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@feartheophanim
'just patch up ur own socks' 'just alter the html code urself' 'just mod it in urself' 'just learn to draw it yourself' 'just learn how to cobble shoes in ur free time' 'just /make ur own clothes/ after work' im sick and tired of using my precious labor to compensate for capitalism's failures
The worst part about writing fantasy is being keenly aware that you’re writing fantasy, which means that you always have to straddle a thin three-way line between anachronism, cliche, and clunk.
Take money, for example. You can’t just have people in a fictional fantasy world walk around using Euros. You consider something generic, like ‘silver coins,’ but before you know it your world starts sounding like a shitty ren faire.
So you think about the world you’ve built and its needs and its history to come up with some unique and relevant terms. But if your terms are too unique and relevant you wind up writing “yarr, you’ll be ransomed for a hundred Trade League Silver Gyrblonks” and realize your worldbuilding is now getting in the way of basic readability.
“They’re using golden valley coins!”
…didst thou mean dollars?
“Nevermind. They’re using some basic silver coin and then enough gold to be worth ten silver coins is called a ten-piece”
…Si, si, el Peso!
Trying over, they’re minted by the king so they’re called crown coins, or, these days, abbreviated, they’re just Crowns
Naturligvis, vi skifter Daler ud med Kroner!
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The Lesson Of The Day is that all the names are already claimed by IRL, and all the almost-good-names that you could invent to get around that were used by some SFF author in the seventies e.g. I bet you can’t do Suns and Moons for your gold/silver coins, I bet some author did that already.
My fantasy nation uses solid gold coins marked by the dental impressions of the reigning king, as a sign of their purity and authenticity.
They’re called Bitcoins.
oh you can go the fuck to jail that’s what you can do, where you’ll be shackled to a chain gang hitting the blockchain with a pickaxe
TBH, I think the takeaway from “dollar” and “kroner” and whatnot is that you can name money after damn near anything. Like, the US Dollar has nothing to do with valleys, the word just evolved a lot - first you had the silver-mining town of Joachimsthal (literally “Joachim’s valley” or “Joachim’s dale”, named after St. Joachim), then the Bohemians started making silver coins there and called them “Joachimsthaler”, literally “things from Joachimsthal”, then that got shortened to just “thaler”, and then the spelling changed as it migrated around languages and ended up in the English word “dollar”.
So you can just… do this, with pretty much any word you want. You buy a sword with 50 Eeg, so called because they used to have eagles printed on them. That laser costs 200 orcs, or Oort Republic Credits, but a lot of people still call that 200 hippo because before the Belt War the Hippolyta Mining Co. scrip was the de facto standard currency around here and the name stuck around (and in some bars you can start a serious fight by using one name or the other). Your meal costs 10 cigs - originally short for cygnets, which was a hundredth of one swan, a coin named for the royal mint in Swansea - which are easily confused with the neighboring kingdom’s “sigs”, named for the banknotes that carry the signature of the royal treasurer (the exchange rate is not 1:1, but it’s close enough that along the border it’s fairly common for merchants to try to cheat you by “confusing” one for the other). The nation of Gofrandar issued crystal chits in a variety of colors for different denominations, and the blue ones were the most common and were produced mainly in factories in the city of Largon, leading to the name “blue largo”, and that was centuries ago and most people today haven’t even heard of Gofrandar, much less Largon, but six different nations still have currencies called blarg.
It costs 12 scuts. It costs 150 grovers. It costs 23 skidah. It costs a tail and a half. It costs two phyla and 28 points. You can just keep making up words.
why does it take SO much energy to keep your house only sort of clean
i think theres this idea in the general public that the "best" fanfic gets turned into real books like 50 shades of grey. but the truth is that the best fanfic can never be published as an actual book because its intricately woven into the canon material so its inseparable even if you change the names
wearing a shirt that says “even in an au fanfiction, the characters, relationships, or even the scenarios are recognizable in the best fanfic, and an au without ties to the source material may be a fine story but it’s not a good fanfiction” and booty shorts that say “I HATE FUN”
a simple twist of fate
tags: post-canon fix-it, more like break-it but whatever, angst with a happy ending, hurt/comfort, other additional tags to be added || rated: M ||
“I think I want to build a house.” Cas looks up from his book, surprised: probably both that Dean spoke, and by the words that he said. “What about the bunker?” “Not enough windows.” Dean shifts, hospital gown crinkling. His jello cup sits half-eaten on the white tray in front of him. “Now that there’s no Devil or God or cosmic threat—I want windows.” Shutting his book, laying it on his lap, Cas asks, “Do you have a property in mind?” “Yeah.” Dean picks up the jello cup again, spooning the red, wobbly stuff into his mouth. “Yeah, I know a place." ---- Cas is human. Dean doesn't die on the rebar. So, together, they rebuild.
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The windows on the house look original. Single-pane, wood, the paint on the frames peeling—but otherwise in good shape. It’s a warm day, so Dean decides to tackle those after he cleans out the new (relatively speaking) kitchen cabinets. A soft, dry Kansas breeze dances across his cheeks as Dean climbs the ladder to scrape at the old white paint. He decided to paint the window trim a dark blue. Not a decision that involved Cas, since he’s not answering his damn phone and hasn’t since he left for the hunt four days ago. He’s trying not to let it bother him.
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a simple twist of fate
tags: post-canon fix-it, more like break-it but whatever, angst with a happy ending, hurt/comfort, other additional tags to be added || rated: M ||
“I think I want to build a house.” Cas looks up from his book, surprised: probably both that Dean spoke, and by the words that he said. “What about the bunker?” “Not enough windows.” Dean shifts, hospital gown crinkling. His jello cup sits half-eaten on the white tray in front of him. “Now that there’s no Devil or God or cosmic threat—I want windows.” Shutting his book, laying it on his lap, Cas asks, “Do you have a property in mind?” “Yeah.” Dean picks up the jello cup again, spooning the red, wobbly stuff into his mouth. “Yeah, I know a place." ---- Cas is human. Dean doesn't die on the rebar. So, together, they rebuild.
read chapter 1
I’m excited to be writing. Even if the words are in the wrong order or the characters are bland. I’m just happy to be here again, in a familiar place I missed.
me as a writer: Oh no I can’t write that, somebody else already has
me as a reader: hell yes give me all the fics about this one scenario. The more the merrier
This one is so hard to accept. Reblogging to knock that into my brain.
Me as a writer: I feel like I’m repeating myself, I’ve already used that theme, I’ve already written that kink, that other character uses that speech pattern so this one in another fandom can’t, I feel like I’m writing predictable things, is this different enough from that other thing I wrote, are people filling out bingo cards by my work? :sobbing:
Me as a reader: oh hell yeah this hit the spot exactly, I hope this writer has written 20 more just like it
As one friend said when I felt I was reusing a theme too much, nobody ever says, Did Agatha Christie write about murder again?
I actually laughed out loud at the last one. A very good point.
“I love this, I hope there isn’t anything else out there like it!” Said no one ever
More Cake
writing tip #4044:
just uhhhh, just like uh,. get uhhhhhhh.. just get weird with it
Watched Good Fortune today. It was a cute movie… but, as a fan of Bill & Ted and Supernatural, that’s was probably to be expected.
As much as I want to support ethical farming practices I will be buying the cheapest bag of frozen chicken thighs as much as the next frugal/poor person which is why animal welfare needs to be legislated, not left up to the invisible hand of the free market or some bullshit. Invisible hand of the free market finds itself around a lot of throats.
"Invisible hand of the free market finds itself around a lot of throats."
That is such a line.
“Starter house”?????? We’re supposed to have more than one house???????
NPR just went, “They’re poor, Harold.”
I saw the socks and immediately Kirishima came to mind. I really want some of them. I put they’re link in my bio. They’re going on my Christmas list. Lol. #kirishimaeijirou #kirishima #bakugoukatsuki #bakugou #mha #bnha #fanart #kiribaku #sharksocks #sharksock #croc #crocsandsocks (en Norfolk, Virginia) https://www.instagram.com/p/BqVGpKhg8wG/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=b2j6jf1q6rd
So, this goes with a fanfiction I wrote. Link below. I swear it makes sense given the fanfiction and the copious comments on that fanfiction. The Fanfiction, Anyone Can Be A Hero: archiveofourown.org/works/15355980 My Redbubble: redbubble.com/people/morvenmoeller Thanks so much! Enjoy! (en Norfolk, Virginia)
I've been watching (read: obsessing over) My Hero Academia for the last few weeks. And my SUNSET BOYS ™ (aka Yellow and Red) give me LIFE. I'm super surprised that I'm not more into a red/blue pairing, but there really aren't any??? (But it's okay because Todoroki #exists .) Now, this is based on a SimplyNailogical video (found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1tW05rQWdw ). The entire video reminds me of this ship, SO YOU SHOULD WATCH IT, but honestly I like her, her videos, and her relationship with her boyfriend anyway so... *shrugs* Do you watch My Hero Academia? Do you have any favorite ships that I could draw? (Reminder: I am a hearty multishipper.) . . . . . #mha #bnha #myheroacademia #bokunoheroacademia #fanart #art #simplynailogical #kirishimaxbakugou #kiribaku #kirishima #kirishimaeijirou #bakugoukatsuki #bakugou #beautygurukiri #someonewriteafanfic #please (en Norfolk, Virginia)
Castiel
Companion piece to Hipster Dean! ♥
