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Can't risk it, not today 🫠

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Words can't express my loathing for both Musk and Trump. Dear God Almighty.

I mean this should be a serious scandal with serious ramifications in the months ahead. Not sure that’ll be the case.

Source.

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This is seriously messing me up. I have the most vivid memory of a dream sequence where Steven saw him hanging from the ceiling, but a car horn jolted him awake, right when the man's mouth opened... but??? Obviously I'm wrong???

... IDK who the hell I'm asking, lol, the DIRECTOR just confirmed I'm loopy for remembering something that doesn't exist. 🫠 

So there are dozens of us (literally dozens!) on reddit who swear we remember actually seeing the “car horn ghost” in Haunting of Hill House. Was it in a promo and cut? Or are we all having a Mandela effect situation?

Why do we all remember something that is no longer there?

You mean the story the woman tells in the pilot episode? No, none of that was ever filmed - it's just a monologue. Sounds like Mandela effect for sure.

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Homosexual artifacts.

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What are the stages of drafts? I'm trying to write my own book but I dont know how to draft properly and I feel like I'm gonna be stuck in a gutter if I don't know

Yesssssssssssssss someone finally asked it!!!

I’ve been waiting for the perfect opportunity to explain this and show everybody my inverted pyramid :D :D :D

I present, The Inverted Pyramid of Revising a Book

Now I’ll explain each section of the inverted pyramid:

THE FIRST DRAFT

This should be self-explanatory. You write the first draft. For novels, 75-150,000+ words of the world inside your head.

PLOT, CONTENT, SCENES, AND MAJOR CHARACTERS

Go back and fix it all up. Did you tell the story you wanted to tell? Did you include scenes and events that add up to the conclusion you present?

Are there any unnecessary scenes you could delete, or scenes that are redundant to other scenes? Get rid of them. If this means entire chapters have to go, wave bye-bye.

Do your main characters have believable back stories and arcs, and do they act appropriately in character at all times?

Is there any point in time when your characters do something that they literally WOULD NOT DO? Change that up.

WORLD-BUILDING, CHARACTERIZATION, HONING IN PLOT POINTS

Now pay attention to the deeper aspects of the story. Delve into the world your characters live in. Do they react appropriately? Does any part of society influence them more than others?

What does your world look like? Delve into the setting. The cultures, the technology, the history.

Work with your secondary characters and how they interact with your main characters. What role do they serve overall? Does the main character’s journey affect them at all, or vice versa?

Tighten up plot points. Stay concise if possible.

SENTENCE STRUCTURE, FLOW AND PACING OF SCENES

Now that the major parts of your story have been patted down, you can begin focusing on the technical stuff. Start broad.

Do you have redundant sentences? Do you start multiple sentences the same way?

Throw in short sentences.

Drop the pronoun from the beginning of a sentence every now and then.

Use commas instead of ‘and’ if you find you use ‘and’ a lot.

Does the flow of sentences and paragraphs fit with the tone of the scene?

Chop sentences apart. Use quick, sharp words.

Or combine sentences and flowery language and soft words.

BETA READER CRITIQUES AND SUGGESTIONS

Now that you’ve really patted this thing down, find people willing to read your work (hopefully for free).

Ask them to point out inconsistencies. Are they confused by anything?

Beta readers can tell you when things are boring or exciting. They’ll laugh. They’ll fangirl. They’ll beg you for more chapters.

Your brain is soft from so much revising. Beta readers are fresh, and will pick out things you’ve glossed over from seeing it so many times.

Shake things up and host a video chat for you and your betas! It’s a great way to make friends :)

PUNCTUATION AND MISSING WORDS

NOWWWWW you’ve finished all the major revisions and your story makes sense!!! All that’s left to do is get the broom and sweep it up (or the vacuum cleaner, or generate a black hole from the Large Hadron Collider to suck out all the errors because that’s super-effective**).

This is the nitty gritty stuff, and I highly recommend either forcing yourself to read really, really slow, or better yet, read your book out loud, start to finish.

You’ll trip up over misplaced commas and periods.

You’ll literally hear when a sentence is awkward.

Your brain will get confused when there’s a missing word.

Fill in the gaps, hammer down the boards, tidy up the place like you’ve got guests coming over.

THE FINAL DRAFT

OMG

OMG

OMG

OMG IT’S FINISHED AND YOU CAN SHARE IT WITH THE WORLD AND BUY PHYSICAL COPIES THAT YOU CAN HOLD AND SMELL AND RUB ALL OVER YOUR FACE AND DRAW IN AND DOG-EAR AND TOTE AROUND TO SHOW PEOPLE AND SIGN AUTOGRAPHS AND BECOME YOUR OWN LITTLE CELEBRITY!!!

Email the newspaper (I’ve appeared multiple times).

Email the local TV station (I’ve appeared on live TV).

Email book talk radio shows (I’ve had a Q&A for an hour on live radio).

……..Marketing is hard.

I hope that helps!

N.B. **please do not ask CERN for permission to use the Large Hadron Collider to create black holes that suck out all the errors in your book. You’ll look silly, and you might destroy Earth in the process.

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Follow @memeuplift for more wholesome memes! 

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#moods

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I have no idea who made these images nor do I remember where I got them but I was amused. 

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Y’all you know what hits hard....

The fact that the villain of BW was all about how girls were the most expendable resource and created a whole fucking spy program that took away their basic rights and free wills and how Nat broke free of that but was always dehumanized because she was a “Russian Spy Assassin” a “Widow” and yet all she ever wanted to do was good for the world. To get rid of the red in her ledger.

And she died for it. She “sacrificed” herself. After everything, after breaking free, after rekindling her families, after killing the man who ruined so many women’s lives, she was only ever an expendable resource in Endgame. But in BW she was given life.

And it’s just really sad to see that it came down to one basic thing: judgement. The Russos decided Nat wasn’t worth it, that she could be an expendable resource, that she had to die so Clint could return to his wife and kids as if Nat’s family wasn’t equally important. Men prioritized their judgment, their own best interest when deciding Nat’s fate. Cate’s judgement was instead of taking a canonically deceased character and just doing a spy movie or fill it with lots of action, she gave Nat depth and moments and made her more human and alive than the Russo’s ever did.

And it fucking hits hard that men say they don’t like her character when she’s having soft moments with her sister or parents, that they only like Nat when she’s kicking ass, flirting with the Avengers, and just found it hard to connect to her during her own fucking movie. Yet they can connect to Bucky. Who went through basically the same thing (other than the reproductive organs being removed—which can I say is fucking bullshit. Women can’t get pregnant “for the sake of the mission and shit” but men can still impregnate women??)

The very movie that point fucking blank states what it’s about. Of course you can’t fucking “connect”. You don’t understand what it’s like being a woman under an oppressive organization that only sees you as its property. It tied to human trafficking. It tied to the fact that men can get away with abusing and mistreating women. It tied to how society EXPECTS women to live their lives: as little innocent girls, as available young women, as mothers and caretakers, and as wise grandmothers. But that’s not how every woman wants to or can live their life, yet men assume that’s exactly the case and if it’s not it’s either the “monster for not able to have kids” or you don’t want to regret it later in life. And if you can’t see the fucking important themes and why they’re important, maybe you’re part of the problem.

The issue shouldn’t have been Taskmaster wasn’t straight out of the comics accurate, the issue should’ve been was that a father would do that to his own daughter. Antonia was a good fucking plot twist and felt right for the story and damn did my heart break that she was relieved to be saved my Nat. Not a single once of hatred towards her, but rather fear radiating off of a few words and facial expressions towards her father. 

You may not always be able to connect to a story but you sure as hell can open your eyes, understand, and sympathize. It’s not that fucking hard.

I’m so fucking glad this movie was made. It’s my favorite movie and not because of the “badass action” because of the fucking realism that Cate managed to bring into the world of Marvel that is so heavily catered towards men. This is a fucking stepping stone and we best not go backwards from here on out.

And stop saying it’s “dark”. No. It’s fucking real. Human trafficking is still happening. We choose to ignore it in real life because it’s easier, that’s the truth. If we didn’t ignore it, it wouldn’t be happening. Marvel has plotlines they choose to ignore and Cate focused on some of them. And now that it’s out in a movie, it would be fucking ignorant of the Russo’s and Feige to ignore what she ousted for future films in the next phase.

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