[silent-creed]

Writeblr Re-Intro

About Me

Call me Echo. 28 years old, they/he.

Favorite Genres: Fantasy of all kinds, sci-fi, horror, & romance.

Favorite Shows: She-Ra, AtLA, Eureka, & Outer Limits.

Favorite Movies: The Last Unicorn and pretty much any other 80′s dark fantasy film. 

(Current) Favorite Song: Too Sweet by Hozier.

Favorite Books: Anything by Tamora Pierce.

My (Current) WIPs

Vexin Chronicles 1 - Outbreak: An undead plague begins to spread across the archipelago of Farosek. Its cursed royal family struggle with accusations and infected subjects while Prince Aijavaer sets out with a possessed amulet to prevent the return of an ancient enemy. 

Ferelann: Princess Elsabeth Authrein attempts to take her rightful place on the throne of Ferelann amidst the rise of old magics and the potential resurrection of a dark god. 

Courtship: Tsaana joins her cousin, the princess of Zauvila, on her journey to the kingdom of Edrasal to meet her betrothed. She encounters new family, old friends, and much hated enemies while under the orders of a goddess. 

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@mikoala02 // @wildswrites // @irilenawrites // @queer-outta-fandom // @anapocalypticcornerofthegalaxy // @anarchyandroses // @afusiek // @world-of-iridensia // @thewritersplace // @saberblizzardblogs // @savvyminnow​ //

[caffeinewitchcraft]

I have a mute character in the story I’m writing and one of my beta readers suggested I use italics when they sign so that I don’t have to keep peppering “they signed” or “their hands flashed” throughout the piece.

But like…I always read italics in a different tone like they’re thoughts. It seems quieter than using normal quotations which makes what they say look less significant on the page than other character’s dialogue.

I really don’t think my audience needs me to use completely different punctuation around a mute character. There’s no need to act like they’re speaking a different language since their muteness isn’t a focal point in the story.

So really this reader’s comment has done the complete opposite of what they intended. Now I’m actively taking out as many of my “hands flashed” notations as possible and just writing in normal body language because, clearly, the other characters understand them and my audience doesn’t need to be coddled.

[fanarchoslashivist]

As an HOH reader and writer I can affirm that once the signing has been established it can just be treated like “said”.

You can add little things for emphasis though, like how fast or flippant a sign is given, also a lot of our “punctuation” is in facial expressions, so wild looks is kind of normal. Also messing up signs and just.. pushing them aside. Like, you mess up a fingerspell and just take both hands and shove the air in front of you to your side, people who sign eventually end up doing this for other things, like a “forget it” motion. It’s like a “wave it off” gesture.

Body language for someone who signs is a lot more animated than someone who speaks, as we use our upper body a lot in our conversations, so the act of “signing” is more than just hand signals.

[caffeinewitchcraft]

Yes….yes GOOD this is the good stuff right here. I’m going to incorporate some of these ASAP ESPECIALLY the pushing the air but to clear it of your mistakes

[justcallmedom31]

[byjove]

A large part of the reason families were bigger in the past was because marital rape was not considered rape and birth control/abortion methods were ineffective, dangerous and/or illegal. We can dance around this and act like our great great great grandmothers just loveddddd being mamas so much that they decided out of their own free will to have 11 children. We can pretend that they DECIDED to have big families because it was a financially advantageous decision so they could have more labor around the farm. But a lot of children in the past were fundamentally unwanted and not conceived out of love, children were not a choice women got to make. We need to admit that and stop pretending historical women were inherently more maternal because they were impregnated at the age of 15 and kept having babies until they were 40. That did not make them loving mothers, it did not make them ‘the divine feminine’ and it sure did not make them happy.

[cozy-stardust]

Imagine Grace defined his name as the elegance definition of grace and Rocky spends years thinking how fucking ironic this clumsy leaky space blobs name is.

Until Grace slips out a sentence along the lines of "could you give me a little grace here" and Rocky immediately points out he used a word wrong so Grace has to explain that yeah, grace means elegance but it can also mean mercy sometimes too.

And Rocky has to suddenly reconcile that the clumsy leaky blob that saved his life twice, that almost certainly doomed himself to come back for him, name is Mercy.

[till-dawn-do-us-part]

[peachfromcmbyn]

People on Tumblr love sharing information about themselves no matter how asinine it is. And I'm the same way. Everybody tell me what the last thing you drank was.

[scribefindegil]

So many ruthless/pragmatic characters get revealed as hypocrites when the sacrifice required is personal, and that's why it's really important to me that Stratt does genuinely care about Grace and also it doesn't make her hesitate for a second. That's her friend and she dragged him screaming to the sacrificial altar with clear eyes and no apology and she would do it again. What a woman.

[wuggen]

Everyone say thank you sanitation workers we owe you our lives sanitation workers

[socialmediasocrates]

SLIPSTREAM: A WIP INTRO

Genre: superhero fiction, new adult Status: draft 0 Tag: slipstream In short: superheroes but they're influencers Serious summary:

Speedster is the first legacy hero in the Agency's history. The first Top Three rank with a direct tie to the first generation of heroes. The fastest thing on legs, the media darling, the good daughter--

Speedster is dead. Kind of. Soon, at least.

Already on her way out, with two hours left to get it done, she dives into the city's underbelly to solve her own murder. But the more stones she turns over, the more she realizes that there's more going on than she has time for. At the center of the ball of yarn she's unwinding is her own murderer: the newest villain on the scene, the Ice King.

Excerpts under the cut:

Bluebeard was the best of the best, until he was the worst of the worst. She doesn't think she'll ever stop hearing the long creak and short, crunching snap of her father's arm under his foot. Bluebeard's laugh, loud and stuttering as a barrel rolling down a plank, louder than the scream her father bit off at the root. What the fuck was she supposed to do to the man who broke the strongest man alive? She was eighteen. She was scrawny. For god's sake, she was just fast. It was only being in slipstream that kept her standing when he threw her like a rag doll. She counted the vertebrae that shook like they'd crack as soon as time caught up. Because they would. Fuck. Across the country, millions of people glued to their TV screens cheered when Speedster discovered that her sheer momentum could count as super strength. That final, screaming, desperate moment when she slammed Bluebeard into the ground and stomped, hard, at the base of his spine. 'Never walk again,' she'd thought, 'you rat bastard. You traitor. Never fucking walk again. Never get up.' She'd flashed a peace sign at the camera and smiled over her fear and fury.

[...]

Asclepius racked her shotgun and leveled it at the Captain's chest. The look on his face asked if she'd really shoot him after all this time, and the look in her eye said yes. "I swore to not do harm first. Get out of my fucking clinic." "Would you really put me down? After everything?" "Like a dog."

"Heroes should die before they fall."

[valtsv]

basically the best thing any character can do is decide they don't want to be afraid anymore - in fact they never want to be afraid of anything ever again - and take action so drastic they fail to realise that this too is a decision motivated by fear. or to account for the Consequences of that.

[whencartoonsruletheworld]

i got a fucking. advertisement on youtube. from google ai. saying. without sarcasm and with complete sincerity. "if shakespeare is too hard for you, you can always have our ai explain it to you." im gonna throw up. im gonna throw a molotov cocktail. if i see that ad again im reporting it for hate speech. how fucking dare you. i will kill you with my bare hands. with my exit pursued by a bear hands. i will tear google headquarters down brick by brick. im going to start biting people.

[notaplaceofhonour]

Ryan Gosling’s career has just been one long quest to climb the Warner Bros water tower

[notaplaceofhonour]

that man has been trying to climb this tower since he was 16. he has asked multiple times, and every time they said no, but now he’s famous enough & variety was able to convince them to do a shoot on the tower. it all led here. it was all for this.

[notaplaceofhonour]

I’m obsessed with the implication that this was a coming-of-age ritual where a boy becomes a man, like a bar mitzvah

[nyxqueen97]

you dont have to like cersei, jaime,catelyn,tyrion or theon as people but you can enjoy that grrm put his whole pussy into writing their chapters

[sorbusaucuparia]

i love writing paragraph-long sentences

[sorbusaucuparia]

its just me and my comma and my comma and my comma and my comma and my comma and my comma and my comma against the world

[ashen-crest]

I can do it. I can write a chapter. I am capable of putting sentences together. I know what a comma is. I am Aware of the Character.

[ashen-crest]

This seems to have vibed with a lot of folks, so as encouragement: after posting this, I did in fact write a whole chapter. So you can do it too! You ARE capable of putting sentences together!

[animentality]

[whooooomp]

need That character absolutely delirious with fear. recoiling from everything. unable to parse what's happening around them, their mind stuck in fight or flight. shaking and hyperventilating. completely unconsolable even as they're wrapped in a crushing hug.