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no one talks about how straight up painful it is to be the bigger person when deep in your soul you just want to be a huge bitch about it
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“And I thought, will anyone be better off if I just go back to the hotel and say my prayers and promise never to fall into temptation again?
And the answer came back. No. No one will. And I realised there was no one there to reward me for being a good girl or no one there to punish me for being wicked. There was no one. And it was… it was liberating. And it was… It was a bit lonely. But I just knew I wanted to experience everything the world had to offer. I wanted to experience love.”
MARY MALONE in HIS DARK MATERIALS 3.08(via womenzoberranzan)
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You know Chicago didn’t feel like a war zone until trumps’s goons started harassing everyone. They they tear gas in fucking Logan square
An alderman was also arrested recently
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So, this is a thing. I do a lot of SaveWOT things. Who do I talk to about possibly collaborating with the SaveWarriorNun peeps? Because I KNOW a combined movement with SaveWOT and SaveWarriorNun would really do numbers for attention for both movements!
All right, so time for UPDATES:
- Made the proposal on the SaveWOT Discord and on Bluesky of uniting forces to make both movements louder, and it seems a bunch of people agreed. What’s the megafandom going to look like, you may ask?
- Primarily, we’ll be focusing on familiarizing ourselves with each other’s show. Warrior Nun S1 will go first on Saturday, and Wheel of Time S1 will go on Sunday. The plan is to give everyone a full week to watch a new season of a new show for them. The schedule (that I was thinking of) looks like this:
Warrior Nun S1 (Netflix), Oct. 4
Wheel of Time S1 (Prime, also available to buy on Apple), Oct. 5
Warrior Nun S2 (Netflix), Oct. 11
Wheel of Time S2 (Prime, also available to buy on Apple), Oct. 12
Wheel of Time S3 (Prime only), Oct. 18 - What do you do if you’re done watching a show for a week? Well, you can do a lot:
- You can sign a show’s petition
- you can write postcards to Netflix for both shows (savewot.com has the address for Netflix’s LA HQ, though Jinny’s been promoted to U.S.-Canada Scripted Series since the SaveWOT website was made, with no replacement for her previous position, so I’d try writing to Bela Bajaria, Chief Content Officer, as she heads all of the shows, both the U.S.-Canada projects and global projects).
- you can like and repost posts from both fandoms (just be sure to share them with their #savexyz hashtags and please credit who made the thing, if possible).
- you can help fyc campaigns for the shows and cast and crew (like right about now, Nikhil Koparkar and Rammy Park, composer and lyricist of WoT’s “The Hills of Tanchico”, which is a BOP, is currently under consideration for a Grammy - and after Amazon utterly biffed at getting the show, the costumes [WE WANTED YOU TO WIN, TOO, SHARON!], and the music, we’re hoping that getting the Grammy nom will be a nice thing that we can do).
- Make some fanart or fanfic for the other show (like I have an image of Bea and Ava dressed in ajah colors [I feel Bea would be in the Brown Ajah or the Blue Ajah, and Ava would be a Green or Blue], and the Avilayne category on AO3 could always use more fanfics).
But yeah. Let’s have fun and support each other, as we’re dealing with stories that mean something to each other. If you have any other suggestions for things we could do together, comment below!
My Instagram post on this:
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taylor swift’s new album includes the lyric “did you girlboss too close to the sun” and rolling stone gave it a 5/5. post your bad art
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we need to invent a way to explain how deep running and pervasive and subliminal racism and antiblackness is without immediately sounding like an insane conspiracy theorist
female characters are always lighter than male characters. strong characters are almost always dark. aggressive characters are almost always dark. peaceful and intelligent characters are almost always light. even amongst darker characters the lightest one is usually either the leader or the girls. dark is evil and light is good.
if you try to explain this to a white person they look at you like youre insane
briefly pursuing a career in animation radicalized me on this. So many stories from the industry about how you have to start with your character design as dark as possible, because INEVITABLY you’ll get “notes” from higher-ups asking you to make them lighter.
In a class about making a pitch bible my teacher once role-played as a shitty executive with a classmate, pressing them in intentionally abrasive ways about why they made their characters diverse. He emphasized that we had to learn to defend these things, because the racism in the industry is extremely deliberate.
Ronald Wimberly’s comic essay, Lighten Up, stays evergreen
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gringo: there’s nothing whatsoever that can be done about this regrettable situation our politicians are imposing on our country and those of others
average third worlder when politicians start getting cocky:
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Starting my speech at the Omelas city council with a child acknowledgement statement
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It’s so funny to me that Mary Shelley, her husband, John Polidori, and Lord Byron had a competition to see who could write the best horror story and she wrote fucking Frankenstein. Imagine losing a competition that badly. Imagine just doing a silly little competition with your friend and she basically invents a new genre and creates one of the most famous characters in fiction. Imagine being proud of your little story and then she shares one that people will still read every day in 200 years. Imagine doing a writing competition with your wife and she becomes so recognizable that you’ll always be known as Mary Shelley’s husband
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