sing out, louise

bread for all, and roses too. often thinking about 18th-century england

[glintglimmergleam]

imagine bridgerton if eloise had a gun

[elena-gilbert]

OLIVIA COOKE photographed by Luca Possiede for Vogue (June 23, 2026)

[marzipanandminutiae]

me: oh hi, Sophia. If you're wondering about the haze and smoky smell in the sky, it's wildfire smoke from-

Sophia, the ghost from 1875 who haunts a lamp I got at Brimfield: I wasn't wondering. why would I be?

me: ...but climate change is making it worse even since I was a child. and I had to explain climate change to you last week

Sophia: yes but haze and smoke in the city is normal, isn't it? coal fires for cooking (even in summer), gaslights burning, and so forth

me:

Sophia: the nature is different, but I'm quite accustomed to the concept. and this will last how long?

me: until tomorrow probably

Sophia: after which the air quality will be...?

me: excellent, I imagine. it's really good here 98% of the year, and good the rest of the time barring a few days like this one

Sophia:

Sophia: "I hate you" seems dismissive, so I will merely say that one feels this is a situation where appreciating progress is warranted, even in the midst of concern

[glintglimmergleam]

the thing i always forget about writing is how much time and energy it takes, and i can't be doing other things or i can't concentrate! it's write or read, not both.

the real value of an MFA program is the structure it puts around writing. forcing you to prioritize it.

i don't know how any hobby writers make decent progress at, like, half an hour a day.

[glintglimmergleam]

if i don't succeed, i'll let this project rest in my drafts folder and share it among interested mutuals. not everything needs to be AO3-public.

[glintglimmergleam]

hmm am now realizing that while the premise for this fic was "what if zoe kenneth's character wasn't wildly transphobic", in plot this is a case fic with a murder to solve, not a character exploration. and i'm not used to writing those.

i know what i want to achieve here but i do not feel equipped to pull it off. still i'll try.

[menofcolorinfantasyart]

Knight Duties by La Draws

[angelictroublemaker]

[Art of a Black knight, shown in profile from the knees up. He is wearing full armor with his shield and helmet strapped to his back. His hair is close-cropped. He’s standing next to a white horse who has their head lowered. The knight looks serious and determined. ]

[foone]

Is there a "Be Disabled, Do Crimes" too?

[earhartsease]

governments will consider having to give us financial support a crime

[didanagy]

ANYA TAYLOR-JOY as EMMA WOODHOUSE

EMMA (2020) dir. autumn de wilde

[kuttithevangu]

If a character in a book is presented as a boy the whole time but then in act 3 she is revealed to actually be a cis girl In Disguise no one thinks twice about it but the moment that same Girl In Disguise As A Boy is trans suddenly goodreads becomes can’treads

[kuttithevangu]

Uhh ok people are only tagging this with characters they wish were trans men so I must clarify that by a Girl Disguised As A Boy I did mean a trans girl who has been forced By Society to be disguised as a boy. I see why you are having trouble coming up with examples that aren’t cis girls who could have been trans men to be fair but Clarification Of Intent: I think when a girl is disguised as a boy that can equally be a trans woman narrative

[quasi-normalcy]

The rookie mistake in fiction writing is assuming that short stories will be easier to write than novels because they're smaller. No. This is the equivalent to thinking that it's easier to make a pocket watch than grandfather clock. Short stories are complex engineering problems.

[quasi-normalcy]

You need to find a way to pack all of the things that a story needs into a tiny like box without it overheating.

[flowerbleedme]

Well as a "fan" I would be "serviced" by some THEMES AND MOTIFS #themesandmotifs #artwithmeaning

[medullam]

Northern England, ph. Don Mccullin [circa 60s - 1974]

[glintglimmergleam]

posting those research lists is fun: not all of those bullet points will end up in the final draft, of course. but they make up a funny, somewhat misleading summary of what's happening in the story. and you guys seem to like them!

[glintglimmergleam]

today's google research list for the Lewis case ficWIP:

Oxford academic calendar

Radcliffe Camera website

Brazil top exports

St Augustine chastity quote

So long farewell Sound of Music

Geordie slang

Sexual Offences Act 1967

Mallorca spelling

video software edit name

oxfam careers page

Shakespeare lexicon

chanson jazz songs

[gailynovelry]

The fastest way to accomplish The Project is to cease being afraid of The Project. The Project cannot maim you. The Project cannot kill you. The Project is more afraid of you than you are of it. It is okay if The Project turns out differently from how it was in your head, and it is okay if it has flaws. You are capable of engaging with The Project.

[dykeselfcest]

I understand the urge to comment on recent trends in which people seem to want increasingly sanitized media compared to the recent past, but when you say things like "people used to just shrug and move on when there were books and movies that made them uncomfortable" it's like...well. actually people used to convict artists of obscenity in a court of law.