this is purely for fun and I've certainly been guilty of a few of these things myself in my years of fic writing. don't be weird in the notes and don't use this as an excuse to insult someone's writing.
i would listen to speeches by cicero at the rostra. i would read caesar's commentaries on the gallic war in the roman forum. i would fear invasions from the germanic tribes. i would marry a man with a purple bordered toga and distinguished ancestors and follow the mos maiorum. i would get proscribed and have my property confiscated and be declared an enemy of the state
ok why is no one talking about how funny the opening of hamlet is. the guards begging horatio who is like trembling and shaking and about to pass out to speak to a ghost. because he went to school?? so he’s qualified?? horatio just repeatedly shouting ‘speak’ at it. for some reason using ‘thou’ directly after bernardo tells him it’s the ghost of the king. this attempt does not work. the ghost leaving and the guards being like damn it horatio!!! look what you did!! it’s offended!!!!
So people just cross the road here? Like they don't wait for the light every time? When I was a kid everyone told me that if I jaywalked I would get run over. I was walking around yesterday and a bunch of people just jaywalked right in front of cop. The cop was doing something else but wtf! If you are from Boston could you please explain this to me.
“Every day you will receive one thousand dollars in your bank account. But every time you lift a glass to your lips to take a drink, you will hit your front teeth on the first try. Every. Time. Do you accept this deal?”
Oooh, well. I haven't posted much in the way of fanfic recently, but I am pretty proud of the one I'm working on currently. It's a VERY in-depth rewrite of something I got a couple of chapters into before... and then realized was incredibly boring bc I was deliberately not writing the tropes I like. But yeah! It's a Shink fic I'm hoping to post in a few weeks or so that I am tentatively calling "Untethered." It's set in BOTW's Ancient Past, and according to the one person who has read it so far, incredibly angsty and sad (hehe). I'll post the AO3 link to my Tumblr once I start putting it out there.
Changing my belief system from "this is the hill I'll die on" to "this is the hill I'll kill you on" has done absolute wonders for me 10/10 do recommend