Anonymous asked: I want to write but people keep telling me I should read a lot more first if I'm going to write. Should I just get started or is that true?
Hm, I’d say that’s two parts yes and one part eh.
If you want to write something then the best way to do that is to start writing, however, just as we need to eat food to build, sustain and repair our bodies our brains need to absorb good stories to produce good stories. It isn’t limited to reading; listening to music, watching movies, going for walks etc. all feed into your creativity, but the thing about reading that makes it such fantastic exercise for the mind is that the writer gives you the script but you put on the play. You are given the words, but your mind creates the world; the sounds, the colours, the sticky feeling on the bottom of the main protagonist’s boots when they heave they feet upwards to sludge through that coagulated mud the author just described. You feel and live the world and it is that immersive, self-made quality that makes reading such a vital part of everyday training for a writer.
Solution? Do both. Use one as a break from the other, but don’t forget to have a break from both absorbing and producing- because it is the inbetweens (in the shower, on the verge of sleep, daydreaming on the bus), where you allow your brain to be still and have some time to itself when you truly create.
happykid44-deactivated20160731 asked: Can we see your new multicoloured haircut floof if its gone back to its regular insanity of tangles?
maayyybe (when I’ve woken up gosh dang I’m sleepy)
ATTENTION: THE WHOLE WALLPART THING SEEMS TO BE JUST A GIANT TROLL
I’m sorry I wasn’t able to find anyone stating what I saw on the following Youtube video in English, so, I’ll post the original one (in italian) here and provide a (as decent as I can) summarized translation below:
0:00-1:00: The guy is talking about how the site is supposed to work and how many of his photographers collegues (and artists in general) are going crazy over the whole thing.
1:01-2:04: He states that it’s a fake for the following reasons:
- 1:12-1:18: The counter is just an image, as it is permanently stuck at 3.614 buyers.
- 1:19-1:44: There’s a system that mimics a Google App to do images search over the web, that thus doesn’t use an inner database where the images are stored, but rather launches a search on Google Images depending on what words you put in the search box (meaning that the site is actually not hosting the images or have them saved in an inner database, but that they do a Google search of the wrods you search and shows the results).
- 1:45-2:04: If you try to buy some of these photos (as they tried to do, as they registered on the site and tried to buy something), once you’ve loaded your cart, they do not request your credit card to finalize the buy. (You just can’t simply buy anything from there, because it doesn’t give you the option to put your credit card number and finalize the purchase.)
2:05-2:59: He states that, trying to find out who is running the site, the IP address of the machine where the site is hosted (which changed 38 times in the last few years) is in Kiev and that the source page has written, in Cyrillic, ‘Regstratia’ (I have no idea how it’s written, I’m basing it from how he pronounces it).
3:00-3:30:Their address where the site states they have a store, which also includes the opening and closing schedule, is in ‘921 King Street, New House, around the corner of the New Town Station’. He states that both ‘King Street’ and ‘New Town’ are too generic names, that exist all over the world, and that that particular street number doesn’t actually exist.
3:31-4:28: He wraps up the whole thing, stating once again how it’s nothing but a giant fake.
Sorry if my English is terrible (I’ve tried to translate just the most important parts, and the fact I’m typing this at 2:00 AM doesn’t help that much)….
But, yeah. Wallpart is just another giant troll.
Okay, THIS is the post that should be getting reblogged. A lot of people are freaking out about the Wallpart thing right now, but some things seemed really fishy to me right off the bat. Their DMCA link just leads to a page that reads “Страница не найдена” (page not found), and if you read their privacy policy, it basically foists all the responsbility off on the person buying the print. You can also tell they didn’t personally hand-pick/steal anyone’s images–try searching for some outlandish, NSFW terms and you’ll eventually find prints that I doubt most reputable companies would allow. The site is just a skinned search engine at its core.
tl;dr: Wallpart is not real, please stay calm and reblog the hell out of this post.
(via curvedcat)
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