have you seen this dragon?

last seen: shoving cursed silver coins into the train station vending machine

[academicssay]

[edgar-allanposerr]

shoutout to one of my favourite tasks ever. it haunts me

[euphorictruths]

Ponder, Loci- Helvetica Blanc; 2021

[boundwithpurple]

part of the “constructive criticism of fanfic” convo is this assumption that everyone wants to improve at their writing and should want to improve and i feel protective of the fact that actually you don’t have to. leaving aside the imo undecided question of if “concrit” from a random crosssection of strangers is likely to achieve this, you do not have to continually maximize in all areas of existence. people who feel really strongly they should have the right to critique fanfic to help writers “get better” are projecting an assumption about the inherent purpose of fanfiction (or any fiction writing) that is actually just that. like you probably will improve, if you do it enough, whether you get “criticism” or not, but you can maintain the same skill level forever and that’s fine. who cares! you don’t have to get better at singing to earn the right to have people not heckle you while having fun at karaoke with friends. you can paint 273646474 ugly paintings if you find painting soothing or relaxing. these are both examples of human creative expression that serve social and emotional needs just as posting fanfic does and which are not tied like this to a logic of improvement. there is no function that one can presume here. trying to improve on a craft level is a part of MY practice but that does not have to be universal and i do not believe it is.

[hyrude]

the author’s barely disguised job they worked in their early 20s

[rowanclair]

In an ancient forest, shallow pools reflect not the trees above, but a luminous city of elsewhere.

[thatsbelievable]

[urszula-with-boots-on]

Hwaet! socks knit in KnitPicks' Palette in Serpentine and Merlot Heather. Because sometimes a lady just needs the opening stanzas of Beowulf on her feet.

Pattern by Gryphon Corpus on Ravelry.

[suigintou]

hey boss can you show me where the forklift's self-destruct is so i can keep it from falling into the hands of enemy warehouse crews?

[noelledeltarune]

okay that was not my last straw but i have maybe 3 to 4 straws left at most so watch out.

[demonibestia]

glaurung page, inspired by 14th century illuminated manuscripts

[cloudswamp]

there is only one of everything, margaret atwood

[unita-n]

My Fireforse 2011, 2012, 2016

[joe-spookyy]

fully sober in the club googling rosencrantz and guildenstern are dead full play pdf free

[antoniabishop]

another horse girl

[dwimmerlaiks]

6 and 26!

I'M sorry I already answered both 😭😭😭 it's so nice to see you though! 🐻‍❄️what's your 6 and 26? hehe

[basilandtheblues]

6. what’s your go-to recipe when you want to make something that requires minimal effort?

this will perhaps sound like an insane response but. french onion soup. I know this soup has a reputation for being annoyingly labor intensive for minimal output but: do I already have all the bare minimum ingredients? yes. I will have onions and broth when i have nothing else in my pantry. does it require careful prep? no. chop the onions literally any old way, they will all be delicious goop soon anyway. then it's just no thoughts head empty stirring onions on low heat until they carmelize. then wine broth day old bread and whatever random cheese i have in the fridge. done. delicious.

26. do you make a list before going to the grocery store or just wing it?

as i considered this question i realized that i have managed to end up with the worst of both systems here. i do write stuff down as i think of it, but it's in such a variety of places (on phone, in various notebooks, occasionally in a word doc on the computer) that i never remember to check them all. and it's the poor innocent hardworking pantry staples that suffer the worst, because if i'm planning a specific recipe it's easy for me to remember the unusual / specific stuff i need for that recipe. but i don't think of the very very basic ingredients that i've run out of. once i went for like three weeks without salt because i just kept forgetting to buy it, but i'm sure it was on multiple lists that whole time

[valarinde]

thinking about that post that goes “I wonder, if they had won, whether it would’ve been known as the union of fingon instead” and feeling a little bowled over with how overarching an analysis that single sentence provides for the way we’re supposed to approach the silmarillion as a (hi)story - with its partiality, prejudices, its explanation bias in the interpretation of events and characters both