[trash-in-training]

For anyone who hasn’t read The Charioteer by Mary Renault, please go and do that. If you don’t feel like sitting down and reading, the audiobook on audible is also fantastic. Like please, please just go read it.

[sidesaddle-queen]

'There had not been time to discover, till now, the sensation of coming home again, which is one of the more stable by-products of physical love. One can see sometimes in a crowded railway carriage at night two lovers, lethargic, travel-grimed and bored, weary beyond the dimmest stirrings of desire, but by instinct comfortably adapting their bodies to cushion and support each other, making a little refuge from the crush while the strangers or even friends around them rub elbows and knees, stiff with apologetic constraint and inward resentment.'

The Charioteer, Mary Renault

[sidesaddle-queen]

'There had not been time to discover, till now, the sensation of coming home again, which is one of the more stable by-products of physical love. One can see sometimes in a crowded railway carriage at night two lovers, lethargic, travel-grimed and bored, weary beyond the dimmest stirrings of desire, but by instinct comfortably adapting their bodies to cushion and support each other, making a little refuge from the crush while the strangers or even friends around them rub elbows and knees, stiff with apologetic constraint and inward resentment.'

The Charioteer, Mary Renault

[starryeyeddarlings]

writing these are addictive

[fromdusttoashes]

Relax bro ain't nobody taking her from u

[remnantglow]

looked a cool artist i found and instead of her actual art the first result google showed me was AI art made with her work. i hate it here!!!!!!!

[remnantglow]

well anyway. my discovery of the day is the art of Jeffrey Catherine Jones! she was a trans woman who painted a huge amount of fantasy & scifi cover art for books and magazines, among other things :)

[trash-in-training]

Bsd is so ass rn I’m not even kidding

[be-it-so]

Helen who doesn't know if she left willingly or not.

Helen who can clearly remember and explain why she decided to leave, who can recall every single emotion she felt and every step of her thought process leading to her leaving.

Helen who looking back feels like she never should have felt attracted to Paris this strongly feels like she never felt anything this intense ever in her life except for her later hatred for him as well.

Helen who knows she was unhappy with her life, like it was lacking something crucial she was hoping to find with Paris.

Helen who knows how much she loves her husband and home and knows whatever else she felt should not have been stronger then this love.

Helen who really genuinely cannot understand if this decision was hers. Helen who after thinking about this for seventeen years takes the blame fully on herself nonetheless because she is sick of not having any agency and cannot bare the thought that the decision that doomed her life wasn't hers to make. Who takes the full responsibility of the war because that makes her feel like at least she was in control.

Because the idea of not having this control feels worse.

[gingerpines]

and it’s the amazing!.. uh… digital…. hr violation????

[treskolii]

Come on founder/king of Athens, aren’t u gonna slay the Bull of Minos or not?

[raimagnolia]

Huh...

Huh...

[hammerheadshart]

the side angle is important

[raimagnolia]

I know y'all are probably sick of this post but... It really is the gift that keeps on givin this Christmas

[captain-snark]

#I mean from the side you can even realize that the guy's not wearing any bottoms at all..

the minotaur, however, is wearing one hell of a bottom

[anxeious]

[threeture]

[kungfunurse]

Also his deeply underrated ability to clap back

[captainclickycat]

Reminds me of that story about the teacher or lecturer or whatever who told their class "hey, the ceiling has 'gullible' written on it" and anyone who looked up discovered that yep, the word "gullible" really had been written on a piece of card and taped to the ceiling. And after letting that sink in for a while the teacher said something like "those of you who looked up have just demonstrated one of the most important tenets of research: check the source."

[omo321]

n... no, I ain't scared... say what...

[chiviscorpse]

Some sskk doodles

[trash-in-training]

Am I making you feel sick?

[trash-in-training]

A sketch I ended up colouring. It’s pretty rough but I like it.

(ft. freaky Yoshikaru)

[thewritingumbrellas]

Writing advice from my uni teachers:

If your dialog feels flat, rewrite the scene pretending the characters cannot at any cost say exactly what they mean. No one says “I’m mad” but they can say it in 100 other ways.

Wrote a chapter but you dislike it? Rewrite it again from memory. That way you’re only remembering the main parts and can fill in extra details. My teacher who was a playwright literally writes every single script twice because of this.

Don’t overuse metaphors, or they lose their potency. Limit yourself.

Before you write your novel, write a page of anything from your characters POV so you can get their voice right. Do this for every main character introduced.

[writerlyn]

This is legit good writing advice, especially the first bullet point! In playwriting class we did a bit where every bit of dialogue had to be an accusatory question and it was glorious.

[trash-in-training]

If this is actually the summer where Hikaru dies I am rioting