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German. Filmmaker. Business Designer. Fanfiction writer. Skulduggery Pleasant is why I'm on tumblr (let's be honest here)

[marthaemma96]

Behold! The cover of my Skulduggery Pleasant fanfic part 1: "Triskelion: Battles of Shadow"! Credit and thanks to the artist Prem Sian (DeviantArt.com/premsian).

I hear some of you are disappointed with the second phase. (And even if not,) I offer a complete, alternative timeline after book 9. 31 chapters out so far. It's a three part series, genre of drama and thriller, rated M for violence. Not for the faint-hearted ;).

I hope you enjoy! :D https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13600006/0

Synopsis: Upon her return to Ireland, Valkyrie Cain finds herself and the magical world beset by new developments, some of which hit too close to home, once again. The landscape shifts, and she has to become the stronger partner, when Skulduggery Pleasant buckles under the weight that is Lord Vile. But she receives unexpected help, from some unlikely, new friends.

[marthaemma96]

Hear hear, Skulduggery Pleasant fans! I'm looking for a Beta-Reader/Editor/Co-Writer for my SPff series "Triskelion".

You can English and have read at least 1st Phase? Congrats, you qualify for this extremely serious job. Responsibilities include; doing English. Telling me when I'm wrong. It's fun, I promise.

Oh, and the link; https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13600006/0

[nflstreet]

[umd]

[cookiescr]

[incorrectspquotes]

Saracen: I invented a game. Want to play?

Tanith: Sure?

Saracen: It's called Valkyrie or The Bentley. I give you actual quotes I've heard Skulduggery say, and you guess if he was talking about Valkyrie or his car.

Tanith: …Great.

[kreature-ofthenight]

Yeah my comfort Character type is 

“detective struggeling with his own humanity who is kind of immortal and has no idea what he`s doing half of the time”

[pure]

as a general rule. if what we’re calling ‘cultural appropriation’ sounds like nazi ideology (i.e. ‘white people should only do white people things and black people should only do black people things’) with progressive language, we are performing a very very poor application of what ‘cultural appropriation’ means. this is troublingly popular in the blogosphere right now and i think we all need to be more critical of what it is we may be saying or implying, even unintentionally.

[pyrrhiccomedy]

There is nothing wrong with everyone enjoying each other’s cultures so long as those cultures have been shared. 

Eating Chinese food, watching Bollywood movies, going to see Cambodian dancers, or learning to speak Korean so you can watch every K drama in existence is totally fine. The invitation to participate in those things came from within those cultures. The Mexican family that owns the place where I get fajitas wants me to eat fajitas. Their whole business model kind of depends on it, actually. 

If you see something from another culture you think you might want to participate in, but you don’t know if that would be disrespectful or appropriative, you can just…ask. Like. A Jewish friend explained what a mezuzah was to me, recently. (It’s the little scroll-thing near their front doors that they touch when they come into their house. It basically means “this is a Jewish household.”)

“Oh, cool,” I said. “Can I touch it? Or is it only for Jewish people?”

“You can touch it or you can not touch it,” she said. “I don’t care.”

“Cool, I’m gonna touch it, then.”

“Cool.”

It’s not hard.

You want to twerk, twerk. I’ve never heard a black person say they didn’t think anybody else should be allowed to twerk. Just that they want us to acknowledge that they invented that shit, not Miley fucking Cyrus.

[queeranarchism]

It really boils down to three simple things:

Consent. Is the culture open to sharing this thing? (& don’t cheat by finding one person who consents while most of the culture disagrees.)

Context. If a culture is open to sharing a thing but it is a thing of great religious significance, take the time to learn what is a respectful way to treat the thing. Probably don’t use it as random decoration or sexualize it unless that’s what it’s for. 

Credit. Give credit and if possible, buy from the original creators so the money goes where the credit should be.

[weirdo-with-a-nametag]

This is really useful to me personally because I’ve definitely caught myself losing sight of what cultural appropriation actually is, and why it matters, so thank you, and everybody else pay attention too

[marthaemma96]

Thanks for this very comprehensive clarification, guys.

[sunriseinorbit]

This is an appreciation post for the fanfic authors who aren’t included on rec lists

For the fanfic authors who don’t get art of their fics

For the fanfic authors who can’t get to 1000/500/100 hits

For the fanfic authors who don’t get comments/reviews

For the fanfic authors who write for small fandoms

For the fanfic authors who write rarepairs or gen fics

For the fanfic authors who get hate for the ships/characters/fandoms they write

For the fanfic authors who write in English despite it not being their first language

For the fanfic authors who don’t write in English

For the fanfic authors who don’t think anyone reads or likes their work

For the fanfic authors who aren’t big name fans

For the fanfic authors who don’t get requests in their inboxes

For the fanfic authors who can’t write stories that are more than a thousand words

For the fanfic authors who only write one ship

For the fanfic authors who are just starting

For the fanfic authors who have been writing fic for years

For the fanfic authors who use fanfic to practice writing

For the fanfic authors who write self-insert fics

For the fanfic authors who write about their OCs

For the fanfic authors who write to vent or cope

For the fanfic authors who are just waiting for their big break

Keep creating, I love you ❤️

[marthaemma96]

I was on the good side of this once, with my German fics. Now, I'm starting from scratch with English, and I'm back to this ^. It can be really disappointing and disheartening to not get any feedback. But, in the end, sometimes it happens, which always makes my day. And I know my readers are out there somewhere ❤️

[txmriddlx]

Can you please reblog if your blog is a safe place for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, asexual, aromantic, pansexual, non binary, demisexual or any other kind of queer or questioning people? Because mine is.

[marthaemma96]

Pan here, come on in 💓

[prettyboyshyflizzy]

why do black people use you in the wrong context? such is "you ugly" instead of "you're ugly" I know u guys can differentiate, it's a nuisance

you a bitch

[rsbenedict-deactivated20181216]

It’s called copula deletion, or zero copula. Many languages and dialects, including Ancient Greek and Russian, delete the copula (the verb to be) when the context is obvious.

So an utterance like “you a bitch” in AAVE is not an example of a misused you, but an example of a sentence that deletes the copular verb (are), which is a perfectly valid thing to do in that dialect, just as deleting an /r/ after a vowel is a perfectly valid thing to do in an upper-class British dialect.

[pigeonstalking]

What’s more, it’s been shown that copula deletion occurs in AAVE exactly in those contexts where copula contraction occurs in so-called “Standard American English.” That is, the basic sentence “You are great” can become “You’re great” in SAE and “You great” in AAVE, but “I know who you are” cannot become “I know who you’re” in SAE, and according to reports, neither can you get “I know who you” in AAVE.

In other words, AAVE is a set of grammatical rules just as complex and systematic as SAE, and the widespread belief that it is not is nothing more than yet another manifestation of deeply internalized racism.

[kingkunta-md]

This is the most intellectual drag I’ve ever read.

[fairycosmos]

just found out that if i stay in my room all the time my life will eventually shrink to the size of it and i will lose all memory of how to function as a person. shocked & upset

[leatherwingsinc-deactivated2015]

[caluummhood-deactivated20140506]

HOLY SHIT, IT WAS THE ORIGINAL ONE

MAKE A WISH

[jamesjoeboyleeeee-deactivated20]

the first post ever on tumblr

[powerpuffsposts-deactivated2025]

I WAS EXPECTING IT TO BE A REMAKE OF SOME SORT HOLY FUCK

[kpopdotexe-blog]

WHO THE FUCK KEEPS BRINGING THIS BACK

[teenyweenynotepad]

reblog this because it shows up every blue moon

[marfach]

this made me cry

[elsinore-rose]

“beauty and the beast” where beauty’s dad comes home with the rose and is like oh shit oh shit this terrible monster says i have to come live with him forever because i picked his favorite flower and beauty just goes fuck that and puts on her pants and marches down to the beast’s castle herself

and she’s expecting this horrifying dark fortress but it’s actually sort of just a normal castle with big rose bushes and furniture that’s sometimes alive

and she thinks, i can work with this

and the beast comes out and he’s like don’t look at me i am a hideous monster and beauty’s like dude you’re like a talking tiger in a cape are you kidding you’re AWESOME can i pet you can i stroke your paws can you give me a ride

and he’s like what and she goes around the castle like okay we’ll put curtains here and expand the kitchen and this could be a really cute breakfast nook

and the beast is confused because isn’t she supposed to be terrified and hate him and he had all these intimidating speeches planned and he’s like uh aren’t you going to try to run away

and beauty’s all are you kidding this is a magic castle i’m going to live here forever

so they just sort of settle in together and one day beauty goes home for the weekend to visit her family and they’re all amazed that she’s alive and her sisters go WHY DIDN’T THE HUGE MONSTER EAT YOU TO DEATH and she’s like nahhh he’s basically just a big cat he’s kind of cute actually sometimes he plays with yarn when he thinks i’m not looking

and she explains how it’s really not that bad, all the dishes wash themselves and i get all these gorgeous dresses for free because the castle doesn’t know what else to do with them and yeah there are flowers everywhere but hey that’s his hobby y’know i’m not gonna discourage that man

and then one day while beauty’s re-alphabetizing her magic library and trying to decide where to put that enchanted mirror the beast comes up and he’s like hey so this is awkward but are you like………………………………..in love with me……?????????

and beauty’s like oh uh wow haha um sorry no you’re…sort of a tiger

and the beast is like thank goodness because if you were i’d have to turn back into a human and i’ve kind of gotten used to being a big lion thing with horns and the ability to speak english for some reason like why would i want to go back to being a spindly little man and then beauty laughs and she’s like okay well can you go catch us a wild boar for dinner, dear

and they end up getting married in the end just because it’s easier to explain that way, you know, a single lady ~~living alone with a man~~ even if he’s not actually a man, and that’s fine with them because beauty was never really into the whole boys and sex thing and the beast (whose name is jeff) is honestly more interested in his flowers

and whenever any of the other ladies in the village give her any shit beauty is just like, oh, you don’t like my crepes? well you know my husband, who is literally a tiger, loves them and then everyone leaves her alone, which is really all she ever wanted

and she goes back to her magic castle and sits down with a book in front of the fire and rests her feet on her cat husband and nobody bothers her ever again

can that happen

[audkoch-deactivated20190602]

8D

[wordswithkittywitch]

Can we have a whole book of aromantic fairy tales?

[theasexualityblog-deactivated20]

I needed this so much.

[jagyularr]

I am down for this idea of the Beast as a scholarly ace tiger with horns.

[livebloggingmydescentintomadness]

relationship goals

[lynzine]

Platonic relationships for the win!

[firstwehealthenwefight]

[supremequeensorrows]

I guess I’m just going to tweet derek every day asking why there’s no ebook this year even though he will never answer me.

Like even the U.S.’s copy is out and we used to get ours before them? So I’m majorly not impressed.

[marthaemma96]

Seems to work fine 💁

[kiyokozier]

y’all don’t understand how goddamn GRATIFYING it is to see that your fanfic has got a comment like you can just hit the kudos button and then exit the fanfic but then when you end up actually typing out a comment it means that you have acually thought about the fanfic and actually TYPED OUT A COMMENT and is willing to give constructive criticism that is so exciting and means. so much. to the author 

[who-will-love-youqq]

[thebobblehat]

Those two are going to turn into some anime magical girl forms or something

[lifeiscarnage]

They have one of each other’s eyes

[marthaemma96]

Those are some handsome kitties.

[facelessxchurch]

Can anyone else see Skulduggery being the Child of the Ancients to fight Valkyrie? With Valkyrie fighting for the Faceless Ones and Skul once again taking the side of the Viddu De.

I mean, Skul and Val are so fucking special, the entire world of SP revolves around them. Plus now it’s canon hat they are literally favoured by the Gods. They are not only the most powerful and important good guys but also the most important and powerful bad guys with a million alter egos.

Them battling it out for the fate of the world once again would be painfully on brand, wouldn’t it?

With Skul having to kill Valkyrie and in his man-pain letting the Viddu De in to do whatever they wanna do. I have no idea what those want tbh. Hopefully destroy everything so there can’t be a phase 3.