Seven years after, I see you again 😚

Guys this completely changed my writing, heed it. I often do an entire draft just looking at sentence variation and oftentimes the results are absolutely transformative in the difference.

This is very very good advice, and absolutely worth following. Read this. Read it again. Follow it. Your writing will get much, much better.

I've said it before and I'll say it again. LUKE'S LOVE LANGUAGE IS ACTS! OF! SERVICE!! The food that he brought to the hospital when Richard had his heart attack. He made a fish bag because of Emily! Him offering to help with whatever they need. Going to pick up Richard's car from Yale. And put gas in it! And pay for the gas!

Gosh. Christopher should feel threatened. He could N E V E R.

That's because Chris' love language is disappearing

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Happy March 32nd, everyone!

you can only reblog this once a year

reblog if its friday and you made it

My coworkers complain when we can’t assign homework over Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. As if somehow this interferes with their ability to teach their classes.

My coworkers complain that our Muslim students get to leave class to pray Salat at noon. Like, we have maybe one Muslim student every two or three years - thus far, all extraordinarily respectful and lovely kids! - and they slip quietly out of class to pray.

My coworkers find all this infuriating. “Imagine,” they cry, “If a Christian kid asked to do that.”

I calmly explain, every single time, that a Christian kid would never HAVE to do that, because every single Christian holy day is a day off school. Good Friday. Easter Sunday. Christmas day. Our entire country interrupts its financial and educational systems - schedules its WEEKS - around the Christian prayer customs and seasons.

God forbid we temporarily unclip the rope barrier and leave an opening for someone whose religious traditions vary from our own.

Heck, the only holy day we DON’T get off is Ash Wednesday, and that only involves a church service if you’re Catholic.

DING DING DING

10 Tips for Writing (Good) Smut

so. let’s do this.

About a year ago, I had to read a book for my school’s summer reading assignment called How to Read Literature Like a Professor by Thomas Foster. It’s not a bad book, pretty decent actually, but there was this one chapter about sex scenes in literature. And one of the first sentences was along the lines of “writing sex is boring.”

and I did a double-take. Bc in my experience, that is absolutely not the case, and if you do find yourself bored while writing smut, then you’re not doing it right. See, Thomas’s main argument was that there’s only so many ways you can write sex scenes, because there’s only so many sex acts you can choose from. (My boy Thomas is clearly a vanilla dude, but let’s not hold that against him.) 

But one of the most important things to keep in mind while writing smut is that it’s not necessarily just about the act itself. So while Thomas is right that there are limits as to how many ways ppl can have sex, he failed to realize that writing sex is about a LOT more than that. And I’m gonna prove it to you.

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Animator/cartoonist/painter Milton Knight (Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog, Cool World, Twisted Tales of Felix the Cat) is a dear friend of mine and is in desperate need for financial help. Please consider helping him out via his GoFundMe page…

@mrargent isn’t this that guy you like?

Yup, one and the same. He’s one of my all-time favorites, up there with Ralph Bakshi, Herge and Bill Watterson - It’s absolutely damn infuriating that anyone has to go through this, not even mentioning the fact that the dude’s a pretty big deal. He’s not only what I’d call one of the most significant cartoonists of the early ‘90s for his contributions to Sonic the Hedgehog’s art direction as well as his comics, but also essentially one of the granddaddies of Youtube Poop and all the web culture that implies.

what the fuck, this is heart breaking–milton knight owns, pls support him if you can

The article is about four months old at this point and Milton’s GoFundMe is still close to $4,900 short of its goal:  gofundme.com/an-artist-survives-but-needs-help

Help me!

I’m looking for a x-files fanfic. All I remember is frohike helping Mulder build an entertainment center (?) for a secretly pregnant Scully. Frohike hides in scully’s apartment and listens in on them as they talk about the baby and other stuff.

I go to school online and my tuition is less than $10,000 a year. I get Harvard is an Ivy League or whatever, but come tf on. Y’all can’t reduce it to $25,000? $30,000?

I think I’m going to apply a bit more critical thinking when watching the news.

I stan ONE Karen

This is the Karen you Karens should all aspire to be.

Bruh wtf????

Master fic list post

All the cool kids were doing their own list and I have nothing better to do. *updated 3/17/20

General XF Stories:

Fear of Flying Tell Me a Story Love Autopsy Aftermath Gracefully and Grandly Until Next Time What’s a Guy to Do? Body Language Unbridled - link to A03 Moving Pictures - link to A03 Distinctly Mulder - link to A03 We Wish You a Happy Holiday - link to A03 Not Alone - link to A03 Never Let Me Go Showing Up is Half the Battle The Wonder of You Not One Word

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Americans, please please please vote. Don’t subject the rest of the world to Trump for another 4 years

HOW DO I REBLOG THIS FOR THE REST OF MY LIFE

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