the-aspiring-maverick:

mojave-red:

saltrat88:

frederick-the-ii:

pinetreeanarchism:

thedevitoanditsown:

llleighsmith:

heartmurmuration:

llleighsmith:

i told ya we’ve canceled discourse n we’ve moved on to homesteading skills

it’s just choppin wood and harvesting vegetables and herbs from here on out

amen!

unironically this

Please hit me with more homesteading concept drawings

Good reference material here.

vowel-in-thug:

Potentially! But I guess I was pretty vague about that, which is odd because I never shut up.

So when I say “love” I don’t necessarily mean romantic love. Synonyms for love are want, need, desire etc which all amount to “What is driving your character?” One of my boo Kurt Vonnegut’s 8 rules for writing is “Every character should want something, even if it’s only a glass of water.” (Here are the rest, if interested: http://newyorkwritersintensive.com/kurt-vonneguts-8-rules-for-writing/)

So in this instance, love or the lack of it can refer to a character lacking a glass of water and wanting one, or already having a glass of water, and wanting to keep it.

When writing character relationships, “love or the lack of it” takes on a multitude of ideas, and using any and all changes and variations and evolutions is good. They love each other, they hate each other, only one loves the other. One had love in the past and now lacks it. One has never known love and now yearns for it. And the details of how those situations take place should always vary, but when you boil down every story, real or fictional, it always amounts to “love or the lack of it.”

Because, again, this isn’t just romantic love. It’s familial, platonic, philanthropic, sexual, financial, spiritual( self love. Or the lack of the aforementioned. Your characters’ stories don’t have to be any similar than our own stories. The things me and you do in our day to day lives may be completely different, but I bet if we were to analyze every move we make, we’re doing something because of a love for something or someone or a lack of it.

Thank you.

spock-and-uhuras-jam-band:

pansexualspirk:

pansexualspirk:

I really hope most people are aware of why Amok Time was made in the first place

I should start off by saying that Star Trek was made with a female audience in mind. It’s why Captain Kirk’s shirt rips and why he’s shirtless a lot, since the makers of the show were expecting to draw in a female audience with the good looks of William Shatner. Star Trek was even considered fake sci fi for girls by most male sci fi fans.

I have to mention that first because the show was banking on the female audience to fawn over Captain Kirk, and many of the women watching did, but they soon realized that even more women were fawning over Spock. When the show got renewed for a second season, they wanted to make sure they could retain the same female audience, most importantly the Spock fangirls, so they decided to treat their female audience with Amok Time.

Every single decision involved in the plot of the episode was made with “how do we give these ladies what they want without hurting his likability?”. Pon Farr was made up so Spock would have a reason to act super horny while still being the same alien everyone knew and love, T’Pring leaving Spock while Spock was planning on being loyal to her to show off how loyal he is to romantic partners, and his Pon Farr being cured without actually having sex was to keep him single.

The reason why this is all hilarious to me is because they made this episode to appeal to straight girls, and they did, but they inadvertently created the first and oldest shipping fandom ever. 

TL;DR Amok Time was made for straight girl wank bank but instead they created the K/S community

I don’t think it was inadvertent at all – Theodore Sturgeon, the writer of Amok Time, was openly gay and was known for constantly trying to slip gay shit past the censors. He also wrote the backrub scene and lots of other k/s moments. Lgbt people in the 60s wanted to see themselves represented in media just as much as we do, but because of censorship laws it all had to be subtextual.

lokincest:

Things I Wish I Knew Earlier In Fandom

But maybe these will help somebody now.

• Most of your fandom experience is shaped by who you follow. Find a good group of people and stick with them.
• Support your favs and a lot of them will become your friends, or at least be friendly back to you.
• Just unfollow people who bring unwanted content or negativity onto your dash.
• Block people who cause you stress. It’s not worth your time to focus on parts of fandom that don’t make you happy.
• Blacklisting words/tags is a tool you are allowed to use as much as you need to.
• Don’t feel like you have to pretend to like things that make you uncomfortable in order to fit in. Set healthy boundaries for yourself.
• Never tag your hate. Never send hate anons to someone.
• Content creators love getting comments, seeing people gush in the tags on reblogs, and getting fans in their inbox. It’s the best way to motivate them to keep making awesome stuff.
• If there’s certain content you want to see but it doesn’t exist yet, then make it. Draw the thing, write that fic. If you can’t, then comission an artist or writer, or send someone a prompt if they’re open to it. If you can’t do that either, then write meta or headcanons about it. Put it into the world.
• Create what you love. Do it for yourself first and foremost, and if even one other person likes it too, then that’s a bonus.

zomblequeen:

Favorite trope 348234: when person who nearly died wakes up in hospital bed, looks around, sees the object of their affection asleep in a chair next to them because they haven’t moved in days

“Lewis”, end of beloved episode “Life Born of Fire”, S3