elliewritesstories:

Writing is not always writing.

Writing is being on the train and mentally seeing your OCs stumble into other people, or flinching away from the germ-ridden handrails, or sleeping on each others’ shoulders.

Writing is hearing a song on the radio and watching one of your scenes play out to the lyrics.

Writing is laying on your floor or sitting by your computer and spending hours collaging newspaper clippings or pictures or people or plants together and making something that is completely, uniquely, your story.

Writing is drawing your characters in your notebooks, and making tea only your one, picky character would drink, and writing an open letter to all your characters just to remind them you love them.

Writing is moodboards, and playlists, and crafts, and asks, and prompts, and pictures, and memories, and you.

So never think that just because you’re not putting words on a page, you’re not a real writer. Writing is something that follows you everywhere, beyond the word document, and beyond the screen.

Because writing isn’t something you do. It’s something you are.

Love this unreservedly.

lachantefleurie:

“Your voice sounds completely different in different languages. It alters your personality somehow. I don’t think people get the same feeling from you. The rhythm changes. Because the rhythm of the language is different, it changes your inner rhythm and that changes how you process everything.When I hear myself speak French, I look at myself differently. Certain aspects will feel closer to the way I feel or the way I am and others won’t. I like that—to tour different sides of yourself. I often find when looking at people who are comfortable in many languages, they’re more comfortable talking about emotional stuff in a certain language or political stuff in another and that’s really interesting, how people relate to those languages.”

– François Arnaud, for Interview Magazine

Some linguist in the 1960s did an in-depth study of what bilingual New York mayor Fiorello La Guardia sounded like in his two languages. I think that in Italian I am both gentler and more theoretical, and in English I swear a little more easily (I am timid about swearing in ANY language) and am more down-to-earth.

More bilingual experiences, please!

annevbonny:

rosetheirin:

so on twitter there was a thread recommending the show black sails and the first tweet went something like watch black sails or dont if u hate women and gay ppl or something like that so i was interested cuz that made it sound like there was an emphasis on female and gay characters, i didnt read the rest of the thread becuz i didnt want to get spoiled 

but yea black sails is fucking awful like the amount of rape and sexual assault and female nudity is so disgusting, not to mention they call their female characters c*nts at any and every opportunity, this show was obviously written by and for men i dont know why twitter recommended it and acted like that show doesnt vehemently hate women

hey! idk if you wanted any responses to this and so i’m not sure how far you’ve gotten into the show, but it 100% turns itself around. season 1 is really rough i’m not going to lie–and the rape plot in it especially is very jarring (though i think it’s handled a lot better than most shows do it). it does sell its first season as a kind of game of thrones with pirates, and this dupe is intentional (literally confirmed by the writers themselves). the twitter thread isn’t lying. the moment you hit season two it expands into an incredible narrative full of truly some of the most fleshed out (gay) female (& male) characters that have probably ever been portrayed on television & i’m saying this as a lesbian. from the looks of things you gave up a few episodes in, and i’d really encourage you to stick with it a while longer and believe the hype.