The Place Beyond the Pines was no longer playing, so we went to… Star Trek…
Am I just salty at Bunghole Cumbersome or was that an uninspired retread? It left me cold.
♛ Hannibal Genderswap →Tilda Swinton as Hannibal Lecter
(Source: dontstartlethewitch, via saezutte)
girls fighting evil: the softhearted
you are made of sugar, milk and molasses
so little darlin, you attract all the bees
-molasses, the hush sound
(they are told they will not last the night when the demons come to town. they are too weak, they hear from all sides. they are too soft, too quiet, too gentle. it is not in their nature to burn and raze. but it is dangerous to mix up soft and weak. they find their kitchen knives and gardening tools and knitting needles. they take down each demon with a broken heart and flowers in their hair.)
(via saezutte)
me: I TALKED TO DAD MORE ABOUT WRITING TODAY he’s actually interested in all my thoughts on stuff so i get to babble and it helps me form more thoughts and it’s good.
34:24 he asked if he was going to find himself in anything i wrote and I said “gosh i hope not, I like writing about bad people”
35:14 then he asked what i thought about how many authors say they draw from people they know, and how, well, mustn’t you, to an extent? because you write what you know. from your experience and such. that’s just the human perspective.
35:54 and i was like well okay so some people say they do and then there are people who say “this character speaks to me” or “i got to know this character better today” or “i had a conversation with this character last night” and i just made a face.
36:06 “are you really so out of touch with yourself?”
nick: YOU CONTROL YOUR CHARACTERS, PEOPLE.
36:50 I mean, from time to time I am sort of charmed and surprised by how very. Attached I am to the Much Ado characters. But that doesn’t mean they are somehow independent entities revealing their secrets to me.
me: and then i started talking about how i kind of get this a little more now, but the way i approach it connects to the way i consider myself a hardcore architect in that architect/gardener dichotomy. and i wouldn’t consider the way i come at characters to be building an automaton. but neither do i pull a da vinci and uncover a sculpture trapped in the marble block.
38:00 it’s more like coming to understand a psychological map.
39:06 “You can’t write without mercy. You have to treat your characters with kindness and understanding. The terrible things they do have no currency without the internal logic that you have the compassion to comprehend.”
nick: unless they’re [spoiler]
me: no that’s why i think we have a differing approach to and interest in [spoiler].
40:04 you absolutely must treat him with tenderness and interest or you will write a very flat, meaningless caricature.
nick: It is why I often have trouble writing antagonists and often end up with stories where the protagonists themselves are the driving force of their plot fuckery. Because I SO OFTEN write myself into a corner with antagonists where I just don’t want to look at them anymore. [Spoiler] in his original incarnation was exceptionally flat. He served to be a plot barrier. He was Cruelty and that was pretty much it.
42:33 part of the reason I wrote so much dross and little bits and side stories is I don’t get a really effortless feel for the characters until I plunk them down in situations and write out reactions. It’s not ‘today the character spoke to me!’ It’s. Getting used to their own plotting and pacing? Which is why our RP tendencies are so valuable to me.
me: I have a difficult time focusing on fluff! I like plot. My weakness is in getting the plot and characters to agree. I have to pay more attention to what I have decided a character will do in the sense that I need to give more space for them to react to the choice that’s already been made.
44:22 Haha. My plots are cages.
nick: FLY FREE
me: I want to see them squirm.
What are you doing here?: Your friendly reminder.
As a book, I love Ender’s Game to tiny pieces. It’s the anthem for the smart young outsider, and it’s a hell of an adventure story. I love it and I’m ashamed of how much I love it because it’s written by this man:
“Regardless of law, marriage has only one definition, and any government that attempts to change it is my mortal enemy. I will act to destroy that government and bring it down, so it can be replaced with a government that will respect and support marriage.” —Orson Scott Card
Orson Scott Card sits on the board of the National Organization for Marriage, attempting to ensure the second-class treatment of queer people and (impotently, but still) threatening to destroy the government over matters of simple equality. He is a frothing, virulent bigot.
Don’t pay to see his movie. Don’t let a cent of your money go to him or encourage the studio to make more films which make him more money to give to people who think pro-equality governments are their mortal enemy.
I feel like this story has come up on this blog before but LET ME TELL YOU ABOUT THE TIME MR. CARD STARTED TO REFUTE EVOLUTION IN A TALK AT HARVARD
and i don’t know how that ended because our morbid curiosity fizzled and we left. the end.
Well the real end of the story is that I hope he suffers explosive diarrhea to the end of his days.
So I drew Rose in LOLAR as part of a LOFAM thing I’m still working on.
And now. I am. Utterly. Sick. Of pink (for now).
(via formerlyanon)
“For all that you don’t believe in them you still always somehow expect… grander creatures, larger ones, magnificent and alien. Except for their pink-tinted paleness they could be anyone. They could be any group of douchebags, only they’re a group of douchebags that somehow chose to screw with you.”
Hemostuck Godheads marshmallow roast! Featuring Karkat Vantas, the world’s most beleaguered atheist.
Karkat Vantas: Erin
God of Wind and Shade: Norway
God of Frost and Frogs: Delta
God of Heat and Clockwork: Kyra
Photographer: Dani
Hemostuck written by roachpatrol and urbananchorite
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