CICELY TYSON Hoodlum Dir. Bill Duke, 1997

some of my favorite writing podcasts!!!

i hate sitting in silence, so when i’m just scrolling on social media or cooking i like to listen to podcasts!! here are some of my favorite writing ones:

writing excuses: nice, short 15–20 minute episodes! they cover a BROAD range of topics, and the podcast has been going on for years so they have a lot of episodes & resources!! everything from brainstorming to getting published to editing, it has a lot of awesome resources!

88 cups of tea: lots of great interviews with published authors, agents, and editors! they talk a lot about craft, querying, rejections, and the like. i love the conversations with the authors; you can get a lot out of them! your favorite author might have even been interviewed :)

shipping and handling:  hosted by two nyc literary agents! they talk about books they enjoy, the publishing industry, and fandom-related topics! they also give some good writing tips. very funny!

dead robots’ society: hosted by aspiring writers for aspiring writers! great insights for novel writing, also very funny! 

i should be writing: another great podcast for aspiring writers that gives lots of encouragement! also has a lot of great interviews that can be very helpful. clean & safe to listen to around kids/at work. awesome for beginners!

ditch diggers: the spinoff to the above podcast isbw, ditch diggers is not safe for work and deals with more ~advanced~ writing topics. also has a lot of info on the business side of writing, like branding and deadlines.

you should definitely give them a listen if you have some time! awesome craft tips that can be super helpful for creating interesting, balanced stories. definitely check them out!

All four pieces from my Iroh’s Tea Shop series are finally complete!! In his beautiful tea shop Uncle Iroh has separate cozy rooms that are decorated with all of the different nation’s decor (air and water are combined ehehe) 🔥🌊🌿🌪 You can burrow books from the common area (white lotus themed) and enjoy your tea! Prints and stickers in my storenvy shop ✨Hope you like them! Which is your favorite? Toph is reading Braille btw, and Aang grew out his hair a little lol 👍🏻

hmmm

This video for the linguistic privilege of the Anglophones was very interesting to me. He doesn't say that if you go for a week to Greece you must learn the language (although some phrases would be nice). He doesn't say that having a common language between different nations is bad.

But he is talking about native English speakers who are able to stay in foreign countries for a long time and still don't learn the language because the locals around them can accommodate them by speaking English. These long-term visitors who are native English speakers (sometimes spouses and business partners) are not willing to learn the basics to survive in this country because they expect that someone around will know their language.

While this expectation might seem reasonable, it burdens the non English speakers to learn the language to the point we are considered unprofessional and unskilled if we don't speak English very well - in our own country!

Story time:

I was meeting with a large group of online friends for drinks and doing our collective hobby together and there was an Anglophone in the group. She had been staying in the country for 10 years, she was under 30 years old (you can definitely learn the language at that age) and couldn't communicate with us, making a dozen Greeks speak English to accommodate her.

Naturally, we didn't manage for long to center our conversations around her language when we could communicate better in ours. Still, the attitude of this woman and people like her still baffles me. If any of us were to go to her country for a month we would be automatically required to know English otherwise we would be ridiculed. We would certainly not survive a decade without learning the local language.

Like seriously give Gabby Sidibe all her things for this honesty and fucking truth! ✊🏽✊🏽✊🏽✊🏽✊🏽✊🏽✊🏽

Give her a damn crown!

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sick of teeth being so high maintenance. you don’t see any other bones requiring so much care and upkeep they literally just do their job and don’t threaten to rot and fall out of your body?? grow up

hey there LGBTQ kids who are also Christian/Jewish! If you feel like you’re disobeying God, questioning your faith, or feel wrong and dirty for loving who you love, there’s this fantastic site I found today called hoperemains that accurately and thoroughly combs through scripture and its (many) mistranslations, validates your orientation, and basically let’s you know that you’re not pissing off God. It’s insanely thorough and after reading through every page on the entire site it’s super helpful. Go check it out!