there it is, again
that funny feeling
he's entirely correct
No author can tell you where their ideas come from, but here’s a few ways to find your own ideas if you struggled with it:
- Read books both in and outside of your interest. If you struggle with focusing on reading, try audio books or fictional podcasts. If that’s hard, comics are great! Comics are awesome! Comics are relatively easy to consume and can teach you a lot about how to tell a story.
- Other media is good too! Watch that TV show and take notes on what story beats interest you. Combine stories and see if anything sparks. An idea sounds easy, but finding an idea that works for you takes practice.
- Go for a walk. Seriously. Do something activity that takes your mind off of everything and the ideas will just spring forth like Athena from your brain. This is why shower thoughts or short naps are useful - the second you stop concentrating on something, it’ll manifest.
- Try prompts. You’ve got everything from online generators to gamified story decks. Tumblr’s got a whole tag.
- Prompts don’t work for you? Steal. Okay, look, prompts never worked for me either. I can’t come up with a character out of the blue (I’m terrible at DnD). I can jamjar my favorite characters into a completely different genre ie Coffeeshop AU gone wild until they become completely different characters. It’s the perfect plan and no one will ever complain that their new favorite character feels a lot like their old favorite character. Trust me.
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Alternatively:
- Get in the shower
- Lie down and try to sleep
If you don’t think it’s funny that ”stepdad” in swedish is ”Bonuspappa” then get out
ITS NEVER TOO LATE TO FINISH THAT FIC!!!
This is so inspiring and uplifting.
three days ago I got an ao3 subscription update email and the author’s note on the chapter said they’d come back and written chapter ten SIXTEEN YEARS after chapter nine was published, so, never fear to hit that subscribe button folks
It took Stephen King 26 YEARS to write the next chapter of one of his Dark Tower books
LEAVE THAT COMMENT. Even if the fic is old. You never know who’s listening, or if your words are exactly the little push that author needs to take a trip down memory lane and remember all the wonderful things that inspired them to write the fic in the first place. Think about it, Reader. YOU could be the person that RESURRECTS THAT FIC!
me at all of you who wrote reviews on teenagers.
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Slutshaming women is not ok Slutshaming Alexander Hamilton is totally ok Tumblr logic
klutzmer
he cheated. on his wife.
forcesense
he’s also been dead for several hundred years this is the funniest post ive ever read in my life
divinedorothy
fave things about this post:
- the idea that thousands of people are calling alexander hamilton a slut
- calling any founding father a slut
- the idea that people are SHAMING Alexander Hamilton for being Such A Slut he is being SHAMED for being such a naughty little tart, SPREADING HIS LEGS FOR EVERYONE IN CONGRESS
- that this was probably prompted by people expression dissaproval for Alexander Hamilton cheating on his wife - that the OP thinks “slut shaming” and “Isnt it gross that he cheated on his wife” are the same thing
- Alexander Hamilton has been dead for 210
- 210 slutty, slutty years
- the way that this is presented in such a CHECKMATE SJWS way when they’re talking about a founding father who cheated on his wife and has been DEAD FOR 210 YEARS
- the fact that the words “Slutshaming” and “Alexander Hamilton” have been used in the same sentence
- i mean just apply what we’d traditionally think of as “slut shaming” to Alexander Hamilton.
- His frock coat is too tight, his breaches are so short, have you SEEN how often he powders his wig??? I heard he gave Thomas Jefferson a handy behind the stables AND that he got fingered by John Hancock
- i barely know who alexander hamilton is
date of origin: 2014
The Hamilton discourse extends beyond time.
Anonymous asked:
Since I've never touched a baby bird but I've been curious: what does it feel like to touch the starling? Are they heavy or light? How do those quills feel? The weird fuzz and paper thin leathery skin? (Sorry if this comes across as weird, but I've been wondering pretty much my whole life)
The flesh of the animal is hotter than what you are used to, hotter than a human child or a young dog. The small body is dense to begin with, the adult bird will feel lighter than the offspring, though this may be merely an illusion of size. The skin is tissue thin, wrinkled, and moves under your fingers easily: this body is ready to expand at a seemingly unnatural pace. The pins come out at great bother to the animal, the feeling is similar to cat claws without the razor sharp tips. The feathers break out well formed, reducing the pin sheathes to dust. The thin, long, legs are not strong enough to support the body weight, the mouth is damp and lined with soft downwards facing "teeth" to encourage food down. Every day that passes the eyes look at you with more recognition, more judgement, more knowing.
Lol
They're watching you!
Because everyone keeps asking about it.
These Bastards are available as prints, cards and postcards over on RedBubble.
I’ve had a go at making stickers out of these and it’s bloody horrendous. So I hope you all can suffice with prints for now.
Please also have a look over on my INPRNT store for more artwork x
this scene from the goes wrong show where they cast two different people as the head and hunky, semi-nude body of the same character during a live theatre production haunts my every waking moment
Now THIS is physical comedy
someone call an ambulance i am dying from this brutal personal assault
ONLY SOME OF THEM ARE CUTE OTHERS ARE GOING TO EAT YOUR SOUL FOR TEA
No, no, that type is also cute.
A highly cursed garment I happened upon while in Macy’s today. May I present Jeanjolras
[Image ID: a terrifying denim coat on a mannequin that vaguely resembles Napoleon-era fashion. Everything is a light wash denim except the bottom fourth of each sleeve, which is black corduroy for some reason.]
weareerratic2
@csykora gaze upon it and despair
This jacket has one grace, and that’s clarity. This is a denim dolman coat with decorative denim frogging across the front. That sounds rad. But it never stood a chance, because it’s clear the designer doesn’t know or like anything about denim.
Those frogs. Now, typically a frogged coat like this will have gold cord or a dramatic contrast color, but if you want to look subtler than a Hungarian cavalry officer OK I guess.
When you want to make frogging of self fabric (the same fabric as the body of the piece), you typically cut strips of that fabric and fold them into cord on the bias, across the weave of the fabric. When pulled diagonally like this, the pockets of air between the threads of loosely woven fabric collapse, allowing it to flex and curve into a nice rounded cord.
Except.
Denim doesn’t have a bias. It’s too tightly woven to warp that way. Instead you get those wiggly flat noodles that have to be folded back and forth. You can’t make an intricate knot and it doesn’t look neat. A dolman is a uniform coat, so the knotwork should be regimented, each ornate frog identical for a blindingly impressive effect. The lack of color contrast and the clunky detailing aren’t doing anything for each other.
Roll a thin strip of denim into cord if you must, and use two shades of denim, like a deep new blue on an acid-washed body or vice versa.
Hey what’s this cut? What are those darts for? What are those leg-of-mutton sleeves?
Dolman coats can fasten in the middle of the chest or in a csakora (no relation) cut, where the lapel folds across the chest and fastens at one side of the frogging to really emphasize that impressive Dorito-shaped chest. I think this item is a great example of how people get so set in modern cuts that they can’t comprehend how old coats approached the body differently.
Front darts, which run from waist to nip, help get a closer fit but also break up waist-shoulder lines for a less triangular chest shape. Here they’re bumping into and distorting the lines of the decoration, but they’re also just awkward in denim: you want a dart to be a subtle shaper, not a blatant line, and denim is so thick that seams should usually be doubled over and when they aren’t they make obvious puckers in the fabric. Admit that you can’t hide the seams and make sure they follow the lines of the design, with more triangular chest seams from a strong horizontal banded hem to the shoulder, outlining the space you then want to fill with ornament.
The sleeves were cut so they hang straight down. So the sleeve piece is cut at a very tight angle. If you took them apart and just follow the edge of each piece of fabric, the edge of the sleeve piece is longer than the edge of the body-piece it’s joined to, so the fabric gets rucked up at the top there. This isn’t factually wrong, it’s accurate for the historical style I guess and is something you might be able to manage in a wool suiting, because the weave will work with you and warp to fall nicely, but it’s technically wrong, it’s bad technique, because denim is too stiff.
Dolmans tend to have a sloping shoulder—the seam would normally be at the shoulder joint, not dropped off the shoulder, but…it doesn’t need to be exactly there to emphasize the shoulder for the Look. While hussars did wear modified epaulettes sometimes, they more notably wore the pelisse or short fur cloak, which you want to be able to swish freely around your rounded shoulders without catching on a big square, structured, or pointy shoulder. So I don’t see any problem cutting this more like a denim work shirt, where the sleeves are set in more of a T shape. There are other issues in making a tight denim sleeve, but I think my issues with modern ‘slim-fit’ denim jackets might be appeased by taking a trad sleeve cap and then playing around with narrowing them toward the forearms.
Also: I can’t think of a more disruptive design for those pockets that isn’t a full-on prank. They’re the only horizontal line here, they’re at the natural waist where I don’t put my hands much (and would have trouble inserting my hands at that angle), they end up inside the frogging but not interacting with it, and they have a flap with no button which, can we agree, is the worst pocket even when it’s not in denim which is stiff.
I know tiny-waist big-titty cavalry boy isn’t a Look that Fashion’s into anymore but then why even try, you know?
Thanks darling, this cheered me up and if I find a defenseless denim coat lying around and make one I will somehow tack you down and make you wear it
This was so good it made me want to investigate whether Free People had committed any further Enjolras jacket crimes, and boy have they.
To start with, the original offender also comes in navy, red, and olive.
But it turns out that someone at Free People just cannot keep themselves from going back to this design well, over and over and over.
Plus I found this Rocketeer situation and I just need people to know about it.
Moses Supposes
Running into this on my dash was like running into an old friend
pyromanicschizophrenic
Thats just what theater kids are like
What I’ve always loved about this bit is
a. this musical number comes completely out of nowhere, with no greater context than what this video captures; and
b. the language instructor clearly can’t hear the music. He’s not from Musical Theatre Land. From his perspective, a couple of twinkle-toed weirdos just randomly decided to physically abuse him for three solid minutes. This isn’t reading anything that’s not intended into the scene – it’s literally the central gag.
@thebibliosphere in case you need some ridiculous Singin’ in the Rain on your dash.
(P.S. I imagined you making the faces at the instructor and it was hilarious)
I can but aspire to the level of expressiveness Cosmo Brown has with his face.
scientists in the 1990s, putting a Get More Purple gene attached to a harmless plant virus into an already purple petunia: please get more purple
the petunia, sensing an apparent honest to god Get More Purple Disease, using the previously undiscovered RNAi antiviral ability to shut down all other purple genes along with it just in case: you put VIRUS in petunia? you infect her with the More Purple?? oh! oh! her children shall bloom white! jail for mother, jail for mother for One Thousand Years!!!!
Growth stages of various mushrooms! from young spore to wisened, old granny fungi.
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“Son,” the father says, examining the broken petri dishes littered about the floor, “I’m not a mad scientist, I’m just a disappointed scientist.”
punkasfrick
I don’t even care what you think this is the best post I’ve ever made
one of my favorite this american life segments of late is about the people who played orchestra pit for phantom of the opera on broadway and how, like, a sizeable majority of them had literally been playing the show since it opened in 1988 (on broadway. I know it opened in 86 on the west end, you random pedants, but I am specifically talking about broadway musicians) because their contracts stipulated that they'd have jobs throughout the show's entire run... but nobody anticipated that phantom would become the longest-running broadway show of all time.
and none of these people wanted to walk away from a guaranteed job, so very few of them ever quit. they just kept doing the same show eight nights a week... for twenty or thirty years... and by the time it finally closed last year most of these musicians (who had been working together for DECADES) hated each other and really really fucking loathed phantom. I can't stop thinking about it. it's indescribably hellish to imagine but also the funniest thing I've ever heard in my life.
can you imagine.
New Jerusalem Monastery, Moscow Region, Russia (by Sergey Aleshchenko)