I’m Obsessed

An illustration I made for a protest sign when I heard of the leak. Protect reproductive rights at all costs!

Some of the best designs by Vivienne Westwood

“I watched my teaset, my bureaus of linen, my books…”

Facebook reminded me that today it's three years since I finished this sculpture. So this is probably a repost. Should make more like this though. It was a lot of fun! I'm feeling like smaller projects that bring more of an instant satisfaction now. My big moss wall project is very satisfying now, but has been such a slog.

If nothing else, as a historian every time I get scared at the state of the world I have to remind myself that "uninteresting times" is a myth.

The world has always been in the throes of chaos and violence and fear, just in different ways and to different degrees. The anxieties of the past are no less real than our own, and we can learn from them. Normality and peace are fleeting, but we can always strive to increase those moments. We have to keep hoping and working for a better future. It's all we have. We may not succeed, but if we don't try, what are we living for?

Once you start noticing the passive voice being used for men's actions, you can't unsee it. In history class it was always "women weren't seen as equal human beings" or "women weren't able to own property or have jobs or get education" rather than men legally considered women their property and banned them from work, school, and property rights.

In the news it's always "girl raped in park" or "woman killed in home" which would make some sense if the perpetrator was unknown, but they often have already caught the culprit by the time the article comes out and it's always a man.

The amount of times I've seen a headline about a man murdering his entire family before killing himself being titled "man commits suicide after family is killed" with a nice little family photo of them is absolutely absurd.

Hell, just last night I saw an article titled, "3 kids killed after mom let ex-partner take them to get food." Her male ex took the kids to get food and murdered them before killing himself. Not only is the headline passive, but it also phrases it in a way that makes the mother somehow look guilty like she knew what he had planned or knew he was insane.

To top it off, people get really uncomfortable if you stop using the passive voice for this stuff. They start squirming if you straight up say "men wrote laws banning women from voting" even when that is literally what happened. BOTH men and women act this way. It's like we're all just supposed to pretend that rape, enslavement, murder, and other human rights violations against women just fell from the sky.

Source.

THE ULTIMATE MASTERLIST

I've been putting this off for some time because ughhhhhh so much work ahah! Anyway, I finally bring The Ultimate Masterlist to your dashboards! Hold on, it's going to be a long ride~

General Posts

Every single daily prompt ever... (Except Prompt #208 because apparently it doesn't exist... ???)

Excerpts

ACFWB Playlists

Character names

Character sheet

Relationships

Writing Advice

Finding inspiration

Overcoming writer's block

Continuing on with your story

Developing a plot

Starting your story!

Worldbuilding

Writing in third person

Tips for writing in first, second & third person

Emotive language

Tips for writing character features

Expanding vocabulary

Choosing the direction of your story

Hitting a block (Minor writer's block)

Improving your writing in a specific genre

A guide to bettering your writing (The tall one, the blonde one...)

Writing dialogue

Long Posts

#30 Q's to ask your OC's- Appearance

#50 Q's to ask your OC's

#50 This or That Q's for your OC's

NSFW Dialogue prompts

#100 NSFW/Smut dialogue prompts

Sexual tension prompts

Reasons for couples to break-up

#50 Dialogue prompts- compilation

#100 Dialogue prompts- Angst edition

#100 More angst/argument prompts

#100 Prompts to break a reader's heart

#100 Prompts to make a reader swoon

Short fluff/cozy prompts

OTP Christmas scenarios

#100 Song lyric prompts

First person prompts

Protagonist in a situation with...

Dystopian ideas

Shy fluff prompts

Character death prompts

And I think we're done for now! I'll try to keep it as updated as I can! All my love, Yasmine xox