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I hope you are wellš¹
Can you help me get my voice heard
and share my family's story?šš»
Can you Reblog my pinned post from my blog or donate 10$?
By helping to reblog my story, you could
save a family from death and war.š¹
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There's just something about Harry casually waking around with angel wings on that make my heart melt
the sense of knowing that you're in a big transitional stage of your life. such a surreal feeling. exciting and terrifying and grief-filled and joyous all at once.
Sorry to break it to you but you literally have to face your fears and slaughter them. Otherwise you will live a small life that you do not want. You literally have to view your biggest fears and attack them head on. You have to fall into the abyss to find your way out. The easy path does not exist. There is no get out of jail free card. You have to allow yourself to die a spiritual death over and over again in order to reinvent yourself into the person you are actually supposed to be. And you have to be painfully honest with yourself and the people around you. Itās horrible but itās truly the only way.
Hi there š,
My name is Mohammad, and Iām reaching out in a moment of desperate need. Iām a father of three young children living in Gaza, and we are caught in the midst of a catastrophic war. Our home is no longer a safe haven, and the future here seems increasingly uncertain. š
Iāve launched a fundraising campaign with the goal of raising $40,000 to relocate my family to a safer place where my children can grow up in peace and have a chance at a brighter future. šļøšµšø
Unfortunately, my previous fundraising efforts were abruptly halted when my account was terminated without explanation. However, I remain determined to keep fighting for my familyās safety and well-being. š«¶
If you could take a moment to read our story, consider donating, or simply share our campaign with others, it would make an incredible difference. Every act of kindness, no matter how small, brings us one step closer to safety and a new beginning. š
Thank you for your time, compassion, and support. ā¤
https://gofund.me/fd1faea2 š
Please help if you can!! šļøšļøšµšø
a twitter thread that actually killed me
Press conference for Crash
Euripides (Tr. Anne Carson) / @wholeheartedsuggestions / Jenny Slate / Euripides again
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fear - open mouth - backing away - fake smiles - hugging themselves - long / dragged breaths - rocking
jealousy - snide remarks - darting looks - self-deprication - visible judging - folded arms - arguing a fair point
hurt - steadying breaths - overly bobbing head - teary - anger - trembling - pressed lips - insisting everything is 'fine'
lying (ticks) - picking at nails - touching hair - licking lips - laughing too loud - avoids subjects - won't meet eyes
worry - reaching out physically - pursing lips - looking to others - reassuring smiles - looking you up and down - tilted head - sympathetic nod
shame - will not meet eyes - feet turned away - teary - desperate - fidgeting - begging
humiliation - lashes back - cheeks flush - palms turn sweaty - face frowns -> brows scrunch, lips pull back - teary
love - looks for approval - blushing / turning red - clammy palms - nervous around certain people - laughs hard - turning clumsy - slip of thought
zlibrary gone... FUCK TIKTOK FUCK BOOKTOK I hope that app burns in hell
Meg married, Amy off to Europe, now that youāre a graduate, youāll be off on a long holiday. Iām not good like Beth so Iām angry and restless. ā You donāt have to stay here. ā Why? Should we run off and join a pirate ship?
LITTLE WOMEN 2019 āŗ dir. Greta Gerwig
Sylvia Ballhause.
Cinemas.
Hi!! this is my first post!! for all my imagines, brad and other celebs (like Leo DiCaprio) will be in their early 20s. i'm open for requests <3
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yourinstagram my smiley boy
bradfan1 shitttt he looks so good š„µ
bradfan2 omg i can't believe he's taken :(
bradpitt only smiling cause you had food on your face
yourinstagram @/bradpitt shut up
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bradpitt my smiley girl
bradfan1 she's so pretty!!
yourinstagram seen that caption before š¤Ø
bradpitt @/yourinstagram mind your business
Hi I want to try out screenwriting for the first time, are there any online resources I can try out? Thank you xo
hey! YES, thereās a plethora of wonderful resources online that you can use to get started!Ā
FIRST:
The best thing to do is to watch a TON of short films. Writing a short is often times harder than writing a feature because you have to pack an entire story into like 30 minutes or less (the best shorts are honestly 15 min or less). And watching and writing a lot of shorts will teach you the basic building blocks of writing anything for the screen.Ā
LINK TO THE 50+ BEST SHORT FILMS ON YOUTUBE
Also while youāre at it, just watch a ton of movies and read a ton of scripts.
NEXT:
Writing a screenplay for anythingāfilm, tv, web seriesāis absolutely not the same as writing a longform work like a fic or a novel. You canāt just translate one to the other and suddenly you have a functioning movie.
I know this might be pretty obvious, but itās worth sayingā
You know how most film adaptations of books are bad? Itās cause movies are like max an hour and thirty minutes and so the adaptors have to just pick the one BEST plot point (the main, overarching plot) and writing the story around that. So all your favorite book subplots, little character details, and amazing throughlines, get nixed because there just isnāt enough time to get into all of that. You have 120 pages to tell an entire novelās worth of story, and every second has to be entertaining, because youāre asking people to sit still for ALMOST THREE HOURS and consume this story. Thatās why we end up with watered down movie versions of our books. AND thatās why films often add random shit into the story thatās not in the bookābecause theyāre gonna make the movie as cinematic and as action packed as they possibly can. What works in the novel, doesnāt always work in a film. Also,Ā Hollywood doesnāt give a shit if they stick to the book, they have boxes to check when it comes to entertainment, āāāfamily valuesāāā, and $$$$.Ā
All this to say, there are completely different story standards for film than for long form writing. And you MUST learn the those standards before you even do the first beat sheet for your idea. If you donāt know how to shape a story for a film youāll end up with a 300+ page screenplay that would make a bad film.Ā And Iām not going to include my rant on storytelling for tv or a web series because thatās a WHOLE different thing. And the story standards for those differ from a feature or a short.Ā
So I would for sure buy and read the bookĀ āSave the Catā. I had to read it in undergrad and when I go accepted to AFI, they told me to read it again. Itās an excellent manual for coming up with screenplay ideas and how to write them.Ā
LINK TO BUYĀ āSAVE THE CATāĀ
LINK TOĀ āSAVE THE CATā WEBSITE THAT HAS A TON OF COOL RESOURCESĀ
Also, and this has been the most useful thing to come out of my education so farā
LINK TOĀ āTHE NINE BIG BEATSā
LINK TO THE BEAT SHEETS FOR POPULAR FILMS
This shows you how to break up your story, the acts within your story, and the major beats your idea has to hit for it to work as a film. Always do a beat sheet before starting to write.Ā
LASTLY:
You gotta have that formatting down. Screenplays follow a pretty strict formatting structure that you just gotta know. Reading the screenplays to some of your favorite films will help!Ā
LINK TO A GUIDE TO FORMATTING YOUR SCREENPLAY
LINK TO SCREENPLAYS FOR POPULAR FILMS
Also, it will be easier to format things correctly if you have screenwriting software that helps you!Ā The industry standard is Final Draft but that costs $$$ so hereās a good free alternativeā
LINK TO SCREENWRITING SOFTWARE āFADE INā
And there you go! Thereās a lot to learn, and itās not easy, but dude itās fun as hell.Ā
TL;DRĀ
(āBeatsā refers to story beats)
Having just finished my first year of my screenwriting masters program, i wanna share this thing that I was told at the very start of the year that I have not been able to stop thinking about
they got all 28 of us screenwriters in a room on like the second day and straight up told usā
āyou will suffer for your entire career if you make this into a competition.āĀ
they told us that, while we might like the write similar things, like in the same genre, or same settingsāweād never be in competition, simply because we were all different people.
from our big differences in life experience and in personality, down to our smaller differences in story preferences and writing style, it all made everything we all did unique.
and while we were all one of a million people trying to achieve the same goal of making writing a careerāindividually we were the only onesĀ who could tell our stories.Ā
You are the only one who can write like you, who can draw like you, who can cosplay like you, who can sing like you, who can make art like you. Donāt ruin the love you have for your craft by comparing yourself to others, by putting yourself in competition with them just because you want to beĀ āthe bestā.
And finally, hereās the tough love part that we all got reminded of constantlyā
The moment you decide you are better than everyone, is the moment you fail. Because you will have closed yourself off to valuable critique. You will have inflated your ego so big that the second you get rejected youāll spiral. You will have become so high and mighty that one day youāll look around and realize you have pushed all of your peers, and your entire support system, away.Ā
There literally is no ābestā. There is only growing with others as artists, supporting your peers, and telling your story in the way only you can. Thatās how you succeed.Ā Ā
Some amazing book dedications:Ā
https://thenewinquiry.com/blog/social-media-is-not-self-expression/
There. See? At least the boy has a sense of propriety.
the worst thing about writing is that you arenāt just a writer. you have to be a thousand things. a poet, a flirt, a weapons expert, a bleeding heart, a scholar, a legendary cook, a theorist, an engineer, a reckless teenage girl, a dying god. you have to be able to write monologues and speeches and heartfelt confessions, and you have to make them believable. writing is putting yourself into someone elseās shoes.
writing is really hard (āļøæāāæ)
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