Creative Writing Professor at a former college: Welcome to creative writing! By the way,
you will not write fantasy, ghost stories, pranormal, or science fiction
in this class, as this is a creative writing course.”
What the ever loving fuck is with “creative” writing professors who think that speculative fiction of any stripe ISN’T CREATIVE?
I still remember my own creative writing teacher telling me this because he saw the Terry Pratchett book on my desk and got this smug smirk on his face like “aha, gotcha”. He had the nerve to pick it up and call it “popularist fiction”, like somehow being popular and easily accessible made it less inherent in intellectual value.
I had it in my back pack because I did my final thesis on the evolution of mythology and folk tails into fantasy and sci-fi and the societal importance of telling stories (before anyone asks, no I don’t have it, I lost it when I moved continents), and I used Terry Pratchett because there wasn’t a single humanitarian issue the man did not touch on.
Which I told him. And then he kind of floundered and went “ah, well but, it’s…well I mean it’s not exactly high brow”, like neither the fuck was Shakespeare or Dickens you self-important turnip. Dickens was literally selling his stories by the chapter. He was the popular author of his time. Shakespeare was too, he fucking made up words and phrases all the time because the language he needed to express himself didn’t exist in the way he needed it too.
Intellectual elitism is nothing more than a hold over from class warfare and the belief that only certain people should get to be truly educated. And it needs to be smashed.
I had a creative writing prof at university who told us that modern fiction was the way to write (GENRE fiction was garbage to him), favored the students in the class who wrote it (he had this creepy little clique club that worshiped the ground he walked on), and wrote as my final evaluation for the year, word for word:
“You would be such a good writer if you didn’t write fantasy”
you have been visited by the seven magic dragon balls your biggest wish will be granted but only if you reblog
Couldn’t risk it.
didn’t realize they change colors. now I know o gotta wish.
THIS SHIT IS REAL I GOT THE JOB I WAS NUTS ABOUT BC I REBLOGGED THIS YESTERDAY maybe it’s a coinkidink but it okay just take the necessary steps to achieve what you’re wishing for and YOU CAN DO IT
I was watching this episode with an ex-military friend and this scene came on. He made this weird kind of grunt, which I took to be a sound of disgust.
But when I asked him what his problem was, he just smiled.
“No! This is AWESOME. The senior bridge crew is all cross-trained on each others stations! She’s a lieutenant so of course she’d be trained up on driving the ship… that’s exactly the kind of redundancy you’d want in an emergency situation.”
When you look at the Kobayashi Maru scene in Star Trek XI, you see that all department heads (or even eligible department heads) are crosstrained on all the bridge stations too, because who’s sitting at helm/tactical but Leonard H McCoy MD.
Those people questioning all these years the protocol of all the times Bones hangs out on the bridge can cool their jets. He has every right to be there.
Uhura takes navigation in The Naked Time, too. In fact, only the last two gifs here are from Court Martial, because there’s a different helmsman than Sulu when the court martial judges are on the bridge. In the first two gifs Sulu’s at the helm and it’s Riley abandoning navigation, so those are from The Naked Time. There must be a third episode too, because the middle row have Kirk in the center seat instead of Spock like in the Naked Time gifs.
Consulting Witch 