I went back to FFN because I was nostalgic and getting roasted by my brother & co. and I saw that someone else has written stories about the founders. After so many years. Luke Cahill and Jane Cahill have two other people to write about them.
They even came up with this unique very good character concept for Olivia and she was perfect and I just *sniff*. I love it so much it’s so beautiful I’m so proud of them.
^ Link to Beginnings by 39addict101
Deeply upset however that nobody has written anything on Madeline Cahill since I wrote Forgiveness.
I am pregnant (it’s a boy) and I’m talking to my online bestie who I first met on T39C fandom, and first of all it’s surreal that this series has connected me with lifelong friends, but second of all, we were joking that I should name him name Dan or Ian, and it’s just like … this series is a PART of me. Like I know I read it when I was 13 and started writing fanfiction when I was 14, seven years ago, but it’s so embedded in my soul.
And honestly, that’s what literature, truly good literature, does for us. It sticks with us. It seeps into every crevice of our heart. It’s a story that is so engrained in us that we jokingly (seriously?) consider naming our children after some of the very characters that we fell in love with.
Honestly though, I’m just excited to sit down and read Maze of Bones with my child and get excited about the clue hunt all over again; but not as excited as I was when I was 13, because it’ll be a new excitement, of seeing my child fall in love with the very series that still is a part of me today.
Ooh is your handle a reference to Natalie Kabra from the 39 clues books by any chance? I was absolutely *obsessed* with the series as a kid but I hardly ever see anyone talking about it!
YESSS! I was OBSESSED with that series growing up one of my biggest flexes is that I can still list all 39 clues off the top of my head:D
Yasss a fellow fan! We absolutely need a 39 clues fandom; I’m surprised that it isn’t more popular on tumblr cause it’s got all the elements of a tumblr fave- pathetic wet meow meows who have in fact committed Crimes (uncle Alistair my beloved), whatever was going on with Nellie, all of the super cool history stuff, and the Themes
It’s so cool that you can list all the 39 clues! I really need to reread the series, and Cahills vs Vespers too
Sorry I wasn't here for a long time... and yeah they really do need a fandom!! When I first read all the series I was very excited to finally talk about this with the Fandom but can you guess how sad I was when I found out that THERE IS NO FANDOM???!! I really needed to talk about character arc of Ian and Natalie and about Jonah and talk and guess what had happened after all the season and most importantly about ships!! They really deserve a fandom.
i wish there was a fandom for this book series 😭 it does seem like itd have a fandom here but. no! :( apparently it used to have a bigger community behind it but im too young to know what that time was like
Okay listen there used to be a HUGE fandom for T39C. I joined at the end, when it was dying out. Twas the best time on the internet. Visit fanfiction.net for the most recent activity lol
Well after years of protesting that I wouldn’t get a discord I got a discord lol. Obviously my username is the same. I mean, why change what I created when I was 14???
39 clues is another beloved childhood series for me but those books where so nuts I don't even know where to begin.
Oh! How about "Grand Dutchess Anastasia is still alive and she's living in a secret bunker, and she also works for a secret global family organization"
Ian and Natalie are still kids... even if they wear suits and fly around in their privat jet
When natalie entered Ian's room and snuggled up at the foot of his bed.. i was truly in pity of nat...
And when they had finished the mission they would have been really disappointed because their first mission was just a diversion for isabel.. they tried to shake that feeling off but.....
yeah and that last part where ian stopped isabel from ripping the painting
Grace probably saw that and decided to include him in her will for the clue hunt she saw that the kabra kids may be the key to unite the lucian branch of the family with others they are still so young and not as ruthless as isabel or vikram
I watched a reel on Instagram today that said Nikola Tesla is rumored to have built a machine that could generate earthquakes so powerful that it could split the earth in two.
Anyway this is not an informative post this is a post confirming that Nikola Tesla is definitely a Vesper.
Okay I don’t even know if this will reach anyone but someday I want to write a novel about religious trauma and religious abuse and how religious people who claim to be holy really just… intentionally (or maybe unintentionally in some cases) abuse the shit out of children and women and minority groups.
Also how churches just shelter sexual abusers, and how sexual abusers use holy texts to justify their actions and threaten their victims into silence.
I am compiling a data base of cruel and unusual religious punishments (mostly to make sure I’m not crazy) but also to have a better understanding of exactly how religious abuse is manifested in different situations.
Some examples: a mother physically SITTING on a “disobedient” child while singing the famous hymn “Trust and Obey”
A young woman whose creepy traveling Christian musician uncle would travel to various churches and tell children’s story, during children’s story he would LICK his nieces face, from eyeball to chin, and the entire church would laugh. Her father looked on, and didn’t care how visibly uncomfortable his daughter was.
Finally, and this is just one of my own experiences. I suffer from horrible menstruation symptoms, and my mother refused to allow me to take any pain medicine, because it would not allow for me to have a “clear mind” to hear the Holy Spirit.
Anyway, I know that this can be quite traumatizing to share… but I’m just putting feelers out there… is there anyone willing to step forward and share their traumatic religious experiences?
It’s for research and understand and deconstructing purposes only.
Lowkey sitting in my office right now wishing that I could just be reading fanfiction in bed like I did when I was 14, full of life and joy, instead of absolute misery staring at an email I wish I didn’t have to answer.
also why would they make the janus base in venice. and the lucian base in paris for that matter. the french are terrible at all lucian things and venice is a conservation nightmare. put janus in paris and lucian in london. you know how the british are. why must i be burdened with knowledge and truth. why couldnt rick riordan or gordon korman be the bearers of truth
Okay first off imagine my total shock and surprise to see someone blogging about the 39 clues like five years after what I thought was the last of us sucked our last breath, and second off, this is straight facts and the only one straight fact is that I would sell my soul for Ian Kabra to this day.
if anyone is wondering why i came back to tumblr out of nowhere it’s because i was very high and playing splatoon 3 and i said “if i win this game i post on tumblr” and this was the first post that came to my head
The Top Reasons Why You Should Know Geology as a Writer
Hello, lovelies! A project for my Introduction to Geology class was to create a ‘promotion’ of Geology as it can be used for things other then you know, tourism or warning of natural disasters. Me, being the writer, decided to create this post that I will be posting for the fun of it. As this is a creative project, I decided to write it as I normally write posts here on my blog.
First off, writing is a complicated business when it comes down to it. Particularly when you get into the idea of worldbuilding. As someone who has two different worlds I’ve been working on creating, one thing that helps a lot is geology in general. I know, it sounds a bit crazy to think about. But it’s true. Geology is the study of the earth itself, and knowing how the earth works, even if it’s just basic concepts, helps build a world. After all, a town in the mountains and a town by the seaside may suffer from different natural disasters, but it comes from the same thing: the shifting of tectonic plates.
Let’s say that you’re building a world where your main character lives in the mountains. What sort of mountain town? Is it a mining town? Is it a town for tourists? In this little example, I will use a prototype for a story I am working on, where the main character lives in a town with a hot spring. How do hot springs form? Would this affect the area of the mountain town? The answer to this, of course, is geothermal heat that is pushed upwards to the upper crust. Once you know that, trying to figure out the environmental impacts of this occurs next. Then you have to think about the dangers of hot springs and so on, and how the people you have created would react to them.
Hot springs, and in general geothermal sites, have had religious or cultural connections for centuries! Think of all the health gurus talking about going to a hot spring to soak away the pain due to the minerals in a spring. Think of how people will purposely hike to get to a hot springs to soak in! An entire culture can be built around a hot springs to. Communal bathing is quite common across cultures, and a hot springs can be the site for potential political talks or even just a place of relaxation for people.
Adding to the above, you now have a tourism aspect, a possible religious aspect, an environmental concern, and a culture ready to be built up all based on a geological matter! I mean, look at the picture; it’s an image from a national parks website (https://www.nps.gov/subjects/geology/hot-springs.htm if any of you wanna look). We can see how a geological function like a hot spring can affect tourism here! Look at how many people are watching this! Even in a more medieval setting, you can’t doubt people wouldn’t line up to see this!
Let’s continue with another thought, and that is how places tend to end up settled. There are plenty of guidebooks that inform us how, as well, you can look at history! Natural resources are the answer to that, with water being a primary reason behind the settlement of many areas. But there are other resources that may have a settlement show up. Some may be organic, but others would be things such as coal, materials such as stone to create things, or it could be something like gems that people mine for money.
As well, by considering what natural resources are around, you determine more landscape as a result of these. The picture below is a picture of the world’s largest open-pit diamond mine. Imagine that something like this exists in your story.
And how does this happen?
Did you guess geology? You’d be right! Geology is such an ingrained process in world-building that writers don’t tend to see it. And let’s be real, if you have a group of people who live by a mine and a group of people who live by a lake, there are vastly different concerns each other has. This again comes down to the effects geology has on EITHER of these things.
Some writers ignore how geology works. JR Tolkein may have been a fantastic writer, but in the end his ideas on mountains were pretty wrong. Not bad, just wrong. While I’ll never say you can’t bend some rules for the fun of it when writing fantasy, I will say most people enjoy the sprinkling of reality littering the pages of their work rather then not. As well, it’s easier on the writer to.
I mean, I prefer not to wonder what sort of dangers there are in my worlds. If I can take a two-second Google Search to get an idea of it, it’s easier than trying to think of these things myself. Look to the above picture! We now have, in fact, at least 6 (6!!) things to include as worries for your little fishing village on the ocean. And guess what?! TWO of these things are related to geology!
So, to recap so far: Geology can be used to not only give your world either income, but it can also enable you to create a religion based on things around them, it can be used to create interesting landscapes and can give you natural disasters that are connected to said landscapes!
Wanna know what ELSE Geology can be used for?
Naming your little villages and towns. No, I am NOT kidding.
Look, people name places either after relatives, or themselves or they looked around frantically before pointing at the nearest rock and went: ROCK TOWN. Don’t believe me?
In Alberta, we have: High River, Slave Lake, Okotoks (A reference to Big Rock, using the Blackfoot word for rock, "ohkotok"), Diamond Valley, Fox Creek, Milk River, Peace River, Pincher Creek, Rocky Mountain House- the list just goes on and on and on!! And again, GEOLOGY. Struggling with naming your little mountain town? Did you but a mine near it? What does the mine produce? Diamonds?
Boom. Diamondville. It’s that easy when you’ve created the geology of the world, you can just use words from your area! No more hard time thinking about it, just GO FOR IT!
So, in the end: learn geology. It gives you a way to create culture, economic concerns, a name for places and even see what sort of local concerns there are in even the smallest village.
