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[tarth]

#you're serving cunt? the small council does naught in the absence of the queen but grouse and claw for power and you're serving cunt?

[hoosbandewan]

EWAN MITCHELL as AEMOND TARGARYEN House of the Dragon S2E4 - "The Red Dragon and the Gold"

[myfandomprompts]

The Conqueror's dagger

or ~a Song of Ice and Fire~

[barbieaemond]

EWAN MITCHELL as AEMOND TARGARYEN | House of the Dragon S2E4

[hoosbandewan]

EWAN MITCHELL as AEMOND TARGARYEN House of the Dragon S2E4 - "The Red Dragon and the Gold"

[gwaynes-hightower]

Aemond & Aegon II | Ewan Mitchell & Tom Glynn-Carney House of the Dragon | 2.04

Requested by @dream-thieves

[h-f-k]

HOUSE OF THE DRAGON The Red Dragon and the Gold

[pervocracy]

Another thing that’s cool about fanfiction: it’s as long as it needs to be.

Well, sometimes it’s longer than anything on God’s green earth needs to be, but my point is that there’s really no rules about fic length.  In traditional publishing there’s this awkward middle where nobody wants to print a novella that’s too long for a short story collection but doesn’t really fill out a book.  Ebooks have changed that somewhat but it’s still a convention that a book is about 75,000 words.

Fanfic is not bound by this standard.  If your story takes 25,000 words to tell, then you can do that, and there are readers for whom that’s a sweet spot.  If you just want to keep going and going for 350,000 words and beyond, nobody’s going to say “only famous authors with grand ideas get to do that”–text is low bandwidth and there are readers who will love the feeling that your story is a home where they’re invited to stay as long as they like.

Sometimes restrictions breed creativity, and some writers need to be forced to edit themselves.  But some writers know exactly what they’re doing when they make a story a certain length, and it’s awesome that the Internet has created spaces that put no limits on that.

[viktorhargreves]

- SOPHIE HEAWOOD

[startreklesbian-deactivated2020]

Do go on. Tell me how stuff works.

[depsidase]

[thisloveisglowing]

[bob-belcher]

Eva Longoria is everything

[dabeatnik]

Yet she can’t even speak Spanish 😂😅😂😅😂

That’s pride alright lmfao

She don’t have to, but don’t talk all that shit if you don’t even learn your own culture #lame

[burgertv]

you were saying @dabeatnik???

[thecrackshiplollipop]

ummm

“When I was growing up, my parents spoke to each other in Spanish, but they didn’t speak to us in Spanish because they were told not to. In school we weren’t allowed to speak it.”

and also???

“… But America is the only country that promotes monolingualism. Here it’s English, English, English. Every other country makes their children learn a second language very early on. So as my political and social activism grew, I was like, ‘I really need to learn Spanish.’ So I did.“ 

idk how many people i’ve known growing up in texas whose parents speak fluent spanish but they don’t speak a lick solely because their parents were afraid or told not to teach their children. it’s unspeakably common and doesn’t in any way shape or form diminish someone’s claim to or pride in their heritage. 

fuck that guy. you go eva. 

[lady-threewhiteleopards]

lack of intergenerational language exchange is one of the leading causes of language death for endangered and indigenous languages because of this culture of shame attached to “lesser” coded languages so frankly if yr mocking people for not speaking their mother tongue without taking the colonial reasons for this into account, you’re an ignorant prick and you can go fuck yourself like

[nimbus-cloud]

I have 2 moods when writing.

Write 10 pages in one go, holy shit, my hands won’t stop moving, Imma get this fic done in like 2 hours WUT

I forgot how to English, oh god, write one sentence, watch 3 movies, write another sentence, the ideas are there but they just won’t come out how the frick do I end this, this Word Document has been open for over a week WELP

[elviscl]

This deleted scene will forever haunt me until I can get my greedy hands on it ><

[queenstardust]

Stumbeled upon a nice reference picture and felt inspired to draw Cadet Hux ❤

[powerhouseofthe-cell]

[promptsforthestrugglingauthor]

How do you maintain an interest in your story when it gets hard? I'm always losing interest ib my stories after a while and don't know how to get back on the horse!

In most cases, I recommend:

Remembering why you wanted to write this story in the first place

Fantasizing about how people might happily regard it/its themes/its characters

Remembering where it’s supposed to go (if you have some sort of scene/event/relationship you planned for that has yet to come about)

Discussing the story with someone who listens eagerly and is supportive

Reminding yourself that it’s absolutely normal to lose interest from time to time; usually it means you’re in a tough spot creatively or with the story in general, and that’s alright.

Reminding yourself it’s okay to set things aside for a while, or to abandon a project altogether if you simply just don’t like it enough anymore. This happens plenty! Not all stories are great ideas, and not all ideas stand the test of time. I have many stories and ideas I’ve scrapped over the years because they’re just not interesting to who I am today.

[promptsforthestrugglingauthor]

Well this sure got many more notes than I expected!