#editin

Warning: Violence, spoilers

Title: Tommy Gun

Editor: Keizu (@ratatoi)

Song: Tommy Gun

Artist: Royal Republic

Anime: Durarara!!

“𝐌𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐧 𝐡𝐚𝐥𝐟 𝐨𝐟 𝐰𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐧 𝐚𝐝𝐦𝐢𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐢𝐫 𝐬𝐨𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐦𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐚 𝐩𝐡𝐨𝐭𝐨𝐬 𝐛𝐞𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐝𝐞𝐬𝐩𝐢𝐭𝐞 𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐰𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐫𝐝𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐭'𝐬 𝐰𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐠 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐦𝐚𝐠𝐚𝐳𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐝𝐨 𝐢𝐭.”

Editing yourself might make you feel ‘model ready’ for Instagram, you might feel the high from the few minutes of love and numerous likes your receive from people you don’t care about on the internet. But the truth is although you can edit your body online, in reality, you have to live with yourself when you see yourself in the mirror, you will start to think that its never going to be good enough. This habit of editing your pictures is adding to your low self-esteem, poor body image and confidence. Because now, not only you are comparing yourself with the models and actresses, but with your peers – and most distressingly, with yourself.

Women have become insecure with their natural selves to such an extent that the rate of plastic surgery that is quite actually ‘editing yourself in real life’ has reached the highest its ever been, shockingly widely used by girls who are still teenagers.  

1. Grocery shopping (you have the basic idea, a general sense for the main characters & a few jumbled scenes which you'll have to sift through)

2.  Scattered Ingredients (You have nailed down the setting, the plot direction, the names of the main characters and an outline)

3. Raw Batter (You've combined the  ingredients. You're steadily working on the first draft and have a few thousand words on it.)

4. Half Baked (Halfway or mostly done. Struggling with how to wrap things up or just feeling unmotivated. At the stage where you are doubting your ‘cake’)

5. Frosting (Done with the first draft, editing in progress or if you're like me and you edit as you go along then you're on 5th draft)

6. Taste testing (Looking for betas and feedback)

7. Packaging (You've followed the general formatting guidelines and your book baby is ready to be set out to publishers, editors and agents)

“By the Black Volumes!” >C

“What in blue blazes?” D8