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joli–coeur:

something that helps me get through low points in my life is to find something to look forward to – no matter how small.

whether it’s ‘oooh my favorite tv show comes on next week’ or ‘i can’t wait to sleep in this weekend’ or whatever!

having something to look forward to keeps you alive, hopeful, and present.

shop5:

blaze-rocket:

ohmygil:

Guidance counselour for me

Not for nothing, but in America, at least, there’s a strong trend of “unless you’re the BEST at it, you need to stop doing it.” Somewhere around 5th grade, kids get it into their heads that if they’re not some sort of art prodigy already, then pursuing it (and actually, y’know. Practicing and learning) is a foolish, childish notion.

The idea that someone could just do something for FUN? Not entertained.

This mindset is why I didn’t get back into drawing until I was like 22 – practice that shit you’ll get better

Source: browsedankmemes

annleckie:

aquestionofcharacter:

aquestionofcharacter:

aquestionofcharacter:

there’s going to be a difference sometimes between the stories that you find masterfully crafted and the stories that mean a lot to you personally and those two things don’t have to overlap completely or even at all to make that story worthwhile

and that’s a good thing to remember as a reader/viewer/etc but also as a writer because even if whatever you ultimately write is full of mistakes, someone out there is gonna take it so to heart that it fundamentally changes them as a person. and that is. Huge.

Like! I made a list of the top ten stories that have influenced me as a human being and only 2 or maybe 3 of them are things I would hold up as examples of narrative mastery. But I cannot imagine who I would be without the other 7!!

Please write your story and share it with the world! Someday someone will not be able to imagine a world without your story in it and they’ll be so grateful you brought that wonderful, meaningful thing into their life

Also while I’m on a roll, a story doesn’t have to have some deep hidden meaning or philosophical theme for it to be meaningful. Sometimes a story is meaningful to someone because it was fun and made them happy at a time when they really, really needed that. Or because it was an incredibly intriguing world that inspired them to dream. Maybe they’re another writer, and they see in that thing you wrote the exact kind of story they want to tell someday.

There are many ways to be meaningful

This is true.

Witchcraft.

darklingdearest:

thesolitaryherbs:

Witchcraft finds the disgraced, the beaten, the neglected, the hurt, the lonely, the tormented, the abused, the sorrowful, the scarred, the mutilated, the abandoned, the oppressed and gives them a new home.

I’ve never met a witch in real life without their fair share of trauma.

Witchcraft gives back our lives. It gives back what other people have taken from us, and makes us whole again.

I’m thankful that it found me.

Me as well. It gave me a sense of agency in a time in my life when I felt powerless and without hope. It gives me a way to balance scales one way or another when nothing practical can be done.

alinachau:

My default hand written note is usually pretty messy. This morning when I look at my own story note, I realize I barely understand what I was writing or drawing. 🤪 When I was a kid, I often couldn’t read my own class note and had to ask my best friend what I wrote, cause only Carrie could decipher my horrible handwriting. Growing up people always puzzled how could someone who can draw and write calligraphy beautifully with such a bad handwriting 🤣 #alinachau #comic

thefingerfuckingfemalefury:

elizabethan-ho:

loptrcoptr:

kawaiite-mage:

spikedbat:

joss whedon: loki tortures and murders people for fun, and, despite being the god of CHAOS, is a fascist who says things like “it’s the unspoken truth of humanity that you crave subjugation” 

taika waititi: loki is an annoying little shit who day-drinks, puts on theater about himself, and fucks his way to the top

joss whedon: loki and thor are gods, so they always talk proper and posh and in cryptic riddles so for no reason. it makes them seem more powerful and mystical.

taiki waititi: one time when they were kids loki turned into a snake because he knows thor loves snakes and then thor went to pick up the snake and then loki turned back into himself and screamed “yueagh, it’s me!” and then he stabbed thor

Taika Waititi has a deeper understanding of Norse mythological accuracy than Joss lol

It’s because Joss Whedon looks at all mythology and religion through a Christian-atheist lens. You can see it in Buffy and even a little in Firefly too. Even when he writes about other religions and their deities and practices, it still comes back to Christianity.

He wrote Thor and Loki as modern Western Christianity would portray Jesus and the Devil as opposed to how they actually are in mythology or the comics

That…is a really good addition as to why Whedon gets Thor and Loki
wrong and why Taika did a far better job with their
characters/personalities in Ragnarok