You hear it in the trees at night — a snapping branch, a sigh.
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Wolves from the Druid pack in Yellowstone National Park pursue a bull elk.
75% of writing is convincing yourself that your story is worth it
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It is. In case you were wondering. Your story is worth the effort you are putting into it. It’s an amazing thing because you are writing it.
Even if you are writing fanfic. Even if you are writing tropes that have been done over and over. Even if you write it thinking others have done this same thing and done it better. “Better” is a lie. No stories are better or worse. Different stories touch people in different ways. The story that you think of as a forgettable, half-assed thing might touch somebody else to their bones. Don’t stop. And don’t be afraid.
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Jorge Gonzalez, suffered a broken neck, and a compressed spine at the hands of 3 sheriff deputies in Texas. He couldn’t even hold his head up for this mugshot…so they had to hold it up for him. They actually thought the mugshot was more important than a hospital visit.
After a deputy tripped him he hit his face hard and went unconscious. They tased him couple of times “to wake him up”.
He was left paralyzed neck down, went through a series of surgeries, and was in ICU on the ventilator for over a month after the arrest.
According to the hospital he went over 26 hours in Hidalgo County jail without necessary medical attention that could have saved his life.
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There are hardly any female werewolves because they break all the classic rules of femininity. They force you to confront female violence, strength, size, grotesqueness and uncontrollability. Historically female shapeshifters always shift into something dangerous (snake) or sleek (cat) or dainty (bird) but female werewolves ignore the masculine gaze completely. They're distorted beasts that have no ulterior motive except to destroy. Nothing about them is nurturing or modest. They're the opposite of what a woman "should be." Their omission from pop culture is not an accident.
