ETJ Writes

Where the people in my head live Author: Thorunn⚡ || LinkTree Current WIPS: Afallon • Amiri of Caro • Stealing Freedom

[sceptixfakemon]

TAG YOURSELF WHAT'S YOUR FAVE MEDIEVAL HELMET

[ocmaker]

It takes one minute to imagine the scene and 500 hours to write it

[aphel1on]

top tier character when "what is wrong with them" requires an answer that begins with "How much time do you have"

[flogisto]

big fan of stories that, while undoubtedly being about the power of friendship, acknowledge that the power of incredible violence is just as important

the love was there. the love changed everything. the crowbar helped also

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[evermore-fashion]

Favourite Designs: Frieda Lepold "A Knights Dress" Haute Couture Gown

[roccondil]

Lepold actually recently made a video about designing and making this gown!

[scholarlypidgeot]

@thatcrazypoppiigirl

[writing-challenges-and-prompts]

Writing Prompt

Okay, so here I am sitting on a bench in Egypt, waiting for my ex-husband to get done looking at mummies.

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Writeblr Summerfest Challenge: Buy, Read, Review!

One of the most powerful ways to support indie authors isn’t actually through buying their books. It’s leaving reviews.

Reviews help books get noticed in search algorithms, give potential readers the confidence to pick them up, and can literally mean the difference between an author getting their next sale...or not.

Some people find leaving reviews daunting but it's important to know that reviews don’t have to be long! Even a few sentences about what you enjoyed makes a huge impact.

This month, let’s not only read indie—let’s boost them!

Authors: Drop a link to your own published work in the notes or reblogs.

Readers: Share these books on your own Tumblr or other socials, tagging the Summerfest blog so we can see!

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Special Challenge: The first person to send in a picture of either:

25 indie books purchased in August OR

25 reviews you’ve left on indie books this month …will win a grab-bag minkie drawn by @angelsradio-777 plus an exclusive Writeblr Summerfest keychain mailed to you!

Let’s fill August with love for indie authors!

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@moremysteries has a book available on Wattpad!

The Crimson Bride - moremysteries - Wattpad

[saja-star]

a phrase that kinda bothers me when talking about women's historical roles in europe is "cooking, cleaning, and taking care of the children." you hear it so often, those exact words in the same order even. and once you learn a little more you realize that the massive gaping hole in that list is fiberwork. im not an expert and have no hard numbers, but i wouldnt be surprised if fiberwork took up nearly as much time as the other three tasks combined, so it's not a trivial omission.

it's not a hot take to say that the mass amnesia about fiberwork is linked to the belittlement of women's work in geneal, but i do think there's a special kind of illusion that is cast by "cooking, cleaning, and taking care of the children." you hear that and think "well i cook and clean and take care of children (or i know someone who does) and i have a sense of how much work that is" and you know of course that cooking and cleaning were more laborious before modern technology, but still, you have a ballpark estimate you think, when in fact you are drastically underestimating the work load.

i also think that this just micharacterizes the role of women's work in livelihoods? cooking, cleaning, and taking care of the children are all sisyphean tasks that have to be repeated the next day. these are important, but not the whole picture. when we include all kinds of fiberwork—and other things, such as making candles or soap—women's work looks much more like manufacturing, a sphere we now associate more with men's work. i feel like women's connection to making and craftsmanship is often elided.

[craftochism]

Nah pop off queen you hit it.

[domina-honoribila]

Especially when you consider that at one point *all* fabric was spun, woven, and sewn by hand.

Including ships' sails.

Your cool Viking longship or Greek galley is going nowhere without women spending most of their waking hours with spindle in hand.

[mademoiseli]

#has anyone else thought that we stopped coming up with new fairy tales once we stopped spinning/weaving/sewing/etc?#like im simplifying it way too much and we didn't COMPLETELY stop#but after Industrialization we mostly RETOLD fairy tales and rarely came up with new ones (via @shaylalaloohoo)

[etjwrites]

Shoutout to Betsy Ross!

[whenimgod]

there are NOT enough long form stories set in hotels, its the perfect set up like

the people who run / work in the hotel as the Main Cast permanent fixtures

the people who check in for extended stays who can stick around longer for various multi-installment plot arcs

the people who check in for a day or two to have that good ol' Monster of The Week rotation

the people who are basically Regulars cus this is their Hotel Of Choice who come and go to have plenty of recurring characters

several "trapped/away from home for the holidays" plot lines

it literally has everything, and hotels have the added benefit of being a built-in liminal space even when and because its filled with people!

more stories set in hotels NOW!

[br1ghteyed]

i think i tend to forget how good boredom is for creativity because we're all so addicted to numbing ourselves with screens and stimulation. but standing in the shower or going for a walk with no music or just sitting in your bedroom without being allowed to touch any screens & all of a sudden i have multiple new projects to start, a solution to a months-long plot problem & 4 new original characters

[etjwrites]

Delisted from Draft2Digital. Maybe at some point I'll get back on, but this was the best choice for now.

[greentrickster]

Daughter of fantasy villains decides to rebel against her parents by actually going through with her arranged marriage to a local golden retriever of a prince instead of running off with some local villain-to-be or conquering said golden retriever’s kingdom and ruling it solo like her parents expect her to. Plus, sue her, she’s into the clean-cut earnest look.

At the same time, local prince charming discovers that he’s actually very into the gothic fiance his parents have landed him with in order to try and establish peace with the local evil lair down the lane, he would never have guessed a spiderweb pattern could look so fetching on a ball gown…?

Meanwhile, two pairs of parents in a tizzy because they both expected their offspring to whole-heartedly reject this union and give them an excuse to conquer their goody-two-shoes/evil neighbours, they’re not supposed to actually like each other-!

[chucktaylorupset]

respective friend groups undergoing culture clash like all of prince charming’s knights are like what vile spell has been used to ensorcel our prince.  we must be on our guard for surely this is but a ruse for an assassination attempt

meanwhile the villain bride’s friends are all like clearly he loves you not, why do you persist in a manner that will ensure your own heart break, i mean if he was taking this seriously there would be at least three assassination attempts by now.  it’s like he doesn’t even notice that you have massive amounts of dark power to covet for his own

smashcut to

fully armored knight, clanging through the hallways in attempts at stealth, blades drawn: i’m just saying, i took an oath of protection.  this feels wrong.

prince charming: it’s not wrong, it’s celebrating cross cultural traditions for my beloved bride

knight: it’s attempted murder

prince charming: it’s a loving attempted murder

[etjwrites]

Why do some fantasy stories continue to insist that swords are heavy?

Most swords weigh less than a newborn child.

[dragonpurplecristal]

Friendly reminder for all those who write in old English for whatever reason :

Thou = You

Thy = Your

Thee = You (like ‘him’)

Thine = Yours

Also, both pronouns coexisted in the same time period. ‘You’ was used to refer to multiple people, and was a sign of respect. ‘Thou’ was singular and less formal. So if you want a character to refer to a royal by ‘thou’ you’d better have a good explanation for it.

(ps: this system is still used in multiple current languages such as French and Spanish)

[etjwrites]

So if you want a character to refer to a royal by ‘thou’ you’d better have a good explanation for it.

This is one of the reasons I'm so sad these pronouns fell out of use in english. (Most place anyway, you'll still hear them in remote parts of Yorkshire).

When you read the Bible, especially the psalms and new testament, when speaking to God, the Creator of the universe, the personal English pronouns are used for the translation, indicating that God's people have a special, personal relationship with the King of Kings.

There's just no way to properly convey that kind of intimate speech with just a word (although you can get it from context) in modern English.