May 2012
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This is the first page of Fat Kid Rules the World
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I’m a sweating fat kid standing on the edge of the subway platform staring at the tracks. I’m seventeen years old, weigh 296 pounds, and I’m six-foot-one. I have a crew cut, yes a crew cut, sallow skin, and the kind of mouth that puckers when I breathe. I’, wearing a shirt that reads Miami Beach - Spring Break 1997, and huge, bland tan pants - the only kind of pants I own. Eight pairs,...
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Rushdie on Censorship
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Salman Rushdie writes ‘On Censorship’ in The New Yorker:
The creative act requires not only freedom but also this assumption of freedom. If the creative artist worries if he will still be free tomorrow, then he will not be free today. If he is afraid of the consequences of his choice of subject or of his manner of treatment of it, then his choices will...
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“Every day you gotta wake up and be yourself even if you suck, especially if you...”
– Patrick Stump (via m0rdred)
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Sibling Rivalry at their worsts
Zuko: What are you doing here?
Azula: You mean it's not obvious yet? I am about to celebrate becoming an only child!
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fuckyeahavatarost:
Zuko: Uncle, I know you...
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Sokka: Really? You didn’t...
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The moment when Harry takes Draco's wand
J. K. Rowling: I said to Arthur, my American editor - we had an interesting conversation during the editing of seven - the moment when Harry takes Draco's wand, Arthur said, God, that's the moment when the ownership of the Elder wand is actually transferred? And I said, that's right. He said, shouldn't that be a bit more dramatic? And I said, no, not at all, the reverse. I said to Arthur, I think it really puts the elaborate, grandiose plans of Dumbledore and Voldemort in their place. That actually the history of the wizarding world hinged on two teenage boys wrestling with each other. They weren't even using magic. It became an ugly little corner tussle for the possession of wands. And I really liked that - that very human moment, as opposed to these two wizards who were twitching strings and manipulating and implanting information and husbanding information and guarding information, you know? Ultimately it just came down to that, a little scuffle and fistfight in the corner and pulling a wand away.
Melissa Anelli: It says a lot about the world at large, I think, about conflict in the world, it's these little things -
J. K. Rowing: And the difference one individual can make. Always, the difference one individual can make.
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“I’ve never met a white writer who ever gets asked questions like, ‘Well, don’t...”
– Junot Diaz. Everything he says is gold, always. (via paperbackgirl)
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Dunning-Kruger Effect →
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“The Dunning–Kruger effect is a cognitive bias in which unskilled individuals suffer from illusory superiority, mistakenly rating their ability much higher than average. This bias is attributed to a metacognitive inability of the unskilled to recognize their mistakes.[1]
Actual competence may weaken self-confidence, as competent individuals may falsely assume that others have an...
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Send me a character name and i'll name...
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