#but what if i just... release his entire board and the related boards on pinterest

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20, 23, 44 for izzy, cara and wick 🧡🧡🧡

i loved these so so much, thenk u!!!!

20. what would their dream vacation look like?

IZZY - somewhere she can just sit. beachside or fantasy poolside, swim up bar, all inclusive, good music, late night dancing. mostly just good company and good fun and booze. lots and lots of booze. and a good hammock in the shade for naps

CARA - she grew up with a lot of responsibility on her shoulders, always being told that she was going to be in the church and serving her god, and she always took that at face value, and accepted the trajectory. but now the plan is upended and she’s off on a literal angel-given quest to cleanse the mythical land she washed up on and her teammates keep nearly DYING so... anywhere she can just take a week off and just... rest. tend her little herb garden, meditate, pray, not worry about the freakin demon king taking over the land. just a little cottage where she can just Relax

WICK - drugs, alcohol, and lots of rich assholes to swindle out of their money. you may think that sounds similar to his regular life and you would be right, but wick would be appalled that you think that his swindling for business and his swindling for pleasure look so similar. (but also just. a night with his old adventuring party. just all of them there right when they had all joined up and were all still fresh faced and hopeful and sitting around a campfire and laughing at something meaningless and all still so full of life)

23. if you had to pick five words/phrases (objects, places, weather, etc.) to describe your oc’s aesthetic, what would you pick?

IZZY - rainbow vomit, mistakes were made, Some Crime is Okay, The Mortifying Ordeal of Being Known? Yikes (Self Knowledge and Self Awareness Now Included In This Yikes), Disaster Human But Make Them Cool (TM), and, bonus since the last 2 are basically the same, Classic Poetry followed by drinking song

CARA -  a raging thunderstorm, a field of dandelions, hope is stronger than fear, doing it anyways, have courage and be kind

WICK - Disaster Man with a Disaster Plan, the concept of Unfathomable Loss, Lifetimes of Pain, half of a whole, dark circles are a fashion choice and not from being awake for three days straight

44. what is their opinion of authority?

IZZY - authority is there to be ignored, and, ultimately, mocked. laws are mostly dumb... murder and stuff is bad, but the rest is just really inconveniencing her

CARA - yes authority, good. please don’t make her be in charge of other people because panic attacks will ensue

WICK - wick has a... complex relationship with authority. if they’ve earned his respect, he will follow them to the end of the earth. most of the people in charge though, he can’t be bothered.

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Screenwriting Master Post

Online Outside Resources | These are websites that compile a lot of information for beginning screenwriters in the industry, have contests/other resources written within, and are just plain helpful and not really any place collected together. (Please let me know if there’s more because I’ve been collecting and learning for years.)

Screenwriting Contests/Representation

Writers Guild of America (WGA): Where writers for the industry work and organize, have contests, just general resources of information on questions on how to get started

Blacklist: Started in 2008, this website was a list of the most read scripts, represented and not represented scripts, that get compiled together for agents, producers, any other members to find stories on this website, it has been getting bigger for years, their twitter also posts stories from their submitted stories, always recommending one sentence stories that are popular from it

ScreenCraft: By far the most popular and stuck out contests, it has been getting bigger for years and the list of contestants give feedback for script submissions and different genre categories with industry lead ins for screenwriting contests

Women in Film (WIF): I only discovered this organization recently but right now they have a contest collaboration with Blacklist where they want more diverse scripts from women having labs for scripts for actors to read with industry lead ins so they are definitely a place to check out

WeScreenplay: This website was started by Ava Duvernay but it also has a lot of contests looking for diversity and is something to check out; also to submit scripts, you can get feedback at a small fee but I found this really helpful for anonymous feedback for my own scripts

Recommended Books

Basics

The Screenwriter’s Bible by David Trottier: This is what my screenwriting teacher recommended me to read first because it was a basic overview of the screenplay formatting, act structures, dialogue, story, etc for me and covers a lot of ground if you have never got started on this

Screenplay: The Foundations on Screenwriting by Syd Field: Definitely a useful resource that I still go back to from now and again if I have questions on what to do with my own scripts

Making a Good Script Great by Linda Seger: This was another read recommended to me and it still covers the basics of writing a story for movies from beginning to end

Story

Four Screenplays by Syd Field: Additional reading that helped me understand certain things to highlight such as character emphasis, themes that undermine characters and their actions, adaptations from a book to the screen, the challenges of it, along with the dramatic writing for an epic and how it was done

Bird by Bird by Annie Lamott: This doesn’t focus on screenwriting per say but I found very helpful to focus on why I’m writing on what I’m writing with her insight and come back to every now and then

Story: Substance, Structure, Style and the Principles of Screenwriting by Robert McKee: I haven’t read this all the way through but LFTS refers to this book all the time in his videos and I am confident that it would help anyone with this 

Character

Creating Character Arcs: The Masterful Author's Guide to Uniting Story Structure (Helping Writers Become Authors) by K.M. Weiland: Learned about this from youtube but come back to this book a lot of the time because it’s useful at understanding character arcs and navigate on how you want them to be in your stories

YouTube

Lessons From The Screenplay (LFTS): Love LFTS for all his work on movies because everything is beautifully done and still entertaining to get you inspiring to write scenes and why we write them a certain way, explores story, themes, dialogue, etc and always will watch

Every Frame a Painting: This channel doesn’t produce any more videos but the ones still on this website provide a lot of insight for movie techniques and everything is artfully done and entertaining

The New York Times || Anatomy of a Scene Series: Very useful insight into how directors purpose and story behind key scenes of current movies that I find very interesting while writing my own

Vanity Fair || Expert(s) Notes on a Scene Series:  Useful and insightful to watch directors break down why they choose to do certain things with the story, the budget, the effects, and learn something new

VF: Actor/Composers’ Career Timelines Series: This is still fairly new but I think it is amazing how each person gets to comment and reflect on what has happened so early and so far in their own careers and stories that occur behind the scenes of movies they made

VOX || Pop Culture & History: I originally watched this for the film technique series such as how The Wizard of Oz was being made in technicolor and how cinematography has changed dramatically for the better to capture wildlife we would never have seen 50 years ago but there are plenty of series in this entire channel that provide interesting bits and pieces of stories that make you expand your mind and provide entertainment and learning that I find useful still

The Cosmonaut Variety Hour: I give it to the main guy who writes these a lot of credit for providing insight on what he loves and talks about story, it is hidden behind a lot of sarcasm and tiredness, which I can relate to, and believe he makes a lot of valid points within his videos, he loves what he loves and I respect him for it for making me believe in movies a lot and also very entertaining

Nerdwriter1: I don’t always watch every single video but there are some good ones nestled on this channel as well; focusing on several different topics in story

Wired || Technique Critique Series: Love this series in particular because it showcases experts who provide insight and advice on scenes, accents, movie magic, and such

GQ || Iconic Characters’ Series: Even though GQ is meant for the “men”, there are still interesting stories the actors relate and show with their movies throughout their careers and I find it very interesting through the filmmaking process

kaptainkristian: Love this guy and the way he edits all of his film essays, provides a lot of insight in stories, themes, and choices for films

Wisecrack || Philosophy of ... Series: Love this series in particular because it can sprout from film, tv, books, and culture in general and they’re all interesting to watch if you’re ever in a halt

Just Write: Love this channel’s way of editing and exploring themes of movies and such too

Pop Culture Detective: This channel explores a lot of themes throughout tv and film which I find interesting and wish more of this existed on the internet because they are so damn well done for a wide range audience

Patrick (H) Willems: Love this channel as well because it expanded my viewpoint of why we make films, love them, and how we can go further with film technique and what we can do about it in interesting formats and such

Screenwriting Tips, Tricks, & Other Useful Things

General

Read as many scripts as possible, read your favorite movies, read scenes where you want to emulate into your own scenes, analyze why they work/don’t work and keep reading scripts to understand how past writers wrote something to borrow something for your own

Read theatre plays and attend them if possible because they provide direction and themes to works people have incorporated in scripts for TV & film

While writing drafts of films, tv, scenes, have a trusted reader or reading circle who can give you feedback and insight on what to fix, what’s missing, spelling errors, word choice, actions of a character, you’ll need this to make your scripts better

Follow a close, inspiring niche of artists, writers, producers, actors, fans, organizations of inspiration on social medias: Instagram, Twitter,  Pinterest, etc; this will provide insightful knowledge and information for you to work on your own stuff instead of just walking around in circles

Especially recommend Pinterest to create storyboards/mood boards that evoke the feel and tone of your stories such as the aesthetics of movies you enjoy, get influenced from, and aspire to make, these will truly help give direction to the characters, setting, background, dialogue, and such to your screenplays

On YouTube, create a playlist of videos that give you inspiration, this can comprise of film scenes that make you not give up on life, movie trailers I definitely recommend since they hype you in two minutes, film edits, tv scenes, monologues, anything that can be played at a moments notice for writer’s block; if they are very important to you, I would download them to refer for your personal viewings

Format

Celtx: You can make a free account on this website where you can automatically make the script format and produce scripts with whatever you want to get started on

Final Draft: Another screenwriting program a lot of people in the industry use and have automatic formatted screenplays

Script Examples

Film

imsdb.com: This is the biggest website where all scripts seem to end up on for people to read

TV

The 100 Writers Room: I love this show so when the writers release some jpeg glimpses of their scripts from past episodes, I think this is very kind and useful to understand what they write comes to screen

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Highly Recommended: Pastry Murder Mysteries

Murder-as-entertainment was never my thing. Having spent a short chapter of my life working on a true-crime television show that resulted in daily calls to my mom to tell her I loved her, I’m not one to rush towards grisly Netflix docs or podcasts about someone’s favorite murders. But one afternoon while waiting in the checkout line at a grocery store, I noticed an ad on the conveyor belt divider for the newest book by Joanne Fluke, a New York Times bestselling author who apparently holds the much-coveted title of “Queen of Culinary Capers.”

The book was called Raspberry Danish Murder, a title that, given my tendency to request the dessert menu at the start of every restaurant meal I partake in, instantly caught my attention. As it turns out, Raspberry Danish Murder, which was released in February of this year, is the 22nd (!) book in an ongoing series surrounding a fictitious bakery owner/detective named Hannah Swensen. Each installment features a new murder for Hannah to solve, along with at least a dozen recipes for baked goods and (an occasional) savory dish, each mentioned somewhere in the story. The most accurate way to describe these books might be “cookbooks with smatterings of fiction woven in” — which is precisely why they’re my favorite guilty-pleasure reading material.

The protagonist, Hannah, is a red-headed 20- or 30-something (depending on how far along in the series you are) living in the fictional small town of Lake Eden, Minnesota. She lives with her giant orange cat, Moishe, is very close with her mother and sisters, and, despite being an innocent bakery owner, manages to find herself entangled in multiple murders each calendar year. Don’t be fooled by the seemingly macabre elements — they’re about as scary as Dr. Seuss stories, complete with a small-town setting that adds a dose of provincial charm. Hannah knows everyone in town by name (in addition to their favorite sweet treat), and her bakery, the Cookie Jar, acts as a community meeting place for Lake Eden’s locals. Murder might be what excites the town, but Swensen’s desserts are what unite it.

The Hannah Swensen series belongs to the “cozy mysteries” genre, books that downplay the graphic violence or overt noir often found in other mysteries. “The heart of why readers love cozies is they know what they are getting,” mystery writer Amanda Flower wrote in Publisher’s Weekly earlier this year. “The cozy lesson is an average person can make a difference. It doesn’t matter if the protagonist is a knitter, a librarian, or a gardener — that person can solve a murder.” (The genre also extends beyond books — Hallmark produced five made-for-television films based on Fluke’s series, with former soap star and The Biggest Loser host Alison Sweeney starring as Hannah.) Part of the appeal of the pastry murder mystery series is the element of reader interaction: Clues surrounding the murders are scattered throughout, a la Encyclopedia Brown. Plus, there’s no need to get sad when someone gets killed off because they were likely a minor character with an offensive personality trait. In fact, the prospect of Hannah burning her cookies stresses me out more than the criminal activity itself.

Hannah’s desserts, of course, are actually Fluke’s recipes, which, as she told the New York Times in 2017, come from her own kitchen experiments, her family’s recipe books, and from fans. The featured recipes often have nothing to do with the actual plot line of a book — for instance, a quick reference to deep-fried candy bars made during a visit to the county fair in Key Lime Pie Murder warrants the inclusion of “Ruby’s Deep-Fried Candy Bars” in the recipe index. (That said, some of the more recent books can have as many as 20 recipes, so I can appreciate the impossibility of each one being a critical story device.) And though I haven’t yet tried my hand at any of them, they have quite a healthy digital presence — they’re featured on literary food blogs like Mysterious Eats and appear on dedicated Pinterest boards.

From a reader’s (if not a cook’s) perspective, I’m a sucker for the little modifications or suggestions the “characters” (via Fluke) insert into their recipes �� some are courtesy of Hannah, and others from supporting characters in the story. The secondary character notes get thrillingly specific: In the recipe for a fruit pastry from one of Hannah’s employees, Lisa, Fluke writes: “Since pineapple is Herb’s favorite fruit, I’m going to try it with pineapple jam next, if Florence can order it at the Red Owl. I’m pretty sure that Smucker’s makes it.” Herb is Lisa’s boyfriend, and the Red Owl is the town grocery store. How can you not admire such commitment to fictitious world-creation?

There’s no need to get sad when someone gets killed off — they were likely a minor character with an offensive personality trait.

It should go without saying, but these books are not literary masterpieces. Fluke jumps at any opportunity to drop a food reference: Hannah’s truck is described as “candy apple red,” and she wears sweaters emblazoned with phrases like, “Got Cookies?” Almost every character Hannah encounters, as minor as they may be, reveals a specific relationship to food; we learn that Reverend Bob Knudson has a soft spot for Red Devil’s Food Cake (haha), while Herb Beeseman, the town marshal, is partial to Hannah’s Molasses Crackles. Even Moishe can’t escape food comparisons: “Once his whole body was stretched taut, he began to quiver like the proverbial bowl full of Jell-O.”

For the blood and guts-averse like me, it’s a blessing that the writing is straightforward and avoids gory details. Aside from (maybe) Hannah, there’s no risk of attachment to characters. Even the “good” characters are written with as much depth as a kiddie pool. Frustratingly, our heroine tends to put herself down for superficial, sexist reasons; i.e. her weight and fears of becoming a “spinster” at 30 (eye roll), though she ultimately shrugs off her insecurities in favor of consuming the baked goods she holds so dear. The food always wins in the end, which makes it marginally more tolerable, but Joanne, let’s cut this archaic nonsense moving forward, yeah?

That said, food is unquestionably the main character — the people are simply the vessels through which it’s presented and served to the reader. I find the often clunky, contrived food references to be one of the series’ most endearing qualities. “Their bakery and coffee shop, the Cookie Jar, was as empty as one of Hannah’s cream puffs before it was filled with vanilla custard,” Fluke writes in Peach Cobbler Murder. How much more delightful would life be if we started speaking in pastry-centric similes? And that’s to say nothing of the quirky wordplay, which Fluke uses to comedic effect just in case the docile nature of the books wasn’t obvious enough. In fact, puns abound throughout the cozy mystery genre at large, as evidenced by titles like: Till Death Do Us Tart; Another One Bites The Crust; Butter Safe Than Sorry: A Pennsylvania Dutch Mystery; and one that speaks to recent trends called Purrder She Wrote: A Cat Cafe Mystery.

The true beauty of these stories lies within their celebrations of pastry and sugar and excess, which is so enjoyable to read about because our own daily routines don’t typically include consuming four slices of carrot cake for breakfast. It’s harmless voyeurism at its best, too, because while the confection-laced content is entirely imaginary, it’s also entirely relatable and enviable for sugar fiends like me. With all of the rules, disappointments, and curveballs daily life throws at us, it’s comforting to escape to a world where even muffins outshine murders — and the answer to “whodunit” can be solved, easily, by a baker who just happens to be an accidental gumshoe.

Brittany Ross is a freelance writer based in​ New York City. Sarah Tanat-Jones is a UK-based illustrator with a love of drawing with Indian ink. Editors: Daniela Galarza and Erin DeJesus

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How to save money on your big day

How to save money on your big day

I recently got engaged, which of course means everyone who has ever been married, been to a wedding or watched Love Actually has tracked me down with explicit instructions on how best to plan our big day. The advice varies wildly, aside from one key element: everyone is absolutely correct.

You don’t want your wedding to be too big, as it becomes too impersonal, but you don’t want it too small either, as this is your one big day, and why not make it a large celebration? They use their own wedding as the litmus test for how big or small is too big or small, insisting their day was perfect. To them, it was.

People who talk to you about weddings suddenly become stoic philosophers, offering circular meditations like “it’ll cost what it costs”, “this day only comes around once” and “it will be perfect, even if things don’t go perfectly”. Perfect.

Choosi released its Cost Of Love report last month, which clocked the average price of an Australian wedding at $24,660. MoneySmart has it at $36,200, which jives with most of the anecdotal evidence I’ve heard.

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Both figures seem unreasonable to me and Choosi’s findings suggest I’m not alone in this thinking, with 90.7 per cent of those surveyed claiming the cost is too high. Yet, that’s the average cost. That’s a serious disconnect between what people think and what they do.

The actual day itself is just one element, too. There’s a buck’s party, a hen’s party, a bridal shower, an engagement party, a rehearsal dinner, a post-wedding brunch, a honeymoon, the flash mob Thriller dance, rehearsals for the flash mob Thrillerdance, hiring someone to choreograph the flash mob Thriller dance. The list goes on.

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It’s not just the happy couple who are feeling the pinch either. For example, the Choosi report states $513 as the average cost of a hen’s or buck’s party. If you have a destination wedding, there are travel costs, time off work, plus those three cans of Red Bull you need to stay awake through the actual ceremony.

In short: weddings are expensive.

An article ran on this website last Wednesday in which a bride spoke of the cost of her Byron Bay wedding blowing out from $35K to $50 large. (Sorry, weddings make me talk like a ’30s mobster.) Despite this 43 per cent blowout, she mostly seemed pleased they didn’t go into debt, rightly stating: “At the end of the day it’s only one day and you don’t want to be having to pay that back for years and years.”

This is true — going into that much debt for a wedding seems like madness. So does spending $50,000 on a single day, regardless of how pretty everything will look after being shrunk into a phone-sized square and washed out with the Nashville filter. In the aforementioned article, the bride referred to herself as a “huge saver”, which just means she prepaid for years and years. It’s the same thing.

My fiancee was given some smart advice regarding the brutality involved in culling a guest list: break the costs down per head, then decide if that person is worth, let’s say, $150 of your own money. This will help separate the wheat from the chaff, but such mathematical valuing of your loved ones could cast a pall over the entire day as you see invisible dollar amounts hovering over the heads of your guests like an energy bar in a video game.

It seems people regard the money spent on weddings as being in a separate currency with a different exchange rate. Flowers are suddenly thousands of dollars, napkin rings are worth dropping half a week’s wages on, and shoes that will be completely covered by a wedding dress are worth the GDP of a small landlocked nation.

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The entire industry is set up to bleed you of money, under the hard-to-argue premise that this is your special day. The amount of pressure put on the happy couple to spend up big is substantial. Cutting corners on your wedding day seems ominous somehow, like a dark distillation of how much you value the marriage itself. It is also an industry where there is considerable pressure to match the weddings of those around you. There is pressure to spend a truckload of money, then to downplay how much you actually spent. Seemingly throwaway decisions take on seismic proportions, as now you are planning a $50,000 event, and so everything has to go smoothly. Not smoothly, perfectly. See how the wind is blowing the tablecloth corners up so the bare wooden legs are now visible? That’s because you were too stingy to fork out $900 on the diamond-plated tablecloth weights.

Now the wedding, and by extension the marriage and your future-children’s job prospects, are irrevocably destroyed.

We won’t be burdening any of our parents for money to pay for our wedding, as it is no longer 1955 (despite what our bridal-twist dance may suggest), but many couples still expect the bride’s parents to fork out for the pleasure of watching some dude in an ill-fitting suit marry their daughter in a church that cost more to rent than their first house was to buy. I’ve known people whose parents took out a second mortgage on their house to facilitate a party for a marriage that lasted just over a year. They’d have been better off investing in ostrich farming, or Nokia ringtones.

Here’s an outrageous fee I’ve only just learned exists. How much do you expect to pay for a wedding cake? Regardless of how high you punted that number in your head just then, it’s actually a lot higher as, according to mywedding.com, a lot of venues “require a cake-cutting fee that ranges from $1-$7 per guest”. Keep in mind, this site is American, making that higher-end figure $9.60. You invite 200 guests and you’re looking at $1920 extra just for someone to divvy up the cake in those tiny, square, fun-sized portions. (Some restaurants do this too and call it “cakeage”, which would be cute if I wasn’t fuming at the concept.) This is on top of the cake cost, which starts at $650 for one of those three-tier types. You know, the one that the guy dives through in the November Rain clip. If I ever see a bride at a wedding glaring furiously at some little kid whining about how he doesn’t want his cake, I will know why.

Doltone House runs a venue hire and catering company in Sydney. They offer a number of reasonably priced wedding packages, one of which includes the hire of a mirrored wishing well and a crystal chandelier. There also seems to be an undue amount of importance placed on the table centrepieces; Doltone offers a consultancy service for this element alone. Not wishing to be outdone, Ava Event Styling offers up a Pinterest board featuring the 642 Best Wedding Centrepieces and all I see are different variations of flowers in kettles, all presented on white table-clothes that look like oversized doilies.

Because weddings seem to exist in this parallel universe that reflects in no way the actual value of items, services become a lot dearer, too.

I have played in bands over the years and worked as a music journalist, so I know how much musicians are paid in the real world. In weddingland, however, a band can charge $5000 for three 45-minute sets. Those are covers sets too, so you’re not paying a premium for the fact you hired You Am I or anything; these are people playing the same 40 songs you hear at any wedding — or any RSL club on a Thursday night for that matter. As Charles Dickens once wrote: “No wedding is so classy that it can’t be spoiled by an off-key cover of the Goo Goo Dolls.” Want a DJ instead? First of all, you know it’s just a guy playing songs off his iPhone, right? Secondly, that will cost you $3000. And he won’t even have MMMBop.

The Cost Of Love report found the main place people cut costs was on a videographer, with 58 per cent of people highlighting this as the area they most scrimped on. The main areas of scrimpage seem to be those that can be replicated with technology: photography, videos, invitations and entertainment were all in the top rung of areas where people cut costs; all of which can be crowdsourced from phone-toting guests, or done through the wonders of email.

Our wedding isn’t for another year or so, which means we have plenty of time to think about what’s important to us. Mainly, it’s people. We’ve already decided not to waste money on things that don’t mean anything to us, while making sure everything is as photogenic and pretty as possible. Luckily, beauty and taste don’t equal dollars. The most expensive weddings can often look garish and cheap, while a simple garden fare with tea-candles and a small group of people who cherish each other can look and feel a million dollars.

At the end of the day, no matter what type of wedding we land on, whether it rains, or hails, or gets shut down by the police because we forgot to put the permit in, we know we will be deliriously happy with the end result. We will arrive separately, and leave married. Which sounds like the perfect wedding.

Nathan Jolly is a Sydney-based writer who specialises in pop culture, music history, true crime and true romance. Follow him on Twitter @nathanjolly

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Pinterest will become modern day carrier to be blocked with the aid of China

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Pinterest will become modern day carrier to be blocked with the aid of China

BEIJING: Pinterest comes to be the modern day social media provider blocked in China, tests on censorship monitoring websites indicated on Friday.

                                           Aid of China

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In line with media internet site, the famous virtual bulletin board provider has been unavailable in mainland China seeing that last Thursday.

The San Francisco-based provider joins rival photo-sharing company Instagram which has a much larger consumer base in addition to Twitter and Facebook on the list of social media platforms inaccessible in mainland China.

The ruling Communist birthday party restricts get right of entry to many foreign websites including Google, with a full-size network of controls dubbed the Extremely good Firewall of China.

While China person numbers are not available, Pinterest is successful particularly amongst ladies, who tend to pin photos about non-political topics which include meals, fashion, and travel.

But, some Pinterest users keep public forums on subjects which can be deemed politically sensitive in China inclusive of human rights problems.

There is a Pinterest board devoted to jailed dissident Liu Xiaobo, as an example, and some other at the Senkakus, an archipelago managed by using Japan, which China claims as the Diaoyus.

“It will likely be very tough to do my homework later due to the fact I had gathered the works of a fashion designer there,” a scholar wrote on Weibo, China’s local model of Twitter.

every other Weibo user, who defined herself as an e-commerce designer, wrote that Pinterest was a key device in her job and It is going to be “tough to paintings efficaciously without it”.

A 2015 record by using the US think tank Freedom Residence located that China had the most restrictive Net guidelines of 65 nations it studied, ranking beneath Iran and Syria.

China is home to the arena’s biggest quantity of Net users 731 million as of December the authorities-related China Net community Statistics Middle stated in January.

What You Do not know approximately the Internet in China

The Internet in China, While it’s far nevertheless essentially the same as in countries out of doors the Incredible firewall, has some key variations. After residing in China for almost 4 years now, the nuances of dwelling inside the Excellent Firewall have come to be 2d nature to and it is difficult to trust that only some years in the past I had no idea what to expect when I came here.

The primary, and possibly most obvious difference is the censoring of Statistics that is going throughout the Net in China. Every week or so Google and different groups are in the news and stirring up problem in China. Everybody has their own opinion as to who’s proper and wrong, but the fact that increasingly more net websites are blocked in China each day is undeniable. The Chinese language government is investing full-size quantities of cash into locating and blocking now not best net websites selling political exchange inside the country, but also websites which may include pornography, violence, and other things which we too, try and are not proud to have available at the click of a button.

Whilst the liberty of speech, and freedom of press are at stake, it’s also viable inside the equal breath to say that censorship has it is blessings. For mother and father who aren’t proactive about blocking pornographic and violent internet websites from their children, those websites are with ease to be had for any child who takes his curiosity to the search engines. websites that are placed up only for the sake of being sick and debatable, and contain content which only serves the cause of workout the liberty of being disgusting are not available here, making it tough for the children of China to access them, in addition to stopping spread of it by using the those who find this sort of content exciting.

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The Net in China is also chock-full of pirate track, films, books, and software program. All people with a domestic PC never buys DVD’s, song CDs, or PC video games. popular internet websites which can be allowed to market it allow for fast streaming and downloading of pretty a whole lot any movie or music you could think of. B-excellent films pirated within the cinema are available on those applications simply days after release, and high-quality DVD’s are positive to be uploaded within the months to follow. In my four years coaching English in China I have simplest ever met 1 scholar (I have had thousands) that buys his Ps games because his parents suppose they’re higher high-quality than what may be downloaded on-line. The worst element is that his schoolmates laughed at him for doing so.

China has succeeded in blocking off a part of the distasteful content material flowing from Western international locations however in failing to restriction (and in some ways promoting) access to pirate media sources, they’re going to need to make plans for a way to cope with this in the close to future, and the market for those tools grows daily as more and more Chinese language residents gain get entry to home computers.

Getting A teaching process In China coaching Children whether or not kindergarten or number one faculty in China is a remarkable experience. So begin your working life once you go away university by way of going to China to train Children. Or for that matter, you may go at any age or each time you want an exchange. Getting a task is truly no problem, whether or not you get one earlier than you leave your property us of an or when you arrive.

Now while you move for a task The primary aspect you need to do is a free demo magnificence. You’re put in the front of a class and also you educate it with some teachers and administrators looking. So be organized. If your demo elegance is right they assume all your instructions to be similar.

some demo lessons are daunting. I Don’t know if that is planned, or the faculty just wants to see what you could do. In some instances, You’re doing a demo on the front of nearly the entire faculty. In some out of the manner places so that it will show up, mainly if you are volunteering and become in a village. You can emerge as doing a demo within the village square, with the complete village looking.

I have had to do demo classes in a park with whoever desires to watch, watching. Quite embarrassing to mention the least, but you need to soldier on.

It is probably a concept to upgrade your public talking abilities. As I’ve needed to do demo training in lecture halls in front of around 1000 parents, instructors and whoever just dropped in. In one primary college, they put me on the multimedia lecture room and gave me a microphone. All I had become an overhead projector and a whiteboard. In the front of me, there were all the college students from grade one, approximately 500 of them, sitting of their elegance agencies. So expect the surprising. For this class I used flashcards. The whiteboard changed into no good, due to the fact the pens in which now not darkish sufficient, and the Children have been too younger to examine. I used elegance groupings and the class turned out brilliant. The scholars loved me, and that is what you want.

To discover how other instructors teach search ‘teach kindergarten and primary school’ on YouTube and see what pops up. Watch some films and get some thoughts and start working towards. Grasp what you want so that you can reproduce it in a category. simply consider it would not be perfect, it has to keep the Youngsters satisfied after which your administrators are satisfied. I might spend a whole lot of time on YouTube, Dave’s ESL cafe, and other ESL sites until you’ve got a portfolio of fabric you could regurgitate in any elegance. Then over the years you’ll best your style.

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To practice your demo class stands in front of a full duration reflect so that you can see what you look like, and educate to the reflect. in case you do no longer have a mirror, turn your video cam on you and file your demo elegance, then watch what you appear like. This way you can see what your college students see and improve on it. Anyway, it is a good idea to file you, so you can place your exceptional video up on YouTube or your preferred video website.

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— ✧ RILEY VOELKEL ?? no, that’s just NORA JEAN LANCE-QUEEN !! she’s the TWENTY THREE year old daughter of DINAH LAUREL LANCE & OLIVER QUEEN, and is an UNDERGRAD at paragon academy. i hear she’s AUDACIOUS & SUAVE, but tends to be SELF-RELIANT & PRIDEFUL. her file says that her power is VIBRATION MANIPULATION. redirect HERE to her stats page. redirect HERE to her pinterest board.

speak your TRUTH    you are not voiceless.

SECTION ONE OF TWO: BULLET POINT HISTORY trigger warnings for sexual assault & victim blaming

nora jean lance-queen was born to be a STAR. everyone who knew her, knew that. the youngest of three, she was loud and attention-seeking from the moment that she could walk and talk, and there was nowhere she loved to be more than the spotlight.

she didn't struggle to find her place - her first day of kindergarten, she was first in the door and first to make friends, something that carried on her entire life. she was out there, so to speak, most commonly found wherever the crowd was thickest. 

and her dream, she'd tell anyone who would listen, was to be FAMOUS. that was it. not a big ask, in her eyes. she wanted to have her names in lights and a crowd screaming for her to come on stage. she wanted to be sought after for autographs, and interviewed for mainstream magazines. she wanted it ALL, the stardom, the glory, and everyone knew that much, too - if they'd let her, she'd make her family sit through hours long performances in the living room, constructive criticism allowed but not taken. SHE KNEW BEST. she always said as much.

she was always very honest with the fact that she didn't want to be wasting her time in school. it was a breeze for her, don't get me wrong - she was smart and she was popular, and those were a winning combination - but she considered all the days she spent sitting at a square desk days she could have been acting, or singing, or dancing, instead. to satisfy her growing need to put herself out there, she was allowed to take local modelling gigs and make small guest appearances on tv shows that wanted a queen on air. as her teenage years progressed, so too did her appearances. the queen's standing in elite circles had got her foot in the door, but nora showed actual TALENT, and people wanted more of that. at sixteen, she was offered her first place with a talent agency. she BEGGED to be allowed to take it, but there was one obvious issue, with her having yet to finish high school. she tried to get around her parents, but there was one line they wouldn't let her cross - and she resented that first email she had to type, letting them know she wouldn't be able to sign with them. 

she resented it so much, that she became a problem child in her own respect. nora had always been sort of a BRAT. she was the youngest. she was going to be famous. these were dangerous things to throw together in combination. she was sixteen, seventeen, eighteen, and her past was becoming checkered with underage drinking charges and other dramas, while her inbox was filling with more and more offers, each of which she had to turn down, which in turn led to even MORE problematic behaviour. it was a vicious cycle, and it would have led to ruin, had she not graduated when she did, and received her next talent offer so soon. she didn't question the agency. maybe a more seasoned starlet would have, but all she saw on their website and their interviws was the same old, same old. nora didn't imagine that it mattered what agency she had, if she was carrying all the TALENT - she signed with the first people to offer after she was free of high school, and she left before anyone could even hope to speak some sense into her. she was an ADULT, after all - and they'd always said that once she was, she could do what she wanted. 

she moved to LOS ANGELES, and it was everything she had ever dreamed of, and more. the agency put her up in a fancy hotel, and everyday she attended auditions, and meetings, and an all manner of important things, which were all, she was told, going to forge her future. she had started neglecting updating her family the moment she stepped off of the airplane. it got worse, between all the glitz and the glam. nora's primary focus became getting to where she wanted to be atop the ladder of fame, and weeks could go by without an update that came directly from her. when they did, they were fleeting. five minute long facetimes while she lounged beside a crystal blue pool. a snapchat or two, as she was getting her hair and makeup done for some small event. she didn't even tell them she had landed her first small movie role until the trailer was released on youtube, the caption announcing new talent, NORA QUEEN ( the lance was dropped by the agency - it didn't read as clear, they said, and she didn't think to disagree ). she was busy, busy, busy, and she was finally living the life she had always to live. it was a whirlwind of a year.

her name was in the papers. it was online. people wanted her to do sponsored posts on instagram, and were contacting her reps for comments on scandals that apparently involved her. she went, very quickly, from being little known to being on track to being WELL KNOWN, and it was incredible. even now, nora has to remark on how dreamlike it all was. everyday was new and exciting. everyday, she didn't want to go asleep.

( rape tw ) it was new years night, and she was attending a celebrities party, at their house. she'd met them on the set of her first movie, and she hadn't thought they'd cared much for her until the invite came along. her manager INSISTED she attend, shake hands with all the stars, get herself out there a little bit more - she'd spent all her time working, she had forgotten to build an important social circle, too. now was the time. people loved her. THEY ALWAYS DID. she knew how to compliment and flatter, she knew what to say and what not to say, she knew how to act. she hadn't been rehearsed - she had just always been ELECTRIC. people loved her, and she loved them, and she kept getting handed glasses of champagne and offered a little something extra, and cause it was new years, and these were all potential new friends... she didn't say no. she was drunk by ten, and high by half past. as far as she knew, the countdown had already happened. her manager, who had disappeared somewhere along the line, reappeared just as she emptied her stomach into a fancy vase. he got her a glass of water and reassured her no one had seen, and then, he led her to one of the bedrooms upstairs, so she could "sleep it off". she didn't do any sleeping. and she didn't black out, like he'd later say must have happened. the party raged on downstairs and he took advantage of her, and she didn't say yes. she never did. 

in the morning, it wasn't just the hangover that made her feel like shit. nora wished she didn't, but she remembered what had happened. and she didn't waste a second in confronting her manager. it was new years day and she went straight to his house, and his wife answered the door. her nerve had dipped, but when they were alone, she confronted him - 

and like COUNTLESS other people in her position, nora was told then and there that if she said anything, to anyone, or she made what had happened into a ( his words ) ""big deal"", she was going to lose her place with their agency, and sully her name. she wouldn't make it in hollywood. he'd make sure of it. she was only starting out, she needed a label attached to hr name to get her the rest of the way. he was RIGHT, and she knew it, and she left in tears.

sitting in her cab after that conversation, nora knew she had three choices. 1. she could say what had happened, and she say goodbye to ever achieving her dreams. the agency would drop her. she would have to fight to be believed. she would never get back to where she had been heading. 2. she could not say it. let him win. continue to work alongside him, and reach the stars at the price of letting such a horible human being get away with what he had done - and maybe could do, again. or 3. she could say a huge fuck you to the agency and to him. she could drop the agency before they dropped her, she could speak the truth - HER TRUTH - and she could ride the waves of happened. whatever it was. 

she wouldn't have been her parents daughter if she hadn't chose number three. 

the taxi didn't bring her back to the hotel room her stuff was later thrown out of - she went to the nearest police station, she filed a report, they took evidence, and she wrote her statement. he was arrested in the middle of his family dinner, and the news broke the next day. suddenly, she wasn't headlining because of her TALENT - her name was plastered everywhere because the first highly publicized court case of the year was beginning to play out. 

for the first time in a long time, her family were in the know. she had to bring all her things home - and she had to tell them what had happened, too. she couldn't do it. she choked up, telling her parents, and telling her siblings was... a no go. but they were going to find out eventually, so second time was the charm. two days after she had come back she had to travel to LA once again, where she stayed for the trial. 

the defense gave a predictable argument. she had said YES. she probably didn't remember, because she was as blackout drunk as he was - and yes, they tried to argue they were equal. she was doing what she was doing for FAME, and they had plenty of news articles and past arrest warrants for nora lance-queen to prove that not five years before, she had done just about anything for attention. witnesses from the party - all of them signed to the same, or related agencies - said that she had been totally fine, all night, and flirty with her manager. the prosecution, on the other hand, told the truth. they had a handful of witnesses from the party who had nothing to lose in telling what they'd seen, which was her being a mess and him leading her upstairs. it was all a LOT.

he spoke on the stand. she had to, too. papers around the city, articles online, all commented on how young she was - and every single of them had an opinion on whether she was telling the truth or not. 

two months after it had all begun, however, the court ruled in HER favor. it was a momentous occassion. a triumph. he got ten years, based off of all the evidence, and nora...- she got dropped officially from the agency she had left, and from the contracts she had signed to appear in some new movies in the new year. she got a huge amount of money, as compensation, but she didn't WANT that - she wanted to be the star she'd always dreamed of, and now her name in hollywood, her growing status... it was all lost. she'd said fuck you to one of the biggst talent agencies in hollywood, but it had come had a cost to her, too.

the court case ended, everyone moved on with their lives, and over the next few months, nora queen's name stopped appearing online, or in print. everyone forgot about her. but everything had taken it's toll ON her. nora lance-queen moved back to star city, and she wasn't unscarred by everything she had been through. yeah, she'd done what she had to - she'd done what would make her parents proud, and she had taken a stand when no one else could. but she was exhausted. she had put on a brave face for the cameras and the reporters, but alone, she crumbled. she BROKE, and it took a long time for her to feel like she was capable of doing anything anymore.

that's why she's come to paragon. she never went to college, signing to her agency so quick. she never thought she'd need to get a DEGREE, or that she'd be anything other than what she was. but now she's studying law, and she's saving the money she won for a rainy day, and she's trying her hardest to put everything she went through behind her, because... she can never go back. she wants to. she'll always want to. but she CAN'T. that's the cost of what she's done. 

SECTION TWO OF TWO: WANTED CONNECTIONS 

friends ; i just want her to have so many ppl who she’s friends with. pls. she needs them. best friends, good friends, passing friends, mutual, people who she knows from class, ppl who she sits with at lunch, etc, etc. just. gimme. pls

rich kid buds ; see these are different to friends cause ... while they MIGHT be close, there’s also the very obvious possibility that they’re NOT, and they just... act it. i love rich kid dynamics, bc there’s so many ways you can go about it. either they’re friends cause they genuinely like each other, or theyre friends cause they were forced into it, or hell - they’re friends cause their parents were and they couldn’t imagine not being, and that’s that. 

someone w a shared experience ; on the trauma side. not that specific trauma side. nora.. has never rly dealt w that, on a certain level. like she did what she did cause she knows no one can win if people don’t take a stand, and she wanted to stop it from ever happening again - but afterwards and since, she’s just felt .. kinda empty. and i want her to have someone who maybe even KNOWS abt what she went thru cause it was fairly common knowldge at one point, and who can rly just.. be thre for her. a ride or die friendship but like. with emphasis on love and support and being there to talk through feelings and experiences cause nora rly needs to confront the trauma she’s faced more than in just a ‘i visited a therapist so im cured’ way

also a therapist ; i just reminded myself lmaO if anyone has a therapist for a character pls give she suffers mighty ptsd and needs the meetings and structure and to know there’s someone there outside of like. friends n shit

enemies ; nora is kind of a lot and sometimes really bratty :( like she’s a genuinely NICE person, and i love that abt her, but she’s also very much someone who enjoys being in the spotlight, and will do anything to be there, and also - she will argue her point to the DEATH, and that’s.. not a great trait.