Aug 2, 2025
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This mirror is giving me strong Beauty and the Beast vibes
I don’t think the “Mutuals” tag Tumblr added next to usernames in the notification board is a good idea at the end of the day. Before, when a moot decided to unfollow you for whatever reason, you were none the wiser and just went on your merry way. Now, the “Mutuals” will switch to “Following” so you end up knowing. Not blaming the person who unfollows, it’s 1000% their right, but I don’t think we need to be made aware of when a moot isn’t a moot anymore because in some cases, even if you respect their choice, it hurts a bit.
The most compelling and elaborately constructed fantasy world must be that of J. R. R. Tolkien, who had been brooding over the landscape, people, history, and legends of Middle-Earth, and formulating its language, for over 20 years before he wrote The Hobbit (1937), to which The Lord of the Rings, taking nearly 20 more years to complete, was started as a sequel. (It is perhaps not surprising that he disliked his friend C. S. Lewis’s very different Narnia fantasies (1950–6), written at great speed, using—not a coherent mythology, but any elements that caught the author’s fancy.)
- The Oxford Companion to Fairy Tales
While not a Tolkien fan myself (sorry to his fans), the fact that he took over 20 years to world-build (and probably research) before writing The Hobbit makes me feel less bad for researching folktales and myths like a crazy person for my fic instead of “just writing”.
Why would someone block you on here but still somewhat interact with you on another platform? 🤔
Make it make sense…
Did I find 400+ books on the Victorian era? Yup. Am I now currently looking for books about Wales? Yup. Am I doing all this because of the fic I am planning to eventually write on HPHL? Yup.
When you’ve had such a day that when you finally have free time, you just want to stare into the void. You don’t feel like creating anything. You don’t feel like researching anything. You don’t feel like reading or listening to music. Your mind is just too blank for any of it…
I’ve been eyeing Scrivener for years now, but never really took the jump to buy it as I wasn’t entirely sure how I would use it. But after doing some more research about it, I decided I would buy it after finishing reading The Writer’s Journey as I feel it could be a useful tool in my arsenal after reading that book. Considering how close I am to finishing the book in question…
I’ll probably be getting Scrivener next week.
Ever think that you should leave something because you realize it’s not the best thing for your mental health but you don’t because of good ol’ FOMO?