I Pet An Omen Of Death

nmzuka:

whatever I’ll post my addendum to it anyway

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memewhore:

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morlock-holmes:

satusepiida:

muppethole:

muppethole:

more people would be for prison abolition if they just tried to send mail to an inmate even once

for almost a year now i’ve been trying to send a copy of the literary magazine i edit to an inmate who requested one. his prison prohibits any written materials that so much as mention drugs, weapons, criminal activity, or malicious violence of any sort. i’ve been poring over what’s available of the 95 volumes my magazine has printed over the years, and of those found 3 that might pass inspection. the first two were sent back undelivered two months after i sent them because one had a short story that alluded to a playground fight, and the other a poem that used the word “fist” in a nonviolent context. The third was returned for the stated reason that its contents depicted the use of firearms. i reread the entire issue, there’s not a single gun mentioned in all its 120 pages.

while going back and forth with this guy trying to figure out how to get a copy of the magazine in his hands, two of my letters bounced back for unspecified reasons. i learned that inmates are not given their correspondents’ original letters, but scanned copies, often poorly reproduced and sometimes illegible. these people aren’t even granted the ink their loved ones used to pen their messages, or to hold in their hands the paper their loved ones held, if they’re able to receive their words at all.

Something that bothered me a lot during visitation with my dad was it wasn’t even in person?? They basically made us drive all the way out there to do a video call. Like in shows you see the bulletproof glass between ppl who have to talk thru a phone, it was kinda like that but we didn’t even get to be in the same room it was a line of screens set into the wall. Everything about prisons is made to be dehumanizing.

If you don’t have people you know in Prison, your naive assumption is likely to be that they are there to hold and rehabilitate the prisoners.

In fact, prison policy across the country involves a tremendous amount of gratuitous, unmotivated torture of the inmates.

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so-you-read-the-usernames:

Female characters who are the sole voice of reason <<<<<<< Female characters who think of themselves as the sole voice of reason but who are actually just as insane as those around them

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hadeantaiga:

nope-the-weeb:

hadeantaiga:

I really think everyone needs to truly internalize this:

Fictional characters are objects.

They are not people. You cannot “objectify” them, because they have no personhood to be deprived of. They have no humanity to be erased. You cannot “disrespect” them, because they are not real.

I know this has good intentions, so I will just add the “how you treat them, even as objects of fiction, can speak about your own character, be careful out there”

Your addition is actually completely antithetical to my message. It is literally the opposite of what I am conveying.

Stop telling people to encourage the cop inside their head.

How you treat fictional characters, given they are entirely objects of fiction, does NOT necessarily speak to your own character, and you do not need to be “careful”.

It is not dangerous to imagine dark things happening to fictional characters. It does not mean you are secretly a bad person. It does not mean you unconsciously want to hurt people in real life. It is not a “slippery slope” to doing bad things to people in real life. You cannot damage your brain or turn yourself into a bad person by consuming “dark” fanfic.

I can write tentacle noncon of my favorite character all day long and be a fierce anti-sexual assault advocate in real life because what I do in my head is not the same thing as what I do in real life.

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sanguinarysanguinity:

Expanding a thought from a conversation this morning:

In general, I think “Is X out-of-character?” is not a terribly useful question for a writer. It shuts down possibility, and interesting directions you could take a character.

A better question, I believe, is “What would it take for Character to do X?” What extremity would she find herself in, where X starts to look like a good idea? What loyalties or fears leave him with X as his only option? THAT’S where a potentially interesting story lies.

In practice, I find that you can often justify much more from a character than you initially dreamed you could: some of my best stories come from “What might drive Character to do [thing he would never do]?” As long as you make it clear to the reader what the hell pushed your character to this point, you’ve got the seed of a compelling story on your hands.

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littlemisspipebomb:

gjjuddmk2:

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legionnaire-r:

A commission for @grimmseye !

THANK YOU AGAIN truly commissioning you was the best decision I could have made :D They look absolutely stunning and you really really understood what I was hoping for with this piece. I love them!!!

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thestuffedalligator:

thestuffedalligator:

Over the Garden Wall is almost ten years old and that both feels too old and unbelievably young.

I remember first watching this in the backroom of a museum on my ipod touch in late August in 2015 and it still feels like it’s been a pillar of Americana for the past thousand years.

Over the Garden Wall is timeless and ancient and boiled out of the aether of American folklore and happened to be caught in animated form like a photograph of a lightning bolt, and it’s also the most 2010s-ass thing I’ve ever watched.

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