johannestevans
pitbolshevik

"trans people who dont medically transition deserve respect" and "talking about medical transition like it'll turn you into a disgusting mutant is extremely transphobic" are statements that can and should coexist

pitbolshevik

like jesus christ every time i see a positivity post for trans people who aren't medically transitioning there's some asshole in the notes saying shit like "yeah not all of us hate ourselves enough to fuck up our bodies with hormones and surgery 🙄" like bro that's literally just transphobia!!! stop that!!

naamahdarling

Anonymous asked:

Hi I'm not sure if you've already posted about this but could you give some advice on not using " I " and reusing "then" , "after that" , "and" etc. For every sentence in story that's in first person? I struggle a lot with writing in first person without making every sentence as if it's steps on a list.

I hope this makes sense but anyway your advice and account is so helpful! I appreciate your posts so much!

theliteraryarchitect answered:

Hello! Yes, I have a post about how to avoid overusing “I” in a first-person story. As for “then,” “after that,” “later,” etc., keep in mind that readers will naturally sequence your story in a chronological manner by virtue of the fact that the sentences come one right after the other. So you can usually just delete it. Witness:

I made myself a cup of coffee. After that, I went to the window and looked outside. Then I sat down on the chair and thought about what I’d seen.

Of course, in that example you’re still left with the problem of starting every sentence with “I.” But using the tips in the blog post above, you could rewrite it thusly:

I made myself a cup of coffee. Outside the window, a series of red cars drove by in fast succession. I went over and peeked through the blinds. Could that be Victoria’s funeral procession? I sat down on the chair and thought about what I’d seen.

Also, the occasional “a few seconds later,” “after that,” and “next"s aren’t going to hurt anyone, so if you still have a few for flow that’s cool. But most of them can be deleted without causing confusion.

Hope this helps!

naamahdarling

Hey thanks for articulating why my latest trash fire is super plodding.

kalgalen
scribefindegil

A useful article from King Arthur Flour (my beloved) on baking while disabled.

capt-coffeebitch

This genuinely might make me cry. I already deeply appreciate King Arthur for making the best GF 1 for 1 flour. And having good recipes. But an article posted by them from someone with disabilities about how to do the thing even with disabilities? That’s just genuinely lovely. I know that my bad there is low, but it’s low for a reason and hopefully stuff like this can continue to raise that bar for disabled people like me.

ilsa-fireswan

I love to see this! Another of my favorites is the baking with arthritis post.

claudiagray

King Arthur Flour is great flour with an even greater website. (I say this as someone who is expected to make their pumpkin bread for the family every Thanksgiving.) 

yayxstitch

Not needlework related, but this is a very good resource for people who need it.

smallgodseries
smallgodseries

[image description: A very old (and somewhat ragged) book cover features a woman in medieval attire with a quill pen in its lower right corner. She leans back – as though exhausted – on a blue and gold checkered tablecloth where an open ink bottle rests. Her pen is dripping past the words ‘psst! do look about the WHOLE page, won’t you please’. The book is surrounded and held tight by a rubber band under which, a piece of worn paper reads, “170, Anne O’Tate – small god of the Footnotes”]

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(* As we begin, Anne would like you to note that there is no footnote in her official portrait; she simply entreats all who enter her august presence to look at their surroundings with care, lest smaller aspects of the situation be missed.  Do not trouble yourself in seeking something which is not there.)

Anne arose when the first storyteller realized that something had been omitted from their recitation.  Something small but vital, while not vital enough to justify hauling the entire tale back to an earlier point in its telling.  Something that could be popped in as a verbal aside, or later, when the tale was written down*, as a footnote.

(*Footnotes are so named because they historically appear at the bottom of the page, where they can all too easily be overlooked, rather than being included inline with the text, as they are here.  You are permitted to deviate from the norm, when you speak of gods.)

Some consider her a pedantic god, devoted to a precision that is unrealistic when language meets the living, more concerned with the proper placement of punctuation than with the flow of narrative.  Those people couldn’t be more wrong.  She wants things to be understood, yes, she wants citations and credit where credit is due, but she removes herself and her additions to the text from the main flow of the tale so as not to disrupt.  Were she pedantic, she would insist that what she has to say is all that matters.  Anne has never done such a thing.

The footnote is a treasure, a crumb of context and additional information beyond price*.  If her work is viewed by some as unimportant in these modern times, Anne will only smile and note that every hyperlink falls within her domain; she is archaic and modern at the same time, and she will endure long after many other gods of literary device are gone, faded into memory and prayer.

(* Although some editors will happily tell you the price of every single footnote, what it costs to place and typeset, why they are better left avoided.)

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sexywhitenotkorean
homofied

thestarswelcomeyou

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richfs

Ka?!

still-godless-david

love how he nonchalantly sets a fire extinguisher within reach before deep frying (good idea actually)

dduane

I need to try those donuts, anyway.

madlori

I absolutely adore B. Dylan Hollis. People in the comments are always amazed when he’s never heard of [random American/Midwestern dish] such as potato donuts, but there’s an answer for that! HE’S NOT AMERICAN. Dylan is from Bermuda and came to Wyoming (where he’s shooting his cooking videos) for school. He’s graduating soon and I hope he keeps making them if/when he leaves Wyoming.

whitmerule

Anonymous asked:

the term 'acephobia' is homophobic because it trivializes the homophobia that gay people have had to suffer for hundreds of years

answered:

listen to me very carefully and follow these instructions:

step 1: step back
step 2: take a deep breath
step 3: repeat after me

NOT EVERYTHING IS ABOUT YOU

randomslasher

Also ace people weren’t just now invented or anything…

wildisthewolf
wildisthewolf

…asexuality isn’t homosexuality?

and the reality is acephobia is hugely pervasive in our culture and it exists over and above homophobia

aces don’t get the opportunity to exist at all. it’s not that we’re hated, it’s that we are staunchly refused as existing to begin with. people literally refuse to believe that someone doesn’t experience sexual attraction / is uninterested or possibly even repulsed by sex.

i for one was literally horrifically sexually abused by a friend over the course of years, and allowed myself to be used sexually when i did not want it.

this is the reality for aces. we are bombarded with material, behavior, and choices that completely violate our consent and autonomy because we. don’t. exist.

randomslasher

^^^^^

Every time I want to come out I literally have to decide if I want to dive into a vocabulary lesson and tbh it’s really tiring.

Homophobia is a very real problem and is a very awful problem and so is acephobia. They’re not the same thing but they’re both happening and they both suck. 

whitmerule

I’m just stuck on OP’s use of the word “trivialises”. How trivial is erasure, corrective rape, and all the lifetimes of micro aggressions and “I am a freak” moments experienced by every single person over the course of history who didn’t experience sexual or romantic attraction in the way that their society deemed to be “normal”?

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