Here, Once More

Writing Blog, probably. Ao3 is SpaceShipTurtle

[my-russia]

Traditional Russian houses in Kimry, Tver Oblast

[wizardarchetypes]

I want to write a book called “your character dies in the woods” that details all the pitfalls and dangers of being out on the road & in the wild for people without outdoors/wilderness experience bc I cannot keep reading narratives brush over life threatening conditions like nothing is happening.

I just read a book by one of my favorite authors whose plots are essentially airtight, but the MC was walking on a country road on a cold winter night and she was knocked down and fell into a drainage ditch covered in ice, broke through and got covered in icy mud and water.

Then she had a “miserable” 3 more miles to walk to the inn.

Babes she would not MAKE it to that inn.

[pixelartpeach]

Are there any other particularly egregious examples?

[theglintoftherail]

This book already exists, sort of! Or at least, it’s a biology textbook but I bought it for writing purposes:

It starts with a chapter about freezing to death, and it is without a doubt the scariest thing I’ve read in years (and I read a lot of horror fiction).

[wandercuriosity-deactivated2024]

This book can be downloaded for free on Researchgate, posted there by the author himself:

The Biology of Human Survival: Life and Death in Extreme Environments

[and-fishing-equipment]

in 2026 DO NOT ask yourself whether your art is GOOD

instead ask:

is it SINCERE

was it CATHARTIC

was it FUN TO MAKE

is it MADE BY ME

and don't forget to stay silly

[so-many-ocs]

no dude it's so cool how attached you are to that character who is singled out and ostracized due to the external monstrousness that clashes with their internal spark of humanity. and i love how drawn you are to themes of horror and love, nature versus nurture, otherness, isolation, and the abject. i bet you have normal feelings about your own personhood

[rikaklassen]

From 201 - 245 of the first rune titled "Creation and the Birth of Väinämöinen" in "Kalevala: The Epic of the Finnish People" edited by Elias Lönnrot and translated by blind Finnish-born American translator Eino Friberg in 1988. There is a similar body of text from the introduction to the 2021 republication from Penguin Classics by Jukka Korpela and is footnoted as "Kalevala I:179–244":

A previous partner has a forearm tattoo of 7,000 years old swan petroglyph laying an egg from Lake Ääninen in Karelia. According to her, the world was born from the golden egg of a swan.

[horsefigureoftheday]

Sucks how many people were taught that "horses put their ears back when they're mad" but then never taught the difference between "angry backwards ears," "mildly annoyed backwards ears," "pain backwards ears," "concentrated backwards ears," "sleepy backwards ears" and "just happens to be listening to something behind it."

"Horses put their ears back when they're mad" idk man i think it depends

[horsefigureoftheday]

These are all completely different expressions in completely different scenarios, and only two of them are decidedly negative.

[horsefigureoftheday]

Actually, I wanna talk about the third horse, the one putting its ears back in pain. Over the last 15 years veterinarians and animal scientists have worked out pain scales for most domestic animals by taking photos of the during routine procedures.

We know vaccines painful, and by comparing horses at rest with horses getting vaccinated, we've been able to determine how they express pain visually. By looking at horses with disorders like colic, broken bones, wounds, and so on, we can determine their facial expressions during more severe pain.

At zookeeper school we were drilled through the pain faces of the most common lab animals and livestock. Nowadays I believe this has become a routine lesson in all animal related fields, but the general public still doesn't know that this is a thing that exists.

Here are all the pain face/grimace scales I've been able to find. Please study them if you interact with any of these animals on a regular basis:

[tlirsgender]

I heart prey animal rage I love when characters are fucking insane with terror

[tlirsgender]

When they're not dangerous like a hunter but dangerous like a spooked horse kicking your skull in

[tlirsgender]

Let's hear it for prey animal rage let's hear it for killing everyone else in the world before you'll let them catch you

[ultramarinsten]

Some embroidery I did on a linen project.

I am really proud of it, now you have to look at it 👍

[roisnoir]

Patterns from the 1889 2nd edition of the Tose Lace Knitting Book, charted for modern knitters

(...I really don't want to hunt that up typo just now. I'll fix it when I fix it. The Tose Lace Kitting Book, indeed.)

Which is beyond the point. The point is, the patterns are live! Go forth and knit pretty laces!

[kankuroplease]

The boys

[luna-azzurra]

Ways to show a Character is Hiding a Secret They’re Desperate to Protect

Secrets are juicy. But the best ones aren’t just plot bombs—they’re personal, shameful, dangerous because they mean something...

They flinch when a specific topic comes up. Just a little. Not enough for anyone to call it out, but enough to tell you they’re holding something back.

They avoid eye contact when someone asks a question they almost can’t dodge.

They rehearse conversations in their head, just in case “it” comes up. Always planning a version of the truth that’ll hold water without leaking too much.

They hate silence, not because they’re bored, but because it gives people time to think.

They keep a part of their past oddly vague. “Oh yeah, I lived in Boston for a bit,” they say, casually skipping over the why like it’s not loaded with dynamite.

They’re overly controlling of one specific detail. Always driving. Always cleaning. Always checking someone’s phone is face-down. Not because they’re picky—because if that one thread unravels, it all falls apart.

They sometimes seem exhausted by the lie they’re living. The weight of holding it together shows in subtle ways: headaches, bad sleep, irritability. Their body is cracking before the truth ever does.

[ruslanan]

✦ shinobi mood ✦

[aleksandracoffan]

[4filen0tfound4]

Damn girl the power of love and friendship aren’t working :/ time to kill someone or whatever

[dw]

love the word aforementioned. like i already said that

[emeraldlupin]

These are all aerial views or maps of Konoha from across the series. The first is from Naruto episode 200, the second to last part of the arc with Genno the Trapper (anime filler). The second (black and white) is from chapter 115 of the manga, from the Konoha Crush arc. The third is from chapter 429 when Pain destroyed Konoha. The fourth is from Shippuden 469, which was anime filler. The last is a shot of Konoha once it was destroyed by Pain, though I do not know the specific episode. Correction, it was Shippuden 165

As you might be able to tell, there's a strange inconsistency as far as how Konoha is meant to look/be shaped.

[crystalizedirongoblin]

I am getting so annoyed at everything the distances don't make sense the travel times don't make sense NOTHING MAKES SENSE