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Why I Write "Strong Female Characters" by Greg... →
drambuie11:
“The female experience is different from that of the male, and if, as a male writer, you cannot accept that basic premise, then you will never, ever, be able to write women well. A man walking alone through Midtown Manhattan at three in the morning may have concerns for his safety, but I promise you, it’s a very different experience for a woman taking the same walk, and it’s...
It's just a book, no harm ever came from reading a...
xxxojrod:
I whispered as I awakened a 3000 year old cursed mummy
So I raise a tumblr post to you all
no-otters-in-the-flight-deck:
Remember that you made my blog a followed one
and there is no tragedy in that.
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I squeeze my eyes shut and try to reach for him across the hundreds and hundreds...
– Mocking Jay (Suzanne Collins)
She was extending a hand that I didn’t know how to take, so I broke its fingers...
– Jonathan Safran Foer (via woodlace)
That Night
lhyneswords:
That night
when the owl was
tongueless
and the crickets were
voiceless
i heard his footsteps
echoed gently off the
stone pavements,
I smiled when his fragrance
embraced my neck
and his beard brushed
my nervous lips;
That night
the dust motes danced
beneath the hanging lamps
and my heart was happy.
It is Watson who reminds us, as he always did, that it wasn’t the monograms on...
– L.A. Times review on Sherlock 2
Curse of the Fandoms
Doctor Who Fandom Curse: Knowing that at some point your Doctor will have to regenerate.
Supernatural Fandom Curse: Knowing that your Series will end.... and soon.
Avengers Fandom Curse: Knowing that Joss Whedon will likely kill a favorite character.
Twilight Fandom Curse: Knowing that you will never win a fight against another fandom.... ever.
Harry Potter Fandom Curse: Knowing that it will never be as good as the first time around.
Sherlock Fandom Curse: Knowing that after waiting forever you will probably only get three more episodes with a cliff hanger even worse than the previous one.
Glee Fandom Curse: The show
LOTR Fandom Curse: Lying abandoned and forgotten in a dark pit of Tumblr while waiting ten years for The Hobbit.
Hunger Games Fandom Curse: Knowing that your favorite character will either die, go insane, or never be seen again
Game of Thrones Fandom Curse: Knowing that every one will die. That's it. Everyone dies.