officialjerekpeckmero:

Creative writing prof: You’re in control. You’re the puppet master. You control these characters – what they do, what they say, what they think

Every writer I know: My characters stopped listening to me and now I’m 8272836 words in to a plot that went of the rails on page 3

lgbtcyrus:

witchymarvelspacecase:

darkbookworm13:

sigilcrafter:

nailtipflips:

madiithepand0rk:

hayei:

sprouting-colours:

appropriately-inappropriate:

lesbian-isthenewblack:

heylookitsliz:

elizabeth-antoinette:

ikenbot:

freeselfdefense:

Rape Escape

  • Easy and very effective
  • Requires nothing but your body
  • Includes attack

Very useful to know, pass and share please.

Worth watching

I don’t mean to impose a personal favour on you guys, but I really would like to ask that everyone who follows me reblog this. 

I don’t think I made it very clear but last month I was sexually assaulted by someone who I thought was my friend (I don’t want to talk about it don’t ask), and it’s… really fucked with my head. 

Had I known this a month ago I would have been able to get away

So, essentially, I’m really pleading with you to reblog this so everyone who follows you doesn’t get stuck in the same position I was with no way out. 

I mean again I don’t want the point of this to be my sob story or whatever but if you could reblog this it would seriously mean a lot 

and im asking to all of my followers who see this post in your dashboard to please press play to this video, you never know when this is gonna be

useful, PLEASE DON’T IGNORE IT.

This is one of the first moves I was taught in Krav Maga, and it is one of the most effective.

It took me about a half hour to get down with practice, but once you get it, it’s an intuitive movement.

Please pass this along, it will save lives.

Important

Please reblog this.

Please, if you see this, Reblog it. 

If you see this, reblog please.

not witchy but definitely worth watching, stay safe

Always signal boost. Stay safe everyone.

WATCH THIS SHIT!! It’s easy, and it’s important. Please, please stay safe

I don’t care if it doesn’t match your “theme” or whatever, this could save someone from a lifetime of psychological trauma, PLEASE reblog it!!!

notyourdaddy:

Gideon Mendel’s The Ward

Memories from the heart of the Aids crisis shows true love in a time of terrible tragedy.

These heartbreaking and incredibly moving images show the affection and love shown during the height of the Aids crisis. Photographer Gideon Mendel’s project The Ward began in 1993 when he spent a number of weeks on the Charles Bell wards in London’s Middlesex Hospital. All the patients on the ward were dying with the knowledge that there was no cure for the disease. During this time antiretroviral medications were not available and patients on the ward faced the prospect of an early death.

grumpy-ass-fandom-old:

eabevella:

missmonty:

thacmis:

euphorbic:

for-the-flail:

clockworkspider:

Chinese fandoms are currently experiencing an actual Purge right now. Every fandom. Accounts are getting banned, all shipping wars has been put on hold. Everyone’s hiding their porn and moving them to ao3. 

There’s reward money involved. A recent update to censorship law raised the maximum reward for reporting illicit online materials to 50k yuan (7000 USD), so some people are reporting porn like crazy right now, and apparently, BL fandoms have been especially targeted, where some even more tame things got maliciously misreported. 

Anyway, it’s a mess. Content creators are just disappearing off the face of the internet left and right. Expect an influx of Chinese porn fics on AO3. 

Well… if there’s one thing out of this mess… nothing bands warring ships/fandoms like censorship… 

Seems like the cash reward will be 

600,000 yuan ($86,000) from December 1st…!

CTNG news

MSN.com

Tweet pleading for people not to repost any fanart taken offline by Chinese creators

Hey guys, if some awesome person in China translated your fic into Chinese or created fan art, you really should spread the word! This could affect someone you know!

This is also a call out to all you fuckwits that repost art on Tumblr, twitter, Pinterest, and Instagram. Your negligence hurts people.

^^^

This is literally shitty and it has become worse and worse

Hopefully it will stop before long but just take care of how yiou take your stances on ao3 or what’s happening with Tumblr

A chinese homoerotic novel writer is sentenced to 10 years to prison because of “illegal publication”*  and “spread of obscene materials”. After that, China government set up bounty for reporting “illegal publication”. Everyone on weibo, lofter etc. is deleting thier posts.

China is using this act as a way of controling the freedom of speech, it’s not just a matter of “no homo”. They just use the fandom content creators as an easy target and a way to scare people off from writing and publishing things the government doesn’t like.

China is living the Nineteen Eighty-Four novel. Please don’t post chinese fan works, especially not with their original chinese artists/writers right now. You could literally ruin their life.

* in China every book has to be approved by the government before
publication. Anything against the government or with “the wrong idea” will be banned. Their government didn’t pay too much attention to fan books before, but in recent years, they are tightening their grip on their people. Fandom and their activities as a whole has become a target because 1) fandom and their creative community make self-publishing a thing and China doesn’t like that the people know it’s easy to print stuffs (to spread unwanted information/ideas etc. 2) fandom and their creative community is the easiest and obvious target because of the general anti LBGT+ envirnment, general public will support the gornment for “cleansing the society from obscenity” withouth thingking about 1)

Please boost this to literally save lives

@romelle-against-antis @freedom-of-fanfic @fiction-is-not-reality2 @olderthannetfic

gayhistoryarchive:

Remembering those we’ve lost on World AIDS Day.

Sylvester – American singer and songwriter, known for the hits “You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real),” “Dance (Disco Heat),” and “Do Ya Wanna Funk”

Patrick Cowley – American composer and musician, a pioneer of electronic dance music known for his collaborations with Sylvester and solo works like “Menergy” and “Megatron Man”

Rock Hudson – American actor who rose to fame in the 1950s with films such as Magnificent Obsession (1954) and Giant (1956), known for his work with Doris Day in romantic comedies such as Pillow Talk (1959) and Lover Come Back (1961)

Anthony Perkins – American actor, best known for his role as Norman Bates in the Hitchcock classic Psycho (1960)

Rudolf Nureyev – Russian dancer and choreographer who was the director of the Paris Opera Ballet for six years, widely regarded as the greatest male ballet dancer of his generation

Freddie Mercury – Parsi-British singer and songwriter, best known as the lead singer of the rock group Queen and writer of songs such as “Killer Queen,” “Bohemian Rhapsody,” and “We Are The Champions”

Vito Russo – American film historian, writer, and activist known for co-founding the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) and writing The Celluloid Closet

Keith Haring – American artist, known for his pop art and street art which focused on themes such as LGBT and AIDS activism

Howard Ashman – American playwright and lyricist known for his work with Alan Menken on shows like Little Shop of Horrors, and for being one of the most important figures of the Disney Renaissance, having worked on The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, and Aladdin