raccoonth0ts:

“who hurt you” me dude I’m fucking dumb

(via alwaysbuythebook)

arigalefantasynovels:

tlbodine:

For the last goddamn time…

“Kill your darlings” means “if something is holding you back, get rid of it, even if it sounds pretty.”

That’s it! That’s all it means! It means if you’re stuck and stalled out on your story and you could fix the whole block by removing something but you’re avoiding removing that thing because it’s good, you remove that thing. That’s the darling.

It does NOT mean

• That you have to get rid of your self-indulgent writing
• That you should delete something just because you like it (?wtf?)
• That you need to kill off characters (??? what)
• That you have to pare your story down to the absolute bare bones
• That you have to delete anything whatsoever if you don’t want to

The POINT is that you STOP FEELING GUILTY for throwing out good writing that isn’t SERVING THE STORY.

The POINT is that you don’t get so HUNG UP on the details that you lose sight of the BIG PICTURE.

Good grief….

I never use this phrase personally, and I think it is because I never had it explained to me this way. On twitter and in writing courses in college it was almost always the second to last point above, that or if I argued a red lined excerpt would make more sense in the completed work and I had a plan for the piece they felt unneeded, people would say that I was just holding onto my darling and being obstinate and bad at critique. This way of explaining it makes the phrase much nicer and a more meaningful usage in general by removing so many connotations people try to bend it into to justify their own purposes.

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knightowlet:

Do y’all think siblings in medieval times would look at the little beasts in illuminated manuscripts and point at each other like ‘ha! ‘Tis thou!’

(via m0rphys)

ekingston:

ALT

sometimes i say things on twitter and then make a little graph about it

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teaboot:

One day you will realize that the reason you disappoint yourself is that you don’t let anyone close enough to do it for you, and so in favor of being disappointed in the company of those you love you are disappointed in the company of yourself, alone in the dark, an it is not the lesser evil you thought it would be

depsidase:

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weirdgirlcore:

mfw this man who is capable of unimaginable violence and anger and destruction fulfils his life’s purpose as some teenage girl’s lame dad

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witdiseased:

Executive dysfunction is basically going “Okay one two three go. And now. Aaaaaaannnnnnnd we’re goinnnnng now.” for like three hours before the thing happens

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the-better-rainbow-unikitty:

maykitz:

every time theres a new bad tv show or movie people act like its the end of the world you guys need to learn about the not watching shit method i’ve been successfully employing the not watching shit method for years

This tag deserves to be seen

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parakaryote:

prinnay:

Nature locs

[Image Description: A drawing of a Black woman with yellow / green / blue locs that have various flowers growing from them. She is shown in left-facing ¾ view, smiling at the viewer. She has large round frameless glasses, dark green lipstick, a pearl earring, and a necklace with a small yellow butterfly charm over a shoulder-less greenish-grey turtleneck. A real butterfly with black-tipped pink-and-yellow wings sits on her temple. End ID.]

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lionfloss:

Sandra Kantanen
(b. 1974, Helsinki)

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consuelodoodles:

blooming-conifers:

I was eating alone at a mexican restaurant once and a group of college kids were chatting over tortilla chips. There was some jabber and then..

“ ..we had to climb over the bob wire!”

“Dude, did you just say ‘bob wire’?”

“Yea man, that spiky shit!”

“You actually think it’s called bob wire? Like fucking Robert wire? You think it’s called Robert wire?”

“Well what the hell do you think it’s called?”

“It’s BARB wire you idiot! Like Barbara wire!”

*the third guy* “Oh my god. You guys. BARBED wire. Because the wire has barbs, it is BARBED.”

“Oohhhhh!”

“Fucking Robert and Barbara wire. Fuck you guys.”

skywitchmaja:

when you’re out at a restaurant or a coffee shop or a target or whatever with your friends and you overhear/eavesdrop the same snippet of some stranger’s conversation, and you look at each other for a second to check that you both heard this stranger say the same weird/funny/baffling thing and just break out in knowing grins and quiet laughter… that’s a love language

I hope Robert and Barbara Wire are in a happy and committed relationship.

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