woman are not apples
Anonymous asked fuckyourwritinghabits:
can you explain why is that post offensive? i might disagree with it, but i dont think is offensive at all. (i’m female btw).
There’s this idea that women come in two types; virginal (good apples) or ‘spoiled’ (rotten apples). Or, to break it down even farther, women are objects for men to discard or pluck. Designating anybody as something (not even a someone) is stripping them of identity and agency. If this were a blanket statement with boys being the apples I would be just as irritated, but the thing is, statements like this are generally made about women and they are damaging.From a writing perspective, perceiving woman as ‘apples,’ a final goal or a ‘get the girl’ aspect is not to write them as people, but things. Stating that some women are rotten apples and therefore naturally horrible or unappealing is to imply that they are not human beings capable of changes, choices, and tragedies.
If a writer falls into the trap of not writing a female character as a person, but rather a goal or object to pick and discard, that writer is writing bad books. If people read books where women are goals, objects, or ‘apples’ to be sorted into good and bad, they are going to write books like that. We don’t need any more stories where women are not fully defined characters but prizes and ‘apples’ to be won.
That’s why I am angry that this sort of quote is on a writing blog - it’s a horrible concept to spread either way, but to tell writers that it’s okay when it’s not is downright shitty.
(Rebloggable by request. Also check out mtr-amg’s article rec, Kameron Hurley’s ‘We Have Always Fought The Woman, Cattle, and Slaves Narrative)
Rebecca Black’s ‘Friday’ and Nyan Cat played on piano simultaneously
In which two negatives result in a positive.
That was beautiful.
i love this so much
“Can this be played over a montage of the most exciting moments of my life please?” — my sister
(Source: jbaggles)
Not gonna lie, these Pokemon fusions are delightful and I love them so much.
favorite animated movies » The Secret of NIMH (1982)
↳ “Courage of the heart is very rare. The stone has a power when it’s there.”this was pretty much the most magical movie ever when I was 10
One of my favorites ever.
Ode to Spot - Data
“Felis catus is your taxonomic nomenclature,
An endothermic quadruped, carnivorous by nature;
Your visual, olfactory, and auditory senses
Contribute to your hunting skills and natural defenses.
I find myself intrigued by your subvocal oscillations,
A singular development of cat communications
That obviates your basic hedonistic predilection
For a rhythmic stroking of your fur to demonstrate affection.
A tail is quite essential for your acrobatic talents;
You would not be so agile if you lacked its counterbalance.
And when not being utilized to aid in locomotion,
It often serves to illustrate the state of your emotion.
O Spot, the complex levels of behavior you display
Connote a fairly well-developed cognitive array.
And though you are not sentient, Spot, and do not comprehend,
I nonetheless consider you a true and valued friend.”
(Source: tomorrowandbeyond)
» Star Trek: The Original Series. 3.10. Plato’s Stepchildren.
Settling Down for the Night. Photo by Chris Beesley
White Blue Peacock
This bird is a crossbreed between blue and white peacocks. The result is one spectacular creature.
wow, I haven’t seen such a dramatic display of genetic mosaicism before.
It’s a Shiny Pokemon.
There are two kinds of people.
this needed to be on this blog because of reasons
Some male Hooded Mergansers (Lophodytes cucullatus) showcasing their ‘impressive’ mating displays.
Video Source
This is a simulation of a rotating 4 dimensional Cube, otherwise known as a Tesseract.
What you are seeing is it Rotating. It is not being distorted, reshaped, or anything like that. it is simply Rotating - It appears to be distorted because you are only seeing the ‘projection’ of it. similarly if you rotated a 3D cube infront of lamp the shadow you would see would appear to distort.
