Gilmore Girls is a comforting show in a world where there is so little comfort
Lauren Graham (via ablogwithaview)
That lighting! ;_;
This reminds me so much of Ayenee. She is exactly like a 2002 Noel character!
RP forums have been the pits for a while now, but I visit them now and then and I seriously see apps written like this: "haaay gais so this is my character milly, look at this sweetie-pie, she's cute but trash." I never thought I'd miss the days where people were stuffing as many melodramatic, traumatic events into a character's life as possible—at least those people were developing characters and trying to write stories instead of jumping straight to talking about their creations like they're the latest episode of a shitty TV show.
The Garden of Maidens, Elisabeth Sonrel
at what point in history do you think americans stopped having british accents
peacelovelesbian
Actually, Americans still have the original British accent. We kept it over time and Britain didn’t. What we currently coin as a British accent developed in England during the 19th century among the upper class as a symbol of status. Historians often claim that Shakespeare sounds better in an American accent.
fangirlingoverdemigods
whAT THE FUCK
Mad Max told a story about sexual violence and survivorship without relying on rape scenes to impress upon the audience how *serious* things were.
instead of watching the abuse on screen, we hear about it through the interactions between the wives. they tell us what happened, and in that way they take control of their own narrative.
rather than being voyeurs witnessing the wives’ trauma played out onscreen, we were an audience listening to their story.
and that makes a world of difference.
blindtodreams
and look how much we all ENJOYED that movie! This is such a good point.
And basically, the more you defend rape scenes, the more a lot of us hear, “I just like watching women get raped, it’s exciting. Like the car chases and punching. Good drama.”
and that’s a pretty terrible stance to have so maybe just think about it before you go trying to antagonize your feminist friends because their feminism bugs you. =)
SCREAMING “THIS THIS THIS THIS” UNTIL I RUN OUT OF BREATH AND PASS OUT, SPASMING AND VOMITING ALL OVER GAME OF THRONES’ WRITERS.
Mad Men’s Emmy Campaign Ads are the best. (And they all deserve one too)
Said Synonyms- Reporting
- Added: to enhance an argument
- Advised: to warn, to offer help
- Announced: to declare formally and or publicly
- Asserted: to state positively but having no proof
- Called: to capture attention by increased volume
- Commented: to explain,…
Wait. In and of itself in prose, this is fine. But if we’re talking about consistently replacing the word “said” in an attributional context, in dialogue, this is misguided.
If you need to use any of these words, post-dialogue, in your writing to replace the word “said” – a word that is simple, entirely straightforward, fully functional, and clear – you have a problem. Because it means that your dialogue isn’t working hard enough to communicate your characters’ ideas and emotions without some kind of simpering post-explanation. She whimpered. She cried. She announced.
No. Make her speech the whimper. Show me that she’s shouting down that motherfucker with the words she says. Make her stand on a podium. Make her stand up. Cross the room. Grab something. Let the words be the drama and omit the “she said” entirely.
“Fuck that.”
“Oh, god.”
“I quit.”
Next paragraph. Keep going.
Do not solve that problem – the challenge of having to create clarity and beauty and specificity of character in dialogue – by giving the reader all these bullshit, hand-hold-y clues immediately after your characters speak.
Show. Don’t tell. Trust your audience. Let your characters speak and get out of the way.
Further reading: John Gardner, The Art of Fiction
And trust me, that motherfucker is way more didactic than I’m being right now.
jealousxo
THIS. ALL OF THIS. YES.
This is something I’m guilty of. Great advice.