Mastering Success: Insights from Sara Tye on Business Development, PR, and Entrepreneurship

Award-winning Sara Tye works with global brands, brushes elbows with key figures, and has more than three successful decades in the fields of entrepreneurship, brand development, and PR. Know her insights through this interview. #theworldsbest #PR

“Just do it when you are ready. Do not start if your mindset is wrong. But the longer you leave it, the less you will achieve—time versus outcome.”– Sara Tye Timing and mindset are pivotal forces that could shape the trajectory of one’s journey. Sara Tye, a luminary of public relations, business development, and entrepreneurship, embodies this ethos with her profound insight and unwavering…

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Brenda Fassie: considered South Africa's first Black pop star.

BEEF EEF!!!!!

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If you're out there calling Sadako Samara straight up I think you should be banned from writing articles about horror

Patalliro! is fascinating to me because of stuff like this. It's unapologetically gay - even within its anime which aired during primetime hours in 1982 - in a way that many later BL manga would never be, like the ones from the early 2000s which would never dare to call their characters actual homosexuals. Patalliro has actually aged quite well in this regard, there's something comforting about how campy it is.

doing a lineup of most notable characters from the aubreyad (<- unemployed) .... debating whether to keep mowett or draw someone else like awkward davies or even babbington or dundas? ideally i'd draw everybody but that is so many guys in uniform. please help me decide who i should put in this

Lalla Ward makes a brief appearance as Lady Augusta, intended bride to an ill-fated aristocrat, in A Ghost Story for Christmas: The Ash Tree (BBC, 1975)

ok. tragically separated wwi era vampire twins.

Women's History Month

Dr. Angela Davis (American, b. 1944) • Feminist activist, philosopher, author, and academic.

"Feminism is the radical notion that women are human beings." – Angela Davis

Nancy Lynn White: On Crafting Tales of Love and Resilience

Born into the nomadic life of a military family in the heart of Washington, D.C., Nancy Lynn White's journey has been as diverse and dynamic as the characters she brings to life in her novels. Know more about her in this exclusive interview.

“Every main character in your book must have an emotional wound, something that changed them into the person they are now… Every story must also have a conflict or many conflicts to make the story interesting.”– Nancy Lynn White Born into the nomadic life of a military family in the heart of Washington, D.C., Nancy Lynn White’s journey has been as diverse and dynamic as the characters she brings…

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gender trouble by judith butler (1990)

Dawn Staley is the first Black coach in Division I college basketball to complete an undefeated season (38-0)

Shoutout to queer masculinity. Butches, transmascs, amab people who enjoy the masculine parts of themselves, gnc people, etc etc. No if ands or buts.

Beefleaf isn't canon. Mxtx has said she doesn't like to write another gay ship different from the main (she struggled with svsss)

I have heard about this! The content I saw was just so insistent about Beefleaf that I wondered if maybe I was misremembering and the "no same-gender side couples" thing applied to MDZS only. (I have gotten similar vibes from Moshang and from whatever Yue QIngyuan and Shen Jiu's ship name is, but I've now obtained Vol. 1 of SVSSS and plan to read it, so if those two aren't actually canon, don't tell me! It can be a surprise!)

The "no side couples"--or, in MDZS's case, "no queer characters AT ALL besides the protag, his love interest, and the disgraced goth weirdo who annihilates himself to resurrect the protag"--thing confuses me, because... I guess I don't get the point of it? I totally understand not having the bandwidth to develop more than one couple. The challenge of adequately building up other relationships fully independent of your main couple without detracting from the exploits of your protagonist and his love interest could be daunting, as would expanding the story's focus and juggling multiple equally-prominent lead characters for an effective ensemble piece. But here it seems like people picked up a vibe between the characters from what was already there in the text and then MXTX was like, "oh, no, they're not a couple! there's just the one couple!" and THAT I don't get. If she's disinterested in writing women, but has a cast of attractive men who are all obsessed with each other, why not toss a romance in there between some of the guys? Again, you can keep it entirely as-is and just toss a kiss in there or confirm in interviews that yes, they were in love, and you're so happy readers picked up on that even though you didn't get to tell their full story on the page.

I am extrapolating based on the Xiyao situation specifically, so maybe this doesn't apply to her other works! But it is a choice that confuses me. A couple doesn't have to be that developed; Xuanli certainly aren't, but their existence is a major plot point. I should think that the presence of other m/m couples would bolster the main couple, if anything, because it sets a precedent for them existing in their world. There are situations where adding an expressly romantic element would change something fundamental about the relationship, but there are just as many where the addition of a romantic element changes nothing or makes it make more sense (case in point: Xue Yang's freakout after killing Xiao Xingchen).

Like I said, I get not wanting to devote energy to it, and I also get that sometimes a work or performance is received by the audience in ways the artist didn't intend (this is the Destiel website, after all), but to make it a conscious choice to have One M/M Couple Only? Based on what I currently know, this perplexes me.