Creative Writing Professor at a former college: Welcome to creative writing! By the way,
you will not write fantasy, ghost stories, pranormal, or science fiction
in this class, as this is a creative writing course.”
What the ever loving fuck is with “creative” writing professors who think that speculative fiction of any stripe ISN’T CREATIVE?
I still remember my own creative writing teacher telling me this because he saw the Terry Pratchett book on my desk and got this smug smirk on his face like “aha, gotcha”. He had the nerve to pick it up and call it “popularist fiction”, like somehow being popular and easily accessible made it less inherent in intellectual value.
I had it in my back pack because I did my final thesis on the evolution of mythology and folk tails into fantasy and sci-fi and the societal importance of telling stories (before anyone asks, no I don’t have it, I lost it when I moved continents), and I used Terry Pratchett because there wasn’t a single humanitarian issue the man did not touch on.
Which I told him. And then he kind of floundered and went “ah, well but, it’s…well I mean it’s not exactly high brow”, like neither the fuck was Shakespeare or Dickens you self-important turnip. Dickens was literally selling his stories by the chapter. He was the popular author of his time. Shakespeare was too, he fucking made up words and phrases all the time because the language he needed to express himself didn’t exist in the way he needed it too.
Intellectual elitism is nothing more than a hold over from class warfare and the belief that only certain people should get to be truly educated. And it needs to be smashed.
Transcript of a tweet from John Brennan, former CIA Director and recent bomb target, in response to yet another “fake news” tweet from Trump, in the midst of a rash of bomb packages:
Stop blaming others. Look in the mirror. Your inflammatory rhetoric, insults, lies, & encouragement of physical violence are disgraceful. Clean up your act….try to act Presidential. The American people deserve much better. BTW, your critics will not be intimidated into silence.
Okay so last year I had really long hair that I absolutely loved… but I cut it short to donate it… they LOVED it short but I HATE IT!!!! I finally am almost halfway to where it was and they told me I HAVE to cut it!! I WANT my long hair again! But they won’t let me!!! I decided to make a similar deal with them as a friend of mine… that if I get a certain amount of notes that they’ll let me keep it… I HATE to do this but… Guys? Can you help me to get to 50,000 notes? I know it is a lot to ask but this is so important to me…
here is how it used to look
And here is to where I cut it that THEY want for me again… (it’s bad but tolerable)
So… Guys can you please help me do this? (I suggested 10,000 and they had agreed on 100,000 so 50,000 is the deal)
So PLEASE HELP ME GET TO 50,000 so I can keep my hair?
The time they’re calling it off is either Friday or Saturday… 😔
I’m not going to make it
I’m going to spam this because my mother behaves similarly. It’s not ok, so I’m going to do everything in my power to get to 50,000 notes. 8 should just reblog it with cute animal pictures.
Okay so last year I had really long hair that I absolutely loved… but I cut it short to donate it… they LOVED it short but I HATE IT!!!! I finally am almost halfway to where it was and they told me I HAVE to cut it!! I WANT my long hair again! But they won’t let me!!! I decided to make a similar deal with them as a friend of mine… that if I get a certain amount of notes that they’ll let me keep it… I HATE to do this but… Guys? Can you help me to get to 50,000 notes? I know it is a lot to ask but this is so important to me…
here is how it used to look
And here is to where I cut it that THEY want for me again… (it’s bad but tolerable)
So… Guys can you please help me do this? (I suggested 10,000 and they had agreed on 100,000 so 50,000 is the deal)
So PLEASE HELP ME GET TO 50,000 so I can keep my hair?
The time they’re calling it off is either Friday or Saturday… 😔
I’m not going to make it
I’m going to spam this because my mother behaves similarly. It’s not ok, so I’m going to do everything in my power to get to 50,000 notes. 8 should just reblog it with cute animal pictures.
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