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Crash

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to all the fic writers out there who have made 2021 bearable and have given us all countless hours of happiness and escapism, thank you so much

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*says ‘I’m so fucking sick of this pandemic shit’ in a distinctly vaccinated, pro mask, pro lockdown, pro taking all the necessary safety measures way*

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Clear with a magnet on the back

for research purposes if you are bisexual reblog and tell me what your phone case looks like

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Is there a word that’s a mix between angry and sad

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I think the best writing advice I was ever given- by professional authors- is “You are what you eat.”

By that, I don’t mean “Be a lit snob.” I mean don’t starve yourself, or malnourish yourself.

Aspiring authors almost always start out carbon-copying their favorite books, whether they mean to or not. That’s a great place to begin! But it shouldn’t be where you stay. Most of us start out life eating 3 or 4 different kinds of mashed foods. Which is great, but banana mush, apple sauce, mashed peas, and prunes will only take you so far. Eventually you have to branch out into other kinds of food, or your body won’t grow or thrive.

When I started writing, I was a snobby little fantasy purist. I only wanted to write high fantasy, and I quote, “Like Tolkien.” And that’s the only kind of stuff I read. But I was missing out on the benefits of having a diverse diet. In a word, I was literarily malnourished. So when I wrote, it was flimsy, pale, and weak. Which was an okay place to start as a child, but wouldn’t have gotten me anywhere.

What makes good writing? You could name a number of things: round characters, clear and consistent plot, thorough worldbuilding, unique writing style, accessible writing, and so on. Not the subject matter, setting, or genre. These characteristics can be found across a wide range of literature. Classic fantasy can have smart, clever, unexpected plots, and contemporary books can have deeply complex, round characters. Just like how Vitamin D can be found in both milk and dark leafy greens.

But no one food contains all the nutrients you need. So no one book, or one style or one genre will contain everything you need to really learn and grow as a writer. In fact, you’re probably going to write really poor fantasy if all you read is strict fantasy, because eventually you’ll run out of the good stuff and start consuming stuff just for the sake of the figurative calories. Which will keep you fed, but may not do much for your health. Or you’ll refuse to eat anything because it’s not your staple. Meanwhile things like poetry, nonfiction, fanfiction, or even just other genres of fiction are waiting, packed with good, quality “nutrients,” and you’re over there stagnating. I’m not saying you can’t have a favorite; classic fantasy still has a special place in my heart. But I also discovered I am really, really good at creative nonfiction, and that I really, really enjoy it–both reading and writing. I learned a lot about writing fiction from reading nonfiction, and I learned a lot about writing in general by reading in general, not limiting myself to one “staple food.”

Want to write good characters? Read good characters! Want to write deep, philosophical struggles? Read them! Want to write the next blockbuster? Read what’s popular, and learn why! Whatever you want to produce, you have to consume, but you also have to stop limiting yourself to one food. Toast is great, but you won’t gain much muscle if you never eat anything else.

That also leads me to not starving yourself. One of the best ways to clear up writer’s block is to take a break and read something. Go start a new book, or pick up an old favorite. Feed yourself.

You are what you eat; you write what you read. So go feast!

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Eggs: gross sorry

Steak: also gross

Milk: almond

Alcohol: idk something sweet and nonalcoholic

Warm Drink: red rose original tea

*not a vegan for me it’s a texture thing and being lactose intolerant plz don’t yell at me

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Hair ties....? Never heard of either pony tails or pony tail holders

HEY GUYS i’m doing a survey for my linguistics assignment, could you please reply/reblog and tag where you’re from/where you grew up and what you call these?

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I unironically love the character names in the Hunger Games series.

Haymitch, Peeta, Hazelle, Leevy, Maysilee, Finnick and Greasy Sae look bizarre when you first see them written down, but then if you think about how they look and/or sound it's pretty clear that they're meant to be modern names, only modern names that have changed spelling and pronounciation over time— as you would have expected them to have done so over how ever many hundreds of years it's been since our modern day.

(Remember, though The Hunger Games themselves have only been going on for 75 years, the universe they're in is canonically post-apocalyptic— the reason nobody ever mentions what's happening in the rest of the world is that everywhere except America was destroyed in a nuclear war. We're not given much of an indication how long it's been since then.)

Peeta is Peter, Haymitch is Hamish, and Hazelle is Hazel, Maysilee is Maisie— the changes in pronunciation are slight (Peeta and Peter are already virtually identical in my accent), and the spelling has changed to match.

Leevy is either a corruption of Lily, or more likely I suspect 'Livvy', a common nickname for Olivia; Finnick is probably from Finnegan (shorten in to 'Finneg' and then say it over and over very fast); Sae could be short for Sarah, or Sally or even Susan— it's not uncommon for nicknames to become real names in their own right (look at Harry or Molly as examples).

I also love the trend of having District 1 parents give their kids names relating to the luxury items their district produces— Glimmer, Marvel, Gloss, Cashmere, Velvereen (presumably a corruption of 'velveteen'), Facet— because those things are all a) objectively pretty/nice (like naming a kid 'Diamond' or 'Star' today) and presumably status symbols in their district.

Meanwhile District 3 does the same thing, but all the pronunciations are corrupted. You've got technical names to do with the manufacture of electronics— Wiress (wireless), Circ (circuit)— but you've also got what I'm pretty sure are meant to be corruptions of modern brand names— Beetee (BT), Teslee (Tesla).

To me this kind of suggests that District 3 is less conscious of this influence than District 1. Like, parents in 1 are more likely to deliberately think "I'll name my kid Glimmer, because things that glimmer are pretty" whereas 3 as a culture might have genuinely forgotten that those names used to mean something, in the same way that most of us don't think much about how the name 'Arthur' comes from the old word for 'Bear'.

And of course, then you've got the Capitol leaning hard into those ancient Roman vibes with names like Fulvia, Plutarch, Seneca, Tigris… but still using the European/American personal name+family name format, which the Romans didn't really do. Like it's very clear that this is a future society fetishising the classical era, rather than an actual resurgence of Roman culture.

It's just such a cool world-building detail. So many dystopian novels just go for modern names (and there's nothing wrong with that, especially if you're only looking a couple of hundred years into the future) but thinking about how names might have evolved over the centuries and the different naming traditions that might have developed in different areas really adds a whole new dimension to the culture of Panem.

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oh, to be the owner of a small bookshop on a cobblestone street with roses climbing the front of the building, where books are stacked about in piles and there’s always coffee brewing and a sleepy shop dog lifts his head at the sound of the door’s bell and thumps his tail against the hardwood

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I was discussing that “Pennywise ends up in Derry, Ireland instead of Derry, Maine” post with my husband, and he was saying that the Derry Girls wouldn’t even set out to defeat Pennywise.  The “A” plot would be that Erin lost her mother’s necklace down the drain and they have to go into the sewers to get it, and the fact that there’s a killer clown down there that they have to fight is second to what Erin’s mother will do if they don’t find her necklace.

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Schrodinger’s OC

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Can confirm, am adorable

We would all be so cute with little vampire fangs