The Sane Whitaker

Pankaj Mishra, From the Ruins of Empire

I hope every writer who sees this writes LOADS the next few months. Like freetime opens up, no writers block, the ability to focus, etc etc you’re able to write loads & make lots of progress <3

Palestine Masterlist 

(this is a list of informative sources, materials, stores, charities, books, documentaries etc to better help Palestinians, learn about the Palestinian struggle, and educate yourselves on us as a people. This list will be added on to with more links as they are recommended to me.)

Introduction to Palestine: 

Decolonize Palestine:

Al-Nakba (documentary)

The Question of Palestine (book)

The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917-2017 (book)

The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine (book)

IMEU (Institute for Middle East Understanding):

The Nakba did not start or end in 1948 (Article) 

Nakba Day: What happened in Palestine in 1948? (article)

Donations and charities: 

Books:

Palestinian Culture:

Documentaries, Films, and Video Essays:

Palestine Remix: 

Organizations and News 

gaza has just been completely cut off from the world.

after increased intensity of israeli aistrikes tonight, the last cable providing communications was destroyed. telecommunications have been completely cut off. they cannot reach one another. they cannot reach paramedics. the red crescent society has completely lost contact with their branch in gaza. nobody inside can reach anyone inside, and especially not outside of gaza to tell us what is going on. this is a complete atrocity.

al jazeera has managed to maintain infrequent communication with their journalists in gaza. from their reporter wael dahdouh: “we are not fine. body parts are everywhere, missiles are targeting everyone, and the bombing hasn’t stopped for a second.”

do not stop talking about gaza. they are trying to commit genocide in the dark. do not stop talking.

don’t like it when people say you can’t have potatoes in ur fantasy novel without detailed explanation. who gives a fuck

“ohh in europe they didnt have those until” well its not europe is it. its middle earth its earthsea its some country somebody made up

“have detailed knowledge of your dragon’s anatomy and a foolproof scientifically backed explanation of how he can fly” he can fly because he’s a dragon. and because i love him

reblog to reblog from the person you reblogged from

Imagine being a tuna (Atlantic bluefin, Thunnus thynnus). You are a super predator, over six feet long and almost a ton. You are as beautiful and shiny and mercilessly efficient as a sports car, a true marvel of the sea. But you taste so fucking good

I agree with you and also think this is some kind of philosophical point. Cruel efficiency will not save you when you have soft delicious insides

i have good news for the person who wrote that tag and bad news for sports car drivers

Alexander Eudier. Contemporary Ritual Mask. Ouagadougou

💘 Romance writers' work is worthwhile and meaningful.

💘 Smut and erotica writers' work is worthwhile and meaningful.

💘 Romance, smut and erotica writers are not lesser writers. Their work is not less meaningful or less valid than any other genre or form of artistic expression.

💘 Art is still art when the emotion it is intended to evoke is romance, longing, titillation, or arousal.

💘 Romance, smut, and erotica writing have merit and worth for their own sake, without having to have something 'deep' to say outside of themselves.

💘 Sex and romance are part of the spectrum of human experience and worth exploring in fiction and art for their own sake.

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just so it shows up in the notes: this is an extremely good thing, which is why you will see the internet/cell companies revolt against it-- it will prevent them from selling your data to spamcall companies and selectively throttling their competitor's sites, among other things.

also remember that the internet has basically replaced phone service entirely now, with most phones now simply operating via VOIP. legislating the internet the same way as landlines were is really a no-brainer, it's the same service in a slightly different form.

What we need, long-term, is for Congress to make a law about it, so the definition doesn't change every few years when a new FCC is in place.

My first question to someone who’s like, “You should give up writing and learn to code!” would be to ask, “Is that how you entertained yourself during the pandemic? With long videos of people coding? Or did you read books and watch TV and movies like the rest of us?”

Okay honestly it didn't hit me how funny the concept of Weird Al's Even Worse album is until I found out they'd have gone on sale side by side.

"Hmmm, do I want Bad, or Even Worse?"

what if you went to your normal job and they were doing a musical episode

look i dislike the corporate artstyle book cover trend as much as the next person but we cant pretend every book looking the same is something new. if you stepped into a bookstore in 2013 there would be approximately 57 books whose cover art consisted of a girl in a ballgown with her back half-turned to the camera photoshopped into a vaguely fantasy-like landscape. i was 11 years old fighting for my life to find the right maximalistic girl and her single-adjective book title we cannot forget the horrors i went through please be respectful of my experiences

write for the audience you want, not the one you’re afraid of

write to delight the audience you want and piss off the one you’re afraid of

Write for the audience of yourself and trust that there’s other people out there who are just as weird as you are

Reblog and put in the tags if you’ve ever been in a wedding party before (like bridesmaids, etc.) 

I hate to say this, and like, rain on everyone’s parade, but after scrolling past three posts about it on a writing tag …

If you are looking up synonyms to exchange words out in your story with the purpose of sounding smarter, more sophisticated, or complicated to your reader, you are probably abusing the thesaurus.

Now, if you *want* to do this, I mean, you can write whatever or however you want! But I just want you to know that this is frowned upon if you are trying to write at a professional level.

I have an old article on this somewhere …

If you want to look at the original article…

https://www.septembercfawkes.com/2018/08/how-to-use-thesaurus-properly.html

i am writing all the time except just like inside of me and not outside