#shawarma-palace

[st-werewolf]

shawarma-palace replied to your post: If someone wants to change something about their...

How dare they. >:|

i can copy paste the entire thing in skype cause friend lmao oooh friend. PEOPLE HAVE OPINIONS.

[kathrynabbott]

I’m returning to a project I haven’t touched in a while because of the massive rewrites I need to do, and like... I have no idea what I was doing. I’m looking at my worldbuilding notes, and I can’t figure out how I had this arranged. None of this makes sense. Who am I? Why did I do this? Who is Gerhold and why is he near the top of my list of characters? Why does my worldbuilding file list the culture’s demographics, cuisine, language, history, and religion in three different places? Help me.

[livenudebigfoot]

shawarma-palace replied to your chat: “email from Amazon.com: 2016 top 100 toys! me: [click] me: me: ...oh....”:

I THOUGHT FOR DOGS.

that’s because you’re less ruined than me

[beautifullights1]

shawarma-palace replied to your post:animalasaysrauer replied to your post: yup it’s a...

THE WORLD NEEDS ALL OF THE EXPLICIT GLASSBLOWING. :D :D :D :D

THANK YOU BB!!!

[starwarswritingalliance]

How about a 'Tropes' month or weekend? Where we do things like classic tropes... Fake Married, Sex Pollen, Aliens Made Them Do It, that sort of thing?

That sounds awesome! I’d probably do a weekend of it (a different style of Sunday Write-in perhaps, or maybe a Saturday thing) as opposed to making it a monthly theme. But I’ll definitely keep this idea in mind, thanks!

[st-werewolf]

❄️✨™ also adding an additional one: ♠ you're my gross furry buddy (I know it's a spade pretend it's a buttplug)

❄️:I cherish you

✨:You've taught me things

™:You're a cinnamon roll

LMAO that last one is very accurate and we are the grossest furry buddies. Where da pack at? Oh wait, DA PACK RIGHT HERE. 

BUT ALSO u precious potato friend smooches <3

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From Here!

[livenudebigfoot]

shawarma-palace replied to your post “Save me from middle aged people who keep calling things that aren’t...”

I'll do that if you save me from my senior grandmother who keeps telling me to 'make money with my blog'

oh no gran that is not how you tumbl

christ if i could monetize this nonsense

[deputychairman]

How about #4 for the meme: Name three influential authors for you. :)

I enjoy mocking his ostentatious masculinity as much as the next right-thinking woman, but honestly, Ernest Hemingway did know how to write the most evocative prose without a single superfluous word. It’s clearly very hard to imitate but it’s still a reference for me in not laying everything out there, leaving some gaps for readers to feel what they’re gonna feel. Or something.

Raymond Chandler, also much imitated and possibly misrepresented! He isn’t really a big repressed macho, Marlowe is actually an ideal model for a fanfic writer because he’s so *moral*! He gets involved in all this stuff because it’s the right thing to do, he likes people and he doesn’t have sex with troubled femmes fatales who fling themselves at him, and he doesn’t walk away just for an easy life. And he also never talks about his feelings but allows them to be deduced from his actions, which is my favourite thing in all the world for fictional characters to do. How about this from the end of The Long Goodbye:

“He turned and walked across the floor and out. I watched the door close. I listened to his steps going away down the imitation marble corridor. After a while they got faint, then they got silent. I kept on listening anyway.” YOU TOTALLY LOVE HIM, MARLOWE!

And ummmmmm maybe a writer I don’t actually like at all who was very popular in the late 90s, Louis de Bernieres of Captain Corelli’s Mandolin fame. That book and all the others I read because everyone else was reading them before I realised I hated them, they dish out terrible terrible suffering, and then they just - stop? Lights on, show’s over, everyone go home. IRL suffering is often pointless and cruel and without any redeeming enlightenment attached to it, it’s just suffering and that’s the end, but if I wanted that I’ve got the newspaper, thanks. If you’re going to invent fictional suffering, damn well give it a moral or payoff or catharsis or SOMETHING! So I want to make sure i never do that as a writer of fanfic. The ending matters, especially if you’ve made people suffer.