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[somerabbitholes]

i loved the sense of freefall in this book — it was persistent but never inevitable; and i loved loved loved the end

[brother-emperors]

a pair of scenes out of The Comic™ that had to get cut: Cassius doing his best impression of Cassandra with the foreshadowing re: Publius raising his hand over his face to block out the sun and later Publius taking an arrow to that exact hand at Carrhae

I ended up scrapping it because there was an underlying dialogue in the second scene where Octavius asks Cassius what he’s seeing, and the thing is, Cassius is too far away to actually see when Publius gets hit, and originally I wrote it in because of Cassius and his thematic eye sight out of Shakespeare, but this comic isn’t about that and keeping it in would have just too many underlying implied themes going on.

that said, I’m still kind of fond of it, so here we go!

Plutarch’s Crassus

Cassius and Brutus: the Memory of the Liberators, E. Rawson (there’s a very fun counter argument that Cassius should actually be compared to Tiresias instead, but I went with Cassandra)

The Cassandra Scene in Aeschylus’ ‘Agamemnon,’ Seth L. Schein

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[nakunakunomi]

Update!

So I have done some things, made some changes :) The Poll results were pretty much unanimous - Rules: updated and simplified - Header / pinned post: updated properly in light of nsfw stuff - Inbox: completely cleared of ANY request that was not a summer drabble or Halloween request. There were some fun ones, but I just couldn't do it anymore. - Request queue linked again, in light of the next point

Finally: I am going back to opening/closing my inbox, focusing mostly on events/prompt lists. Regular box openings may happen, but I will limit them, and not take every request, only write those that spark joy. I feel like this is the best way to avoid writer's block and guilt for waiting too long to write things.

For now, inbox will be closed for requests, as I am working on some projects. I will open it when i feel confident i can do some more request writing.

If you were waiting on me to write something, you can send it in again when I open my inbox again, or send it to someone else, no hard feelings at all. I apologize to those I left hanging. I just couldn't stare at these asks anymore without feeling bad for not fulfilling them yet. Hope y'all stick around for more writings soon, and hopefully more consistent and productive writing again <3

[astral-from-afar]

Nabari characters taking turns at infiltrating my brain

[ninjagocrohw]

how to get back into ninjago: listen to your dumb music mood/au playlists you put together

[vilea777]

sorry i cant hang out i forgot how to mimic human like behaviour

[luminarai]

Oh nooo I hadn’t noticed that my cat’s automatic feeder was getting low on food so as usual she dashed off when she heard the machine start but I couldn’t hear the usual sound of her food falling into the bowl so I went to look and my poor cat was just. Sitting there. Staring at her empty food bowl. Then for a second she glanced up at me then right back to her bowl with the biggest, saddest, most bewildered eyes you could ever imagine on such a small creature. I filled her bowl and the machine right away ofc but I still feel a little guilty 😭

[tothechaos]

glad that im not popular enough to have an evil shadow version of my blog that exists just to make contradictions on my posts

[lizkreates]

Mad with boop power! I felt inspired.

[somerabbitholes]

2022 in reading

[jerich0two]

A begrudging Happy Valentine's to you all! Stay safe out there, my fellow aromantics ...

[nakunakunomi]

Masterlists should be updated now, but it is quite late and my brain is a little bit more fuzzy than anticipated, so if you spot a mistake, just let me know <3 Anyhoots, I will get back to writing tomorrow, and then slowly get back into working as well, so trying to find out a proper work/tumblr/life/other hobbies balance again. Tomorrow will also be ask/message reply o'clock.

Finally, I will also ask about some blog updates. Things that I have been toying with, about requests, events but even the contents of this blog (no worries, I *will* stay a writer). But that's for a night when I have had 5+ hours of sleep. So Goodnight for now, and I will be back to spamming y'alls timelines in the morning <3

[onlysexygirls13]

[remanence-of-love]

[nicetomeetmew]

This collab was not on my 2023 bingo card

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[writtenroses1813]

I’m so sorry but in the nicest way possible do yall actually read books or just read words??? Cause I’ve been seeing that trend of people not understanding how “snarled” and “eyes darkened” and “eyes softened” etc. was used in a book and like…

Genuinely, do yall just not have imagination?? Or not understand figurative language??? Also eyes do literally darken and soften have you not lived a life??? How do you read with no imagination? Is this how you get through so many books in one month - you simply don’t take the time the understand the words as they are read?