Apollo's Girl

Hi, I'm Cassandra! I'm a Lolita, an aspiring writer, and a musical theatre aficionado. This blog is all about fashion (mostly Lolita), animals, and Disney, plus anything else that makes me smile or makes me laugh. I'm a very positive person and I want to fill my life with beauty and happiness.

[ribbonplague]

Autumn in Edinburgh. Photo by Dazero 

[medievalpoc]

GARB WEEK RETURNETH!

September 5-12, 2016, I’ll be posting pictures and articles about Historical Fashion, Fantasy/SFF cosplay, how-to guides, art history-inspired garb, and of course SUBMISSIONS of your costumes, reenactments, and Renaissance Festival gear!

Source links for the above photos: [link 1] link 2 [link 3] link 4 [link5] link 6  [link 7] link 8 [link 9] link 10

[payoki]

In the darkest night, we are the flame.

Team Valor charges into battle!!

I will be selling this as a print at Animaga 2016! Team Mystic and Instinct are up next!

[icemelona]

[tinderofficial]

free him

[nabelanoor]

Your desi girl. 

[palendrome]

omggg dead!!! get it, girl!!!

[beccap]

But the 8-hour workday is too profitable for big business, not because of the amount of work people get done in eight hours (the average office worker gets less than three hours of actual work done in 8 hours) but because it makes for such a purchase-happy public. Keeping free time scarce means people pay a lot more for convenience, gratification, and any other relief they can buy. It keeps them watching television, and its commercials. It keeps them unambitious outside of work. We’ve been led into a culture that has been engineered to leave us tired, hungry for indulgence, willing to pay a lot for convenience and entertainment, and most importantly, vaguely dissatisfied with our lives so that we continue wanting things we don’t have. We buy so much because it always seems like something is still missing.

Your Lifestyle Has Already Been Designed

(via beccap)

[petit-cottage]

[shinycaterpie]

Vulpix and Ninetales - Alola Forms

[chainsawpunk]

this is the best thing that pokemon has ever done im in tears she is so beautiful

[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 expereinced 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!

[oldmanyellsatcloud]

Also applies to many so-called freelance sites that are just content mills, and may not pay unless your work is used, even if the contract seems designed otherwise.

[konekat]

Listen, reading these is like legit reading horror stories.  When it comes to publishing your writing, always, always, ALWAYS do your research.  Not only will it help you avoid scams, but it will also be likely to help you land a much better fit for an agent/publisher/whatever.  Knowing more is never going to hurt.

[glorious74-deactivated20181211]

Omg!!! Thanks for the warning! Writers— reblog!

[thegirlwiththebook]

I’ve heard stories like this that are scarier than horror stories. This is an all time worst nightmare for a writer. Everyone reblog and make sure you keep your work safe! 

[the960writers]

Always, ALWAYS check Writer Beware. Let me also recommend Kristine Kathryn Rusch’s blog about contracts and contract scams for authors in her section Business Musings.

[petit-cottage]

[justintaco]

[fannyrosie]

OOTD from last week~ Pictures by Chloé

Dress: Mary Magdalene Cardigan: Annie 50 Bag: Baby, the Stars Shine Bright Shoes: Hotter Tights: Tutuanna

[crestomancer-art]

OF COURSE I couldn’t pass up drawing Sailor Moon for the Character Design Challenge 💕  

Usagi isn’t very graceful, but I love how elegant she looks in her attacks and transformations

[kawacy]

Disney’s 2016 new princess: Moana Waialiki

[petit-cottage]

by Takumi Twitter, FB, Store

[frederica1995]

Angelic Pretty

[kawaiikisses88-deactivated20141]

Since everyone else at the meet-up has uploaded their photos with Fanny Rosie, here are mine! It was windy that day so posing for photos was difficult at times lol. I thought this candid photo was cute :) Photo taken by trumie-chan