K.J. Scouten

32 - INTP - Ravenclaw - Author Wyoming - Montana - Texas Horses - Dogs Anxiety

[heywriters]

{description: stitched Tiktok

" '...would you consider the 1980s to be historical fiction?' "

"You're gonna hate this, but the 1980s is absolutely historical fiction. So I was a kid in the '80s, and back then I thought that World War II was like the oldest thing in the world, but guess what? When I was a kid, WWII was 40 years earlier. For kids today, the 1980s is 40 years earlier.

Here, I'll do another one! When I was a kid I thought that like hippies, 1960s people, Woodstock were like totally ancient history, right? For kids today, that's Y2K. That's how long ago that was; 9/11.

I work in children's books, so I mean I deal with this a lot, and I recently sold a book set in 2005...that is historical fiction.

If your target audience wasn't born, it's historical fiction. Sorry?

via Tiktok @ literaticat)

[roominthecastle]

raymond “not raymond reddington” reddington

[30-minute-memes]

I see his robot as an absolute win

[katsdom]

OK - a very tangential takeoff: Engineering prof assigns students this question: Explain how to determine the height of a very tall building using a barometer.

Obviously meant to use change in barometric pressure with altitude. But one student submitted the following:

There are several ways of doing this

1. On a sunny day, stand the barometer up in the sun, measure the length of its shadow relative to its height, then measure the length of the building’s shadow and calculate its height from that.

2. Go into the stairwell and climb the stairs to the top, marking off the length of the barometer on the wall, giving you the height of the building in “barometer units”.

3. Go onto the roof of the building and drop the barometer off the top and time how long it takes to hit the ground, then calculate the height using the well known formula of 32 ft./sec./sec.

4. Go into the office of the building superintendent and say “If you tell me how tall this building is, I will give you this nice barometer”.

[headspace-hotel]

Science!

[movie-gifs]

Today we’re cancelling the apocalypse!

PACIFIC RIM (2013) dir. Guillermo del Toro

[wolfchildrenn]

*makes this noise at you*

[furbearingbrick]

it’s a ptenopus garrulus, aka Common Barking Gecko, which lives in Africa! The video doesn’t show it well, but they have goofy froglike faces!

by sheer coincidence, there’s a completely different kind of gecko endemic to Australia (underwoodisaurus/nephrurus milii ) which is also called the Common Barking Gecko:

[mckitterick]

(cute art courtesy @prguitarman )

[frankdelflno]

Surnames are just as important as given names. So, I compiled a list of the websites I use to find my surnames.

English Surnames

Dutch Surnames

Spanish Surnames

Scottish Surnames

German Surnames

Italian Surnames

Irish Surnames

French Surnames

Scandinavian Surnames

Welsh Surnames

Jewish Surnames

Surnames By Ethnicity

Most Common Surnames in the USA

Most Common Surnames in Great Britan

Most Common Surnames in Asia

[bee-earthly]

[old-manrupee]

For whoever needs these.

[dragons-arrow]

I NEED THE ITALIAN LAST NAMES SO BAD

[ebvoice-deactivated20150727]

We are like fireworks…: Surnames Master Post.

[valtsv]

you know how it is. different circus, same clowns.

[therestlessforest]

Me, creating a new WIP with the same core six character types

[inkecl]

saw this on twitter, thought it might be helpful!

source: alisonykim

[caffenotes]

My Spanish professor also suggested this 😊

[but-the-library-of-alexandria]

the thing about writing fantasy stories is that language is so based on history that it can be hard to decide how far suspension of disbelief can carry you word-choice wise - what do you call a french braid in a world with no france? can a queen ann neckline be described if there was no queen ann? where do you draw the line? can you use the word platonic if plato never existed? can you name a character chris in a land without christianity? can you even say ‘bungalow’ in a world where there was no indian language for the word to originate from? is there a single word in any language that doesn’t have a story behind it? to be accurate a fantasy story would be written in a fantasy language but who has the time for that

[a-kite-dancing-in-a-hurricane]

Tolkien had the time apparently

[misbehavingmaiar]

LIsten. Linguistics Georg, who invented over 10,000 conlangs each day, is an outlier and should not have been counted. 

[karkkidoeswriting]

Okay, if you want to go deep enough into this Tolkien had a solution for this problem (because obviously he wanted to go deep enough). He translated multiple real life mythological epics, including beowulf, so he knew that stuff. So instead of writing all the middle earth books in common tongue, he wrote them as if he was translating books written originally in common tongue into English. Silmarillion was an epic of the middle earth similar to Beowulf so it had no singular original author, but inside middle earth universe, hobbit was originally written by Bilbo and LotR by Frodo in common tongue and Tolkien took that into consideration when writing them.

[libertarirynn-deactivated202006]

[cloudsoffire]

They

They what

What

[libertarirynn-deactivated202006]

[klubbhead]

PETA SHUT THE FUCK UP

[kingxanthesecond]

They even fucking doubled down on it

[libertarirynn-deactivated202006]

Let no one ever forget that PETA euthanizes SCORES of animals every year. Let no one ever forget that they kidnapped a little girl’s dog and killed it. Let no one forget that they spend more money on their edgy advertisements than they do actually benefiting the welfare of animals. Let no one forget that they frequently lie and manipulate things to convey a misleading message. Let no one forget that they get off on traumatizing little kids in efforts to scare them away from eating meat. Let no one ever forget that PETA is a fucking shitty organization that does 1000 times more harm than good. Fuck PETA. If you call yourself a lover of animals give your money to literally any other organization. PETA deserves to burn.

[viragowriter-archive]

I just want to be a really famous author. Like not money-wise (though that’d be nice) but I just mean I want people to be intrigued and love my writing. I want people to write aus or fanficition based off of my world/characters, I want people to draw my characters because they’re so inspired by them, Id like a movie or tv show adaptation of my book(s) so it can hit an even wider audience, I want people to just enjoy reading my book and feel inspired to write or read more because of it. I want to be famous in a way that people know my name and think of my stories, and yeah maybe thats selfish or unrealistic but nothing is going to stop me from reaching my goals- even if it seems impossible.

[kjscouten]

And I’m okay with that lol https://www.instagram.com/p/Bq5Ax0CHRMm/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=18hepbvvj39sn

[astoralexander]

I call this set… “Noir Princesses”.

PRINTS HERE… https://bit.ly/2NqqOX7

[thehappysorceress]

OH. MY GOSH.

I love them so much! And probably need each and every one.

[wivibook]

Quick reminder to support authors.

Like that bit of writing on their blog? Share it.

Think you’ll like a book? Buy it if you can.

Finish a piece you liked? Review it.

Support authors. Just don’t feed them after midnight.

[kjscouten]

Everyone praises a woman who says she takes no shit...until she proves it. #takenoshit #dontbackdown #valkyrie #bosslady #tryme #quotes #friday #thoughts #strongwomen https://www.instagram.com/p/BoSZerGBR_C/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1sm41r97p4ivi

[kjscouten]

When a good idea presents itself, write it down before it runs away! #writersofinstagram #writersnotebook #filofax #scribbles https://www.instagram.com/p/BoSUFvihs9q/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=9po3qnw4ikxp

[showjumpingfangirl]

World Equestrian Games 2018- final competition

Simone Blum & DSP Alice, gold medalists

📸FEI