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Technologically-challenged lush. Does have a name, but you can call me tonight.

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10 Essential Essays for Writers

tetw:

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On Keeping a Notebook by Joan Didion - A great essay about making notes that gets to the very core of the writing process

Write Like a Motherfucker by Cheryl Strayed - Raw, emotional advice on the role of humility and surrender in the often tortured world of the writer

Thoughts on Writing by Elizabeth Gilbert  - On disicpline, hard work, rejection and why it’s never too late to start

Write Till You Drop by Annie Dillard - “Do you think I could be a writer?” “I don’t know… . Do you like sentences?”

Why I Write by George Orwell - On egoism, a love of beauty, the quest for truth and the desire to change the world — Orwell’s ‘four great motive for writing’.

Despite Tough Guys, Life Is Not the Only School for Real Novelists by Kurt Vonnegut - A beautifully argued defence of the role of teaching in developing writers.

That Crafty Feeling by Zadie Smith - A lecture by a great essayist and novelist on the craft of writing.

A Place You All Know Well by Michael Chabon - On the central role of exporation in writing.

The Nature of Fun by David Foster Wallace (excerpt) - DFW on what drives writers to write

Uncanny the Singing That Comes from Certain Husks by Joy Williams - “Who cares if the writer is not whole? Of course the writer is not whole, or even particularly well…”

fatfatties:

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— Anonymous: sorry but i find the whole bleach!cherik thing a mess... the writing is good but the rest is kind of bad? Like somehow they are magically not Japanese (where they could be mixed) and then there was the part with Charles going "we have many names lol shinigami. death god. soul reaper. etc" when shinigami just means that thing?? It's so othering and exotifying I'm going to cry? Like literally all u need to do is correct that wow it literally means the same thing not some mystical bullshit

pangeasplits:

i would never go with your suggestion to ‘mix’ caucasian characters in order to, to borrow your term, magically make them japanese because that is completely gross and extremely appropriative. so uh, wow, NO.

also, as i can’t pull up the fic myself right now, i believe you’re talking about Charles’ entrance speech, i.e. the first thing he says in the fic as he walks into the lecture hall of students? shinigami, death god, and soul reaper are all terms used in the manga to describe the characters, so i was just going by their usage there. i’ll happily stand corrected if you can provide a source on that not being the case. though, lol, i don’t think i trust you very much if you’re upset by that and not by the fact that you literally just told me to make white characters japanese.

*POITNS AT THIS ASK* HOLY SHITHIOSDFSD HOLY SHIT. IS THIS FOR REAL THOHOLY SHIT SHIHOLY SHIT HOLY SHIT

nonny just…don’t

hackedmotionsensors:

Grandma Logan wants none of this “Oh what big ___ you have” in his house.

paperstains:

[♠]  Frozen Dreams - Erik wakes up in a future where everyone he knew is long since dead and his crusade has been rendered obsolete.

This masterpost is ridiculously overdue but better late than never. Definitely a very interesting and enjoyable experience :)

Collaboration with Ximeria in X-Men Big Bang 2012

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petitpotato:

Almost done with this semester’s work!

— Anonymous: what specific shade of blue would you say mcavoy's eyes are

pangeasplits:

they are the color of the collective tears of everyone in this fandom

punkmaximoff:

good morning trash, and welcome to another trash tastic day.

pan is snape pass it on

pangeasplits:

groovyphilia:

i cannot describe how tickled i am by the fact that pangeasplits is apparently Arthur and im apparently Eames

this……explains a lot

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