word of the day: verisimilitude

get out my way when u see me, im writing the lgbt // any pronouns

[vintagetiffanielocket]

a standalone lgbtq+ romantic fantasy, The Last Black Dragon is a wandering, suspenseful tale of grief, love and choice.

out 30th of July, 2025, pre-order available on smashwords now!

The Last Black Dragon

A standalone LGBTQ+ romantic fantasy, The Last Black Dragon is a wandering, suspenseful tale of grief, love and choice. Following the story

[nocturneandbone]

double exposure of the full moon on 35mm film

[vintagetiffanielocket]

[thelonguepuree]

“I have always thought that as an editor for twenty years I understood writers better than their most careful critics, because in examining the manuscript in each of its subsequent stages I knew the author’s process, how his or her mind worked, what was effortless, what took time, where the ‘solution’ to a problem came from. The end result—the book—was all that the critic had to go on. Still, for me, that was the least important aspect of the work. Because, no matter how ‘fictional’ the account of these writers, or how much it was a product of invention, the act of imagination is bound up with memory. You know, they straightened out the Mississippi River in places, to make room for houses and livable acreage. Occasionally the river floods these places. 'Floods’ is the word they use, but in fact it is not flooding; it is remembering. Remembering where it used to be. All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was. Writers are like that: remembering where we were, what valley we ran through, what the banks were like, the light that was there and the route back to our original place. It is emotional memory—what the nerves and the skin remember as well as how it appeared. And a rush of imagination is our 'flooding.’”

— Toni Morrison, “The Site of Memory,” from Inventing the Truth: The Art and Craft of Memoir, edited by William Zinsser, 1995

[didanagy]

THE LAST UNICORN (1982)

dir. arthur rankin jr. and jules bass

[movie-gifs]

THE LAST UNICORN 1982, dir. Arthur Rankin Jr. and Jules Bass

[vintagetiffanielocket]

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"Alright." Caysa sat up on his elbow, looking down with a secretive smile. "It's like this: we have always known each other. When all others were confused or estranged to us, we could always find ourselves in each other. A complement and a contrast. I do not think there is any life where you and I do not know each other wholly and definitively."

○ The Last Black Dragon, ch.33, How Easily Beasts Are Tamed

《art by @/yulkradness on vgen》

[vintagetiffanielocket]

Sending my book off to editing hell, o lord

[escuerzoresucitado]

[expressions-of-nature]

Lotus Dawn by Fedor Lashkov

[detailedart]

Detail: Matlock Tor by Moonlight, 1777-80, by Joseph Wright of Derby.

[fouryearsofshades]

hanyuansu banxiu by 淮边筱竹汉服文化工作室 

[newhanfu]

Various Song Dynasty Hanfu Styles

[sinoheritage]

Luohan Temple 罗汉寺 is a Buddhist temple located in Chongqing city, China. It is the site of the Buddhist Association of Chongqing.

This temple was built by a prominent monk Zuyue 祖月 in the Zhiping period (1064–1067) of the Song Dynasty (960–1276). At that time it was called "Zhiping Temple".

The temple was renovated and expanded in the following Ming and Qing dynasties, and also during the ROC and PRC eras.

[sinoheritage]

Mogao Caves, Dunhuang, Gansu province, China.

A system of 500 temples in Dunhuang, an oasis located at the crossroads on the Silk Road. The caves contain some of the finest examples of Buddhist art spanning a period of 1,000 years.

The first caves were dug out in 366 CE as places of Buddhist meditation and worship, later the caves became a place of pilgrimage, and caves continued to be built at the site until the 14th century. The Mogao Caves are the best known of the Chinese Buddhist grottoes.

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[clawmarks]

Temple of Flora, or, Garden of the botanist, poet, painter, and philosopher - Robert John Thornton - 1812 - via Internet Archive