“go to bed, you fool,” calcifer said sleepily. “you’re drunk.” “who, me?” said howl. “i assure you, my friends, i am cone sold stober.” he got up and stalked upstairs, feeling for the wall as if he thought it might escape him unless he kept in touch with it. his bedroom door did escape him.
Martha Graham on the Life-Force of Creativity and the Divine Dissatisfaction of Being an Artist.
Wow.
She’s totally right about the channel, though! Not your job to judge it (that’s my RL job. :D) Your job to keep it the hell open!!!
That must be from Agnes de Mille’s autobiography! I need to get a hold of that and read it. Both were such fascinating creative beings, her and Martha, so distinctive and so iconic!
I love this and just insisted, despite feeble protests (I WILL NOT LISTEN! I NEVER LISTEN) on reading it aloud to everyone at the writing retreat I am on. Holly (Black) often says that you do not have to believe in yourself, just do it, and it is lovely to me to think of two ladies decades ago talking about creativity, in the same way my friends and I do, coming to the same conclusions and having them regarded as important. And it is personally a good time for me to hear it. In all the history of all the universe, nobody else is ever going to be you, or able to tell your stories. And your stories might matter to somebody. You don’t have to believe. You just have to tell the stories.
Inspired by this fandom stats post by @toastystats, I decided to do a breakdown of the MCU by subfandom. All data is from AO3 as of August 2016.
I’ve looked at the number of fanworks in each movie or TV show, as well as the breakdown by rating and category. Feel free to send me questions or comments. I’ll be making some more posts looking at how the number of fanworks has changed over time for each subfandom.
Woo! This is awesome. 😀 Thanks so much for the breakdown!!
Man. I feel so thirsty lately. I can’t drink enough water. I feel like the senator guy in that X-Men movie after getting exposed to Magneto’s mutant machine, and he keeps drinking drinking drinking water uncontrollably until he dives into the ocean and becomes a terrifying jellyfish creature and explodes. Freaking Magneto. I was already sympathetic to the mutant cause. Why you gotta hate?
You’re not a mutant, honey, you’re a mermaid. It’s all right. Once your scales start coming in, you won’t be as thirsty.
You know, being a diagnostician in a world with more public magical creatures must be a trip and a half.
“Extreme thirst has a lot of causes. Let’s check your blood sugar, and let’s take a skin sample to see if you’re developing scales.”
“Joint pain is pretty common when someone’s pushing themself that way with training, and I’d definitely recommend some rest, but it sounds like it’s been coming on with the moon so we might want to do a blood test to check for lycanthropy.”
“I’m going to give you this journal. Keep track of how often you’re near bodies of water and copses of trees – not single trees, there needs to be a cluster.”
“Bear with me, I know you’re lactose intolerant, but buy a pint of milk and keep it in your kitchen. If it spoils faster than expected, we’ll have a better idea of what’s going on here.”
“Have you considered that you may not, in fact, actually be a mammal?”
“Okay, I’m going to have to refer you to a specialist. It looks like your tertiary dentition is coming in.”
“I think we need to check for allergic reactions to silver, iron, a few types of wood, garlic, and holy water. That’ll help us rule out some possible causes for this rash. In the mean time I think you should avoid Italian food and holy ground.”
“Have you noticed clusters of birds following you? Were they corvids? Hm, interesting. You ought to come in to the office so we can discuss this further.”
“That itching sensation might be a rash, but I think we ought to give you an MRI and see if you’re about to grow horns.”
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