earhartsease:

boreal-sea:

tlbodine:

For the last goddamn time…

“Kill your darlings” means “if something is holding you back, get rid of it, even if it sounds pretty.”

That’s it! That’s all it means! It means if you’re stuck and stalled out on your story and you could fix the whole block by removing something but you’re avoiding removing that thing because it’s good, you remove that thing. That’s the darling.

It does NOT mean

• That you have to get rid of your self-indulgent writing
• That you should delete something just because you like it (?wtf?)
• That you need to kill off characters (??? what)
• That you have to pare your story down to the absolute bare bones
• That you have to delete anything whatsoever if you don’t want to

The POINT is that you STOP FEELING GUILTY for throwing out good writing that isn’t SERVING THE STORY.

The POINT is that you don’t get so HUNG UP on the details that you lose sight of the BIG PICTURE.

Good grief….

Also, you don’t have to like, delete it from existence. Keep a second document full of the Darlings. You never know when you’ll need it later.

yes, your killed darlings are ripe for rebirth

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thefingerfuckingfemalefury:

the-taco-dude:

HE’S A BOX!

MY BOY IS A BOX!

DAMN YOU!!!!!!

A BOOOOOXXXXXXXX!

thursdaysrain:

toskarin:

toskarin:

one of the more upsetting things you notice if you look back at older european weapons is that nobody fucking named any of the types of flail so you’ve gotta describe them by appearance every single time

me: this is so clearly a distinctive and recurring type of flail that would have to be used in an entirely different way than a normal flail. people fought with and against this hundreds of times. people died to this. they had to have a name for this. it CANNOT just be called a flail again

over 700 years of european history:

meanwhile in polearm land

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caats:

I made a rug of my cat. I think it looks a little derpy but it looks pretty close for being a rug!

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geologyin-blog:

Fluorite Mandrosonoro, Ambatofinandrahana, Amoron’i Mania, Madagascar 

Photo: Fine Minerals International

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ty-bayonet-betteridge:

averyterrible:

averyterrible:

apparently one of the ways to say “shaved my head” in Japanese is “頭を坊主にした” which is literally something like “did the monk thing to my head”

this post is going around again, with good reason.

with the fullness of time, i can admit i was wrong. “do the monk thing to my head” would be more like “頭を坊主した” or “頭を坊主ことした”

the literal translation of this is closer to “did my head up monkly”

straight up monkin it and by it i mean, haha, well lets just say. my hed

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suzoar:

thefingerfuckingfemalefury:

savvylikeyeahhh:

drunkenhills:

myguiltyotpleasures:

This is the only tiktok where the automated voice actually adds to the cinematic experience

freedom

This is absolutely what a cats internal monologue is like <3

Actually Ive decided to be angry now

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nohoperadio:

Do you think you are recognizably “the same person” (in terms of basic personality) as when you were 7 years old?

yes

no

see results

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thehauntingofharrenhouse:

the real villain of asoiaf is the 500 middle-aged men in positions of power whose egos you must appease in order to accomplish anything at all lest they side against you. and euron greyjoy

theweirwoodfiles:

Team Black + wolfpupy tweets