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the jump from 2019 to 2025 is insane

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remember kids, the moral of "Irish and Italians weren't even considered White yet!" isn't "because in those times people were so ignorant they didn't think the Irish were white". the moral is "because white is an unreal category created to justify slavery and ongoing hoarding of power and wealth". It's not that you know better about Italians. It's that the boundaries of the higher caste have changed.

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“It is said that, during the fantasy book in the late eighties, publishers would maybe get a box containing two or three runic alphabets, four maps of the major areas covered by the sweep of the narrative, a pronunciation guide to the names of the main characters and, at the bottom of the box, the manuscript. Please… there is no need to go that far. There is a term that readers have been known to apply to fantasy that is sometimes an unquestioning echo of better work gone before, with a static society, conveniently ugly ‘bad’ races, magic that works like electricity and horses that work like cars. It’s EFP, or Extruded Fantasy Product. It can be recognized by the fact that you can’t tell it apart form all the other EFP. Do not write it, and try not to read it. Read widely outside the genre. Read about the Old West (a fantasy in itself) or Georgian London or how Nelson’s navy was victualled or the history of alchemy or clock-making or the mail coach system. Read with the mindset of a carpenter looking at trees. Apply logic in places where it wasn’t intended to exist. If assured that the Queen of the Fairies has a necklace made of broken promises, ask yourself what it looks like. If there is magic, where does it come from? Why isn’t everyone using it? What rules will you have to give it to allow some tension in your story? How does society operate? Where does the food come from? You need to know how your world works. I can’t stress that last point enough. Fantasy works best when you take it seriously (it can also become a lot funnier, but that’s another story). Taking it seriously means that there must be rules. If anything can happen, then there is no real suspense. You are allowed to make pigs fly, but you must take into account the depredations on the local bird life and the need for people in heavily over-flown areas to carry stout umbrellas at all times. Joking aside, that sort of thinking is the motor that has kept the Discworld series moving for twenty-two years.”

— “Notes from a Successful Fantasy Author: Keep It Real” (2007), Terry Pratchett. (via the-library-and-step-on-it)

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last reblog: I try to keep mega depressing shit off my account but the Adriana Smith story is hitting way too hard cuz not only is it happening in my state close to me, but like, black women are one of the biggest victims to medical discrimination/bigotry and violence.

the fact this pregnant black woman cannot be put to rest(she is declared braindead so she's practically dead) but her body kept alive so a child can be born is so disgusting. yes my state is a red state with extreme anti abortion laws. this is the result.

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Elaborate in the tags, maybe even link your fic if you're able to! I like seeing what people's driving force to write fic is, because it always seems to be different depending on who you ask.

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もののけ姫 Princess Mononoke (1997) dir. Hayao Miyazaki

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jordeclan as the ballet “le parc” ♡

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having a bad week I need to get to work this week and I don't get paid until thursday I work monday through friday

$15 would buy me a weekly pass $45 would buy a monthly

paypal: xandra.l.duncan@gmail.com

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their friendship means the world to me btw . if you even care

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i can’t express enough how fucking horrible arcanetwt is like can we please smile and have fun without being weird for TWO SECONDS

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“I hate school I’m sorry Malala”- Funny yet poignant. Acknowledges both the difficulty of the task and the fact that doing that task is a privilege. Gives credit to the people who fought for that privilege with a tongue in cheek acknowledgement of the irony of the initial statement

“I’m just a girl I should be home baking bread not doing calculus” - at best historically uninformed at worst leaps decades back in time. Refusal to acknowledge the charged history of education and slights the centuries of women’s labor it took to reach this point

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in fanfiction we must sometimes ask ourselves not if he would do that but under what conditions would he would do that

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Character, book, and author names under the cut

Adam Parrish- The Raven Cycle by Maggie Stiefvater

Ronan Lynch- The Raven Cycle by Maggie Stiefvater