I’ve had this blog for 9 years and I think it’s time I remade/archived. I’ve stuck with this particular Bloge Space for a really long time and… I’m definitely a very different person from who I was 9 years ago, when I was, jesus, 15?!?! My interests are different, my self-understanding is different, etc. So I’m going to see you guys on the flip side. I’ll probably refollow everyone from the new blog so don’t worry about losing me.
I’ve had this blog for 9 years and I think it’s time I remade/archived. I’ve stuck with this particular Bloge Space for a really long time and… I’m definitely a very different person from who I was 9 years ago, when I was, jesus, 15?!?! My interests are different, my self-understanding is different, etc. So I’m going to see you guys on the flip side. I’ll probably refollow everyone from the new blog so don’t worry about losing me.
I LOVE THE GREAT MOUSE DETECTIVE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I’M SICK OF DENYING IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! THE GREAT MOUSE DETECTIVE IS THE ONLY ADAPTATION OF MY WORK THAT TRULY UNDERSTANDS THE CRUCIAL THEMES
#i’m glad this url went to someone who knew what to do with it
GOD some of these fucking quotes/stories about the production of GoT
Sophie Turner herself was first “informed” of the change from the books, which involved her character now being raped, as part of a joke that director Alex Graves made at her expense during filming of Season 4. As Turner explained in an interview with Entertainment Weekly a day after this wedding night scene aired: “Last season [Thrones director] Alex Graves decided to give me hints. He was saying, ‘You get a love interest next season.’ And I was all, ‘I actually get a love interest!’ ” – Apparently Turner assumed they meant they were going to cast Harrold Hardyng for Sansa’s Vale storyarc in Season 5, to be her handsome and noble love interest as he was in the novels. Instead, Turner said, “So I get the scripts and I was so excited and I was flicking through and then I was like, “Aw, are you kidding me!?’”
[Neil Marshall, director of Blackwater] recalled that an unnamed executive producer repeatedly urged him to add more full-frontal nudity during filming. According to Marshall, this producer told him that “everyone else in the series [represents the] drama side. I represent the perv[ert] side of the audience, and I’m saying I want full frontal nudity in the scenes”
Season 4 onwards, there have been no female members in the creative team - that is, not production design, but those actually in a position to influence story adaptation decisions. There has only ever been one female staff writer on the TV series, Vanessa Taylor, who joined the writing staff in Season 2 and continued through Season 3, but then left to work on film projects. Jane Espenson also wrote one episode in Season 1, but she wasn’t a staff writer (that is, actively a member of the roundtable meetings at which the other 3-4 writers discuss adaptation decisions)
if the statement “butches don’t wear makeup or dresses” feels exclusionary to you, maybe you should double check why you feel the need to claim a label and change it to suit your experience vs starting with your experience and finding a label that fits it. not even trying to be mean just genuinely like. sit down and reflect on your experiences FIRST and then go from there and not only can we end this discourse but you’ll also feel much more whole and actualized as a person when you stop making these mental leaps!
i’ve been doing my homework on how to break into a writing career and honestly. there’s a Lot that i didn’t know about thats critical to a writing career in this day and age, and on the one hand, its understandable because we’re experiencing a massive cultural shift, but on the other hand, writers who do not have formal training in school or don’t have the connections to learn more via social osmosis end up extremely out of loop and working at a disadvantage.
like, i didnt know about twitter pitch parties!! i didnt know about literary agents and publishers tweeting their manuscript wishlist, in hopes that some poor soul out there has written the book they really want to read and publish!! this isnt some shit you learn about in school! you really need to know the ins and outs of the writing community to be successful!
for anyone interested, here’s what i’ve learned so far in my quest for more writing knowledge:
1. Writer’s Market 2019 is a great place to start– it gives you a list of magazines and journals that you can send your work to depending on the genre as well as lists a shit ton of literary agents that specify what genres they represent, how you can get in contact with them and how they accept query letters. this is a book that updates every year and tbh i only bought it this year so i dont know how critical it is to have an updated version
2. do your research. mostly on literary agents because if you listed on your site that you like to represent fluffy YA novels and some asshole sends you a 80k manuscript about like…gritty viking culture, you will be severely pissed off. always go in finding someone who you know will actually like your work because they’re the ones who will try to advocate for you in getting published.
3. learn how to write a query letter. there are slightly varying formulas to how you can write an effective query letter. you’re also going to want to get feedback on your query letter because its the first thing the literary agent will read and based on how well you do it, it could be the difference between them rejecting you outright and giving your manuscript a quick read
4. unfortunately, you’re gonna want to get a twitter. Twitter is where a lot of literary agents are nowadays, and they host things like twitter pitch parties, where you pitch your manuscript in a few sentences and hashtag it with #Pitmad #Pitdark, some version of pit. a lot of literary agents and publishers will ALSO post their manuscript wishlists, which is just the kind of books they’d like to represent/publish, and they hashtag this with #MSWL (it is NOT for writers to use, only for agents/publishers)
5. connect with other writers, literary agents, publishers at book events. you will absolutely need the connections if you want to get ahead as a writer. thats just kind of the state of the world.
Some People Online: Hey this word has been historically and contemporarily weaponized against people like us, so it would be nice if folks would take more caution in its usage and be more respectful towards those who have traumatic associations with it.
People Who Evidently Still Haven’t Grown Out Of Their Harry Potter Phase:
