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Lessons From The Tradgicomedy of Life
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Things That Don't Sound like that belong together but do-- Tolkien Did Not Like Disney.
From a letter to his publishers, after he was told that the Americans wanted to employ an American illustrator to make additional illustrations for The Hobbit:
"It might be advisable, rather than lose the American interest, to let the Americans do what seems good to them--as long as it was possible (I should like to add) to veto anything from or influenced by the Disney studios (for all whose works I have a heartfelt loathing).
Later he said of German illustrations:
"[They] are I fear too 'Disnified' for my taste: Bilbo with a dribbling nose, and Gandalf as a figure of vulgar fun ."
He also said about the Disney movie The Pied Piper:
"I am sorry about The Pied Piper. I loathe it. God help the children! I would as soon give them crude and vulgar plastic toys. Which of course they will play with, to the ruin of their taste. Terrible presage of the most vulgar elements in Disney.
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“omg you’re so creative. how do you get your ideas” i hallucinate a single scene in the taco bell drive thru and then spend 13 months trying to write it
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Just thinking about him*
*the medieval irish monk who basically wrote “this made me sad” in the margins of an Iliad manuscript next to Hector’s death
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Which is Your Black Cat?
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#Dante#Dante's divine comedy#Dante Paradise#Jester's meme#I love my english prof he's just slightly intimidating at time
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“imagine caring so much about fiction” imagine being so lame that you scoff at the timeless human practice of falling in love with art and stories
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character who;s doomed form the start but not because of tragedy or anything but because they're a woman and their writer is a misogynist
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Pride and Prejudice (2005) + tumblr posts (part 1)
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It's a lot healthier to go for a daily walk than to sign up for a gym membership you won't be using because you hate that kind of exercise. It's a lot healthier to eat a frozen meal than to skip a meal because you were too tired to cook something healthy. It's a lot healthier to take a quick shower than to procrastinate an elaborate routine for days. Don't aim so high that you won't be hitting anything!
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Listen to me: You get good at things by being bad at them. You learn by failing. You gain competency and a sense of mastery by failing at something many times and in many interesting ways.
The sooner you are able to laugh at your own failures, to enjoy the process of messing up, the easier life will be. Because you'll no longer be afraid of learning.
And once you're no longer afraid of failing, you can learn anything.
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shoutout to the "foolproof" bread recipe I fucked up entirely for inspiring this
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I imagine that one of the things magic users use familiars for is the rubber duck method: you explain scrolls and incantations as you study for The Task(tm) until you scream and cackle where you finally figure out where you went wrong
#source: i have been using my Eevee plush to help me get through perception exam. It not going well.
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It's Okay Your Writing Isn't Like So-and-So's
Here's five reasons why:
1. Published work has teams of people behind it
Traditional (and even lots of indie) published work has not just the writer’s drafts behind it, but drafts that have been through professional editors, agents, beta readers, etc. etc. etc. They say writing is a solitary career, but there are tons of people behind every published work to make it better.
2. Every style is different and valid
Yours might not look exactly like other people’s work. That’s because everyone has their own voice in writing, and that’s what makes every writer individual, and every story worth reading.
3. You’re the only person who can write your story
Style, your ideas, your characters, and every other detail in your story is built off your all your little life experiences and interests. It will look different for every person even if you all tried writing the same idea.
4. Everyone has different skills and experience levels
You may be really great at dialogue, while someone else may be really good at action. Everyone has different skills and areas they’re better or worse at. It’s okay.
5. People will love it anyway
You’ve probably heard of the cake saying? Someone else makes a beautiful cake, you make a just okay cake, but the person that comes along to eat them is just excited there’s two cakes.
People just want more content. They will read the same content over and over again. They will love it anyway.
Anyone have anything to add?
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