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fuck. the final fucktier. these are the fucks of the fuckship fuckterprise

-Doctor Leonard H. McCoy

this is so true it hurts

The most important writing lesson I ever learned was not in a screenwriting class, but a fiction class.

This was senior year of college.  Most of us had already been accepted into grad school of some sort. We felt powerful, we felt talented, and most of all, we felt artistic.

It was the advanced fiction workshop, and we did an entire round of workshops with everyone’s best stories, their most advanced work, their most polished pieces. It was very technical and, most of all, very artistic.

IE: They were boring pieces of pretentious crap.

Now the teacher was either a genius OR was tired of our shit, and decided to give us a challenge.  Flash fiction, he said. Write something as quickly as possible.  Make it stupid.  Make it not mean a thing, just be a quick little blast of words. 

And, of course, we all got stupid.  Little one and two pages of prose without the barriers that it must be good. Little flashes of characters, little bits of scenarios.

And they were electric.  All of them. So interesting, so vivid, not held back by the need to write important things or artistic things. 

One sticks in my mind even today.  The guys original piece was a thinky, thoughtful piece relating the breaking up of threesomes to volcanoes and uncontrolled eruptions that was just annoying to read. But his flash fiction was this three page bit about a homeless man who stole a truck full of coca cola and had to bribe people to drink the soda so he could return the cans to recycling so he could afford one night with the prostitute he loved.

It was funny, it was heartfelt, and it was so, so, so well written.

And just that one little bit of advice, the write something short and stupid, changed a ton of people’s writing styles for the better.

It was amazing. So go.  Go write something small.  Go write something that’s not artistic.  Go write something stupid. Go have fun.

I love this so much.

Tommy being a modest muffin (◠‿◠✿)

can we take a second to ponder on the fact that a kids movie did lady armor better than the entire film and comic industry

guess who i’m talking about

did you guess? Well you’re WRONG because it’s Susan Pevensie

They gave her light armor, appropriate for a small archer:chainmail, an arm brace, chest plate, and a light skirt she can easily run around murderizing dudes in the face in

her hair is also only loose in the promo pictures because Susan is busy not dying because her hair was flying into her eyeballs so she braids that stuff back

her mail shirt is also loose enough that it doesn’t impede her arm movements it’s almost like she’s dressed for a fight wow

I like the pinks and purples under hersweet leather armor here, because you don’t have to be masculine to shoot someone in the face

#started from the bottom and somehow we went lower

Noooooooooope. Nope. This hearts my heart.

“He’s a 57 year old fuckwit. He shot – he is – he shot three people at an abortion clinic, ‘cause he was pro life. How can you be pro life and shoot someone?” – Russell Howard on the man who attacked an abortion clinic in Colorado. [x]

I just heard this woman say “you procrastinate because you are afraid of rejection. It’s a defense mechanism, you are trying to protect yourself without even trying.” and I think I just realized what was wrong with me.

Yep, this is a very, very common reason for procrastinating.  It’s also why procrastination, even though it’s often associated with laziness, is a fairly common trait in a lot of people with anxiety and perfectionism issues.

I… I… oh…

It is easier to deal with not completing something because you didn’t try to do it than to deal with trying to do it and failing to do it perfectly

Oh my god

The girl must be mad.

I guess this might be the reason why William Shatner said some not really friendly things about Chris Pine lately when asked on Q&A about him…. I can imagine Chris used TOS to get a feeling about how to play Jim Kirk and used exactly what he didn’t include in his portryal of Jim to create this Prince Charming. It’s pretty obvious, IMHO.

What did Mr. Shatner have to say about Chris that was unkind? I hadn’t heard of anything before reading your post so l am curious now.

I love how in Addams Family Values at the beginning they’re like is it a boy? is a girl? and Gomez is just like IT’S AN ADDAMS :D like stop trying to gender my baby, it’s goth that’s all that matters