softly but with conviction, what the fuck?

christina (she/her). 30s. california. married. cat & dog mom. storyteller. resident bisexual disaster. salty fandom grandma.

[idoltina]

Roman and Kate + parallels

The more familiar two people become, the more the language they speak together departs from that of the ordinary, dictionary-defined discourse. Familiarity creates a new language, an in-house language of intimacy that carries reference to the story the two lovers are weaving together and that cannot be readily understood by others. - Alain de Botton

[wanderingibon]

" I noticed that you've been smiling more, Lucanis. "

" ...Have I? ...Si, I suppose I have been. "

[lux-scriptum]

No, you see, I wish to be an author. Not in marketing. Or an influencer. I wish to tell my stories, be told I did a fantastic job, and then go back to my hovel to scribble some more. I am delicate of constitution and awkward in crowds.

[sunsetbuddie]

we used to get christmas episodes of television. halloween episodes. valentines. we used to get television that felt like part of your life. like it was happening alongside your life. now we mostly get 8 episodes dropping all at once every two years and they don't have time for any of that. i miss characters living alongside us

[writingdose]

“I want to write a fic about this but I don’t think anybody will be interested in it” ummm hello excuse me ma’am what do you mean you don’t think anybody will be interested in it??? YOU. YOU ARE INTERESTED IN IT???? write it because YOU are interested in it and YOU want to write about it. fanfic writing should always be first and foremost about YOUR enjoyment, not other people’s.

[wishforhome]

I wrote a hockey AU fic thinking nobody would be into it because it was silly and self-indulgent, but I wrote it anyway because it was fun and made me happy.

..... Anyway, all my friends who read it are into hockey now and we stream games together.

Write the thing!

[mulderscully]

1.07 | 1.08

[fellshish]

a lot of writing is sort of watching the film in your head like oh sorry can’t write the chapter yet i have to repeat hallucinate the dialogue first

[celizyman]

“Okay, Chief, take 'em away. I'm gonna go home and sleep with my wife.”

[petemcvries23]

the natural lifespan of a fandom is unlimited. when well tended a fandom can be functionally immortal. and yet everywhere you look you see newly bred fandoms withering and dying when they’re barely a year old. barely even six months old. fans are looking at their six month old fandoms and saying i think it’s on its last legs, should i euthanise it? when with the proper care that fandom could outlive them for decades. it’s sad. sad state of affairs we’re in.

[antlered-vixen]

I am so tired of short-attention-span, trim-the-fat culture. All writing advice these days is for how to write like Chuck Palahniuk. "Cut 'think', cut 'feel', cut 'wonder' - only action, only pushing forward, show and move and move and move." What if I could emulate this style, and still don't want to? What if I want to write like Henry James, with three paragraphs of introspective musings between each dialogue line? The music advice is, "make it shortform, make it Tik-Tok compatible, make it punchy, hit the refrain as soon as possible." What if I want that 10-minute prog rock piece? What if I want that symphony? What if I want it slow and luxurious and lazy? Movies. Series. Poetry. Bodies. Everything is "trimmed trimmed trimmed trimmed, stripped bare, you have three seconds to win me over, make it airport chic." I don't want to win you over, then, I guess. I want the fat left it. I want the pleasure and the indolence and the indulgence. Fuck this art-advice that's always "your art needs Ozempic."

[theheroheart]

I know meant this broadly about a general cultural trend and not really about Chuck Palahniuk, but he doesn't actually do what you're complaining about. He has SO much fat in his writing.

An important note about that particular advice is that he means the opposite of how you summarise it as "only action". The advice was to teach you to unpack. Literally to show, not tell. Instead of writing "he felt angry", you write "his nails dug into his palms so hard he might soon draw blood", for example. Which, as you may notice, it NOT shorter, but it is more evocative.

Also, if you actually read a decent amount of Palahaniuk... Most of them don't have that much action/plot. He goes on ridiculous tangents like you wouldn't believe. One of my favourites, "Diary", opens with 3 solid pages that is 90% anatomy lesson.

In fact, I just opened it to a random page and got this:

What he actually does is write short sentences. You might still not like his style and that's fine! But trust me, he is ALL about atmosphere over action.

[ruffboi-mags]

I'm just reblogging because I love Kristine's adoration of Chuck Palahniuk's writing and because that's a fantastically evocative page.

Clearly, if anyone points to Chuck as an example of "cutting the fat" when telling you that you should do it, you can tell them "no thanks, you clearly haven't read his work, so I don't think your advice holds much weight."

[rahleeyah]

Re: that last post I actually love Chuck's advice there so much I wanted to share the whole bit bc I think it's some of the best advice on writing I've ever encountered:

[irregulargif]

SVU 27x16

[animations-daily]

Animations-daily’s 100k celebration week: Day 4: Favorite relationship » Belle & the Beast 

“True, that he is no Prince Charming, but there is something in him that I simply didn’t  see.”

[laurenillustrated]

Pride and Prejudice Art

A few recent scene redraws from the 2005 Pride and Prejudice film! One of my favorite movies ever.

Prints available in my shop!

I’ve been on a big Jane Austen kick this year and currently reading my way through all the books! So far I’ve read Emma, Pride and Prejudice, Persuasion, and I’m almost finished with Northanger Abbey!

[creativepromptsforwriting]

How to create an atmosphere

How to create an atmosphere: Coffee Shop

How to create an atmosphere: Library

How to create an atmosphere: Supermarket

How to create an atmosphere: Train Station

How to create an atmosphere: Club

How to create an atmosphere: Forest

How to create an atmosphere: Beach

How to create an atmosphere: Haunted House

How to create an atmosphere: Christmas Market

How to create an atmosphere: Airport

How to create an atmosphere: Lecture Hall

[creativepromptsforwriting]

What kind of place would you like to see next?

[rogers-carter]

#superhero strut mode: activated

[lauraharriers]

Regina, what are you doing? ONCE UPON A TIME, 'Devil's Due'