#all the awards

hausofroma:

queerdog:

They should create a new Oscar and Golden Globe category called “Julianna Margulies” and Julianna Margulies should win the award every single year. 

^^^ And an Emmy and SAG category too… 

garcamirigis:

I just realised something.

It is (kind of) easy to write despair. It is easy to write something soul-crushing. It is easy to kill off characters and terrorise the readers with prompts and bits of terrifying scenes, horrific pasts and sheer, pure destruction. It is easy to almost glamourize all of that, and it is also easy to actually glamourize that.

But to write genuine, pure hope, is something hard. I’m not talking about light-hearted scenes, no, I’m talking about the core of the story. It is so incredibly hard to make hopethe core theme of everything. It’s hard to make your characters stand after almost dying for the milionth time, it’s hard to notkill them off and instead give them an equally important role in the story that isn’t shock value. To make your story about hope is to accept that hope is not stupid, or silly, or anything like that. It is to know that it exists, and also that it hurts to have it.

And even harder than that, to make the reader feel pure,genuinehappiness is a thing I find impossibleto do and I am NOT joking. It’s not just humour or funny silly moments, I mean genuine happiness, a kind that is so powerful and deep that you know it is there even in the darkest of moments. I never could write a character that has such a deep, powerful happiness, because it is so easy to lose it to everything bad that can happen in a story.

I am not saying that you should not write about despair! Actually, to write something destuctive is to almost destroy yourself. Almost! It’s very hard to do that! But sometimes, it is even harder to simply… Notdo that.