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we’re gonna play blue’s clues! 🐾

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DITR is Ending

Wow, it has been a wild ride. I just wanted to send out a huge THANK YOU to everyone who supported my work this year – whether that was by creating fanart, sending asks, liking my posts, reblogging my fic links, giving feedback, or even just reading what I write. I worked on this fic for 3 years, with no real interaction with the fandom, imagining the “audience” I was writing for. And you guys – that audience in the flesh – have been far more than I could ever ask for. 

This, especially in regards to tumblr. I don’t promote this blog, I offer very little info and I don’t do many ask memes. But you guys, completely of your own initiative, have asked really great questions about the DITR universe, and it always blows me away that anyone would be that interested in my ideas. So that has been a huge encouragement for me. 

I say all of this now, because I am going to have a much smaller presence on tumblr, now that DITR is done. I’ll make wip announcements and post links to new fics, maybe reblog some fanart every now and then. But ever since I started this blog I always intended for it to be temporary. Don’t get me wrong, I love all of you to death, but my life is about to get crazy in this next stage and I feel I need to take a step away from the fandom. 

A few notes before I go: 

I adore feedback from you guys, and you are literally the best for giving it. But please, if you want to make a final comment about DITR, PLEASE leave it in the form of a review, NOT an ask. Reviews are all in one place where I can find them, and I will need to read them later when I am running low on motivation. Asks get lost in my archive and I will never see them again. Reviews also help other readers to decide whether or not the story is worth their time. Many readers won’t even start a story without first checking the reviews. A review  could make the difference in a reader deciding to read the story – an ask will (mostly likely) not. Ffn.net accepts guest reviews, so you can leave one even if you don’t have an account. 

And finally, if you enjoyed the story, share it!!!! This version took me 4 years to write, but it takes less than a second to reblog!! ;) ;) If you enjoyed it, if you felt like the story was worth your time, if you learned something, then others will too…. but ONLY if they find it! I will be posting a “share” post with a summary and a link to the COMPLETED fic. Some readers won’t even start a fic until it’s completed. So now is the time to share!!! 

Ok I’m done promoting myself > < Thank all of you again, my beta and I are working to brush up the last chapter, and I hope you enjoy it!! 

Much love, Slovenskych 

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[practice]

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Cccould you maybe draw Czechia?

{{ I hope this is the right person? ;0; }}

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not to be that person but #savespiderman and all other relevant hashtags are trending top 10 worldwide on twitter but #prayforamazon or anything about the amazon fire is getting nowhere near the attention of the custody battle of a fictional character is getting, the amazon forest is the earth’s largest eco system, it literally is the lung of the planet and the forest is on fire for 16 days straight and we only know about it like today like can we get our priority straight,,,

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Theme Week (Aug21) Singing

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he’s happy

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They developed so much... It’s such a ride seeing them suffer all this. Gilbert and Tolys were just at each other’s throats but now they help each other now. Their subtle moments of just accepting and comforting one another is just heartwarming as hell. 

Ahh thank you so much 💕

@hot-cocoa-and-ube you have been so supportive of my writing and I really do appreciate it, from the bottom of my heart. I still remember that message you sent me right before I took the first draft down and I snapshotted it and sent it to my mom like THIS IS WHY I WRITE OMGGGG

So thank you so much for voicing that support; it really does inspire me to keep going! Things were especially tough leading up to ch 22, before I had a good presence on tumblr. So early feedback from you and others really kept me motivated 💕

omg I love these boys, I’m SO PROUD of them and I just… like the other day I was thinking about Toris and how he was like a ball of spikes at the beginning. Ed says “I only want to help” and Toris lashed out at him and insulted him. So that’s just how far he’s come and I… I love them so much 😭

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1946.

A meme.....(?

original photo：https://www.weibo.com/6767321459/I0ur2D1oQ?ua=iPad7%2C3__weibo__9.7.1__ipad__os12.1&from=1097199020&type=comment#_rnd1564951640113

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Suppression.

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First time drawing wet cloth and rain scene 🤣made lots of mistakes lol

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After meeting.

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Further Notes on Writing Signed Language

So I had a good think about this, based off of what I have written lately. As I go further into my novel, do even more research into different types of sign, and start on the arc that is written solely from the POV of my deaf character, I’ve begun to realize some other differences between signed and spoken dialogue.

For one thing, punctuation doesn’t apply in the same way. There is punctuation in sign language, but as I’ve talked about before, it is mostly facial; therefore, you describe it as a part of the dialogue tags. So then, what do about the commas, colons and semi-colons? In this case, the n-dash is your friend! The aforementioned punctuation marks indicate changes in tone, alterations of pace and pauses. Therefore, they can be replaced with an  n-dash, like so

“You and I – I don’t think we can continue.”

And fingerspelled words would be written as single letters, hyphenated into a word:

”You and I - going to L-O-N-D-O-N.”

For another, the syntax of your translated signed dialogue is subtly different. One sign can ususally mean several different words and filler words are absent. If someone were to say “really big.” in sign, they might just make the sign for “big” and super over-exaggerate.

So, verbal dialogue version:

“It was really, really big!” Lottie jumped and down in excitement, her eyes shining. 

And the signed dialogue version:

“The dog was huge!” Lottie flung out her hands into the word, making it larger than it needed to be, bouncing on her heels.

Keeping in mind that large, big, huge, bountiful (and other connected synonyms) are all the same sign.

I don’t like to write signed language in the syntax that it would be signed in (Name, yours, what instead of “what is your name”). Not only is this confusing for non-signing readers, but it also reads as childish or overly-simplistic for readers who don’t understand sign, which reinforces the harmful stereotype of deaf people being stupid/infantilisation of deaf people. It is impossible to truly do signed language justice in writing, because it’s a language made for hands, bodies and faces.

This all comes together to mean that the sentence structure of dialogue in sign will be different. You would use less contractions (isn’t, you’re, might’ve etc), fewer modifiers and shorter chunks of dialogue with the description of the sign in between.

If it reads differently or feels strange, that’s okay: signed language is different to verbal language and so they won’t sound the same as one another in writing. They’re more like cousins or step-siblings than part of the same direct family group. You’re utilizing different descriptors and tools.

Hopefully, this also answers the repeated issue of differentiation, which has come up time and time again from various people. Best of luck to you all with your writing x

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PLEASE SIGNAL BOOST! Hetalia servers are getting raided right now.

Servers that have been raided already so far:

The Gerita Discord

The Christian Fans of Hetalia Discord

The Hetalia Communications Server

A private Hetalia RP server

An APH England centric server

Please be extremely careful and on the lookout for these users, block and ban on sight:

Tumblrs:

(BLOCK DO NOT MESSAGE OR ANON)

Tucuute

gxffick

druidcore

k4tsukiz

sinhwang

nemowom

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SPIDER MAN FAR FROM HOME SPOILERS WITH NO CONTEXT

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“you make your country proud, miss teodoroiu” “if only you spoke for all of România” “believe me when i say that România…. will remember your unwavering courage”

ecaterina teodoroiu was a romanian soldier who fought against german forces during ww1. as a teenager she was a member of the romanian scouts and planned to become a school teacher, however when romania joined ww1, she decided to serve as a nurse with the scouts. inspired by the patriotism of the wounded soldiers she treated and wishing to avenge the death of her brothers on the front lines, she resolved to enlist as a soldier. 

she proved her worthiness as a soldier quickly, outsmarting the german army with a ruse and saving her regiment from being captured. she was taken prisoner following a skirmish, but pulled a concealed revolver from her breast unnoticed then shot the german sentinel escorting her and escaped into the night with only a minor leg injury. she continued to serve in the army, however in november 1916 she was seriously wounded by a mortar strike and was hospitalized. she received the military virtue medal, 1st class, for her bravery and on her return to duty was promoted to sublocotenent (second lieutenant) and given command of a 25-man platoon.

teodoroiu was killed in action on september 3rd 1917, during the the battle of mărășești – the last battle fought between romania and germany in the war. she was struck in the chest by a burst of machine gun fire as she led her platoon against a unit of entrenched germans. her last words as she died were to call out “Forward, men, I’m still with you!” she was 23 years old.

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ruta graveolens 

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暑い

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I’m feeling kinda down today so I drew the boys having a good time and crying of laughter :-V