August 2012
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The Writing Process - In Pictures
[Images below: A series of images, starting with a gif David Tennant as the Tenth Doctor, with the text reading, “Yes! No…Oh! No.” Next is an image of Miguel from The Road to El Dorado shrugging, with the text reading “Well why the fuck not?” The next few images are mostly various reaction gifs of frustration and thinking. The final image in the line is a woman...
political-linguaphile:
howtodropoutofschool:
1. Open Culture: Not a large a selection, but high quality texts. If you just want to skim a book to brush up on a course you took in ninth grade, download one of these. I have yet to be disappointed.
2. Book Boon: Provides free college-level textbooks in a PDF format. Probably the widest range of subjects on the web. The site is also pretty.
3....
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“Depression is humiliating. It turns intelligent, kind people into zombies who...”
– EVERYONE NEEDS TO READ THIS.
Depression is not a synonym for being sad or having a bad day/bad week.
(via stuck-in-the-labyrinth)
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Who are we talking to anyway?: Humanistic Paganism... →
Over at The Wild Hunt, Brendan Myers has posted a guest article about whether Humanist Paganism is on the rise. It has stirred up some controversy in the comments section.
Old Gods and New Orthodoxy
What was most interesting to me were the comments of several polytheists that Paganism and atheism are incompatible because Paganism is necessarily theistic. “Raksha”, for example, argued that...
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timaeustestified:
i’ve seen a post going around urging photosensitive people to block “[.]gif” with tumblr savior to clear gifs off their dashboard. If you’re actually super photosensitive, like i am, i strongly recommend blocking gifs from your browser entirely!
If you’re using Firefox:
Type about:config into the URL bar and hit enter, then search image.animation_mode in the menu that comes...
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Checklist for Editing
writersfriend:
There are several common mistakes that appear in the papers of college students. As we all know, too many mechanical mistakes can detract from the overall quality of your paper and result in a lower grade. So before you print up your paper, check through it for the following things:
When quoting material:
Periods and commas go inside the quotation marks.
Question marks,...
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bellegold:
someone should make an online dating service except it’s only for people who are in fandom and it will match you based on fandoms and ships and your feels about your favorite characters
Guise.
http://www.fandomdating.com/
omg what is this sorcery?
holy shit is this a thing
oh my god this is a thing...
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Breaking things up into chapters.
chrishayner:
Writers, talk to me. How do you determine chapter lengths? I’ve been letting the story dictate it and that’s put my around 16-18 page chapters. However with my most recent chapters it’s grown to 30 pages. I’ve yet to come to a point in this chapter where I’m comfortable breaking it off. I know I’ll be there soon because I know where I want it to begin, but 30 pages is a big...
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guys: uh why do girls care so much about being skinny? it's so annoying
guys: ew fat chicks
guys: why do girls care so much about shopping and romance and nail polish lol so annoying
guys: ew crazy butch lesbian manly feminazis why can't they act more feminine lol
guys: why do girls wear makeup they look so much better without it
guys: oh i'm so sorry are you sick? tired? dying?
guys: haha girls suck at math/science/sports
guys: a girl who does math/science/sports? well? get back in the kitchen that shits not gonna get you a husband
guys: why are girls so sensitive when we look at their boobs or something c'mon with that top you're asking for it
guys: oh my god a gay guy just hit on me how fucking disgusting what a creeper doesn't he have any boundaries?
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Just letting you guys know, Yale has put out free... →
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rockinjanelle:
carawill:
What Elementary Sherlock says: Not everything can be deduced.
What BBC Sherlock says: I can deduce anything, you idiot.
What canonical Sherlock Holmes says: Where the fuck are my index cards?
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effiesgreenwig:
do you ever have that feeling after you read a book where you’re just kinda depressed and lost because you can’t get out of this world that you’ve created in your head for a while. everyone goes about their day expecting you to move along but you can’t explain that something so trivial as a book is affecting you so much because it’s your thing and they would never understand
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What Will “Earth-centered Spirituality” Be Like... →
Perhaps it seems like a far-fetched question, but I wonder about the future of all faiths when our species transcends terra. [I’ll get back to faith in a bit, I promise.] I say when because I am certain humans will eventually inhabit other planets. Maybe it’s the sci-fi fan in me, but more likely it’s the instinct to survive as a species — which is in all of us — that makes me confident we will...
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downtothelastbullet:
tywinning asked you: 2012-08-09 03:37
As a professor, may I ask you what you think about fanfiction?
I think fanfiction is literature and literature, for the most part, is fanfiction, and that anyone that dismisses it simply on the grounds that it’s derivative knows fuck-all about literature and needs to get the hell off my lawn.
Most of the history of Western literature...
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A timeline of events
andyandtherobot:
Taken from here (thanks StumbleUpon)
1980: Ronald Reagan runs for president, promising a balanced budget
1981 - 1989: With support from congressional Republicans, Reagan runs enormous deficits, adds $2 trillion to the debt.
1993: Bill Clinton passes economic plan that lowers deficit, gets zero votes from congressional Republicans.
1998: U.S. deficit disappears for the first...
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Find that Word You Can't Remember! →
aazeris:
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aaronjohnson-rpc:
http://chir.ag/projects/tip-of-my-tongue/
THERE IS A GOD
!!!
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5 Story Mistakes Even Good Writers Make
kstewrpc:
In fiction, story matters more than anything else.
Yet too often authors forget this and, in their zeal to impress readers or wow editors, pepper their writing with distracting devices that only end up undermining the story itself.
Never let anything get between your story and your readers. Here are five of the most common ways even the best writers veer off-course—and simple...
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“Some beginning writers weigh down their speech tags with adverbs that tell the...”
– How Not to Write a Novel: 200 Classic Mistakes and How to Avoid Them — A Misstep-By-Misstep Guide, Howard Mittelmark and Sandra Newman (via electric-snake)
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english teacher: never kill off your main character it shows poor writing skills
shakespeare: excuse you
Steven Moffatt: excuse you
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle: excuse you
Emily Brontë: excuse you
Joss Whedon: excuse you
Richard Castle: excuse you
JK Rowling: excuse you
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Reblog if you love to write.
insaneandproudofit:
Whether it be fanfiction, original stories, drabbles, songs, poems, books, or anything that has to do with creative words, then reblog. Let’s gather all the writers of Tumblr together.
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elcuepee:
i’m ready for pumpkin spice lattes and warm scarves and pretty coats and nice boots and crunchy leaves on the ground and the wind biting at my cheeks and i’m ready to not feel like sweaty gross death all the time
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Watchjocapitallee:
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ladyhistory:
IN WHICH BLOOOBELL TURNS LOOOMINOUS LIKE A FAIREEE
TOO MUCH
IT’S TOO MUCH YOU GUYS I CAN’T
I lost it at “A RABBIT, JOHN!”
“phone Lestrade, tell his there’s an escaped rabbit.”
Apparently yelling “I can’t!” at my laptop and not being able to breathe by laughing too much is not a...
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“I am simply a ‘book drunkard’. Books have the same irresistible temptation for...”
– L.M. Montgomery (via writingquotes)
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dirtycorzaisfreelocked:
stormmccoy started following you
OH MY GOD!
HIIIIII!
Not really, but that gif is appropriate considering how we were introduced…
In all seriousness, welcome! I hope you like what you find herein.
People are willing to talk to me what is this strange occurrence wait what do I do um -
HIII!
Now everyone’s going to wonder what animal porn has to do with...
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