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I use emdashes *constantly.* It's wild to me that people assume that's some kind of smoking gun. Like all authors, I will always always always try to find little ways to extend a sentence - regardless of how foolish that may be lol

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Yen is six fulm even, which is unusually tall for hyurs, Highlanders or otherwise. She likes her height, though, so no worries there

7/16/25

#wolquestion #wolqotd

how tall is your wol(oc)?

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I've noticed a lot of people advise writers to read their stories aloud. And I absolutely agree. But I've also mostly seen people mention it in like a 'you'll better notice where there are little mistakes, and where the phrasing is awkward' way. Which, again, is absolutely true.

But that's a 'read the story aloud to see what's wrong with it' advice.

And I think there's maybe an even more important reason to read your fic aloud.

It will show you all the things that are RIGHT about your story.

Because there inevitably comes a point where you've read your own story in your head so many times that all the words are a bland mush that will leave you convinced that there's absolutely nothing interesting or good in your writing.

And if you go back to it many months later, you might realize... oh, this is a pretty interesting fic. And that's because the brain has had time to forget every tiny detail of phrasing you came up with, and you can actually read it like a reader, not the author.

But that road takes months, and until then, you might be inherently convinced that the story is literally the absolute worst thing you've ever written.

But... WHEN YOU READ ALOUD, you automatically start giving the words inflection, inflection that, when you're reading something that you haven't written yourself, you kind of hear even when reading quietly. But for your own story, all that inflection and weight has been sucked out by way too many rereads while you were looking for grammatical errors. The fastest way to be able to see it again? To hear it.

Anyway, read aloud to defeat the monster on your shoulder telling you your writing sucks.

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Six scions, one braincell

+ Bonus Y'shtola:

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I haven't seen anyone do this yet, and these tracks aren't on the OST as far as I'm aware, but here is all the audio files for the piano Kris plays in the Holiday house scene. They sound like real recordings to me, although I don't know who is playing. I've heard it might be Toby based on the style but I can't say for sure

Incidentally I have no idea what sevenfour is a arrangement of so if someone knows I would be interested to hear.

(I lied these aren't the original .ogg files. I had to convert to mp3 for tumblr to let me upload).

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Traditional roguelike fans will show you a video of an @ symbol bumping against a lowercase g until one of them disappears while all the symbols in their area suddenly turn red and then pause the video to explain that the game constantly simulates the flow of blood in characters' veins and what you just saw was that blood escaping from one of the characters (if you were to use a microscope on one of the tiles that are now splattered with blood you could see each of the individual blood cells represented by red lowercase letters)

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that’s a good one

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My detailed post of my Palestinian lesbians (original piece), just as a short little introduction to some Palestinian cultural items!

(Sources: Thobna - Wafa Ghnaim, Traditional Palestinian Embroidery and Jewelry - Abed Al-Samih Abu Omar, Palestinian Costume - Shelagh Weir, Palestinian Costume -Jehan S. Rajab, Traditional Palestinian Costume - Hanan Karaman Munayyer, and me!)

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Things can turn out differently to how you imagined but still be incredible and fulfilling. Don’t let the idea of what you thought your life should be ruin the life you’re living.

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Yenifer carries a fragile hope in her heart. Her homeland was taken before she knew what it was, and the land she does know has taken so much from her still. Yet, because she believes that it can be better, because she presses against the walls of the status quo...

The bricks begin to tremble out of place.

7/12/25

Could you explain your wol(oc) in a few sentences?

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Something I found on Twitter that really puts things in perspective as a creator.

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“Public libraries are such important, lovely places!” Yes but do you GO there. Do you STUDY there. Do you meet friends and get coffee there. Do you borrow the FREE, ZERO SUBSCRIPTION, ZERO TRACKING books, audiobooks, ebooks, and films. Have you checked out their events and schemes. Do you sign up for the low cost courses in ASL or knitting or programming or writing your CV that they probably run. Do you know they probably have myriad of schemes to help low income families. Do you hire their low cost rooms if you need them. Have you joined their social groups. Do you use the FREE COMPUTERS. Do you even know what your library is trying to offer you. Listen, the library shouldn’t just exist for you as a nice idea. That’s why more libraries shut every year

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If a girl is to do the same superman thing where he takes off his disguise, we just look pervy. Not the same effect