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SHE DIDN’T PUT A LID ON THE BLENDER AND I’M CRYING

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Authors took to Twitter today to give hilarious advice on what NOT to say to a writer via #TenThingsNotToSayToAWriter—and the results were GREAT.

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I’m rewatching Johnny Bravo

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“Running of the interns outside the Supreme Court 6/26/2015″

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Oh, what a surprise, you caught me again…

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Gems from Alison Bechdel

On writing:

“It began at a low point. It was very difficult for me to get started because I had absolutely no confidence in my writing. The comic strip is all dialogue, which is a very different kind of writing.”

“I hate collaborating. I try to do it as little as possible.”

On the graphic novel:

“You’re intimately involved with the whole book. You’ve caressed every surface of every page. If you write a regular book, it’s a one-dimensional construct, a line of text that flows endlessly. But here you have to handle every page.”

“I would make repetitive graphic marks in my diary as a kid. I was afraid of lying, or writing untruths, so I would add these little notes that said, “I think,” to qualify the sentences. It was a way of undoing myself. Eventually it got too time consuming to write those words over and over again, so I made them into a little symbol, and the symbol got bigger and bigger, and I would go over it and over it until whole entries in my journal were obscured. In a way I feel like this memoir is just an elaborated version of that, these crazy, repetitive marks on paper.”

On the culture of comics:

“I started working in the early eighties doing this lesbian comic strip. Comics are a teenage boy-oriented industry, and back then it was much more so; there was no question that my work was not going to be part of that universe. So I entered the gay and lesbian literary world. That was my venue.”

On drawing:

“The more fun, exciting part for me is the writing. I love the drawing, but it’s work. It’s arduous, at least the sketching and layout.” 

“I don’t even keep a sketchbook. I only draw when I have to.”

Read Alison Bechdel in conversation with Craig Thompson, the creator of Blankets here. 

Alison Bechdel is one of our 25 Women To Read Before You Die.

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U SCARED HIM……..

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Tony Stark + nicknames for others 

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We all talk about the mother-son relationship between Molly and Harry but barely of McGonagall and Harry

McGonagall spent hours spying on the Dursley’s and didn’t want Harry to be put in their care

she bought him a Nimbus 2000 with her own money and since it was new at the time, it must’ve cost a lot

she put Harry on the quidditch team without checking with Oliver Wood and if it had been another student who was caught flying, they would have been expelled on the spot

she defended Harry in front of Umbridge “He has achieved high marks in all Defence Against the Dark Arts tests set by a competent teacher”

“Potter. I will assist you to become an Auror if it is the last thing I do! If I have to coach you nightly I will make sure you achieve the required results!”

when Amycus spat at McGonagall, Harry cast the cruciatus curse on him which worked meaning Harry truly meant it, and when McGonagall called him foolish, Harry replied as if his actions didn’t need explanation 

“The scream was the more terrible because he had never expected or dreamed that Professor McGonagall could make such a sound” when McGonagall thought Harry was dead 

she was one of the first to reach Harry when he defeated Voldemort

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The lack of a homosexual presence in hockey must mean one of two things: either homosexual men don’t play the game or they don’t feel comfortable admitting it — in which case I, and my brethren, were offending some teammates with our close-mindedness, and furthering what must have been unsettled feelings of fear and general exclusion. For us as a culture, that means another two things. That either we need scientists doing research on professional hockey players ASAP, because apparently there’s a link between our sport and sexuality. Or, much more realistically, we need to alter the culture of hockey, because homosexuals are being forced to play entire careers masquerading as people they’re not. (…) It will be hard to survive the dressing room for the first players to come out. That’s a fact. Very few things are off-limits for jokes and barbs. This is a place where “Right, but your girlfriend has cheated on you like, six times” is a witty comeback. On the ice, the first gay professionals will likely take some verbal shots. Trash-talking is part of the game and we all look for the easy target. The stuff I used to hear was harmless: I was called “skinny” and “soft” and worse (but not much). Whoever the pioneer is will have to know what he’s in for – he’ll have to be a strong man, possibly in the literal sense. We’ve somehow made something totally irrelevant to hockey performance – sexual preference – such an issue that every gay player has been forced to conclude that their private life is something best hidden. Hey, hockey players: not knowing doesn’t change the reality that there are gay men in the professional ranks today. And maybe it’s not many, because we’ve driven so many away; players who didn’t want to be teased, shunned, and worse, a target for on-ice violence. Who knows how many great players hung up their skates in favor of some lesser talent, strictly to find acceptance and peace of mind. So it’s time. It’s time to acknowledge we’ve been unfair to the gay community, that the culture of our sport can be misogynistic, homophobic and cruel. More important, it’s time to make a stand that we want it to change.

Justin Bourne, It’s time to end the use of gay slurs in hockey (03.11.2009)

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