Writer’s Month is a daily prompt event in August. Posting for the event starts on August 1st, but we’re posting the prompt list early to give everyone the chance to get a headstart on the writing!
The rules are simple: All content is allowed (including fanfiction, original fiction, poetry, etc). There is no word limit, minimum or maximum. You will have one week to fill each prompt.
And if you manage to complete all 31 prompts and fill out a google form with links to your entries at the end of the month, you will receive a personalized badge as a reward! There will be non-personalized badges for everyone else participating.
rolling around on the floor considering the difference in dialogue between the english film and the hindi dub <3
when pavitr gives miles the tour of mumbattan, he says “ this is where the traffic is, this is also where the traffic is, there’s traffic here too!” which is well and good and insanely funny, because yes. traffic is that bad here
but i don’t think you’ve considered how fucking hilarious it is in hindi. pavitr goes, “yahan traffic hai, yahan traffic ki mummy hai, yahan traffic ka papa hai”
which literally translates to, “here’s the traffic, here’s the traffic’s mother and here’s the traffic’s father!”
i don’t think anyone has ever summed up how supremely pathetic and hilarious our traffic situation is here better than him, kudos to whoever dubbed it
bond between tumblr mutuals is strong in a way that other social media mutuals can rarely be because other places people will follow u bc u are pretty or funny or talented . on here people follow u if u are insane
I still think that my favorite urban legend/folklore fact is that there are certain areas in New Orleans where you cannot get a taxi late at night not because it isn’t safe, but because taxi companies have had recurring problems of picking up ghosts in those areas who are not aware that they are dead and disappearing from the cab before reaching the destination and therefore stiffing the driver on the fare causing a loss for the company.
An occupational hazard of cab driving I had not previously considered
I love that the nola problem here is not “ghosts in my taxi cab,” but “ghosts are FUCKING BROKE DEAD BASTARDS & I GOT BILLS”
Horror is when ghosts get into cabs and scare drivers
Magical realism is when cab companies have to develop policies to prevent ghastly fare-theft
In a book about the tsunami in Japan in 2011, the writer talked about how there was a huge increase in reports of ghostly activity. Apparently in Japan treating ghosts rudely is basically considered the stupidest thing you could possibly do. For months after the tsunami, taxi drivers would pick up a passenger only to have them give an address in one of the devastated areas. The cab driver often looked up halfway to the destination to find their fare had disappeared. Not wanting to be impolite to the person (even if they were dead) they’d drive to the address, open the door to let them out, then drive away.
the point was love, the point was humanity, the point was understanding, the point was acknowledging the perspectives of others, the point was they were only human, even after everything they were only human
