Mario Vargas Llosa (via keepcalmandwritefiction)

Writing the dramatic death scene

In your head:

In paper:

this made me laugh so hard because it’s so accurate.

ok so there’s a game me and my friends play called “don’t get me started” and basically someone gives another person a random topic and they have to go on an angry rant about it and it’s the best thing that’s ever happened to us at parties and car rides so I highly recommend playing sometimes with your friends

I love this idea. We used to do things like this in Improv.

Related game: “THINK ABOUT IT.” You’re given a random topic, and your job is to build it into an epic conspiracy theory, the crazier the better. You end your rant with a serious face and the command that your listeners “Think about it.” 

Another related game: Illuninati. Similar to Think About It except you are given 2 completely different topics and you have to connect them to each other in a wild conspiracy rant

Rb to safe an awkward hang out

“you can’t make a lawful good character interesting and enjoyable”:

Millennials should really rediscover MASH en masse. It’s dead on aesthetic for this generation.

Please rediscover M*A*S*H fellow millennials. It’s wonderful.

You’ve never experienced sarcasm and rebellion against the System like Hawkeye and Trapper and BJ’s sarcasm and rebellion against the System.

Do yourselves a favour and go watch this show

It’s like getting your headphones stuck on the door handle, but like, full body

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so heres a thing my mother always said to me growing up when i broke something on accident that i think is really important

and i know, from watching my friends and seeing their panic and terror when something broke, that not only were not nearly enough children told this thing, many children were punished in place of being reassured

and thats heartbreaking

so heres the words from my mom that i was always told, and theyre the same words that anyone who never got to hear them should hear now, courtesy of my mom, who has repeated those same words to many a friend of mine and now to you

if i ever broke anything, the first words out of her mouth would always be and have always been, “are you hurt?” 

i would say no

she would say, “thats okay, then”

and i would ask why

and she would say “because it was just a thing- even if its a nice thing, or an old thing, or an expensive thing, its still just a thing. it can be replaced, or we can live without it. there is only one you. there will only ever be one you. you will always be more important than just some thing.” 

I lend out a collection to fossils to my school’s 8th grade science teachers annually. I’ve collected since I was a kid, added more as an adult from yard sales and donations. I want kids to be inspired and intrigued. About my 5th year at my school, the teacher came to me with one of her students. The girl looked upset and sort of scared. The teacher explained that the girl’s hand had slipped and a Megaladon Shark’s tooth had broken into two pieces. My first response was to make sure she hadn’t been cut by one of the pieces, and she shook her head, tears in her eyes. I smiled at her and pointed out that she hadn’t dropped it on purpose, that the ridiculously big tooth had been fossilized and survived this long, and it would still be amazing if I had to either keep it in two pieces or superglue it.

It bothered me a lot that the kid was clearly primed by a lot of adults to deal with anger and blame when a simple mistake was made. I offered her a hug, which she accepted and finally laughed.

Story time: 

My grandmother owns crystal bowls that have been passed down to her from her grandmother. Being a family with Jewish heritage in Austria, every single piece of family history we own is basically a treasure in itself. I was already an adult when she allowed me to take one of them home with me, of course only after I swore several oaths to keep it safe. I can go months and years without breaking a single dish, but lo and behold, it takes two weeks and a split second of not paying attention, and suddenly that crystal bowl, that’s worth more to my grandmother than the entire rest of her furniture, goes flying and shatters into a million pieces. I swear I watched for what felt like an hour as that thing dropped, turned around itself and finally crashed in a spectacular impact. Anyway, it’s completely beyond repair, and I’m freaking out because my grandmother will murder me. Only, she will not, because even worse, she’s going to be fucking heartbroken and so, so disappointed with me she won’t even find it within herself to murder me. But, you gotta do what you gotta do - not being able to face her while confessing, I call her, in tears, apologizing a hundred times before she finally goes: “Gigi, calm down now, what happened??” “*sobbing* I- I broke your grandma’s bohooohooowl -” And my grandmother, bless that woman, starts laughing hysterically. She’s laughing so much I think, I must have broken her, that’s it, she’s lost her marbles now and it’s my fault, until she wheezes out: “Gigi that bowl survived two world wars and the Nazis but not a month in your kitchen!” and of course I fucking lost it too at that point. That’s how I learned, that in the end, it’s really all about perspective. 

Now I’m a step-mum myself and my go to reaction whenever I hear something break is to shrug and say ‘Well, it had a good run’ and then I go fetch a broom and we’ll clean up because if my grandma could laugh off a 100 year old crystal dish, I can laugh off an IKEA mug lmao

“That bowl survived two world wars AND THE NAZIS but not a month in your kitchen” is lowkey the most hilarious drag I’ve heard from a grandma.

My favorite headcanons

-Tony once had to pay for a camera from the 40s Steve broke after he swore he remembered how to operate it properly.

-in fact. Tony has to pay for a lot of things being broken. And not specifically because the team was fighting (fighting villains that is, Thor sometimes gets excited (or drunk) and just starts THROWING PLATES AND CUPS AROUND AND TONY IS SCREAMING INTERNALLY)

-Steve being delighted that the lgbt and colored communities are getting more recognition. But knows the fights far from over and makes a point to participate in protests and pride parades to show support.

-So you know how we have basically an universal headcanon that Clint climbs through vents and to high places? We’ll, Tony’s starting to mess with him and has booby trapped a couple common Clint places with some harmless but agitating pranks. Which he didn’t mention to the rest of the team until his feathered friend marched in with…well feathers all over him. Demanding to know where his cheetos went.

-Natasha looking like she doesn’t really enjoy all of this and acts professional (and like she’d rather be anywhere else) especially in meetings with shield. But she totally adds fuel to the fire every time there’s an opportunity to start some…excitement around here. (like suggesting to tony to booby traps some vents…then stealing Clints stuff and making it look like Tony did it. She’s the real one pulling a lot of the strings and gets zero of the blame when Tony and Clint almost blow up the tower in their dangerous prank war extravaganza)

-Nearly half the team have anonymously run shitposting blogs that are extremely famous for their strange circumstances about parts of their lives that are completely serious (example: I did not run away from an orphanage and then join a circus and then become a secret agent for you to insult the way I said “Poughkeepsie” okay) They compete over who has the most followers. Amazingly (or not) Bruce has been in the lead for over 6 months.

-who’s the best at dance dance revolution? Nobody will say, when they’re asked they just say they don’t want to talk about what happened. Tony bought it. And then threw it out the next day (Literally. He just…threw it into space.) that’s all anyone knows of the story. And the theories are some of the most popular on the web.

-The team goes to the zoo. Tony points at a snake “That’s you, Sneve”. Steve rolls his eyes and points at a small stray cat that just startled a lion. “That’s you Tomew” Rhodey points to some monkeys “That’s all of you, dumbasses.”

-We all accept good and well that Tony CANNOT sit still for the life of him. But the team would rather take the rapid shaking of his leg or the tapping of his fingers on the table than when he’s allowed to move during a meeting. He’ll pace. And pace. And talk and stop talking and pace. He’ll pace the same floor not saying anything for 20 minutes. He’ll pace around peoples chairs. He’ll pace on the table. He’ll kick paperwork away like a cat on said table. The team tried to fix this by saying Tony can move but he can’t use his feet. Which resulted in everyone groaning and collectively putting their heads in their hands when Tony does a handstand and starts moving UPSIDE DOWN.

-Tony is high-key into yoga and keeps it a secret. Until he and Rhodey are caught in a “double wide boat” pose

These are all I can think of for now. But anyone can feel free to add on~

we need to talk about that house loan

It’s gonna cost you a leg. Specifically, that guy’s prosthetic leg.

I need it.

It’s important to me.

be open with your love and loud with your laughter. life is so much brighter when lived genuinely.

That Big Mood when you’re sleepy and tired all day but as soon as the clock strikes midnight you want to draw and paint and steal the mona lisa and do some cart wheels

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writer vs. muse: the animation

I tried to scroll over this

i saw this a few times but I just realized what was happening, this is sick

This is an appreciation post for the fanfic authors who aren’t included on rec lists

For the fanfic authors who don’t get art of their fics

For the fanfic authors who can’t get to 1000/500/100 hits

For the fanfic authors who don’t get comments/reviews

For the fanfic authors who write for small fandoms

For the fanfic authors who write rarepairs or gen fics

For the fanfic authors who get hate for the ships/characters/fandoms they write

For the fanfic authors who write in English despite it not being their first language

For the fanfic authors who don’t write in English

For the fanfic authors who don’t think anyone reads or likes their work

For the fanfic authors who aren’t big name fans

For the fanfic authors who don’t get requests in their inboxes

For the fanfic authors who can’t write stories that are more than a thousand words

For the fanfic authors who only write one ship

For the fanfic authors who are just starting

For the fanfic authors who have been writing fic for years

For the fanfic authors who use fanfic to practice writing

For the fanfic authors who write self-insert fics

For the fanfic authors who write about their OCs

For the fanfic authors who write to vent or cope

For the fanfic authors who are just waiting for their big break

Keep creating, I love you ❤️

I needed this. I imagine others do, too.