Inosh | Inkstains and Heartbreak

  They/He | Storyteller, reader, twitter exodus refugee | Opinions personal | Words in @subunlitmag and @nationalflashfd | Tamil   

[inoshwrites]

Writerblr, I'm here with the offering of my Tamil sapphic YA fantasy for NaNo and I ask you stare at them in reverence. What if a scammer falls for a royal?

And moots fleeing the muskocalypse of twitter, feel free to let me know if you are here. We need to hold on to each other. A few basics,

I'm Inosh and I go by He/They

Mostly on Writerblr and Bookblr

Very new to Tumblr but I'm digging it

My blog is SFW but I write very dark themes. So would prefer if minors DNI (existing moots, doesn't apply to you)

I mostly will post moodboards, snippets, and mythology/culture posts. I love writing long threads but i'm not sure how it'll carry over here

[catchymemes]

[elizmanderson]

my author copies are here!! please ignore the shitty video quality bc I did this on my laptop camera and have zero video skills to speak of!! yes I did in fact go cry after I stopped filming!!

[video description: a young white woman with dark hair in a ponytail and glasses, wearing a tank top, visible from the bust up while kneeling in front of the camera in a living room with an armchair, a lamp, and a curtained window. I hold up a cardboard box, then a boxcutter, and open the box. inside are several hardcover copies of The Remarkable Retirement of Edna Fisher. I show one to the camera, including the front and back flaps and my author photo on the back flap, in which I am wearing a dark coat and my hair down while grinning into the sunlight. I flip to an interior chapter to show off the chapter heading, which is a ball of yarn with a sword and knitting needle stabbed into it. I smile a lot because if smile surely no cry (but spoiler alert that didn't actually work).]

[inoshwrites]

I think we readers are chasing a high. We are chasing that feeling of being seen for the first time, that second when everything in a book finally clicks together and makes perfect sense, that time when we cried enough to stain the pages and blur the ink. And we may find it. Or we may not. But in trying, we find so many new addictions that we cannot stop this chase

[secretmellowblog]

My husband is a man who collects things he can use. A pistol, a pocket-watch, a woman's love, a wife....

I'm obsessed with That Scene(tm) between Katya and Andrei in the California Director's Cut Rerelease of Goncharov, so I did a lighting study inspired by the film's Art Deco Posters! Little details like Katya never referring to her husband by his first name really add to Andrey and Katya's tense dynamic, which is one of the most underrated parts of the movie imo.

[inoshwrites]

So we all accept Wednesday is aroace right?

[wandererthreatening]

In a way Goncharov (1973) really is the greatest gangster movie ever made. There are thousands of people dreaming up their own versions of this movie. With more plot threads than could ever actually fit into a 2 hour movie. No actual film could ever compare to the imagination of a million strangers and that's weirdly beautiful.

[artyphex]

I don’t know how to explain to some of you that it’s okay for creators to make money

Like yes capitalism sucks the endless stream of sequels and marvel movies and rehash after rehash is exhausting but when we’re talking about indie studios, even the larger ones like Critical Role, some of you are just so quick to jump to “soulless cash grab” at the slightest hint that there may be a profit based motive behind a project. Which. There literally always is

The idea of the starving artist has given us the concept they “good” creators never think about money even when they’ve managed to pull off the miracle of being a full time creator. That’s rare, and precarious. Sometimes they will have no choice to put profit before creativity because that’s literally what they need to survive. If they give a shit, which it’s incredibly bad faith to assume they don’t, they’ll still try to make that profit-motivated project good and enjoyable. Because they know putting out a bad product won’t generate that oh so evil profit and they just CARE and want to put good art in the world regardless of the motive

Some of y’all just straight up hate when creators are successful or put any thought towards profit. I’m not saying you’re doing that purposefully, you’re jaded, I get it, but you’ve got to start allowing some nuance because even the most original, anti-establishment creator needs to fucking eat

So many of the people I see saying this are aspiring creators themselves. What do you think you’re going to have to do? Do you think you’ll just magically be an exception? We all live in the same world. If you want to be a creative professionally, always remember what you said and what your subject did in situations like this, because it will happen to you

[luv3horse]

Anyone remember a post from Tumblr past, where somebody said something about being tired of having teenage chosen ones and they wish someone would write one that's older? Because my older sister did that and it's getting published in April.

[luv3horse]

We found the inspo (I think) tweet, which was seen on Tumblr bc we didn't really use Twitter back then

[elizmanderson]

literally my favorite thing when people are like "y'know that reminds me of this post I once saw" bc I'm like yes!! that is the post!! that is what inspired me!! the person who runs that Twitter account is literally in my acknowledgements!!

like idk it's like running into an old friend

[inoshwrites]

How high can someone from rock bottom go

[anatomyofthewrittenword]

fate is a sad, funny thing. she watches achilles lie on the grass with patroclus  at the same time patroclus falls at hector’s feet, at the same time achilles dies far from home. osiris, butchered, by his brother’s hand, with iris weeping in the west— while horus rises in the east, the new sun, to avenge his father’s death. 

i have lost you for twice as long as i have loved you: the fates were unkind to us.  i have loved you for half as long as i have forgotten the shape of your face, the sound of your laugh—  you are a stranger i have known my entire life. i started a war just to meet you.

cassandra tells me it will end in tragedy, but she is always telling me things i already know. in your gaze i am a pillar of salt, a face of stone, a sweet farewell, in the last steps out of hell. if i fall on my own sword, i want you to hold the hilt.  i forgive you for turning back. 

so ragnarok will come. so the world will flood. so this ends, before it begins. the desperation, it was for love, and the devotion, it was for love, and the terror, it was for love. i am made whole by your missing parts. i’m not scared when i’m with you.

let the gods live forever. i am content for just one lifetime with you.

"the gods have nothing on us" by anatomyofthewrittenword

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*me reaping* i know i for sure did not sow this much no way all this was me

[inoshwrites]

The characters I'm most interested in writing about are the bitch and the witch. The ones labeled as too difficult and the ones deemed to be too unnatural. The angry ones, the villainous ones, the ones who dare to desire, and the ones who just want to live!

[ruffboi-mags]

Hey, earlier in my tumblr journey I came across one of ur posts about shipping, I spewed some anti nonsense(along the lines of as long as you don’t ship xyz), you responded rather politely, but before I could correct my mistake and such, I was blocked lmao

For the record this is NOT hate, it’s a thank you. For some reason ur (old) url always stuck with me bc that small, seemingly insignificant interaction, was what would be the start of my proship journey. I felt incredibly bad, even if i was never directly trying to attack you (mind you I was new to tumblr and such and it was never supposed to come across as hostile)

So yeah, calling me out lowkey helped me understand not only to bother people in their safe spaces, but I went on to look into the whole proship vs anti and stuff. I’ve been happier ever since I just shipped whatever the hell I wanted, and whatever I didn’t like, I just left others alone. Ur cool, thanks for not exploding on me when that happened. Ur cool :)

I do block quite liberally, it's true. Honestly tho, while I'm generally pretty "hey if you've been blocked, respect that and leave the person alone", I'm actually very touched to get this message. Happy to have assisted, nonny.

To be fair to you, also, I probably did not see it as you attacking me either: I just had and have a deep and abiding frustration for people who say "yes, absolutely! Except for the one thing I like/dislike/whatever." So you saying "sure, as long as you don't ship this thing" probably prompted, at most, a deep, weary, exasperated sigh. Hopefully this is reassuring that you did not upset me in any significant way. :) Welcome to the world of ship-and-let-ship, I'm glad you're finding it good for you.

[dreichsmirr]

“In The Wee Free Men, the village has a tradition of burying a shepherd with a piece of wool on his shroud, so that the recording angel will excuse him all those times during lambing when he failed to attend church — because a good shepherd should know that the sheep come first. I didn’t make that up. They used to do that in a village two miles from where I live. What I particularly liked about it was the implicit loyalist arrangement with God. Americans, I think, sometimes get puzzled by people in Ireland who call themselves loyalists yet would apparently up arms against the forces of the crown. But a loyalist arrangement is a dynamic accord. It doesn’t mean we will be blindly loyal to you. It means we will be loyal to you if you are loyal to us. If you act the way we think a king should act, you can be our king. And it seemed to me that these humble people of the village, putting their little piece of wool on the shroud, were saying, “If you are the God we think you are, you will understand. And if you are not the God we think you are, to Hell with you.” So much of Discworld has come from odd serendipitous discoveries like that.”

—  - Terry Pratchett, “Straight from the Heart, via the Groin,” A Slip of the Keyboard (via thelonelyskeptic)

[inoshwrites]

Will I ever finish a draft? I don’t know but I love writing, so here we go

[luulapants]

My dad and I once had a disagreement over him using the adage "What doesn't kill you makes you stronger."

I said, "That's just not true. Sometimes what doesn't kill you leaves you brittle and injured or traumatized."

He stopped and thought about that for a while. He came back later, and said, "It's like wood glue."

He pointed to my bookshelf, which he helped me salvage a while ago. He said, "Do you remember how I explained that, once we used the wood glue on them, the shelves would actually be stronger than they were before they broke?"

I did.

"But before we used the wood glue, those shelves were broken. They couldn't hold up shit. If you had put books on them, they would have collapsed. And that wood glue had to set awhile. If we put anything on them too early, they would have collapsed just the same as if we'd never fixed them at all. You've got to give these things time to set."

It sounded like a pretty good metaphor to me, but one thing I did pick up on was that whatever broke those shelves, that's not the thing that made them stronger. That just broke them. It was being fixed that made them stronger. It was the glue.

So my dad and I agreed, what doesn't kill you doesn't actually make you stronger, but healing does. And if you feel like healing hasn't made you stronger than you were before, you're probably not done healing. You've got to give these things time to set.