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fictionadventurer · 3 months

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Elizabeth Gaskell has the kind of brilliance that makes you forget how brilliant she is until you come back to her work after reading inferior authors. Her type of talent is understated skill that does everything so well that it looks easy.

She has prose that's descriptive without being flowery. Plots that take their time but also keep pulling you along. She writes about everyday life in a way that makes it enthralling without over-romanticizing it. She can take what would be stock characters in the hands of other writers and explore their upbringing and history so thoroughly that they become real, nuanced individuals. And she does it all so simply that you barely even notice how much talent it takes to write like that.

#books #elizabeth gaskell #whether intentionally or not it seems like january has become the month of the gaskell novel #it started with wives and daughters in 2021 #n&s in 2022 #mary barton last year #and now ruth #there's just something about the bright clear january light that sets off her writing to perfection #and with this book the descriptions of january's beauty made it especially fitting #i'm only three chapters in and shocked by how much i'm loving it #i'd read some less-than-impressive short pieces last year that made me wonder if i liked her as much as i thought #and then this book hits me in the face with 'oh yeah she's brilliant'#i think it's that her talents are novel-writing talents #she's not well-suited to write concise vivid moments #she needs to linger #draw out nuances #tease out backstories #draw threads together #when she gets the chance to do that she's incomparable #the best that realism has to offer #since i'm only three chapters in there's no telling how i'll like the book as a whole #but for now she's drawn me in

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nyehilismwriting · 3 months

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obligatory note that while I don't tend to post nice messages abt updates I do see them and appreciate them and if you've ever said a nice thing to me I am kissing you on the mouth. with tongue

#MWAH.#I don't want anyone to think I'm ignoring you!!#also to the few lingering bug reports - I see you and I will get it fixed soon! especially the save builder #she just needs kind of a total overhaul

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dragonseeds · 2 years

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after thinking so much about how rhaenyra idealizes daemon as a male version of herself, about her jealousy of the freedom with which he moves through the world while she is caged, about all the years she spent feeling like to be a woman was a death sentence (but he can shed an enemy’s blood in a fight while she has to bleed and bleed), how lost she felt without him (not knowing he felt the same) and how she thought she needed him to strengthen her claim—after all that, it was both satisfying and horrific to witness the moment that jealousy turned over. the moment daemon realized viserys never truly considered him his heir, never took him seriously. it was always rhaenyra. now they both know it.

#i am s c r eaaaaming #oh he loves her but he hated her for a minute #he truly hated her in that moment and he hated himself too #and viserys most of all because he loved him so much #and she knows it she saw it and she is just. the power that knowledge gives her.#will it be enough to overcome what he did and how that fear will linger?#or will they (and the writers) just move on and never address it again??#obviously the choking was horrific i hated it thanks #but at the same time it was so. interesting.#at the least i wish she would’ve escalated it ahdjsk #but—she didn’t need to because she’s aegon and he’s visenya and that’s how it is #hotd #daemyra

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mayfieldss · 8 months

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I feel like none of my moots know about my side blog @messitup so i'm letting y'all know even though I hardly post on it.

@heliads @hiya-itsamber @moonyinpisces @daltopia @starlit-epiphany @b3kk3r-by-br3kk3r @winter-soldier-vibes @madelynie @spdergirl @thatsthewaythechrissycrumbles @ellobruv @diorrfairy @fens-mire @reidsbookclub @froggywritesstuff @thrutheburnout @zablife @sparksssflytv @eternltys @book-place @brutal-out-here @huntingingoodwill @logangarfield @virtualreader @moreidsdaughter @happinessinthedarkesttimes (sorry if I missed some of you my brain is fried)

#you don't need to follow her she's a mess but just in case i'm lingering on your posts from that blog I want you to know it's me #i'm not a lingering stranger i'm a lingering moot if you will #eva rambles #side blog #messitup

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whatudottu · 1 year

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Honestly I feel like Autobot Experiment!Blitzwing’s anger and betrayal once he finds out about Blackarachnia experimenting on Wasp would probably hit harder than if his canon self found out about it.

I personally headcanon that Blitzwing has severe trust issues and difficulty establishing interpersonal relationships thanks to his trauma so I imagine that finding out that someone he considered a kindred spirit and felt like he could allow himself to be vulnerable around severely disfigured and traumatized a literal child in a similar manner to what he himself experienced and didn’t even feel guilty about doing so is probably something that he wouldn’t take very lightly.

My girl Blackarachnia not only does one hypocritical thing but two, she's not getting away scot-free 😞 it doesn't have to be this way

Blitzwing may be the only 'one of a kind (beloathed)' now that Wasp has Blackarachnia to share being a techno-organic, but god damn it there's a kid in need of counseling and they have a varying quality of actual competence in that regard. Hothead is going to be very present for a while, heh-

#ask #anonymous #blitzwing #tfa blitzwing #wasp #tfa wasp #blackarachnia #tfa blackarachnia #transformers #tfa #maccadam #girl why do you do the things that you do 😞 your circle of (1) friend is growing smaller the more shit ya do #honestly even if the tc experiment wasn't her doing- story wise as shit as it is for wasp the techno-organic experiment makes kinda sense #something something she may still have lingering autobot propaganda of 'science knows no bounds' as well as 'try and try again'#yada yada in order to try out a procedure (say perhaps an 'untechno-organic juice') you need to set a proper controlled condition #wasp getting all his bad situations from autobots even ex-autobots #still not excusable but like there's a little more uh logic to it even if it's at a height of character desperation #but desperation isn't really gonna save you from blitzwing's fire 😞

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hassianlovebot · 2 months

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just finished the little boy blue quest and now i'm wondering if one of the reasons hassian stays in bahari bay is because going "home" would remind him that taylin is gone. obviously he does like the bay, i'm not denying that, but i wonder if being out there while she went missing somehow helps him feel closer to her. like there's a part of him that's still hoping for another letter from her about how she's coming home now.

we know he likes to look at the stars for the same reason. i wouldn't be surprised if being in sifuu's house is just too much of a reminder that taylin isn't there anymore.

#:(#hassian #MY BOY :(((((((#me: i love hassian quests!!#also me: OUGHHHHHHHH #obviously hassian respects majiri tradition a Lot so that adds to him staying there and training for that path with sifuu #but i wouldnt be surprised if he stays there because of taylin too #maybe he feels like leaving would be like leaving her too :(#i really hope she's still alive :')#spoilers #kinda?#its really interesting because his ending dialogue also implies some lingering resentment that she left in the first place #its a big reason why he hates monster hunting and has a lot of tension with sifuu who remembers those days fondly #its just.. OUGHHHH i NEED more hassian quests devs can you hear me devs devs devs im starving actually devs #aldgjdla

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spaceratprodigy · 20 days

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could i bother u for more thoughts on faith and max in a mock apple orchard 🥺👉🏻👈🏻

@gayafsatan — I would absolutely LOVE to brainstorm some fun ideas of them in a mock apple orchard!!

I've been replaying again so they've been rotating around in my mind a lot extra hard and was especially thinking about mock apple picking bc the botanical labs also has a lil orchard where you can pick mock apples up off the ground! But I'm currently in Roseway so oughhh.. ideas....

I want you now I am going to ramble a LOT so please bear with me I swearsies it'll be more fun if we get the full lore dump from my brain 😩💖💕

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👇 ROSEWAY THOUGHTS 👇

(I AM GOING TO TALK ABT ROSEWAY THOUGHTS AS A WHOLE AND THEN EASE INTO SOME SILLY MOCK APPLE ORCHARD IDEAS AT THE END OKAY. OKAY ILY THANK YOU).

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My thoughts are very chaotic and rambly so let me try to walk though my ideas lmao

Roseway is typically where I peg Faith's death wish arc happening, and to summarize what all that entails, it's when the mask slips and the weight of everything finally hits her in full force.

I always envision this story happening over a long period of time so a lot of time has passed since first arriving at Edgewater and the Groundbreaker.

Halcyon. Her situation. Her identity. The life Phineas threw her into abruptly and his expectations for her. Making split second moral decisions where no matter what someone is going to get hurt. Being so alien and alone, no one to understand her or believe in her predicament but having to be the mysterious competent captain regardless.

It finally gets to her. Bad. And she makes some self destructive decisions. She gets sloppy, careless, hoping someone else will end this nightmare for her. Until they almost do.

I am swiftly brushing past many details so we don't get too lost in the sauce. But Max went after her, found her collapsed and injured bad, carried her back to the ship for Ellie to do whatever she could, and then stayed by her side for as long as it took for her to wake up.

This is such a key moment for them getting closer. Because there was a lot of frustration and emotion and being forced to confront the possibility of feelings existing, but nothing they fully understand or are ready to acknowledge as such yet.

She tries to brush past the subject of what happened, deflecting everything until he raises his voice in a way he hasn't since she gave him the journal and she threatened he never talk like that to her again. And it was enough to break through her facade, for her to show just how utterly broken and vulnerable she is, and they have a proper fucking conversation about where she's at mentally. He still isn't ready for the truth about her life before. But it's a step forward.

There is a lot of patience and understanding and just. Yeah. A lot happens here. Some walls come down. There grows some room for them to become softer and closer over more time.

All of this is important because a short piece I had written a long time ago took place in this area roughly after this incident.

It was a personal outlet vent piece, I will be honest. When I wrote it it was after I had a very bad panic attack after an awful scare. And I wrote it into Faith because I just wanted to get some feelings from that experience out of my system.

The shortened version of that one is Faith recovering from a bad episode, trying to calm her breathing, waiting for her ears to stop ringing and for her vision to come back. Her legs gave out on her and she was sitting under the mock apple trees. Her voice locks up on her when she's seriously distressed. Yadda yadda yadda, Max had brought along his datapad so she could communicate anything important and she was incredibly confused because she knows he doesn't like using his datapad ever and then rendered even more speechless to know he brought it specifically for her in case something like this were to happen again. It ends with her just asking if he would keep talking to her, and they sit there under the mock apple trees for a while, in no particular rush to get anywhere.

And after this point, I think the mock apple orchards become a really peaceful, therapeutic spot for her when she just wants a moment to herself. Sits there, breathes, takes in the Roseway scenery and collects herself before jumping back into the horrors of Halcyon. Spends some time picking mock apples to take back to the ship.

I've been having a lot of ideas of her asking Max to go with her. I'm of the mind if she'd ask directly that he'd either decline, or at least pretend to be uninterested but she's the one who asked so he accepts the offer.

But I can see her being vague and just saying that she's heading out if he'd join her and she leads him to the orchards. By this point they're already often in each other's company, she indulges his interests often, letting him be the one who is finally listened to. But in general, they get along very well in conversation when it comes to a handful of similar interests and their personalities and attitudes bounce off of each other well.

(In my story anyway, since she spends an extended amount of time in Edgewater and the Vale, there was also a lot of time spent doing some early bonding with Max. So do with that info what you will. They're not likeee besties yet but they're much more than strangers by this point, ya'know? Just to get an idea of where their familiarity with each other is at and why there's enough respect and trust to some extent already existing. Not to mention how much time they had spent on the Groundbreaker).

They'd be having such a peaceful time away from the rest of the crew.

Oughhh hear me out, okay, Faith loves to bake. She doesn't even ask, she just makes Max hold her bag open while she starts collecting mock apples and after they finally head back to the ship she figures out how to make mock apple pie for the crew 😭 we already know Max doesn't care much for sweets (I wonder how sweet or tart a mock apple pie would be.. Faith girl what all Halcyon ingredients are you adding to that bad boy) but.. what if.... After everyone goes to bed...... He tries some anyway........ Because she made it..........

Most of what's bouncing around in my brain is them early on having wholesome bonding time in a spot just for the two of them. Just enjoying each other's company. Realizing they have genuine respect for each other, Faith feeling like she found a genuine friend who went to lengths further than anyone had in her entire life to make sure she survived. I am specifying Faith's feelings here intentionally. I write Max in a more complicated spot very blinded by his revenge scheme more or less unaware for a long while just how much the lines start blurring between his faith and his Faith. To put it succinctly. (Look I know I'm always drawing The Good Stuff™️ but in actuality their relationship is suchhhh a slow burn. They are not the most romantically inclined people lmao).

But also.. once she realizes she can talk to him when she needs to. I think coming back to this spot, off the ship, away from the crew, she just likes it there. She likes being there with him. She finds comfort in that spot.

OKAY BUT DO YOU KNOW WHAT ELSE WOULD BE CUTE.... they should come back here.. post-scylla and post-gorgon...... Ya'know......... The first being when they establish not wanting to be apart and the second being when they want to make that partnership a permanent one......... ASKING HER IN THE MOCK APPLE ORCHARDS WOULDN'T THAT BE DARLING ough okay I need a minute my brain is going too fast to comprehend

My Roseway ideas aren't the most cleaned up I know BUT so many important bonding moments exist and oughhhh LOOSE IDEAS ARE STILL WORTH TALKING ABOUT OKAYYYYY

I just want them to go mock apple picking together and learn how to get smiles out of each other and not understand why it makes their chests hurt but they know they need to do it again

ACTUALLYYYYY post-scylla when he's much more mellowed out and they're the closest they've been I think would be so so nice. they'd be so much softer and he'd probably be so much more involved in wanting to enjoy silly lil activities with her.....

Currently imagining him reading out loud to her, all the conversations they'd have, maybe he brings his tossball cards to show her, maybe they bring one of the lil games, have a lil makeshift picnic....

Godddd the transition between just how much enthusiasm he shows spending time with her is enough to make me explode. Can you see my vision. The reluctance, to the hesitancy, to becoming absolutely inseparable.

I HAVE A LOT TO THINK ABOUT BUT I'M GETTING SLEEPY SO SENDING IT!!!!!!

Literally feel free to add on or share your own thoughts I'm begging you lmao I promise there is so much room for ideas to be fleshed out and better put together, I'm mostly just spitballing what all I think would be incredibly fun ideas to work with. Plus I'm kind of thinking across the timeline and how much their relationship would change between each visit. And how over time they would enjoy it more and more and make each visit more special than the last.

WAIT BEFORE I LOSE THE THOUGHT!! They make a stop RIGHT BEFORE HEADING TO SCYLLA TO GO TO THE HERMIT'S LODGE!! Oh that could hurt so good omgggg. Okay okay I need to stop now I NEED TO STOP.

#MY DEAR FRIEND I WROTE SO MUCH I APOLOGIZE AHEAD OF TIME #I had a LOT of roseway thoughts I needed to get out of my system #that lead into why the mock apple orchards would be such a special spot they'd want to keep returning to 😭#my thoughts are all a mess tho I know I know I have a lot that's needs cleaning up and better fleshed out #but hey! what's the point of having ideas if you can't talk about them no matter what stage of development they're at!!#enjoy my long winded roseway ramble #I really do think the orchards would make such a lovely spot to just be alone and bond #not that it was ever their intention. it certainly wasn't supposed to happen he'd think.#yet there he is. unable to deny her invitation and realizing all too late how many details about her he has committed to memory #always so collected and calculated. never stumbling on his words. always knowing just what to say.#until it comes to her. until she days his name. until her voice like a siren song has his tongue tied in knots.#'vicar max if you prefer brevity' he tells her. yet maximillian she'll call him. letting his name linger on her lips for as long as possible #I think I need to go lay down #faith and max #my writing #long post #says*

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astrangertomykin · 1 year

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Melora just calling out to Orym in the wind with a hint of a memory was just beautiful. Just how she watches over her lost boys when they need some reassurance and guidance is just something so personal. It's never their lowest moment but a feeling when something is building (the inadequacy of it all) where she just reaches out with a gentle "I'm here with you" and aids whatever way she can. Like sends a party through your cemetery or wraps you in seaweed or covers your sword in vines so you can continue to help your friends. The way she reaches out to those whose love for their families fuel them to give them a helping hand and here, with Will's scent, a reminder that family is always a part of your strength even when they are not around. Yes, there has been loss and struggle, and everything is so overwhelming right now, but you're on the right path and doing the best you can, and that is enough; you just need someone to help lighten the load.

#critical role spoilers #orym of the air ashari #fuck man listen i know I'm reading too much into this #but orym had been so defeated recently with dying and failing to get Otohan and losing Laudna and Esteros #its been failure after failure and it just keeps coming with that poison lingering fresh in his mind #he failed to project his family again and look what happened #and lord melora who takes these boys who are driven by their protection and love #she sees him offer this tiny wooden carving he's been making in the dead of night on watches #when no one else can see just so he can gift chetney something meaningful #and Melora sees him offer this instead of taking the first blow trying to reach the man inside before turning to violence #pleading and reaching out even as he takes the punches #that is a man with so much love in his heart he just needs someone to help him carry the weight of it all #critical role #eurgh i love it so much

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