The Dragon Queen of Blogging

Kerry Ann. 27. ISFJ. proud mother. unforgiving nerd. aspiring writer (i can dream). fandom crazed. opinionated. night owl. Shows I am currently watching: Agents of SHIELD Elementary Once Upon a Time Selfie Sleepy Hollow Please check out my about me page to see what other fandoms you might find on this blog! FructoseLollipop: man i lost two followers all of a sudden FructoseLollipop: oh well whatifqueen: And bleh, follower loss is never fun. FructoseLollipop: its okay. i decided what i'm going to do when i hit my next milestone. but i'm not going to tell anyone about it cause i don't want cheap followers. TolkienOverTwilight: yes. only the loyal will reap the benefits FructoseLollipop: i take blogging seriously :| TolkienOverTwilight: kerry, i think its awesome. you are the dragon queen of blogging Rumbelle Room password: Rumbelle (case sensitive)

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So anyway, who’s ready for His Dark Materials?

[bartonclinton]

requested by @zerolilow ♡

- Catelyn Stark, 2.10 (Valar Morghulis)

[elysean]

                                                    You were the best of them.

[lordstar-deactivated20200407]

maybe we should have stayed married.  you were the best of them.

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if i didn’t say it when it was relevant, i’ll say it now: The Phoenix by FOB is the most Mad Swan song ever.

[moosefeels]

rogue one did a lot of things i never thought they’d let a star wars movie do, in terms of: being a movie about Sacrifice and what that means and also

letting people into the club. 

like, rogue one opens star wars to people in a way i wasn’t expecting. american voices and american accents are not nearly so prominent in this movie in way i’ve never seen before in a work of science fiction– diego luna and donnie yen and jiang wen all speak english and they also speak it with their accents and there’s something to that, that opens ownership and possession and interaction with this movie to people who don’t speak english natively.  

and so much of the plot, the thrust, of this movie focuses on 

fathers and daughters in a way that left me just breathless. motherhood is still essentially absent in this movie, but

opening star wars to women who feel themselves as daughters feels so big to me, as someone who loved and loves star wars with her dad, this was so validating. 

and also: rogue one gives a view into the rebellion as a military network; cassian andor is a soldier and a spy and he knows soldiers and spies and he does things, terrible things, in the name of the rebellion, because war makes you do terrible, ugly, violent things in the name of things you believe in. there’s a very real weight to the violence that happens in rogue one that meant So much to me. living your politics means sacrifice in such a big way in rogue one, and it opens the narrative of loss in force awakens so much more clearly. leia and han falling apart makes so much more sense now

but just also

rogue one is a movie about hope. and i mean that, not in some corny cheesey way but in a Real! Tangible! way. and because rogue one is a movie about hope, it’s a movie about sacrifice. 

just

it is an audacious, beautiful thing and 

it is a thing about hope. 

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doing genre research and

i mean is it just me or is the majority of popular fantasy novels with female protags YA?

notable exceptions of course just

would it be a pro or a con to write high fantasy with a main cast of adult women?

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i have too many hobbies and not enough time

[cetras-moved-deactivated2019061]

i said i LIKED video games, dennis, i didn’t say i was GOOD at them

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unrelated but i’ve really been missing fandom lately. the liveblogging, the rush to get gifs out, the speculation, the fic, people in my ask box asking my opinions on the latest, running my shipping side blogs, the meta. the community of it all.

i love and miss you guys

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me: there's a writing convention coming up that's in [city]

mark: we should go. when is it?

me: in three weeks.

mark: yeah, we should go.

me: wanna know how much it is?

mark: how much?

me: 400 dollars

mark: maybe we should talk about it next year

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this probably belongs over on the writing blog but it’ll get more views soooooo

what’s the deal with the writing convention circuit? 

i just did a quick google search and discovered that there is one in my metro area in three weeks

and at first i was like hecka yes imma go until i saw the pretty pricey cost of two day admission

so now i’m just like. okay first before i commit a buncha money on short notice, lemme ask (somewhat hypothetically since i don’t know if anyone who follows me would know either): what’s the deal with the conventions? is it something i should go to? especially considering i’ve only JUST gotten started? there’ll be a buncha lectures/classes that i’m interested in but from what i can tell the biggest draw for these things is networking.

and lets be real i’m really bad at that, and also i just started writing i don’t see much point in networking if i’m many many months out from a potential product

or am i thinking about this in too linear a way? 

send help i am the bads at this

[led-lite]

MAY 3, 2019

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Me, soaking in as many cheap kindle fantasy novels as possible

First male character: important in the world, strong, magical~

Me: Yawn

Second male character: angsty teenage boy who has ~anger issues

Me: get over it

Third male character: Gary Stu the strongest and best of his kind, makes heart eyes at girls who hate him

Me: physically has to put the book down and walk away because I can’t

first female character: exists

Me: SWEET ANGEL, MOON OF MY LIFE

[fyeah-philinda]

“I want to know if you guys think Agent May and Agent Coulson will get together…”

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okay writing talk from now on will be conducted at @kerrywrites follow for more soft crying or if you want to help keep me accountable

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i want to personally thank #cockygate for teaching me so much about indie writing