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Did I mention how proud I am of my brother (not pictured, this guy’s name is James lol) and everyone else involved in the making of his movie? Because if I didn’t I’d like to mention it another hundred times.
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some of you will have seen this before, part ¼
Morning reblog
Aaaaaaaaaaa this was such a wonderful fun thing to wake up to!
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Everything but the Kitchen Sink - Chapter 6
Reblog!
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This is a jar full of major characters
Actually it is a jar full of chocolate covered raisins on top of a dirty TV tray. But pretend the raisins are interesting and well rounded fictional characters with significant roles in their stories.
We’re sharing these raisins at a party for Western Storytelling, so we get out two bowls.
Then we start filling the bowls. And at first we only fill the one on the left.
This doesn’t last forever though. Eventually we do start putting raisins in the bowl on the right. But for every raisin we put in the bowl on the right, we just keep adding to the bowl on the left.
And the thing about these bowls is, they don’t ever reset. We don’t get to empty them and start over. While we might lose some raisins to lost records or the stories becoming unpopular, but we never get to just restart. So even when we start putting raisins in the bowl on the right, we’re still way behind from the bowl on the left.
And time goes on and the bowl on the left gets raisins much faster than the bowl on the right.
Until these are the bowls.
Now you get to move and distribute more raisins. You can add raisins or take away raisins entirely, or you can move them from one bowl to the other.
This is the bowl on the left. I might have changed the number of raisins from one picture to the next. Can you tell me, did I add or remove raisins? How many? Did I leave the number the same?
You can’t tell for certain, can you? Adding or removing a raisin over here doesn’t seem to make much of a change to this bowl.
This is the bowl on the right. I might have changed the number of raisins from one picture to the next. Can you tell me, did I add or remove raisins? How many? Did I leave the number the same?
When there are so few raisins to start, any change made is really easy to spot, and makes a really significant difference.
This is why it is bad, even despicable, to take a character who was originally a character of color and make them white. But why it can be positive to take a character who was originally white and make them a character of color.
The white characters bowl is already so full that any change in number is almost meaningless (and is bound to be undone in mere minutes anyway, with the amount of new story creation going on), while the characters of color bowl changes hugely with each addition or subtraction, and any subtraction is a major loss.
This is also something to take in consideration when creating new characters. When you create a white character you have already, by the context of the larger culture, created a character with at least one feature that is not going to make a difference to the narratives at large. But every time you create a new character of color, you are changing something in our world.
I mean, imagine your party guests arrive
Oh my god they are adorable!
And they see their bowls
But before you hand them out you look right into the little black girls’s eyes and take two of her seven raisins and put them in the little white girl’s bowl.
I think she’d be totally justified in crying or leaving and yelling at you. Because how could you do that to a little girl? You were already giving the white girl so much more, and her so little, why would you do that? How could you justify yourself?
But on the other hand if you took two raisins from the white girl’s bowl and moved them over to the black girl’s bowl and the white girl looked at her bowl still full to the brim and decided your moving those raisins was unfair and she stomped and cried and yelled, well then she is a spoiled and entitled brat.
And if you are adding new raisins, it seems more important to add them to the bowl on the right. I mean, even if we added the both bowls at the same speed from now on (and we don’t) it would still take a long time before the numbers got big enough to make the difference we’ve already established insignificant.
And that’s the difference between whitewashing POC characters and making previously white characters POC. And that’s why every time a character’s race is ambiguous and we make them white, we’ve lost an opportunity.
*goes off to eat her chocolate covered raisins, which are no longer metaphors just snacks*
Because given recent events, THIS CLEARLY FUCKING NEEDS TO BE SAID AGAIN.
It’s back! *REBLOGS AND QUEUES*
I think Tom Holland is adorbs and great, but it does really feel awkward that they basically lifted huge chucks on Miles’ character and put them in a white character.
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akasora asked:
Ar the moment I'm reading Mr Impossible, which is the second book of the second saga about the Raven Cycle by Maggie Stiefvater. I started the first book of the first saga thinking I wouldn't like it. It's called The Raven Boys, a story about 4 guys in a private school for rich kids, the FL is poor and kind of an oustider, the plot is cliché and well, I was expecting the entire thing to suck. But it really doesn't, all 6 books (4 for the Raven Cucle and two for the second saga) are amazing, I love all the characters and the writing is great ❤ so I recommend with no hesitation!
I’ve heard that about The Raven Boys a lot, actually, that it’s rife with cliché but really enjoyable anyway (but I mean, would something become a cliché if it didn’t work so well that it was used a lot in fiction? I think not)
seeing this today is prompting more raven boys thoughts god i will never shut up about the parallels with the marauders like gansey is james ronan is sirius adam is remus and noah is peter. TELL ME IM WRONG
everyone is working against me in my mission not to reread the raven cycle @jilyism @thequibblah
Okay but please tell me why one of the characters is named after a type of sweater
ahahahhaha
and his full name is arguably worse - richard campbell gansey the third 💀
JSYK this is what I’m picturing
I also love the Raven boys and this picture is objectively hilarious.
But def a good good read. I picked up the first book the night before a long solo road trip and was SO enamored that I bought the audio book so I didn’t have to stop “reading” to drive
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You know the weirdest and most painful thing about having a kid is all the mourning you go through for versions of them that no longer exist? Nobody prepares you that. My chubby-cheeked little boy is grown up. Gone. It’s weird.
I wish this was talked about more because it’s so raw and beautiful and confusing. My baby just turned one and she is so beautiful and smart and sweet! But she isn’t the tiny newborn that I also adored… like the point of parenting is equipping your kid to grow healthy and loved but also please don’t, yet, just wait slow down.
I just want to hold this version of you a little longer. I’m falling in love with a new you every. day. It’s exciting and magical and scary and lonely? I can’t keep up you’re going to outgrow me and my God I am so proud of you keeping running baby!
Anyways so now I hoard pictures and video clips
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cohen-theeleven asked:
Your snippets are pure bliss 😍
Have a few more (proof that I work on stuff!)
Catastrophe
“What if we’re both murdered?”
“What?”
“I’ve been thinking about this for hours.” She pushed past James and into his bedroom with her hands pressed protectively to her swollen stomach, spinning around to face him. “And like, what if we end up in a situation where—can I come in?”
“You’re already in.”
“Right, so what if we’re here one day and the baby is here one day and a murderous psychopath breaks in, kills us both and leaves the baby to fend for itself?”
“Lily—”
“How would we—I mean who would know to come and take care of our child?” she interrupted, the pitch of her voice climbing to newer and greater heights than were socially acceptable in a residential area at this time of night. “It could be days before anyone realises we’re gone and the baby could starve by the time someone checks on us and I don’t know, I just—why haven’t we been planning for this, are we stupid?!”
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Her Write There
It was safe and comfortable, here on the table. Pomfrey had even put a pillow out. She’d probably have given him a blanket if he said he needed a nap, because she was a good sort. James would have to leave her a five-star review on Yelp, or whatever its matron-specific equivalent happened to be.
As nice as it would have been to ignore his problems in favour of combing through Google for a matron-rating website, James had a life to salvage and a potential prison sentence to avoid, which meant he needed the assistance of his most capable, most sensible, most grown-up friend.
He composed a text to send to Remus, noting as he did that his fingers were still a bit shaky.
emergency alert!!!!!! have done a bad thing please help asap love you x
Once he’d hit send, he shut his eyes, placed his phone on the centre of his chest and covered it with both hands, one on top of his other, at which point it struck him that he probably looked as if he was lying in a coffin, patiently waiting for his burial to commence.
Given that a number of women were probably preparing to slaughter him at that very moment, it seemed sensible to practice for the occasion.
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Covet
James and Sasha are no longer Facebook friends, but the photo turns Lily’s stomach inside out.
Right.
Because she’s in love with him.
Who wants to see the person they’re in love with entwined with somebody else?
Lily, apparently.
Lily clearly isn’t as charitable as Sasha Peters. She doesn’t have beachy golden waves and a perfectly even tan like Sasha Peters. She’s not fun and carefree like Sasha Peters. She isn’t well-travelled like Sasha Peters. She doesn’t like music festivals—they’re noisy and dirty and full of other people and portable toilets, which are a literal boxed-up nightmare—and she doesn’t brake for animals because she can’t afford a car.
“Did he make you feel like this, too?” she asks Sasha’s beautiful face. “Is this what he does to people, make them doubt themselves like this? Because I was fine before I met him, actually. I never used to think like this and he’s the weirdest bloody person I know, but still—so it must have been something he did. He’s the confounding variable here, Sash. You and I are fine.”
Sasha doesn’t deign to offer her an answer, but Lily feels a sense of kinship with her all the same.
😍😍😍😍😍😍🥰❤❤❤❤❤
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Anonymous asked:
Jily as rival bakers!
Well you can’t just leave it there, anon, what would they specifically be warring over?? A girl’s got to know.
Piggy backing on Anon… They both entered a baking show? Lily, for the financial award. James, for another reason.
Contestants in competition cookery/baking shows in the UK are nice to each other and help each other out, is the only thing, it’s a very different energy to shows of their ilk in the US, so I’m not sure how that premise would work as a “rivals” fic? Anon we need clarification. Are they contestants on a show or just operating rival bakeries?
Their school is having a bake sale and each is trying to raise more money than the other.
James would ruin his own plan by buying literally everything she puts on sale and would have no way to justify his actions without admitting that he has Feelings for her so he’d scramble over himself to make up some wild lie that makes no sense whatsoever.
Jily as rival bakers in the sense they own separate businesses, but competing for charity and randomly matched as a pair/team for the second event ?
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A little slice of something, from the AOUC universe because I guess that’s a thing now?
Lovely 😍aw
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Anonymous asked:
Is the owner of the bookshop Lord Rowena 🤭🤣
Jk, loving TVD! Since you mention there's no kidnapping, is it going to be a surprise engagement?!
Nah, I mean, an engagement isn’t really a plot twist because James is a prince and will eventually have to marry someone, and we all know that he’s going to wind up with Lily, so that’s a given at some point in the story. The plot twist is a proper plot twist (as @cohen-theeleven can now attest because I told her just now 😂)
Guys it’s a TWIST it’s so great my brain literally said “please hold”
