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[cosmicenbyollie]

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[agooduniverse]

☁ i want in on that poetry thing meme if it's not too late

Praise the mutilated world and the gray feather a thrush lost, and the gentle light that strays and vanishesand returns.

- Adam Zagajewski

[sandovers]

3, 4, 5.

3. favorite POV (first/second/third/etc)

i like third, mostly.  i am a big fan of writing that doesn’t make itself known unless you’re looking for it (because i am not good enough yet to write as though the writing is the means and the end, a la jeanette winterson, though i hope one day to be), and third is the easiest for that - third in immediate past tense, you know, the standard default narrative voice in english, and i prefer it to be either completely objective (hemingway does this a lot) or subjective (like joyce’s “the dead”), rather than omniscient.  i don’t like, you see, being told everything.  i can like first person, when it is done very, very well, but the writer has to have an excellent grasp of voice for it to work (for this reason i sometimes find it fun to experiment in, as imitating voices is one of my favourite things to do, but i still prefer third).  i like, especially, first person narration by someone outside - like the book thief, or some classic detective novels.  second person infuriates me, and is almost always used to terrible effect.  calvino and duras are the only people i’ve seen manage to make it work, and the sad fact of the matter is most of us are not calvino or duras, nor ever will be.

this is all to say: i think third person is the best, and i am especially fond of free indirect discourse, particularly when it is subtle and tricksy and you have to stop and think about whose affect is being transmitted to you.  i can also, because, i am at the end of the day modernist trash, be fond of stream-of-consciousness, although i find it incredibly difficult to write.  and the honest, short answer to this question is that my very favourite style of narration to write and to read is in fact none of the above, but rather epistolary.

4. what are some themes you love writing about?

growing up; everyday magic; magic made from the meaning we imbue upon things; the weight of history; the importance of stories; learning how to love, love as action and work and striving; found families and fierce friendships; different kinds of love; communities & building & upholding them; academia; mysteries come to light; ghosts & hauntings; time; the exuberance and beauty of life; choices and how hard and scary they are and how badly we want them to be meaningful; the absurdity of the world (but in a fond, this-is-beautiful way); telling stories and how to do so and i am doing so - metafictionality, i love it.

5. what inspires you to write?

folklore/fairy tales/myth, history, stories that i love, a specific turn of phrase, the conjunction of different and seemingly separate ideas, the need to figure out how to say something, the need to figure out how i feel about something, the need, quite frankly, to write.  the words pour out, and sometimes they add up in to something  and sometimes they don’t, but they’re still there under the skin and i itch when i don’t let them out.

[zombeesknees]

hi angie, how are you doing on this fine (or not fine?) sunday

i am doing pretty okay, sweetums. i managed to sleep (barring a couple of wake-ups due to kitty-pwroar stuff) until 8 AM, which is practically NOON for me these days. i wrote over 5k of my sorry, we’re dead sequel AND read a really fun supernatural roaring 20s-set romance novel in one sitting yesterday. and now i’m gonna go get a lemon meringue pie (all for MEEEEE) and watched the jurassic park movies with some pals before heading to the theatre for jurassic world.

(do i know how to enjoy a holiday i refuse to celebrate or WHAT?)

and how are youuuu?

[buckying]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY AMY, I HOPE ALL YOUR DREAMS COME TRUE AND IF THEY DON'T, I HOPE THAT SOMETHING REALLY GOOD HAPPENS TO YOU BC YOU DESERVE ONLY THE BEST!!!

Thank you so much, Susanna! You are the sweetest!!!!!! THANK YOU! 

[eurydicesflowers]

here you go: Songbird

the seer’s tower - sufjan stevens

a man starts to have dreams predicting the end of the world. fearing for the lives of his wife and his children, he builds a high tower upon a high hill for them to live in, convinced that it will be the safest place to be when the apocalypse comes. day and night he sits at the window at the top of the tower, watching and waiting for the end. eventually his wife loses faith in him and leaves. the children stay, grow up into adults, and nurse their father as he grows ill and feeble. as he lies on his deathbed, mumbling his final prophecies, his youngest daughter looks out of the window and sees the fires in the far distance. for the first time in her life she turns away from her father and takes the stairs down to the entrance of the tower. 

[eurydicesflowers]

once you get this, you have to say five things you like about yourself, publicly, then send this to 10 of your favourite followers (non-negotiable) (positivity is cool) :)

thank you <3

 when my hair is wet i do not look unlike a mermaid (if you ignore the legs)

i’m very loyal to the people i care about

i have the uncanny ability to spot bookshops from a mile away

i don’t let my insecurities stop me from dressing dramatically when i feel like it

even though i have a lot of issues that prevent me from doing everything i want to do, i’m often still able to enjoy the small things in life

[polytropic-liar]

TAG 11 PEOPLE YOU WANT TO GET TO KNOW BETTER

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name: polytropic time: 2:30 am average hours of sleep per night: lol anywhere from 3 to 13 my sleep is fucked last thing i googled: “passover 2015″ because I forgot once again when it started, judaism is hard guys nickname: none really? birthday: nope sorry gender: transmasculine height: 5′8″ish favourite colour: green one place that makes me happy: my grandmother’s house favourite film: I started listing but it got really long, so in summary, 4 distinct genres: scifi/superheros, girls’ sports, animated fantasy about ~friendship~, and horror. what i’m wearing right now: pajamas last book you read: Parable of the Talents, Octavia Butler most used phrase: “Definitely!” (I get anxious and then compulsively agree with people) first word that comes to mind: dangle (THANKS, Brooklyn Nine-Nine) favourite beverage: water, I am boring favourite food: oh man I don’t know...pizza? Strawberry pie? Mochi? Egg sandwiches? Pasta casserole with those mushrooms chunks and green peas and...I just really love food okay. last film i saw in theaters: Big Hero Six, I think? dream vacation: sleep. friends. sleep. food. sleep. dream wedding: haha no dream pet: I want a massive snake it’s probably freudian or some shit I will wear it draped on my shoulders and pet it and it will kiss my face <3 dream job: I don’t even KNOW anymore, like screw capitalism okay my 20s have just been this horrible slog of trying to find something I’m not terrible at and don’t hate doing and that isn’t massively, obviously terrible and ruining the world by existing and that won’t instantly overload me with way too fucking much the minute I prove vaguely competent, jobs are the WORST there are no dream jobs only dream AUs where the world sucks less, I’m not even upset about it any more I’m just awestruck by the sheer magnitude of how much adult life is a lie *breathes* what no I’m cool it’s cool we’re fine here

tagging: anyone who wants to