“you want to kill your circumstances”

You want to kill your pain

I really needed to hear this. And I am sure that others do too.

The big secret to finishing stories is sitting down and doing it.  That’s it.  A lot of people will only write when they’re inspired, and that’s setting yourself up to fail.  Nobody can be inspired 100% of the time.  You can be inspired 10%, 20%, maybe even 50% of the time.  The rest of it is discipline and it’s essential you teach yourself that if writing finished stories is a long-term goal.

i can’t talk shit about the pirates of the caribbean films as if elizabeth swann becoming pirate king didn’t hand my entire ass to me and make me the gay i am today

these 2 looks basically defined my sexuality and i’m not afraid to admit it

things pirates of the caribbean got right:

1. will and elizabeth’s love story

2. elizabeth becoming pirate king

3. avoiding sexualizing elizabeth or the other female pirate characters in the first 3 films by allowing them to wear period-accurate pirate outfits that aren’t tailored to be revealing and impractical for ‘sex appeal’ just because they’re women

4. hans zimmer’s entire score but especially the iconic ‘he’s a pirate’ main theme

5. When the movie came out, morally-gray characters like Jack were actually not really a thing yet in pop culture, and it’s not Pirates’ fault that there are a ton of stupid shitty copycats out there.

6. I run a corseting panel at cons and literally use Elizabeth’s lace-up scene as a video clip of what historical corseting was actually like, because the only thing they got wrong in this scene is that tightlacing wouldn’t be a thing for about another 200 years (and you couldn’t tightlace with the corset style Elizabeth is wearing anyway). It’s one of the most accurate corseting scenes I’ve ever seen.

7. Will’s hat.

8. That scene with all the pirates on the gallows where that little boy starts singing Hoist the Colours? Yeah, that’s fucking legendary. The rest of AWE was kind of a trash fire, but that scene gave me goosebumps.

9. There’s this great shot in the first one where they really drive home the class differences inherent in this time period by having the governor talking about progress and civilization to Elizabeth in their carriage, and then they cut to a shot outside the carriage where a beggar gets splashed by mud from the wheel. It’s a perfect way to underline that everything is not, in fact, a nice little upper-class fairytale, and to give some weight to Will’s storyline, because he has a lot more in common with that beggar than with the governor.

10. For its time, the CGI was fucking amazing.

11. And let’s not forget the work of the makeup department, which had to actually invent new ways of putting on makeup for this movie.

12. The governor’s death scene. Holy shit.

13. They could have gone with a Jack/Will/Elizabeth love triangle, but they didn’t. There are some hints Jack is in love (or at least in lust) with Elizabeth, but he recognizes that she loves Will, and that’s that.

14. You’ve got to admit that wedding was unique.

15. The introduction of fantasy elements to historical fiction outside of Tolkein-esque fantasy, and how it contributed to and expanded the Fantasy Media boom we’re still enjoying today.

I generated this meme because it is exactly my life right now

Tawny owl chicks

soosseli

there’s a quarantine going on… no pressure but i KNOW ya’ll have WIPs

I’m Published!

Hey everyone,

So you might have noticed a post I made the other day about my debut novel, which is officially out! (Well, technically it has been available since November, but there were some formatting issues that needed to be resolved), and it is available in both hardback and ebook!

When Scarlett, a nurse at St. Rose Hospital makes the decision to murder one of her patients after hearing a voice in her head, she meets Death, the Grim Reaper personified, and only she seems to be able to see him. Unsure of her sanity, she decides to find out for herself whether or not he is real. Taking matters into her own hands, Scarlett turns down a path that she never thought she would. With people’s lives hanging in the balance, her decisions impact the whole city, but who could blame her, when a coffee date with Death himself is on the line?

I’m published with a little indie publishing house out of Australia, so the price and the shipping is a little high, but I would love the support (and I know that they would too).

If you end up buying or reading the book, you should let me know! (Leaving a review on Amazon or Goodreads is always helpful too)! 

Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32913497-scarlett

Hard copies are available from the publishers website: www.novelsuitepublishinghouse.com

Ebooks are available from: https://www.amazon.ca/Scarlett-Helen-Powers-ebook/dp/B01MXDBIQY/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1491008218&sr=8-1&keywords=helen+powers

The best fucking thing I’ve ever seen

Gordon Ramsey has settled the candy corn debate once and for all.

Sorry Gordon, I love you but my cat likes candy corn so I’m gonna say you’re wrong on that one

Honestly writers are the most supportive community I have ever come across

like? you haven’t written in a while? mean either! keep going, every word is progress!

your writing isn’t good? that’s part of the process! you’ll only get better by doing!

don’t feel like you’re a writer? of course you are! there’s no gateway complex here

Reblog this within 10 seconds and unexpected extra money will cum to you this week