#1shadowhole

[maryluis]

'spetta 'spetta 'spetta

Qui nasce un dilemma.

In these past week several things happened in rapid succession.

1) New season of HETALIA (!!!!) after years of waiting

2) The supernatural fandom got what they had been waiting for after years of waiting

3) The Sherlock fandom also got what they had been waiting for after... Idk how long

All of this considered.

IS THE MERLIN FANDOM GOING TO GET SOME CLOSURE OR NOT? A NICE HAPPY ENDING?

No perchè sarebbe figo

Impossible

Ma figo

Ma magari ;A; ma poi, io ci ho pensato, e alla fine il finale che abbiamo avuto è sì triste, ma anche giusto. Credo che questa sorta di ‘’apertura’’ che hanno lasciato ha fatto sì che si continuasse a parlare di questa serie, tramite le fanart e le fanfiction <3 vorrei tanto avere degli spin off, quello si TAT o altro materiale... ma direi che possiamo ritenerci soddisfatti ⭐ 

[merlinfanficquotes]

Hi! I'd like to submit a quote, but I'm not sure how to share the link that way (so that the words of your choice are underlined and when you click on them it brings you to the page) Could you show me how to do that? Thanks!

Sure!All you have to do is select the text you wish to be hyperlinked, and click the little link button that’s up by all your other formatting options, like so:

which should then bring up a box where you can put the link

And since you’ve already selected the text you want it to be on, you don’t need to put anything in the ‘Title‘ section.

We have had some people just put the link in after the quote and source info, which isn’t really a problem, since the admins have to edit the post to add the tags anyway. But if you can, please do it like this. :)

[lefayart]

Fanfic ask 3 and 7 ❤

💙!Just answered 3 here

7. What’s the last thing you read that made you cry? 

I actually have no idea. I don’t cry very easily, so it’s rare. Unfortunately, because this fandom is so good at making me want to! 😂

[ask-mr-germany]

So I'm new around here, and I hope I'm doing this correctly... But what do you think about your neighboring countries? What are your connections with them?

“I have many neighbors, but I don#t get along with all of them; in particular France and Poland. Nobody likes France anyway, they drink too much wine and have weird bread. Also their language sucks and is too hard to learn. And Poland is weak and free real estate.” 

“I get along with Austria rather well. At first he was pissed, because he didn’t get to join the German Empire, because my brother Prussia didn’t like that idea. Not that many of the other states liked it either. But after our hostilities in the 19th century, we are now allies. But he still annoys me sometimes, trying to lecture me.” 

[German Empire event]

[The German Empire adopted rather aggressive foreign policies during the start of the 20th century. They were hostile towards the bigger nations around it: France, England, Poland etc. I’m not quite sure what exactly their issue was with Poland, but my guess is that they just viewed them as inferior. The relations with England I’ve already explained. And France had been the arch enemy ever since Napoleon came around to occupy German territory and it lead to the rise of German nationalism (and also to Ludwig’s “birth”). This eventually lead to the Prussian-Franco wars of 1870/71 and which was the birth of the German Empire. France and Germany would continue to be arch enemies till after WW2.

The relations with Austria started off bad in 1866, when Prussia lead a war against Austria to settle the argument if Austria should join the future German Empire or not. But Austria lost and it was decided. Otto von Bismarck, the architect behind this plan, knew that ill relations with Austria were bad for the future of the Empire and managed to establish a good relationship between Germany and Austria. They became allies and when Austria declared war on Russia in 1914, Germany, out of solidarity, declared war on Russia as well and we all know how that ended.]

[lao-pendragon]

A crossover between two of my favorite fandoms?? Wow... thank you ❤️ Plus, the ending...ahhhhhh

Ahhhh yeees! They are my fav shows as well so I couldn’t resist xDD and they are totally taking place in the same universe!

[hungry-for-tulips]

I just saw your video, it's really amazing! Loved how you did the Roman empire!

Thank you so much! Grandpa is a really great character and we love him a lot ourselves as well! Happy you enjoyed ❤️

[whoovesnassistant]

So waaaait... Is there gonna be... WHOLOCK CROSSOVER?!?!

Well, one thing that can be assured: It’s NOT BBC Sherlock related.

[lefayart]

1shadowhole

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Btw, are people actually bothered by italics in...

Whyyyy would anyone be annoyed by italics? They can be amazing… I love italics man

The idea is the same thing that’s behind a lot of these sorts of advice, like the thing about ‘ly adjectives’ for instance, which is that good writing should generally be structured in a way that doesn’t need them. In this case, “let the words do the talking, not the font“ sort of thing.

Which is a valid point. But most of the time when I find myself using them in fiction, it’s in a way that just can’t really be done with rewriting and restructuring. Especially if it’s dialogue. And sometimes I just don’t really want to do in a different way because of the voice I’m trying to write in. Idk. 

But yeah, it’s not something I actually worry about or try to avoid. I trust my instinct with writing. Especially since I’m doing this for fun. I was just curious if this was something that people noticed or cared about much, because to me it didn’t seem like the overuse of italics is even all that common. At least in my experience. :P

Most of these kinds of advice are valid and have good reasoning behind them, but it becomes a problem when people treat it like gospel, like it’s a rule they can’t and shouldn’t break. It becomes a problem when it halts your progress because you’ve ingrained it in your head that it’s a writing crime you must never commit, and when you focus more on that than on actually writing.