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To anyone who may have been interested, I will replacing my focuses with this blog onto a sideblog so it's easier to manage. Follow it at sardonic-storyteller.

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My Daughter, The Jock

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I’m too insecure for that. 

Some people have these like fandom specific blogs and then there’s me:

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I KNEW Gladys knew about FP and Alice’s past. Bring it on, bitch. Let the games begin.

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Side Note To Fan Fic Authors

Here’s the thing.

I read a lot of scripts.  A lot.  From professionals to aspiring writers to complete newbies.  Features and pilots.  Specs and treatments.

And 8 times out of 10 the fan fic that I’ve read over the last, oh, 15 years is leagues better than this stuff.  It’s more inspired.  It’s more compelling.  It’s genre bending and creative and heartfelt.  It’s well-paced and intense and funny and sexy and meaningful.  It’s smart and thoughtful and good.  It’s novel-quality.  Better than, sometimes.

Rare is the script I don’t want to put down, but how often have we stayed up until 3am to get to the last chapter of a 100k fic? And it’s not even a fan fic author’s day job.  This is what they do on the side.  In their spare time.  For free.

So my point is, fan fic authors, you’re good.  You’re good writers and great storytellers.  I know it doesn’t always feel like it, especially if you’re one of the authors who’s not a BNF and doesn’t get the notes/hits that a few do.  And  because some people still view fic as “not real writing.” You guys know the shit that gets made into movies.  You’re better than that.  So be better than that.  If writing is what you think want to do, then just know you’re already doing it.   You’ve already started.

And you’re more talented than you might think.

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Well I mean, if it works.

if you reblog this, you’ll have a random virgil sketch in your imbox

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self care is breaking into nasa and launching yourself directly into the Fucking void

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Logan won.

Ladies lords and nonbinary royalty

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One of the most important things that I learned from graduating high school is that your future doesn’t die if you got a bad Gpa.

I barely graduated with a 2.5 Gpa.

One of my biggest fears was that i wouldn’t get accepted into ANY universities because of my grades. I literally thought that I had no future.

Here’s the thing though, I scored a 22 on the ACT.

And with my ACT score alone I got accepted into a University in my area.

The point is, a bad Gpa is ok.

There will ALWAYS be another route to your destination.

You just have to find it.

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Music box puts kitten to sleep. (via osirisosito)

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if it makes you happy, it’s not a waste

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september will be kind. september will be magical. september will bring the missing energy. september will be working towards our goals and self. september will be a month full of growth.

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Another reason to stop ‘cringe culture’

I’m a teacher. Today I was covering for a grade 9 science class. Decent kids, if a bit rowdy, and didn’t want to do their work. Wtv, it was textbook work. Not the point.

1 girl (reminder that these kids are, like, 14/15) was doodling bust portraits (head & shoulders) in an art book. I had a squiz and asked her if they were her characters. She said they were and excitedly told me she had so many characters for this one story of hers. I laughed about how I wished I could draw mine, and moved on.

Later in the class, I hear her enthusiastically telling her friend all about her main OC - a gay kitsune prince with a tragic past. It was so, pure, classic Deviant Art: my first OC. And you know what? I loved it. I was just sitting there half overhearing, smiling to myself and glad that her friend was engaging and interested in her story and characters.

This is a girl who will become a creator. She will draw and write and imagine, get better and better. She’ll probably move past this stage and start making more nuanced characters (she was already lamenting she didn’t have enough girl OCs). But this is where she started. This is where so many of us started. I had a tiger catgirl, goth witch/sorceress OC in high school. I found my original design for her recently. Look what I create now.

Let kids be kids. Let them explore and invent and go wild and be cliche and make overpowered OCs. Let them have their anthropomorphic animal OCs. Let them try everything before they settle into maturity.

For fucks sake; let them have fun.