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I'm torn. I'm not sure if I should make my lesbian Halloween short low fantasy or not. I was tempted to make one of my mains a witch, but I also kind of just like the idea of a cute, fluffy, grounded read.
What do y'all think?
Begin writing both and see which one you are more drawn to after you get going! If you finish them both--well thats just awesome!
we all need a little pick-me-up
i deeply apologize for my recent inactivity, Iāve been dealing with a lot of personal stuff
but my animatic is at 50 frames now so maybe i won after all
I never drink water.. and it is really taking its toll on me. T.T (shriveled prune)
On Writing for Yourself and Not for Notes
AKA How to Enjoy Writing for the Sake of it
Get off social media! I know itās tempting to blabber on about a WIP to get those hella cool notes, but doing so only reinforces that writingās only fun if it gets you attention. We all need that boost now and again, but too much of it will whittle away your self-reliance. Close your laptop, leave your phone in a different room, and sit down with a notebook if possible and if you need to. Youāll get to know what enthralls you personally about your story.
Donāt write for an audience for now. Tumblr likes to do this thing where it saysĀ āblah blah blah X is problematic in mediaā and while itās well-intentioned, internalizing too much of this can make you feel like youāre trying to write through a maze and constantly failing at it. Forget about your audienceāyou can flag and catch problematic stuff in edits after tossing it to the betas.
Remember what made thirteen-year-old you lose their mind? Yeah, write that.Ā Once youāve let go of writing for an audience, you wonāt worry about beingĀ ācringeyā anymore, and thatās when things start to get real good and real fun. You donāt have to show your writing to anyone, or even tell them you wrote it, so just go buckwild! Trust me, itās so liberating.
Your inner critic is usefulābut not now.Ā Shut that bitch up! Your job when drafting is to make something. If you did that, you win, so your criticās opinion is worth squat here. However, if you try to fight her {I always envision mine as some bitchy middle-aged woman lol} sheās just gonna get louder. So tell yourself you can be as critical of your writing as you want during edits.Ā Youāre not working for perfect, or even good right now. Youāre working for existing.
Remember that this is a process.Ā Companies like tumblr are investing a BUNCH of cash into getting you to stay glued to their platforms, and if youāre a creator this might manifest in your feeling like you need to live your creative life online. You donāt. But retraining your brain isnāt easy. Remember that divorcing yourself from the validation of online noise takes work and time and a lotĀ of discomfort and redirecting, especially for folks like me who thrive on routine. And donāt discipline. Redirect. Negativity has no right to be in your creative space ā„ļø
todayās gender of the day is unfortunate time loop accidents
IM CRYING thisĀ is the best gender ever
WHAT BOOK
time for another reblog of this post to be like HEY YEAH IāM WRITING THIS BOOK THIS BOOK IS MY BOOK
I want to watch a show where Shakespeare comes back from the dead in modern times and tries to get a job as a university professor.
Only he is constantly ridiculed for not understanding his own plays.
People will say āwrite what you know!ā But I know so little
āBad books on writing tell you to āwrite what you knowā, a solemn and totally false adage that is the reason there exist so many mediocre novels about English professors contemplating adultery.ā
āJoe Haldeman
What a perfectly brutal comment.
Write what you know means write your battles and emotions, things that canāt be researched. Make it personal.
Monsters Inc isnāt about the monsters. Its about a man becoming a father, because thatās what the creator was going through at the time.
No one knew about screams and doors until it was invented as a way to tell his story.
Green explotion
Oh my heart aches
One of my favourite things about the library is a prickly old lady named AngĆØle who often comes on the same day as me, and who systematically returns her books with the commentĀ āWell, that was utter nonsenseā (using a delightfully quaint word for nonsense, āsornetteā). The librarian told me that she tends to forget which books sheās already read and is always drawn to the same books (ācovers with pictures of plants, or birds, or Patrick Modianoā) so that she often borrows the same book numerous times and brings it back proclaiming it to be utter nonsense (ādes sornettes, des sornettes !ā) with the same gravitas every time. All the regulars love our grouchy local book reviewer with her one and only critique. One of them said if the villageās gazette were still a thing she would have been offered a weekly literary column. And recently a little girl selected a book and asked the librarian if she could recommend it to the old lady, and she came in again this week full of anticipation, asking if āMadame Sornetteā had borrowed her book over the holidays, and the librarian said soberly, āyes, Iām afraid your book was utter nonsenseā, and the kid started giggling like it was the funniest joke she had ever heard.Ā
Everyone desurves to enjoy this story!
My child is autistic. He doesnāt do well with change. Even little things that would be meaningless to most people.
For example, his hairbrush was getting old and worn. He had chewed the end of it. The cats had chewed some bristles. It was dirty and dusty. But I didnāt say anything. Because itās his hairbrush.
Finally, he said he thinks itās time for a new brush. Ok, I say, weāll put it on the shopping list, and get one next time weāre in town.
So we go to town and we go to the store. There are many hairbrushes to choose from. He picks one and they even have it in his favorite color. We buy it, take it home, and remove the packaging.
I go to put it on the shelf where the old hairbrush is. Can we throw out the old one, I ask.
Thatās when he stops. Thatās when he freezes and gets a momentary look of panic on his face. Throw out the old one? That hadnāt occurred to him.
Because hereās the thing. Hair brushing is a part of his morning routine. And not just hair brushing, but hair brushing with that particular brush. To most people, the act of hair brushing is the routine, but not the brush itself. The objects are interchangeable. But not to my child. Not to someone with autism. The brush itself is just as important as the act of brushing.
So I take a breath. I put the old brush down. Think about it, I say. Let me know tomorrow what you want to do with this brush.
He decides. He realizes keeping an old hairbrush is not necessary. But itās still important to him. So he asks if I can cut off one bristle. To keep. As a memory of the old hairbrush.
I donāt laugh. I donāt tell him itās silly. I respect his need. I cut off the bristle. He puts it in his treasure box, along side some smooth rocks, beads, sparkly decals, a Santa Claus charm from a classmate, a few other things meaningful to him.
He throws the old hairbrush away himself. He is able to move on, and accept the change.
This is a great way to help an autistic person move on properly, instead of forcing them to get rid of it you let them use their own method and left them feeling safe. Congrats famšš
For me hyper empathy is also part of this and I have to like, grieve for things like this. And approaching it that way, as grief, as legitimate bereavement instead of pushing myself to treat it the way NTās in my life had taught me (dismissive, mockery,Ā āitās just a hairbrush wtf why are you like thisā) has really helped in these kinds of situations.Ā I donāt laugh. I donāt tell him itās silly. I respect his need. I wish Iād had this kind of understanding and safety in my childhood. It teaches you how to be safe and understanding to yourself.
THIS ISNT NORMAL??? wym yall dont get attached to inanimate objects??? NTs DONāT have a hard time throwing away familiar objects bc familiarity brings extreme comfort and anxiety when lost?
no one: me: hereās a flow chart of 41 lgbtq+ book recommendations, have fun! disclaimer: this is a very non-comprehensive list since Iām only including books that Iāve read
people in fanfiction are so good at identifying v specific smells. I literally struggle to identify vanilla when Iām sniffing a candle labelled āVANILLAā how are these kids getting woodsmoke, rain, mint, and a whiff of byronic despair from a fuckin tshirt
Once I read a fic where they were like āhe tasted likeā and Iām expecting the typical formula (1 cooking ingredient + 1 natural phenomenon + āsomething uniquely [character name]ā) but instead they said āhe tasted like mouthā and it was one of the greatest fic moments of my life
click and drag to find out what your shitty fanfiction kiss tastes like
*if ur on moble screenshot it
Mint, gentle rain and tranquility.
How does tranquility taste?
I really feel like Television should enter an era of allowing happy endings. Thatās not to say characters canāt suffer along the way or that storylines canāt be ādarkā but I would really like to see stories end on hopeful notes. Iām so sick of every story having tragic endings, especially considering the world we live in right now. Call me naive, I donāt care, but hope breeds hope. Love breeds love. Happiness breeds happiness. Allowing our characters to overcome and find the light in the end is powerful. Allowing characters to be happy is brave because happiness is not boring. I feel like weāre surrounded by dark stories in fiction and in reality and I find myself wondering whereās the hope and happiness.. is no one overcoming the darkness?
As Terry Pratchett said:
Why does the third of the three brothers, who shares his food with the old woman in the wood, go on to become king of the country? Why does Bond manage to disarm the nuclear bomb a few seconds before it goes off rather than, as it were, a few seconds afterwards? Because a universe where that did not happen would be a dark and hostile place. Let there be goblin hordes, let there be terrible environmental threats, let there be giant mutated slugs if you really must, but let there also be hope. It may be a grim, thin hope, an Arthurian sword at sunset, but let us know that we do not live in vain.ā
World-Building Help?
Okay fantasy writeblr! I might end up regretting this, but I need your help. I am waist deep in world-building a new WIP right now and looking to get deeper and, while Iāve saved a lot of stuff to my blog over the years, Iām still in search of the following:
a map builder where I can specify the number of islands, continents, and mountain chains
failing that, advice on how to do that myself
that post that was going around that one time about unusual fantasy settings, that had, like, tropical rainforests and Socotra
your favourite world-building questionnaires
any tips and tricks
I mean, I know I can cobble all this together on my own and fudge the rest, but Iād rather not go through all the effort, yāknow?
These are wonderful questions!
Have you considered D&D world building websites for your map builder? I have not heard of any mapbuilders myself but I have heard that sights like Worldanvil are a great assest to the world building process of writing. Let us know if you find something that works!
As for how to build your own maps, I know many writers have drawn their own maps and then digitized them. Artists always gather skill and inspiration from others, researching other maps and practicing their techniques could help you learn a new skill!
Here are some of my favorite world building questions:
-What happens when someone dies? How do people mourn? What colors are used in mourning or funerals?
-Are there any coming of age rituals? What happens during a coming of age ritual? What age is considered adult? Does it very by gender? Is there gender?
-What jobs exist? What jobs are held in high esteem? What jobs are despised? Is it easy to get a job? What is the process? What jobs need magic?
-How has technology advanced historically? What is the latest bit of technology? Does magic affect technology? How do people view technology?
-How has magic advanced historically? How does magic work? How do people view magic?
-How do people prepare meals? How do they clean? What tools are used daily? How do they sleep? How do they court? How is their family structured?
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My rendition of a forest nymph for a friend. If you share, please give credit.
johnnyflynniverse Mr Knightley in Emma (2020)
#the funniest thing about mr knightley is that arguably nothing in his life goes seriously wrong#compared to wentworth or darcy or brandon or even edward ferrars#heās got no serious insurmountable painful event or circumstance#heās just unfortunately in love with his neighbour#so no dramatic event or reversal of fortune#heās just trundling along#and yet every adaptation has him just Opressed By Emotions heās trying to deny having#george knightley: strengths include steadiness of character responsible land management and being socially considerate but also#george knightley: in love and mad about it
to be fair have you met Emma Woodhouse
#The shame and agony of being in love with a person like Emma is entirely appropriate lmfao#She cleans up her act but this? Justified#Every single one of these just SCREAMS āAh. Yes. Unfortunately thatās the love of my lifeā and I think thatās very sexy of him
Oh this made me laugh!
You have a wonderful and blessed rest of your life and make sure to continue on spreading the love and I hope down the line you get everything you ever wished for and more. much love. Hope you and your family are all doing well during this worldwide crisis š
Well thank you! You as well!!
