elfspectations:

coldfeetonthekitchenfloor:

So for over a month and a half I’ve been told in my Creative writing MA class that my writing is too poetic and abstract to work in the form of a novel and that I need to simplify my meanings and sentences. I did as I was told and lost all interest in writing if I have to write in the same style that every other novelist does. Today I received this note from a classmate and didn’t realise how much I needed to hear it. Don’t change your art just because other people don’t get it. Don’t change your style to fit in with everyone else. It’s your story not theirs.

This post is 4 years old, but for anyone who needs to hear it I want to tack on the advice my Creative Writing professor told the class I was in: “Not everyone is going to get what you’re trying to do. So a lot of the advice your classmates write on your papers might feel Wrong to you. If it feels Wrong and you don’t think they understand your story, don’t take their advice because they are not your audience.”

Sounds like the initial advice for OP to tone down her natural voice was incorrect, but thankfully one of her classmates that was part of the audience wants to hear that voice.

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moopsy-daisy:

santas-jolly-backhand-of-chaos:

catboybiologist:

creepymutelilbugger:

This is a huge part of why listening to public trans discourse as a trans biologist is infuriating. 4chan OP is based AF.

Never thought I would see the sentence “4chan OP is based AF” be used and I especially never thought I’d agree but here we are

Reading this finally made my brain comprehend that I am not separate from my environment. I truly am inexorably woven into the air, the gravity, the water here. Our shared breath is an extension of ourselves, tied to all other life on this planet, tied to this star. Nothing lives alone.

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heavenly96:

Both of them kind of had their childhood’s abruptly cut short. They just need some hugs.

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disgustinggf:

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evilwizard:

evil-charoite:

evilwizard:

miseria-fortes-viros:

evilwizard:

*smashes you over the head with a potion bottle but it was a healing potion and it heals you for the exact amount of damage i dealt you* oh… uh. hm. do you think you could just lay on the floor and pretend to be unconscious

uhhh i guess that’s reasonable. how long? maybe five to ten seconds?

longer. *aside, to my minion* how long does it take to set up the heinous device?

(in a stage whisper) three minutes if we’re speedrunning it.

*back to the hero* just picking a number at random here. let’s say three minutes

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cugareal:

benefits of being a dragon

• being a dragon
• being a dragon
• being a dragon
• being a dragon
• being a dragon
• being a dragon

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octal-wizard:

lilacblossoms:

tiktoks-for-tired-tots:

this kills me EVERY. TIME. I WATCH IT.

Her deadpan delivery is just… *chef’s kiss*

[transcription of video for anyone that might struggle to see the text]

I’m not here to criticize the younger generation. I’m just saying, theyre not making laundresses like they used to.

New girl joined our team last week, accidentally forgot she had to spot clean wool and started crying over it.

Listen, when I first started, I accidentally put a silk sheet in with the linens. did I lose myself in sorrow? No. I simply found a visiting knight that was getting a little too handsy with everyone around here, I led him to the laundry room, and then I.

pushed him into the boiling linen water.

I swore to the local clergy that he threw himself in and took the silk with him. His estate paid for the silk, and the girls and I had one less problem to deal with.

Listen, if you’re going to be a laundress at the lord’s house, you just got to make problems disappear.

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trainer-jane-barkxforxme:

wonderfulworldofmichaelford:

In light of recent events, let’s not forget that H. Bomberguy is responsible for driving a formerly-beloved transphobic TV writer into a downward spiral that cost him his career and his family… all by playing Donkey Kong.

Originally posted by dkc-quotes

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1dietcokeinacan:

cheruib:

that comment about how you should not borrow grief from the future has saved me multiple times from spiraling into an inescapable state of anxiety. like every time i find myself thinking about how something in the future could go wrong i remember that comment and i think to myself: well i never know, it might get better. it might not even happen the way i think it will and if it does happen and it is sad and bad ill be sad about it then, when it happens. and it’s somehow soo freeing

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