Too Good To Not Reblog.

Too good to not reblog.

Human: Deal.

Fey: Very well. When you return home tonight, your mother will be in pristine health again. It will be like she never fell ill at all. Even the memory of her suffering will fade…

Human: Thank you so much. She means everything to me.

Fey: I know, I know. Let’s hope the price wasn’t too much for you after all… Only time will tell.

Human: So, when do we start?

Fey: …If I may ask you to elaborate?

Human: You said you wanted my firstborn.

Fey: Yes? And you agreed?

Human: Yeah, so, when do we start?

Fey:

Fey, blushing: Ah.

This thread omg

Wow, I’ve never actively noticed this pov. It scares me to read it, but it’s worth it to know. As a female writer, I’ve never written anything like this, but I realise as a reader I haven’t paid attention enough

Sometimes I’m reading a short story that features a cast of a dozen or more characters, in an open setting—they interact with society—and not one woman. Not even a passing mention of a woman existing somewhere. It always takes me out of the story as I reflect on how disorienting it feels. Short stories usually try give you a good sense of place, time and genre within a few pages, and in such a setting the conclusion I reach is “this story is sci-fi and takes place in an alternate male-only dimension.” It feels like reading an experimental work like Perec’s A Void, a story written without once using the letter e, to see if he could. By which I mean, to me it feels like some effort is being put into this; like the author is conducting a thought experiment—alright, let’s write this story in a world without women, what is it like? What are the repercussions? But there are no repercussions, the story continues in a seemingly normal, inexplicably functional society, which indicates that the author is not putting any thought into this, to him nothing is amiss.

I’m used to the average level of male solipsism that gives us countless books featuring ghostly female characters who exist only in relation to a man but have no name, no agency, no influence on the plot—but I’m so disturbed by fictional universes in which women are not present. In these stories men are born and raised and implied to have families, and still no women are mentioned. Does the reverse even exist? Female authors who set their story in a world without men do so deliberately, often as actual scifi. What disturbs me is how men, as they establish their story’s setting, will unthinkingly start writing a detailed, realistic world that’s expunged of all women. Then (maybe) remember to add (or mention) one or two women later, if their hero needs a girlfriend, prostitute, dead mother or some other appendage. I always wonder what these authors’ worldview must be like, what kind of mindset a man like this operates under as he goes through his life (occasionally interacting with women, maybe even cohabiting with some)—for him to set his story, without realising it, without putting any effort into it, in what to me amounts to a disquieting alien society, and to him is just the world as he experiences it.

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Rainy days and love poems, part 1

Should I post part two also on tumblr?

(Please gimme some attention)

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Artist, Jeff de Boer, Creates Cat And Mice Armor Based On Different Historical Eras

I don’t give a rats ass about the CIA I need these

art cheats

hello i am here today to not lose track of the art cheats i have discovered over the years. what i call art cheat is actually a cool filter/coloring style/way to shade/etc. that singlehandedly makes art like 20 times better

80’s anime style

glitch effect

glow effects

adding colors to grayscale paintings

foreshortening ( coil )

foreshortening ( perspective )

clipping group (lines)

clipping group (colors)

dramatic lighting ( GOOD )

shading metal

lighting faces

that is all for today, do stay tuned as i am always hunting for cool shit like this