Candice Tripp
(via darksilenceinsuburbia)
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“Rejection has value. It teaches us when our work or our skillset is not good enough and must be made better. This is a powerful revelation, like the burning UFO wheel seen by the prophet Ezekiel, or like the McRib sandwich shaped like the Virgin Mary seen by the prophet Steve Jenkins. Rejection refines us. Those who fall prey to its enervating soul-sucking tentacles are doomed. Those who persist past it are survivors. Best ask yourself the question: what kind of writer are you? The kind who survives? Or the kind who gets asphyxiated by the tentacles of woe?” – Chuck Wendig
12 Famous Writers on Literary Rejection
(Source: doingthemath, via itsvondell)
Eh, I don’t want to be too overly critical of Sanaa Hamid’s Cultural Appropriation: A Conversation and I feel like even having the opinion I’m about to share sounds douchey knowing that part of the work’s context is the artist’s neutrality to the work, allowing the subjects to honestly engage with it,
but I do really feel like faith, in particular Christianity, comes with a certain understanding that its symbols have constantly been shifting on the sliding scale of spiritual significance, and the possession of those symbols are not tied to any understanding of the faith that would be particularly jarring if someone without that understanding partook of the symbols (i.e. the cross isn’t part of a ceremony or ritual in itself so it can’t be disrespectful to Christian culture to use the cross without participating); and that this fact combined with its Eurocentric influences make it really difficult to put a non-believer’s wearing of the cross on the same wavelength as a white woman wearing a bindi.
(God, I sounded like such a pretentious clown back there. No one even asked for my opinion. I am so sorry.)
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This poem should probably be titled
You Don’t Have Her Number
For A Reason
This poem should probably be titled
Things You Shouldn’ Do
At A Club To A Female Stranger
When She Limin’ Wit’ Her Sistrens
This poem should probably be titled
Zelda Got Her Own Fuckin’ Master Sword
So All You Ganondorf-Ass Punk Boys
Better Step Da Fuck Back
This poem should probably be titled
I’m Pretty Sure
Leave Me Alone Please Isn’t Your Name
Which Means She Doesn’t Know You
This poem should probably be titled
Showing Signs Of Great Fear
Means No
This poem should probably be subtitled
She Knows She’s Fit,
She Ain’t No Dummy,
She Doesn’t Need Your Boist’rous Ass Remindin’ Her
This poem should probably be subtitled
That Which We Call A Rose
By Any Other Name
Still Has Switchblade Thorns and
The Scent Of OC Spray
So People Won’t Pick Her Out Of The Ground
This poem should probably be subtitled
And No,
Stop Saying ‘She’s Someone’s Daughter’,
Because Her Humanity Isn’t Something
Solely Confined To Having Been A Father’s Child
This poem should probably be subtitled
She Doesn’t Need Me
To Write This Poem For Her
But then again
I was never that good at writing poems
so here goes,
the poem reads thusly:
Dude.
Dude,
what the fuck
are you doi-
stop, man.
Really,
fuckin’ stop.
I said stop, man,
I shouldn’t even have
to fucking tell you.
Stop.
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I just saw episode 10 of Kakumeiki Valvrave
and I’m as of this moment not sure
if it’s the most stellar investigation into the minds (and hormones) of teenagers
or one of the most emotionally troubling things I’ve ever seen.
Yeah, I know his editor.
Each letter was a silent death wish into the depths of the dark night that the woman had not foreseen when she pressed the enter key. She just wanted to be cool, one can imagine. After all, The Flavourful Twilight of The Soul was one of the biggest names in the seedy shadows of the web all of a sudden. Everyone knew it, but no one knew what it was. They knew the writer, Derek Merriman - no one didn’t know Merriman, the recluse, the savant, the magician, the genius, even if they didn’t know Merriman. Shadowman was still making so much bank that a lit reviewer for the New York Times joked that their bestseller list would have to make a Number Zero just to accommodate for his unwavering brilliance.
And yet here is this book, this alleged masterpiece, his magnum opus, and everyone’s talking about it, but no one’s seen it. Dozens of people in a chat room talking about a book that they can’t actually prove the existence of.
And she was about to jump on their bandwagon for kicks.
Just felt like sharing this one… really violent thing I wrote a long time ago.
Thousands of Brazilians have protested in several cities over the past ten days, and organizers are planning for another march in Sao Paulo on Monday night.
Rising prices for public transportation was the original cause of the the protests, organized by Movimento Passe Livre. Since then, Brazilians have joined protests for various other reasons, including rising crime, income inequality, and corruption.
The protests are quickly becoming a sign of a weakening public confidence for Brazil’s President Dilma Rousseff ahead of the 2014 FIFA World Cup.
The protest’s nickname “Salad Uprising” was coined in response to the arrests of those who carried vinegar with them as an aide against police tear gas.Tumblr blog Salad Uprising is reporting to collect stories and pictures from demonstrations across Brazil (Reuters cannot confirm individual posts on external blogs; please message the Reuters on Tumblr if you seek more information on any news).
When police tried to disperse the crowd on Thursday in Sao Paulo, violence erupted, injuring dozens and leading to nearly 200 arrests.
Photo: posters read, “Dilma, we are the ones who pay for your housing” and “Communities exist.” REUTERS/Alex AlmeidaMany people have asked me about this, because 1. there are a lot of Brazilian nerdfighters, 2. I am a huge fan of Brazil and see the last 20 years of its history as a model for other nations in the developing world, and 3. I like soccer a lot.
My honest opinions may be unpopular with Brazilian nerdfighters, and that’s okay. I might be wrong. I’ve been wrong before. Also, I don’t know much about Brazil, and I don’t want to pretend otherwise. But since you’re all asking:
1. 100% of the protesters’ concerns are legitimate.
2. I think the World Cup (and the Olympics) will happen regardless of whether they are a net economic good for Brazil. (I think they’ll be a net negative, but it’ll be closer than many people are saying.) Brazil has already spent more than 3 billion reals to prepare for the World Cup; yes, that is a ridiculous number, but making the World Cup a failure will not make it a less ridiculous number.
2a. Given that, I think non-Brazilians who are planning to go should go and spend a lot of money. The time to have the conversation about whether it was a bad idea to host the World Cup has passed: The cost of abandoning the World Cup (or the Olympics) at this point would be prohibitive and more damaging to the Brazilian economy than going through with it and hopefully getting a reasonable windfall from foreign tourists spending a lot of money.
3. I understand that money spent by tourists will be unevenly distributed, but that’s been the case for decades, and in Brazil at least, the rising tide really has lifted all boats: after decades of rampant inflation and extremely high poverty rates, absolute poverty has fallen by half since 1994.
3a. That said, poverty is still much higher in Brazil than it should be, and corruption remains a huge problem. (Compare Brazil’s corruption levels to Chile’s, for instance.) Income inequality is extremely high. Crime is a vexing problem, and a very complicated one. Public transportation costs should not have gone up (for a variety of reasons, but mostly because it amounts to a tax on non-rich workers, who are exactly the wrong people to tax).
4. HOWEVER: It is important to note that real and important economic progress had been made in Brazil in the last 20 years. For that progress to continue, corruption, income inequality, and crime must decrease. These protests are important because they remind the government that all is not well and that progress is fragile and only counts if it continues. They hold the government accountable to the people. But as far as the World Cup goes: Most of the money that will be spent on the World Cup has already been spent. It is gone. Let us hope that the crowds are large and that most of that money can be recouped.
I more or less agree with this… except for my (probably ignorant) thoughts on Article 2.
I do agree that it is too late in the game to say to abandon the World Cup ideal, but I do want it to be clear that FIFA as an organization does not care about the financial state of the country or any country it hosts in, and while I am not at all necessarily saying ‘do not go to the World Cup 2014 Brazil’ (because that puts them in a far worse position, considering, than going), I am saying that you should go and make sure to spend as little money as possible on actual FIFA World Cup merchandise.
I dunno. Go to a sports bar there and watch the game on their telly. Buy a shit-ton of souvenirs. Spend a lot of time enjoying local cuisine (trust me, you’ll be the better for that, I think). But FIFA’s actual presence has, in my opinion, already affected the Brazilian economy in ways they have to deal with the consequences of years into the future (people have to upkeep those new fields now, for instance, and find ways to use them after the World Cup is over), and I think finding ways to put as much of your money as possible directly into Brazil is far more ideal than giving it to an organization that will just jump back on their private jets and count their earnings.
Excuse me if I intermittently start sharing moments from them.