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it is currently thursday, my dudes
#these violent delights#chloe gong#thursday#@no-1-rosalind-lang-apologist i decided to start reading the series because of you#you have really good taste in books
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starting off with an amuse-bouche of some of my initial favorite bits! y'all, this update was WILD.
#art#twisted wonderland#twisted wonderland spoilers#twisted wonderland episode 7 spoilers#twisted wonderland book 7 spoilers#we really got it all in this update huh#we got flashbacks! backstory! shocking twists! cgs?!#we got the silver breakdown to end all silver breakdowns#the boy does not emote for 6 episodes straight and now it's POURING out and i am shoving my face directly into it#not to mention my favorite: action scenes represented by intensely wiggling the sprites around#and OF COURSE meleanor my beloved. your highness. ma'am. holy shit.#i guess it's mel instead of mal? hey she can spell her name however she wants#meleanor can do whatever she wants about anything. who is going to stop her.#meleanor: hold on baby. mommy wants to make a point. (yeets malleus' egg across the room into liia's face)#man though i am so afraid that crowley really might turn out to have been revaan this whole time#because this means we live in a world where dire fucking crowley managed to pull BOTH meleanor and lilia and i cannot accept that#briar valley are you okay. is it something in the water.#mrs. zigvolt took all the good taste and left none for anyone else
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i try not to judge anyone's taste in media too too harshly, on account of i always feel like the act of Getting Into A Spat About What Constitutes Good Literature is not only a losing battle but an act of jostling for the shotgun seat of the genre fiction/fandom clown car rather than thinking outside of it entirely (glass houses, pal.)
but entering a conversation about sci fi, attempting to talk about le guin and asimov, and immediately getting brought into a heated debate about whether star wars is better with extended universe or the disney canon (i think? i do not go here) is. something.
#'you have good taste victor did you like the last jedi'#i did not. watch the last jedi#on account of i do not star a war#it's really nothing personal#but. cmon. anyone here read books#victor text
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another day another fern and jermaine sketch dump whats upppp
#fern the human#fern mertens#jermaine the dog#my art#adventure time#its a hard life when u only love drawing two mildly unpopular characters who never interact in canon#but i do it for me and my dedicated fans.#nothing is better than looking at these two guys standing next to each other#rough... not a marketable fandom skill.#anyways do you guys think jermaine has good music taste?#i think him and bryce slowdance to vinyls sometimes and fern mimes gagging the corner in his chair#(he found himself a chair and dragged it in for when he didnt want to be touched)#fern is a guy who is often touch repulsed. you can tlel#oh also i found the art of ooo book. have you ever seen finn and jake?#pendelton ward knocked it out of the park on these guys. i wish i could smash them on the wall#i wish any adventure time merch really appealed to me but i think a lot of finn stuff fails to nail his side profile#hes built like a marshmallow#ok this is a lot of tags thanks if you read them#happy christmas
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The love of the Wanderer is to wanderers.
#em draws stuff#travel light#this image has been about a year in the making (I wanted to draw it when I first read it but I only got to it now)#my thoughts on travel light are. well they are this image primarily.#been a while and a while since I drew in this style and it feels GOOD to be doing it again!!#wish I'd figured out a way to fit steinvor into the composition but it was a hard squish even to include tarkan der (and he's very tiny)#the way I've done the mountains are purposefully referencing one of the earlier covers of the hobbit as I love jirt's painting style#and it seemed apt for various things about the way travel light exists and the kinds of things it has to say#it is right on the edge of where legend meets life when it comes to depicting early medieval europe and it's. well. read it actually.#book that makes you want to listen to 'to holmgard and beyond' by turisas except exactly backwards#(in the varangian way they are going the other direction and also they are much more (to put it as halla would) dragonish about it)#song I first heard in the context of an absolutely wild 8tracks playlist in 2015 which changed my music taste forever. anyway.#really I must read more naomi mitchison except that no library in the entire state of california appears to have a copy of the big house :/#anyway anyway. if I ever get my own copy of this book I Will be rebinding it to have this for a cover I like it so very much
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One of the staff workers in raised spirits DEF thinks dippers at least fucking one of the ciphers ghosts
I'd go so far as to say more than one of the staff members has certain Suspicions, re: Dipper talking to thin air all the time.
#answers#Poltergeist Bill's been keeping it on the down-low#Inasmuch as he's able to#But c'mon. The eerie atmosphere of the place. The way things move around#You could have sworn you put the thing one place and then it turns up in another inconvenient one#The sudden gust of *cold* nearby only to vanish when you startle#Also your boss yelling 'GodDAMNIT Bill' every once in a while#And arguing with thin air with big gestures. Leaving pauses long enough for someone to actually say something back#The latter being *really* hard to fake#I'd say more than a couple people have a hunch the place is actually legit haunted#I don't know about them thinking he's doing Bill - the more salient thing is them knowing there's a ghost at ALL#But Gideon left SUCH a bad taste in everyone's mouth that they're going with Dipper's 'nope totally normal manor' thing#Everyone's on board with 'screw that guy'. Gideon's just that unpleasant#Also regarding Bill's not-quite interactions with the staff#There's theoretically a snippet somewhere of an employee blearily watching someone invisible struggle with the coffee machine#Watching the spluttering electronics for a half-awake moment before nervously scooting a french press over there instead#That person's in Bill's good books now
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pinning so its seen-
sorry for not being as mentally ill on here/posting as much art/finnishing the peices i promised- i sadly have gotten myself a life for the next few weeks and am dieging. please send curses and blights my way so i can stop existing-
#ya so um. im learning hoe to drive yay!!!#but learning how to drive is taking up a bunch of my time-#and ive got therapy on top of that also with volenteering and classes and dnd and i booked a hangout with a friend this weekenx-#and thats not even touching how my drawing brain has been switched out with knitting because im sooo fucking cold and i have#a really lovely yarn the color of chuuyas hair and that homey yarn smell that makes you sleepy and is so so warm#plus the knit im using for it makes it so plush and comfy wile not being soft-#its just wjfbsucjejd so yeah! am on knitting kick#i will probably be back on my bs more in december but for the rest of october and november pls dont expect too much from me-#im! also! still trying to roleplay blog tho having a life is very much getting in the way of that-#yeah im really sorry- im also trying to inprove style again and am working on side profiles so now gotta fix up front view to look good#too and ajfbsjfbsubfudhfj- thats also also not counting how i gotta stay on top of my studdies and health and everything-#cause like. i still cant have dairy. and im i think im getting better slowly from the shift but it made me start to taste blood again#and is all just- yeah- again im so so sorry for not being here as mych i am just so tired#next week im going to make sure im not as busy. i swear. if im as busy/productive as this week i will die
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I need a new thing to give me brainworms and make me go crazy
#pickle pontificates#or just like. a thing i can have a blast with#too many things out there that are objectively pretty good. solid thumbs up. but flawed in ways that aren't fun#flawed in ways that make me start overanalyzing why it didn't quite work for me since it almost did#I don't have the brainspace for that#i want to have a dunmeshi mob psycho fma manga out of body experience#i want to be dissolved into a crying snotty mess by people with stupid names like what the httyd books did to me#or taz balance.#i want blorbos that invade my head at all hours just to rotate at mach 20 speed like tbhk#dang the more i look at this list the more i think I'm maybe really into stuff that's stupid and funny but takes its emotional core#so seriously that it 360 noscopes your heart and destroys you#I don't even really know that this is like a request for recs bc taste is a funny thing#i mean it's not not one but i cannot guarantee that your brainworms are mine
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“Start with action! You need a big action scene at the get-go or readers will think you have no story!”
…respectfully, no.
What makes a good opening isn’t “convince the reader there’s a story here.” They picked up the book. They know there’s a story in it, that’s what books are for. What makes a good opening is “convince the reader to listen to your story.” Why should they keep reading? Why should they buy your book, or check it out from their local library?
Don’t start a fight, plant a bomb.
Starting with decontextualized action, like an unprompted fight scene, doesn’t grab attention the way it might in film or television. If you have to rewind and explain how you got here, then you just have a jumbled opening with minimal payoff. Good openings set up a thread to follow, one you’d better pay off soon. You plant a bomb, show it to the reader, and let them watch it tick down until it explodes. Setup > payoff, enough to get them interested in what’s next.
Example:
“The wolf lay dead, black blood oozing from its mouth.”
Setup: dead wolf. what killed it? what’s wrong with its blood?
The reader is asking questions. Good. Because now you can answer them. That’s your payoff. Now you’ve got an inciting incident and the beginning of your plot. You’ve established the story and the reader is interested. Mission accomplished 😎
Now, different openings will work better for different stories. A slow-build spec fic might have a subtle first line that gets you interested enough to go on. An action-heavy novel might start with an infiltration, building up tension and dropping lines about the protagonist’s purpose until the plan fails and they have to fight their way out. Whatever it is, it should introduce the world and story they’re getting into and do so well enough to get them invested. Set up a thread, follow it through, and pay it off.
Plant a bomb.
Then blow it up.
#it speaks#writing#writing advice#readers aren’t stupid but they do have tastes#some things just won’t appeal to some ppl and that’s fine#but if you want a fantasy reader to read YOUR fantasy book you gotta make it worthwhile#no one likes reading bad books bc they thought it would be good#and that first impression really counts!
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Are you a bad person, or do you just have reasonable concerns, are you a bad person, or are you just asking questions?
Tell Me I'm Worthless - Allison Rumfitt
#i read this because WYL recommended it during the workshop#but it wasn't my favourite book honestly#i feel that it was too unsubtle for my tastes but i guess some people are into that?#in terms of the political tenor of it it reminded me a lot of disorientation by elaine hsieh chou/yellowface by rf kuang#books that i didn't particularly enjoy#in terms of the horror it reminded me a lot of porpentine's short stories but i like porpentine a lot more#um because a lot of it wasn't particularly shocking to me tbh#like. wow you were on /tttt/ come i clap for you#sorry that sounded snarky but yeah i didnt find it very scary and it didn't really say anything politically that wasn't FASCISTS ARE BAD!!!#i feel like this could change someone's life. unfortunately that person isn't me#and that's ok#i have slightly higher hopes for brainwyrms bc abigail thorn said that one was good
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i’ve been trying to get through hoh for literally like a week now but it’s so hard bc the way my fave nico is treated is absolutely ABYSMAL and i know it only gets worse
#personal#even hazel being like ‘yeah he’s hard to get along with’ or whatever she said#every single non-tartarus perspective has had at least one reference to this#and like i understand the reasons it’s not that it’s that it highlights this issue i have with a lot of the characters in that series which#is that i don’t like them. and that’s so different for me bc i actually usually find that my two favorite characters in anything are the tw#that don’t like each other? unrelated to that dynamic usually mostly but still within it#but that’s not even what the dynamic is yk.#and it’s just the whole thing overall like in the last book there was one part where these two characters who are supposed to be good#friends are separated and one makes a comment about how annoying (or something along those lines) she finds the other which.#i’m vaguely aware of what happens in toa so i think you could argue something about that but read on its own bc i don’t want to make that#argument without fully grasping where her character goes#it just kinda reinforces this… vibe to the whole series that was not nearly as present in the first series of like. really overemphasized#like gender roles/heterosexuality/etc. i can’t think of the word to use to describe it. i’ve seen other ppl talk about the parts that add u#to the whole that i’ve seen but never synthesize them. and it really varies between actually insidious and simply not my taste which is par#of the reason i hesitate to make a full critique out of it. but suffice to say i really don’t like it#with that being said the pacing of this book is really good and i am compelled to finish based on the themes i do find interesting#autonomy being a huge one#but anyway those are my thoughts on it after a few days of a break. i’ve been playing a video game instead :3 but i start work on wednesday#sooo i won’t have as much free time boo#looking back maybe ‘insidious’ is a very strong word for it. i’m talking about like when percy complains about the bag and similar moments
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I love being able to salvage an idea and mush 10 ideas together into a fic idea that holds water at least somewhat
#I do not enjoy however#the fact I have to fucking write it now#it’s a good idea very stupid incredibly romcom#I blame the new book I’m reading it’s so fun so far#like i made a note and i quote myself here#Garland if you don’t drop to one knee and marry Stevie I WILL.#it’s called that summer feeling it’s set at an adult week at a summer camp#it’s ADORABLE the BANTER was instant and immaculate!#it’s really good so far#I will be digging through this authors other work now#if it’s sapphic as well I can’t bring myself to read m/f anymore#I spent my entire childhood seeing straight people fall in love#I’d like some adult women to fall in love now it’s what I’m owed I devoured books in the dystopia romance craze#I am owed my new taste in romcoms
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Manga and merch haul from today!!
#prince's talk tag#went to a street fair in the city and ate a bunch of expensive food but they tasted good so im not too mad#and then i hit up kino and bnn for books#bnn was doing their buy one get one 50 percent off so that made me get more than i was planning on getting#most of these are just the next volume(s) i needed to read#witch hat did have the first two volumes of cooking spin off but i wasnt sure how worth itd be#like my boys are the stars but last time i read a chill cooking manga i wasnt as into it and ended up dropping it#so im afraid of that happening here#the eclair series i was interested in bc its a bunch of yuri one shots and i only had bleue and blanche and didnt know there was more#so imagine my surprise when i saw two other colors and i think the first one before they started naming it after colors#i got scared for a second bc i thought i accidentally bought eclair twice but i was confusing it for bleue so there were no dupes#another thing i was surprised to find where the cds in the first pic#i have the osts of the og games but not their remakes so ofc i had to get them#i just need FES and Royal and im all set (i got reload's on mercari)#went back to the place i got the blind boxes and i was trying for Luka or Kaito and i got Wonderland Luka but Computer Len#im not mad i got Len bc he is my son but i do like how Luka's looks for it but theyre pricy so i didnt want to buy too many#now if i could wonderland!kaito and computer!luka id be happy#also did the gachapon machine and got a snow miku keychain which you can see on the book in pic 3#its really cute i like it a lot
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As much as I roast Beyond Birthday for his lack of subtlety I also kin him for it. Because in art school we were sometimes required to incorporate deep symbolism into our art pieces, and I was always doing things like drawing a dude holding a compass and wearing goggles to represent that he's feeling directionless about his worldview
#seriously art school was such both a good learning experience and also an embarrassing bummer all at once hahaha#i think the worst part about it is i started feeling like i couldnt have a sense of playfulness or humour in what i made?#not necessarily because anyone told me that but i just somehow internalized it and it sucked all the joy out of making stuff#i had to relearn a lot about why i used to love doing it in the first place and all that jazz people always say about art school#but anyway i just cant not be literal and hamfisted so i really shouldn't make fun of B#for being like#hmmm clocks!! eyeballs!! the number 13#it's really not as easy as it looks to be subtle and artful about such things#i think part of the problem was i went to school basically for making fine art to hang in galleries#when all i really ever loved art for was all the comics and movies and games and cartoons i took in#i didnt live somewhere where i could often go to museums or galleries so i lived through books and screens alone for art basically#and i really started believing all the stuff i loved wasnt the 'correct' kind of art that i should be focusing on anymore because of school#i definitely recommend considering your influences when it comes to the kind of schooling you do#like pick something where you'll be studying the artists and art you genuinely were inspired by because#so much of art school was studying fine art and artists that legitimately did nothing for me#not because they werent worth studying but just because they werent my personal taste#beyond birthday#p
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what if this year i gave up on even gesturing at ""passing"" and instead embraced the world of weird unisex natural-fiber garments available on etsy 🤔
#like. they have unisex wool so-called harem pants!!#(i want to do more reading abt different cultures' versions of men's/unisex drop-crotch pants but a ten-second google was weirdly unhelpful#(actual info drowned out by listicles basically. will have to find some real books or something)#(specifically i like when they're almost a triangle‚ as opposed to like‚ just really full-cut trousers that look more western)#i have gotten so much flack from my family over the years for liking that style of pant#(which like. okay. you think it's ugly. i get that but like. WHY do you think it's ugly.)#(is it perhaps possible yr taste has been shaped by western standards.)#and i stopped wearing the summer-weight pair i used to have when i started vaguely trying to pass#but like. lately my gender feelings are mostly 'i'm an agender gremlin creature and i'm gonna wear some androgynous clothes about it'#which mostly is like. men's joggers with a hoodie if we're being honest#also some baggy cargo pants with a hoodie. every once in a blue moon the hoodie gets swapped out for a baggy wool sweater.#but i gotta say i kind of love the idea of baggy dropcrotch pants (also with hoodie)#and now you tell me i can even get my winter wool freak on about it?? amazing.#anyway we'll see but i'm having fun looking at all the unusual-by-normative-western-standards woolens etsy wants to show me#feels good feels organic etc (but like. in many cases literally lmao)#sartorial#journaling
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if you read Red Queen and you're a fan of Maven Calore, you should totally read Splintered by A. G. Howard
#like... trust me#it will be good#really good#morpheus is like maven but with more taste for fashion and a bit of a dark and machiavelous heart but still a heart#i was so obsessed with him and maven when i was 12yo you have no idea#please trust my 12yo self taste it was good i promise even better than my taste nowadays#red queen#maven calore#splintered#morpheus#ya books
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