#memelous

[riotinyellow]

Normalize naming your kids after things you love.

Personally, my kid will be named "Will's hair in that one episode of JD Don't Crack"

[friedrich-2]

[postcard-from-the-past]

Meeting room in the City Council of Memel, modern-day Klaipėda, Lithuania

German vintage postcard

[fominone]

[memesandmayhem]

Remade this old Lilo & Stitch meme its now fit for 2025

[breathofthebloodlily]

28, 35, 40

28. Who is the most delightful character you’ve ever written? Why?

In original stuff, rn what comes to mind is Alnitak, from my tragically half-finished Alien Abduction Romance Novel from back in 2015. They were one of the two love interests, a Generally Positive embodiment of chaos, and generally wonderful to write because of... idk how to describe it other than Their Rhythm. The writing equivalent of how a character moves on screen and how they occupy the space and time that's available. Think of it maybe as the concept of Comedic Timing but expanded to everything.

In fandom, I thought about this a long while and I think my answer isn't a character but a group: whenever I got to write TRY3 (from cardfight vanguard G) interacting, or even referencing each other. Just their dynamic as a unit. It was so good. I think I wrote a lot of my best lines when writing these three.

35. What’s your favorite writing rule to smash into smithereens?

Anything about the anglo saxon obsession with paring sentences down to their bare bones, but also I really don't agree with the whole "never use perception verbs" stuff. Not everything has to feel like you're reading a movie. The use of perception to create shifts in perspective and manipulate the feeling of time is a GREAT tool that, among other things, makes things feel more character-focused than just action-focused, and while we're at it, exposition sentences are also a great tool, not because they in themselves give much info, but because the combination of them with what comes after can do a massive amount of work re: tone, characterisation, worldbuilding, atmosphere, genre-building. A tiny pinch of dissonance can do SO much heavy lifting without having to actually Tell anything about a character's beliefs or personality etc and I really think people sleep on it.

40. Please share a poem with me, I need it.

oh my god I don't read enough poetry for this and I feel like just quoting YES YES the tiger is out might be a little sad (as much as I love it) so uh. PLEASE do not judge this shit that I wrote like 15 years ago.

It has a couple of missing/temporary words in brackets bc I never did finish it.

It is the simmering of nerves

--of K, and Na, and H rushing too fast, too early--

and the tinkling bell of pain runs and is lost, washed

(in the wave)

Hipbones that hum, and a spine who sings,

and my voice need not tremble, my eyes not fall away;

the dull beat of flesh, seething beneath its skin,

hides better in [...] than ever in [denial]

And burn, in alveoles shriveled, and yield to the battering ram

(the air is crisp and sweet in its frost)

of current and unconscious sparks.

Embrace the world, only it can soothe you now

The shiver always races from hair to nape to wrist

and through the throat the air can reach

and grasp and caress where the skin would shrivel

Magma still will run (and for strife I will thirst)

(And tread left and tread right and your hips will glide on the chord of "yet";

it is momentum, and running needs no breath.

And drums will sound the war of haemophilia)

The tendons still will sing.

[riotinyellow]

This has to be the first time george has mentioned will in at least 2 years

[orionsommer]

Kieferwälder - Nidden

[postcard-from-the-past]

Street scene in Memel, modern-day Klaipėda, Lithuania

German vintage postcard

[absurdiskas-brutalus-avangardas]

Tikra ikona, fenomenas. Prie Baltojo švyturio buvo kone privaloma įsiamžinti. 1933 m. nuotrauka. Okupacijų ir laisvės kovų muziejus. Translation: A true icon, phenomenon. It was a must to take a picture with the White Lighthouse in Klaipėda, Lithuania also once known as Memel. Photography taken in the year of 1933.

[friedrich-2]

Friedrich Wilhelm III, with his hands cupped over each other: I found a cool spider!

Tsar Alexander I: Oh? Lemme see!

Friedrich Wilhelm, opening his hands to see nothing there: …hm.

Luise: Fritz… where’s the spider.

Friedrich Wilhelm : looks troubled and stares at his hands

Alexander: Oh no.

Luise: FRIEDRICH WILHELM, WHERE’S THE SPIDER?!

[typemoonsmashorpass]

[toria-kvarz]

🇷🇺: Кёнигсберг и Мемель в подростковом возрасте

🇬🇧: Königsberg and Memel in adolescence

[call-me-noa]

Fate/Lost Einherjar chibis by Shirow Miwa for his upcoming artbook Romancia:Aurora 02.

Left to right, top to bottom:

Percival, Sinfjotli, Aslaug, Memel, Gagam, Ragnar, Lagertha, Bragi, Lemina

[breathofthebloodlily]

22 for the writing asks!

How organized are you with your writing? Describe to me your organization method, if it exists. What tools do you use? Notebooks? Binders? Apps? The Cloud?

I do Not have a method tbh, I don't really Get how people do the whole "write in an app that has lots of fancy tabs for insp and character sheets and versions etc" thing because it would absolutely destroy my ability to write lmao. My Method is to use the most basic text software that does line wrapping and supports page breaks. Back when I was still using windows, I wrote in Works or even wordpad. When I switched to linux I had a nice software that was as clean and minimal as I like but had the annoying side effect of saving in a format that wasn't compatible with a lot of things so I've reluctantly pivoted to libreoffice.

Generally I will just Write In A Document, and if I write stuff out of order I'll just add a page break between the current stuff and the Forward stuff. If I have several chunks ongoing at the same time, just use several breaks. When dealing with Really Big Projects (like, say, a novel, or a 50K+ longfic) I will generally have another document with notes (like timeline things I often have to reference or names of OCs I don't use often etc) but most of my notes for Things To Include are generally just written telegraphically at the bottom of the document or the bottom of the Relevant Chunk. This also helps me not get Blank Page Syndroms as much when I have to close a document and get back to it--usually I'll have a note telling me what the next part needs to include (but these notes might be for stuff that's still a chapter away).

Basically my writing method is probably a nightmare for most people LOL but for me just a basic document with as little distracting padding as possible is what works best.

(Also I never use any computer locking stuff lol I multitask a lot when writing generally. Writing is addictive anyway, so if I'm failing to do it it's generally because my brain is too fucked to do it and I should avoid pushing it. Adding stress by making me unable to do anything ELSE will just lead to wasting my precious time by doing more of Laying There Doing Nothing which is most of my life already)

[dmingalyov]

Nidden, Kreis Memel. (Неринга Литва). Куршская коса, Высокая дюна недалеко от Ниддена 1920-1940.