Howdy

Name’s Ceylar, I’m in my mid-20s and I go by she/her/they/them. I reblog things pretty regularly here, though there’s no schedule and I’ll post whatever sparks my brain at the time. So expect chaos. I also draw art sporadically and try to remember to post anything I draw to my art blog @ceylar-does-art so go follow if you enjoy very infrequent art of pretty much exclusively my own ocs. Though I do also take part in Art Fight each year, and I post drawings from that on my art blog too. Anyway! Enjoy your stay in my small corner of the internet while you’re here! <3

[reachperfection]

[estrogenesis-evangelion]

if you've never been clinically depressed, this is the short version

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

This phrase has already entered my vocabulary re: media criticism where like. The viewer has a concrete view of what they expect a story to be based on the tropes and cliches they're used to seeing together, and when that doesn't happen, they judge it as a failed depiction of what they assumed it was going to be instead of judging it as what it actually is.

"This show is problematic because the hero didn't kill the villain at the end": When does he steal the bread?

"These two characters who were close friends throughout the series don't kiss at the end! What the fuck?": When does he steal the bread?

"This feels like it's missing a conclusion! Like, the protagonist does bad stuff and because of a critical decision he makes as a result of his major character flaws, meets tragedy in the end! Where's the part where he learns better and brings is love back from the dead and becomes a good guy and gets a happy ending?": When does he steal the fucking bread??

[thetetra]

I heard this out as "When criticizing something, you must judge it for what it is, not what it isn't"

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

#this is why so many of us urge people to get a wider diet of stories

[blumineck]

It’s the final few days of the Bluminarmour Project! After some issues with Kickstarter let’s see how far we can get!

If you want to see fantasy tropes, historical movement and silly tricks tested in authentic full plate armour, please consider chucking a few quid over (or like and share this post):

The Bluminarmour Project

Blumineck is trying to fun a video series doing fun and serious historical and fantasy testing in fitted plate armour.

[blumineck]

Update on this:

Kickstarter removed my highest funding tier so I lost £11k of funding since earlier today.

BUT

I’ve managed to get the deadline extended in light of this. So this might still happen!

[blumineck]

We’re into the last week now! This is close enough that I think this could actually happen, but it’s still got a way to go!

If this is something that interests you, please consider donating or sharing!

[itwashotwestayedinthewater]

aye can i get uh………ingredients on my burger

[druidviolence-deactivated201810]

beetroot?

[druidviolence-deactivated201810]

you want beetroot?

[druidviolence-deactivated201810]

you want fucking beet root?

[itwashotwestayedinthewater]

ingredience

[campsis]

Eden Kalif, Good Cats

[pangur-and-grim]

she never looks relaxed

[pangur-and-grim]

[pangur-and-grim]

i cant figure out if youve answered this already so sorry if you already have but what was the process of finding a publisher like ?

it was hard! very hard! which isn’t meant to discourage anyone - if anything, it means that you shouldn’t let rejections bother you.

first off was finding an agent, which meant making a list of every literary agency I could find that accepted books in English (using sites like querytracker and manuscriptwishlist), and combing through them to see if they had any agents currently accepting queries in my genre. I had really shit luck with Canadian agencies, because they skew heavily toward literary fiction, and my book was genre fiction. but eventually, I had a list of 120 agents I stood a reasonably good chance with.

then, the applications! it’s good to do it in batches, because the occasional personalized rejection will give you something to work on. like I completely rewrote the 10 book pages I was submitting, and redid my query letter about fifteen times. I paid editors online to critique my query letter, I won a contest where the reward was commentary on my query letter…..that query letter was my magnum opus. I put everything into it, and it still kinda sucked. one thing I learned along the way is that people really don’t care about your social media following, UNLESS it’s on Twitter or TikTok. if you say “I have a blog on tumblr :)” people will just be like “I thought that site got shut down.”

anyway, after 70+ written rejections (and many more silent rejections), I got an acceptance! a literary agent was interested in representing my book - if I made some changes to it. so I did (added more romance and ‘cozy’ scenes), and sent it back to him, and then he began shopping it around to publishers.

it took about six months to find an interested publisher. we didn’t have great luck with Americans, but British publishers seemed to really click with the humour, and suddenly we had multiple places interested at once! we went with Titan Books (technically an indie, but with a distribution partnership with penguin), and then…….back into editing hell because the book still needed more romance.

from start to finish, it took four years from the book being written to it being released! it’s a lengthy frustrating process, and so many people give up because the constant rejection wears you down, but you just have to be incredibly stubborn and have a delusional level of belief in your own work.

good luck!

[pocketss]

Ummm she's literally sensitive :/

[cuunos]

hey can everyone do me a favor and put in the tags why they chose their name? even if you don't go by a chosen name irl, you can put why you chose your online name.

[talons-n-scales]

cave lion from prehistoric planet compared to neolithic cave lion art

[pangur-and-grim]

does anyone else have knees that stop working? like you balance your weight wrong, and it's like well, now I don't have a knee for the next three days

[choudo-ii]

heppy pride munth

[pangur-and-grim]

accidentally sent a friend 1kg of starch for her birthday

[pangur-and-grim]

[pangur-and-grim]

I hope the neighbours don’t mind him watching

[pangur-and-grim]

my neighbour had a friend over, and the friend started shouting "LOOK! LOOK! THAT CAT IS CLIMBING THE FENCE! OVER THERE!" and my neighbour was just like "yeah....... it does that."

[pangur-and-grim]

this is huge… a three chair event

[pangur-and-grim]

[pangur-and-grim]

what isn’t captured here are the spit droplets raining down on me

[stoned-ratpack]

I captured some of my favorite frames of The Beast and her activities

[pure-sea-salt]

scrolled through the pangur tag for over an hour to find this specific post because i couldnt stop thinking about it, hence why ive been liking and reblogging a bunch of pangur

[qi-mera]

More of you need to learn about these ☝️

[jadenebula]