Nova 💫

23 | he/she/they | demisexual | fanfic writer | im completely sane about a lot of things | back from the dead baby!!

[instantsoupernova]

Finally drew something digitally and it was these two since they took over my brain

[thesefallenembers]

the problem with reading and writing leading to a strong vocabulary is that you tend to know the vibe of words instead of their meanings.

if I used this word in a sentence, would it make sense? absolutely. if you asked me what it meant, could I tell you? absolutely not.

[fixyourwritinghabits]

OKAY HOLD UP I KNOW THIS IS A SHITPOST BUT I HAVE A DEGREE IN THIS

Okay, so when we talk about the meaning of words, we are talking about denotation, the dictionary definition of the word, and connotation, the context in which native speakers associate with the word. Connotation is why just looking up synonyms of words doesn't always work.

When teaching this to ESL learners, my favorite example is the word "accumulate." Accumulate means to gather or collect in the dictionary definition of the words. The error in the example is for someone to say "I accumulate things" instead of "I collect things." This sounds wrong, because despite the denotation of the word, the most common connotation of accumulate is that a process done over time and without intent. Water accumulates. Dust accumulates. Money accumulates. But a person cannot say they accumulate things, because that is not a natural usage of the word.

However! As a writer who likes to learn new words, you can now use this knowledge to your advantage. Consider the following sentences:

Bob collected unread books until they piled high around his bed.

Versus

Books accumulated around Bob's bed, turning it into a fortress of unread words.

Both sentences are telling us the same thing - but the latter gives us a bit more insight on Bob, in that he's not intentionally obtaining so many books and not reading them, and that's a far more interesting thing to learn. The more you learn these words in context, the more you can use them to enrich your own writing. Embrace the thesaurus - but pay attention to those example sentences and how those words are actually used!

[sourdough-seal]

hyperfixation please stay with me long enough to complete the project. hyperfixation do not fade. hyperfixation finish what you started for the love of god

[instantsoupernova]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

New chapter for my whiterose spy!au fic. We get Weiss and Ruby working together to escape Torchwick's hideout for this chapter!

[instantsoupernova]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Omg I finally posted another chapter for my espionage!whiterose fic after almost a month. And it's filled with exposition.

[instantsoupernova]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

New Whiterose oneshot from me! Weiss wrote Ruby a letter while everyone was separated and Ruby finally got to read it some time later.

[visualeffex]

happy halloween & happy birthday ruby

[instantsoupernova]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Second chapter for my espionage au is now out! And distrust is making things rough for these two.

[instantsoupernova]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

I have finally posted the first chapter to my whiterose espionage AU fic!!!

Introducing It's All in the Eyes

In the eyes of the public, Weiss Schnee is the rich and charismatic board member of the SDC and the Schnee to single-handedly change the entire companies image after her father's arrest. This is how she presents herself to the world even when she had to avoid the press after her father's arrest. In truth though, she is a member of the Solitas Intelligence League serving in the Knights division under the name Glyph. And she is the one behind the arrest of Jacques Schnee as well as many other missions. She's excellent at her job, probably the best Knight that SILs has to offer and yet has been restrained to doing only missions in Solitas. Preventing her from pursuing her own personal mission of finding the person that took her left eye. This all changes when she meets the charismatic BOOK Keeper operative, Crescent, at a masquerade under false pretenses of working with her to reach an objective given to them by their organizations. When the dust of that unfortunate deception of a first meeting settles, they decide to work together to help the other achieve their personal missions. But what will be uncovered the more they work together? And what will become of them?

[instantsoupernova]

Ruby Rose….you have silver eyes.

[toasterdrake]

they r so knight x knight coded

[instantsoupernova]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Wanted to write whiterose jealousy angst which will be a two-shot. The first part is Weiss' perspective. Enjoy! Or cry ig!

[bogleech]

It's so funny how kids who were only given the "girl" toys seemed to frequently develop the most maniacal imaginations. When I was little and I visited friends or family who were little girls they'd have their Barbies involved in ritual sacrifice or human trafficking. They'd have barbie's evil twin drive ken to suicide by poisoning his horse or some shit.

Action figures set up only the simplest kinds of violence, heroes and villains punching or shooting each other over doomsday plots. When you crave high stakes drama as all children do but your characters are all rich suburban women you kinda have no choice but to get pitch dark I think. The only kinds of villains that logically exist in that setting are just so much sicker and nastier than just doctor octopus or something.

[deadstuffguy]

Kids who got hero/villain toys didn’t necessarily need to be creative to have a conflict in their games, they often would be but it isn’t inherently a barrier. Kids who only got chill fun times best friends toys don’t have any natural conflict between the characters those toys represent so if they want conflict, and let’s face it the conflict is what makes the play engaging and fun, they need to be creative and since there’s no natural starting point for them they can not only go anywhere but start anywhere with it so naturally Barbie is going to be hiking and get trapped in a crevasse and mauled by animals and the Barbie’s are going to stage a coup to dethrone their god which is also a giant baby doll and if you try to get them to play spa it’s going to end with one of the Barbie’s being betrayed and entombed in a dried out mud bath and you’ll still wonder 20 years later as you type a tumblr post if you ever remembered to dig her up or if she’s still in the back yard of that old house

[instantsoupernova]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

At long, long last! The final four chapters of my human!AU Roxica fic! We got some court drama! We got some tender moments! We see their final growth! And lastly we see their sweet epilogue to their story!

[superfrostydrawing]

Them trying to bond

[fishgummy]

YOOOO! it’s dj yuri times! and if you want women to be kissing, HAVE SOME NOISE 👩‍❤️‍💋‍👩🏳️‍🌈🙌

[instantsoupernova]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

New whiterose fic! Future married life based on the Miles Luna cameo headcanons.