(Though thankfully not like my parents ( Read more... )

I've lately been rewatching Judging Amy. I'm sure some people on here will be too young to remember that show, while for others it's a dim memory, but anyway. It aired during that glorious time in the 90s when everything was okay and nothing hurt, the time I grew up in and will forever secretly long for. It was also very feminist. It has lines like ( Read more... )

Writing is an art form.

The art, for me, lies in the construction of a sentence, the rhythm to it, the images the words evoke, that careful choice between one word and another that a writer makes every time they create a paragraph.

Transformative writing is a different art form.

I was reading Anthony Horowitz's Sherlock Holmes and the House ( Read more... )

Though, seriously? Rhiannon Lucy Coslett wrote a piece for the New Statesman on the subject, because she felt trigger warnings held her back recovering from PTSD, and therefore, no one should get trigger warnings. Well, except may be a few spaces for survivors (but don't call them victims, because that smacks of "victimhood"), but she isn't clear ( Read more... )

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Hawaii Five-0 fandom, I'm just going to drop this here. Y'all can all giggle with me while watching this, 'kay?

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So, I don't watch this show. I don't intend to, either. But I hear things, and see things, and came across this on tumblr:

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[Update on the root canal: almost painless throughout this week; very mild sensitivity. I'm good. Popular culture is a lying liar that lies.]So, work drama. My boss was called into an emergency meeting on Thursday, which meant I had to go into work early for a handover meeting (she just came off her holiday and I was a day away from starting mine) ( Read more... )

I don't create in a void ( Read more... )

So, this has been on my mind since I was making a season 2 playlist for Steve (yes, this is something I do) and the final track was eluding me for a few days until I remembered this:

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It's giving me thoughts, people. Thoughts about how Steve is always going to leave when he feels the need to, whether it's because of his drive for vengeance or ( Read more... )