Back On My Bullshit

I think TTPD is so intentionally vague and then she’s like btw Kim k this isn’t over I hate you and your daughter is my biggest fan and you will never escape me and the consequences of what you’ve done, also my mother who wouldn’t hurt a fly also hates your guts, now back to me escaping into daydreams because I’m depressed

“I’m having his baby! No I’m not, but you should see your faces!”

i mean this from the bottom of my heart: no one is impressed by your loud ass car. actually we talked about it and we all want you dead.

The hot new club is The Tortured Poets Department. It has everything: alcoholism, suicidal ideation, infidelity, mental breakdowns, drug addicted losers, pathetic little men, insane bop, defiance of fans, god complexes, near debilitating self-hatred, radical exceptance

The Tortured Poets Department. An anthology of new works that reflect events, opinions and sentiments from a fleeting and fatalistic moment in time - one that was both sensational and sorrowful in equal measure. This period of the author’s life is now over, the chapter closed and boarded up. There is nothing to avenge, no scores to settle once wounds have healed. And upon further reflection, a good number of them turned out to be self-inflicted. This writer is of the firm belief that our tears become holy in the form of ink on a page. Once we have spoken our saddest story, we can be free of it.

And then all that’s left behind is the tortured poetry.

THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT is out now.

https://taylor.lnk.to/thetorturedpoetsdepartment

“omg you’re so creative. how do you get your ideas” i hallucinate a single scene in the taco bell drive thru and then spend 13 months trying to write it

This is probably the worst that anything has ever aged

The Women Those ‘Evolution Of Beauty’ Videos Leave Out

With videos like “100 Years of Lingerie in 3 Minutes” or “100 Years of Beauty: Germany,” the Internet has been treated to gorgeous viral videos that show the glamorous side of women’s lives throughout history, but according to Polish costume blogger Karolina Zebrowska these videos are leaving out reality. 

one of the biggest things I can advocate for (in academia, but also just in life) is to build credibility with yourself. It’s easy to fall into the habit of thinking of yourself as someone who does things last minute or who struggles to start tasks. people will tell you that you just need to build different habits, but I know for me at least the idea of ‘habit’ is sort of abstract and dehumanizing. Credibility is more like ‘I’ve done this before, so I know I can do it, and more importantly I trust myself to do it’. you set an assignment goal for the day and you meet it, and then you feel stronger setting one the next day. You establish a relationship with yourself that’s built on confidence and trust. That in turn starts to erode the barrier of insecurity and perfectionism and makes it easier to start and finish tasks. reframing the narrative as a process of building credibility makes it easier to celebrate each step and recognize how strong your relationship with yourself can become

Some person lying on the internet with thousands of retweets/reblogs and no source: Gale was going to be Katniss's cousin!! The publisher FORCED our brilliant Suzanne Collins to add in the stupid love triangle!!! It was against her will!!! 😩

David Levithan, editor of The Hunger Games series, in an interview with EW: "But really she [Suzanne Collins] stuck to her vision pretty, pretty well....A lot of the process was more filling in blanks, it wasn't really changing the arc of the story at all. I can't think of a single instance where the arc of the story was changed as we were working on it."

begging you to go off, I'm here for the TED Talk.

The long version of why this rumor is so stupid it's actually pretty much an impossible scenario:

Suzanne got her contract to publish The Hunger Games on proposal. This means that, as an established author, she submitted an outline of THG and Scholastic bought it on this proposal alone. So then she wrote it and submitted it. The thing is, once a publishing house has a contract with an author, they cannot force the author to change anything (I learned this from one of the author youtubers I follow, my best guess is Michelle Schusterman but that might be wrong). As long as Suzanne gave them a book that matched the proposal, they couldn't make her change anything in it. Now, that doesn't mean that it went from her word doc to line edits to print. But what it does mean is that whatever changes David Levithan suggested, Suzanne chose to implement them. And as David himself admits in the quote in the original post there wasn't anything big to change. Anyone who's ever gotten feedback on writing knows it's important to get that feedback and edit accordingly anyway. So yes, David did encourage Suzanne to add in more Gale, she still decided to take his advice and as much as I'm an Everlark shipper, it was the right move for the story. And ultimately Suzanne chose what to put in and agreed it was the right move.

This rumor is just fueled by the people that either hate the romance in the series existing at all and/or hate the love triangle, especially due to Twilight and the way the movies handled it. But they fail to understand that it's such a cornerstone of the themes, Suzanne literally alludes to it in Katniss's last name, which is taken from Thomas Hardy's Bathsheba Everdene from Far from the Madding Crowd. To quote Suzanne, "The two are very different, but both struggle with knowing their hearts." Like you're telling me that Suzanne came up with that last name because Katniss figuring out which life partner she was picking wasn't going to be a key part of the series from draft 1?

Also I hate this because it paints everyone in such a negative light, except of course for those so enlightened they wanted Katniss to be single, or at least to just develop her romance with Peeta. It makes Scholastic and David Levithan especially to look like a huge bully who just wanted THG to sell based on a trend. Which is hilarious because David is on record of wanting Katniss to be single. It makes Suzanne look like a pushover, it diminishes her storytelling, her writing, her themes, and her autonomy as an author. And of course it's an attempt at a "gotcha!" toward the fans who do appreciate this aspect of the story.

Fandom ancient here. I’m pretty certain the idea that it wasn’t supposed to be a love triangle came from this interview with Kate Egan: http://blog.sarahlaurence.com/2010/11/interview-with-kate-egan-editor-of.html?m=1

From there, I think it turned into a game of telephone with people misinterpreting what she meant by asking for more of the Katniss-Peeta-Gale love triangle.

so I've been rereading Catching Fire and I think I found something that I've talked about before, the habitual lumping in of Peeta with the rest of Katniss's family in terms of 'people I like and trust.'

She does it all the time. For example, when she's dancing with Plutarch, she thinks to herself that the only people she doesn't mind being touched by are 'my family and Peeta.'

When she talks about only feeling safe with certain people, it's always my family / my father / and Peeta.

When she talks about being seen in a vulnerable state, it's always 'my family and Peeta.'

When she talks about laughing or being carefree, she always says, 'With my family and Gale and Peeta.'

It's a subconscious connection, but her family includes Peeta. It just takes her a little longer to figure that out. She's such a loving person; when she cares about someone, they're family.

There’s the book, too. It’s an heirloom handed down in her family, and Peeta gets to contribute to it. Why? Because beyond the surface level fact that he has needed artistic talent, he’s her family, and he contributes to creating the next generation of the family that will receive the book in the future.

friendship bracelets for the gaang <3

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