julieofthespirits

futurebird, 1 year ago to random

What makes a battle or escape or fight scene in a book good?

Conventional writing wisdom says building tension is critical. Think about your character's greatest nightmare, bring it to bear. What I've not encountered in writing advice is the problem of too much tension.

Have you ever put a book down because it was just stressing you out too much? You have a literary sense it might be OK in the end but don't enjoy the suspense?

This is among the top reasons I end up not completing books. 1/

ramonita, 1 year ago to random

I know a trans girl who escaped Ukraine last year at 17 y/o, had she stayed she'd been drafted as a "boy".

everybody back them was shocked at Eastern European backwardness and here we are with the new 2023 trans law in Germany adding a clause specifically to make clear that for military draft purposes, trans women are men.

adaoist, 1 year ago to random

Some fash posted this on Twitter and I can't stop laughing

mattblaze, 1 year ago to random

Pence testified in special council Smith's January 6 grand jury today, despite Trump's hail-mary executive privilege attempt to prevent it. (That seemed to me like an especially weak argument, since the VP doesn't work for the president, but is a separate constitutional office),

https://www.politico.com/news/2023/04/27/pence-appears-before-jan-6-grand-jury-00094310

julieofthespirits, 1 year ago to random Spanish

Imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring. Imaginary good is boring; real good is always new, marvelous, intoxicating. - Simone Weil

julieofthespirits, 1 year ago to random Spanish

This is why I don't fuck with Apple

https://www.vice.com/en/article/xgybq7/apple-macbook-activation-lock-right-to-repair

julieofthespirits, 1 year ago to random Spanish

Going to make a pinned thread of things I've written and interviews I've done, now that there's another wave of people here post-Musk deal, to put them all in one place and so people can get where I'm coming from. I write in Spanish and English

First is this text on ecofascism and its influence on the contemporary transphobic movement

https://revistacomun.com/blog/sabes-lo-que-los-cuirs-le-estan-haciendo-a-nuestra-tierra/