[danismm]

”Do you have a light, Sir”, 1942

[gnossienne]

Le Boléro de Ravel au Palais Garnier, Opéra national de Paris (2017) (x)

[sleepybelle-writes]

Part of me wants to shift the entirety of Magical Fantasy Adventure Land into the normal world instead of splitting it into a separate realm.

Part of me is still annoyed that this fucker still doesn’t have a proper title. Or at least something that sounds better as a place holder.

[the-knights-are-not-dead-deacti]

it’s called Mafalia. that’s your world’s name. ‘MAH-FAR-lee-uh’.

[sleepybelle-writes]

That actually sounds really good as a world name. I’m curious to know where that came from?

[the-knights-are-not-dead-deacti]

it’s the acronym. “Magical Fantasy Adventure Land”-ia becomes MaFAL-ia: Mafalia.

i always find if you need a placeholder name for something, write it out and make up an acronym, adding and removing letters or vowels if need be.

for example:

“The House Where Clio Fell in Love With Him”

“The HouseWhereClioFellinLoveWithHim”

“THoWeCliFiLWH”

“ThrowecliFiLWH”

“ThrowecliffiLWH”

“ThrowecliffiLWH”

“Throwecliffe”

“Thrawecliffe”

hence ‘the house where Clio fell in love with him’ becomes ‘Thrawecliffe House’. what’s a ‘thraw’? i don’t know. is it on a cliff? maybe; that’s an author’s preogative.

suddenly the name of the house itself throws up new questions which an author in answering goes off down a rabbit hole of worldbuilding.

[sleepybelle-writes]

Holy fuck. That is absolutely amazing advice.

Thank you so much!!!!!

[incandescent-creativity]

As someone who regularly smashes words together for humorous purposes, I’m appalled I’ve never thought to use it in my writing. Bless you.

[headspace-hotel]

good advice

[mageflow]

My favourite example of this is Dragon Age. The setting is called Thedas, which comes from calling it “the Dragon Age setting” in development! The Dragon Age Setting The DAS Thedas

[dostevsky]

“Fairy tales — the proper kind, those original Brothers Grimm and Hans Christian Andersen tales I recall from my Eastern European childhood, unsanitized by censorship and unsweetened by American retellings — affirm what children intuitively know to be true but are gradually taught to forget, then to dread: that the terrible and the terrific spring from the same source, and that what grants life its beauty and magic is not the absence of terror and tumult but the grace and elegance with which we navigate the gauntlet.”

— Maria Popova, “The Importance of Being Scared: Polish Nobel Laureate Wisława Szymborska on Fairy Tales and the Necessity of Fear”

[wordsnstuff]

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[madawhatever]

“Before the writers started working on the first season, I wrote a list of six things on the wall that every episode had to do.” - Mike Schur (x)

[raptorlily-deactivated20191105]

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[the-dust-jacket]

A friend of mine with a passion for folklore and small presses recently introduced me to Inhabit Media, and I’m so glad to have had a chance to peruse these books. 

Inhabit Media is an Inuit-owned publishing company based in Iqaluit, Nunavut (i.e. very very very North). They are dedicated to preserving and promoting the stories, knowledge, culture, and language of the Inuit and of Northern Canada, and they publish a range of books for children and adults that include contemporary and historical fiction, folklore and legends retold and beautifully illustrated, and non-fiction on history, science, and arctic life. 

If you enjoy folklore, oral history, wintertime storytelling, or really superbly creepy mermaids, definitely check them out. 

[hartoffoot]

“or really superbly creep mermaids” 👍

[the-right-writing]

Writer Beware makes posts on which publishing houses to avoid at all costs, which words to look for and which words to watch out for in contracts, and several other things that will keep you in control and knowledgeable about the publishing process.  I’d suggest reading through the website if you want to avoid getting ripped off, cheated, or scammed.

[the-right-writing]

I’m just going to reblog this every so often because it’s a site that every writer needs to see.

[enigmaticagentalice]

I mean I SAY I love the ‘Enemies to Lovers’ trope but what I really MEAN is that I love the

‘Enemies to Resentful Allies In A Time Of Crisis to Grudging Mutual Respect to Growing Fondness Concealed By Snark to Hurtful Betrayal to Slow Reconciliation With A Greater Understanding Of Each Other to Strange But Solid Friendship to Unexpected Feelings In A Time Of Crisis to Denying Their Feelings While Growing Closer As Friends to Epiphanies Of Love In The Worst Possible Circumstances to Mutual Pining to Unbearable Sexual Tension to Lovers’

trope

[heroineimages]

I can get behind that. 

[one-jaide]

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[one-jaide]

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[elementsanthology]

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[one-jaide]

Uh Guys? Did you know that the comic anthology I was a part of simply cannot be stopped?

[one-jaide]

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[one-jaide]

the new Janelle Monae video gave me Lunar Chronicles feelings

[one-jaide]

A Royal Portrait

[one-jaide]

I’m obsessed with Iko and Cinder having matching outfits.