paula-in-dreamland
paula-in-dreamland
She lives in a fairytale...
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Paula/Polly/P | She/Her/Hers I still blog whatever the fudge I want 10+ years later (which is mostly trash and multifandom nonsense).
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paula-in-dreamland · 11 hours ago
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Agreed.
American families are diverse and inclusive.
MAGA can't handle their happiness and joy.
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paula-in-dreamland · 14 hours ago
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Reblog if you’re grateful for your commenters <3
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paula-in-dreamland · 15 hours ago
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#TakeBackThe100- Day 6: Favorite Underrepresented Relationship Lincoln kom Trikru & Octavia Blake
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paula-in-dreamland · 17 hours ago
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Rich people showers
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paula-in-dreamland · 17 hours ago
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i have a special kind of love for sun and moon coded ships but they both think they’re the moon and the other one is the sun
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paula-in-dreamland · 22 hours ago
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There used to be a lot of activities that took place around a populated area like a village or town, which you would encounter before you reached the town itself. Most of those crafts have either been eliminated in the developed world or now take place out of view on private land, and so modern authors don't think of them when creating fantasy worlds or writing historical fiction. I think that sprinkling those in could both enrich the worlds you're writing in and, potentially, add useful plot devices.
For example, your travelers might know that they're near civilization when they start finding trees in the woods that have been tapped, for pitch or for sap. They might find a forester's trap line and trace it back to his hut to get medical care. Maybe they retrace the passage of a peasant and his pig out hunting for truffles. If they're coming along a coast, maybe your travelers come across the pools where sea water is dried down to salt, or the furnaces where bog iron ore is smelted.
Maybe they see a column of smoke and follow it to the house-sized kilns of a potter's yard where men work making bricks or roof tiles. From miles away they could smell the unmistakeable odor of pine sap being rendered down into pitch, and follow that to a village. Or they hear the flute playing of a shepherd boy whiling away the hours in the high pasture.
They could find the clearing where the charcoal burners recently broke down an earth kiln, and follow the hoof prints and drag marks of their horse and sledge as they hauled the charcoal back to civilization. Or follow the sound of metal on stone to a quarry or gravel pit. Maybe they know they're nearly to town when they come across a clay bank with signs of recent clay gathering.
Of course around every town and city there will be farms, more densely packed the closer you are. But don't just think of fields of grains or vegetables. Think of managed woodlands, like maybe trees coppiced-- cut and then regrown--to customize the shape or size of the branches. Cows being grazed in a communal green. Waiting as a huge flock of ducks is driven across the road. Orchards in bloom.
If they're approaching by road, there will be things best done out of town. The threshing floor where grain is beaten with flails or run through crushing wheels to separate the grain from its casing, and then winnowed, using the wind to carry away the chaff. Laundresses working in the river, their linens bleaching on the grass at the drying yard. The stench of the tanners, barred from town for stinking so badly. The rushing wheel-race and great creaking wheel of the flour mill.
If it's a larger town, there might be a livestock market outside the gates, with goats milling in woven willow pens or chickens in wooden cages. Or a line of horses for the wealthier buyer or your desperate travelers. There might be a red light district, escaping the regulations of the city proper, or plain old slums. More industrial yards, like the yards where fabric is dyed (these might also smell quite bad, like rotting plant material, or urine).
There are so many things that preindustrial people did and would find familiar that we just don't know about now. So much of life was lived out in the open for anyone to see. Make your world busy and loud and colorful!
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paula-in-dreamland · 22 hours ago
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i love how we pick up habits and phrases and songs from people we love and it sticks with us for so long it becomes a piece of us making us a museum of all the people we've ever loved
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paula-in-dreamland · 22 hours ago
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This user supports AO3
This user is anti-censorship
This user believes in “don’t like, don’t read”
This user believes in “ship and let ship”
This user believes that fiction tastes and preferences do not dictate moral character
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paula-in-dreamland · 22 hours ago
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SHŌGUN, S01E01 - Anjin
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paula-in-dreamland · 22 hours ago
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How grapes are made. [slinkachu]
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paula-in-dreamland · 23 hours ago
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Boarders: Season 2, Episode 4. Rupert
Here's another Rupert of the day for you! I wanted to capture how his curls blow in the wind. No comment hahaha.
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paula-in-dreamland · 23 hours ago
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i love tragedy i love circular narratives i love ppl who cannot escape their fate & characters that have been dead since the beginning
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paula-in-dreamland · 23 hours ago
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paula-in-dreamland · 1 day ago
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THE TWILIGHT SAGA: ECLIPSE 2010, dir. David Slade
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paula-in-dreamland · 1 day ago
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Your story is still worth writing even if it veers off from what you planned originally.
It’s still worth writing even if you aren’t feeling it right now.
It’s still worth writing even if it’s fanfiction.
It’s still worth writing even if you don’t think anyone else would ever want to read it.
It’s still worth writing even if it doesn’t get published.
It’s still worth writing even if it doesn’t get adapted into a huge blockbuster movie.
It’s still worth writing even if you can’t have fancy illustrations at the beginning of chapters or a map of the world at the beginning.
It’s still worth writing even if someone you trusted told you to stop.
It’s still worth writing if you just rolled your eyes at me.
It’s still worth writing, SO WRITE IT.
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paula-in-dreamland · 1 day ago
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While cleaning out my room I found a paper that my therapist gave me some time ago to deal with obsessive and intrusive thoughts. Sorry the paper is a little crinkled and stained, but I figured I’d post it in hopes that it will help someone like it helped me.
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paula-in-dreamland · 1 day ago
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"exercise will give you more energy" gets said a lot as a common piece of health advice but I think it needs to be expanded into "exercising will make you tired while you do it, and you will continue to be tired immediately afterwards, sometimes even the next day too, but over months of consistent exercise, your muscles will get stronger and therefore get less tired out by everyday activities, making you feel like day-to-day life takes less physical energy than it used to"
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