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Just watched the XBox Reveal. Here’s a summary for those of you smart enough to skip it;

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ramsaysdungeonnightmares:

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I fully appreciate that nothing can even begin to make up for the devastation and scores of lives lost in Oklahoma, but sometimes there are stories that beggar belief and give hope where it seems like there is none.

This, for example, an old lady who has survived the tornado but lost her dog before finding her dog mid-interview, is just too much.

oooohhh my god crying

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king-mateo:

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Six-odd hours of livestream silliness. The result of one of the better parts of my brain snapping off in response to a barrage of wet leaf pictures. Hope you enjoy, player-of-Ilex.

…yep, Tumblr squashed it. Here’s the full version.

Goodness this is stellar. I just wanted to thank you again for streaming. Sometimes it’s one thing to try to understand techniques out of a book or through a tutorial, but it’s amazingly more helpful to just, watch and learn.

So thank you again, I really did learn a lot and hope to utilize some of the techniques you used (greyscale then colour overlay, woah that seems really great for getting value in) sometime soon.

You’re welcome! I found that it took some trial and error (and restraint) to get the most out of the method, because it’s very easy to let things get too saturated or dark, but it feels very organic to me, and less overwhelming than trying to get the colours and tones at the same time.

I did write up a (profanity-riddled) walkthrough of the overall process here as well. It doesn’t cover all of the things I did in yesterday’s stream, but it may be helpful as a supplement if you’re trying that method out!

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PSA: Your Default Narrative Settings Are Not Apolitical

psdo:

Recently, SFF author Tansy Rayner Roberts wrote an excellent post debunking the idea that women did nothing interesting or useful throughout history, and that trying to write fictional stories based on this premise of feminine insignificance is therefore both inaccurate and offensive. To quote:

“History is not a long series of centuries in which men did all the interesting/important things and women stayed home and twiddled their thumbs in between pushing out babies, making soup and dying in childbirth.

History is actually a long series of centuries of men writing down what they thought was important and interesting, and FORGETTING TO WRITE ABOUT WOMEN. It’s also a long series of centuries of women’s work and women’s writing being actively denigrated by men. Writings were destroyed, contributions were downplayed, and women were actively oppressed against, absolutely.

But the forgetting part is vitally important. Most historians and other writers of what we now consider “primary sources” simply didn’t think about women and their contribution to society. They took it for granted, except when that contribution or its lack directly affected men.

This does not in any way mean that the female contribution to society was in fact less interesting or important, or complicated, simply that history—the process of writing down and preserving of the facts, not the facts/events themselves—was looking the other way.”

The relevance of this statement to the creation of SFF stories cannot be understated. Time and again, we see fans and creators alike defending the primacy of homogeneous – which is to say, overwhelmingly white, straight and male – stories on the grounds that anything else would be intrinsically unrealistic.

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Another awesome article, full of good references for people who are fighting the Black People Existed In Medieval Europe TYVM fight or similar.

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archiemcphee:

These awesome photos are from the 2013 Weston Sand Sculpture Festival on the sandy shores of Weston-super-Mare in Somerset, England. Each year the festival has a different theme and this year’s theme is Hollywood.

“Since the festival started in 2006, themes have included Fairy Tales, The Continents of the World, Under the Ocean, Great Britain, and The Jungle. What began with two Dutch sand sculptors building a giant King Kong from 30 tonnes of sand has now turned into a world famous get-together of some of the niftiest hands in sand sculpting.

More than 20 of the world’s greatest sculptors from nine different countries are working away using 4,000 tonnes of sand from the beach.”

The festival opened on Good Friday and runs through the end of September.

Visit Dailymail.co.uk to view more of the awesome sand sculptures from this year’s Weston Sand Sculpture Festival.

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kairisma:

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swing-set-in-december:

YEP.

THE ACCURACY OF THIS HURTS A LITTLE.

THE ACCURACY OF THIS HURTS A LOT.

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Tornado Strikes Moore, Oklahoma

An EF-4 tornado struck Moore, Oklahoma today, causing widespread damage across a 20-mile path throughout the Oklahoma City suburb. The tornado has claimed at least 37 lives with many more injured and has left thousands without power.

Our thoughts go out to those who have been affected, and we hope those in the Oklahoma City area stay safe in the upcoming days. You can find more information on how to help the tornado victims here.

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“‘We Have Always Fought’: Challenging the ‘Women, Cattle and Slaves’ Narrative” by Kameron Hurley â A Dribble of Ink

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“Half the world is full of women, but it’s rare to hear a narrative that doesn’t speak of women as the people who have things done to them instead of the people who do things. More often, women are talked about as a man’s daughter. A man’s wife.”

A must-read for any writer of fiction. And for anyone, y’know, existing in this world. Kameron Hurley wrote an incredible piece here.

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I swear this is the last one

Jesus…

Man, I needed that laugh

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” Swimming in memories ” by Jenalee. a

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