but do I have ENOUGH lion plushies

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'filled with people who believe it is more important to do nothing wrong than it is to do something right' is going to live in my head for a while now huh

Not my posts but an interesting thought.

[image description: screengrab of a series of tweets from @ rootsworks: “When I was in college, part of our university’s graduation requirements had a community service component that they called service learning.

One of my service learning classes involved work at a local homeless community center, helping people write resumes and cleaning bathrooms.

Our instructor told us to expect to see the bathrooms trashed a lot–like you will clean the bathroom and immediately someone will wreck it.

And it’s not because they disrespect your work or don’t value having access to clean bathrooms or whatever, but because of control.

When you feel like you have no control over your life or your environment, your brain is going to want to assert control however it can.

Which results in trashed bathrooms.  It’s control exercised over the one small part of your environment that you still have the power to affect.

I see kids on tumblr using the language of social justice as cudgels on people who actually do care about and listen to them

or holding the creators within their communities to an impossibly high standard that they never apply to mainstream media properties.

I just see trashed bathrooms. ‘These are the people my voice will reach,’ they rationalize, ‘so these are the people I’ll hurt.’

But the guiding principles of social justice are aimed at correcting and dismantling systems.  Stop using them to dismantle people.”]

But the guiding principles of social justice are aimed at correcting and dismantling systems. Stop using them to dismantle people.

Controversial Truths About Ancient Egypt Masterpost

I can’t believe I forgot my favourite Hill to Die On

Hats off to the few of you who’re reblogging this with tags saying you’re going to check my claims later. You make me not entirely despair of this hellhole.

Here are some vetted Egyptological books/sources (that are by and large appropriate for a lay-audience) you can find most, if not all of the above:

Guys do me a solid and reblog this version instead of continuously asking for sources on the other versions thanks

@thatlittleegyptologist

I can confirm it’s correct because @rudjedet is also an Egyptologist so knows what she’s talking about. I’ve confirmed this before and I will again.

Y’all, I just got an email alert about a new chapter on a story I follow. Here’s the author’s note for that chapter. 😂

This is the most validating post.

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Fanfic writers:

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It’s here! … Almost. Happy to finally announce the official dates and prompts for Lionfang week! Thanks again to everyone who participated in the submissions and votes.

There’s also an AO3 collection that you can submit your fics to if that’s how you decide to fill the prompts.

If you have any questions about the event, feel free to message me here on Tumblr, or message me on Discord under Cheeziswin#4610.

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102. Naptime

So for over a month and a half I’ve been told in my Creative writing MA class that my writing is too poetic and abstract to work in the form of a novel and that I need to simplify my meanings and sentences. I did as I was told and lost all interest in writing if I have to write in the same style that every other novelist does. Today I received this note from a classmate and didn’t realise how much I needed to hear it. Don’t change your art just because other people don’t get it. Don’t change your style to fit in with everyone else. It’s your story not theirs.

Write you, not someone else.

This is why I’m so critical of the sort of editing apps which insist (Hemingway, I’m looking at you) that “Good = Short & Simple” i.e. I should dumb my writing down to match some predetermined reading level.

Nope. Won’t.

*eyes the clock warily*

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Writing a fic ‘late’ in a fandom is OK.

What is ‘late in a fandom’? It’s after the first heady flush of media excitement. Six months after the standalone movie or book comes out, a year or more after the series ends.

We get inspired by late canon: the behind-the-scenes book, the deleted scenes, a revealing creator interview. We get inspired by fanon and meta. We get talking to that one - one! - person who likes our ideas.

Sometimes a fic even needs to be written late in the fandom. After thinking and creative ferment, worldbuilding and character development. ‘Late to the fandom’ is a good time to take risks. To do the dark AU, focus on the minor character from stage left. It’s also a good time to offer up tropetastic fun.

Whatever you do, you will get readers who appreciate that you are writing. Because for every writer considering writing ‘late’ there’s a hundred fandom members wanting some fresh content.

Writing a fic ‘late’ in a fandom is OK.

Writing fic for a show/movie/book that came out 20 years ago is good. You just saw it now? You saw it then but suddenly remember that you love it? Good. Writing fic for something that came out 40 years ago? Good.

Maybe there are still fans around, producing content, who will love to see new blood coming in.

Maybe there are still fans around, dormant, who will suddenly remember why they loved the thing.

Maybe there’s someone who never saw the thing and will now read your fic and go, “well that’s interesting, I’d better go watch that, see what it’s all about”. And maybe they’ll want to write fic too.