Twix and Turns

Loving the beautiful things in life. A sucker for sweaters. Language nerd.

[ggkorean]

안에 아무도 없나 봐 it looks like no one’s home (lit. inside) • 안에 inside (안 in, -에 location marking particle) • 아무도 no one, nobody • 없다 to not be, to not have • -나 보다 it seems like, I guess, I assume

[roboco-san]

man I miss being 14 when I was willing and able to write whatever stupid indulgent bullshit I wanted and feel like I was absolutely killing it

[glitterandbokeh-deactivated2023]

garden humor...

[heikala]

[stamp-it-to-me]

two 2019 Japanese stamps from a spring greetings series

[id: two square postage stamps, both with stylized illustrations of flowers. the left depicts some dandelions in various stages of growth. there is a little ladybug perched on one of the dandelions. the right depicts white clover flowers woven into a wreath as well as individual three-leaf clovers. end id]

[but-the-library-of-alexandria]

the thing about writing fantasy stories is that language is so based on history that it can be hard to decide how far suspension of disbelief can carry you word-choice wise - what do you call a french braid in a world with no france? can a queen ann neckline be described if there was no queen ann? where do you draw the line? can you use the word platonic if plato never existed? can you name a character chris in a land without christianity? can you even say ‘bungalow’ in a world where there was no indian language for the word to originate from? is there a single word in any language that doesn’t have a story behind it? to be accurate a fantasy story would be written in a fantasy language but who has the time for that

[a-kite-dancing-in-a-hurricane]

Tolkien had the time apparently

[misbehavingmaiar]

LIsten. Linguistics Georg, who invented over 10,000 conlangs each day, is an outlier and should not have been counted. 

[leunfer]

🌱🍄🌱 shrooms girls! 🌱🍄🌱

these were stickers packs i had a lot of fun doing, sadly they are sold out now but i’d love to make new ones some day…!

[leunfer]

✨🍄 SHROOMS GIRLS ARE BACK IN STOCK!🍄✨

as i previously announced and due to people asking about them, shroom girls are back up in my store! adopt your shroom girl here:

🌼🌻🌺 https://leunfer.bigcartel.com/ 🌼🌻🌺

thank you again to everyone who showed interest or simply said nice things about them, it makes me so happy if you like them! 💗💗💗

[youshouldntsleephere-deactivate]

hi! hello! look at all these mushroom friends i found in the forest!! 💛💛

[twixandturns]

Attention World

I love SKYLINE by Kim Sejeong--and you should too 

[wightworm]

ask and ye shall receive

i have to put these in a text post because tumblr is so bad it destroys the sanctity of these smols when it throws them all together in an ugly grid

[veganlove]

[jspark3000]

Injustice requires our outrage and compassion. Outrage for the wound, compassion for the wounded. We do both.

J.S. Park (via jspark3000)

[jonswno]

a hard pill to swallow: if an audience can pick up on where the story is going, it’s a good story.

[bumblebeebats]

A kinda related note i hope you don’t mind me adding on: one of the most life-changing bits of story advice i ever received was actually in a class on “Revenge and Vengeance in the Ancient World,” if you can believe it. The professor was talking about how everyone in ancient Greece knew all the Greek myths back to front and told them over and over again - and someone asked why they would keep retelling the same stories if they already knew they ended.

She explained that basically it wasn’t the ending that was the most suspenseful or exciting part, but how you got there. This is why The Iliad spoils its own ending in the opening lines. This is why we have so many different retellings of Shakespeare, of Arthurian legends, of fairy tales. 

There are no truly original stories or truly unpredictable endings. So, IMO, it’s better to focus on how you as a writer/filmmaker/artist/whatever can bring something new to the body of the story rather than trying to shock and mislead your audience. 

[writingdotcoffee]

Ours is a trade of perseverance, not perfection.

David Safford (via writingdotcoffee)

[writingdotcoffee]

You don’t start out writing good stuff. You start out writing crap and thinking it’s good stuff, and then gradually you get better at it. That’s why I say one of the most valuable traits is persistence.

Octavia E. Butler (via yeahwrite)

[honeyfaun]

[bekquinox]

Why isnt there a clothing brand that caters towards my need to dress like a fantasy novel wanderer. Give me scuffed leather boots and a knapsack and tatty overcoat with mice in the oversized pockets and billowy shirt with poofy sleeves and trailing laces