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Intro 💫
This blog is mostly for lurking. Won't share a lot of personal info, but I'm 28+ so just be aware of that!
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Pros of re-reading your own fic
a good time;
Has exactly the tropes you like and the characterization you want to read;
Gratification: yes you did finish a thing and yes you did do good;
just a very fun time all around.
Cons of re-reading your own fic:
Is that another TYpO
My dad read me stuff like the lord of the rings and the hitchhikers guide to the galaxy and Sherlock Holmes as bedtime stories when I was a kid and I dunno what sort of effect that had on my development but whatever it did I think I’m making it everyone else’s problem
(re: prev post) To be clear, I don't think anything should be "consumed," not even personal posts that are meant to be interesting or funny. I think interactions and community are key to keeping social media "social"; also consumption is just a harmful mindset in general.
However, if I don't curate my own online space, there's a 110% chance I will get overly stressed and have a physical reaction and/or nuke all of my social media accounts..again. I'm aware my unwillingness to Reblog Every Single Thing On The Reblog Site goes against Tumblr etiquette, and I do feel guilty, but I have limited energy rn and limited ways to protect it.
I won't be offended if you unfollow or block me to protect your own space, btw— I just wanted to explain myself a bit more.
*inb4: "just use the queue!" queue has been unreliable since I joined and the resulting backlog/drafts give me even more anxiety 🥲 I need less clutter, not more.
Reblogging since I lurk even more on main, rip. This is why I don't interact as much as I should (other than avoiding bots).
Poll / previous post can be found here:
💬 4 🔁 111 ❤️ 67 · so I'd like to conduct a sort of survey. no judgement, but I'm curious! imagine a fandom post, a gifset or an art or a
incredible stuff happening out there
There's gotta be someone more qualified. I'm fucking begging you.
@evilwizard
don’t involve me in this…
@theshitpostcalligrapher ?
@teaboot ?
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Apparently it’s a thing that some people on tiktok say you have to read 100 books in a year?
As somebody who has the ability to read a book a day if I so choose, I am not going to aim to read 100 books in a year. I have stuff to do.
This is also prevalent on Booksta and Threads, btw. I love bookish communities but mindsets like these make it hard to interact sometimes.
What counts as a book? Does rereading count towards "read books"? Do you have to "prove" you retained what you read (eg keep a journal) and/or review every book? Can someone still call themselves a reader if they read 10 books vs. 100? The amount of discourse is dizzying, and that's just over reading goals. Everything from fanfic to special editions gets debated. 😭
Yeah, yeah, Cassandra Clare got her start writing fanfic, old news.
Rebecca Thorne wrote She-Ra fanfic before writing Tomes & Tea.
Matt Dinniman wrote GI Joe and Transformers crossover fanfic before writing Dungeon Crawler Carl.
Pierce Brown wrote Greek Mythology fanfic before writing Red Rising.
Andy Weir wrote Ready Player One fanfic that later got canonized by Ernest Cline before writing The Martian.
Fanfic has never been, and will never be inferior to published works, and writing one does not discredit or devalue the quality of your work when writing another.
apparently there is some amount of discourse going down on threads (where i do not have an account) about the lack of content warnings for the book innamorata by ava reid and people are trying to cancel the author over it, which is wild to me because content warnings are NOT a required part of books. in fact they've only become a part of publishing fairly recently and i can remember when people were discussing if they should be included in books at all! there are still a great many novels out there, especially in the horror genre, that do not include content warnings, and i don't think that authors should be dragged over hot coals for not including them. also, i have seen this kind of discourse happen several times over the last few years and notably male authors are never the ones who get called out for writing books with upsetting content and not including content warnings. i wonder why that could possibly be…
Threads has some... interesting takes regarding books. While I do think content warnings are a good addition, I wouldn't go so far as to harass authors for not having one?? 😦 Same goes for any sort of sensitivity statement or disclaimer.
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Thinking back to the first story I ever started writing down (I was 7 or 8) about a group of stray cats who, every full moon, took the form of human kids. They actually were human kids, who had been killed (all at different times/by different people). Their bodies were each dumped by the side of the road where a cat had been hit by a car previously, and their souls landed in the cats' bodies. Eventually they all found each other and decided that every full moon, when they shifted, they'd try to solve each other's murders one by one. It was going to be a series, with each book focusing on a different kid's murder mystery. I told my mom about it once, briefly, and she said "Those cat books (warrior cats) are making you creepy."
Just finished writing this manuscript, the first story I ever started. 23 years in the making. Never give up, even if your mom calls you creepy 🖤
NEVER GIVE UP PEOPLE WE’RE GONNA GET THE STRAY CATS AND DEAD KIDS STORY
Not sure if I'll start using this blog again, but I adjusted my settings so I [hopefully] get less spąm. Also I wish Tumblr had a "mute/ignore" option bc filtering isn't doing much, rip.
wait so what else is up with awoken amethyst besides the reflection thing
oh boy oh boy oh boy do I have an essay for you! it's mostly irl nerd stuff, but!!
Awoken amethyst is nothing like amethyst from Earth! Actual amethyst is almost always purple [but can have blue as a secondary hue], usually has color zoning and belongs to the hexagonal crystal family. Awoken amethyst is blue, has no color zoning, and has a pentagonal structure [which doesn't occur naturally]. Also, a lot of it hums and glows!
It is so unlike actual amethyst that it has been compared to a variety of other gems/minerals, including azurite, fluorite, tanzanite, sodalite/lapis lazuli and agate. So far, the Oracle Engine seems to be the main exception:
"But some of it looks purple. Why is that?" Good question! From what I've seen, it comes down to lighting and backlighting. In the Confluence and Blind Well, Awoken amethyst looks purple in the shadows but is blue when you step back. In The Corrupted strike and seasonal areas like the Coil, it's the opposite - it's purple from afar yet blue up close. The Last Wish raid shows it in purple backlighting at first, before giving way to its true color (blue).
Something something "nothing is as it seems," I suppose.
There is one more exception besides the Oracle Engine, however. And I think it's an interesting one. At the very back of Harbinger's Seclude, by the statue of the first Awoken queen Alis Li, the arches are clearly purple and resemble polished irl amethyst. What does it mean? I have no idea, I'm not a lore expert. But I wouldn't be surprised if it did mean something.
Other than that, I only know the standard lore stuff about Awoken amethyst. It's a symbol of Awoken royalty, it can be created thru Awoken favor, Techeuns use it to enhance their powers, it was once given as diplomatic gifts to Eliksni, so on and so forth. And yes, Mara did wish for the Dreaming City to be built out of amethyst.
Being a rockhound and aspiring mineralogist [and Awoken lore enthusiast], I'm always on the lookout for amethyst-related lore, but this is all I've got at the moment lol. Also I don't know if I actually answered your question but thank you for the Ask!!
Here is a screenshot of my Hunter as a token of my appreciation:
