contemptible blood pervert

now a hansry blog i guess・30-something ・apoptoses @ ao3

[kritzenkriegen]

*thinks up an idea for a silly quick piece* okay haha let's whip something up real quick

*idea gets more complicated*

*idea gets more complicated*

*idea gets more complicated*

*idea gets more complicated*

oh no

[imfeelinghungry]

[writingdose]

write it anyway even if you think it’s bad. a badly written fic is still better than a nonexistent fic.

[feralplantwife]

I want to add that I have read some fic that I felt were bad but they had something about them - story, theme, a specific moment, etc. - that was so interesting or chewy that I think about it to this day, even years later.

So what if you're not someone's next great author? You could also haunt their dreams and nightmares simultaneously, and be the ghost in their daydreams. Don't ever give them peace.

[darlingofdots]

been stewing on an analytical approach to fiction which I call "is this book afraid of me?" and in order to answer this question you determine how hard the book is trying to make sure you don't come after the writer on twitter

[bill-blake-fans-anonymous]

Tags via @deadpanwalking, editor and ass-kicker extraordinaire

[gingisnap]

Please keep making art. Please make it for yourself. Please don’t let everything become even more of the same flat general appeal nonsense that doesn’t seem to have anything to say

[by-ilmater]

who told him he was allowed to have eyelashes that pretty? what the fuck??????

[kaygarde]

Dragon tiles

[deathandmysticism]

Speculum Humanae Salvationis, 14th century

[damndorothea]

i saw this somewhere else but reply / tag what you did today so everyone can see that we all did something different today

[dwynartist]

we ride for hope and joy and to thrive, however the world may be

[cypressarts]

🐥 –> 🐓

[speciesbarocus]

Talhoffer Fechtbuch (1459).

[calleido]

sant’angelo in formis, capa, italy

[gatesofminrathous]

there will never be anything as funny as the mutual disbelief between long form and short form fic writers about each other's style.

short form writers look at people writing 100k+ fics as though this is some sort of talent given as part of a fae bargain, that the commitment required shows some sort of ungodly mental fortitude.

meanwhile long form writers look at people writing 1000 word one shots like god I would cut off my left nipple to be able to say anything concisely. i would love to play with multiple ideas. free me from the shackles of this child I have birthed. i love them but I now must take them to t-ball and doctor's appointments and they're going to destroy everything I own.

[apoptoses]

every time you think you're done with the fic, you sit up and realize you have one more scene you really need to write

[utara-north-deactivated20200707]

It’s all fun and games until you fall in love with that video game character

[milken-art]

Devils pack

Kingdom Come: Deliverance II moments 10/?

[apoptoses]

Sleepover ask: top 3 books you think everyone should read?

oh wow, wow. nina this is SO hard, actually, because i feel like my taste is very niche in certain ways and i just don't know that everyone would like it LOL

i'll instead reframe this as the three books which i personally have read over and over many times, or that feel salient for my current interests.

Call Me By Your Name by Andre Aciman. Call me a stereotype, idgaf. I don't think there is a book with more beautiful prose that truly captures the youthful feeling of longing like this. Aciman just describes his settings and the physicality of his characters so gorgeously. I don't think there's a single other writer I can name who puts into words the little things we notice about the people we desire the way he does it.

Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice. There is something so special about a story that's focused on a character who paralyzed with grief, and who truly doesn't do much at all and yet experiences so much over the course of the tale. And the way in the end the story just ends, and there is no true point, and no true meaning- that's really how life is, I guess. And again, gorgeous prose. I love a unique voice in writing.

Same Sex Unions in Premodern Europe by John Boswell. This is more an 'everyone into kcd should read it' (although it's slightly pre 1403, but history is not a timeline with perfect starts and stops but rather a spectrum that blurs together in places). I think queer history is so easily erased, and the history of what love and marriage was/wasn't has been written over by modern concepts. Everyone seems to assume that being queer = automatic death or a miserable life, and that's not true at all. So this is a really fascinating read that emphasizes what has been erased, what is historical bias (we only know about the bad cases because they were worthy of being written about), and in what ways modern perceptions of love and fidelity color the way we perceive the history of human relationships.