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Good Omens

a six part BBC4 Radio Adaptation

episode 1

episode 2

episode 3

episode 4

episode 5

episode 6

OMG. This would have made those days SO MUCH BETTER!

save for yourself and for future generations

I wrote over 2600 words on my thesis today. No i am not joking or kidding. No I am not on any drugs or even caffeine. I just sat down and wrote. This is hands down the most productive day of my life. We will never see it’s like again.

Reblog to give urself the power of productive days. Ignore to still get the power of productive days because you have seen this post it will bless you and your mind anyway. But just know ur a lil shit for not sharing the power of productive days with your pals.

How I Teach Men Not To Talk Over Me: from one feminist to another, when basic respect is lagging and conversations are impossible

I’ve done this to several men, and they catch on rather quickly. You’ll be able to have a conversation right then and there, and it works long term too - they might’ve forgot their manners by the time you talk to them again, but by repeating this, they’ll eventually learn to let you talk without you having to do this at the start of every convo. Source: I have a very stubborn older brother, who eventually learned too.

1. When they interrupt you, stop talking. Don’t try to raise your voice or battle them. Be completely quiet and wait.

2. Ignore everything they’re saying. Do not actually listen - just wait until they shut up. Don’t make a point of anything they say, do not answer to anything they say, do not refer to anything they say here. Literally do not listen a single word. Let them rant as long as they want.

3. When they finally shut up and wait for your reaction, say: ”I wasn’t done talking.”

4. Start over whatever you were saying when they interrupted you. I don’t care if it was a 10-minute explanation of rocket science. Start. Over. Repeat you original thought, but do not add anything related to what they just said while talking over you. That gives them the idea that it’s okay to interrupt you, you’ll still listen and pay attention and they’ll get their point clear without having to listen to yours. (It’s especially funny when you get done and they expect you to keep going talking about whatever they talked over you. The face when it sinks in that you didn’t listen a single word is glorious.)

5. If they interrupt you again, return to step 1. If you find yourself repeating the cycle over 3 times, tell them: ”you’re not letting me speak. Either you listen and wait for your turn, or our conversation ends here.” If they try to make excuses, laugh it off or keep interrupting, end the conversation. Prove them that if they wont let you speak, they’re not worth your time.

Why does this work? First, because sometimes talking over is internalized and men don’t actually notice they’re doing it. Being vocally called out makes them realize it and pay attention to it - especially if it happens more than once. Secondly, by refusing to aknowledge anything they say when they interrupt you, they’ll soon realize they will not get their own point across if they keep doing that. Peoole and especially men have the need to be heard and paid attention to when they talk - when you make it clear that by talking over you, they will not have your attention, they’ll learn to wait until you’re done, because they know that’s when you will be paying attention and actually listening.

Go my darlings. Have some actual conversations where your point of view is just as valid as his. Demand the basic respect of being heard. You can actually have some interesting conversations with men when they’re forced to listen too, when being louder is not going to make them feel like they’re dominating the conversation or winning the argument.

Good News of 2017

This is the lucky clover cat. reblog this in 30 seconds & he will bring u good luck and fortune.

i just have this persistent feeling of “i’m not doing enough” combined with “i don’t have the energy to do anything” and it just really fucking sucks

YOU CAME HOME!

NASA astronaut Leland D Melvin with his dogs Jake and Scout.

Convo between my 7-year-old students today

Josie: I have a new crush

Matt: Me too! On a boy!

Pearl: You're a boy with a crush on a boy?

Matt: Yeah, he's really cute.

Pearl: Oh.

(pause)

Matt: Boys can like boys. I just can't marry him because boys can't marry boys.

Me: Yeah they can. You can marry whoever you want.

Matt: Really?

Josie: Yeah! My tia has a wife so now I have a titi and a auntie.

Matt: Okay. Then maybe I'll marry him.

Dave: (from across the room) No, you can't, you're seven.

(Age was apparently the only foreseeable problem anyone of my elementary schoolers could see with gay marriage.)

A limerick:

Doesn’t look like a limerick to you? Try this:

A dozen, a gross and a score Plus three times the square root of four Divided by seven Plus five times eleven Is nine squared and not a bit more.

NASA’s annual budget is half a penny on your tax dollar. Imagine what we could do with a full penny. http://bit.ly/-Imagine Celebrate Neil deGrasse Tyson’s birthday by taking action today: http://www.penny4nasa.org/take-action/ Don’t forget to follow us on social media: Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/PennyForNASA Google+: http://www.gplus.to/Penny4NASA Twitter: http://twitter.com/Penny4NASA1 LinkedIn: http://linkd.in/1eNlq8J

Spoiler alert: adulthood is 96% of you going “well, I hope this is how it works and I’ll keep doing it till someone yells at me”

http://ivyblossom.tumblr.com/post/98348940620/we-always-think-we-know-people-every-time-we

We always think we know people.

Every time we open our mouths, we reshape the shape people give us inside their own heads. Everyone, even someone we’ve just met, has a whole picture of us, a picture made up mostly of what they imagine about us, things they infer based on preferences, experiences,...

Selkie’s Birthday Giveaway!

It’s Selkie’s birthday! 

So I thought, to celebrate, I’d do a giveaway!

What am I giving away? 

GRAND PRIZE: An advance copy of THE BOY WITH THE HIDDEN NAME *and* an advance paper copy of the e-novella THE GIRL WHO READ THE STARS, both signed and personalized (and if you don’t have THE GIRL WHO NEVER WAS, signed or otherwise, we’ll talk. ;-)) (and your choice of one of the runner-up prizes, too)

TEN RUNNER-UP PRIZES: Your choice: signed swag packs from me (bookmarks and bookplates) OR I’ll give you feedback on a piece of writing of your choice (up to 5,000 words) OR I’ll write you a drabble to a prompt and characters of your choice (original or fannish).

What do you have to do? Nothing! Except reblog this post. (You can also leave a comment on my blog entry or retweet on Twitter for extra entries.)

The first day of fall is officially September 23 this year, so you have until 11:59 pm Eastern time on September 23 to enter.

(P.S. And the giveaway is international!)

"I adore you."

1. Don’t think that being published will make you happy. It will for four weeks, if you are lucky. Then it’s the same old fucking shit. 2. Hemingway was fucking wrong. You shouldn’t write drunk. (See my third novel for details.) 3. Hemingway was also right. ‘The first draft of everything is shit.’ 4. Never ask a publisher or agent what they are looking for. The best ones, if they are honest, don’t have a fucking clue, because the best books are the ones that seemingly come from nowhere. 5. In five years time the semi-colon is going to be nothing more than a fucking wink. 6. In five years time every fucking person on Twitter will be a writer. 7. Ignore the fucking snobs. Write that space zombie sex opera. Just give it some fucking soul. 8. If it’s not worth fucking reading, it’s not worth fucking writing. If it doesn’t make people laugh or cry or blow their fucking minds then why bother? 9. Don’t be the next Stephen King or the next Zadie Smith or the next Neil Gaiman or the next Jonathan Safran fucking Foer. Be the next fucking you. 10. Stories are fucking easy. PLOT OF EVERY BOOK EVER: Someone is looking for something. COMMERCIAL VERSION: They find it. LITERARY VERSION: They don’t find it. (That’s fucking it.) 11. No-one knows anything. Especially fucking me. Except: 12. Don’t kill off the fucking dog. 13. Oh, yeah, and lastly: write whatever you fucking want.

Matt Haig, “Some Fucking Writing Tips” (via framesjanco)

7. Ignore the fucking snobs. Write that space zombie sex opera. Just give it some fucking soul.

(via ajournalofimpossiblethings)

OOOH FONTS

SHERLOCK FONTS MASTERPOST

I had nothing to do this morning so I collected all of my favourite fonts from Sherlock. I know some of these are already identified and well-known - but here they are. Very good to save as reference for graphics/edits. 

Here are the download links to the ones who aren’t already installed on your computers, in chronological order (and what they’re mostly used for): 

P22 Johnston Underground - Deductions

I AM SHERLOCKED (Free) - Titles

Astoria - John’s voice in Sherlock’s head

AF Generation Z - Text messages and deducitons

The Recon Legend (Free) - Newspapers, headlines.  

P22 Underground Light - Hashtag “#SherlockLives”

Aster EF Medium - Speedy’s. Not sure of this one, but it’s similar. 

Helvetica Neue Pro Cond Bold - London Street signs. 

Clarion Pro Regular - John’s blog header. 

Bebas (Free) - Mayfly man scene

Trajan Pro 3 (Similar free font) - Irene’s website photos

Novin Bold (Similar free font) - Baskerville military base font 

FF Meta Pro Normal - The museum in The  Blink Banker

Shanghai (Free) - The circus’ font in The Blink Banker

I hope this will become useful! 

If you are 35 or younger - and quite often, older - the advice of the old economy does not apply to you. You live in the post-employment economy, where corporations have decided not to pay people. Profits are still high. The money is still there. But not for you. You will work without a raise, benefits, or job security. Survival is now a laudable aspiration.

Quoted from Sarah Kendzior’s “Surviving the Post-Employment Economy" 

“In the United States, nine percent of computer science majors are unemployed, and 14.7 percent of those who hold degrees in information systems have no job. Graduates with degrees in STEM - science, technology, engineering and medicine - are facing record joblessness, with unemployment at more than twice pre-recession levels. The job market for law degree holders continues to erode, with only 55 percent of 2011 law graduates in full-time jobs. Even in the military, that behemoth of the national budget, positions are being eliminated or becoming contingent due to the sequester.

It is not skills or majors that are being devalued. It is people.”

Her work is frank, speaking of a reality I hope that will never be mine. At the same time, it gives me a strange comfort to know that I am not alone.

(via sextus—empiricus)

——

50 years ago, I would have been at Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce, in an office with my name on the door.

10 years ago, I would have been in Hannah Horvath’s version of GQ’s advertorial department, with my own cube and free snacks (as soon as the episode aired, viewers noted that even GQ has cut back, and the image of Hannah’s cheerful office is out of date)

Today, I do all of the same type of work from home, with no benefits or job security. 

BUT I CAN WORK IN MY PAJAMAS HEY

(via hello-the-future)

Present-day me is giving this an amen, and 12-year-old me is jumping up and down on the furniture.

Call me when Louisa May Alcott regrets Amy/Laurie.

It’s gonna start out homoerotic and end up bloody should be the description for every Shakespeare class ever. 100% accurate and would get a lot more people studying that mad crazy old bastard. 

most amusing reactions to coriolanus screenings:

1) omg thAt gUY kiSSEd thAT otHEr gUy what is happening?? do they haVE tHe GaY?

2) “Coriolanus’s death scene…” WHAAAAAAT he dieS?  sPoiLeR!  SPOILER SPOILERY SPOILER!  HOW DARE YOU!

Guys, it’s a Shakespearean tragedy.  It’s gonna start out homoerotic and end up bloody.  You have literally had five hundred years to figure this out.

Husbands.

Watch the gorgeous "Van Gogh: Painted With Words" here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGvbkmAvY6I

And with that last picture, I officially need Molly and Greg together in season 4.

Sit down.