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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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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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“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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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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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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petition to stop making fun of people who like those pinterest-esque posts with sad quotes and whatever bcs to you they may be edgy and cringy but to someone out there it might be the first time that they are seeing someone put into words the confusing experience of being Human. same goes with those bad ya books like. yes they are objectively, technically bad and most times just badly mimic something someone else did but someone will see deep ideas explored in them for the first time and marvel. and maybe instead of going lmao dumb kids we should go 'hey if you liked that book you might like [a book that was much better at exploring trope from that angle'. peace on planet earth or whatever
#dan talks#or like idk. just have a bit of respect and sympathy for ppl who have never seen something#for the human experience of being in that place#thinking abt this book i read at 13 or whatever that touched me sso much i nearly cried in class once quoting it#the quote was something like 'if u are never sad u cant know what happy means'#like lit some pinterest/ig deep quote TM shit#is the book good in retrospect? no. is it unique and interesting? not really no#but it mattered to me then and it made me think and feel and maybe we should respect that a bit#we all must go thru the first time of seeing Deep thoughts and thing x and thing y and yes they become routine after a while#and it becomes much much harder to be satisfied bcs ur standards are higher#but they matter in some way#like make fun of deep quotes and stuff im not saying thats Bad or something#but ive seen relentless ragging on these ppl. usually younger teens. and no one ever acknowledges how important that experience is#and how valuable when being lived#i just get tired sometimes of this apparent need to burn bridges w ur past self and never sympathize#like yes he had no taste but in order to get taste you might see something good#and then learn what better means#idk im still sickblogging
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i need a list of all books referenced on riverdale, asap
#like the rory gilmore challange where you actually check off books you've read or that list of every book referenced on the good place#oh and a character that'd made reference becuase let's be real that would be hilarious#or a quiz where you have to guess which character has made a reference#by the way veronica is shown on camera twice reading the secret history once in season 1 which the yellowish copy#the second time in s4 - obviously - the black penguin copy#that i have stacked on the shelf in my dorm room actually because i thought you know what would be really funny?#riverdale#jughead jones#veronica lodge#bookish queens with impeccable taste
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have you read anything by becky chambers? ive only read the start of her series but it is very much spaceship centric
I started the long way to a small, angry planet but ultimately didn't end up finishing it. I may come back to it someday, in the moment it felt a little too slice of life/sweet found family vibes and that just wasn't what I was in the mood for at the time
#i'm aware i can be a bit picky. stuff either has the right vibes to keep me invested or it doesn't#sweet found family stuff is a hard sell for me in books sometimes#i will watch tv shows with that kind of thing but they're usually comedies. basically it has to be really funny to work for me#bc i think it can veer too saccharine for my taste otherwise#i mean what can i say i'm with tamsyn on this one#anything that is marketed based on the main characters being like. good/kind people is like#i'm not saying i just love to read about villains or anything but if that's your setup then of course#i'm going to notice what the author considers moral and like sometimes we have our disagreements you know#whereas if you write evil losers you kind of can be like. well i don't agree with them! that's just what they did#hgjhkkjlj writing hack that makes me more forgiving to a narrative i think. now that i'm thinking about it#it might not be exactly my taste but i have a lot of respect for writers who can pull off 'my protag is a nice guy'. it's vastly harder imo#replies
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So uh if you pirate books please just… don’t follow me ?
#Granted there’s an exception for textbooks#This is a US centric statement as my understanding is textbooks in the US are ridiculously expensive#I’m also aware of the fact libraries in other countries may not carry whatever book you want to read#Someone said it really well in another post though - as an aspiring author I am sickened that people just feel.#Entitled to my labour ????#Please understand I’m poor! I’m very poor! I’ve been poor all my life and I devoured books at an unhealthy rate#The only time I’ve pirated a book was when I had firm plans to buy them asap but couldn’t wait to read them#And then I did buy them asap. This is a second exception to the rule I suppose#But yeah seriously. I do not support pirating books. It only hurts the author in the end#There’s other good posts out there that breakdown how advances and royalties work for authors and how pirating can destroy#A debuts chance of continuing this career#Fucking. Educate yourself. We live in a golden age of content and I think people have become very accustomed to the idea of it being free#A lot of times you can find things for free or very very cheap. Once again; I’m poor. I learned how to make the very limited funds I had#Stretch to get a good taste of art I wanted to take in#Jfc people talk about supporting small businesses all the time. Does this. Not apply to writers?#I feel like I’m poking a hornets nest in making this post. Mmmmmmm. Hmmmm.
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The wingfeather saga book one: dark darkness of darkness was a book that stressed me out: a List
Stop blaming Janner every time his siblings do something stupid and get themselves in trouble?? For fucks sake they're not toddlers THEY should learn to maybe NOT act stupid? My god I feel so sorry for the poor kid I hope he tells them all to go fuck themselves and fucks off somewhere to go be his own person
Tink is just lowkey annoying and not even funny. NEXT
If I found any pests in my garden I'd be gladly hurling them over a cliff to certain death, (you have never lived through hell until geckos shit all over your fucking house, birds come to steal your garbage and scope out your house like they're going to rob you, and ants get in your water WHILE YOU'RE STILL ACTIVELY DRINKING FROM IT) Leeli can go fuck herself
Also Leeli is a stupid ass name. It's the exact same fucking name I used in sentence writing exercises when I was like. Fucking seven
STOP BRINGING YOUR FUCKING DOG EVERYWHERE IF YOU DON'T HAVE A WAY TO CONTROL IT ITS GOING TO BITE ANOTHER LIZARD PERSON AND THEN YOU'LL GET JAILED AGAIN YOU STUPID
Peet mcsockguy has the same vaguely fuckable blorbo guy vibes as Bruno from Encanto
The grandpa is also fucking annoying
There is a DIFFERENCE between being brave and JUST DOWNRIGHT STUPID!! When the enemy outnumbers you AND has your family hostage AND is armed and you deliberately provoke them, it's called being STUPID!!
I hope their grandpa dies
I feel like in fiction a lot of the time this kind of loud blustery bravery is like disproportionately glorified? As if being LOUD and OUT THERE and IN YOUR FACE is the only good, honorable way to be. I don't like it. Sometimes bravery is keeping your head down until the right time comes to strike. Sometimes bravery is struggling along in a difficult world in your own little way
They keep getting captured, then saved by pete sockguy, then captured again and saved again and it's tedious to read through. I wish they'd just get captured and executed and be done with it
The author keeps doing this thing where some character dies/nearly dies and then oh look...they didn't really die after all...and I don't like it. If they die, they should DIE and stay dead. I don't think that's a lot to ask for
I did not like the "ooh look how DISGUSTING the evil bad guys are even the food they eat is GROSS AND YUCKY bleargh" thing...like..."this is a race of evil people who are all evil, they're gross and their food is gross" feels...uh... look, fish innards actually sounds pretty good to me, OKAY? And I'm sick and tired of white people acting like every meat tastes like chicken, and every food that is a little bit foreign to them is like eating garbage, and people who eat food they think is weird are also weird. I know the author probably didn't mean for it to come across that way, but like try eating some pork intestines and then maybe you'll be normal someday
(^ when I was like 8 I found a book titled something along the lines of GROSS FOODS FROM AROUND THE WORLD and I was like "oh SICK can't wait to learn what kind of manmade horrors people are eating around the world" but then it was just. Normal Stuff. Like chicken feet. Innards. Various fermented foods. And for each entry the author gave it a rating on the fuckin vomit-o-meter or something like that. And I think I never really got over that. And now every time youtube recommends me a video of someone gagging over durian it feels like a hate crime)
#the wingfeather saga#idk maybe i just like complaining about things#i feel like in order for me to like a certain character they have to do something that is funny#like ACTUALLY funny not the author intended it to be funny but it just comes across as annoying#characters should be ENTERTAINING and i stand by that#its hard to get through a book when you don’t really like the characters#also DURIAN IS GOOD INTESTINES ARE GOOD AND FEET TASTE YUMMY YALL JUST HAVE NO TASTE
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