idk this seemed like a good picture to have on my blog
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PULP ROMANCE
He saw her across a crowded shelf.
Her deckle-edge was seductively deep, her endpapers velvety. She was a first edition, probably autographed. Any man would want to write his name in a book like her.
She noticed him perusing her pages, and blushed. He had a hard spine, and a crisp dust jacket. His eyes were capitalized, and in an obscure font designed in Amsterdam in 1768. She caught herself glancing at his flyleaf, and looked away, mortified.
They were in the YA section, and she was acting like a common galley.
“Can I have your ISBN?” he whispered. He could nearly see her addendum.
“Yes,” she cooed, helpless. “Yes.”
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A couple of years ago, for the 110th Anniversary of the terrific indie University Bookstore in Seattle, 110 writers wrote pieces of 110 words. This was mine, a miniature romance novel, the only thing in that genre I’ve written. (So far.) Books are sexy. I became a writer in order to get closer to them.
(via neil-gaiman)
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People tell me that schoolgirl outfits and knee-high socks make everything better.
I’m not sure how.
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Tragedy and Angst: Tired Trope
I have to say, I’m getting really sick of people - authors, writers for movies, TV shows, and the like - mistaking tragedy, angst and drama for depth. Putting people together just to break them up, ending character story lines in death, despair and general unpleasantness, and then we’re presented these plots like they’re deep, artistic and thoughtful.
Somehow, relatively happy endings/plots have gotten a bad rap. That they’re superficial, that they’re for trashy romance novels and silly romcoms. No, those are for children! Grown up stories need angst, they need tragedy! If characters are happy that’s only a temporary setup to make their fall from grace even more bitter.
That’s true and not true. There absolutely needs to be conflict, there needs to be drama in stories, and considering your subject matter, yes, there needs to be tragedy. If you’re writing about war and no one ever dies, then that’s an issue. But I am so SICK of books and TV shows and movies becoming just torture sessions for characters, that become comedies of errors where everything that could possibly go wrong does, just to mindlessly take people apart just to see them crumble. Let’s think of the worst thing to do to that person and do it! Depth! Art!
To me, that’s cheap, lazy, and manipulative. It also says to me that you’re probably a shit writer who can’t create proper tensions and interesting stories for characters unless you’re dropping bridges on everything they love. Stories that end well can be just as meaningful and realistic and gorgeous as those that don’t. Again, I’m not against angst. Some of the most meaningful plots are the ones that involve tragedy. They give layers and rage to stories and their characters. But when authors continuously make things shitty and tragic, that tells me that they can’t write it otherwise. Not here anymore for character torture porn, honestly.
Your angstboner has worn bunny out.
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We learned something new today. Er.
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The passages cited:
Arkansas, Article 19, Section 1
No person who denies the being of a God shall hold any office in the civil departments of thisState, nor be competent to testify as a witness in any Court.
Maryland, Article 37
That no religious test ought ever to be required as a qualification for any office of profit or trust in this State, other than a declaration of belief in the existence of God.
Mississippi, Article 14, Section 265
No person who denies the existence of a Supreme Being shall hold any office in this state.
Pennsylvania, Article 1, Section 4
No person who acknowledges the being of a God and a future state of rewards and punishments shall, on account of his religious sentiments, be disqualified to hold any office or place of trust or profit under this Commonwealth.
South Carolina, Article 17, Section 4
No person who denies the existence of a Supreme Being shall hold any office under this Constitution.
Tennessee, Article 9, Section 2
No person who denies the being of God, or a future state of rewards and punishments, shall hold any office in the civil department of this state.
Texas, Article 1, Section 4
No religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office, or public trust, in this State; nor shall any one be excluded from holding office on account of his religious sentiments, provided he acknowledge the existence of a Supreme Being.
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Another Doctor Who commissioned piece, this time of Ten. I did this over Livestream awhile back and never posted it!
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"Not being assaulted is not a privilege to be earned through the judicious application of personal safety strategies. A woman should be able to walk down the street at 4 in the morning in nothing but her socks, blind drunk, without being assaulted, and I, for one, am not going to do anything to imply that she is in any way responsible for her own assault if she fails to Adequately Protect Herself. Men aren’t helpless dick-driven maniacs who can’t help raping a vulnerable woman. It disrespects EVERYONE."
Emily Nagoski. (via rapeisnotajoke)
(via madeofglass)
(via faramirs)
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I feel like Moriarty broke into 221B and stole John’s cardigan just as a little extra “fuck you”.
(via sherlock-took-my-tardis)
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