Some Nerdy Girl

"We [Fraction and his wife, Kelly Sue DeConnick] were pregnant at the time, and while I was out there..."

Fri, 24 May 2013 14:37:18 -0400

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We [Fraction and his wife, Kelly Sue DeConnick] were pregnant at the time, and while I was out there I started to realize that if I had a daughter, there would come a day when I would have to apologize to her for my profession. I would have to apologize for the way it treats and speaks to women readers, and the way it treats its female characters.

I knew that if we had a daughter, because I know my wife and I know the kind of girl she wants to raise and I know the kind of girl I want to raise, she was going to look at what I did for a living and want to know how the fuck I could stomach it. How could I sell her out like that?” Fraction continued. “That conversation is still coming, and I’m bracing for it in the way that some dads brace for their daughter’s first date or boyfriend. I became acutely aware that I had sort of done that thing that lots of privileged hetero cisgendered white dudes do. ‘I’m cool with women, and that’s enough.’ It’s not enough. It’s embarrassing to say, because we somehow have attached shame to learning and evolving our opinions, culturally, but I became aware that there was a deficiency of and to women in my work, and all I could do at that moment was take care of my side of the street.

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- Writer Matt Fraction on his role on expanding the profile of female characters in the Marvel Universe. (via goodmanw)

crazyflux: im following back tons and promoting today!

Fri, 24 May 2013 14:35:33 -0400

crazyflux:

im following back tons and promoting today!

"When was super depressed, I wasn’t working—I was always too depressed. Hemingway did his best work..."

Fri, 24 May 2013 14:34:54 -0400

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When was super depressed, I wasn’t working—I was always too depressed. Hemingway did his best work when he didn’t drink, then he drank himself to death and blew his head off with a shotgun. Someone asked John Cheever, “What’d you learn from Hemingway?” and he said “I learned not to blow my head off with a shotgun.” I remember going to the Michigan poetry festival, meeting Etheridge Knight there and Robert Creeley. Creeley was so drunk—he was reading and he only had one eye, of course, and had to hold his book like two inches from his face using his one good eye. But you look at somebody like George Saunders—I think he’s the best short story writer in English alive—that’s somebody who tries very hard to live a sane, alert life.

You’re present when you’re not drinking a fifth of Jack Daniel’s every day. It’s probably better for your writing career, you know? I think being tortured as a virtue is a kind of antiquated sense of what it is to be an artist.

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- In an interview with The Fix, Mary Karr debunks the toxic mythology that it is necessary to be damaged in order to be creative. My own vehement defiance to that mythology is what led me to choose Ray Bradbury – the ultimate epitome of creating from joy rather than suffering – as the subject of my contribution to The New York Times’ The Lives They Lived.

Pair with Karr on why writers write.

(via explore-blog)

thighabetic: shutupmerlin: My grandmother grew up in this tiny village in Barbados, and she was...

Fri, 24 May 2013 14:32:37 -0400

thighabetic:

shutupmerlin:

My grandmother grew up in this tiny village in Barbados, and she was the only kid in the village to have a cricket bat. She used to play with all the boys, but then they started stealing the bat every time she bought it out of the house and saying that she couldn’t play because girls shouldn’t play sport. So one day she invited them to come play cricket, then set fire to the bat and made them watch it burn, so none of them could play cricket anymore. She was 11.

thedramaticsneeze: hoshigumayuugi: i actually like being up early i just don’t like getting up...

Fri, 24 May 2013 13:24:45 -0400

thedramaticsneeze:

hoshigumayuugi:

i actually like being up early i just don’t like getting up early

YOU PUT THIS IN WORDS

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Fri, 24 May 2013 13:21:55 -0400

cutlerish: oddspeakandco: iampunkassbetch: I can’t. Holy shit...

Thu, 23 May 2013 22:21:22 -0400

cutlerish:

oddspeakandco:

iampunkassbetch:

I can’t. Holy shit I just can’t

MY SCHOOL DID THE JEOPARDY MUSIC THING

So did mine.

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Thu, 23 May 2013 22:19:44 -0400

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Thu, 23 May 2013 22:19:25 -0400

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Thu, 23 May 2013 22:14:54 -0400

panasonicyouth: h e l p

Thu, 23 May 2013 22:10:47 -0400

panasonicyouth:

h e l p

Teachers can be bullies too.

Thu, 23 May 2013 18:44:38 -0400

beatledork:

g-i-l-b-e-r-t-n-i-g-h-t-r-a-y:

fitfeelsbetterthanskinny:

dontstop-fitnessprincess:

I think a lot more schools need to address this, teachers can be bullies also but rarely get caught out because it’s adults word over a child’s word.

THIS^^

third grade was hell because everyone thought i was exaggerating

In sixth grade, I had a teacher scream at me several times a week for being diabetic. The principal didn’t believe me.

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Thu, 23 May 2013 17:00:48 -0400

thefrogman: [reddit]

Thu, 23 May 2013 16:55:22 -0400

thefrogman:

[reddit]

So i was on my brothers computer and found this

Thu, 23 May 2013 16:52:19 -0400

bewbin:

bewbin:

at first i thought it was porn

then i dug deeper

at this point im scared to go any further

i wonder whats inside

IT WAS THIS FUCKING GIF

thefrogman: [video] [h/t: cineraria]

Thu, 23 May 2013 12:02:42 -0400

thefrogman:

[video] [h/t: cineraria]

shesfiction: sweetsnowflakes: I’m gonna write today. I’m gonna write and I’m gonna draw. I’m...

Thu, 23 May 2013 02:14:16 -0400

shesfiction:

sweetsnowflakes:

I’m gonna write today.

I’m gonna write and I’m gonna draw.

I’m gonna.

I’m

gonna

text post of my life

The Headquarters of Ultimate Blue: too-lazy-to-use-a-good-url: fandom-pride: the-nicest-asshole: UK...

Wed, 22 May 2013 23:34:32 -0400

The Headquarters of Ultimate Blue: too-lazy-to-use-a-good-url: fandom-pride: the-nicest-asshole: UK...:

too-lazy-to-use-a-good-url:

fandom-pride:

the-nicest-asshole:

UK grading system
75-100 A+
70-74 A
64-69 A-
60-63 B+
55-59 B
50-54 B-
46-49 C+
43-45 C
38-42 C-
35-37 D
0-34

Time to move to the UK

American grading system
95-100 A
90-94 A-
85-89 B
80-84 B-
79-0…

No, you’re right. I studied in Lancashire for six months, and all of my grades there were in the fifties or sixties. I’ve never even heard of anyone scoring above a 70 on an exam in the UK.

dirty-hiddles-secrets: youcanthandlethesupernatural: trickster...

Wed, 22 May 2013 18:03:14 -0400

dirty-hiddles-secrets:

youcanthandlethesupernatural:

trickstersminion:

turnerkate:

quitethechaos:

toiletllama:

makna-tuna:

detective-neuro:

briannahuber:

consulting-meerkat:

salmon-dean-in-the-impala:

jemeryenner:

WOAH I WAS NOT READY FOR THAT HOLY SHIT.

OH MY GOD

IT’S SO AMAZING AND I WAS SO NOT PREPARED FOR THAT

I WAS NOT EXPECTING THAT. MASH-UPS: YOU’RE DOING IT RIGHT!

JFC!!!!!!!!!!!! THIS IS FUCKING EPIC!!!! \m/ \m/ \m/ ALL THE AWARDS!!!!!!!

#I love how non-descriptive tumblr is when it comes to audio posts

shhh, let it happen.

This is my new favorite thing and my favorite things are better than Oprah’s so yeah this must be pretty great

Whatever you think it is, it’s not it. It’s aBOUT A MILLION TIMES BETTER OH MY FUCKING GOD

cantnotmove: i struggle to believe that penguins are even real

Wed, 22 May 2013 17:53:59 -0400

cantnotmove:

i struggle to believe that penguins are even real