old man appreciator @gustycartoons - Tumblr Blog

hi, just thought it'd be a good idea to share my bluesky, since i post a lot on there too

im currently working on 3 original stories, so ill be talking mostly about my ocs and my lifelong passion for the early medieval period (500-900AD).

disclaimer!! my bsky is 18+

#pinned post #intro

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Gonna make one hundred soups this year. Starting off with kapustnyak, carrot soup, chickpea soup, and parsnip soup.

4% complete.

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8% complete baybeee. This may end up being a long post. Hope you like the colour of the soup.

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Can't stop won't stop. 15 soups so far.

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Slowed down for a minute because vet bills ate up my grocery budget but made it to 20%, baybEEEE.

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Whoops I slowed down but BAM, 25%. I'm gonna make a comeback baybeeEEEE.

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I AM BECOMING SO POWERFUL

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Four new BEAN BASED SOUPS, the first one trailblazing because it was a taco soup recipe courtesy of @alex-of-1000-dumbasseries. 61 IN THE BAG, 39 TO GO.

I am also linking my soup planning doc because I can, and it's easier than tagging all of them individually.

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Have I lost all my followers yet? NOT YET. Time for more soups. I'm up to 70 now.

themythicalcodfish

OP this is a gorgeous post and I’m so proud of you

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Thank you, I will take these codfish words to my grave. Also, I have achieved 8 more, putting me at 77 soups. How is 70 plus 9 photos 77? I'm glad you asked.

Earlier, I forgot to include a photo of my cock-a-leekie-soup (#57) - pictured above as the first one of this set - and also I MADE TARATOR TWICE by accident so I've struck one from the record since I'm trying to make 100 soups here, not 99 and one twice.

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A new bowl approaches. Bought myself some soup bowls from the 70s with goofy little geese on them for my own birthday (though I did not get them in time for my miyeok-guk), because what else is free will for. This puts me at 86. I JUST MIGHT MAKE IT? SOMEHOW?

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A COLOURFUL BATCH featuring another Certified Tumblr Soup because people kept recommending Yeto's Soup, and they were right.

How am I at 92? ALL MY LIFE I'VE BEEN A QUITTER.

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100/100!

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This soup post fills me with warm feelings ... And determination.

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@plaguedocboi the council awaits

nellasbookplanet

Something so funny about rereading one's own unfinished fics. Like wow this is pretty good! Almost as if was written exactly according to what I personally like in fact! Someone should finish it!

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snowkissedmonsters

Make Dialogue Good Again bitches i am NOT asking

snowkissedmonsters

"how do you write good dialogue" here's an idea let's just start with the characters NOT simply saying the plot out loud to one another for 20% of their conversations

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actually let me be sincere here. I am not an expert on writing dialogue, but I flatter myself to know the basics at least. Here's some practical ways to improve dialogue:

read old plays. I'm not kidding. Read a play written pre-2000. Old Irish plays are my personal favourite because the dialogue is usually high context and hilarious

don't let the characters EVER say the plot out loud to each other. Allow the characters to say as little as possible to convey the plot to the reader/viewer; let visual language and context inform the rest. Readers are SUPPOSED to interpret, they are supposed to use their brains, for the love of god, LET THEM

"varying character voice" is not just about their accent or their social class, which are the two aspects I most often see varied in modern work. It more importantly means "how much would this character say, and what words would they choose to say it." Motive should always inform what a character reveals and how they reveal it. The most important part of a character's voice is the subtext within that voice - that's where their true characterisation is really hiding.

I saw this on somebody else's tumblr post which I now cannot find, but it's honestly a sublime piece of dialogue advice: whatever a character is saying, force them to Say It Without Saying It. If a character wants to be handed a red ball, they can say anything except "Hand me that red ball" to achieve that end. This goes for confessing feelings, outlining plots and plans, arguments, etc etc etc. If a character ever DOES need to say something super directly it should be an impactful moment in your story, NOT the norm.

gvq

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think this has to be one of my favourite headlines of anything ever

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The best thing about that article is that there gets to be a point where you’re like surely. Surely we can’t get sexier and less-martyr-y than this. And that point is about a 3rd of the way through the piece.

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Adding one of my faves not included in the article:

Nicolas Régnier (1591–1667) Saint Sebastian tended by Saint Irène, c.1625,

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Alan Turing's gay short story reveals 'fun, cheeky' man

A startling new study of a little-known, unpublished short story by Alan Turing challenges our understanding of the man who played a key role in cracking the Nazi’s Enigma code, developed the theoretical underpinning of the first computers, and laid the groundwork for the development of artificial intelligence.

‘Pryce’s Buoy’, a six-page, scruffily hand-written fragment of a short story cared for by archivists at King’s College Cambridge has been transcribed and fully studied for the first time.

Professor Sarah Dillon’s findings, published in The Review of English Studies, will surprise anyone who accepts The Imitation Game’s portrayal of Turing.

“He’s come to be seen as socially unaware, entirely concerned with logic and numbers, and pretty isolated. His short story reveals a very different man: playful, funny, cheeky, literary, and someone who really liked sex.”

Turing’s story – which Dillon believes he wrote in late 1952 or early 1953 – centres on Ron Miller, a working-class rent boy; and Alec Pryce, a homosexual scientist famed for an invention in his twenties known as ‘Pryce’s buoy’, hence the title sometimes given to the story.

Alec’s character is clearly autofictional – he represents Turing himself – and Dillon has no doubt that ‘Pryce’s Buoy’ is a direct fictionalisation of the late 1951 sexual encounter which led to Turing’s arrest.

“There was clearly more and that's so frustrating,” says Dillon. “We don't know where the rest of it went. We don't know if Turing's mum censored it. Did it get more sexually explicit? How did it end? That’s frustrating but everything else is so exciting.”

“Turing died when he was only 41, and in those years running up to his death, he was trying to understand himself and his world. Literature offered him a really powerful way of doing that. This was the moment when he really felt a release, a chance to be more creative and playful.”

Professor Dillon’s most exciting discovery identifies a fellow Bletchley Park veteran as the inspiration behind Turing’s short story. At the end of 1942, Turing was at Bletchley at the same time as Angus Wilson (1913–1991), who was translating Italian naval codes. They didn’t meet but became acquainted after the war through King’s College Cambridge social circles.

It was already known that Turing read homosexual fiction, including the work of Angus Wilson, but Dillon reveals a very specific literary debt. In July 1952, Wilson published Hemlock and After, a pioneering gay novel – almost banned from libraries – which had a profound impact on Turing.

In fact, on close reading Turing’s story and Wilson’s novel, Dillon discovered that Turing “copied” one section of Wilson’s book “in many explicit ways, including replicating the order of events in the plot, reproducing the same (or very similar) phrases and diction, and adopting the narrative technique of shifting focalisation which Wilson deploys throughout Hemlock and After.”

Dillon argues that Hemlock and After was precisely the novel Turing needed to read at a pivotal moment in his life. “Wilson showed that homosexuality was normal and an integrated part of many people's psychological and social lives,” Dillon says. “He also made the law against it look increasingly outlandish.”

“Imagine being Turing. You're a homosexual man, you've been prosecuted, you've been forced to take hormone treatment. And then just months later, you read this novel. It must have been such a powerful moment for Turing amid so much trauma.”

As well as calling for a reassessment of Turing’s character, Professor Dillon argues that Angus Wilson deserves far more appreciation. Wilson’s post-war novels about English life almost always include gay characters, not as exceptions, just as a normal part of that social world.

Dillon points out that the most celebrated gay novel of the 20th century, E. M. Forster’s Maurice, wasn’t published until 1971, after Forster’s death. “Wilson was bolder,” Dillon says. “He thought Forster hid and failed to use his powerful reputation.”

Wilson died in poverty and ignominy in 1991, having fallen out of favour in academic literary studies in the 1970s, as it became increasingly interested in more radical and subversive gay literature.

(Full article)

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occasionally, you will discover an artist who drew roughly 300 beautiful pictures of your favorite characters over the course of a month and then never touched them again. you must accept this as a gift.