Ms. Enscene

Author, writer, film analyzer and reviewer. Think of this page as a shelf for things I appreciate

[gulistan-blog]

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Amazing view..

[lizormianillustration]

whatever was left, that was ours for a while.

sunrise - louise glück

[writing-prompt-s]

Small domestic house dragons have become the norm. Here is a guide on how to deal with the hoarding instinct of your little one.

[the-asexuality-blog]

Congratulations on your new dragon! They’re lovely pets, and many become quite affectionate if properly socialized. However, they do come with some behaviors you might find challenging to deal with. A major example of this is the hoarding of household objects.

Domesticated dragons are still closely related to the wild stock, and hoarding is one of those stubborn instincts that simply cannot be bred or trained out of them. It is crucial to their enrichment, as well as inevitable in their development, that they be allowed to create and curate a hoard.

We can’t stop our dragons from hoarding–it’s just the way they’re wired–but with patience and training, we can redirect their hoarding instinct before it becomes a smelly pile of dirty socks four feet high in the living room.

First of all, we must choose a location for the hoard. You must establish this location early on in your relationship with your dragon, and no matter what your dragon chooses to collect, you must resign yourself to allowing it to keep its treasures in that place permanently.

Let your dragon explore your possessions (within reason), but encourage it to keep all its treasures in an out-of-the-way place. This should not be a place where humans rarely enter; dragons who are permitted to hoard in private become unsocialized and difficult to handle, so clear a place under the kitchen table, beside the television, or on a lower shelf in a bookcase. Choosing a location with limited space will prevent the hoard from getting out of hand. Whenever your dragon collects a new object, you must wait until it finishes its initial playtime with the object, and then, once the dragon feels secure that the item is theirs, place it in the chosen location.

You will have to do this many times before your dragon adapts to this new site. Treats and praise whenever your dragon places a new item in the correct spot on its own will encourage it to continue using that spot. Don’t make a fuss if your dragon places things in the wrong spot at first; it’s still adapting to living with you, just as you are learning to live with it. However, if the dragon persists in piling two or more items in an undesired location, gentle scolding while relocating the items can be helpful in establishing the behavior you expect from your dragon. Mind your tone, though. Remember: dragons are sensitive creatures, and loud shouting will only serve to make it frightened of you.

Next, we must identify the kind of objects our individual dragons like to collect. Some dragons are nervous by nature and will collect items of unwashed clothing from their owners because our scent makes them feel safe. If your dragon shows an interest in such objects, you can easily establish a hoard site by taking a washcloth, old tee shirt, or small hand towel to bed with you for a few nights and then placing it in the desired site. Make a nest of these objects, if you can. Other dragons may covet their prized toys–once again, make a practice of always putting them back in the hoard location after a play session.

What do I do if my dragon wants money?

In some respects, dragons are like corvids. They love shiny objects, and let’s face it: coins are easily portable even for a small dragon, and generally too large to swallow. If your dragon show an interest in shiny things, by all means, encourage them to look for loose change, and discourage such items as gum wrappers, which can be ingested and cause intestinal distress. Pieces of aluminum foil should also be discouraged, because while those items are commonplace in most households, they may be contaminated by spoiled foodstuffs that will make your dragon sick–not to mention that, if your dragon makes a habit of collecting crumpled aluminum foil, the hoard will grow out of hand very quickly.

Good-quality coins, on the other hand, are by nature of their metal antimicrobial, so splurge a little on the good stuff, like real silver and copper. They’re easy to stack and stable to climb, and they don’t take up much room. Dragons like to discover their treasures for themselves, so every once in a while–not too often; you don’t want the hoard to grow too large!–hide a coin between the sofa cushions or under the bed.

In conclusion, I must reiterate that the hoarding instinct is not something you can train out of your dragon, so you must take steps to accommodate it. By paying careful attention to your dragon’s preferences, and establishing clear locational boundaries for the hoard right away, you will help ensure a happy, healthy dragon who keeps its hoard to a reasonable size and away from human traffic.

[ellierenae]

It's finally here!! Thank you all for being so patient, all my love to you!

A fictional photocopy of a time traveler's notebook. The Notebook of a Fictional Man (originally meant to impress historians), accidentally centers itself around the gentle giant with whom the writer is madly in love- and around his own crippling self-doubt. He drinks his troubles away on otherworldly planet, consuming the essence of the color blue as a psychedelic wine, and loses track of both reality and himself. His chronic drinking and purple prose threatens to push away even the strongest and kindest man; to push away even his gentle giant with the greenest eyes in all the universe.

The Notebook of a Fictional Man is now available on Amazon as a short paperback and on Gumroad ($0+) as a PDF- plus a special printable surprise as a thank you for reading!

[lacefuneral]

the word empathy is WIDELY misused, even in mental health spaces. 

empathy:

is responding to a person’s emotions by experiencing the same emotion as them (i.e. feeling sad when something sad happens to that person, or happy when something happy happens to that person.)

is an automatic response that cannot be controlled

cannot be learned

sympathy:

is recognizing that another person is in pain, even if you do not experience that pain, and offering comfort to that person

is something a person must actively choose to do

can be learned

compassion:

is showcasing care and support via words and actions

is something a person must actively choose to do

can be learned

if you need an example of a person with no empathy who practices sympathy and compassion, look no further than data from star trek: the next generation. he doesn’t have emotions at all, but he’s still kind to people and wants to help them.

stop telling people that they’re evil because they don’t experience empathy. stop equating empathy with morality. stop equating empathy with caring. stop saying that cruel people “lack empathy.” stop throwing neurodivergent and mentally ill people under the bus. 

[crankycripple]

Elizabeth Bennet aesthetic // Pride and Prejudice 2015

[ms-enscene]

But what is a book without a really good animal friend in it??

[halorvic]

Exercising caution

[ablockforwritersblock]

Writing Prompt #456

Fangs? There was no way, those couldn't be real. They grinned a little wider at your befuddled, frightened look. Okay, those didn't look like any fake fangs you'd seen before...

[ms-enscene]

An idea for a book I don’t have time to write ™️ :

     I knew I would be sleeping through my first class tomorrow since I was here so late. It was starting to become a routine that would cause my grades to drop, then again who would expect me to maintain a 4.0 after loosing my sister? 

     I sat at her grave and looked at the flowers I had brought two days ago already beginning to wilt, though Marilyn never cared for flowers anyway. I expected my eyes to blur with new onset tears but realized it normal that once again I sat feeling numb. There was simply nothing left. 

     Marilyn was always the one my parents had banked on changing the world, with me always close at her heels but never quite catching up. I was the one into horror, and had tattoos while she had her sights set on New York and marrying a man who loved her. Why hadn't she survived? 

     I took to my feet, my Beetlejuice vans covered in mud from the rain that created it earlier in the day as I heard a rattling on the pavement. The ideas that stir in your head at the sound of a stray noise in a graveyard, endless. 

I walked towards it and found a glass bottle turning on its own despite the lack of wind. Spin the bottle with a group of ghosts sounding like exactly the activities my sister would partake in from beyond the grave as I approached it.

"Marilyn?" I asked my chest swelling with hope as the bottle stopped pointing right at me causing my breathing to hitch. It stayed eerily still as I got closer to it and wondered if anything could save me from making yet another stupid decision. 

"What are you doing?" A voice called out from behind me making me scream as I turned around as he joined me. I put my hand to my chest as we both caught our breath and I looked him over. 

     He was the type of boy Marilyn would have rated 3 out of 5 knocks. A system in public that allowed us to rate men out of five by tapping on the other person, her ratings notoriously low even for the most gorgeous of men. Claiming the only men truly worthy of 5 were Harry Styles and Skylar Astin. He had brown curly hair piled on top of his head, standing at 6 ft, with blue eyes and a sharp jawline he seemed to clench over and over again. 

"Not sneaking up on someone at a graveyard." I scoffed looking back to the bottle that now stood straight up marking my discomfort to a new level.  

"Well if you and your friends hadn't been yelling during the night shift, I wouldn't have to "sneak" up on anyone." He sighed defending himself with nonsense, the male ego heightened yet again in my midst. 

"Ha.Ha. Very funny." I sighed back grabbing the bottle from the ground, energy buzzing in my hand as I held it. "I assume you're responsible for this?" I asked motioning towards the bottle. 

"Ha. Ha. Very funny." He mimicked looking at me suspiciously. "Seriously, I took this job because it's relatively easy, I don't need you and whoever else is here to be harassing the nearby neighbors in the middle of the night." He explained walking back to the morgue that sat at the edge of the grass. 

"Listen dude, I don't have any friends. Don't associate me with whoever was yelling, k?" I said stomping in the opposite direction towards the parking lot where my jeep waited for me. 

"I would pretend to believe you but the same name your friends were yelling, you said as soon as I walked up to talk to you." he yelled back causing me to stop in my tracks as my eyes darted around me as if the voices would reveal themselves. Anger boiled through me as I turned around and followed him to the building, my footsteps crunching on the leaves enough to stop him and turn around to face me, a smirk on his face as if he had somehow. 

"You unbelievable asshole. Don't make things up just to win an argument, and don't use my feelings against me." I hissed the wind blowing my black hair in the wind as I combed through it to maintain eye contact with him as I watched his demeanor change. 

"I'm being serious. I was working landscaping when someone started yelling the name Marilyn at the edge of the property. Since you're the only person I could catch up with I had to talk to you. It's my job to make sure kids don't mess around in here." he explained raising his hands in mock surrender as we now stood across from each other. His features sharper up close then they were further away. 

"I'm also being serious. I don't have friends." I replied clearing my throat as we stood there for a moment. A text from my mother asking where I was lighting up my phone to reveal it was a few minuets before four a.m. 

"If you're usually here this late, you should think of applying." he shrugged before turning back towards the morgue leaving me alone with the bottle in my hand as I jogged back to my car. 

As if I scared that easy. But maybe just to prove a point, I would apply.

[krfbooks]

*daydreaming about being an author one day and hosting a party surrounded around the theme of my book* ehueheHUE

*actually working on said book* 😐

[hekatepoetryxxwriting]

The most exciting thing about being a writer is the realisation that somebody may one day make fanart of your characters.

Like you have NO idea how much I would love to be sent fanart of my books by people who read them.

Like thats??? Its just so pure?

Like 'hey I made a thing without prompting cause I really loved your stories and it inspired me to do something I love'

Like OMG I'd actually cry.

[ms-enscene]

I think ONLY bout this

[ms-enscene]

It’s the truth, it’s the truth, and it’s a lie

She loved to be alone, to feel the shape of her self a home

That could not be known.

[raspberryroo1312-deactivated202]

me, writing: huh, this character displays a lot of signs of being neurodivergent. Maybe I should look into-

me, realizing that I wrote this character to act a lot like I do: oh

[adventurebeneaththewords]

Proposal for the writers of tumblr:

What if we had a "Writing Network" on discord to help us stay in contact with each other while also reaching out to readers, potential publishers, editors, cover designers, etc?

This discord would include:

a channel for writers to share the books they've published

a channel for tiktoks, tweets, etc that authors want help sharing (fight the algorithms!)

the ability for users to join as a writer, reader, publisher, cover artist, editor, etc

users can say whether they're willing to beta read in their introduction

also in their introduction, writers can link to Amazon author profiles, Goodreads profiles, websites, etc

A place for writing resources, tips, etc

And a place to share recommendations, for example: "I hired person A to edit for me and they did a really great job! 10/10 would recommend!"

There could also be a section for Adult books, so that writers who have ✨spicy✨ content in their books can feel comfortable promoting to 18+ individuals only

Please tell me your thoughts! And, if you think this is something you'd be interested in, reblog this post to help spread the word! (And save it somewhere so you can check the notes for a link to the discord if it ends up being made!)

Oh, and one more thing, if you're really passionate about this idea and want to help moderate the discord, message me/reach out to me and I'd be happy to make you a moderator! Thanks!

[sapphocastiel]

he’s an irredeemable villain to you. he’s my special little princess though

[helloitsbees]

kind of obsessed with the new trend of sites like buzzfeed using terms like “lying” and “fooling you” regarding storylines/couples/film techniques in movies and tv. wandavision is gaslighting you into thinking superheroes are real! this actor had a stunt double do this particular stunt, he TRICKED you! these actors LIED and made you think that they’re together when ACTUALLY they’re married to other people!

[helloitsbees]

i don’t know how to tell you this buzzfeed but sometimes fictional stories are fictional

[helloitsbees]

ok no i have more to say about this

it’s that fuckin CinemaSins instinct to go “haha, i know more than the filmmakers! rose from titanic wasn’t a real person, DING that’s a sin! the blood and guts in the saw movies is actually corn syrup, DING that’s a sin! they weren’t smart enough to FOOL ME, which is the point of movies! to fool and trick the audience! ding!”

and that then feeds into the instinct from filmmakers to erase immersion from narrative storytelling, the same reasoning behind the joss whedon bullshit trend of characters pointing out how their own stories don’t make sense in the hope of preempting their own audience, wrecking their own suspension of disbelief out of the fear that the audience will, the “why are we singing?” moment in musicals, the “they can fly now?” moment in Star Wars, the immediate scramble to explain and explain until you’re not left with a story, you’re left with a Wikipedia summary. and it fucking sucks.

[helloitsbees]

tldr it’s okay to watch movies and let yourself believe, for 1 hour 55 minutes, that superheroes are real, or that a monster might destroy a fictional city. you’re allowed to buy the chemistry between two characters without thinking “these two people would never get along in real life”. not everything has to have a bulletproof plot with 10000% realism. it’s okay to let fiction be fictional without feeling tricked or fooled by it.

[helloitsbees]

YES! say THIS!!

[ms-enscene]

I’m in a FILM class and your brain never stops reeling with the information you’re given. From plot analysis to a little thing they told me about called “Mise-en-scene” which is literally the placement of every single prop to add to the conversation, or make it seem more like a home. To keep is basic there’s a reason there’s a lamp behind the warm character vs no lighting behind the darker one. There’s a reason there are magnets on the fridge but no pictures, or pictures with them doing different things.

People literally dedicated their entire lives for you to buy into the world they created for 2 hours tops, because they didn’t like the world they lived in and needed to escape to another one… another one where the characters give you clues, and costuming and makeup spends hours on portraying more of a dark circle on someone’s eyes than another. Just give in to it, even if you do notice that stuff. Don’t see it as someone trying to trick you, see it as someone working really freaking hard to let you see how they see the world, and be proud of them when they pull back their wizard of oz curtain when they ask “this is how I did it…. Did you like it?”