”

doomedgods-deactivated20190211

You were always happy to see Karkat. Sure, he was a lowblood - fuck, he was a mutant, but he was your… ugh… friend? You preferred not to think about it. The fact was, you were happy to see Karkat.

Karkat was not happy to see you.

“wwhat the fuck are you talkin about”

Well, there was only one person that you could think of that Karkat could be talking about. Wait, no, two. Shit. Karkat liked Kanaya, didn’t he? Maybe you made a mistake after all, and that mistake was literally murdering your friends.

“kar if youre still upset about the kan and fef shit im sorry i got my comeuppance too from kan as wwell so really evverythin is all better an it all wworked out im sorry kar”

Still, the look in his eyes makes you step backwards. You hadn’t even come close when Karkat started growling at you, and now you have no interest in coming any closer.

“ivve changed i can provve it i promise gimmie a chance”