#onceevilregal

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Your relationship with Peanut reminds me of the gay idiot scientists from Pacific Rim

ok given that I'm the one always complaining about how gross and overly exuberant she is I feel like this makes me Hermann and I'm not ok with that

I am also not ok with my relationship with your dog being compared to one of my otps man I am not into that ):

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onceevilregal replied to your post “I did not just watch Iron Man 2 purely to take notes for an AU I’m...”

Just imagine what you could have accomplished without Peanut around

great now I'm thinking about how much more I could have written if I hadn't had to keep pushing Peanut away with my notebook and I'm crying a little inside

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I have a REALLY hard time with geography and directions and distances, even in places I know really well. I'm working on a fantasy novel, and I know world-building is a huge part of fantasy, but how much does setting really NEED to be developed? No matter how many guides I read I just CANNOT create a map because I have zero sense of distance/direction/scale/ANYTHING RELATING TO GEOGRAPHY, but I can't just ignore it in my novel. Any advice?

Setting and world building do need to be developed, but neither of those are necessarily talking about geography. Culture, descriptions of a place and climate, the people (i.e. a non-human race) - these are integral to world building. Unless it's something really integral to the plot like the hero undertaking a physical journey, I would say hammering out all the geography nooks and crannies could be something that's easily left until your second draft. And in the end, maps may have been a main feature in High Fantasy settings, but nobody has made it an explicit rule that you have to have make one. For now, I would work on the story and if you find it necessary, either find an editor/beta writer/someone who has a better idea of these things to help you afterwards. And when that point comes, we have a few links to help:

World Building Considerations

Fantasy World Generator

Visualizing a Space

World Building: Map Generators, Software and Tutorials

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onceevilregal said: Omg. Perfect gifs are perfect. Too bad they’re not hugging, they seriously need to be bffs.

Ugh IKR? And don't be putting more ideas in my head, okay? Fearless Queen is taking over my damn life.

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onceevilregal said: Ugh, SVU writers are the worst. My bb :( And yeah, I’m def a mind reader. Been having a really hard time lately, just haven’t really kept in touch with people much.

They're the absolute worst but also the best. Ugh. I wish I could hug my bb Liv :(

I think you missed this and I know you'll like it :P

That's alright, I'm glad it's that and not... you know, being mad at me or something. I hope things look up for you bb :)

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OMG I JUST WATCHED THE PROMO FOR TONIGHT'S SVU AND FUCKFUCKFUCKFUCKFUCK I CAN'T WATCH IT UNTIL TOMORROW HAAAAAAALLLLLPPP I AM FREAKING OUT!!!!! -onceevilregal

I haven’t even watched last week’s episode yet… Is tonight the pregnancy thing? Oh dayum…

And why are you on anon? I haven’t heard from you in a million years

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onceevilregal said: I think you’re good until New Year’s

maryfrakkingmcdonnell said:You can keep it as long as you like!!

Yeah I guess I'll keep it a bit longer... I should probably make a new one for the new year anyways... thanks bbs :)

[singinprincess]

Hmm...well I guess we'd go for gelato and cry over Olivia Benson. Oh wait, we actually get to do that!

*SQUEE* I can't wait until we finally do! It's gonna be EPIC!!!