Dots and Foxes

art, sci-fi, cdramas. sporadically writing novella-length hot takes about tortall. (h_vane on AO3)

[inkskinned]

something about love makes you look at things differently. the really important part of this is that any love will work. if you love blue you will see it everywhere. if you love soft things you will note the cat and the thread count and the moss. you will find your best friend in ugly greeting cards and haunted dolls and terrible fanfics and since they remind you of her they will be beautiful.

so you will love the world differently for having loved someone else. you will love a certain cereal or pokemon because of your brother. you will hear your favorite band's song playing in a random store and the love of it will make the whole world a little more golden. you will read a poem so many times the words become their own creatures. you will find you cannot listen to certain music without thinking of your favorite show.

this velveteen rabbit transformation occurs. the love does not stop, it echoes.

[pneumaturgo]

Cat Johnston, Moth Creature, 2024

[dotsandfoxes]

See, the problem with my department is that we have so much interesting potential and there's so much pent-up interest around the university where people are asking for and looking for exactly what we do, and yet somehow we have been absolutely dropping the ball on outreach, or collaboration, or even just inviting someone to give a talk who's not a graduate of our program at a mid-tier regional university in the most esoteric corner of our esoteric field imaginable, and this is very, very clear, and also actually quite solvable, and the only thing standing in our way is a fatal lack of engaged manpower (gendered term used deliberately) and the fact that I cannot, at this time, clone myself. I just need one more person who is interested in the problem and cares enough to stay involved.

I just need one more person and then my life would be so much better.

[trashcangimmick]

[tiuhtaviuhta]

I'm now officially a Master of Arts 🫡

[wildehacked]

but i don't LIKE being in a creative fallow period. i want to be an eternal harvest!!! i want to sow a little bit and then reap and reap and reap. waiting for the seeds to grow sucks.

[godsgrief]

photographs part 2

there exists exactly one (1) picture of garak from his time on ds9, taken by jake on accident, and mysteriously scrubbed shortly afterwards from every single computer database on the station. 

[mafuyuh]

little guys in ghibli movies

[fullmetalwindbreaker]

[lakevida]

[thequeeninyellowlace]

[oldpaintings]

Four Foxes, 1913 by Franz Marc (German, 1880--1916)

[dailynarnia]

is jake gyllenhaal gay??

why would you ask us, a narnia blog, this

[helloitsbees]

happy pride month to this post specifically

[crimson-chains]

Messenger Birbs OwO Offering the only two pieces of advice I really have! XD Which is Eat your enemies and Love yourself <3 

[elena-illustration]

“all the deaths could have been prevented if andrey and goncharov just had gay sex” well what if they had gay sex and then still did the killings. i think they deserve to have some killings as a treat

[elena-illustration]

Compilation

[thunderstruck9]

Spyros Vassiliou (Greek, 1903-1985), Akropolis, 1972. Acrylic and collage with silver leaf on canvas, 60 x 60 cm.

[budcortfancam]

[elle-thereafter]

These are important things I have learned about writing fiction. I know these things, but sometimes I need a reminder. So I am writing them here, both as a reminder for myself, and as a reminder for all those who, like me, sometimes forget.

Characters must make choices.

Characters should often make bad choices before they make good choices.

Character choices should drive the vast majority of the plot. Characters reacting to having random stuff thrown at them is far less interesting than characters reacting to the stuff they've thrown after it's ricocheted around and comes bouncing back toward them.

If a character refuses to make a choice, there better be consequences for that too, and you better have a damn clear way of showing those consequences to the reader and the character.

Nearly every time I'm struggling with writing something, taking a step back and thinking about these 4 things usually helps get me unstuck.

[hellenicgoddess]

Detail of the “Saffron Gatherers” 3,675-year-old fresco from Akrotiri, the Bronze Age city of Santorini entombed by volcanic ash.

© Museum of Prehistoric Thera, Santorini, Greece