half-girl, half-robot

spaceraptor:

queermachmir:

“What is it that the child has to teach?

The child naively believes that everything should be fair and everyone should be honest, that only good should prevail, that everybody should have what they want and there should be no pain or sadness. The child believes the world should be perfect and is outraged to discover it is not.

And the child is right.”

— Rabbi Tzvi Freeman

“Westerners are fond of the saying ‘Life isn’t fair.’ Then, they end in snide triumphant: ‘So get used to it!’ What a cruel, sadistic notion to revel in! What a terrible, patriarchal response to a child’s budding sense of ethics. Announce to an Iroquois, ‘Life isn’t fair,’ and her response will be: ‘Then make it fair!’”
–Barbara Alice Mann

ofaclassicalmind:

freenarnian:

lovestory49:

“It [The Lord of the Rings] is finished, if still partly unrevised, and is, I suppose, in a condition which a reader could read, if he did not wilt at the sight of it…now I look at it, the magnitude of the disaster is apparent to me. My work has escaped from my control, and I have produced a monster: an immensely long, complex, rather bitter, and very terrifying romance, quite unfit for children (if fit for anybody); and it is not really a sequel to The Hobbit, but to The Silmarillion.”

— J.R.R. Tolkien to Sir Stanley Unwin, 24 February 1950. Reprinted in The Fall of Gondolin
(via thebookwormunderground)

What writer hasn’t finished their first draft and thought, “the magnitude of the disaster is apparent to me”? 

Yo, I felt this in my BONES.

assassinationtipsforladies:

nacho-joe-yo:

Monster fucker this, monster fucker that. What if I want a monster RELATIONSHIP huh?! Monster HAND HOLDING, monster INTIMATE CONVERSATIONS, monster COMFORTABLE SILENCE??

kelgrid:

kelgrid:

kelgrid:

I’m at my dog sitting job in a pretty old countryside farm and the lady who does the cleaning up here told me this morning that there are old tunnels (now closed up) running from the house to the church (1km) and I did not want to know that

Imagine what could come from there? Ghouls, ghosts, vampires?

lets-steal-an-archive:

javier grillo-marxuach (@OKBJGM) Tweeted: i wrote an indiana jones/downton abbey crossover fanfic and i am proud of it. if anyone wants to accuse me of being a “bad writer” they are welcome to come to my house and shine either one of my emmys. https://okbjgm.tumblr.com/post/420080415…

Juan Carlos Fernandez (@obijuanca) Tweeted: @OKBJGM Now I wish I had written my MAD MEN/COLD CASE crossover where they determine Don Draper’s fall from an office skyscraper window wasn’t a suicide.

John Rogers (@jonrog1) Tweeted: @obijuanca @OKBJGM The spec I was working on, just before I swung over to features, was an X-FILES/BUFFY crossover where Mulder and Scully go to Sunnydale. Not for the vampires. For the UFO’s. Which are kidnapping vampires.

John Rogers (@jonrog1) Tweeted: @obijuanca @OKBJGM My point being – if we were writing specs, which we all were, writing “fan fic” was literally the price of admission to being a TV writer for two decades.

K.D. Byers (@katiedbyers) Tweeted: @jonrog1 @obijuanca @OKBJGM ::raises hand:: you can just call it fanfic and there’s no space in the word

John Rogers (@jonrog1) Tweeted: @katiedbyers @obijuanca @OKBJGM We’re old, that’s how we spelled it IN THE BEFORE TIMES.

All i am seeing here is that a Scooby Doo/Leverage crossover is on the cards