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Just learned about garden path sentences.

They’re basically a literary prank– the sentence starts out in such a way that you think you know where it’s going, but the way it ends completely changes the meaning while still being a complete and logical sentence. Usually it deals with double meanings, or with words that can be multiple parts of speech, like nouns and verbs or nouns and adjectives.

So we get gems like

The old man the boat. (The old people are manning the boat)

The complex houses married and single soldiers and their families. (The apartment complex is home to both married and single soldiers, plus their families)

The prime number few. (People who are excellent are few in number.)

The cotton clothing is usually made of grows in Mississipi. (The cotton that clothing is made of)

The man who hunts ducks out on weekends. (As in he ducks out of his responsibilities)

We painted the wall with cracks. (The cracked wall is the one that was pained.)

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As always please spread for larger sample size

I’ve got 54 cousins and I’ve always assumed I was an outlier but I’m curious what the norm is.

#15

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I died but I came back exactly the same. You though, I came back and you were wrong. Did the fact of my dying really damage you that much? Was bringing me back worth what it cost you? Would it have been better to just leave me?

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posts that make me want to rip my heart out part 5

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Rook really said “unhinged simping only”

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“No writing is wasted. Did you know that sourdough from San Francisco is leavened partly by a bacteria called lactobacillus sanfrancisensis? It is native to the soil there, and does not do well elsewhere. But any kitchen can become an ecosystem. If you bake a lot, your kitchen will become a happy home to wild yeasts, and all your bread will taste better. Even a failed loaf is not wasted. Likewise, cheese makers wash the dairy floor with whey. Tomato gardeners compost with rotten tomatoes. No writing is wasted: the words you can’t put in your book can wash the floor, live in the soil, lurk around in the air. They will make the next words better.”

— ERIN BOW

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This.

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tbh the idea of immortal character's personal growth is interesting and doesn't seem to be explored enough

I mean, how many times have we seen an immortal character drop the whole "actually I'm several hundred years old" bombshell, and they still act like the exact same person they were at age 20 or whatever. how many people do you know who are still the same as they were even just 10 or 20 years ago? yet somehow eight lifetimes came and went and had no impact on this dude?

Give me immortal life stages. Give me

millenia old characters poking gentle fun at someone who's 200yrs old and in their edgy 'brooding' phase.

midlife crisis immortals who just got bit with the 'what am I doing with my life?' bug, who suddenly feel like they're wasting their gift and they need to be making the most if it right now

you know what, I want an immortal who keeps having weird skills/knowledge, and everybody assumes they've got this big elaborate backstory because of it, but no, it's just all from that one fifty-year span where they decided they needed to learn how to everything or else they were wasting their potential

immortals who have changed their stances and opinions on issues but now there's callout posts for things they said in letters to their friends a hundred and fifty years ago, like yes @cumberbatchcockdongle, I am sorry I said transphobic things about the bearded lady at that circus in 1872, please kindly forgive me and/or fuck off

characters going through the eternal cycle of whether loving mortals is worth the inevitable grief. the answer always depends on how recently they've been bereaved. just a merry-go-round of 'better to have loved ans lost' versus 'shitfuck grieving hurts I'm never doing this again'

super laid back immortals who have lived through so much nothing phases them, and sometimes they have to be politely reminded that things do not always 'work themselves out' for mortals

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what with all this talk of fanfic and ai and feeding other people’s work without permission into ai programmes to ‘finish’ a fanfic or whatever… it’s just showing how people see fic as ‘content’? a fanfic as something mass-produced and official, something to consume at a distance and then talk about in a vacuum? something to use for your own purposes and something over which you have a claim?

fanfic is written by fans like you. written out of love and passion and a lot of effort and hard work, so that the author can share their enthusiasm for the characters and stories with other fans. like you. they aren’t these untouchable, faceless people above you – they’re your peers. gifsets, fanart, fanfic – they’re all made by your peers. mutuals. friends.

if you want to know more about the fic, talk to the author! so many fic writers leave their socials in the end notes of their fics – talk to them! they’re not going to be affronted or judgemental. chances are, they’re going to be over the moon that you like their work and want to engage and discuss the characters and the themes etc. they made you happy with their fic, and you would be making them so happy in return! (and what does a happy writer do? write more!)

as a fic writer, I made one of my closest tumblr friends because she read my fic and left a really nice comment, and then we got talking and brainstorming loads of headcanons and fic ideas together! fic writers want to talk! if you enjoy someone’s presence and contributions in a fandom, let them know!

and for the love of all that is good, don’t feed someone’s hard work into an ai programme!!! whether you post it (which is just horrible tbh) is beside the point – you’re facilitating the plagiarism of their fic!

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Hmmm, realizing now that i can’t add random absurdist humor into the story bc it doesn’t fit the tone. On the other hand it’s my story and i can do what i want. On the third, clone hand, i don’t really know if the joke would actually make sense, maybe if it was a clan that could grow extra limbs but not the uchiha

Kagami’s Playpen a.k.a. Tobirama collects children and uses them to fuck with Madara’s head by proxy

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Kagami’s Playpen a.k.a. Tobirama collects children and uses them to fuck with Madara’s head by proxy

#my writing #kagami’s playpen #yes i AM writing right now instead of doing homework thank you for asking #yes kagami IS absolutely fascinated by the baby right up until it slobbers on him #yes madara IS going to have a heart attack

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on being raised on fairy tales in which you are the monster // a. m. h.

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2092 words yell heah!

Happy NaNo! I’m gonna die!

623/50k

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Happy NaNo! I’m gonna die!

623/50k

#i am sleepy #but finally continuing kagami’s playpen #we meet the fabled sister! #fuyumi my beloved #mamiko my beloved

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Reblog to send every single person who has read one of your stories a forehead kiss