Stoya™: Not-cool things to do, bro... Part 1
I can actually remember every time a person at a convention or trade show has touched me inappropriately. My first year at the Venus Fair in Berlin there was a man who shoved two of his fingers into my panty-covered vagina. It was really fast, like he was standing there one second and the next I…
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petradactyl: Further thoughts on porn:
A friend of mine told me this story about a porn shop in Japan. It was a five-floor wonder, and as one went higher up the building, the weirdness of the featured fetishes consequently escalated. The first floor was devoted to softcore, and the second to hardcore fucking. The third featured the…
The brown dog is Bibliya, she was named by my hippie Christian mom. She was a dog in my parent’s house. She passed away the other day for unknown reasons. Maybe she ate a little frog, frogs are poisonous, & their house has some tiny frogs during rainy season. She was a really nice dog, very caring. She would often adopt the puppies of other dogs who were not so nurturing & she would feed them like they were here own. She would do this bird like thing, in which she would eat a lot then barf it in front of her puppies to supplement her milk. It was gross & beautiful at the same time. We will miss you very much Bibliya…
#can we just take a moment to appreciate animation here #so lets look at rapunzel #where you can just tell she’s imaging that lantern rising and what it’s going to feel like #and you can see her holding her breath #trying to figure out if all this is true #and then there is flynn #MOTHER FUCKING FLYNN RIDER #HE REALIZES HOW MUCH THIS MEANS TO HER #AND HE CAN’T HELP BUT SMILE #BECAUSE HE’S BEEN ON ONE OF THE CRAZIEST ADVENTURES IN THE PAST TWO DAYS AND IT’S ALL FOR THIS GIRL #AND HE DIDN’T REALIZE IT UNTIL NOW #THIS IS THE MOMENT WHEN HE REALIZES #WOW #RAPUNZEL IS MY NEW DREAM #I’M DONE THIEVING #I WANT TO BE WITH THIS GIRL #BECAUSE SHE IS LITERALLY THE BEST THING THAT HAS EVER HAPPENED TO ME
(Source: youbelieveyoureceive)
'Pixar Story Rules' From Pixar Artist Emma Coats | Pixar Touch
#1: You admire a character for trying more than for their successes.
#2: You gotta keep in mind what’s interesting to you as an audience, not what’s fun to do as a writer. They can be v. different.
#3: Trying for theme is important, but you won’t see what the story is actually about til you’re at the end of it. Now rewrite.
#4: Once upon a time there was ___. Every day, ___. One day ___. Because of that, ___. Because of that, ___. Until finally ___.
#5: Simplify. Focus. Combine characters. Hop over detours. You’ll feel like you’re losing valuable stuff but it sets you free.
#6: What is your character good at, comfortable with? Throw the polar opposite at them. Challenge them. How do they deal?
#7: Come up with your ending before you figure out your middle. Seriously. Endings are hard, get yours working up front.
#8: Finish your story, let go even if it’s not perfect. In an ideal world you have both, but move on. Do better next time.
#9: When you’re stuck, make a list of what WOULDN’T happen next. Lots of times the material to get you unstuck will show up.
#10: Pull apart the stories you like. What you like in them is a part of you; you’ve got to recognize it before you can use it.
#11: Putting it on paper lets you start fixing it. If it stays in your head, a perfect idea, you’ll never share it with anyone.
#12: Discount the 1st thing that comes to mind. And the 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th – get the obvious out of the way. Surprise yourself.
#13: Give your characters opinions. Passive/malleable might seem likable to you as you write, but it’s poison to the audience.
#14: Why must you tell THIS story? What’s the belief burning within you that your story feeds off of? That’s the heart of it.
#15: If you were your character, in this situation, how would you feel? Honesty lends credibility to unbelievable situations.
#16: What are the stakes? Give us reason to root for the character. What happens if they don’t succeed? Stack the odds against.
#17: No work is ever wasted. If it’s not working, let go and move on - it’ll come back around to be useful later.
#18: You have to know yourself: the difference between doing your best & fussing. Story is testing, not refining.
#19: Coincidences to get characters into trouble are great; coincidences to get them out of it are cheating.
#20: Exercise: take the building blocks of a movie you dislike. How d’you rearrange them into what you DO like?
#21: You gotta identify with your situation/characters, can’t just write ‘cool’. What would make YOU act that way?
#22: What’s the essence of your story? Most economical telling of it? If you know that, you can build out from there.
(Source: popculturebrain)
Owls confirmed for creepiest birds ever. Just look at those bastards!!! If you fail to notice the fucker swallowing a rat like a champ then there’s the dude singing some satanic song or something and the other two fuckers synchronized to make you feel the creeps with their soulless dance of doom.
“You’re next. They’re coming for you”
