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the raven cycle, the foxhole court, other stuff, cute dogs
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Reblogged spacebeyonce
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fysw

J.J. emailed me and he said, ‘Can you travel down to Mayfair to meet me?’, so I got in a taxi; I probably paid £150 without knowing it just to get to J.J. to hear what was going on… He sat me down, he spoke to me about a couple of things and then said, ‘You’re the new star of Star Wars,’ and literally everything just froze. The whole world was perfect in that one moment.

#john boyega
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Reblogged meraofxebel
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“Gal…she’s one of the best personalities I’ve ever encountered. She’s - without fail: positive, and such a hard worker. We were shooting outside of Oxford in England and God, it was cold. The rest of us are stacked up in our wool uniforms, and there’s Gal…she did the scene, didn’t complain…she is just a monster.” - Chris Pine

#gal gadot#babe
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Reblogged atlalesbian-deactivated20170718
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Happy 420! Let’s take the time to remember the black Americans jailed for marijuana use/distribution far more than white Americans despite the usage rates being about the same. Look at how steady those arrest rates are for white people while the black arrest rate climbed steadily.

#!!!
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Reblogged deactivated-account8789472897
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The homophobia that is prevalent in many countries often stems from Christian missionaries who spew anti-queer rhetoric as a part of spreading the message of Christianity. Queerness, third genders, and other complex, non-binary identities have existed for centuries. For example, in Tonga, where my birth father is from, they have a naturally existing community that plays a large role in their traditional society called “fakaleiti” which means “like a lady”. If a family has no daughters, the youngest son is often raised in the role of  traditional femeninity, and respect and spiritual honor is shown to these individuals. This is similar to Mahu in Hawaii, fa'afafine in Samoa, and femminielli in Polynesian cultures. When Europeans and Americans colonized many of these countries, they brought with them anti queer ideologies that were then forced upon the people in an effort to “civilize” them. As a result, many of these countries that once organically embraced varying types of non binary existence  are now completely the opposite. Mix in the weapons technology brought to many countries by Westerners and/or Europeans, and you have a recipe for violence against the ancestral traditions and peaceful ways of life that once existed in most cultures. The root of the rampant homophobia of countries such as Brazil and Jamaica is not in their ancestral traditions, but in their colonization by Europeans.  

#history
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Reblogged nekojitachan
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jonnlaurenss-deactivated2017121
Anonymous asked:

hi! i was just wondering if you had an writing tips?

jonnlaurenss-deactivated2017121 answered:
  • first and foremost, learn to trust your gut. sit down and write whatever comes to mind. if you start going in a direction you were anticipating, follow it. TRUST. YOUR. GUT. literally, learning to embrace your natural instincts when you’re sitting down to write is going to be more beneficial to you than following out a plan point by point.
  • STILL: have a bit of a plan. have an idea of where you want to go. give your characters a goal, then let them show you how they’re going to get there. so much of my stories have changed the second i let the characters take control; and it makes them better. it adds dimension to your character and purpose to their plot.
  • GET TO KNOW YOUR CHARACTERS. these are your babies, my dudes, you’re going to be spending a lot of time with them. have flat characters. have round characters. have characters that have struggled immensely. have characters that have never struggled. vary your characters and learn to love them. when you love them, you are more determined to do right by them.
  • read!! read read read. i cannot stress this enough. you will never get anywhere trying to write if you don’t allow yourself to read the works of other people. take inspiration from them. take notes. find out what about the writing makes your favorite story your favorite. read for enjoying. read for studying. read for writing.
  • never stop writing. don’t let a day go by without putting a thought down somewhere. write 5000 words or write 5, but just put something down. i have over two hundred notes on my phone of ideas that have come to mind, phrases i’ve used later when i have more time to write, story ideas and plot points and character designs, or quotes that inspire me. i have over one hundred documents on my computer filled with random spouts of story. one day i’ll get to them; or maybe i won’t. the important thing is i’m not allowing myself to stop writing, because i have a personal goal to improve constantly and i will never reach that if i stop. try to write every day you can. even if it’s just a sentence. especially if it’s just a sentence.
  • LET YOURSELF TAKE CRITICISM - as long as it’s constructive. share your works with people. accept their compliments, ask them what you need to change. let other people help you or just ask them to shower you in compliments. you’re an artist, and art deserves to be shared. accept criticism; but if you are proud in something you’ve created don’t let anyone tell you that it’s bad. you’ve worked hard and you’ve earned that pride. the only criticism you have to take is the criticism that you deem beneficial to you.
  • experiment in different writing styles. find what works for you. don’t limit yourself to one style of writing because it’s something you enjoy reading. that doesn’t make it your style. find what works, try new things, learn and grow.
  • don’t be afraid of rewrites. sometimes you get it right on the first draft, sometimes you get it right on the fifteenth. don’t be afraid to take a scene and introduce a different circumstance and see where that takes you. explore your story, write pointless scenes about your characters. they may not make it into the final draft, but they’ll teach you.
  • WRITE FOR YOU! this is so important. we write with the intention that one day it will be shared, but writing for other people does not benefit you at all. i wrote many, many fics before i finally realized this. the second i started writing for myself? i gained popularity. my most popular fic started out as pure indulgence because it was something i wanted to see. writing for yourself means that no matter how the work is received, critiqued, reviewed, or read, you are proud of it. you created that thing - be proud. write for yourself.

This is the most important one: let yourself be a bad writer. let yourself be a great writer. JUST BE A WRITER. take pride in anything you create, good or bad. i once wrote 400 pages of a novel that was getting published, before i realized it wasn’t my best writing and i backed out. i look back on that writing now and it’s pretty terrible - i’ve come a long way from where i was. but never for a second have i regretted a single one of those 400 pages. you learn from your writing. you learn from your mistakes. you learn from your triumphs. come to the understanding that writing is a process that has to constantly evolve, and that your style is going to improve as long as you keep working on it. some of the stuff you write is going to be bad. laugh at it. love it anyway. learn from it.

writing is gritty and wonderful and stressful and gorgeous. and it’s a process. but if you let yourself love it, and if you learn to adapt alongside the process, then it’s one of the greatest things you’ll ever be able to do.

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Reblogged nekojitachan
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“It is not enough for me to stand before you tonight and condemn riots. It would be morally irresponsible for me to do that without, at the same time, condemning the contingent, intolerable conditions that exist in our society. These conditions are the things that cause individuals to feel that they have no other alternative than to engage in violent rebellions to get attention. And I must say tonight that a riot is the language of the unheard.
– Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. | “The Other America.” Grosse Pointe High School (1968)
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Woops

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fullten

@ all the whites with that “MLK IS ROLLING IN HIS GRAVE” mess

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Reblogged darcyolsson
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Some advice for when you’re writing and find yourself stuck in the middle of a scene:

  • kill someone
  • ask this question: “What could go wrong?” and write exactly how it goes wrong
  • switch the POV from your current character to another - a minor character, the antagonist, anyone
  • stop writing whatever scene you’re struggling with and skip to the next one you want to write
  • write the ending
  • write a sex scene
  • use a scene prompt
  • use sentence starters
  • read someone else’s writing

Never delete. Never read what you’ve already written. Pass Go, collect your $200, and keep going.

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This is the literal best writing advice I have ever read. Period.

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Special note: “Kill someone” means kill someone in the story. Please do not kill random real life passers by every time you hit a block. My lawyer says misunderstanding writing advice is not an acceptable defense. See you all in 25 to 50 years.

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