Yup, but I was watching a Tiktok video this morning about a student who just graduated from college with two degrees and she speaks three languages, but she can’t even get a job flipping burgers right now because of the competition for jobs. I think a lot of people become teachers because it’s a job that will always be available, not many want it, and it’s hard to get a job anywhere else these days. I don’t blame them for taking it even if they don’t like kids because what else are they gonna do? ¯\_(ﭢ)_/¯
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Knowing that is mind-boggling and depressing…
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When it comes to K-Dramas, I can only do shows where romance in not center stage. I don’t mind those, but I don’t watch them that much because I’m not a lovey-dovey person. Though I don’t mind a good romance series, but that is not something I normally gravitate towards in the first place.
There’s only so much falling in love and shit a person can deal with.
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They are very sex divided, but matriarchal. WD was like a retelling of the AXIS fight.
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Did you know that rabbits eat their own poop?
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They both a bit ugly-cute, so I don’t get why he’s losing it. lol
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Balloon Boy has a chronic receding hairline though.
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Are you talking about real life bunny rabbits? If so, then yes I think they are matriarchal, as most animal species seem to be. But in WD they most certainly were not matriarchal. The males ruled, in one case by extreme tyranny, and at the end of the book all three warrens had male leaders, not female, as did the original warren that they fled from in the beginning. The author goes to great effort to name some 20 or so male characters, even when they have very small parts, but only something like three females out of ten are ever named. Females only serve as currency; they’re something the males fight over and fight for, giving them a reason to fight against the Efrafans, which is the main conflict in the book. They’re really nothing but baby factories. (♯^.^ღ)
Granted, I didn’t read the sequel, Tales from Watership Down, written 20 years later, where the author may have made things more equal for the genders. But even though I liked WD I just have no desire to spend any more time with these characters. I do recommend the book, though! If you can ignore the blatant sexism, it is an interesting story, and I loved Hazel and Bigwig. Hated Fiver, but then I tend to hate magical characters anyhow. ¯\_(ﭢ)_/¯
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Nope! I know nothing about real life bunny rabbits at all, except that they’re terminally cute. ／(=＾ェ＾=)＼
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I reread it every once in a while: Yeah, irl matriarchal, in the story it was more about how men wage war, back then, was all.
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Honestly, I was the very same way! The small difference is that I am improving bit by bit and letting go that need to be perfect. Also, some writers edit as they write, but it’s nowhere as bad as you may think.
When writers do this shit.
When you write a first draft of your story, IT’S GOING TO SUCK MASSIVE BALLS, bro! That’s what the second and other drafts are for! You just dump everything in your first draft then once done, make use of it in the second or third or more drafts! The fact that many writers expect their first drafts to look clean and polished as their final drafts is fucking stupid and lazy as hell! NO HUMAN BEING ALIVE HAS THAT MAGICALLY ABILITY TO MAKE THEIR FIRST DRAFT LOOK LIKE A FINAL, POLISHED DRAFT!!! That is not possible and as a write you shouldn’t think or strive to be that way early in the game. You’re just writing the first draft and getting everything out in the open.
Did you know that you’re reading a novel that is already finished and looks great because it went through a crap ton of edits to get to that point? You’re looking at completed work that has gone through bunch or edits, revisions, and more to make final draft ready to be published. You are wanting your first draft to be the same as your favorite writer’s final polished draft.
That’s not possible to do!
Writers today are either lazy as shit or striving for something they can never get…
@bxllawrites, @Akje, @alenatenjo, @copyedit, and @NotARussianBot
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I always have to tell my students this. Like guys, even those people who are getting As aren’t doing their best work because they haven’t had time to edit or polish. They just happened to be able to write something the markers were interested in. NO ONE can write a perfect story the first time around and, even if they think they have, they always find issues with it later.
Like you said, people only ever see the finished product. They don’t see all the mental breakdowns behind it.
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Thank you! 
I believe @TheTigerWriter mentioned that on here a while back…
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Not all stories flow the same out of a person. Mini Moo was plain the easiest thing I’ve ever written. This ONC, I’m going to throttle this 3rd one, I swear. So, this idea that I could get my A and all my stories would be an A is a joke.
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I had a sticky note with a lot of important info for my series on it and now I can’t find it ;-;
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Nevermind. I found it. Crisis averted
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i have so much to tell you guys
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Do you want to see Balloon Boy’s receding hairline?
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