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Love Begins
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May your Paths be safe, your Floors unbroken and may the House fill your eyes with Beauty.
I read Piranesi again...
I had to compress the hell out of this gif to upload. If you want to see a nicer, bigger version you can do so here on my AO3.
Ko-Fi | Carrd
For the last goddamn time...
"Kill your darlings" means "if something is holding you back, get rid of it, even if it sounds pretty."
That's it! That's all it means! It means if you're stuck and stalled out on your story and you could fix the whole block by removing something but you're avoiding removing that thing because it's good, you remove that thing. That's the darling.
It does NOT mean
That you have to get rid of your self-indulgent writing
That you should delete something just because you like it (?wtf?)
That you need to kill off characters (??? what)
That you have to pare your story down to the absolute bare bones
That you have to delete anything whatsoever if you don't want to
The POINT is that you STOP FEELING GUILTY for throwing out good writing that isn't SERVING THE STORY.
The POINT is that you don't get so HUNG UP on the details that you lose sight of the BIG PICTURE.
Good grief....
Also, you don't have to like, delete it from existence. Keep a second document full of the Darlings. You never know when you'll need it later.
yes, your killed darlings are ripe for rebirth
compost your darlings
recycle your darlings
Darlings who don't fit this narrative go into the use later folder
Walking Couple by Moonlight, 1654, by Gesina ter Borch, the Dutch watercolorist and draftswoman who produced mainly watercolour paintings capturing her observations of daily life.
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Sleepy doodle
[ID: digital doodle of Holmes and Watson spooning, having a snooze. Sherlock is the little spoon and Watson is holding onto him tightly. /end ID]
The Mortal Anniversary; or A ghost made them do it.
The Mortal Anniversary (5997 words) by mistyzeo Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle Rating: Explicit Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson, Mary Morstan/John Watson, Sherlock Holmes/Mary Morstan/John Watson Additional Tags: Established Relationship, Past Relationship(s), Past Character Death, Canonical Character Death, Ghosts, Exhibitionism, Voyeurism, Cuckolding, Oral Sex, Anal Sex, Floor Sex, Desk Sex, Community: holmestice Summary:
For the second year in a row, on the anniversary of her death, I saw my wife waiting for me. Holmes had been returned from his sojourn to Europe for nearly a year, alive and whole though worse for wear; I had sold my practice and moved back into Baker Street; and we had begun an affair. It had been since the start of the year, and now I felt the weight of that decision like a millstone as I tried to ignore my dead wifeâs presence. I didnât regret it. Not for a moment. But I hadnât expected to look her in the eye five minutes after Iâd kissed him goodbye. âI need to know youâre all right, John,â she said. âIâm all right,â I said, and it was even true. âI need to know youâre happy.â
An absolute pleasure to write this gift for @vulgarweed. Iâve been enjoying her 9+ part essay series on Holmes and the occult in the Watsonian so I wanted to create something spooky AND sexy. This went through a few iterations w/r/t the lore I started writing, but simple ended up being best. Whoâs the ultimate ghost client?
Mrs Watson herself.
I wonder if the Finale divide is based on age at all.
I've always appreciated that the fandom is old and so the fans come in all age categories.
Please let me know whether you
LIKED GO3 - under 19
LIKED GO3 - 20-39
LIKED GO3 - 40+
DISLIKED GO3 - under 19
DISLIKED GO3 - 20-39
DISLIKED GO3 - 40+
NEUTRAL GO3 - under 19
NEUTRAL GO3 - 20-39
NEUTRAL GO3 - 40+
I didn't watch it
Just nosy/results please
If you think this might be interesting, please share.
Now with added quick survey!
I'm curious how different parts of the fandom reacted to Good Omens Season 3. This survey is anonymous and just for fun. I'll post summaries
Please if you can spare 2min let me know your thoughts.
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EDIT 1
At 800 votes: (it basically didn't change much from about 200 votes onwards)
Liked: GO3 12.5% Disliked: GO3 59.1% Neutral: 14.1% Didn't watch: 10.7% Results only: 3.7% If I remove the neutral, didn't watch and results only: Liked: 17.5% vs Disliked: 82.5%
Liked 12.5% vs disliked 59.1% vs neutral 14.1%
Age composition of each opinion group:
(In other words: Within each group (liked/disliked/neutral), what percentage of respondents were Under 19, 20â39 or 40+?)
Under 19: 24% vs 9% vs 20% 20â39: 50% vs 59% vs 50% 40+: 26% vs 32% vs 30% This does NOT mean that 24% of under-19s liked GO3. It means that 24% of the people who liked GO3 were under 19.
Because this poll combines age and opinion in a single question, I don't know how many fans there are in each age group overall. Sorry it was my oversight and I didn't think of it until after I posted it.
The google survey will have more data though. If more people fill it, I will try to add some numbers here.
EDIT 2
1000 VOTES
Thanks @whitecat007! If I got this right then for those that picked: Like vs Neutral vs Dislike
Under 19: 28.7% vs 22.6% vs 48.7%
20â39: 12.3% vs 15.2% vs 72.4%
40+: 13.9% vs 15.4% vs 70.7%
S I N N E R S
"all trillionaires and millionaires" you guys do not understand what "ultra wealthy" means. you are talking about anyone in california who owns a house that is not actively falling down
some of you literally think all numbers with "illion" in them are a) the same and b) functionally infinite. playground ass understanding of mathematics
one million seconds ago, it was still June
one billion seconds ago, it was the 1990s
one trillion seconds ago, they had not yet domesticated dogs
best animal names: unnecessarily judgemental edition
I'm not really a HanLuke shipper but I can imagine them hooking up early in their friendship & then Han later after various revelations having a personal crisis over whether or not it's weird to have sex with both halves of a set of twins
& like he can't ask anyone if it's weird without admitting that he's already done it. he could talk to Luke about it bcos obviously Luke already knows but he's kind of avoiding the subject with Luke in case drawing attention to the fact that he's dating Luke's sister prompts a shovel talk. he's pretty sure Luke can kill people with his brain now and he doesn't want to have that particular shovel talk if he an avoid it.
If Han came to me with this kind of question, I would be very supportive and make sure he didn't uncomfortable about having to ask the question because most of all this is about his feelings.
However, I would also desperately need to know if Luke used the force on that thang, and Han also knows I would ask, which is why he never brings these problems to me.
He was as tall as he was tall, and his eyes were the color they were. To describe his hair one would say that he had some. His face had all the features you'd expect, and none of the ones you wouldn't. "There he is," people would often say of him, but only when he was there. And they were right.
Everyone passionately defending the em dash from being stolen completely by AI has also had the side effect of teaching me that Iâve been using it wrong. I was doing this - with a normal-sized dash and spaces between - rather than the larger dash with no spaces. So thatâs cool I guess
it's actually called em dash because it's meant to be the width of an M. There's also an n dash which is meant to be the width of an N.
normal dash is for in-between words, like in in-between!
n dash is usually for numbers, like when you're saying, "I did 4â7 things today."
m dash is for interjecting a sentence to add contextâextra information or thoughts and lists of thingsâwithout making said context seem less important than the rest of the sentence (which would be the case with brackets).
on mobile keyboards, you can usually hold down on the dash to make the other dashes appear
like so.
and while it's not incorrect to use em dashes with a space before and after the dash â this definitely done in published writing too! â it's less common than using it without those spaces, especially online.
They are informing him of something đ.
The Irregulars of old Baker Street
Make up London cityâs elite
You have to be tough
When youâre sleeping rough
And together the team canât be beat
-=<+>=-
Holmes often has need for surveillance
For them itâs just childâs play, since
To the despicable
Kids are invisible
(And itâs on the job training in patience)
-=<+>=-
Watson knows the boys are nomadic.
Lestrade thinks they're quite "problematic"
Holmes lays down the law â
âGood manners for all!â
(Mrs Hudson finds them too traumatic!)
-=<+>=-
Are all the Irregulars boys?
(They arenât - they just make the most noise!)
Sometimes the best
Is wearing a dress
And the best of the best Holmes employs
-=<+>=-
When the Rose Speaks its Name đč
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Gonna step outside my usual programming a bit because that light pollution take and a lot of the responses to it aggravated me so much.
No, wanting to see the night sky isn't a twee retvrn to ghibli-ass take. It's not a matter of some anprim impulse to dismantle industrial society for ~nature aesthetics~, it's an extremely visible symptom of environmental degradation that gets downplayed because the externality seems trivial to most people: "Oh no, the night sky, what ever will we do without it."
But it actively disrupts light-sensitive circadian rhythms in plants and wildlife, which disrupts foraging patterns, reproductive and hibernation cycles, and contributes to wildlife population declines. It's not the major contributor to those declines, but it's an additional point of stress in an ecosystem already stressed by climate change and other forms of industrial pollution. And so much of it is wholly unnecessary.
I don't think people realize how far-reaching the problem is, either. That light isn't just confined to the places people use. You don't escape it by just taking the bus to the edge of town. That light carries, in some cases for hundreds of kilometers. Death Valley has some of the darkest skies in the US, and yet, the dome of light above Las Vegas is visible on the horizon over 250 km away! Anywhere within 50 km of a major urban center, just about anywhere in the world, never gets darker than a night under a full moon.
And this is very much a recent problem too. Before the switchover to LEDs, it was relatively expensive to light places. That meant actually accounting for the energy use and making sure it was being used where it was needed. That light was also warm-colored, so it didn't travel as far. With the decreased cost of lighting, it became standard to light places like daytime whenever they might be needed. Lighting didn't get safer, it just got more thoughtless.
The reason you see astronomy-types sounding the alarm most loudly is because they're the ones who have been seeing the full effects of light pollution and its encroachment on dark skies. It's a hobby for me too, but it's partly because I am a night owl who grew up in a small town with nothing else to do. I used to be able to clearly see the Milky Way horizon to horizon when I grew up in the mid-00s. The last time I visited about five years ago, I could only see it overhead. The population has fallen by like 10%, but the skies are brighter. I can tell when the college decided to leave the football stadium lights overnight. I can tell where the car dealerships that added overnight display lights are. I can even see when trucks with the fuckass LED light bars are coming over a hill from 5 km away.
I'm all for well-lit, safe, and accessible spaces for people to work and play at night. But there is an impact from lighting, and it can and should be regulated like any other point source pollution. It's a pretty straightforward and materialist assessment. But go off about the big scary anprims are coming for your society so people can see the stars I guess, that's not at all a reactionary response to hearing about a problem
