if you’re anything like me, working on a computer is a dangerous thing. i’ll get distracted by everything - that one email i should respond to, all the pictures of my dog, tumblr, and so on. I recently discovered an amazing resource to stop that.
when you open it, it shows this screen, where you can choose either a time limit or word goal
then when you start, it opens a document that fills the entire screen like this
and you cannot quit the app or open anything else until your word/time quota is filled. i just wrote half of my english speech that i’ve been putting off all morning, and it took only 20 minutes!
so yup, it’s called writer’s block and is free for both mac and windows. enjoy!
reblog to save a lazy ass
It’s called Cold Turkey Writer now and it is AMAZING!!!! I’ve been using it for NaNoWriMo!
imagine a creature like this, but it walks on all fours but can also fly. it’s the size of a giraffe and stalks prey on land. my friend, you are imagining azhdarchids
I know we’re always talking about how Pacific Rim embraces the ridiculousness of the human race because “just build a giant robot to punch them in the face” is probably the most full-on human bullshit response we could have thought of to an invasion of giant aliens, but can we pause and also consider that the aliens are basically doing the same thing
like they wanted to invade us and their first thought about how to do so was “let’s genetically engineer giant fucking monsters that will crawl out of the depths of the ocean and trample cities”
Pacific Rim is just the story of two species that on a scale from 1 to 10 respond to every problem with a 17
natalie portman radiates such a terrifying energy i can’t describe it….. it’s not exactly evil but it’s not warm either…. i feel like she could unhinge her jaw and drag me into the ocean like a kraken but she wouldn’t bc it’s undignified
Wanna know why?
“Oscar-winning actress Natalie Portman told the crowd at Saturday’s Women’s March in downtown Los Angeles that she experienced what she calls “sexual terrorism” as a 13-year-old after the release of the film The Professional.
Portman described her pride and excitement in releasing the film, only to encounter sexually explicit messages both directed toward her and made about her.
”I excitedly opened my first fan mail to read a rape fantasy that a man had written me,” she recalled. “A countdown was started on my local radio show to my 18th birthday, euphemistically the date that I would be legal to sleep with. Movie reviewers talked about my budding breasts in reviews.”
The experience, she said, changed the way she expressed herself publicly, in order to limit the ways she could be objectified by others.
”I understood very quickly, even as a 13-year-old, that if I were to express myself sexually, I would feel unsafe,” she said. “And that men would feel entitled to discuss and objectify my body to my great discomfort. So I quickly adjusted my behavior. I rejected any role that even had a kissing scene and talked about that choice deliberately in interviews. I emphasized how bookish I was and how serious I was. And I cultivated an elegant way of dressing. I built a reputation for basically being prudish, conservative, nerdy, serious, in an attempt to feel that my body was safe and that my voice would be listened to.”
the entire gaang jumped azula and she was fine and she damn near killed aang while he was in the avatar state AND even iroh didn’t wanna go against her….do you legitimately think azula couldn’t take on katara 1v1 and most likely kill her if it wasn’t for her lil plot forwarding breakdown….
Azula was always unstable and didnt like loss. We see that through her entire character arc where anything less than perfection isn’t good enough, to the point where perfection didn’t even satisfy her. The bitch was strong but she was crazy, and let her guard down.
It’s hubris sis, they’ve been doing this since ancient Greece dont act high and mighty because you dont understand Hamartia.
Also let’s not forget that Katara is an insanely powerful waterbender. Like her skill is unique at her age. She stops rain out to like 20 feet away from her and mastered blood ending after only working with internal water for about a day. We see Zuko even be scared of her power and impressed by her restraint.
There is only one bitch who matched Azula’s raw bending power and her name is Katara so gtfo.
Also in that scene where Azula got a (lucky) shot at Aang in his avatar state, someone was kind enough to bring up that Katara was going to to toe with Azula and nearly ran her into the ground until Zuko came to help her ass. So no, if anyone could beat Azula it was Katara
In this house we stan Katara
Let’s not forget that sus katara learned blood bending in seconds. Meanwhile it took that old thot yrs to perfect.
Katara was by and large more talented, more powerful, and more prodigious than Azula. There, I said it.
Azula had a unique fighting style, but she wasn’t better than Katara, Aang, or Toph.
Not to mention that Zuko was the one throwing out the offense, using techniques that Iroh and Aang had taught him (like breathing, spinning, etc.).
He’s the one who physically weakened Azula, not enough to completely take her down, but enough to notice that she was weakened:
I don’t think Katara got a single offensive shot in. It’s not like she sent wave after wave down on this poor mentally unstable girl. Katara’s part in the fight was amazing but entirely defensive. So while Azula had been going through a mental breakdown for episodes, it wasn’t her mental instability or even Katara’s power that brought her down. It was the fact that Katara did what waterbenders do best: she turned her defense to offense.
See, to me, that was Azula’s main problem One that paralleled Zuko because everything usually does. Azula never thought things through. Probably because she was the equivalent of a mentally unstable ninth grader who got charged with the task of hunting down a god. Iroh gives Zuko this whole passionate speech about how it’s important to step back and think things through but Azula never got an Iroh (sadly) so she never got a speech and therefore never got that lesson. This is admittedly worsened by her breakdown but let’s face it, whether she was stable or not, she would have still been so focused on killing Katara that she wouldn’t have ever noticed that water.
Avatar was never a show about power. Avatar was a show about strategy and how good strategy (and admittedly good deus ex machinas) can take down even the most powerful beings. (On that note, I still think Sokka should have been the one to take down Azula but that’s just me.)
