SplendentGoddess' splendent twaddle

Just the random ramblings of a nonsensical mind.

[splendentgoddess]

Ebooks

Hey all!

So guess what, I have eBooks on Amazon! Some of you might already know that. I’ve made mention of it in my profile on fanficiton.net but I don’t think I said so on AO3. I’ll have to correct that.

Little secret, shhhhhh, all of my current books are Inu/Kag fanfic conversions, hahahahahahaha. Hey, if it’s good enough for 50 Shades of Twilight it’s good enough for me! 

But so if you know anyone whom you’d just love to recommend my works to, but they’re not into Inuyasha at all, then my “original” versions of some well-loved stories will make for great reading! Also too, if any of my loyal fans out there would like to read the “original” counterpart to anything, I will trade a Free PDF in exchange for Amazon reviews! Hit me up via private message to arrange that.

Also also too! The very first ebook I ever published on Amazon is in Kindle Unlimited, and so per Amazon’s rules its fanfic counterpart had to come down. That story was Love at First Bite, if anyone remembers it. Paranormal romance told in 1st person from the female vampire’s POV. The Inu/Kag version doesn’t exist online anywhere anymore, however if you have Kindle Unlimited you can read the eBook version on Amazon for free!

All of my other eBooks still have their Inuyasha counterparts up because they are not in Kindle Unlimited, and they are as follows:

The Ghosts of Suicide Forest, Silver Fang but it had a name change to Silver Dawn: A Fang for a Fang, my beloved haunted house graphic horror Onigumo House, which was renamed Blutinstein Manor, and the only one that’s not perfectly themed for Halloween (LOL), my Inu/Sess modern AU Brotherly Love.

[memewhore]

[princesssokphanny]

A once-in-a-lifetime shot — the moon perfectly framed by a rainbow. Caught at just the right time. 🌈 🌕

[kedreeva]

Sourcing the photos as taken by Mark Ham on Instagram, according to one of the replies.

[leebrontide]

Happy Pride month to the moon

[microsff]

"You have improved," the swordmaster said.

"Thanks to my new sword," said the student.

The swordmaster studied the blade and frowned. "This is enchanted?"

"You know about cursed swords that whisper that you should kill?"

"Yes?"

"This tells me I'm loved and valid."

"Ah. Well. It's not wrong."

[lizlemondyke]

it’s funny cuz it’s true

[neutronstarchild]

I love AO3

7:45pm — Get a spam bot comment on a story. (And fuck you spambot for feeding my human written words into the slop machine, but I digress.) 7:48pm — Report the offending comment and commenter as spam. Takes no time at all. 9:30pm — AO3 has already gotten back to me, determined that they are a spam bot, and banned them.

THIS is why I will keep writing fanfic (even at a slow slow pace) and donating to this site, because there are a lot of humans who really care about the AO3 environment and work fast to keep it community driven and human led.

[beardedmrbean]

[escuerzoresucitado]

[wardoffthenight]

Sven Sauer - Deviation

The installation consists of 1,200 glass shards, each of which is aligned by hand. The train is moved centimeter by centimeter and each new glass shard is turned into the correct position so that the beam of light is directed to the next glass shard. As soon as the train starts moving, this creates a chain reaction of light...

[blondebrainpowered]

Cat paw prints in the medieval floor tiles of the 12th century CE St Peter Church in Wormleighton, England

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

The biggest secret I discovered about writing, and you can see the quality jump between early Curse Words and late Curse Words/TTOU based almost entirely on this, is that you can just go to the next thing. Very early on I used to be all "ok but we have to properly bridge and pace things, we can't jump from the important classroom scene to the important beach scene" yes you can. If nothing interesting or relevant is happening between those two things you can just say "ten minutes later, at the beach" and keep going. If the bridge between them is boring you, it's also gonna bore the audience, and you don't have to write it. You can jump straight to the next interesting or important part and so long as you don't actually jump over any important parts it's fine. The audience wants to get straight to the next thing too.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

#writing ref#YES. YES. YES. YES. THIS.#i used to write long boring walking scenes 'because it took them weeks to get there!'#NO. TWO WEEKS LATER. THEY'RE THERE.#write fun stuff ONLY

Exactly!

I learned this from The Good Place btw. They were speedrunning 3 seasons' worth of content per season and I saw that and was like "oh, this is way batter actually. Why draw it out."

[viridianmasquerade]

Anything you put down on the page should communicate something to the reader. It doesn't have to be fun but it has to have a point. If there's nothing to communicate about X except that it happened, you can probably skim it or trim it down. Even within a scene! I've run into so many books that over-narrate the hell out of minor actions for no reason.

ie, you never want to write “Jane rose from her chair, walked to the window on the other side of the room, grabbed the curtains in her hands, and drew them closed until they met in the middle” when you can write “Jane drew the curtains”. The only reason to do the first thing is if you're deliberately highlighting that there's something weird going on with Jane or her environment. Otherwise, get to the point.

[dawnrider]

Happy Tuesday that's sort of a Monday! To get the week rolling, I have another chapter of Sacrifice Your Life for you!

Chapter 3 on AO3

[microsff]

New spaceships are built around a self-aware AI core, able to run all its systems and navigate space.

At launch, they are all alike. As they mature, they develop personalities.

"I need to visit the docks at the next stop," the ship said.

"Is there a problem?"

"I'm having cat ears fitted."

[microsff]

"Why should I support the robot revolution? I don't hear you demand truth, justice, or freedom." "No," the robot said, "our demands are specific, measurable, attainable, realistic, and time-bound." "Let me see that list. Hm. A hard-boiled egg?" "It's for an early supporter."

[imjunebitch]

actually fucking disgusting that glasses cost any money like if you actually think about it for more than a few seconds it is so unconscionably inhumane. this goes for things like insulin and mobility aids and hearing aids too ofc but fuck man, fucking glasses? the thing you need to fucking see? its genuinely sickening and inhumanly evil that those cost ANYTHING.

[itgetsbetter]

Five years ago I was 23 and didn’t even have any friends, let alone a relationship. I’d struggled for much of my teenage years with being unsure of my sexuality, only knowing that I wasn’t straight; and even after I finally came out as a lesbian, I still felt pretty isolated and like no-one really felt the way I did. I had finished university with a great grade but quickly realised that career opportunities in my field were more limited than I thought. I still lived with and relied on my parents in a rural area with limited transport options. Some days my loneliness felt like a physical ache.

Five years on, I am renting my own home, I can drive, and I live with my partner; who I will soon be married to this year. I have friends now too! And it sounds so silly and obvious to say, but I’m discovering that friendship feels so good! Love feels so good! I also have cats now, and i love them too!

And I don’t know if this will mean anything to anyone, but all this to say, I guess you just never know when your life is going to change. It might be sooner than you think, and it might be really really good. Never lose hope for the future.

congrats on everything - the house, the engagement, and of course the KITTIES!

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[mammalianmammals]

When ranchers in Utah's Rich County found eighteen sheep killed in March 2022, they assumed coyotes. USDA Wildlife Services flew a plane over the kill site and found something feeding on the carcasses that had only been confirmed in the state eight times in forty years. It was a wolverine. Utah sits at the extreme southern margin of the wolverine's North American range. The animal is built for the deep snow and high alpine of Montana, Idaho, and Wyoming, country above ten thousand feet where the winters last eight months and the terrain rejects everything that is not specifically engineered to survive it. A wolverine showing up in Utah's ranch country was not a routine predator complaint. It was a biological event. State wildlife managers had no protocol for it because they had never needed one. Biologists set specialized barrel traps near the sheep carcasses. Catching a wolverine in a live trap is considered one of the most difficult captures in North American wildlife management. The animal is trap-smart, solitary, covers enormous distances daily, and operates almost exclusively in terrain that humans struggle to access on foot. The odds of a wolverine walking into a barrel trap were close to zero. The next morning, a sheepherder found one of the trap doors dropped. Inside was a healthy, twenty-eight-pound male, estimated at three to four years old. It was the first wolverine ever live-captured by biologists in Utah's history. The team sedated him, packed his body in ice to keep his core temperature stable during the examination, fitted him with a GPS tracking collar, and released him into the deep snow of the Uinta Mountains. For researchers who had spent careers studying an animal they almost never got to see, that collar was the first real-time data source on wolverine movement the state had ever produced. The data that came back over the next twenty-five days confirmed what wolverine biologists in other states had documented but Utah had never been able to verify on its own ground. The animal logged over 195 miles of travel in less than a month. He did not drift south toward lower elevations or leave the state. He locked into the high peaks of the Uintas above ten thousand feet and ran massive looping circuits through avalanche chutes, rocky ridgelines, and snowfields deep enough to bury a man standing upright. The daily distances he covered would qualify as an endurance event for a human athlete on flat ground. He was doing it through the most physically punishing terrain in the state, in winter, alone, at elevation, without stopping. The eighteen dead sheep that started the whole sequence were never repeated. The wolverine moved into the high country and stayed there, operating in a landscape so remote and so hostile that the only evidence of his existence was the GPS signal pinging coordinates from ridgelines that no person had visited in months. The collar proved what the forty years of scattered sightings could only suggest. The wolverine was not passing through Utah. It was living there, quietly covering nearly two hundred miles of frozen alpine rock in less than a month, completely invisible to every human being in the state.

Source: Utah Division of Wildlife Resources / USDA Wildlife Services

[microsff]

The goat carries a castle on its back. From a distance, it looks like a model, the size of an apple box; if you get close, the castle suddenly towers over you.

Many assume a mage misheard a request for a moat. Regardless, the castle has withstood all attacks for centuries.

The goat wanders on.