I love people, watching people interact. It’s a lot of psychology. We learn about ourselves by watching other people’s lives on the screen.
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Language does not always have to wear a tie and lace-up shoes. The object of fiction isn’t grammatical correctness but to make the reader welcome and then tell a story; to make them forget, whenever possible, that they are reading a story at all.
Stephen King (via writingquotes)
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effective feminism is realizing that every struggle is not your own and that you can’t always relate
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"I think adults and children relate to someone who’s been hurt, because we’ve all been hurt in our lives. Somebody has betrayed us and it has made us put our wall up and it has made us furious, and it changes who we are. We’ve all had that experience, on any levels, but we can all relate to that. Then it’s the choices that we make and what we have to live with when we make those choices, and we’ve all had to do that as well – to live with bad choices." [x]
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what if women aren’t “hard to write” because we’re the last eternal mystery of the universe whose motivations cannot be understood by mere mortals, but because men are statistically shit at writing
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*And because the serial dehumanization of our character and psyche, through pigeonholing us as archetypes instead of people due to sexism and laziness, has birthed generations of men (writers or not) who simply cannot related to us on an intimate enough level to create realistic fictional portrayals of us.
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All I want to do is make a connection with an audience, and that comes from being a fan and being in the audience myself at the theater, at the movies. Movies can really touch people and when you see a good one or you see a great performance, it changes you. You feel like something’s been expressed that you understand by somebody else you’ve never met but they understand the same thing. That’s the part of doing this job that I love. It’s the reason I signed up.
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jenny holzer inspired
pluralfloral
I *really* like this.
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“To be really good at this, you have to be committed, and committing means you have to be okay with being vulnerable. Are you okay with that?”
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Without character, you have nothing. Great plot? Robust storyworld? Potent themes? Elegant font? Matters little if your character is a dud. The punch might be delicious, but not if someone threw up in it. The character is why we come to the table. The character is our way through all those other things. We engage with stories because we relate to them: they are mirrors. Characters are the mirror-side version of “us” staring back. Twisted, warped, uncertain — but still us through and through.
Chuck Wendig
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hermionejg
RIP Richard Griffiths, a tremendous actor.
#actual gasp#one of my favourite quotes of all time#perfect#richard griffiths#the history boys#quotes#literature#reading#not alone#the hands#i cry forever#the delivery#always in my head#i loved what jamie parker said about richard the other day about how he was a musician with his words#and what james corden said was perfect too#wonderful human#words#stories#relating#feeling#sorry posts that stay in my drafts for far too long#perfect moments#every time
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“Oh, my god, that’s such a harsh thing to say about Margaery! You’ve hurt me! People have got Margaery all wrong. She’s so much more sincere than people think. Genuinely, she is. She’s just a pragmatist. She genuinely is a pragmatist, which is what Sansa is becoming. If you’re not pragmatic around Cersei Lannister, bad things are going to happen to you. So, it’s not about being vindictive and conniving. It’s about survival, which is what the game of thrones is. That’s why people identify with the characters. They’re not goodies and baddies. There’s a humanity to these characters. They’re anti-heroic, in various forms. You understand their motivation ‘cause everyone’s just trying to survive, and we can all identify with that.
Natalie Dormer when asked, “Does Margaery love anything besides herself, her brother and the pursuit of power?” (x)
NOBODY UNDERSTANDS THE DEPTH AND MOTIVATION OF GOT CHARACTERS, MAN.
(via ohsara)
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petition for the whole argument that we have to protect women because they’re our “daughters, wives and mothers” to go die in a hole
chelseapwalker
#like that’s literally defining women in relation to the men in their lives like what the fuck does that accomplish
THANK YOU
I think it's important when getting people to relate to others that they can understand from their perspective, but this is so often used in a dumb way that I do agree there needs to be better ways of saying it
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[White readers often believe they are colorblind.] Until they read books featuring nonwhite characters. I once overheard a young white man at a book festival say to his friend, “Have you read the new Kureishi? Same old thing—loads of Indian people.” To which you want to reply, “Have you read the new Franzen? Same old thing—loads of white people.”
Zadie Smith, Their Eyes Were Watching God: What Does Soulful Mean? (via sluteatingtree)
Not to mention how outright hostile and defensive and delusional white readers get when a character is “revealed” to be chromatic. It’s as if they feel they’ve been tricked, because they relate to that character; once the character turns out to be black, or brown, the white reader resents not having been warned of this through the usual literary stereotypes, if not outright disclosure at the very beginning. Some unspoken pact of popular Western literature has been broken here. Why did they waste all that emotion and investment on somebody who isn’t white, as they assumed the character was?
But on the other hand — oh, what it feels like to be reading about engaging people doing fantastical things, assuming that they’re all white since most of the time adventures only happen to white people — and to suddenly, shockingly, gloriously find out that for once, the wonderful people look just like you.
(via bossymarmalade)
TL;DR version: “Rue was BLACK? Oh HELL no!”
(via eshusplayground)
Even when it’s stated right from the start there are still people that ignore/miss/whatever and act the way described, as in the case of Rue.
(via rainwasheseverythingaway)
I was having a very similar conversation about racial filters in storytelling and the Hunger Games tweets last night.
(via invisiblelad)
What was your favorite part of the Oscars?
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A few weeks ago, I was getting coffee at a laundromat. And this guy came up to me and said he wanted to thank me for Silver Linings because it helped his family understand him. That’s why we made this movie. My job here is done.