Ash the Hermit

Writer & sims obsessive.  Posting writing stuff here & occasional fandom stuff.

[ashthehermit]

MY BOOK IS OUT!!!

Tanry Teneri is the daughter of a duke, and the richest heiress in the country. She's pretty perturbed to learn that her father requires her to get married, so she makes a deal: if she can find a match of higher rank than his choice, Tanry will be allowed to marry her own pick. She's determined to marry a man of her own choosing and - more importantly - keep control of her funds. Armed with a machine that can tell absolute truth, Tanry is determined to get a match of her choosing, and is prepared to connive and blackmail her way to success.

Because people like to read lists, here's what the book contains:

female MC doing reprehensible things

machine that can tell absolute truth

BALLS with DANCING and SCANDALS

marriage of inconvenience (they don't get together for real tho)

princess who smokes a pipe

female MC asserting her property rights

found family (but they're all super mad about it)

The paperback is still forthcoming - but the ebook is available:

GET IT HERE

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

[ariaste]

Heads up that the RUNNING CLOSE TO THE WIND ebook is on sale for 99 cents until June 17th, so if you want a fantasy book about pirates, with bawdy comedy of a Terry Pratchett flavor (including the quiet anger about systems of institutional oppression), check it ouuuut, it is your Pride summer read AND IT WILL MAKE YOU LAUGH ON EVERY PAGE I PROMISE

[kingcatnine]

we need to instill a new storytelling rule of thumb into people called "show don't tweet" where we encourage them to put all pertinent canon information into the actual story and its official supplemental material instead of using reddit AMAs as lore dlcs

[roycohn]

there's an old anne rice interview circulating on twitter rn that i remember reading ages ago where she makes a pretty salient point about how submissive men who have bdsm fantasies etc will go to a sex worker and basically order the ala carte version of their fantasy to be performed in real life but women don't really have that same option and certainly not at the same point of availability so they read her horny books instead. and honestly that argument has been in the back of my mind every time people get on their high horses about the popularity of booktok romantasy novels or heated rivalry or whatever the "women are horny and we're upset about that" cultural property du jour is ever since. women, especially straight women, have so few outlets for their sexual desires, especially if they have a partner who doesn't share them, and i will never understand why "someone ELSE'S private sexual fantasy makes me uncomfortable and therefore they should not be allowed to engage with it, even if i am in no way being affected by it or even aware of it at all" is such a popular party line among allegedly progressive young people.

[real-language-facts]

favorite type of word: names of genres that tell you nothing without context. literary fiction. popular music. interactive fiction. lets invent a new genre called experiencable media

[real-language-facts]

additions: speculative fiction, art film, point and click, simulation game. anything that makes you say "i sure hope so"

[ariaste]

"high concept" is the worst of these. i'm a professional author with 14 books and i don't know what that means

[cloudabserk]

WARNING do NOT start reading books and comics or watching movies or looking at art!!! you will start wanting to create art yourself. or god forbid. writing.

[cambriancrew]

[probadbatch]

Pretty happy with how this year's Star Wars Day cake turned out

[dilfdyke]

love love love when a particularly manipulative character is lying off their ass about something and then throws in one hauntingly genuine line

[doomsday-dj]

There was recently a copyright infringement case in YA and I need everyone to know that the following sentence was in the legal decision:

“Hot, sexy, dangerous boys, central to virtually all young adult romance novels, cannot be copyrighted.”

[kuttithevangu]

“Regarding setting, the court held that both works taking place in Alaska high schools was not protectable because Alaska is a public place and setting a teen novel in a high school is a common genre convention.”

Freeman v. Deebs-Elkenaney | Loeb & Loeb LLP

Freeman v. Deebs-Elkenaney | Loeb & Loeb LLP

[kogiopsis]

I've read the entire decision (skimming over the purely legal precedent/definitions bit) and here are some of my favorite bits:

[bemusedlybespectacled]

“indeed, it seems that the Pacific Northwest (Twilight) is a common locale for finding vampires and werewolves at a high school” oh my god

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Can't wait to run across this drama summarised in a three hour video essay

[penandinkprincess]

so wildly obnoxious when you agree with the starting point of someone's stance only for them to hard turn into things you DON'T agree with and now you have to defend the thing that was originally annoying you

"too many authors in the current market are focusing on selling 'spice' instead of telling interesting stories"

"oh yeah, i agree. i started reading one that i heard a lot about and it just wasn't-"

"and it's all of these women reading their fucking mommy porn out in public like FREAKS"

*through gritted teeth* "people should be allowed to read whatever they want, and actually these books should be left alone and you should shut up about it"

[literaryroses]

[qqchurch]

[qqchurch]

[teddywesworl]

i do write for attention, actually, because that's a normal reason to create art

[teddywesworl]

did you hear about that actor performing a play in front of a crowd? clearly only doing it for attention

[teddywesworl]

im trying to say something and im not gonna say it in an empty room

[lena221bee]

tags by @yuanzhous

[apocryphics]

oh ok

[gorps]

[exeuntstormtroopers]

“Why would you stop in hell?” has changed my brain chemistry

[abigailspinach]

[dduane]

Exactly this. 😏

[what-even-is-thiss]

I can’t believe that in order to tell a story I need to withhold certain information from the reader at first. I’m excited about it and I want them to know.

[circumference-pie]

Website idea: Writers of all nationalities give each other advice on how to name OCs from their native culture/language.

For example, a native English speaker can tell you that "Henry Edward" is kinda weird and evokes Tudor kings, and a native Chinese speaker can tell you that, I don't know, "mīmī" sounds cute but means titties.

[supernumerarianism]

Re: Chinese names, there is something cool people should know about, (maybe you already know):

Using this database, you can access the names and biographical information of real people across Chinese historical periods and dynasties. You can go on here and find the names (not just given names but courtesy names and other sorts of honorary aliases, depending on the period) of thousands of real individuals, though it's almost entirely men in the older dynasties. Very few women.

Need a character name for your Tang Dynasty official? Check out the CBDB and find a *literal Tang Dynasty official* to grab a name from!

[s-leary]

Also, the UK government created a guide to naming practices across different cultures and you can grab the PDF here: https://www.fbiic.gov/public/2008/nov/Naming_practice_guide_UK_2006.pdf

(But definitely check with someone to make sure you haven’t picked something that just sounds wrong)