like high fantasy but with more bisexuals

reading/writing sideblog • bi • 30s • can we talk about books? I've been dying to talk about books

[hazardousbiproduct]

need more bisexuals in my high fantasy. Bi fantasy one might say

[bighfantasy]

You know a book is good when it has you going down a Wikipedia rabbit hole

[bighfantasy]

Classic line that makes you go theme? Theme? Theme? Theme?

[tyrian-red]

my erotic fanfiction is more historically accurate than yours. here it claims that shes moaning 'yes,' however classical latin didn't have a word that corresponds to Modern English 'yes,' i.e. an affirmative answer to an interrogative. You could have easily avoided this glaring implausibility by allowing her to moan plus, 'more'—as exemplified in my critically acclaimed fic with an unprecedented number of kudos (eleven). I recommend that you log out of AO3 and return only after acquiring satisfactory knowledge of the subject matter.

[mereologic]

classical latin did in fact have an affirmative answer to an interrogative (sic), it's just not a cognate with modern english "yes" which is Germanic. but you probably recognize its modern descendants, spanish sí, italian sí, etc.

anyway how this is relevant to this post is that when Dido commits suicide in book 4 of the Aeneid she says "sic, sic! iuvat ire sub umbras" or "yes, yes! with joy i pass beneath the shadows" while stabbing herself, the allegory of penetration accompanied by shouts of ecstasy leading unto death being an interpretative exercise best left to the reader.

[charl0ttan]

[toskarin]

do you think insight can be gained about an author from the stories they write?

no. authors are like squids and can only be understood through spirited but ultimately futile combat

[valtsv]

anyone who thinks dostoevsky's writing is dry and humourless is missing out on passages like this

[valtsv]

[just-french-me-up]

the urge to write is like a cat meowing for dear life for someone to open the goddamn door, who then shows utter disinterest in said open door

[femamerica13]

Apparently, Zapp Brannigan and William Laurence are two steps from the same inspiration character (Hornblower). Jack Aubery and Jim Kirk (in TOS) are similiar, but Kirk has a rep.

[chimaerakitten]

truly a wild character family tree when you think about it

[stjohnstarling]

Reading a novel is a bit like entering a kink scene (as a sub) in that you are ceding all control to another person and you really, really want them to be responsible with the experience they give you.

[myxinidaes]

holy shit the portugese covers for the imperial radch trilogy are so cool... the colours! the style!! the way the edges of the covers form a pattern together!!!

[nonlynear]

i’m haunted i’m unfuckable and i love you

[wiltking]

if you're writing and find yourself thinking 'this is too weird/gross/offputting/esoteric/ambitious/catered to my specific interests + sure to push away a broader audience' that is the devil speaking and it is a lie. you are already firmly on the right path and you need to double down

[elizabethanism]

On this day in 1953, novelist Shirley Jackson replied to a disappointed reader.

[ringneckedpheasant]

watercolors by trans artist tuesday smilie

[bloodraven55]

it never fails to surprise me how some people will simply take every single thing in a story at face value and assume that what the characters are saying or doing or thinking must always be true even when all of the context clues are screaming the opposite

[bloodraven55]

[vizuart]

Francisco Goya - Boy Staring at an Apparition, (1824–25)