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nintendowii2011

petr1kov

keeping up with the american elections while not being american like

bigandlong

If you see this on your dashboard, reblog this, NO MATTER WHAT and all your dreams and wishes will come true.

wufflesvetinari

from last year’s workshop: Cool Writing Hacks that ripped my heart out but made my work better anyway.

-not every line of dialog needs an action attached to it. somebody doesn’t need to shrug or scratch their arm or glance at other people every two seconds of a conversation unless the motion means something. you’re not writing stage directions and you can trim this stuff down to make your dialog snappier. (this one in particular felt like a callout of me specifically, goddammit)

-if you want the audience to remember something–especially something that will be important in a climactic moment–you have to show/tell them at least twice beforehand. preferably three times. otherwise they will not remember! they simply will not!!

-the room layout isn’t usually all that important BUT if there’s going to be a fight scene you BETTER fucking figure out a way to convey that entire layout early in the scene or no one will know what the fuck is going on

-on that note, get somebody to read your fight scenes even if you are ABSOLUTELY SURE they make sense on the page. on the first pass they probably don’t. (unless you have a gift i would kill for. some do!)

-eyes cannot talk. eyes can’t talk! it’s easy to say that someone has “rage in their eyes” or “their eyes were telling me to run” but that’s all shorthand for other body language we notice subconsciously! try digging in and describing that body language instead. you will likely get something richer that way

wufflesvetinari

oh i forgot all the stuff about immediacy!!

say you’re in Natasha’s POV. you can either say:

“Natasha sat on her porch with a glass of lemonade, watching the movers unload. She saw one of them stumble with what looked like a pained wince. She noticed that the other men kept their distance.”

OR:

“Natasha sat on her porch with a glass of lemonade, watching the movers unload. One of them stumbled with a pained wince. The other men kept their distance.”

we are already in Natasha’s POV, and we established in the first sentence that she was watching the movers. so we don’t need constant reminders that we’re behind Natasha’s eyes–we can just see what she sees! this puts us closer “behind her eyes,” so to speak, and lessens the distance between the reader and the scene.

#writing #ffr #useful

So much has happened again. We moved to Finland on a whim two months ago. Planned and executed the whole thing in 6 weeks. I’m pregnant and due in May. My other two are 3 and 1.5. They are happy and we’re all adjusting to our new life here pretty well.

I’m still NC with my mum. It’s been one year and one month. It’s been hard - but so so freeing. She has harassed and hounded me for a year. She even started a smear-campaign this summer, and deployed all her minions to convince me to get in touch with her. She has threatened to take her own life if I don’t call her. And I’m standing strong and won’t budge. It feels good to hold my boundaries. I’m alllllll about the boundaries these days.

My husband is sober and we are all much happier. Although life with two kids and a third on the way can be quite full-on. But overall, my heart feels happy. I feel at peace.

#personal

geschiedenis-en-talen

all queer history on here is just US-American or maybe sometimes some UK history as well and it makes me sad that there’s so little information about other countries’ queer history on here :(

every-book-has-a-secret

@makingqueerhistory has some diversity, as of historical queer people, and they’re doing a great job, but there’s a lot of work ahead.

makingqueerhistory

OP is definitely right, there still is a huge gap in the discussions of queer history, and thank you for recommending us!

This isn’t perfect, and many of these only have one article, but here is our list of countries we have written about. We are hoping to one day have at least one article for every country in the world but as @every-book-has-a-secret there is a lot of work still to do.

Europe

Albania Austria Belgium Czechia Czech Republic Denmark England Finland France Germany Greece Hungary Ireland Italy Netherlands Norway Poland Portugal Romania Russia Scotland Slovakia Slovenia Spain Sweden Switzerland

Africa

Algeria Cameroon Egypt Kenya Morocco Nigeria Senegal Sierra Leone South Africa Uganda

North America

Canada Costa Rica Crow Nation Cuba Grenada Jamaica Menominee Nation Mexico Puerto Rico United States of America

South America

Argentina Brazil Chile Colombia Guyana Peru Trinidad and Tobago Uruguay

Asia

Afghanistan Bangladesh China Hong Kong India Iran Israel Japan Pakistan The Philippines South Korea Sri Lanka Syria Turkey

Oceania

Australia Māori Nation New Zealand

Antarctica

theres-no-going-home-deactivate

!!! This is what I was looking for! thank you!

makingqueerhistory

Of course! Glad we could help!

kaar-ne

I’d like to add Tom Of Finland (Touko Valio Laaksonen), the one who drew those erotic pictures of muscular men clad in leather, to the Finnish list.

Some say that Tom Of Finland was the father for the leather gay movement.

acetarisborn

PERUVIAN QUEER HISTORY???? God, I love this site

pronouncingitwang

[ID: The Chris Fleming “was anybody going to tell me” meme. A person standing in front of a brick wall speaks, with the captions edited to read, “Okay, was anybody going to tell me that my country has queer history I would’ve adored to know before, or was I just supposed to learn it from a wholesome Tumblr post myself?”]

#ffr