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If you know me, it's probably because I read and review on AO3 under the same name. Multi-fandom blog. OLDEST FANDOM: Digimon. DEEPEST FANDOM: Yu-Gi-Oh!. CURRENT WIP FANDOM: Spider-Man. CURRENT OBSESSION: Good Omens. AGE: Adult. PRONOUNS: Ze/They/She. NICKNAME: Quoth.

[eff-ablefics]

who has the sexiest hands?

aziraphale

crowley

Remaining time: 1 day 19 hours

propaganda

aziraphale’s hands: plump and broad, well-manicured, strong due to carrying books around, familiar with gripping swords (wink).

crowley’s hands: long and slender, potentially more dexterous due to snake-like qualities, nail polish, claws and/or scales.

[dalliancekay]

[itsineffhazbinle]

[eybefioro]

@itsscottiesstark this may be of your interest

[tatillonangel]

Some rougher drawings I did for my Inked Omens prompt list! “Ethereal” and “Occult” ψ(｀∇´)ψ💖

[tsarina-anadyomene]

I kind of do think "this is not who we are, we need to live up to our democratic heritage" is a winning message in a way "america is basically and fundamentally evil. fuck you all" isn't

[independence1776]

Prev tags:

#we've often failed to live up to the ideals & beliefs & rights that our country was founded upon but they remain good & necessary ones#they're still fundamental to living in a free & equitable liberal democracy#the sins of our history & the current crisis we're in does not mean that our country is corrupt beyond saving#it means that we have to work to *make* those ideals & beliefs & rights equally accessible & true for *everyone*#it'll mean generations more difficult effort & setbacks but i do still truly believe it'll be worth it#because i want everyone living here now & in the future to live in that free & equitable democracy that we promise#because this is *my* country. and i love my country. and i want my country to love all its people too

[jewishpangolin]

[inqorporeal]

There's something very sad and defeatist about the people who say, "No this IS who we are, the country is awful and--"

Yeah, yeah. It's bad. We get it. Kinda hard to miss right now. You know what? So is everywhere else. You are not going to find a single government, a single nation, anywhere on earth that is perfect and unproblematic.

We need to acknowledge this. Nowhere is perfect. Everywhere has corrupt people who actively seek positions they can use to exploit power and enrich themselves at the expense of others. The vast majority of countries in the world have a lot of blood on their hands and were founded in war; loads of countries have a history of colonization and exploitation of other countries, and a lot of that is continuing to this day.

Now raise your hand: who here was taught as a child to believe in the good your nation can do for its people and the world? Who here was raised with the idea that your country had an awful past but has learned better and is trying to move forward to do better and be better in the future?

Short of buying a boat and hiding away at sea, you are never, ever going to be free of nationality. Not even if you burn it all down; something new will just arise in its place. This is the world we have; this is the society we have to live in. Do you not wish it was better? Do you not wish that is did reflect that optimism you were raised with?

The reason children around the world are taught to believe in the good side of their nation is NOT because the people teaching us want to indoctrinate us into the cult of nationalism (okay yeah, some do do that on purpose, and sometimes that's just the result despite teachers' best efforts), but because they want us to see that good side, see what things are like now, and get angry and disappointed and energized enough to fight to make it reality. To actually do better and become a better world for everyone.

Throwing up your hands and declaring it beyond hope helps only the people who don't want you fighting to make things better. Making things better is not a problem that will be solved in any one person's lifetime. As the saying goes, the best time to plant a tree is ten years ago. The second best time is now.

[lightbulb-warning]

many such foolish cases of things left unsaid :)

[lightsfromouterspace]

i went to ulm to visit this famous church and of course my last braincell was like,, hehe, good omes :DD

[jube-art]

Rocky in the movie is 80 cm, Rocky in the book says that Eridians are 50 cm, on average.

Anyway, lets talk about how fucked, physically, up a human astronaut would be if left alone in space for 50 years. We don't even require gravity to eat like Eridians do!

[meatballlady]

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[ufofrommarss]

Felt like making a new icon

[rbmagpie]

Under political turmoli.

[klikandtuna]

I was recently challenged by the Meat-Cutes (members of my Discord server, Two Canned Meats) to draw ALL of the AU characters I've written for. Turns out it's a lot 🤣

Anthony and Avery are from Every Damn Day (38k, rated M, pianist and lawyer-turned-bookseller)

AJ and Fell are from Find the Light (97.5k, rated M, rockstar and school headmaster)

Crowley and Az are from Sky Clear Blue (288k, rated E, time travel and queer joy)

Baraqiel and Azazel are from When You Go (102.7k, rated E, Reverse Omens) (will be getting its proper sequel in 2027!)

Crowley and Aziraphale are from Naked and Afraid: Jingle Hell (24k, rated T, transcript of an episode of a reality show)

Ant and Azlan are from In His Hand a Burning Coal (516k, rated E, college marching band)

Tonio and Ash are from What I Never Said (96k, rated M, "Don't Ask Don't Tell")

Crowley and Fell are from Abide With Me (56.5k, rated M, 1949 boarding house in Kansas)

Tony and Azariah are from The Mayfair Library Cop (16.7k, rated E, book thievery and smutty art)

Crow and Angel are from Because We Can! (link is to the teaser; this fic debuts in THREE DAYS!! 23 chapters, rated T, will update on Tuesdays) (time travel, shenanigans, literally saving the world)

Antón and Alonzo are from The World's Worst Playlist, which debuts August 28! (18 chapters, rated E, will update on Fridays)

Tony and Andy are from My Prince of Silver Snow, which will be my contribution this year to the Scribbling Vaguely Downwards advent calendar! It's the plot of a Hallmark movie, but klikandtuna-fied and with our ineffable idiots. Will post in December.

Toni and Azlo are from Celestia, which will debut in 2027! Cirque du Soleil as a vehicle for red-hot smut.

And EVERY LAST ONE of these twenty-eight characters will be appearing in a massive crossover fic, which I hope to debut in 2027 😄 So much to enjoy...and so much to look forward to, too. 💛💛💛

[dalliancekay]

Hope this won't get flagged. Again.

[sarahtaylorgibson]

Writing a novel when you imagine all you stories in film format is hard because there’s really no written equivalent of “lens flare” or “slow motion montage backed by Gregorian choir”

[audacityinblack]

You can get the same effect of a lens flare with close-detail descriptions, combined with breaks to new paragraphs.

Your slow-motion montage backed by a Gregorian choir can be done with a few technques that all involve repetition.

First is epizeuxis, the repeating of a word for emphasis.

Example:

Falling. Falling. Falling. There was nothing to keep Marie from plunging into the rolling river below. She could only hope for a miracle now, that she would come out alive somehow despite a twenty-foot drop into five-foot-deep water.

Then there’s anaphora, where you write a number of phrases with the same words at the beginning.

There were still mages out there living in terror of shining steel armor emblazoned with the Sword of Mercy.

There were still mages out there being forced by desperation into the clutches of demons.

There were mages out there being threatened with Tranquility as punishment for their disobedience, and the threats were being made good upon.

Mages who had attempted to flee, but knew nothing of the outside world and were forced to return to their prison out of need for sustenance and shelter.

Mages who only desired to find the families they were torn from.

Mages who only wanted to see the sun.

This kind of repetition effectively slows the pace of your writing and puts the focus on that small scene. That’s where you get your slow pan. The same repetition also has a subtle musicality to it depending on the words you use. That’s where you get the same vibe as you might get from a Gregorian choir.

[sarahtaylorgibson]

Damn I made relatable reblog- bait post and writer Tumblr went hard with it. This is legitimately very good advice. 

[ariaste]

For more neat tricks (aka figures of rhetoric) like epizeuxis and anaphora, read THE ELEMENTS OF ELOQUENCE by Mark Forsyth. It’s both educational and delightful, not to mention overflowing with wry wit. Great book. 

[learlir]

The Elements Of Eloquence epub (google drive)

another good one is Writing With Clarity And Style (pdf on google drive)

[facets-and-rainbows]

Actually, yeah, you guys wanna see my favorite way a translator ever handled the furigana shenanigans in a manga?

Some background: Japanese is written with a mix of kana (which are phonetic characters that each represent a sound) and kanji (more complex characters which have both a meaning and often multiple possible sounds).

But little kids aren't expected to know every kanji yet, and there can be obscure words or names with oddball pronunciations that would puzzle any reader. So you can also put some small kana alongside the kanji to tell people how to pronounce it. Those are called furigana, and they're common in a lot of manga for youngish audiences.

As an example, here's the kanji 神 (meaning "god") with the furigana that say かみ (kami) in case you didn't know how to spell that one in kanji yet:

But at some point someone figured out that, hey, you don't HAVE to have the furigana match the kanji. There's nothing stopping you from just...

Using a foreign or made-up word but with a built-in definition: the kanji 祓魔師 (exorcise-demon-professional) pronounced as the English word エクソシスト (ekusoshisuto = exorcist)

Letting a character talk to himself really literally: 俺 (me) with the furigana おまえ (omae = you). You, by which I mean me,

Harping on the fact that you have a light themed villain this arc: 光 (light) but with the OTHER WHOLE KANJI 闇 (darkness) as the pronunciation. Darkness, but our darkness is Different because it's actually Light...

Clarifying what someone means like a little parenthetical statement: 俺達 (us/we) pronounced イルミナティ (iruminati = Illuminati). We, the Illuminati...

And many more. Those were just examples from Blue Exorcist that I already had saved to my hard drive. I cannot emphasize enough how much manga likes to create double meanings this way.

As you might imagine, this can be awkward to translate into a language that doesn't have even the slightest concept of furigana.

Usually you end up doing something that either ignores it (just pick the word that was most important of the two, or use the made up word but only define it the first time) or gets the job done but feels a bit like a cop-out (list both words, or put one in parentheses after the other)

But not always. Not in this one case from the first chapter of Blue Exorcist, translated for Viz by John Werry:

Your mission, should you choose to accept it:

物質界（アッシャー）に存在しながらにして　虚無界（ゲヘナ）の神であるこのオレの炎（ち）をひく

物質界（アッシャー）The material realm, Assiah (kanji say material realm, furigana say Assiah)

に in/at

存在する to exist

ながら during/while

にして despite (物質界に存在しながらにして = Despite/even while existing in the material world...)

虚無界（ゲヘナ）The realm of void, Gehenna (same deal as Assiah above)

の 's, of

神（かみ）god

である is

この this

オレ me, I (it's not weird in Japanese to say "this me." It just emphasizes the me. I, who am the god of Gehenna...)

の 's

炎 (normally pronounced ほのお) flame

ちをひく　(normally spelled 血 for that ち) to inherit/be descended from (literally, to pull in their blood)

So we've got 炎 (flame) but we're pronouncing it ち (blood) here due to shenanigans

We've already defined Assiah and Gehenna earlier in the chapter, so we can just call them Assiah and Gehenna and not worry about the kanji. It's the 炎（ち）をひく that's a pain to deal with. Rin, our half-demon main character, has inherited Satan's flame in the same way that you have your ancestors' blood in you. Which means we gotta come up with a way to say bloodflames on the fly in English.

And this was a good way, okay?

You exist in Assiah, but the flame of the god of Gehenna runs through your veins!

Goddamn that was slick. You guys saw that, right? I'm not the only one who saw how smoothly that went, am I?

What a good use of the idiom "my blood runs through your veins." You've got word A as furigana on word B, so you find an English set phrase that uses word A and swap word B in instead. Reader expected A and got B, so now both words are in their head and you've gotten the unconventional double meaning across. It's as near a perfect solution as you're probably gonna get.

I'm sure it's not the first time a translator landed on that general solution to the problem, but it was the first time I saw someone do it and it left an impression y'all.

[spencerthespacer-deactivated202]

[fox-in-the-wheat-deactivated202]

THIS IS THE HARDEST I HAVE LAUGHED IN SO LONG YOU HAVE CURED MY DEPRESSION

[ywg]

This is one of the greatest posts I’ve ever witnessed. The payoff was amazing.

[randomslasher]

My roommate heard it going and went “OH MY GOD is it EVER going to resolve?” then the payoff hit and she busted up laughing

[jenahsey-creates]

Finally finished this expression study of Sassy Quokka Aziraphale I've had sitting unfinished for like a month. Inspired by this group of classic Aziraphale faces from a "What Aziraphale are you today" poll:

[possibility-left]

throwback forward uhhh Friday

I was tagged by @carry-the-sky to play this fun game where you post lines from your WIPs and people vote on the ones they're most interested in.

These aren't first lines, just lines I liked from the 6 WIPs I have open in my browser right now lol.

"Crowley, are you there?" Aziraphale asked, as if he still didn't understand the concept of a personal phone.

The Church said that God was infinite, that God invented everything, and it seemed… small to think that God might limit Godself to only creating things that humans had already discovered.

"Well then," Jesus said. "You can't go home, but you can't stay here! I think that's how the saying goes."

"Thank you, thank you, thank you," Sitis chanted, her breath warm against his ear, and that was when Aziraphale knew for sure that he had to be Falling.

Crowley had been the first person in Mayfair to own a pet rock.

"It might be a cult," Nina said, instead of the rest of what she was thinking. "We're smart. If they ask us to join a cult, we'll just say no," Maggie said, and Nina watched her put the meeting time in her phone calendar.

Which of these WIP snippets do you find most intriguing?

Aziraphale doesn't understand cell phones

Infinite God so why not Bigfoot

Jesus posts eviction papers

Aziraphale feels bad for saving children

You know Crowley kept up with all of the horrible trends

It's not not a cult

Voting ended on14h

I think everybody has already been tagged at this point but if you weren't, consider yourself tagged!!

[vivi-theakuneko]

We need to talk more about the fact that Crowley does stress cleaning… 

And also the fact that he READS. He lied to Aziraphale that he doesn’t…

Evidence provided by @brightwanderer​

[jasmin-mcpines]

““This lil’ bitch”