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they/he // in my 30s // 18+ my gifs // writings // ao3

[napneeders]

tag stash

[vividciggy]

She's just so pickupable

Bonus nona spoiler sketch

[sadgi]

can I get a job as an editor but the only thing I do is correct when someone uses the word "prone" when they mean "supine"

[sadgi]

thank you wikipedia for this really good image

[sadgi]

a helpful mnemonic for everyone

[talkwithtatsu]

too good for tags

[headspace-hotel]

This mnemonic has a permanent place in my life.

Every time in yoga class when my instructor would say "now get into a prone position" I would think "ah yes on your pronis"

[deervsheadlights]

wish everyone could perceive the Vague Concepts in my head because i just know you would looove my Vague Concepts. you would think im so smart if you saw the misty clouds of Vague Concepts floating around in my head. #MyVagueConcepts

[interestingmistakes]

Reblogging this manually. Op doesn't want credit for fear of being terminated.

[napneeders]

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[orteil42]

there should be more phoneme shifts happening… more rebracketings… there's still time for the english language to evolve… i hope to see the advent of "I wrote a nardicle" in my lifetime

[valtsv]

feeling pretty dissociative and alienated from personhood rn if any bad bitches want to exploit me as a living weapon

[napneeders]

obviously teenage me would have loved the locked tomb but also if you'd told teenage me that in twenty years I'd be listening to Eminem while doing bible research...

[napneeders]

"a civil servant is a type of magician" - tamsyn muir probably

[peelingmandarins]

[napneeders]

hello friends do you have any recommendations for (primarily) SFF (audio)books that are particularly easy to follow but still engaging. I suck at focusing on audiobooks but I feel like I've cracked the code with Princess Floralinda (if something's suddenly dead, I know I've zoned out) and Project Hail Mary (the narration probably doesn't need to be Quite this straightforward for me to stay on track).

[napneeders]

surely this time when I crack my back I'll hit the secret switch that fixes me

[lady-averie]

So while doing some pirate research for the play I’m writing I stumbled upon one of the most amazing things I’ve ever read. In the 5th century A.D. there was a Scandinavian princess called Alwilda who’s father tried to set her up to marry Alf, the Prince of Denmark. Alwilda wasn’t cool with this so she and some female companions dressed as men, stole a ship, and sailed away. Eventually they met a company of pirates who were in need of a new captain and they were so captivated by her that they elected her as their new leader. Her crew became so infamous that Prince Alf was sent out to stop them. When their ships met he took Alwilda prisoner and she was so impressed by Alf’s skill that she agreed to marry him after all and eventually became the Queen of Denmark.

[deadcatwithaflamethrower]

I stopped caring whether this was factually accurate about halfway through because it’s completely AWESOME.

[oldshrewsburyian]

Medievalist here for triumphant fact-checking: this story is, if not true, at least true according to the history of the Danes (Gesta Danorum) written in the 12th century by Saxo Grammaticus. You can read his account of Alwilda’s story in the original Latin here, or in English translation here. Highlights include:

She exchanged woman’s for man’s attire, and, no longer the most modest of maidens, began the life of a warlike rover. Enrolling in her service many maidens who were of the same mind, she happened to come to a spot where a band of rovers were lamenting the death of their captain, who had been lost in war; they made her their rover captain.

I love the implication that there were lots of Danish maidens just WAITING for the opportunity of a life of piracy…

[lady-averie]

Reblogging my old post for this A+ addition to it

[thirdity]

“You write the beginning and then you go back and rewrite the beginning, and you never got off page one. It’s kind of a syndrome, and I have a rash piece of advice which is — Go on, page two, page three, and never look back. Get something finished, no matter how lousy it is. […] Perfectionists cannot get going unless they kind of do violence to their own instincts, and just blast ahead.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin, The Last Interview and Other Conversations

[maxxie-or-smth]

you've met me at a very "yeah i'm trying to work on that" time in my life

[trophytomboy]

no point in writing mermaid/human smut if the mermaid doesn’t have a bit of a foot fetish. monsterfuckers like traits on monsters that humans don’t have, the reverse would also be true. don’t be a coward

[bladespark]

I want to take this so many places!

Dragons being obsessed with how soft and pliable and not-scaly human skin is. Vampires wanting to spend hours pressed to a human chest, hearing the heartbeat they don't have. Tentacled things from beyond having to resist sharing how very, very much they wish they could literally touch human bones, it's freaky and hot how firm, how inflexible a skeleton is. Tugging and pulling and their partner's limbs just to feel it.