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medium writers just dont give a fuck they hate everyone and will make sure you know it

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no language should be mocked other than french

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i’ve been thinking about all those posts about “we need female heroes who do girly things”/”why is the female hero always such a tomboy” and then the response posts that are like “uhhh actually we don’t really have any really masculine female heroes either” so i was trying to figure it out—what do we have, exactly?

and really what we get is women who eschew “girly” things while still managing to look like society’s ideal woman. they would never touch eyeliner (they’re too busy with Important Things), but their eyeliner is immaculate. they have a huge, varied wardrobe, but wouldn’t be caught dead actually shopping for clothes. and it reminds me of the expectation that women must be effortlessly beautiful. don’t wear makeup or you’ll seem self-absorbed—but god forbid you look like you’re not wearing makeup. it’s interesting to me, that the impossibilities imposed on female characters are the same ones imposed on real women.

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NASA has released new images of Jupiter, taken by the Juno Spacecraft.

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If we got one thing right in Finland it’s that instead of Valentine’s day we celebrate Friendship day, which pretty much an excuse to call to the friend you have not been in contact with for a while, or go to sit in a cafe with your friends or whatever. Friends! And significantly less bitter people and no pressure to have a date! 

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POUR ONE OUT FOR COMRADE OPPORTUNITY 

and send a thank you postcard to the Opportunity team for all their hard work!

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see you space cowboy

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Older forms of English kept Latin’s gender-specific suffixes -tor and -trix;  tor is for men and trix is for women. So a male pilot is an aviator, a female pilot is an aviatrix. A male fighter is a gladiator, a female fighter is a gladiatrix.

This contrasts with the modern system, where tor is for both men and women, and trix are for kids.

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ATTENTION WRITERS

Google BetaBooks. Do it now. It’s the best damn thing EVER.

You just upload your manuscript, write out some questions for your beta readers to answer in each chapter, and invite readers to check out your book!

It’s SO easy!

You can even track your readers! It tells you when they last read, and what chapter they read!

Your beta readers can even highlight and react to the text!!!

There’s also this thing where you can search the website for available readers best suited for YOUR book!

Seriously guys, BetaBooks is the most useful website in the whole world when it comes to beta reading, and… IT’S FREE.

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how did they learn to translate languages into other languages how did they know which words meant what HOW DID TH

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Three ways to recover from a reading slump:

1. Read something from your childhood.  Especially useful for rediscovering the joy you felt while reading as a kid.

2. Read something from your to-read list.  Gets you back in the habit and jump starts a desire to read all the books in your to-read list.

3. Read something you think you’ll hate.  Either you’ll hate it want to read something else you like right away, or you’ve just found a new genre to enjoy. 

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Homophones, Weakly, a blog masterminded by Bruce Worden

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jrr tolkien: i really love my wife. i will make her into a beautiful, unearthly half-angel princess who beat satan almost single-handedly and won an argument with the keeper of the halls of the dead

jrr tolkien: i really love my best friend. i will make him into a grumpy old tree who never gets to the point

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“This is your daily, friendly reminder to use commas instead of periods during the dialogue of your story,” she said with a smile.

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my favorite part of impressionism is when artists just hung out and painted each other painting. 

oil paint isnt cheap, but john singer sargent wanted to paint his homie claude havin a nice day. thats sweet.

and heres gaugin’s painting of van gogh painting the sunflowers. damn he knew it would be #iconic and he memorialized the event. what a good friend