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A Guide to Terminology as used by Western Males of the Species

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fiercefatfeminist:

thescienceofjohnlock:

societyghost:

Prude - a woman who won’t fuck you

Dyke - a woman who won’t fuck you because you have a penis

Slut - a woman who fucks other people and not you

Tease - a woman who won’t fuck you even though she smiled at you

Feminist - a woman who won’t fuck you because she has, like, thoughts and stuff

Bitch - a woman who treats you the same as you treat women

I wish I was on my phone because I would put like a million clapping emojis under this

👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏🙇💁🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙏🔥


"Most writers were the kids who easily, almost automatically, got A’s in English class. (There are..."

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“Most writers were the kids who easily, almost automatically, got A’s in English class. (There are exceptions, but they often also seem to be exceptions to the general writerly habit of putting off writing as long as possible.) At an early age, when grammar school teachers were struggling to inculcate the lesson that effort was the main key to success in school, these future scribblers gave the obvious lie to this assertion. Where others read haltingly, they were plowing two grades ahead in the reading workbooks. These are the kids who turned in a completed YA novel for their fifth-grade project. It isn’t that they never failed, but at a very early age, they didn’t have to fail much; their natural talents kept them at the head of the class.
This teaches a very bad, very false lesson: that success in work mostly depends on natural talent. Unfortunately, when you are a professional writer, you are competing with all the other kids who were at the top of their English classes. Your stuff may not—indeed, probably won’t—be the best anymore.
If you’ve spent most of your life cruising ahead on natural ability, doing what came easily and quickly, every word you write becomes a test of just how much ability you have, every article a referendum on how good a writer you are. As long as you have not written that article, that speech, that novel, it could still be good. Before you take to the keys, you are Proust and Oscar Wilde and George Orwell all rolled up into one delicious package. By the time you’re finished, you’re more like one of those 1940’s pulp hacks who strung hundred-page paragraphs together with semicolons because it was too much effort to figure out where the sentence should end.”

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Why Writers Are the Worst Procrastinators - Megan McArdle - The Atlantic

The Why Writing Is So Hard field of psychology is very interesting to me.

(via amyelizabeth)

gpoy. fuck “natural talent” in its eyeball. 

(via ilikelookingatnakedmen)

I had natural talent. And I am the worst procrastinator. Fortunately, there are Deadlines.

(via ellenkushner)

I think I’d read this before, but this part just grabbed me:

“The kids who race ahead in the readers without much supervision get praised for being smart,” says Dweck. “What are they learning? They’re learning that being smart is not about overcoming tough challenges. It’s about finding work easy. When they get to college or graduate school and it starts being hard, they don’t necessarily know how to deal with that.”

That was me, through and through, and I’m not even a millenial.

(via roane72)

“The kids who race ahead in the readers without much supervision get praised for being smart,” says Dweck. “What are they learning? They’re learning that being smart is not about overcoming tough challenges. It’s about finding work easy.”

::sighs in recognition::

Talent is not enough. You have to put in the work, too.

(via gothiccharmschool)

All this.  I was taught “smart” was the only thing about me that mattered, and I would do literally anything, including avoiding doing work at all, if it would keep me from looking stupid.  I’d rather have looked lazy.

(via naamahdarling)

This teaches a very bad, very false lesson: that success in work mostly depends on natural talent. Unfortunately, when you are a professional writer, you are competing with all the other kids who were at the top of their English classes. Your stuff may not—indeed, probably won’t—be the best anymore. 

bury me with a copy of this article. and hopefully a copy of the book i write by, you know, the time i die.

(via et-in-arkadia)

deadlinecom: 'House of Cards' returns this week for Season 3,...

dirtybritishactorconfessions: 3051I want Martin Freeman to fuck...

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dirtybritishactorconfessions:

3051

I want Martin Freeman to fuck me fast and hard as I call him daddy and tear his back up with my nails

What’s amazing is that I can think of 43 people who could’ve wrote this confession.

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So I’m going to try to polish off this script and submit it for the HBO diversity emerging...

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So I’m going to try to polish off this script and submit it for the HBO diversity emerging writer thing. So for the next few days that is all I’ll be talking about. My script is actually not a comedy script. IT IS THE ONLY drama that I’ve ever written and I fuckin love it TBH so if it doesn’t go anywhere then at the least I’ll be  happy to have polished off a script with an idea I actually dig.

I mean the script is diverse as shit

Also I’m diverse as shit.

On that alone I would win.

African-American/Native American married to a Hispanic permanent resident, From the Deep South lives in the Yankee North, has a disability, is pansexual….and a Christian.

I mean legit I don’t know what box I don’t check.

Buuut apparently they also wanna see good writing too sooooo I’ll be doing that.

Anyhoo I’ll be on my sideblog ( aspiringtvwriter )for a bit.

Cheers.

On why he was cast in Kingsman: If there’s a list of people...

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On why he was cast in Kingsman: If there’s a list of people least likely to kick arse, I’ve been sitting at the top of that list for 50 years.

The board is heavy

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aspiringtvwriter:

This is most likely not an industry term and I’ve no idea where I picked it up but when my whiteboard is filled with my outline and ideas from teaser to tag then I happily say aloud, “The board is heavy.” And then I clap to celebrate my accomplishment.

Which is a bit sad.

But I am still quite happy.

AND I REALLY DIG MY TEASER.

And the board is heavy.

marty-mc:Happy OTP Valentine’s Day! Have some tiny hipster Steve...

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marty-mc:

Happy OTP Valentine’s Day! Have some tiny hipster Steve with his veteran boyfriend

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The internet just changed: Net Neutrality is dead.

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The internet just changed: Net Neutrality is dead.:

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Last Wednesday, FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler announced a proposal for new rules that would allow for a “ fast lane” of Internet traffic for content providers who are willing (and able) to pay a fee. [1] The proposal reverses the FCC’s previous commitment to net neutrality and open internet and allows ISP’s like Comcast or Verizon to slow down and censor services that don’t pay the toll.

We have to be totally honest, this situation is seriously grim. But there is still hope. The FCC already knows that the Internet community wants net neutrality, but they think they can put their spin on these new rules and sneak them through. If we can prove them wrong right now with a massive public outcry, we can literally save the Internet once again.

We need to stop the FCC now. Big business groups are already ramping up lobbying efforts with the FCC in swarms since Wednesday’s announcement in support of censoring the open Internet and to ensure this dangerous proposal moves forward. [2]

This is a critical moment. In the last few weeks more than 65,000 people have taken action with us. Can you help us get to 80,000 by the end of the day today?

[1] Gautham Nagesh. “FCC to Propose New ‘Net Neutrality’ Rules”.
http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304518704579519963416350296

[2] Edward Wyatt. Edward Wyatt. “Lobbying Efforts Intensify After F.C.C. Tries 3rd Time on Net Neutrality” http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/25/business/lobbying-efforts-intensify-after-fcc-tries-3rd-time-on-net-neutrality.html?hpw&rref=politics

  - Fight For The Future

we’re almost 3/4 of the way there!! c’mon guys, every bit counts!

will it ever stop

fucking signal boost

IF YOU ARE NOT SIGNAL BOOSTING THIS YOU ARE NOT PAYING ATTENTION.

IF THE U.S. FALLS TO THIS IT WILL OPEN OTHER DANGEROUS DOORS INTERNATIONALLY.

Start a civil war against the US government.

Signal boost for my us followers

I try to keep the things I reblog as blog/mun-centric as possible, but this is something I just can’t let slide.

I’ve been following this cause since last year.  I’ve signed petitions, I’ve called representatives, I’ve been to protests, the whole nine yards.

This right here?  This is not a joke.  This is seriously happening, guys.

Remember the Wikipedia shutdown?  That was to protest this right here.  If you haven’t taken action against this yet, frankly, what is wrong with you?  If this doesn’t get stopped, we’re going to lose the thing that brings us all together unless we shell out huge sums of cash to these corrupt bastards.

Do not just sit there and keep browsing.

Do not scroll past this.

Fight.

Sign to write?

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We just cleared our decks for the month.
Boss says to hold the last three contracts for next month.
I have zero work to do.
Boss says “I’m gonna head home. You can too or just hang out on the clock here.”
Sooooooooo
I just got set up for the perfect writing time.
Woooo.

Colin Firth by Greg Williams for F*** Magazine February 2015

bbcatemysoul:i feel like i’m living in some sort of paradox where johnlock is simultaneously canon...

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bbcatemysoul:

i feel like i’m living in some sort of paradox where johnlock is simultaneously canon and not canon because everything in the universe continually confirms that it is canon and yet we are still waiting for it to become canon


They’re making that lil Australian show I liked and raved about and told everyone to watch...

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They’re making that lil Australian show I liked and raved about and told everyone to watch into an American TV show. 

Can someone just give me a job in TV already?

Mah finga’ is on the pulse.

There are two types of Tumblr-taggers

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The ones who go all Instagram: #beautiful #pretty #aesthetic #girl #boy #ootd #potd #followforfollow #likeforlike
The ones who don't even give a sh*t anymore: #why are giraffes not purple #I just took a shower and almost died yawning #almost choked on my own spit #does anybody even read this #whatever I'll have my own tag party #send me an 'existential crisis' ask if you want to join

valeria2067:swiked:guys please help me - is this dress white and...

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valeria2067:

swiked:

guys please help me - is this dress white and gold, or blue and black? Me and my friends can’t agree and we are freaking the fuck out

I see white and gold no matter what. My girlfriend right beside me sees back and blue. My mom sees white and gold. We are all looking at the image on my phone, and I feel freaked out.

I saw white and gold then moved my screen and saw black and blue. Neat. I love how the human body works.

plusmodelmagazine:Plus Size & Proud: Size 22 Model Tess...

setup-setup-payoff:Setup Setup Payoff - Hudson HawkI love this...

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setup-setup-payoff:

Setup Setup Payoff - Hudson Hawk

I love this movie. I know I am on the island by my lonesome but really it’s very, very good.

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