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everytimewetouch-dot-mp3 · 5 months ago

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Okay WHAT is Oh look it's Gilgamesh

wip game post here!

oooouuugh yay ok i was hoping someone would ask about this one. it’s a modern au binggeyuan inspired by this post i made a billion years ago.

i’m in the exploratory phase of this one too, but i’ve been putting a lot more work into it lately bc it has become my 2025 writing goal lmao. i’ll talk abt it under the cut :D

…so i just finished writing and it’s a little longer than i anticipated. tl;dr: what if satan from the actual literal bible crawled out of hell and told the pope that he wanted to be friends now because there’s something much worse than himself down there.

so the idea is that luo binghe is a mythological figure somewhat like gilgamesh or odysseus but ‘evil.’ he’s a heavenly demon who, after countless cruelties, decided to take his revenge on the world by inflicting that cruelty a thousandfold. the stories go that he was born in a bid to broker peace between the demons and the humans, but huan hua’s palace master tried to sabotage sxy’s pregnancy and wound up killing her. tlj, in his grief, allowed himself to be captured by human cultivators so that he could plot his revenge in peace.

then we get lbh’s life, being cast into the abyss, coming back and taking his revenge. just when he and his father are about to merge the realms, the human cultivators sacrificed themselves to seal him, his father, and the entire demonic realm behind impossibly powerful arrays. the abyss and demon realm have merged, but the human realm is safe. to protect humanity, the few remaining cultivators hid knowledge of the jianghu and the secrets of cultivation, which explains why there are no immortal cultivators anymore.

there are legends and books and movies and operas retelling this story, always celebrating the heroic cultivators who sacrificed their lives for the rest of humanity and vilifying the endless cruelty of the demons. shen yuan has heard these stories since he was a little kid. you know how some kids have their ancient egypt phase? sy had a ‘myths about luo binghe’ phase, and it never ended. when the story starts, he’s a doctoral candidate writing his dissertation reconstructing luo binghe as a real historical person (which he was) and finding the real events that inspired the myths. he’s been officially working on it for five years at this point, but the dude really started when he was like 12. he kind of despises some of the retellings of luo binghe’s story, because they all vilify him with no compassion, and he feels binghe’s story is less a triumph of humanity and more a tragedy on all sides.

there is no retelling he hates more than proud immortal demon way. the author caricaturizes luo binghe and uses his story to sell shitty porn cranked out at an inhuman pace, and shen yuan thinks it’s despicable. he has to read every chapter just so he knows what this piece of shit author is doing to his favorite character. that’s the only reason why.

at one point, shen yuan is interviewing some people associated with the supposed descendants of the four great sects in the legends, and while he’s there, there’s an earthquake. someone rushes in wielding an actual real life sword? a real sword. that’s glowing a little bit? maybe shen yuan got hit on the head… but no that sword is definitely glowing a little bit. and he says ‘the seal has cracked.’

suddenly the stories aren’t stories anymore, and shen yuan doesn’t know how to keep his nose out of things—he wants to be there if/when luo binghe comes out. right now it’s just monsters, and it turns out the so-called cultivators were…real cultivators. and they’re fighting abyssal beasts.

they expect luo binghe to emerge commanding armies of demons and beasts as he demands his revenge on humanity, but instead he fights his way out, a crazed look in his eye, and insists that he’s going to help the cultivators seal the rift. he won’t take no for an answer. he refuses to allow those beasts to destroy humanity.

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philaet0s · 2 months ago

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Six Sentence Sunday

I've finished writing my master's dissertation tonight so I will have more time to write fics now, life is BEAUTIFUL

(I mean, I might not write more. But I will have more time to do it anyway!)

This is from a few days ago:

Baz

“Your… books. You’re still writing those kids books?” Mark asks, and I don’t miss the judgment in his voice.

He’s not the only one to consider that occupation futile. My family are convinced that I should write real books. Something more intellectual, with more value in their eyes. But I’ve done my share of intellectual writing when I worked on my thesis. That’s the only kind of highbrow material I’m capable of producing. Contrary to what the people around me may think, being able to read literature critically does not mean I want or even can write decent novels. Not for adult audiences, anyway.

But children’s books interest me. They’re one of a child’s first window to the world. Even when they’re full of cute animals and princesses, they exist for a reason, to teach the little ones something. They’re not inferior or meaningless. They have an impact. It’s a beautiful thing, to help broaden a child’s perspective.

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I love writing Baz passionate about things <333

#snowbaz #baz pitch #simon snow #co/ws/awtwb #fanfiction #wip #carry on #simon snow series

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blainehasregrets · 5 months ago

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As someone who loves canon Klaine as is, there are a few fundamental things I believe about the ship that only actually furthers my enjoyment of them, that I’m kind of shocked how many people think were OOC, or hate and think of as bad writing.

Here’s a list of things I think are absolutely crucial to understanding Klaine!

Blaine cheating was in character. Kurt cheating was in character.

First of all, both of Klaine love attention, so jot that down.

Regardless of anyone’s personal feelings on the matter, I know people love to argue semantics here how “Blaine didn’t care about Sebastian so it’s different”, the show canonically equates Blaine talking to Sebastian behind Kurt’s back as the same as the situation with Chandler. He said it himself in Dance With Somebody, “Although a while back I was sort of doing the same thing…”. He also cheated on 2/2 of his boyfriends on the show. This is something that’s so consistent with his character and to call it OOC just because someone can’t picture season 2 Blaine doing it, even though there’s 5 other seasons of his character to consider, is just silly to me. I’m all for cheaters!Klaine, I think it’s hilarious and I would have watched them cheat on each other and cheat on other people WITH each other a million times more.

To understand Blaine’s character, and explain how his cheating is in character you also have to get: he could act impulsively and based on emotion, when he was insecure he felt the need to find a way to take back control in a situation (Tested and Puppet Master), and when he felt hurt, he lashed out. This is particular was something we saw again and again throughout the show, and his cheating is just another example of this. I think this post does a good job detailing these things.

I think his cheating wasn’t simply because he was just lonely and he needed some physical reassurance as I’ve seen people say, but also because he knew it would hurt Kurt. However, afterwards he realized that hurting Kurt didn’t fix anything. And this is cycle Blaine goes through quite a few times. Feels hurt -> hurts Kurt -> it didn’t help the situation and actually made things worse.

Now: Kurt texting Chandler. I always find this discussion a little interesting because I feel like it usually goes beyond people’s opinions of just Kurt and Blaine as characters, but also the boundaries they feel about IRL relationships and what actually counts as cheating. Some people think it’s cheating, some people think it’s not, some people think it’s something more in the middle. If you asked me simply, I’d say yes he did cheat. The fact that he didn’t want Blaine to see his texts is proof enough it was cheating. However if you asked and gave me the chance to write a 15 page dissertation on it I’d say…he did cheat but it wasn’t this huge emotional affair people make it out to be. Not even to excuse Kurt because as I’ve said before, I think Klaine cheating on each other is hilarious and I would never take that away from Kurt and if he cheated on Blaine I would only cheer him on, but rather…I just genuinely do think it was a bit complicated! Or rather, I think there was a double standard here that doesn’t negate Kurt’s cheating but does call out Blaine’s hypocrisy more, if what Kurt did was cheating then so was what Blaine did with Sebastian as the show canonically equates them. And I also think it’s interesting that even when Kurt was texting Chandler, he wasn’t truly opening himself up to another person and letting himself be emotionally available to Chandler, that’s where I think it’s less of a full blown emotional affair (but I do, personally, see flirting as cheating even in irl relationships.). It was a very detached, lazy form of cheating. Because Kurt was honestly so lazy sometimes LMAO love that for him though. I also do think there were more reasons Blaine was upset with Kurt in this episode than just the cheating.

I think Blaine singing It’s Not Right But It’s Okay in front of everyone was also incredibly hilarious. Like I love it so much it’s SO funny. This scene also continues to illustrate that Blaine tended to lash out when he felt hurt or slighted, and that he was prone to large public displays of emotion. This is important to understanding Blaine’s character, as it also connects to his performance of Teenage Dream in season 4 and the proposal in season 5.

The season 4 breakup was not out of nowhere.

Blaine had already shown he couldn’t cope with long distance when he transferred to McKinley to be with Kurt for a year, and when he ignored Kurt during DWS because he was upset Kurt only talked about NYADA and New York since he felt Kurt was already moving on without him. Even during Somewhere Only We Know he looks devastated lol and it’s why he even transfers to McKinley, to be closer to Kurt. He always wants to be close to Kurt.

Meanwhile, Kurt had a hard time balancing his new New York life with his old Lima life. Kurt had a very one track mind, and that could cause a detriment to his personal relationships. This is shown in Grilled Cheesus when his dad made a point that they need those Friday night dinners or they might not see each other much, or how he ignored Mercedes for Blaine in The Substitute. This is also already shown to be a problem for him in DWS, where he’s so focused on his excitement for college. When Kurt is caught up with something, it’s hard to break his attention.

Dance With Somebody was foreshadowing. Like, hey, these two guys are definitely going to have more problems down the line and here’s what they’re going to be, it’s not going to be resolved in this single episode.

Three things can be simultaneously true at once: the proposal was beautiful and moving, Kurt had wanted to get married to Blaine because he still showed up to the proposal since he knew about it in advance. However…he still could have felt pressured, after the fact. Or at the very least, he had his own regrets about saying yes and pushed some of the blame for how he was feeling onto the proposal.

I know a lot of people use the box scene and the sleepover deleted scenes as pure evidence that Kurt was 100% sure about getting married to Blaine (as well as that one scene where Rachel talks about Finn proposing to her and Kurt clearly shows he would have said yes if Blaine had asked him). But if we’re going to take deleted scenes as evidence, then we have to consider there’s also a deleted scene where Kurt said he felt pressured during Loser Like Me, that takes place much later and would therefore be his most recent thought on that matter in the timeline, to take into consideration. And even completely disregarding that, I still think you can take his actions throughout season 5 and use them to infer the fact that he felt as if saying yes to the proposal was starting to feel like a mistake.

During the car ride over in Love, Love, Love, Kurt almost seemed like he was being driven to execution lol yet I still think he was blown away and moved by the proposal and he had planned to say yes, which is why he went anyways instead of telling Burt he couldn’t do it. Kurt did want to get married to Blaine, the proposal was a grand gesture that he loved, and he wouldn’t have wanted it any other way. I don’t think it’s fair to paint the proposal as a malicious act (though I will say, it’s not often stated that one of Blaine’s motivations to propose to Kurt was so he couldn’t meet anyone else) because it simply wasn’t. The proposal was a genuine act of love from Blaine, that suited Kurt (he loved weddings, was excited at the idea of a promposal in season 2, and a lot of what he wanted out of a relationship, set up in season 2, was the ability to be public with the person he was in love with just like anyone else. The proposal is in the same vein as him wanting to walk down the halls holding hands with a boy, it’s a representation of the strides the world has made for gay rights and Klaine’s right to be able to express love so publicly just like any straight couple. Believing that Klaine should have had a private proposal instead is, in my opinion, a complete misreading of both their characters and what the ship is meant to be.)

But! As time went on, Kurt began to have doubts. Kurt could have changed his mind the older he got (after all, he was still in high school during the box scene and the Kurtchelcedes sleepover) + the more actual experience he had with being engaged to Blaine, and especially as they had a difficult time even living together. And it really is possible! People change their minds. Of course the way Kurt went about it was super passive aggressive (and I lived for every moment of it) and he didn’t tell Blaine this until it was too late, but I think it’s completely possible he was initially sure about saying yes, but then changed his mind over time as reality began to set in that it wasn’t as easy and fairytale as he thought it would be. A lot of Klaine’s problems stemmed from the fact that they had a hard time grappling between their idealized versions of each other, and who the other really was, which Burt brings up when Blaine asks for permission to marry Kurt (And can I say I just love the fact that Burt said no but Blaine did it anyway lol like it’s another Blaine thing I really love about him. Also that he encouraged Tina to propose to Mike when they weren’t even dating because he still thinks it’s romantic even though it didn’t work out for him), and that could apply to the proposal as well. The fantasy of having such a grand proposal, of being engaged young, might seem different once being faced with reality, and he was beginning to believe perhaps it was a mistake to say yes.

Kurt also repeatedly stated, like in the Purple Piano Project for example, that he didn’t want to get married until he was around 30. So it’s in character that Kurt could have felt they were still too young.

I want to make a better longer post about the proposal because these aren’t even 1/3rd of my thoughts about it…(I have quite a few thoughts about the way Chris chose to act in this scene, I genuinely believe he was going for a “overwhelmed with emotion” look but his eyes were opened so wide that he just look terrified the whole time…) I swear I love the actual proposal! I just think it’s interesting to think of the way it could have affected Kurt and connected to the breakup in season 6. Which…

The season 6 breakup was not out of nowhere.

Tension between Klaine had been building up since season 4. It was clear after the cheating Kurt’s perception of Blaine and trust in general changed, and there was building resentment from all throughout season 5 (especially if you consider that Kurt was growing resentful of the proposal and possibly feeling pressured from it). Even though they did talk about their problems and promised to resolve them like in Tested, I think the June Dolloway arc proved that Blaine could go back on his word if he wanted to, which only furthered Kurt’s doubts. Like Kurt had said, they talked about lying to each other, just for Blaine to lie to him again. At the end of that episode, Kurt told Blaine he was choosing to trust him, and though many people see that as them working out their feelings for good which makes season 6’s breakup come out of nowhere for them, I feel as if that final scene between them showed just how much Kurt didn’t actually believe what he was saying. His body language is incredibly stiff, and the way Chris delivered the lines is almost monotone, as if Kurt is forcing himself to say these things. While body language irl isn’t something you can actually use to judge a person’s thoughts, in acting it is supposed to clue us in to how a character is feeling. And I feel like, even though he was telling Blaine that he was going to choose to trust him, he was just going through the motions of the song and dance they’ve been playing these last few arcs. Inside, he felt like he had already lost a fundamental trust of Blaine and their relationship would not be the same again, and that resentment building all throughout season 5 is going to spill out all at once with his very harsh “Maybe I don’t!” in season 6. That outburst didn’t come out of nowhere, because he spent all of season 5 bottling his feelings.

It’s super cute when Blaine moves back in and Kurt moved the desk back to where Blaine had wanted it though. But it also kind of doesn’t erase the fact that we just watched an entire half season of them arguing.

Blaine dating Dave was in character. And no, I don’t think it was simply a natural cause of them coming from a place with a small gay community. Blaine chose to date Dave for a reason. (And it wasn’t a pure, “just trying to move on” one.)

It’s too much to get into. And maybe many people will not understand... One day I want to fully go into depth about it, but right now I’ll try to explain it as briefly as I can. Blainfosky makes complete and total sense when you understand Blaine’s canon character and his consistent canon actions (and not the fanon version of him), it aligns with the major theme of season 6 which is about regression before moving on. It makes sense when you examine how important Dave Karofsky is to Klaine’s relationship as a whole, his complicated relationship with Kurt, and how their history together isn’t erased simply because Kurt forgave him.

And so, I think Blaine dated Dave for a reason. And that the thing they have most in common was Kurt, and this was purposeful as they even say they got to talking…mostly about Kurt! And so I do think on some level, Blaine was hoping this would hurt Kurt. However, like his cheating in season 4, he realized that hurting Kurt didn’t help himself feel better (and we see it on his face when Kurt runs away during the scene in Scandals in Loser Like Me) nor did it help the situation. And that’s why, when he finds out Kurt is going on a blind date because he’s going to respect Blaine’s relationship, he’s instantly jealous. When they talk about it, Blaine pointedly tells Kurt “like you’ve always said, we’re better off as friends.” At the very least, I don’t think Blaine dated Dave for the intention of moving on (because even the act of going back to Dalton was meant to reflect he wasn’t moving on), because it’s clear through his body language and tone throughout the first half of season 6 that he was hoping to get some sort of reaction out of Kurt. This is especially clear when he accused Kurt and Rachel of taking Jane from the warblers, eager to get a jab in there about Karofsky. And because he was never with Dave for the chance to move on, he was never with him because he genuinely liked him, as soon as they kiss in the elevator Blaine is basically all but ready to have a full blown affair with Kurt lol and he even teases it in Transitioning after Kurt rigs the wheel.

And okay! I get that most of this is not positive stuff, and might make you wonder why I like this or why it furthers my enjoyment of Klaine. And what I think is super important is that these events, that are caused by Kurt and Blaine being the specific people they are, make Klaine a much more interesting and compelling couple than if they were just any old generic “healthy” pairing. These are the things that make Klaine Klaine, these things happened because Kurt is Kurt and Blaine is Blaine! It’s fun to analyze why they chose to do the things they did, to connect this stuff to their other behavior in the show, and I think handwaving it away because someone might think these (very canon) things are OOC or bad writing simply because they wish Klaine was a perfect couple where nothing bad ever happened is a bit…boring? I love that they cheat on each other and on other people WITH each other, that they’re both control freaks (and yes, Blaine is one too, there are two whole episodes about it! I feel like people confuse Blaine being obsessively in love with Kurt with being blindly submissive, when a power struggle between Kurt and Blaine was present several times throughout the show) who sometimes don’t see eye to eye, and that they have issues! It makes them so much more fun! and one day I might write more about the positives of klaine, but these things I’ve listed are genuinely thinks I like about the ship just as much as the “good” things.

#this needs some work as I need to add more evidence and data but I wanted to post Something…#WIP #blaine anderson #kurt hummel #klaine

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darkmagyk · 4 months ago

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oh my gosh, I hadn't realised you headcanoned Percy and Annabeth to have 9 kids. That makes your Annabeth even more of a superwoman/badass, because the thought of going through pregnancy/labour that many times is genuinely terrifying. How old are they when they have each kid? And sorry if this is a dumb question, but when do you imagine they get married: before, during, or. after finishing university?

If it helps, she's only pregnant 7 time:

Baby 1 (Junie) is born about a month after she turns 20.

Baby 2 (Lucie) is born when they're in Masters Programs, about 23-24

They get married while she's pregnant with Lucie, so they are in their Masters programs.

Baby 3 (Thalassa) is born when Percy is doing a PhD Fellowship, they are 26-27

Baby 4 (Sophia) is born during Percy's dissertation defense (perhaps I will write this one as a present for @phykios when she defends. Someone remind me to do that in like a year) when they are 28-29

Baby 5 (Astrid) is born when they are 31/32-ish

Baby 6 (Chase) is born when they are they are in their Mid-30s

Babies 7&8 (Rini and Alexander) are born in their late 30s.

Baby 9 (Olivia) is a surprise, whom they manifest in their early 40s with the power of their love and also Annabeth's magic heritage.

#pjo #percabeth #pjo headcanon #asks

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lil-melody-moon · 6 months ago

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Okay, I think there has to be at least one post that sums up this year for me *hits my fist against an open palm of a hand* LET'S START THE COMPLAINING OF A POLE

Trigger warning: swearing, suicide mention, death mention, mental health being shattered to pieces

First of all, fuck this year.

I started it with a major breakdown at January/February. Start of it was at one night when I felt lonely. Decided to lay down in bed and listen to "Quadrophenia". I think this was the day that kinda created a bond with this album. The story of it was always speaking to me, not once nor twice did I think about running away from the life I have and start anew in a place where nobody knows me. Same goes with the feeling of being left out while trying to fit in to be betrayed by what I believed in in the end.

The album played until midnight and I came to conclusion that everything's useless and when I hit 31/32 and still be lonely, this is where I should draw a line. First suicide thought of that cursed year. Dad had timing, he came to my room at that exact moment i thought of it, telling me that he's worried because there's no sound coming from my room and it's late. Kinda saving me there while I was crying.

Then came the walk I took with parents, seeing all the couples so happy at early spring. The walk back took an hour, I was crying in public for an hour because of how left out I felt.

Skip ahead a few weeks later, Anja deletes her blog and a few weeks later I get a mail from her friend that she died in her sleep. That started everything.

I kept myself busy with university, even if the semester fucking sucked. I also dived right into obsessive reading, just to keep my thoughts busy and to not let the grief take over me, but skipping ahead to August that helped only so far.

I have to admit, if not "His Sweet Candy" I would go fucking crazy during summer. I had nothing to do besides writing the story and just sitting and doing nothing was out of the question. My thoughts would simply wander to the empty space Anja left and I would cry each day - even tv shows didn't bring me any happiness, I was literally hanging on the last thread of the single thing that kept me happy.

Sure, I kicked myself even more reading Keith's biography, but that book kept me busy as well, but I also look found on the days when I read it.

Come September and another mental breakdown (second and third suicide thought) that carried itself until December - arguments with parents one of which caused me to cry for two days, feeling useless and empty, crying at university, feeling left out by my classmates, PMS kicking me each month, you name it.

And then comes December that makes me so stressed because suddenly every fucking professor wants essays while I have dissertation on my head? Like, excuse fucking you - one of the professors wants a useless 5 pages essay and she wants full reference list on it on 9th of January. You think I started it? HAH, NO! This bitch can go fuck herself. I won't spend my free days on her stupid assignment because she's afraid of the board coming and checking our assignments. OH ALSO, there's one professor that we have an exam with (economy, haha) and she only did two lectures :) I also have the upcoming semester with the worst professors imaginable (and fucking German language because I need to know the words in library profession in German for some reason? Literally, fuck that).

I will fucking kill myself if I have to do Master's Degree. I do not want it, I want to go to a fucking job and forget all about this - and I KNOW that it's possible to work in a library with just a bachelor.

So among all this, here are the only positive things:

writing "His Sweet Candy"

becoming besties with Laura, Sarah, Savannah, Julie

another Julie (bestie) finally visiting me

watching Star Wars

The Who (Keith Moon)

his biography

job practices

writing a lot of fics for Laura and getting a lot of them

seeing Sarah getting better and slowly healing

discovering The Beach Boys, The Jam and The Clash

In big conclusion, fuck this year. I want to move on and hopefully have a better next year.

#talking corner

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kxowledge · 6 months ago

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It has been five months of tumult – I feel uprooted and a mess. It’s probably longer since I wrote an update of sorts, so here you go:

I submitted my dissertation (for which I got an A!), completed my master’s, received an award for best diss in my major (!) and started a PhD. The PhD somehow is the only thing going well in my life. I’m on track with my courses, my supervisor is amazing, I receive enough funding, I have a tentative research topic, my colleagues are great fun. It’s also an uncertain environment where there’s no given plan to succeed, which doesn’t suit me the best. Creating rigor and structure is the way I’ve been able to not lose my mind. I’m afraid of not being able to publish good quality research, of not being a great teacher, of struggling in the job market because I chose a lower ranked university. I try not to think about it, but the doubts have accompanied me throughout the semester. I feel like I’ve left behind all of my hobbies – not that I don’t have free time, but I spend a lot of it hanging out with my colleagues/friends. I haven’t read much, I haven’t gone climbing, I haven’t gone hiking as frequently as I’d like, and I don’t have much outside of work. This has to change.

I also started therapy over the summer. I had been ready for a while, but by then I had a concrete idea of what I wanted to work on & I had found a psychotherapist I thought was a great fit (and she is!). I’m not sure why I hadn’t considered online counselling before (NOT the scam that is BetterHelp; there’s plenty of qualified therapists that counsel online), but it gave me the possibility to choose among many options and find someone that understood narcissistic abuse and did EMDR. It’s good. It helps. It has also opened a flood of things I need to think about.

Among all of this mess, I broke up with my boyfriend. I’m proud of my choice, but I find being single difficult, as I give a lot of importance to relationships because I hope for my partner to provide me with the love and affection I didn’t receive throughout my life. I want to be able to give myself that love – and eventually be in a relationship, but one that fits with what I value: a strong emotional connection, mutual commitment to a future together, effort. I’m not there yet.

In all of this, writing my thoughts down has help incredibly. I’ve reverted back to pen and paper, which I can’t recommend enough. It’s freeing.

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workingtowardsthatphd · 9 months ago

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welcome back to my studyblr!

(a new introduction now that I am starting my MA in the next week! this is an update for those of you who are already following me and an introduction for any new people!)

☕ about me!

Cal, 21, UK, she/they

☕ studying!

Master of Arts - MA, Historical Research (Sep 2024 - Jul 2026)

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reading, writing, ice skating (I'm hoping to pick that back up while doing my MA), & baking!

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general tips for uni life, daily updates, general thoughts.

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feel free to send me any questions about both postgrad and undergrad life, I am here to help!!

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llyfrenfys · 2 years ago

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Followers- Dw i angen eich help / I need your help

This is a post I've been sitting on for a while and it's time I finally write it to let you all know how I am, where I'm at and the progress of Prosiect Llyfr Enfys.

So, as I alluded to in previous posts, I had a health scare at the end of May which landed me in the hospital. I've spent June recovering from that and dealing with a few life changes as well (which I will talk about later).

Unfortunately, me and my partner had to deal with an unexpected bill of £200 this month which had to come directly out of my savings and is a huge chunk of it.

I've been doing research in preparation for hopefully doing a Masters at Aberystwyth in September on the topic of LGBTQ+ Welsh terminology before the 20th Century. My undergraduate dissertation was on the topic of 20th-21st Century LGBTQ+ Welsh terminology (which is currently unmarked due to the marking boycott). Hopefully after graduation I can share it with you. But my research into older terminology means needing to travel to different archives and libraries in Wales, which at the minute, I just can't afford. The closest place would be Bangor, but I have no money to spare at the minute and Prosiect Llyfr Enfys is not funded by any scheme or grant- it's currently all funded by myself.

For the first time in my life, I've been considering using a food bank. We're not quite at that stage yet, but it's precarious. It's another unexpected bill away from a critical situation.

Currently, my monthly expenses for anything related to the dictionary totals around £40 (subscriptions to archives, libraries, genealogy research tools) which have been instrumental in my work. For example, I couldn't have written my articles for Hanes LHDT+ Cymru without access to ancestry sites or online newspaper archives. This does not include other expenses such as bus tickets to get to the National Library of Wales when I need to, or costs of purchasing dictionaries in order to source them in my work.

All of this is to say that i need your help:

I have a patreon which I will be posting in next in July- if you enjoy Prosiect Llyfr Enfys and want to help keep it going, please consider subscribing today by clicking the link above or in my bio. The lowest tier is affordable and if you have the cash to spare, will enable me to keep on working on the project. If you want to make a one-time donation, I'm considering enabling tips on tumblr for those who would prefer that.

If enough people are able to subscribe to keep the project going, I can start to make some concrete plans for a trip to Bangor and share my journey with you all and involve you in the trip. If I'm unable to raise enough funds, I will have to make the decision to pause the project until after my Master's. I do not currently have a publisher, which is also a big factor in that decision, if I need to make it.

All your support is greatly appreciated- if you cannot donate, please share this post.

As ever, huge huge diolch yn fawr to everyone who has supported the project so far- with your help, we can get this dictionary published to help benefit the whole Welsh LGBTQ+ community and beyond.

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eponymous-rose · 5 months ago

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Welp, it's Tuesday. Deep breath. Here we go.

Didn't have to go in early today and definitely wasted some time doomscrolling, which takes effort considering how much social media I've removed from my phone. Ugh. Anyway, I got up and cuddled the cat and ate a nice breakfast and felt better.

E-mails! The student I agreed to meet with yesterday about his dissertation is available tomorrow and the next day. In order to keep my work-from-home-Thursday dreams blissfully alive, I managed to slot him into my last available half-hour time tomorrow. Meeeeeetings. Also got a reminder for a mandatory training I'll have to do at some point this week, a note about a technical problem with a grant submission that would have disqualified me were it not for a reopening next week (phew), and a message from a Master's student that I honestly thought had decided against finishing (he's just got to hand in a five-page document and he's done, but he started a new job and didn't answer my e-mails for, uh, three years...), so we'll see how that goes. Also? A message from the department chair requesting an emergency faculty meeting this afternoon. Eep.

Off to campus, finally! I have a great meeting with my PhD student - I've missed these (he was away at an internship at a national lab last quarter). He does really cool work and has big ideas, and I attempted to convince him that he's ready enough to consider defending his PhD in early June. We'll see! We're working on getting him lined up with his next job - I'm writing him letters for three major postdocs, and also reaching out to my networks in Canada and Europe to see if anyone has a position that'll be open around the right time. We also talk about an annoying set of reviews on one of his journal articles - two of the reviewers have contradictory opinions on major revisions needed, and the editor will not do their job and step in to break a tie, so we tried making one reviewer happy and of course the other one got pissed, so we tried a compromise and now both are angry. Ugh. We're almost ready to withdraw the paper and resubmit elsewhere. But! My student's keeping a good sense of humor about the whole thing (it helps that he's going to graduate with a half-dozen first-author papers under his belt, no matter what).

Next, day two of the faculty interview! Yes, it's the same guy, and yes, it's two 8AM-8:30PM days. Grueling. He gives a really cool chalk talk about some of his future research ideas and we all chat for a while before giving him a break and launching into our emergency faculty meeting. Looks like a hiring freeze and an attempt to keep things business as usual until we know how bad things are going to be. Not much else we can do, so we all sort of nervously reassure each other and go on our way.

As part of the search committee, I'm now up to perform the exit interview for our exhausted candidate! He asks some great questions and we're all very jovial, which is a great note to end on.

Back to the office! Before I head home, I want to finish up my grading and also submit reimbursement requests for my travel last week as well as yesterday's dinner. Manage to get both done by quarter past five! Phew. Tomorrow's a big day of meetings, so it's time to head home.

#eponymous job tag #eponymous academia tag

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hi ridi! I hope you've been having a fantastic time in Dublin and that the rest of the year treats you lovingly. <3

i want to tell u officially how much I adore your writing! the way you string bundles of words into something so so so precious, and the way they flow so seamlessly into something that just clicks right in my brain-- I am actually so jealous of your writing! they are just sooooo lovely to be read... <3 anyway I've been curious about your writing journey! i am assuming you are younger than me since you are doing your last year of your degree (gooooood luck for your dissertation! I'm doing my master degree diss atm so watching ur journey has been such a dear companion to me) but your brilliant writing is just so inspiring to me... if you have the time would you be able to share a few tips on writing? xx

ahh hi this is so lovely of you thank you!! youre too sweet and it always makes me beyond happy to hear people enjoy my writing : ^ )) as for tips i do feel a bit unqualified to give out advice on writing as someone who only does this for fun + hasnt received any teaching/criticisms from actual writers + also has no intention of writing creatively in any capacity beyond this but there are a few things i find help me to write stuff that i myself enjoy...firstly i can link an ask i answered a while ago about writing dialogue or at least how i approach writing dialogue and also an ask about my personal writing style and whats important to me when im writing and this one about editing/writing a second draft..and this one about general writing tips which i answered a few years ago...in general though now i think the most important things to my writing are as follows : ^ )

really generic but so real just reading is the biggest thing for developing writing to me second only maybe to the act of writing itself and even then id say its pretty close...other people and especially published authors will word things and use phrases and employ descriptions in ways i would never ever have thought of and reading other peoples writing can introduce you to ways and styles of using language which wouldnt have occured to you otherwise!! its wonderful!! and reading something you really love can just remind you of what you can do with writing and i find that really helpful even just as motivation : ^ )

this is a personal style choice i suppose but i hateeee white room syndrome i HATE to read something where the settings and physical details arent fleshed out...or conversely i loveee that element of writing so its a really important bit for me!! fleshing out the environment like what does the room look like can you hear the bin men on the street outside are there magnets on the fridge is there washing up in the sink what mug are they drinking from do they own a novelty t shirt from a holiday two years ago. there is so much fun but also so much character building and atmosphere creation and period setting 2 be had in little details like that!! idk i just love to read it so i think everyone should do it and its just so much FUN like yes design their old-fashioned galley kitchen and fill it full of clutter!! so much more immersive than a scene which ends up taking place in a blank white room in my head because the setting is underdescribed.

in terms of editing my method is really laborious and probably inefficient but i do it for creative writing + uni essays and i cant imagine doing it any other way now..when i finish a draft i open a blank doc and put them beside each other and rewrite the scene in the blank doc...a lot of sentences youll write out exactly as they are but i find it comes much easier to make changes and think of ways to restructure sentences when youre typing them out from scratch rather than staring at an already written passage trying to improve it. its painful but it works!!

avoid moral purification and tumblr discourse speak and therapy speak at all costs!! moral purification and tumblr discourse speak and therapy speak are the Writing killers i instantly have to stop reading things when every character talks like theyre completely up to date on the latest online discourse and unproblematic and have all been through years of therapy. ESPECIALLY in a piece meant to be set in like. the 1970s. its so boring when people cant let characters behave poorly without finding some way to absolve them of responsibility or have them be able to perfectly explain exactly which childhood traumas have driven certain responses or behaviours. they are going to have to be bad people who can have the right values but might express them in a way different to what the piccrew tumblr pfp on your dash is saying in 2024. it also just means they all sound the same the characters have no individual voices or outlooks its just really boring!! i dont know if its a product of people being scared of receiving flak for writing anything else but consider this me giving everyone writing this sort of stuff flak right now. booo. boring.

chronic overuser of similes and metaphors here but nearly everything is like something else even only in a vague wayand for me and what i enjoy the more unlikely the comparison the better. and for the stuff that isnt like something else well thats the crux of it also...links back 2 the point about details a bit but using all the senses and the physiology of the human body (it does soo many things and experiences so many sensations and feelings in so many different places in so many different situations there is so much to be mined!!) and literally anything at all especially in a big moment or when ur trying to describe big emotions some writers are talented enough to tackle them head on but i personally am often not and so i find it easiest to concentrate on the smallest details of big emotions...almost like a cheat but i like how it works!!

this is all really generic stuff and things i have probably said before but hopefully something here is of use and if i think of anything else ill add to it!! but i think just writing badly and reading good stuff does make you get better at it there arent any rules except perhaps not using phrases or metaphors which are commonly used...yah!! thats the gist of it i think!! : ^ )

#telegram #anon #writing tag #feel like a fraud claiming to have writing tips but i can talk about what i like to do + read in writing and this is most of it : ^ )

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