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undercunt:

i think some people our age these days totally underestimate how good reading a book is like idc if this sounds geeky or whatever but there is actually nothing better than being hooked on a really good book

more-than-a-bromance:

-spacemonkeymafia:

insaneandproudofit:

Whether it be fanfiction, original stories, drabbles, songs, poems, books, or anything that has to do with creative words, then reblog. Let’s gather all the writers of Tumblr together.

I suck at it but I try :S

It. Is. Not. That. SIMPLE.

• When you first open a nice cold Dr. Pepper.
• Right after it rains.
• The scent of a cute boy’s cologne.
• The brilliant smell of a book’s pages.
• His hair.
• Scented candles.

I think you need an equal dose of creator and corporation, between author and publisher, script and producer, writer and director, line and actor, little inventive man and The Powers That Be.

I keep thinking about The Star Wars Prequels, that were so colossally over-produced and strange, yet had the full involvement of George Lucas. And yet episodes 4-6 seem to NOT have all that, which is when GL didn’t necessarily have the creative freedom he would later have with the prequels.

I keep thinking about M. Night Shyamalan and how The Sixth Sense was good and Invincible was good, but after that it started going down hill. During TSS he still answered to the higher power of producers and executives, the people who know what sells in Hollywood and what works for certain audiences. But as he became successful he gained creative license and drifted further away from the corporate influence. Good thing, right?

Not in that case.

And yet, there’s Tim Burton, who has not been bound by such forces for a very long time and still continues to produce very admiral work, albeit with a bit of a predictable aesthetic style.

I keep thinking about Joss Whedon, whose work has been (mostly) hurt by influence from above.

• Buffy - Canceled after fifth season, moved to a new network that gave them no restraint leading to a sixth season that went to a very dark place and a seventh season that felt tired. Neither was bad.
• Angel - Canceled during the fifth season despite historic highs in ratings.
• Firefly - (By far the most egregious example) Episodes shown out of order and at confusing times, canceled after first season.
• Dollhouse - Canceled after second season, but the cancellation lead to at least five straight episodes of awesome, show ending sexiness.

Then there’s the nearly complete absence of corporate influence; Independent Films. Movies that take risks and are beautiful in their own right, these can turn out brilliant or trashy as hell or in between.

I think these corporate guys are here for a reason. They know what works and when. They know what people like to see. But in a world with little creator and copious amounts of corporate you just get…shallow fare. Low brow entertainment. You don’t get deep thinking, you don’t get risks, you get what’s safe, what people like to see.

This is why there must be a balance between the two, I think. Even though a work can sometimes turn out fantastic without them, they are needed, to restrain creativity from over extending itself and becoming — dare I say it — so over stretched that it becomes uninteresting and silly.

Take for instance the Underworld Movies.

Take for instance Breaking Dawn.

Take for instance The Happening.

Creativity, it seems, needs to be applied heavily, but in such a way that an idea can actually work. The idea of princesses riding unicorns wielding scimitars with names like “The Flame Orifice” who fight demons in the shape of penises is creative. But does it work?

No, sir.

Take this, for example. Assume God exists; he is omnipotent, omniscient, and omnipresent. With all that power, why does he need human beings?

He needs prayer, belief, substance. Without human belief, what is a God? Nothing.

Without a script, what is a director? A man waving his arms around. Without a book, what is a publisher? A guy in a building full of people who don’t know what to do. Without a line, what is an actor? A silent human being.

I offer this, reader; the creator and the corporation…they need each other. :]