anavar-immela
Counting Leaves
My purpose in life: to create and inspire.
I will post thoughts about my writing, writing advice, and general writerly randomness.
Also art, usually of my own characters, but some fanart of book characters too.
There will also be random astronomy-related posts, and other occasional nice things.
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would hate to be called gormless. Like I don't even have any gorm? Embarrassing, frankly.
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I've been reading The Dark Is Rising, finally, for the first time, and...it's incredible. This book (I haven't finished it just yet, and there's three more still to read after) is in my head like nothing else I've ever read. The prose, with flowing descriptions and dreamlike scene transitions, is like something I'd write now; the narrative choices, much like something I would write 20 years ago. The story slips into my mind like it's already been there, which is oddly appropriate given how Will comes into his power, and makes for an unexpected way to relate to a protagonist (though I relate to him in other ways as well, and always would have if I'd read the series at any younger age). I wish I'd read it years sooner, but here I am now, and somehow I'm meeting it at the same place I might have been if I were re-reading it, it's that familiar. It's like meeting an old friend for the first time.
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#socks drive me insane#a constant distraction#for a while there I thought I'd finally learned how to ignore them#but NOPE that was just anemic exhaustion not leaving me enough brain energy to notice#toe seams are the worst#socks twisting around my feet in my shoes are the worst#cramping my toes#my toes long to be free but are always constrained by the socks because without them my feet freeze#curse of constant cold feet double cursed with socks
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do I expect anyone to get this? not really. does that stop me from putting it here? obviously not.
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"She tries not to see my future. It's not easy for her, but I'm grateful."
"Are you telling me, that even after all your…after everything that went wrong, when you have the ability to know what's coming next you don't use it?"
"Would you care to know how your every act shapes the future of multiple worlds? How there is not a single twist of history that doesn't draw something from your presence? Would you wish to see, ahead of time, every instance where kindness is not an option, where you'll have to do things that chill your blood, knowing that when the time comes to be a monster you won't be able to regret it? Would you make yourself a slave to a history that hasn't happened yet? Or would you rather give yourself a chance, however small, to believe that you have some freedom to make your own choices? I see what she sees. I know things I would rather not know. I fear my power every bit as much as you do. I'm afraid that I'll lose myself to the history I must weave."
Constantly obsessed with the concept of a man forced to be a myth. What do you do when every step you take is embedded into the text. Every word you say prose to read. You're part of something bigger than yourself. The narrative tugs you along like water currents. There is no time to rest, to be human. You must be great, you must be legend
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i think it is important to recognize the ways in which your favorite thing sucks. i think it keeps u normal
#stargate#is not at all a bad show#it is in fact an extremely good show#that has simply had some questionable things in it and not given certain concepts the serious acknowledgement they deserve#stargate fans are very good at understanding why these certain things are not good but not letting it ruin our enjoyment of the show
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Do you happen to know the origin of the fantasy trope in which a deity's power directly corresponds to the number of their believers / the strength of their believers' faith?
I only know it from places like Discworld and DnD that I'm fairly confident are referencing some earlier source, but outside of Tinkerbell in Peter Pan, I can't think of of any specific work it might've come from, 20th-c fantasy really not being my wheelhouse.
Thank you!
That's an interesting question. In terms of immediate sources, I suspect, but cannot prove, that the trope's early appearances in both Dungeons & Dragons and Discworld are most immediately influenced by the oeuvre of Harlan Ellison – his best-known work on the topic, the short story collection Deathbird Stories, was published in 1975, which places it very slightly into the post-D&D era, though most of the stories it contains were published individually earlier – but Ellison certainly isn't the trope's originator. L Sprague de Camp and Fritz Leiber also play with the idea in various forms, as does Roger Zelazny, though only Zelazny's earliest work is properly pre-D&D.
Hm. Off the top of my head, the earliest piece of fantasy fiction I can think of that makes substantial use of the trope in its recognisably modern form is A E van Vogt's The Book of Ptath; it was first serialised in 1943, though no collected edition was published until 1947. I'm confident that someone who's more versed in early 20th Century speculative fiction than I am could push it back even earlier, though. Maybe one of this blog's better-read followers will chime in!
(Non-experts are welcome to offer examples as well, of course, but please double-check the publication date and make sure the work you have in mind was actually published prior to 1974.)
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“phones are disrupting natural sleep cycles” I mean true but also bold of you to assume I had one before the tech boom lol catch me out here reading chapter books by the light of my light up pens in the third grade
#I used to read by the faint red glow of the digits on my alarm clock#not an easy feat#anyway having to wake up at 5am (when my body would rather be going to sleep) to go to work is doing more harm to me than my phone is#morning culture sucks
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(I left this tab open to come back and reblog it later, then OP decided 33k notes in 6 days was enough to see and turned off reblogs.)
But still wanna share my half-finished sculpture of Mudtail, the cinnamon roll alien with a speech impediment! He is very friend-shaped, and someday I'll finish it.
#I also missed out on op's post#my current weirdest is that I'm roleplaying one of my protagonists in palia#also (usually) in minecraft#I've tried building stuff from my stories in minecraft too
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“No one wants to look at art of OCs” I don’t think that’s true at all…I follow people specifically to see their OCs literally all the time. Bring back being curious about people’s OCs, asking questions about them and hyping them up like we did when we were teens
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probably stargate
If you guys were on here at 11 years old what would you be posting about
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Wheat fields are more mystical than fields of other crops. You are 7,000 times more likely to meet an old god or see a portent of doom in a wheat field than in a field of like… soybeans.
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sometimes you head out for your day with no expectation of having ideas and your brain goes 'nah mate, it's worldbuilding day' and you spend the entire day scribbling about things you need to research in between other tasks
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REVERSE TROPE WRITING PROMPTS
Too many beds
Accidentally kidnapping a mafia boss
Really nice guy who hates only you
Academic rivals except it’s two teachers who compete to have the best class
Divorce of convenience
Too much communication
True hate’s kiss (only kissing your enemy can break a curse)
Dating your enemy’s sibling
Lovers to enemies
Hate at first sight
Love triangle where the two love interests get together instead
Fake amnesia
Soulmates who are fated to kill each other
Strangers to enemies
Instead of fake dating, everyone is convinced that you aren’t actually dating
Too hot to cuddle
Love interest CEO is a himbo/bimbo who runs their company into the ground
Nursing home au
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