houseofhanover:

I wish getting a job in real life worked like it does on the Sims.

Just pick up a newspaper, join the Politics career and eventually become President through building up your charisma skill by talking to yourself in a mirror.


trust fun: It's gotten to the point that whenever I see the term "strong female character" my skin crawls.

holybat:

I hate this term.

People try to put it out as a “positive” and pro-feminism ting, but it’s pure BULLSHIT.

Male characters come in all kinds of personality, and they all have about the same chances of being loved by the audience; the strong, the weak, the non brilliant, the…



“There’s nothing wrong with being happy. There’s nothing wrong with enjoying something so much that it strips away all that irony and cynicism. And there’s nothing wrong with loving anything so much that it feels like it could pull your heart out of your chest and toss it on the floor. We build ourselves up to not do that, and then we build up the armor so thickly that we have trouble finding what’s underneath. We use that as an excuse to lash out at people who do feel stuff, who do like things (and I am, of course, mostly saying this about myself). It’s hard sometimes to remember that the world isn’t a place to glide through, so nothing can touch you. It’s a place to be experienced.” — Todd VanDerWerff (via lucy-vanpelt)



worldnspins:

dub-dub:

sometimes i worry about the progression of my own personal character arc

#i mean the writers are clearly making it up as they go along