Sleep Is For The Weak

GOING ON HIATUS

Mon, 13 May 2013 11:31:00 +0200

This is a bit late, as I haven’t been posting for a while, but I’m going on hiatus starting today. If all goes well, I should be back in a week, on the 20th of May.

My life’s a bit of a mess these days and I can’t put it back together if I stay online. I need to re-connect with RL a little since it’s been giving me trouble lately.

My exams finish on the 17th but I also have a paper to hand in on the 19th. I’m cutting off my daily dash-scrolling in hopes of staving off procrastination. Pulling all-nighters is not the best way to pass my year, especially since I’m KO’d for one or two days as an aftermath.
That said, I’ve decided to leave uni. I still don’t know exactly what I’ll do during that gap year. This is why I need time to figure it all out.
I didn’t have any internet connection for a few days. My family and I have been traveling across the North of the country to check out plots of lands. My parents have a project to build an environmentally friendly house that would be entirely autonomous in terms of energy. We found an interesting plot of land this week-end with an enormous slope that ends on a river. It’s beautiful. We’ve been weighing the pros and cons, working on logistics, plans, etc, and it’s very time-consuming.
An IRL friend of mine recently lost a member of her family. I want to be there for her, as she has been for me. (This year has wreaked havoc on my mind.) We are fairly similar and she’s a good friend I don’t want to lose. How does this have anything to do with blogging? Well I blog whenever I have free time. You could even say I was some sort of recluse this year. So yes, that free-time will now be dedicated to her.

I think that’s all. I’m mostly getting off Tumblr because I need to do some soul-searching. I might not resist the temptation and come back from time to time. Fandom is a 24/7 activity after all!

See you soon,
XOX

a-brilliant-loser: thingsareswinging: letsbuildahome-fr: “Chur...

Mon, 13 May 2013 10:59:10 +0200

a-brilliant-loser:

thingsareswinging:

letsbuildahome-fr:

“Churchtanks” by Kris Kuksi

#i am choosing to see these as being the size of the churches #not the size of the tanks #because if you don’t want a story about huge armoured cathedrals going to war across the ruins of earth i don’t know what to tell you

#well now i want to write it thanks

gallifrey-feels: that is the single most australian thing I...

Mon, 13 May 2013 10:57:56 +0200

gallifrey-feels:

that is the single most australian thing I have ever read

amandaonwriting: Writers can use these 12 Archetypes to create...

Mon, 13 May 2013 10:57:40 +0200

amandaonwriting:

Writers can use these 12 Archetypes to create characters

The 12 Common Archetypes by Carl Golden

The twelve archetypes are divided into ego types, self types, and soul types.

1) The Four Ego Types

1. The Innocent
Motto: Free to be you and me
Core desire: to get to paradise
Goal: to be happy
Greatest fear: to be punished for doing something bad or wrong
Strategy: to do things right
Weakness: boring for all their naive innocence
Talent: faith and optimism
The Innocent is also known as: Utopian, traditionalist, naive, mystic, saint, romantic, dreamer.

2. The Orphan/Regular Guy or Gal
Motto: All men and women are created equal
Core Desire: connecting with others
Goal: to belong
Greatest fear: to be left out or to stand out from the crowd
Strategy: develop ordinary solid virtues, be down to earth, the common touch
Weakness: losing one’s own self in an effort to blend in or for the sake of superficial relationships
Talent: realism, empathy, lack of pretence
The Regular Person is also known as: The good old boy, everyman, the person next door, the realist, the working stiff, the solid citizen, the good neighbour, the silent majority.

3. The Hero
Motto: Where there’s a will, there’s a way
Core desire: to prove one’s worth through courageous acts
Goal: expert mastery in a way that improves the world
Greatest fear: weakness, vulnerability, being a “chicken”
Strategy: to be as strong and competent as possible
Weakness: arrogance, always needing another battle to fight
Talent: competence and courage
The Hero is also known as: The warrior, crusader, rescuer, superhero, the soldier, dragon slayer, the winner and the team player.

4. The Caregiver
Motto: Love your neighbour as yourself
Core desire: to protect and care for others
Goal: to help others
Greatest fear: selfishness and ingratitude
Strategy: doing things for others
Weakness: martyrdom and being exploited
Talent: compassion, generosity
The Caregiver is also known as: The saint, altruist, parent, helper, supporter.

2) The Four Soul Types

5. The Explorer
Motto: Don’t fence me in
Core desire: the freedom to find out who you are through exploring the world
Goal: to experience a better, more authentic, more fulfilling life
Biggest fear: getting trapped, conformity, and inner emptiness
Strategy: journey, seeking out and experiencing new things, escape from boredom
Weakness: aimless wandering, becoming a misfit
Talent: autonomy, ambition, being true to one’s soul
The explorer is also known as: The seeker, iconoclast, wanderer, individualist, pilgrim.

6. The Rebel
Motto: Rules are made to be broken
Core desire: revenge or revolution
Goal: to overturn what isn’t working
Greatest fear: to be powerless or ineffectual
Strategy: disrupt, destroy, or shock
Weakness: crossing over to the dark side, crime
Talent: outrageousness, radical freedom
The Outlaw is also known as: The rebel, revolutionary, wild man, the misfit, or iconoclast.

7. The Lover
Motto: You’re the only one
Core desire: intimacy and experience
Goal: being in a relationship with the people, work and surroundings they love
Greatest fear: being alone, a wallflower, unwanted, unloved
Strategy: to become more and more physically and emotionally attractive
Weakness: outward-directed desire to please others at risk of losing own identity
Talent: passion, gratitude, appreciation, and commitment
The Lover is also known as: The partner, friend, intimate, enthusiast, sensualist, spouse, team-builder.

8. The Creator
Motto: If you can imagine it, it can be done
Core desire: to create things of enduring value
Goal: to realize a vision
Greatest fear: mediocre vision or execution
Strategy: develop artistic control and skill
Task: to create culture, express own vision
Weakness: perfectionism, bad solutions
Talent: creativity and imagination
The Creator is also known as: The artist, inventor, innovator, musician, writer or dreamer.

3) The Four Self Types

9. The Jester
Motto: You only live once
Core desire: to live in the moment with full enjoyment
Goal: to have a great time and lighten up the world
Greatest fear: being bored or boring others
Strategy: play, make jokes, be funny
Weakness: frivolity, wasting time
Talent: joy
The Jester is also known as: The fool, trickster, joker, practical joker or comedian.

10. The Sage
Motto: The truth will set you free
Core desire: to find the truth.
Goal: to use intelligence and analysis to understand the world.
Biggest fear: being duped, misled—or ignorance.
Strategy: seeking out information and knowledge; self-reflection and understanding thought processes.
Weakness: can study details forever and never act.
Talent: wisdom, intelligence.
The Sage is also known as: The expert, scholar, detective, advisor, thinker, philosopher, academic, researcher, thinker, planner, professional, mentor, teacher, contemplative.

11. The Magician
Motto: I make things happen.
Core desire: understanding the fundamental laws of the universe
Goal: to make dreams come true
Greatest fear: unintended negative consequences
Strategy: develop a vision and live by it
Weakness: becoming manipulative
Talent: finding win-win solutions
The Magician is also known as: The visionary, catalyst, inventor, charismatic leader, shaman, healer, medicine man.

12. The Ruler
Motto: Power isn’t everything, it’s the only thing.
Core desire: control
Goal: create a prosperous, successful family or community
Strategy: exercise power
Greatest fear: chaos, being overthrown
Weakness: being authoritarian, unable to delegate
Talent: responsibility, leadership
The Ruler is also known as: The boss, leader, aristocrat, king, queen, politician, role model, manager or administrator.

Note: There are four cardinal orientations: freedom, social, ego, order. The types have a place on these orientations.

Article via soulcraft.co

"Why Society Still Needs Feminism Because to men, a key is a device to open something. For women,..."

Mon, 13 May 2013 10:56:46 +0200

“

Why Society Still Needs Feminism

Because to men, a key is a device to open something. For women, it’s a weapon we hold between our fingers when we’re walking alone at night.

Because the biggest insult for a guy is to be called a “pussy,” a “little bitch” or a “girl.” From here on out, being called a “pussy” is an effing badge of honor.

Because last month, my politics professor asked the class if women should have equal representation in the Supreme Court, and only three out of 42 people raised their hands.

Because rape jokes are still a thing.

Because despite being equally broke college kids, guys are still expected to pay for dates, drinks and flowers.

Because as a legit student group, Campus Fellowship does not allow women to lead anything involving men. Look, I know Eve was dumb about the whole apple and snake thing, but I think we can agree having a vagina does not directly impact your ability to lead a
college organization.

Because it’s assumed that if you are nice to a girl, she owes you sex — therefore, if she turns you down, she’s a bitch who’s put you in the “friend zone.” Sorry, bro, women are not machines you put kindness coins into until sex falls out.

Because only 29 percent of American women identify as feminist, and in the words of author Caitlin Moran, “What part of ‘liberation for women’ is not for you? Is it freedom to vote? The right not to be owned by the man you marry? The campaign for equal pay? Did all that good shit get on your nerves? Or were you just drunk at the time
of the survey?”

Because when people hear the term feminist, they honestly think of women burning bras. Dude, have you ever bought a bra? No one would burn them because they’re freaking
expensive.

Because Rush Limbaugh.

Because we now have a record number of women in the Senate … which is a measly 20 out of 100. Congrats, USA, we’ve gone up to 78th place for women’s political representation, still below China, Rwanda and Iraq.

Because recently I had a discussion with a couple of well-meaning Drake University guys, and they literally could not fathom how catcalling a woman walking down University Avenue is creepy and sexist.
Could. Not. Fathom.

Because on average, the tenured male professors at Drake make more than the tenured female professors.

Because more people on campus complain about chalked statistics regarding sexual assault than complain about the existence of sexual assault. Priorities? Have them.

Because 138 House Republicans voted against the Violence Against Women Act. All 138 felt it shouldn’t provide support for Native women, LGBT people or immigrant women. I’m kind of confused by this, because I thought LGBT people and women of color were also human beings.
Weird, right?

Because a girl was roofied last semester at a local campus bar, and I heard someone say they think she should have been more careful. Being drugged is her fault, not the fault of the person who put drugs in her drink?

Because Chris Brown beat Rihanna so badly she was hospitalized, yet he still has fans and bestselling songs and a tattoo of an abused woman on his neck.

Because out of 7 billion people on the planet, more than 1 billion women will be raped or beaten in their lifetimes. Women and girls have their clitorises cut out, acid thrown on them and broken bottles shoved up them as an act of war. Every second of every day. Every corner of the Earth.

Because the other day, another friend of mine told me she was raped, and I can no longer count on both my hands the number of friends who have told me they’ve been sexually assaulted. Words can’t express how scared I am that I’m getting used to this.

Because a brief survey of reality will tell you that we do not live in a world that values all people equally and that sucks in real, very scary ways. Because you know we live in a sexist world when an awesome thing with the name “feminism” has a weird connotation. Because if I have kids someday, I want my son to be able to have emotions and play dress up, and I want my daughter to climb trees and care more about what’s in her head than what’s on it. Because I don’t want her to carry keys between her fingers at night to
protect herself.

Because feminism is for everybody, and this is your official invitation.

”

- Caitlin O’Donnell, Drake University. (via on-another-note)

dubulgezicozelochick: theboystheyloveme: FUCKING YES...

Mon, 13 May 2013 10:56:34 +0200

dubulgezicozelochick:

theboystheyloveme:

FUCKING YES OMG

BOOM.

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Mon, 13 May 2013 10:55:45 +0200

skepticalavenger: atheismforthewin: So relevant. So fucking...

Mon, 13 May 2013 10:55:36 +0200

skepticalavenger:

atheismforthewin:

So relevant.

So fucking relevant.

-Victor

VERY fucking relevant!

theongreyjoy: Im seeing a lot of people make really good points about things on my dash regarding...

Mon, 13 May 2013 10:55:09 +0200

theongreyjoy:

Im seeing a lot of people make really good points about things on my dash regarding sexual violence of various asoiaf characters, but then sprinkled in somewhere, a lot of folks are also trying to say that Theon’s torture doesn’t have a sexual/sexualized component to it. I suppose if you are going off the show so far, that much is true. HOWEVER, it’s often looked over in the books as well, so I wanted to talk a little bit about the various, very serious ways in which Theon is a constant victim of sexual abuse/humiliation/torture. Regardless of the posts floating around and their intentions, I thought it might be a good idea to discuss this a little bit and re establish what many of us already know.

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“One thing I’ve always thought about Morgana is that she’s sort...

Mon, 13 May 2013 10:53:21 +0200

“One thing I’ve always thought about Morgana is that she’s sort of a modern mind in a period body. She’s not your usual warm princess, which is what drew me to her in the first place.”

khawlabentalazwaar: gothamcityballet: deafmuslimpunx: exquisit...

Mon, 13 May 2013 10:52:45 +0200

khawlabentalazwaar:

gothamcityballet:

deafmuslimpunx:

exquisitedialectics:

takealookatyourlife:

Aiya Van Kooten everyone

When Aiya Van Kooten stood face-to-face with a burglar in her bedroom, her left eye twitched, then she went into “predator mode”.

“I screamed at him… jumped off my chair, leaped over my bed and sprinted after him down the stairs,” she said.

http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/8626910/Predator-mode-scares-off-burglars

This is the best story of my life

“Although she was the only one home, Van Kooten said she had no regard for her safety - instead, she said she was just overwhelmed with “rage“….. ummmmm Hero!!!

Haha, badass Muslim woman. Love it!!!

This lady is so awesome. She lives with her grandma and was studying and had a towel on her head and no shoes but she chased them out of her garden, kicked one up the arse as he climbed a fence, they dropped a camera and laptop, she flagged down a passing driver to help her continue the pursuit, and it turned out he was ex-military, and they finally caught one of them in a park and pinned him as the police arrived. Now she’s going to visit the burglar in prison for the next few months to help with his rehabilitation.

So in summary:

This lady doesn’t just defend her home and loved ones, she will hunt you down, team up with other skilled individuals, get you put away, and then teach you the consequences of your actions until you’re a valuable member of society once more.

Seriously she’s a frigging superhero.

literal hero

why do I waste money on smutty comic books why

Wed, 01 May 2013 00:37:22 +0200

why do I waste money on smutty comic books

why

How to hate a teacher faster than than any other

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 12:32:51 +0200

has to hand in a 10 pages long thesis as your final exam
when you’re a first-year student
fuck
you

thumbcramps: hi guys! this is a comic i made for a final in my...

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 19:38:34 +0200

thumbcramps:

hi guys! this is a comic i made for a final in my comics in literature class. we had to do a research paper on a topic we’d discussed in class and then accompany it with a comic with a relevant subject. my paper was about hyper-sexualization of women in comic books, but i decided to broaden it out here as well as personalize it and make myself the subject and discuss something i’ve been subjected to in the convention circuit and on the internet as well as thousands of other women, as well as give a cue to thought about how the comic book industry as well as the video game industry and even just media in general (all of which are male dominated) push such ridiculous pressures onto girls and women.

also, it feels kind of silly to have to add this since i hope it’s obvious, but i am very aware that there are men that don’t subscribe to this attitude, and am incredibly grateful that these issues are brought to light to people other than the ones that are subjected to it.

anyway haha i have literally been staring at this for 9 hours i don’t even know which direction is up anymore. thanks for reading!!!

tranqualizer: stop supporting the myth that poor people don’t deserve to have “nice” things....

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 19:35:25 +0200

tranqualizer:

stop supporting the myth that poor people don’t deserve to have “nice” things. because that sort of narrative continues to ignore the complexities of capitalism and struggle and takes us away from examining why it’s easier for someone living below the poverty line to get a smart phone than to get sustainable support for housing, employment at a livable wage, healthcare services, etc.

xekstrin: fefeferi: i bet if the swimming anime was about girls in revealing swimsuits it would be...

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 19:28:50 +0200

xekstrin:

fefeferi:

i bet if the swimming anime was about girls in revealing swimsuits it would be hated by tumblr for being sexist and demeaning

Possibly, but hear me out for a second.

Men in anime usually get to be the heroes. They are the thinkers, the builders, the killers, the saviors. They get to be a lot of things without necessarily being attractive or sexualized.

However, no matter what a woman is in an anime (builder creator nurturer fighter etc), she will almost inevitably, primarily, be there for fanservice. And if fanservice isn’t her primary function as a character, then it will still be there in small amounts. Meaning, if her character were a dude, they would serve the same function, minus the sexy bits.

I’m okay with anime that’s purely about fanservice. I sometimes enjoy those anime. Because that’s their purpose. As a smut writer it’d be very hypocritical of me to decide that jiggling boobs in a smutty anime is demeaning.

However, when EVERY! SINGLE! FEMALE! CHARACTER! IN! EXISTENCE! seems to be there for fanservice, WHETHER OR NOT THE ANIME IS PRIMARILY ABOUT FANSERVICE, that’s where the problem arises.

The reason no one cares about the swimming anime is because they can count on one hand the number of male characters that are scantily clad, sexxed up facsimiles of a man with body parts that defy gravity and wiggle about enticingly for female objectification.

The number of series with female characters that are scantily clad and created for objectification literally would probably take all day to count out. Even Soul Eater, a shonen anime about a girl who kicks ass, still needs to have that fanservice character in the background (the cat). It’s like a quota that needs to be filled.

TL;DR: There’s nothing wrong with a series about fanservice for men or women. I consider it it’s own genre. But that “fanservice factor” tends to be present in female characters for EVERY OTHER GENRE. When fanservice and the objectification of the male physique spills into literally every other genre like it has for female characters, THEN YOU CAN COMPARE THE TWO.

"Under the current ‘tyranny of slenderness’ women are forbidden to become large or massive; they must..."

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 19:14:04 +0200

“Under the current ‘tyranny of slenderness’ women are forbidden to become large or massive; they must take up as little space as possible. The very contours of a woman’s body takes on as she matures - the fuller breasts and rounded hips - have become distateful. The body by which a woman feels herself judged and which by rigorous discipline she must try to assume is the body of early adolescence, slight and unformed, a body lacking flesh or substance, a body in whose very contours the image of immaturity has been inscribed. The requirement that a woman maintain a smooth and hairless skin carries further the theme of inexperience, for an infantilized face must accompany her infantilized body, a face that never ages or furrows its brow in thought. The face of the ideally feminine woman must never display the marks of character, wisdom, and experience that we so admire in men.”

- Sandra Lee Bartky, Foucault, Femininity, and the Modernization of Patriarchal Power (via sociophilia)

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Mon, 29 Apr 2013 18:49:28 +0200

Big bad wolves

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 18:48:26 +0200

Big bad wolves

wearing a suit makes me look like I’m 25 or something that’s more or less 7 years more...

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 18:46:48 +0200

wearing a suit makes me look like I’m 25 or something

that’s more or less 7 years more than I am