thebibliosphere:

morgynleri:

deadcatwithaflamethrower:

Creative Writing Professor at a former college: Welcome to creative writing! By the way,
you will not write fantasy, ghost stories, pranormal, or science fiction
in this class, as this is a creative writing course.”

What the ever loving fuck is with “creative” writing professors who think that speculative fiction of any stripe ISN’T CREATIVE?

I still remember my own creative writing teacher telling me this because he saw the Terry Pratchett book on my desk and got this smug smirk on his face like “aha, gotcha”. He had the nerve to pick it up and call it “popularist fiction”, like somehow being popular and easily accessible made it less inherent in intellectual value.

I had it in my back pack because I did my final thesis on the evolution of mythology and folk tails into fantasy and sci-fi and the societal importance of telling stories (before anyone asks, no I don’t have it, I lost it when I moved continents), and I used Terry Pratchett because there wasn’t a single humanitarian issue the man did not touch on.

Which I told him. And then he kind of floundered and went “ah, well but, it’s…well I mean it’s not exactly high brow”, like neither the fuck was Shakespeare or Dickens you self-important turnip. Dickens was literally selling his stories by the chapter. He was the popular author of his time. Shakespeare was too, he fucking made up words and phrases all the time because the language he needed to express himself didn’t exist in the way he needed it too.

Intellectual elitism is nothing more than a hold over from class warfare and the belief that only certain people should get to be truly educated. And it needs to be smashed.

venusisfortransbians:

Reminder that all sex workers – whether they strip, do film, cam work, or full service – deserve respect and to be compensated for their labor.

coffeebuddha:

coffeebuddha:

no television show in history ever has or ever will surpass the harold-steals-a-baby episode of person of interest

I DON’T THINK SOME OF YOU UNDERSTAND. HAROLD FINCH, CERTIFIED SUPER GENIUS, IS GIVEN A SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBER OF A PERSON WHO IS ABOUT TO BE INVOLVED WITH A VIOLENT CRIME, GOES TO CHECK IT OUT, REALIZES THE PERSON IS A BABY, PANICS, AND KIDNAPS HER FROM A HOSPITAL, THEN TAKES HER BACK TO HIS SECRET LIBRARY HIDEOUT WHERE HE BUILDS HER A PLAY PEN OUT OF BOOKS, WHICH SHE ESCAPES, AND THEN HAS ANOTHER PANIC ATTACK BECAUSE SHE FINDS HIS PARTNER’S WEAPON CACHE AND PROCEEDS TO STICK A GRENADE IN HER MOUTH

“just a smoke grenade”

“IT’S STILL A GRENADE”

and then reese, his partner, takes her ‘under cover’ by sticking an adult sized beanie on her head

and it only gets better from there

your faves could never

aspecsapphic:

aces and aros are beautiful and make the world a better place