[hiddenmoonbeam]

Hello friends! The coming months I won't have wifi at home, and I’ve blocked the tumblr app from using mobile data. While I could get a new wifi or more data (though let’s be honest, tumblr drains it so much I’d still keep it blocked to prevent my own doomscrolling) I also want to take this opportunity to force myself to use my phone less + prioritise what to do when I use the library wifi…we’ll see how that goes lol. Anyway this is why I’m not very active right now. I have to first of all focus on irl work I need to get done, but hopefully also things to share on here 🥰

Pinning this post so adding some tags for quick access (maybe I’ll update this later and finally make a proper intro post…!)

Anyway have a nice day!!!! And feel free to message or dm me, though it will take time for me to answer on here. Discord is still allowed on my phone though so I’m not completely offline!

[artisimpossible]

I genuinely wonder if people realize how many projects get abandoned because the readership "wasn't there", when in reality, the readership just stayed silent. It's a big thing in trad pub that book series get discontinued because readers pirate the books or wait until the series is finished to buy a copy, leading the publisher to think that nobody actually wants the book enough to continue the series, but it happens with indie creators too.

I've discontinued a lot of free, online series because it's not worth putting 3-5 hours a week into posting a project for no readers. Sometimes I finish the series for me but just never post it again, other times I don't finish it at all because it feels more worthwhile to put my time into other things. Sometimes I hear from readers who are sad or upset that I didn't finish something they were liking, but the *reason* it never got finished is because I didn't know anyone liked it. If you like something, tell the creator, tell your friends, make some noise about it. If you would be sad if a story never finished, make that interest known because one of my biggest considerations before discontinuing a series is "will people miss this? Will I be letting people down" and 9/10 times, I come to the conclusion of "no, it doesn't even seem like anyone's reading this" only to learn after I've moved on that apparently someone was.

[healerqueen]

I've said this before in a different way, and this post said it so well. With real examples. If you like something, tell people.

If you want more content from an artist or author, if you like their stuff, tell them. It will give them creative fuel to keep going. And often it gives them other resources as well. Recommend a work to other people. Leave a comment or a review. It doesn't have to be long, just genuine, a sentence or two. Not many people know that a book's success is judged by book reviews as well as sales. Review the book on Amazon or another site to help it pass the metric of success and be recognized by publishers and retailers.

[what-even-is-thiss]

I think a lot of writers might benefit from giving themselves permission to get weird with format.

Use second person, drop classic rising action and climax format, write backwards, just sit in a moment, tell all you want and refuse to show, make an entire book that’s just one run on sentence, reject tropes, use all tropes, cliche yourself to death, produce something that’s completely gibberish. Break all the rules of marketability. Become ungovernable.

[what-even-is-thiss]

Write a story that just takes place inside one pathetic little person’s head. Do it. It’s enrichment in your enclosure.

[what-even-is-thiss]

Do the writer’s equivalent of playing with finger paints. Do it do it do it do it do it do it do it do it do it do it do it do it

[what-even-is-thiss]

It’s the middle of the night and I should be sleeping but listen. Listen. Just get weird with it. Open your soul up a little bit. Like actually don’t worry about it being palatable. I’m serious. Get weirder. Get weirder right now. I’m demanding that you get weirder right now. It’s not your responsibility to make your reader feel good. It’s your job to make art, goddamnit. Make art. Make weird art. Open up your third eye and eat an entire cheesecake.

[astravis]

One of my favorite things I've read uses text alignment to show the different perspectives of people within the same head.

[lalunavinoalafragua]

Blue moon tonight. Here's a ravenous Remus for you (and a peaceful one, at least for now)

[penbwl]

I started mindlessly sketching and before I knew it 2 hours had past and I’ve got a wholeass grandad werewolf on my page,,, miiiightve blanked out a little

[imeonasy]

spot the jfp

[trankinstein]

Less magic schools. More magic universities. Unlearn the simplified models of your secondary education. Discover how to reference scrolls written by a wizard possessed by a different wizard. Identify bias in the voices that whisper from beyond the veil. Have your institution be accused of promoting a Merlinist agenda. Become addicted to energy potions.

[teigi]

thinking about Sirius staying at the Potters.

about him being there unwillingly. refusing to unpack his bag. constantly paying attention to adults’ body language. not knowing how to tell if they’re angry. feeling out of place, frustrated and trapped. getting irritated by excessive tactile contact. tensing up when hearing the sound of people loudly talking or footsteps getting closer. being acutely aware of someone else’s presence. the tactics he has been honing for years not working anymore. him being on edge, waiting for a hit what will never come.

as soon as he inherits his uncle’s money he gets his own flat. the first night he opens the window, turns on the crappy telly and curls up on the couch in front of it.

finally no one has any power over him. he breaths out.

[diablo-sera-tops]

hey don't cry. blorbo coughing up blood

[diablo-sera-tops]

blorbo writhing in agony ok? don't cry

[darkmacademia]

alignment chart: bookmark edition. tag yourself i’m scrap paper

[wonderstruck]

If you see this you’re legally obligated to reblog and tag with the book you’re currently reading

[plecotusauritus]

I saw a parent gently keeping their arm around a child in public transport like they were scared that the child might get taken away and it looked so gentle and loving and that is how Sirius would always hold Harry close when they are anywhere 😭

[plecotusauritus]

God I need to make Black family slightly more inbred again and give Sirius hemophilia...... he will ofc hide it from his friends so they don't get too worried and then he hurts himself and they will think like "oh that is just small scrape, no worries" until the bleeding just keeps going and going........ 😈😈

[hiddenmoonbeam]

been so inactive none of my top posts are mine anymore this needs to be fixed!!!!!

just gotta nap first

[plecotusauritus]

A very central part of Sirius's character is that he has suffered a great injustice that has marginalised him from the society. From what we know, he has been this charming and intelligent young man who gets his whole life ripped away from him because of the flaws in justice system. Even when he fights himself out, he spends the rest of his life hiding from authorities, either homeless or stuck inside a house he hates. He never got to experience the peacefull years - he went from fighting one war to another. All of this affect what we see about him in the books and how other people talk about him (mainly that he is unstable and can't be trusted).

When I think about characters like Remus and Regulus, they usually get to keep their central themes even when playing around with AUs. Muggle AU Remus may not be a werewolf, but usually this gets swapped out to a chronic illness that marginalises him. Regulus's politics get changed, but he still gets to do some kind of great sacrifice like in canon - like staying behind in Grimmauld Place so that Sirius can get out or pretending to be dead for some noble cause.

Modern/Muggle AU Sirius only gets to be a rich trust fund kid. Somehow this seems to be his central theme in so many people's minds, a thing that you can't take away from him.

[nevver]

[sowhatifiliveinkyushu]

Residents view the first iceberg of the season as it passes the South Shore, near Ferryland Newfoundland, Canada by Jody Martin

[antique-scarecrow]

it…did not occur to me that icebergs just…pass by people’s houses

[portraitdelajeunefilleenfeu]

i used to live in st. john’s, nl, and, in late spring to early summer, it was not uncommon for a giant iceberg to float slowly by just outside the harbor. they would mention it on the news and radio. they took hours or, sometimes, days to go by. and, when it happened, it would make the whole town colder.. like ice in a glass of water. and, sometimes,… they would groan. as they passed.

[rozzed]

why not have the reader re-read a sentence now and then? it won't hurt him....