To Launch A Thousand Ships

Fangirling over all the things. Sideblog for marvelousmadmadammim.tumblr.comHeader: Pan Pride Flag by Art for the Art God.

[pisceanofinterest]

[fandaniel]

having a multi year long character obsession becomes like a abstract thought experiment at some point

[cyphir-spacerobot]

Victor Frankenstein after achieving the impossible and building a fucking person from scraps of the dead: Oh god, ew, ew it's ugly! Yucky! Yucky! Gross! Ew! Ew! Yucky! Yucky! Gross! Ew!

[socialpants]

There's an awful trend in reading that's this CinemaSins kind of rejection of abstract concepts and suspension of disbelief, that makes people say it's bad writing when authors use descriptions that aren't immediately one to one with physical reality.

Like it's bad when a "tattoo is undulating" (as opposed to... "drawn in a wave like pattern on the skin"?), or when hair is "wet wheat from a late Summer field" (as opposed to "sort of brownish light yellow that dries lighter, but is not actual wheat stalks growing on someone's head but kind of reminiscent of the color and texture"?), or when when ice cream tastes like midnight at the fair" (as opposed to "ice cream flavour bringing back memories of undefined ice cream flavours that are individually popular but always tied to a memory of late evening at the fair ground and probably smelling vaguely like popcorn and sugar"?).

Please. We have to get back to understanding abstract descriptions that evoke feelings and memories and mental images or things we haven't experienced yet. This hyper utilitarian way of reading and judging text is killing fiction. it's robbing you of experiencing things you haven't actually personally experienced.

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

[dahlia-molinas]

if christopher nolan was really the visionary and ground-breaking director everyone claims he is he would have cast ben affleck as penelope

[puppygirllaika]

If you're struggling to write sex, write food. if you're struggling to write food, write gore. if you're struggling to write gore, write sex. They're all variations on the same themes.

[puppygirllaika]

it's all sensation and consumption and intimacy. it's all violence and beauty and taste. it's all wild and animalistic and elevated by our humanity. it's all deeply cultural and symbolic. it's all enjoyed by every sense the body has to offer.

[brothermouse-skeleton]

"Gandalf, buddy? What have you got there?"

"Oh him? That my emotional support hobbit."

"Uh huh. And what he got?"

"That's my hobbit's emotional support hobbit."

"And I suppose those two are also emotional support hobbits as well?"

"No, of course not. Those two are my emotional distress hobbits."

".....?"

"Keeps me on my toes."

[bpenn]

It's gone. What do you mean it's gone? Well, he's emptied the account. He's cashed out.

[eisenkrahe]

Yes!

[wrenn-frug]

Create art for yourself and your 30 sickos will find you

[tlirsgender]

We need more women characters who are Male Protagonists. You know. Slightly haggard. She's splashing cold water on her face and gripping the edge of the sink staring in the mirror for a minute. She's coping badly with her deadwife

[marvellouslymadmim]

[livelovecaliforniadreams]

[politedemon]

TED LASSO || S01E03

[depsidase]

[marvellouslymadmim]

But can't you just use Ellipsus in your phone browser? Why it need an app?

Yes. BUT (as I think I said in my tags) I don't think Ellipsus has an offline version, nor does it download specifically to your device if you suddenly go offline. I travel a lot and do a lot of writing on planes and/or end up in places where service/wifi is not always available or easily accessible. I hate losing my work bc I lost connection or it didn't upload for one reason or another. The biggest draw of Word for me atm is that my work autosaves every few minutes and whenever it can't autosave to my drive due to connectivity issues, it will save to whichever device I'm currently working on, and I can update the file whenever I have service/connection again. Word also has the ability to recover from temporary files, and track through history edits if for any reason my work doesn't transfer.

And...maybe Ellipsus does that. afaik it doesn't which is why I haven't switched over.

I know every writer is different, but I share Flaubert's belief of le mot juste. I spend a lot of time pre-writing in my head, I will wait as long as it takes to find the exact words I want to describe a feeling or gesture or even a piece of clothing. So when my work is lost, it's agonizing--because I often can't remember verbatim what I wrote previously which makes the concept of "oh well just rewrite it" even more stressful. So as you can imagine I have a ridiculous fear of losing my work at any given moment. Having a system from which I KNOW I can retrieve lost work (and have done so successfully in the past) is extremely important to me. Once Ellipsus has that kind of power, I'm all in. Until then, even once I start using Ellipsus, I'll still be writing/backing up in Word as well.

tldr: ya girl's got unmitigated anxiety.

[the-quasar-hero]

You can make a movie with where the only white character is a man named Ray Cism whose one line of his 16 seconds of screen time is “I seriously hate women and minorities.” and you’ll find fifty bajillion reader x Ray Cism fanfics and renaissance style drawings of him with a halo of golden light

[clownfish-casino]

OKAY I'm curious

where do you write your fics

ellipsus

google docs

directly in the AO3 editor

notes app

physical paper

literally wherever I can (sticky notes, your hand, scrap paper, etc)

something else (tell me in tags or comments !!)

not a fic writer but I wanna press a button too !!!

Voting ended on16h

would appreciate reblogs for sample size ::]