S. B. Letham Writes Things

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[s-b-letham]

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[thewritingumbrellas]

Writing advice from my uni teachers:

If your dialog feels flat, rewrite the scene pretending the characters cannot at any cost say exactly what they mean. No one says “I’m mad” but they can say it in 100 other ways.

Wrote a chapter but you dislike it? Rewrite it again from memory. That way you’re only remembering the main parts and can fill in extra details. My teacher who was a playwright literally writes every single script twice because of this.

Don’t overuse metaphors, or they lose their potency. Limit yourself.

Before you write your novel, write a page of anything from your characters POV so you can get their voice right. Do this for every main character introduced.

[writerlyn]

This is legit good writing advice, especially the first bullet point! In playwriting class we did a bit where every bit of dialogue had to be an accusatory question and it was glorious.

[thekimonogallery]

Courtesan.    Ink and color on paper.  Early 18th century, Japan, by artist Kaigetsudo Ando.  Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery

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On saturday we went to the library and I got out a charming wee book for my little one called "1 is one". Now I am obsessing over the author, Tasha Tudor. Writer, illustrator, gardener and crafter, basically my ultimate goals 💛💛💛

[fuckyeahchinesegarden]

seasons in china

[lionfloss]

Boar Family by Vitaly Poluektov

[gardeningwithpina]

The Benefits of Gardening with Mulch | Fix.com

Adding mulch to your garden can have a direct influence on yield. Mulching protects your soil from direct sunlight, moderates temperature, a

You can also mulch with unglazed terrcotta pots!

[practicalsolarpunk]

Mulch is awesome! I would like to note that if you are using kitchen scraps or manure, they need to decompose first, for two main reason. The first is that the process of decomposition uses nitrogen, and will pull it from the soil and away from plants. The second is that both, though manure is more of a concern, can carry bacteria such as salmonella and E. coli.

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[str-ngeloop]

i fucking hate when people attribute a lot of the good stuff about indigenous culture to some inexorable Race Quality.

as if having a sustainable, beneficial, harmonious relationship to the land is due to some sort of Magic Race Genes. I mean it's a continuation of the idea that indigenous people couldn't have possibly done all this cultural stuff themselves so it must be hardwired into their biology.

its literally just racism and essentialism.

it's so gross and yet i keep seeing people make this mistake

[str-ngeloop]

yes actually this also goes for people who are like "anyone who isn't already an Indigenous Race is fundamentally ontologically incapable of understanding indigenous perspectives or having any sort of non-evil relationship with land."

that's literally just the "native people are strange and alien and incomprehensible and *primitive* and of a fundamentally different Kind Of Human than us civilized people" argument but then you say "and indigenous people are good". like. that's still race realism bro.

[thekimonogallery]

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Subtle Pride Flag Masterpost

All my subtle pride flags so far compiled into one post.

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Progress

I might do some more in the future of the ones I missed.

[happyheidi]

picnic 🍃 x

[fuckyeahchinesegarden]

March in hangzhou杭州, zhejiang province by 陈帆fotochen

[forbidden-sorcery]

“To claim that hunter-gatherers perceive their environment as a “wilderness”—in contrast to a domesticity that one would be hard put to define—is to deny that they are aware that, in the course of time, they modify the local ecology by their techniques of subsistence. Over recent years, for example, Aboriginals have been protesting to the Australian government against its use of the term “wilderness” to qualify the territories that they occupy and by so doing frequently justifying the creation of natural reserves that they do not want. The notion of a “wilderness,” with all its connotations of terra nullius, of an original and preserved naturalness, an ecosystem to be protected against the degradations liable to be introduced by human beings, certainly runs contrary to the Aboriginals’ own concept of the environment and the multiple relations that they have established with it, and above all it ignores the subtle transformations that they have produced in it. As a leader of the Jawoyn of the Northern Territory said, when part of their land was converted into a natural reserve, “Nitmiluk national park is not a wilderness…, it is a human artefact. It is a land constructed by us over tens of thousands of years through our ceremonies and ties of kinship, through fire and through hunting.” Clearly, for the Aboriginals, as for other hunting peoples, the opposition between wild and domesticated is not very meaningful, not only because of their lack of domesticated animals but above all because they inhabit the entire environment as a spacious and familiar dwelling place, rearranged to suit successive generations with such discretion that the touch of its inhabitants becomes almost imperceptible.”

— Philippe Descola - Beyond Nature and Culture

[gardeningwithpina]

Twas a mistake to teach ppl indigenous ecological knowledge under the label 'permaculture' bc people are quick to forget indigenous people, as well as their values on interconnectedness.

The land the plants and the animals do not belong to you. They do not exist solely for you. When indigenous people say 'take care of the earth, and she will take care of you too' they mean take care of the whole ecosystem, not just the plants and animals you use. This means encouraging and maintaining biodiversity. It means some animals are going to come in and eat a bit of the food you're growing- and if your ecosystem is maintained well, it wont be an infestation bc predators exist, and it wont completely demolish your crops because it's not a monocrop buffet.

It means sharing food with others (including animals!) because plants don't just grow for you.

(ps. this also doesnt mean let your sheep go wild eating tree sapplings, or to let garlic mustard crowd out everything else. There's a difference between taking care of vulnerable plants and animals in the ecosystem, and hoarding them for yourself.)