bitchofnovember:

nordiskstormhatt:

technoelfie:

missmentelle:

At age 23, Tina Fey was working at a YMCA.

At age 23, Oprah was fired from her first reporting job. 

At age 24, Stephen King was working as a janitor and living in a trailer. 

At age 27, Vincent Van Gogh failed as a missionary and decided to go to art school.  

At age 28, J.K. Rowling was a suicidal single parent living on welfare.

At age 28, Wayne Coyne ( from The Flaming Lips) was a fry cook.

At age 30, Harrison Ford was a carpenter. 

At age 30, Martha Stewart was a stockbroker. 

At age 37, Ang Lee was a stay-at-home-dad working odd jobs.

Julia Child released her first cookbook at age 39, and got her own cooking show at age 51.

Vera Wang failed to make the Olympic figure skating team, didn’t get the Editor-in-Chief position at Vogue, and designed her first dress at age 40.

Stan Lee didn’t release his first big comic book until he was 40.

Alan Rickman gave up his graphic design career to pursue acting at age 42.

Samuel L. Jackson didn’t get his first movie role until he was 46.

Morgan Freeman landed his first movie role at age 52.

Kathryn Bigelow only reached international success when she made The Hurt Locker at age 57.

Grandma Moses didn’t begin her painting career until age 76.

Louise Bourgeois didn’t become a famous artist until she was 78.

Whatever your dream is, it is not too late to achieve it. You aren’t a failure because you haven’t found fame and fortune by the age of 21. Hell, it’s okay if you don’t even know what your dream is yet. Even if you’re flipping burgers, waiting tables or answering phones today, you never know where you’ll end up tomorrow.

Never tell yourself you’re too old to make it. 

Never tell yourself you missed your chance. 

Never tell yourself that you aren’t good enough. 

You can do it. Whatever it is. 

This is so worth reblogging!

Thank you!

Thanks, I needed this today.

krisseycrystal:

absurdinadress:

ravenbane13:

kaylapocalypse:

tanfasticanna:

oceanlights:

cxntboy-drag-queen:

wlwhobbits:

Hey instead of a Harry Potter world there should be a lord of the rings world where it’s super immersive and you’re given a sword when you enter the world and giant spiders chase you and the elf actors eat dirt and offer you some

can we befriend and/or flirt with the giant spiders asking for a friend

It’s you’re adventure you can do whatever you want but watch out!

HI, THIS EXISTS, IT’S CALLED EVERMORE PARK, IT’S IN PLEASANT GROVE, UTAH

it’s more of a DND park but it’s fantasy and characters give you quests and when you finish quests they give you a tarot card with the characters on it

The town functions as a real-time story with a plot and everybody has backstory and movie-quality makeup and shit 

Guys I’ve been and it’s fucking unbelievable

OH MY GOD

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BUCKET LIST

@krisseycrystal

yEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEES!!!!

wayward-son-61:

pennybxnce:

writing playlist: on

google docs: open

mind: ready

Page: Blank

olderthannetfic:

hyperionsiren:

zetsubonna:

winterrose16312:

1lostone:

olderthannetfic:

And other fanworks, for that matter, but let’s talk about fic: When AO3 was proposed, it was in response to Strikethrough and other similar events. Livejournal deleted a lot of accounts without bothering to distinguish between actual pedophiles, survivor support groups, and 100% consensual fantasy fandom activities being done by adults with other adults (most of which involved RP accounts for 16-year-old Harry Potter characters anyway).

I helped write the first AO3 Terms of Service and set up the Abuse committee. AO3 was always intended to be welcoming to all kinds of fic, no matter how dirty, sick, socially unacceptable, bizarre, or out of fashion. During those initial TOS talks, we specifically discussed grotesque RPF snuff porn as the test case for something all of us on the committee found distasteful but would nonetheless defend because, by defending it, we created a space where all of our own favorite things were protected too.

Policing fic content is a slippery slope. Even if you only police the “worst” stuff, you create an environment where the more sensitive authors and no few of the ones “shipping to cope” are no longer comfortable posting at all. Attacking people for posting fic about rape/abuse/etc. is demanding that all survivors disclose. No amount of whining and backtracking will change this fact. It is a disgusting behavior that drives people from your fandoms and creates needless misery while adding nothing of value to the community.

If you want to kick certain kinds of content off of AO3, you do not belong on AO3 in the first place.

I love everything about this. 

What I would like is a filter where you can have certain pairings or characters or tropes EXCLUDED. If you’re looking for fanfics with A/B pairing and their sister ship is C/D, your mother of all NoTPs? You should have an option to filter out the results that feature C/D. Are most of the fics involving your OTP also featuring tropes you hate? You should filter out those tropes and have results that are tailored to you.

@winterrose16312 They do have that feature now! :D It can be kinda tricky to use sometimes but it has helped me get rid of all the RPF and Supernatural that kept coming up when I was browsing, and I’m very pleased with it.

The AO3 “terms of service” are absolutely bullshit. What’s the point in a filter system where the filters sync to your session, and not your account, meaning you have to type potentially traumatising shit EVERY TIME. Not to mention the fact that it isn’t against the terms, as far as I know, to COMPLETELY mislead people with the tags/archive warnings (which aren’t even COMPULSORY which is fucked). I love AO3 but most of the time I wish it was run by actually competent people.

In what mirror universe are they not compulsory?

“Choose Not To Warn” is a warning. If you find someone misusing “No Archive Warnings Apply”, feel free to report them.

You wish for an archive run by competent people. I wish for users who understand that AO3 is made to be mostly okay for most people, not perfect for one small group of people at the expense of everyone else.

AO3 has astronomically more labeling, especially of sex-related things and triggers, than the archives that preceded it. On old archives, you’re lucky to get the pairing labeled, never mind plot elements. The extremely warnings-heavy spaces with standardized, elaborate headers were always tiny. That kind of thing just doesn’t scale. It also has a chilling effect on fic posting, like most gatekeeping attempts, whether they seek to control quality or morality.

AO3 seeks to strike a balance between the many disparate ways that people label their fic.

Your best bet is to either bookmark your favorite search so that you don’t have to re-enter all of the excluded tags or to use AO3 Savior. It would be great if an AO3 Savior-ish feature were part of AO3 natively. I agree that that would be an awesome feature. Its lack doesn’t make anyone incompetent though, not unless you’re comparing to profitable websites with huge paid staffs.

mwg-7:

cloudfreed:

twocubes:

more important emotions

I like how these all just end up being fucked up archangel emojis

i like these guys

homoforjojo:

marsincharge:

achiillles:

thatonezombiecosplayer:

Me: *at the grocery store, heading through the bakery toward the donuts because I really shouldn’t but damn it I’m an adult and I want a goddamn donut*

Cake department:

Originally posted by fandomnationwhore

@marsincharge

The unexpected laughter that just ripped through my body made me pull a muscle sfojdfkddk