She/her, 40s, German. What happens when I procrastinate - reblogging pics and gifs, posting my fanfics (AO3 and ffn: shenshen77), photographs and things that amuse me. I fucking love penguins! Whumper at heart, but only if there's also comfort. D&D nerd. I like beefy boys :) My hyperfixations vary, so you're in for a mixed bag.
Sometimes NSFW, consider yourself warned! I tag everything.
I WILL bring this up again. You will give yourself a huge leg-up by learning basic skills. Look up free YouTube tutorials, see if your library has training classes, take a computer literacy class if you can fit it into your class schedule.
You will do so much better at a job if you can use just the basic functions of Excel, Word, and Outlook. Interested in coding? Learn it! Everyone telling you that AI is going to get rid of the need to know how to do HTML is a damn liar. Take a step back to figure out what you don’t know, pick the first thing on the list, and go learn it. It will be worth it!
Having to explain google docs to my 20-something-year-old-cousin and then interacting with undergrads who couldn’t figure out how to search their documents to find where they saved their assignment will never fail to humble me. I come from the generation of purposefully corrupting files to get an extension. I don’t know how they survive.
“the best way to screw jkr over is by making her characters queer!” actually. The best way to screw jkr over is to stop engaging with the property she still profits off of and read a different fucking book
I feel like tumblr should be bigger fans of The Blues Brothers. It’s a movie that has everything we value as a community. Attention and respect to pioneering black musicians, open hostility to nazis, open defiance to police, Carrie Fisher with a rocket launcher and flamethrower, a soundtrack that goes hard as hell, John Belushi so blasted on cocaine that he continues to do somersaults despite having a broken ankle. It’s got it all!
Frank Oz is the jail’s discharge clerk when Belushi gets out of jail at the beginning.
Not getting into ending spoilers but Steven Spielberg plays a character who is pivotal to the climax of the film.
Ray Charles fires a warning shot from a pistol at a shoplifter.
They did location filming in a mall that had closed the previous year in 1978. The production fucked that mall up so bad that it remained abandoned until it was finally demolished in 2012.
A total of 60 cop cars are fucking destroyed in the movie.
“Appeal to a wider audience” is corporate lingo for “strip more themes from a piece of media so it’s safer and more sanitized for investors”
I struck a nerve in the billionaire fandom with this one
Okay but this is actually one of the most useful things you learn in creative writing workshops! Namely: Not all of the feedback you get is going to be useful! In fact, most of it isn’t! What you’re looking for are the people who vibe with your work and understand what you’re going for. Those are the people who can help you make your work better! But if you try to please everyone? Then you’re stripping out what makes your story uniquely yours. You’re stripping out what’s going to challenge and resonate with your audience. So don’t ever try to appeal to a wider audience! If you want those diehard fans who are going to follow your catalogue, let your work be weird. Lean into what you love about it. That’s what’s going to stick with your audience at the end of the day.
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