incorrigible & spoilsport

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[simena]

Caroline Nelson (detail)

[magickrosegalaxy]

Get to know me asks 🌟

Witch edition

🌙 astrology sign?

💎 favorite crystal?

🔮 favorite form of divination?

🧘🏿‍♀️ do you look up to a guru/psychic/spiritual leader?

🧚🏻‍♀️ have you had any paranormal experiences?

🌞 are you working with a deity?

📿 describe your altar

🕯️do you have a favorite spell/ritual?

🧿 what persuaded you to start practicing?

🧝🏻‍♀️ what kind of witch are you?

🌟 are you currently manifesting anything?

🔢 do you see angel numbers?

👽 do you channel spirits/interdimensional beings?

🌀 have you had spiritual experiences under the influence?

🙏🏼 what puts you in a spiritual mood?

👁️ what are your psychic/intuitive abilities?

📌 have you ever hexed anyone?

🎶 do you chant or listen to meditation music?

🌎 what’s most profound experience spiritually?

🌑 have you experienced a “dark night of the soul” for witchcraft? How did you get back into it?

🐺 do most people know about your craft, or do you keep it a secret?

🌐 are you into spiritual conspiracies?

🐉 what are your thoughts on cryptids/magical animals?

🕊️ are you a religious witch?

🗝️ have you ever manipulated a situation to your favor using witchcraft?

🪦 do you contact your ancestors?

🫧 what’s your favorite method of cleansing?

[courtera]

"Luce…I chose us."

[courtera]

(but i am sorry)

[underragingwaves]

Æthelflæd in The Last Kingdom 2x08

[suresaint]

[carmineroyals]

"When this is over, and it will be, we will fix it, I won’t go back to it Mitchell, I refuse. This isn’t the life I want, it never was. Right now it’s what I have to do, but when it isn’t, when we’ve won -"

And she kisses them, fiercely, passionately, with every fiber of her being poured into their heat. When the kiss is broken, she only backed an inch to ask,

"Yes?"

[racefortheironthrone]

What texts would you recommend to develop the sort of general knowledge needed to write something like your economic development plans? I am currently trying to write a setting which has a few major reformist leaders with big plans, and it would really help to know a bit more about how to come up with a workable economic development plan for a fantasy region - I really admired your work on the subject, and thought you were the person to ask.

This is a great question!

Something I've discussed before wrt economic development, is the need to avoid presentism as much as possible. So I've always taken as a central limiter of my economic development proposals that they have to fit within the boundaries of what was known/technologically feasible during the Late Middle Ages through to the Early Modern period.

In this fashion, I try to avoid the Connecticut Yankeee in King Arthur's Court scenario where all of the sudden steam engines appear hundreds of years early out of nowhere - because we shouldn't be assuming that economic development is some teleological process that has to go through the same stages as Western European economic development did in our timeline. The result is that I got really into reading about the Commercial Revolution and the technologies that drove economic development during that period - hence why I became obsessed about canal-building, because canals were a key technology that the Early Modern nation-state used to create and reshape markets.

So here is a meta-list of books I'd recommend on economic development in the Middle Ages through the Early Modern period:

books about medieval and Renaissance governments.

William Cronon’s Nature’s Metropolis, Lawrence Goodwyn's The Populist Moment, and Will and Wong's Nourish the People on the making and remaking and regulating of agricultural markets.

books about Medieval and Renaissance urban development.

books about medieval guilds.

Robert S. Lopez' Commercial Revolution of the Middle Ages.

Joseph Gies' Merchants and Moneymen: the Commercial Revolution.

Pamela Smith, Paul Findlen ed. Commerce, Science, and Art in Early Modern Europe.

Ralph Davis' A Commercial Revolution.

Anthony Burton's The Canal Pioneers and The Canal Builders.

John Blair ed. Waterways and Canal-Building in Medieval England.

A.E.J Morris, History of Urban Form Before the Industrial Revolution.

[derangedrhythms]

She's woven into me. Don't you understand how one can be absolutely connected with somebody like that?

Iris Murdoch, from 'The Sea, the Sea'

[valkyriescreed]

gtkm meme » [2/?] characters  » Anne Bonny (Black Sails) 

↳ “If we don’t try something they ain’t expecting, then we’re all fucking dead.”

[jenniferhills]

‘cause i’ll breathe when they try to suffocate me, don’t you underestimate me.

[toboldlywrite]

Are you really…. not supposed to…. describe what your characters are wearing….

[by-ethan-fox]

I think there’s a great deal of misinformation on this topic.

I believe it’s fine to describe what your characters are wearing. However, like all things, it should serve some kind of purpose.

For instance, describing winter clothes helps impart to the reader a sense of how cold it is. Describing summer clothes helps explain how warm it is.

Describing an outfit before a social event gives a window onto the character’s sense of fashion, or explains their reverence (or lack) for the event; for example a character can wear a black suit to a funeral, or watch from a distance while wearing a t-shirt and jeans. These impart a different attitude.

An outfit may be described purely to give a little more interest to a character; to give the reader a bit more insight into who they are, through the way they present themselves. It may have no greater significance to the wider story but this is still a reason to do it.

So the “purpose” doesn’t need to be super-vital to the story. It can be just because “describing this to the reader helps them appreciate the character or scene”, but that’s still a purpose.

[toboldlywrite]

I like that last comment because I think it can apply to a lot of things in storytelling! Anything that shows some element of your character has a purpose to the story even if it doesn’t exactly advance the plot.

[bayoucurse]

I think too there’s also the matter of how it’s described.

“I was wearing a purple hoodie, black skinny jeans, and checkered converse.”

 vs 

“I wiped my palms on the thighs of my jeans. Black was the best color for when you’re going grave robbing – the dirt and blood didn’t stand out as much. Sadie flung the shovel back with a little more force than was necessary, flinging hunks of dirt onto my shoes. I paid 85$ for these limited edition checkered converse, and while perhaps I shouldn’t have been wearing them to grave rob, I didn’t have anything else. I pulled Abby’s shirt out of the pocket of my hoodie, running my fingers over the fabric. It was covered in purple lint from my jacket, but she wouldn’t care anyways. She was dead”

Treat the clothes as an aspect of the character and the situation. The first one is just information about one thing thrown at the reader, whereas you get the same information in the second, but you’re also presented with a situation, thoughts behind the dress choice for the situation, and a reaction from the reader (why is the character going grave robbing? Who is Sadie? How did Abby die?). You get so much more out of your story and your character.

[bookishdiplodocus]

Reblogging this again for @endymions ’s addition.

[prokopetz]

Also bear in mind that your implicit point of view is important even when writing in the third person – it’s not just a first-person thing.

Unless you’re writing in the objective voice (which you probably aren’t, because it’s a. only appropriate in a few specific circumstances, and b. extremely difficult to write well), your writing is going to have an implied viewpoint character – usually but not always the focus character of the scene – so you’ve gotta ask yourself: what would my PoV character make note of?

Spending a paragraph doing a point-by-point breakdown of a character’s outfit is the equivalent of your PoV stopping to give them the full once over. Is that appropriate? Is it in character? Did they get caught doing it?

Even a flatly factual description that offers no direct opinions on what’s observed tells you something about your PoV’s personality, because now you know what sort of things they do and don’t notice.

(You can, of course, get around most of those issues by having an omniscient narrator who’s weirdly preoccupied with people’s fashion choices, but that just moves the question back a step – now you have to think about what you’re saying about your omniscient narrator’s priorities, and what this implies for how completely and accurately they’re reporting the action!)

[heywriters]

All good advice. In spec fic or historical fiction, I enjoy it when the writer gets especially detailed and tells me where the fabric is from and how good a quality it is or whatever.

I do not like in any story where the character’s outfit is constantly described like they just got a new wardrobe at the mall (ex: Nancy Drew) or are clearly wearing the author’s dream outfit. The latter is usually noticeable because they don’t put as much attention onto other things or the outfit is very stereotypically “cool” or “pretty” and the author leans into that without irony or explanation (ex: My Immortal).

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[courtera]

EIGHTEEN YEARS LATER … :: Maeve & Damocles Faye

[solusrequiem]

Skandar Keynes [Edmund] + Smiling | requested by snickertydoodle

[winterfeller]

BURN YOUR KINGDOM DOWN | a mix for the iron throne, the battling kings and queens, the ghost-fraught soldiers, and the lost children of westeros.

i. seven devils - florence + the machine | ii. sorrow - the national | iii. hero - regina spektor | iv. no one would riot for less - bright eyes | v. timshel - mumford & sons | vi. blackbird - evan rachel wood | vii. fallen - imagine dragons | viii. exile vilify - the national | ix. blood to gold - boy and bear | x. youth - daughter | xi. the wolves - ben howard | xii. mother of dragons [instrumental] - ramin djawadi

[listen here]

[lordoflocksley]

will you tolerate this?

[friscalating]