#lanleys

‘Same Old Song’ by The Weeknd. my favorite line is just straight up:

“what you own” from rent

“bloodstream” by ed sheeran

zeus: done!

ares: opinion on war

literally dumb as hell enough is enough

hermes: last text you sent

ur so cute moira

alright let’s get into this

i think the blank space video is a revelation — taylor could’ve gone in a conservative direction (i mean she already wrote the song — similar to the feeling that love song by sara bareilles has once you realize it’s a fuck you to the record company for putting their own misogynistic views onto her music and image) but she didn’t, she went all out and…. it was amazing

taylor didn’t step back and i loved every minute of it. has taylor always been so supportive of women in the past? no. has she learned part of her feminism from lena dunham? yes. but as we can see here, she’s growing and you know, i don’t see any of lena’s bs version of whatever the fuck she tries to play off as feminism in taylor (yet) and i hope that we never will because the media and the world needs to see what she is saying and understand that this is a woman who has learned and grown and that fuck, her life isn’t all about romance, and even if it was, who gives a fuck? romance is a huge part of the world. romance is a commercialized feeling that the media and consumerism tries to shove deep down our throats, so HOW CAN YOU BLAME THE PEOPLE WHO FUCKING PLAY INTO IT??? taylor is a woman that’s been in love and has had her heart broken and has lived and she writes about it… but like, um…. so does nearly every other artist in the world. the only reason it’s talked about so much is because taylor was a teenage girl/young woman who was BEATING everyone by doing it and they didn’t like it. 

it is a perfect companion to gone girl and gone girl is doing exactly what i always hoped and knew it would do

it opened the world up to different interpretations of women, complex women, diverse women, genuinely fucked up women. 

we’re allowed to be something other then the basic stereotypes: mother, bitch, virgin or whore. 

i say i want more pls i hope all the other female artists go in this direction and allow a more open portrayal of women and situations. they do not need to be the media’s perfect image anymore, not completely, the one’s at the top especially can say fuck you to everyone and keep on paving the way towards something great

but i mean, now can we have it actually be more diverse in the way that matters?? i’ve got a lot of blonde white girls pushing boundaries and being praised for it — now let’s recognize the women of color, the queer women, the disabled women who challenge norms every fucking day and are never heard or acknowledged.

C: Who is your favorite character of your own?  Who is your favorite character created by somebody else?  Why?

Right now, I love Dr. Fiend the most, because I've spent the most time developing him, so he's a lovely, complicated mess of surprises. He's a wannabe supervillain who thinks he's spineless but isn't, and he's vicious and spiteful but aching for connection, and I think he's evolved into a real person (still in the process of being defined, of course, but real) that's more than the sum of his tropes (my favorite tropes!). 

My superhero, Captain Frost, is also fascinating, but I've just started writing from his perspective, so I don't know him as well. But he has a life of his own that exists outside of me, it feels like. 

My favorite character of all time? It's got to be Bartimaeus. I'm just really in love with every layer of his character--his humor, his bravado, his guilt--and the way Stroud blends them just perfectly so that those complexities all exist within the same character without feeling disjointed, and I just think he hits the balance perfectly. He's a complex character who is intensely likable, and to be both of those things just doesn't happen all that often. :)

F: What's your favorite book? Favorite author?

Favorite book still might be Behind the Attic Wall by Sylvia Cassedy, because it's a book that just completely envelops me when I read it, and it was incredibly formative in terms of the stories I love and how I write. 

Favorite author is Maggie Stiefvater. 

W: What's your biggest pet peeve in writing?