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Amen!

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UK grading system
75-100 A+
70-74 A
64-69 A-
60-63 B+
55-59 B
50-54 B-
46-49 C+
43-45 C
38-42 C-
35-37 D
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Time to move to the UK

Dude I would kill for that grading scale

wait, so what  is it in america then?

100 A+

95 A

90 A-

86-89 B+

85 B

80 B-

76-79 C+

75 C

70 C-

65-69 D

Anything below that is an F

is that real??

yup

Yup.

Is France the only country where we’re gradded on 20?

Like : 20 A+

18 A

15 B+

12 B

10 C

Everything under is an F I guess.

Something like that.

And you can have grades like **.5, or even .25 is the teacher is mean.

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avast is telling me my blog has a virus?

does it do that for anyone else? I don’t understand, it was perfectly fine like yesterday and I haven’t reblogued anything in a while.

I’ll see that tomorrow when I’ll wake up, I’m too tired to worry about that right now… =m=

coldcigarettes:

Hi there, time to talk about writing and fanfiction again, but I promise it’s the last time! (Well, not exactly, the last time will be tomorrow when I’ll post the fic!)

I’ve finished writing my fic for the Merlin reverse big bang. It’s almost 42k long and I can’t believe I wrote that much in a bit more than a month. 

As I mentioned earlier, I had some beta reader problems, but thankfully someone amazing offered their help and now the fic is almost completely beta’ed. I still have the last two chapters unbeta’ed so if anyone have some free time like, right now, and would like to help, I’d be forever grateful! (Knowing than in the last chapter, there’s ~2k of porn. It’s my first time writing porn. Be merciful.)

And if anyone have more time in the next few days/week and is willing to beta the entire fic more precisely - because it has all been done in a super short time only to make it presentable for the posting date, I’d really like to work on it a bit more, especially on plot holes and that kind of things, i’m sure we missed plenty - I’d be forever grateful too. For that you can wait until tomorrow to read the fic first, and if you’re interested, leave me a message anywhere or send me and email at puckboum[@]gmail[.]com. 

Now, if you are interested in my writing and in hearing me ranting and complaining as I write, I’m using my livejournal for that. c: I post word counts and that kind of stuff. Well it’s over for this fic, but now I’m going to start writing for the Merlin big bang ahah.

That was all! See you soon with some art~

Yay!

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stilleatingoranges:

In the West, plot is commonly thought to revolve around conflict: a confrontation between two or more elements, in which one ultimately dominates the other. The standard three- and five-act plot structures—which permeate Western media—have conflict written into their very foundations. A “problem” appears near the end of the first act; and, in the second act, the conflict generated by this problem takes center stage. Conflict is used to create reader involvement even by many post-modern writers, whose work otherwise defies traditional structure.

The necessity of conflict is preached as a kind of dogma by contemporary writers’ workshops and Internet “guides” to writing. A plot without conflict is considered dull; some even go so far as to call it impossible. This has influenced not only fiction, but writing in general—arguably even philosophy. Yet, is there any truth to this belief? Does plot necessarily hinge on conflict? No. Such claims are a product of the West’s insularity. For countless centuries, Chinese and Japanese writers have used a plot structure that does not have conflict “built in”, so to speak. Rather, it relies on exposition and contrast to generate interest. This structure is known as kishōtenketsu.

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My mind = blown.

…I’ve generally conceptualised the heart of storytelling as being about change (whether it’s the characters who change or the reader’s understanding of them that changes), and I’d summarise the 3 act structure as Statement, Problem, Resolution - and the ‘Problem’ part doesn’t have to imply a contest of wills, it can simply be about change or contrast. (So the problem might be that the protagonist has lost their favourite shoes, or that they don’t know whether the object of their desire will agree to go on a date - there’s a source of tension and drama, but it need not be about competition.) I think this is particularly evident within fanfiction, actually - oftentimes fanfic is short, just a vignette or a scene or two, and it is designed to be satisfying to the reader without necessarily having a traditional Beginning, Middle, End kind of structure built around conflict.

But it’s true that the vast majority of Western narratives ARE built around conflict of some sort; until this moment I had never known to look at this difference in structures between Western and Eastern paradigms of storytelling. This demands further study, and has definite implications for both writing and teaching…

coldcigarettes:

Hi! As you might know, The Tempest is playing the the Globe theater in London, and Colin Morgan plays Ariel. It’s one of my favourite Shakespeare’s play, if not my absolute favourite, and well, Colin Morgan!

I will go see it, but going alone is no fun, so I was wondering if anyone would…

hi

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i dont want to grow up i just want to lay in bed, pick my nose, watch cartoons, read about some hardcore dick sucking all day and become rich without even trying that’s all i want in life

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