Books and Berries

On storytelling: books, collaborative, fairy tales, mysteries, how-to, and such and so on and what have you Call me Bee or Berry or whatever! Pronouns are also whatever

[booksandberries]

i've hit the point where i'm. genuinely annoyed. i think i'm doing good and i have plans and then they get interrupted and Whoops!! goodbye several hours of work. i know i need to sleep but there's stuff i need to catch up on and i WANT to do fandom stuff. i Should sleep. i'm going to turn into the joker if i don't write and get my clothes folded.

[unspeakablearchives]

[error-404-fuck-not-found]

used to think it terribly silly (and kinda funny) when fantasy or sci-fi stories would have people refer to major recent historical events as The Flood or The Incident or The Revolution, and im sure historians fucking hate that because it's not helpful or descriptive, but we sure do be calling it The Pandemic

[decompose1]

dude i don't normally like to dig at peoples fun i generally think people having fun is good but it is slightly disheartening when there's a really really good story about a strong platonic relationship and then the only thing the fans can do is ship the characters or worse make a crack ship with an unrelated character from another media because it's like they can't STAND a lack of romance in media like they absolutely must try to insert romance where it is absolutely not needed or relevant and honestly sours the story/media a lot more for me or they'll Die because they can't just be happy with a really good platonic relationship. it makes me very sad as a demiromantic girlie.

[quetziefoxx]

This is so so fair. It can be fun but it is so SO telling how long fandom lasts before it is 99% shipping content and almost chokes out any other content

[kaijuerotica]

convinced if i keep digging in deeper i can find a secret way out that's not through. haven't found it yet but i think i'm close

[booksandberries]

the problem is. the problem is. that my fic writing progress is like.

step 1) daydream about the idea ad nauseum. like, for weeks. go over the same scenes repeatedly until i like them (never happens), figure out what else can happen, stress over how to connect them. oh, i could do this, too... but wait how would that fit in the timeline, okay i can do this

step 2) write one (1) bullet point. four if we're lucky.

step 3) daydream ad nauseum part 2

step 3) have a brand new idea for a tiny moment in the fic that could be referenced months/years later (in-universe time)

step 4) write that fic instead

WHAT ARE WE REFERENCING HERE. THE FIRST FIC HASN'T BEEN WRITTEN YET

[ultopias]

not sure if anyone's done this before but i made a chart of gentle noble corresponding chapters/episodes from web/book/manga/anime! i'm still around halfway but the difficult part (early chapters) is done haha

made this mostly for myself bc i reread individual chapters often but sometimes i wanna see the difference between versions, or i wanna look at the illusts from the novel but since i usually read the web version idk which chapter is in which volume💔

also the early manga chapters were lowkey confusing bc they jumbled the story order a lot and the cutoff for every chapter was different from the novel version (which thankfully is mostly not the case anymore) so that's where i might've made the most mistakes lol please let me know if there are any tho!

sharing just in case someone else needs it! will continue working on this little by little~

[marimbles]

underrated tumblr feature is being able to catch up to yourself on your dash. so there is an END POINT. and you can say “ah, I have reached where I left off, there is no more to see! I’ll take my leave now and come back later when there are new posts.” instead of being stuck forever in a bottomless algorithm pit digging deeper and deeper till you have to summon monumental strength to climb out

[skybluekagikun]

Can someone redraw this with Miyano lmaooo

[c3ntigrad3]

yeah sure

[majestictortoise]

puttering around the house is an underrated form a self-care. make some tea or coffee. put on a podcast. sort the mail. tidy some pillows and fold some blankets. start the laundry. thaw some soup. just casually wander around aimlessly doing little things to make your space and life a little nicer. who cares if you get distracted or only do a little. you aren't being productive. you're puttering.

[aiweirdness]

My life has gotten measurably better since I reframed the period from 3-4 pm as “puttering hour”. No it’s not me avoiding work or failing to force myself to concentrate during my mid afternoon slump. It’s puttering hour.

[zubatts]

the new hyper beam animation is crazy, sylveon fucking killed him

[guiltystar]

Straight out of an anime, holy shit 💀

Literally EXODIA OBLITERATE!

[princelamb]

[crap-userrname16]

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Haven’t had a chance to watch the tutorial yet, but I’m seriously considering making this for my gf’s niece

[caintooth]

I WIN EVERY DAY

[seadeepspaceontheside]

these were the rejected ones

[my-dailydreams]

[heartpeacenquiet]

∧,,,∧ ( ̳• · • ̳) / づ♡ I give this to everyone that is feeling bad right now. It’ll be ok.

[kosmogrl]

I hope july is good and kind to you <3 I hope you get to sit in the sun and feel happy and at peace and I hope that nothing worries you for too long this month 🌼🧡