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5 things meme

I’ve stolen a tag from @peterpandyke

5 things you’ll find in my bag

  1. a wallet
  2. a pencil case
  3. a planner
  4. a knife
  5. tissues

5 things you’ll find in my room

  1. quite a lot of books
  2. scented candles
  3. lots of stationery
  4. a radio
  5. a TARDIS poster

5 things I’m into at the moment

  1. passing all my classes
  2. Hamilton
  3. cats
  4. feminism
  5. solarpunk

5 things in my to-do list

  1. work on my dissertation
  2. make a plan for the next year
  3. pet a lot of cats
  4. buy more sweaters
  5. learn to eat at least 3 meals a day

5 things people don’t know about me

  1. I actually enjoy wearing dresses (I do it so rarely tho)
  2. I’m hella competitive at times
  3. physical contact is nicer in theory than in practice
  4. I struggle with my identity a lot
  5. I don’t really like the smell of vanilla

I don’t tag anyone, feel free to do it if you wanna tho

waltdisneyconfessionsrage:

helioscentrifuge:

intersectionalfeminism:

sailinginthetea:

there-was-a-girl:

manhatingmermaid:

Audrey says “fuck your gender roles”

This movie is super underrated.

Audrey is so underrated. How can you not love her?

I have a love-hate relationship with this movie.
On one hand it’s got awesome PoC characters who defy racial and gender stereotypes. It also discusses colonialism and how people tend to destroy indigenous cultures to obtain land and resources (which is why the crew ultimately decided a to pretend they never found Atlantis because they don’t want anyone else to try and destroy the culture).
But on the other hand, the whole plot is that Atlantis needs a white, cishet man to save it from extinction and for some reason he understand their culture and language better than they do.

hEY FUCK YOU OKAY
MILO WAS THE ANTITHESIS OF WHITE SAVIOR
HE WAS A NERDY USELESS LITTLE SHIT WHO WAS COWARDLY UNTIL OTHERS FORCED HIM TO ACT
HIS ONLY STRENGTHS WERE HIS MIND AND HIS ETHICS
HE WAS THE PERFECT DUDE FOR THE JOB AND THE REASON HE KNEW BETTER WAS BECAUSE HE RIGOROUSLY STUDIED TEXTS THAT HAD BEEN LOST OR DESTROYED IN ATLANTIS BECAUSE KIDA’S FATHER INTENTIONALLY LET HIS KINGDOM LAPSE INTO DECAY AND OBSCURITY

DO NOT PULL THAT WHITE SAVIOUR BULLSHIT BECAUSE MILO WAS A DAMN GOOD DUDE

I’ve been trying to tell people this for years. Also, what differentiates Milo’s experience from the white savior complex is his expectation and his attitude. When looking for Atlantis, the last thing Milo expects to find are people. He says the most they thought that they would find are carvings and pottery. And he would have been happy with just that.

And even when he finds the Atlanteans, he treats the culture and people with the utmost respect (peek the scene where the crew has their audience with the king). He never tries to interfere in the people’s way of life nor change them. He’s merely an observer fascinated with the culture/people and just wants to know more about them.

In most movies, the white savior comes into the situation with an attitude of superiority and only through his interactions with the native people (and a lot of times a beautiful native woman) is he humbled and then eventually brought in as an honorary member of the people. Milo never asks for thanks or wants to make a name for himself. He does what he does because he loves it and it’s a way to keep his grandfather’s legacy alive.

Yeah. Milo was a damn good dude.

Source: stelmarias

colormayfade:

I’ve had this prompt generator I put together for a while now, so I thought I’d share the link for anyone who needs an inspiration. There are:

  • 3 150 au ideas
  • 900 humoristic sentence/dialogue prompts
  • 85 other sentence prompts
  • 180 movie/show/book AUs, 179 setting AUs, 84 profession AUs
  • 56 relationship and 217 theme ideas

You can shuffle each category independently or just refresh the whole page . The generator works just as good on the phone. 

Source: colormayfade

Rewrite Your First Draft, Revise Your Last

elumish:

I’m currently rewriting my first (or, as I think of it, my
1.5) draft of one of my novels. It is long. It is arduous. It is taking me
forever, and I have spent a lot of time opening it, staring at it, and then
going to do something else.

It is also necessary.

While all forms of revision are necessary, different ones
should be used at different times. At the start of the process—after you have
completed a full draft of your story—you should rewrite. At the end of your
process, you should revise.

Here’s why:

Rewriting, in this case, means starting a new document—or a
new notebook, if you like writing by hand—and writing every word of a new draft.
(Small amounts of copy-paste are okay, I guess, if necessary.) Usually this is
done with the old draft open next to the next draft, but depending on the
amount of work that needs to be done, there can be significant changes made.

Revising means taking an existing document and going through
line by line to find awkward passages, grammatical mistakes, and typos.

The reason that rewriting should be the first thing that you
do is that it allows you a lot more freedom—logistically and mentally—to make
major changes to your story. Need to add a scene? Just write it in. Need to cut
a character? That’s much easier to decide beforehand and rewrite the scenes
around them rather than trying to cut them out line by line. You can see your
old work and refer to it, but you’re not constrained by the way it’s written.

On the other hand, by the time you get to your last draft—which
might be draft three, or draft ten, you shouldn’t be changing entire scenes.
Your entire story should be written, and you should just be polishing it.

I know rewriting is miserable. I know you don’t want to
rewrite. I know it would be easier to just do a pass-through, fix grammatical
mistakes, and call it a day. But for 99% of writers, your first draft isn’t
good enough to do that. So take the time. Rewrite. You’ll thank me later.