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Molly , blake butler

A day made just for leeches. I wrote many letters, never received. A sound of a train as if understood. An emblem. A single black day behind, a single black day ahead. A song sung so low it stays. Clean cold soft sheets. The full moon. Pine in sun. Images of planets from the right distance, this one too.

from "Camp," Molly Brodak's final poem, published in Molly by Blake Butler.

#words #molly brodak #blake butler

What a strange hotel house this is

#the hotel podcast #the lobby boy #blake butler #ever

Las cosas que perdimos en el fuego (The things we lost in the fire) (Mariana Enríquez) Short story in which, to protest a viral form of domestic violence, a group of women set themselves on fire."

Scorch Atlas (Blake Butler) "Scorch Atlas is a short story anthology concerning a number of grisly happenings in a world where mold and bugs crawl out of everything, children are parasites, houses spontaneously catch fire, and the sky rains glass, gravel, blood, manure, teeth, ink, glitter, TV static, and light. But the most Desolation-y part of the book is the central gimmick— this book is meant to be destroyed. Being printed by Featherproof Books necessitates an unconventional design, and Scorch Atlas delivers in pre-blackened pages already marked by the rains of the world. People could order pre-destroyed copies, and there was a contest on who could best destroy their book— axe it, douse it in alcohol, light it on fire, play cricket, drop it in the bathtub, whatever— and the prize, awarded to only one person, is simply another fresh copy. Link to video essay discussing this book and other ergodic literarure."

Desolation Leitner Bracket Round 1 Bout 3

Las cosas que perdimos en el fuego (Mariana Enríquez)

Scorch Atlas (Blake Butler)

Voting ended onMar 12, 2024

#desolation poll #the desolation #poll #the magnus archives #leitner tournament #Las cosas que perdimos en el fuego #The things we lost in the fire #Mariana Enríquez #scorch atlas #blake butler

Being read to hurts. It is supposed to.

#Grindland #blake butler

35, honestly with 16 chapters for your Satf A.U. You deserve the chance to ramble(if you want to) and I, for one, would be glad to listen.

Haha, nice!

So, I'm not sure if people know about this but most of my fics start out on pure whim as a dumb thing I wanted to write because "wow, that would be cool!". You know, like a little kid. Seriously, you can take any of my fics and basically dumb it down into less than 10 words, starting with 'What if'.

What if Sasha and Anne switched places?

What if Miko was a Glitch?

What if Adora was raised by Hordak?

What if Luz was Belos's daughter?

There are also other ideas I never did or wanted to do but just decided not to. It happens and I have a document full of small summaries like this.

Sasha and the Frogs began its lifetime at the end of S1 on a whim. I never expected the fic to blow up the way it did and honestly, there have been times I felt like I just wanted to stop it there. I just imagined Sasha and Anne fighting like the S1 finale but switching sides. That's it. There's not really much planning out on that.

There's also my Glitch!Miko fic which I was super proud of. This is the one I put so much work into just because I love the premise. Meico (the OC) came on a whim like every other idea but it made perfect sense in context. Unlike SatF, GM had a lot of holes that I made and later had to fill. I accidentally made it far too complicated for my own liking, but I couldn't back down.

Like, here's a list: Shadowy organisation? What does it do? Why does it oppose Hinobi? Why did it create Miko and Meico? What about backstory? Economy? Characters? Etc? So much stuff that I've yet to answer, all by creating an enemy group. Thankfully, I do have a few answers and slowly but surely, I'm trying to implement them.

Here's a thing; I'm actually afraid of my own writing sometimes. Not because it's great (as if I have that kind of pride), but because of plot holes. If I write a dumb fact, I have to commit to it. I can't just ignore it or else someone will notice it and know that I also notice it. That's like, a bad move.

So GM has a lot of planning which is why even though it's shorter than SatF, it takes up way more work. Like, I just finished the dialogue for the next chapter and my first thought was "Yes, I finally solved that one problem by creating a completely different one!". Oh, the pain :v

But in the end, I'm usually proud of my work. Meico, which I started on a whim then planned on being a recurring antagonist only to shift gears and is now planned on being a slowly recovering protagonist OC, is oddly enough my favourite character. She has anger issues and zero parental guidance but deep down, she's just a young girl who was deeply hurt by the people she cared about, including Miko. Over time, she'll care for her and open up. That sisterly bond stuff :)

Finally, there's my greatest failure — a RWBY fic I started 6 years ago and only made like 2-3 chapters. I was young and stupid and it was technically the second fic I ever wrote but the first fic I actually care about. The idea was simple; what if Blake was adopted by the Schnees?

Keep in mind that when I wrote this, it was before any other Schnee appeared; before Monty passed away. There was a lot of hope and stuff in it but the workload crushed my motivation. School is hard and fanfiction is a lot of work. But like I said, it was one of my greatest failures.

Blake would've been part of the protest against the SDC's treatment of the Faunus alongside Adam. But then she'd get separated from him and got herself hurt, losing her memories. Due to Weiss's sympathy, Blake was "adopted" into the Schnee family but trained as a combat butler. Over time, the Schnee would employ more Faunus to work in thee family estate and slowly turn warm. Blake, without her memories, is completely indebted to Weiss for saving her life and Weiss, who sees Blake as a friend, grows up as a friendly and somewhat normal young woman. The two would have the best friend relationship despite the obvious power distance.

When Weiss goes to Beacon, Blake is tasked to follow her and report back to the SDC. She has a cold relationship with Yang due to her protectiveness and trust issues and would occasionally sneak out to do missions given by the company. At this point, the SDC has a SpecOps task force called the "Black Cats" who are made entirely of Faunus. The White Fang despises this group and calls them traitors for working for the SDC. On one particular mission, Blake would meet Adam and they have a fight (which she loses).

Now, these were the details I planned for back then in 2015. Even though I dropped the story, I never actually forgot about it. While watching RWBY, I'd unconsciously add more details like Blake meeting her parents and not recognizing them, or Blake denouncing herself from the SDC to help Weiss. Also, Weiss's dad had a different personality as well, being more of a businessman who doesn't understand his children and woes but still cares for them in his cold-hearted way. The story would've end with Weiss and her father no longer estranged.

So yeah, there was depth and love and other mushy stuff. But I decided to focus on schoolwork and over time, I cared less about RWBY fanfics as a whole.

It's a shame. A real shame.

Btw, I don't write shipping fics. Romance has never been my thing. My story might have shipping but they are never about shipping :O

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Out of the Unknown: Some Lapse of Time (1.10, BBC, 1965)

"He may have just understood us!"

"So it seems."

"Well, that's fantastic!"

"Not really. What is fantastic is the language he's speaking."

"Well, what is it?"

"It just doesn't make sense. I'll have to consult another opinion."

"Oh, now look, this man is ill. If you know how to make contact with him, it's of the utmost importance! We have to know the answers to certain things before we can treat him properly. Whether it makes sense to you or not doesn't matter, but we've got to know."

"Alright. He's speaking English."

#Out of the Unknown #Some Lapse of Time #Single play #john brunner #BBC #1965 #Leon Griffiths #Roger Jenkins #Ronald Lewis #John Gabriel #Jane Downs #Richard Gale #Delena Kidd #Moultrie Kelsall #George Woodbridge #Peter Bowles #Blake Butler #And so we continue‚ having hit the first pocket of missing episodes (eps 8 and 9 of this first series). That makes series 1 by far the best #Represented in the archives (just two of 12 missing; so 10 of the 20 surviving episodes are from the first series!). And what do we return #To? Somethjng... Very different. This one... Got to me. There's something deeply disturbing at the heart of this play‚ something rather #Difficult to express. For the first time this series seems to really be going for the sci fi horror hybrid‚ not just in sfx or gloop but in #Tone and theme and execution. The horror element is twofold; a whiff of the supernatural in with all the sciency wiency (bones as some kind #Of totem of the past world; or future‚ as it may be...). The other horror element is probably the more disturbing and that's because it's #The more real: the horrible implications of nuclear disaster. Whether that disaster is accidental or precipitated isn't clear nor is it #Important; the results are the same. There's this deep‚ disturbing‚ slightly paranoid sense of hopelessness and helplessness to the action #Here. The idea that no matter where in time you are (before or after) the event is coming or has been but it will always BE. This was after #All the era of the Aldermaston marches and the CND; of near misses and heightened tensions between East and West. It's something of a #Masterstroke‚ actually‚ to mostly ignore the politics of the issue: it keeps the sense of this episode very much centred on the human #Aspect‚ the mutual loss and universal suffering. Phew. Quite a lot to take in and deeply unsettling. Just as it should be. Oh and Ron Lewis #Stars! That was quite a get for this series; he was still a legit film star at this point (perhaps not A list but a B movie legend)

“The Hearing Trumpet,” first published in 1974, follows a 92-year-old protagonist far past reality’s dull edge.

blake butler, nyt, january 6, 2021

#the hearing trumpet (book)#leonora carrington #blake butler