#BEST STORY IVE EVER READ

[lizzzardwizard]

Fine. I'm about to say it.

svsss is mxtx's best work.

#svsss #ive only read through the third volume #but it seems like vol 4 is mostly happily ever after and some side stories #so i can say i do think svsss is the best #i LOVED tgcf and when i reread it im sure ill say tgcf is the best but #scum villain #scum villain is on another level #i did enjoy all three series but svsss blew me away

[icewindandboringhorror]

recent lounging babey images

#he's so floppy recently and I hope it's just the heat. I think wamr weather makes everyone floppy and loungy #a beauntifulle boye... #cats #STILL working on posting some drafts. finishing new poll adventure.. other things... It's just hard with the weather and other things going #on. I've had a few more doctors appointments and other things to do recently that have to be done in a time limit #so I hvae to use my extremely limited energy working on that instead of doing the things I'd really rather do. :T #Main focuses though are keeping up better with doing and posting costumes + sculptures as main creative things. at least finishing the #main poll adventure story. Reworking the game I kind of abandoned for a few years. keeping up with game videos and a few other side things. #Especially the game though. I've been in a really worldbuildy mood recently. I just wish that was easier to manifest into something. I've #now put the worldbuilding slideshow reading video on pause for a while because it's SOOO long to do #and I think I should prioritize making games and stuff instead. but still other things. IT's just kind of like.. I have a whole world and #everything very built and planned out but now.. what do I do with it? what's the best way to share that? factual slideshows just going over #the information like a dictionary? make it into a game? write short stories? do art attached to the world? etc. etc. ?? There are so many #potential avenues I end up kind of flip flopping between them a lot because none really seem more beneficial than the others and they all #seem equally enjoyable and also equally hard so. It's like?? I guess just do what the hell ever and hope I made the right choice in terms o #cost benefit and reward for my time lol. ANYWAY.. Also why I'm in my 'trying to make friends' era still because I think having other creat #ive friends can help you find direction like.. people will meet each other and then go 'hey lol just for fun lets start a project together! #and then like 5 years later it's genuinely become something. etc. having other people to help weed out ideas and start small creative teams #together and etc. I feel is a very beneficial part of networking or whatever but also I have the social capacity of a stale bread roll and #am also inherently unrelatable to seemingly a majority of people due to my hermit wizard swag (detachment from general society and hyper #focus on fantasy worlds in my head gjhghj) so trying to meet people as a grown adult with social issues is Very easy and fun (it is not) #even very basic things like my core communication style is so incompatible with a lot of people it's like.. hhhh... People in this modern #age have GOT to stop being afraid of phone calls and/or text that is longer than 6 paragraphs. Work with me here. I WANT to talk to you. bu #I do not know what your emojis mean and it's physically impossible for me to type less than 85 sentences. please.. hhjgjgb #AAANYWAY!! I am working on things when I can given the circumstances (SUMMER).. hopefully some costume pictures and stuff soon. :'3 #I've not forgotten about my art and etc. - as usual I just am bad at social media and also functioning if it's above 65F lol

[puppyeared]

sworn rivals 😳

#IDKKKK idkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk i dont watch dcmk i just really like em #ive seen like. clips and stuff but its just me reading fanfiction guys. sorry if u thought i know anything abt the show #im just a kaito enthusiast. because hes a magician thief its literally the best thing ever #also there is one fanfic writer im a big fan of bc i love their stories its really good. i wanna draw one of the scenes from my fav fanfic #of theirs but idk if ill post it on here. just for me to look at and squeal with joy? #BUT ITS SO SOFT.... I literally. theyre so cute the way theyre written there *holds them gently* #if ur curious its always ends in a hazy shower scene on a03... OK THATS ALL IM EMBARASSED NOW AHAHAA #fair warning its like rated M for sex scenes peppered in but im just here because THEY LOVE EACH OTHERRR........ COHABITATION MY BELOVED #for the record my favorite part is the one in the bathroom he takes the time to tell him why he loves him and then they go to sleep AWWAAWA #OK. OK IM DONE. WHY AM I SO INVESTED IN THIS I DONT EVEN GO HERE AHSDSFF #my art #myart #detective conan #magic kaito #kaishin #kudou shinichi #kuroba kaito #kaitou kid #dcmk #dcmk fanart #case closed #fanart #kaito #shinichi #btw this is supposed to be a reference to the airwalking scene from howls moving castle. because i can <3

[volfoss]

my silly book rec for today is Zoo by Otsuichi. its a collection of sci-fi/horror short stories and is one of the best short story collections ive ever read. it does deal with the themes of death pretty heavily as a heads up but its definitely worth reading (pdf link)

tws: suicide mentioned but not committed(in the stories "in a falling airplane" and "words of god"), self harm (in the story "words of god"), child abuse (in the story "kazari and yoko", it is the plot of the entire story), rape mentioned (not graphically but still) (in the story "in a falling airplane"), death (including animals, in pretty much all stories as the collection is by and large centered around death)

#twist rambles #song of the sunny spot aughhhhhh me when i blow UP. #this site is safe btw :) it just used to be a pricy book so id rather give a more easy to access way to read it. its under 200 pages and go #its all so so good. #i also did rly like how the 2nd story dealt w like... the feelings of failure u get as a young adult and feeling like you will never be abl #to measure up to what ppl want from you. its very good. they are also very haunting stories lol #its a horror story thing so. obviously proceed carefully if ur easily upset by smth but its one of the best books ive ever read

[astranauticus]

oh i absolutely gave myself way too much of a workload this semester but holy shit i finally have like... about 80% of that orv changgwi animatic down in concept and i am. cartoon villain cackling

#asto speaks #when (yes WHEN not IF) i get it done its gonna hurt so bad #i mean i dont think it'll get done *soon* cuz god my workload this semester is. something #but if my math isnt wrong the webtoon is only gonna get to chapter 188 (where i plan to cover up to in the animatic) in like june so #ive got time?? kinda?? anyway i literally *cannot* stop thinking about this fucking idea so mark my words i will get it done #also yes its going to hurt me to make too because i havent ever done an animatic for a full song yet #changgwi is one of those songs thats kinda impossible to split up idk #also because my BEST ideas are at exactly the beginning and ending of the song. convenient. #the ending was like my one major concern when i first thought of this idea actually cuz the part of the song that #originally made me think of orv was that second (third?) verse of like the spirit telling the story of its own death that felt very yjh idk #but i just had. no idea what to do with the second half of the song #but then i read the novel and chapter 188 hit me in the back of the head with a baseball bat #and now that ending might be my favourite part of the whole project #>:) #big massive sorry to all my rwd mutuals btw i know there was a bit where i kept talking about making another rwd animatic #i do still have that sitting in my brain just cuz ive already animated a few segments of the song #i just dont reaaally have a full plan for the whole thing exactly so #by this point im just seeing if we get any DX-TR lore in s5 that might inspire me idk #project 2 electric boogaloo #stay tuned idk i have a bit of a proof of concept i plan to make this/next week #its funny actually cuz i got introduced to this song through an arknights animatic i saw on bb and i spent #honestly an embarrassing amount of time worrying if some of the ideas i have in my plan were just like. subconsciously stolen from that one #but i was like procrastinating schoolwork today and trying to plan out some stuff and just #went and looked up every changgwi animatic on bilibili i could find #and turns out the stuff i was worried id been stealing are honestly just like. common among *all* the stuff ive seen that use that song? #like cuz the official lyric video for the song is just so. stylistically *striking* a lot of genetic material from that just makes its way #into everything people make using that song like at this point the monochrome red colour scheme and like #ending on a backwards timelapse (?) through the vid is basically like scenes a faire for any changgwi animatic LMAO

[shewhosleepsalotincemeteries]

Thinking again about how Julia Fox got slapped by a priest in front of the dead Pope

#that’s maybe the best story ive ever heard. i didn’t read her memoir i watched nichole raffie read it #💤🪦

[mejomonster]

Sometimes I need to remind myself there's a lot of writing styles and different writing choices create different effects and if that's the intention then it's okay to do it differently from say X other person, since that person's style choice may not be to create the same effect as another writer's

Like. Haruki Murakami and Stephen King are not doing the same things, not trying to accomplish the same things. There is a reason one writer may intend to let dialogue do the heavy lifting and leave descriptions absent unless utterly necessary, only the most vital pieces written such as core actions. While another author might revel in pages of description, the setting they place their scenes in being its own character and such a tremendous influence on the point of the story. The author who picks to make time feel unreal and hard to grab and plays with time skips and back and forth for a particular effect, and the one who is much more concrete about time and the when's (perhaps for a murder mystery where the facts of the case are critical). Just because your writing choices are not identical to the choices of those you may admire, does not make them wrong. Your own particular piece of writing, in that moment in time, has its own goals that need to be achieved in their own ways.

#writing advice #mainly myself so lol feel free to ignore but certainlh do NOT take any of this as a hard rule #just like. ive been thinking about how Anne Rice involves the settings like characters #as does Priest. Priest covers times in very concrete ways because shes writing murder mysteries where #part of the thrill of the reader is to figure out the evidence and details too. #meanwhile an author like murakami may rarely give concrete time #because its surreal like a dream and fleeting and more about the internal mental experience of events than the concrete reality #an author like Sarah Waters in fingersmith uses 2 distinct VERY unreliable biased narrators for one of the BEST reading experiences ive #ever had. while plenty of novels choose a much more reliable single narrator to tell a clear less anbiguous story #and all those writing choices are different because theyre intended to have different effects. #the only Real problem is when you aim to have X effect with a particular choice but it is Not working #and then you have to decide to either change the writing choice to one that better creates X effect #or practice X writing choice because you feel some aspect of it youre doing poorly and not good enough to Get intended effect #or you simply run into the issue of Generally not knowjng how to get the effect you desire and itll take some experimenting #or may simply not be achieved in that particular project. and you need more practice. which this project may become

[thesmallworldofsamizayn]

(logging onto the dash, in uk, didn't see smackdown live) that bad huh.

#:(((( #zowens nation we will get through this! #ive read the backlogs of tumblr and twitter posts from the dark days 2018 2021-22 all of it #it was thought nigh impossible that they'd ever even be on the same page again let alone part of one of the best ever stories #that chapter might be over but their story never is baby!

[phaedraismyusername]

✨️February Reads✨️

Completed half of a series

8 Books

3 Novellas

and 3 short stories

#is this the exact same distribution ad january? #yes #do i know how i mamaged that? #no #especially with my page count being dramatically lower this month lol #the month felt pretty mid #but the standouts were spectacular #creatures of passage #morowa yejide #salt slow #julia armfield #and #orpheus builds a girl #heather parry #were all super memorable #and the six deaths of the saint might be the single best short story ive ever read in my fucking life #alix e harrow #gurl can write write #i will be consuming everything shes ever written asap lol #oh and #daisy jones and the six #was a real good popcorn read #i really enjoyed the choice of format #super accessible and easy to consume #february 2023 #book recs #booklr

[enlighten3d]

that familiar feeling of being so close to the end of something you really love and not wanting to continue because that means that it will end but you keep going because you love this thing so much and you want to see it through to the end.

#me rn #im on chapter 500 of #orv #and its so- #i dont even know how to describe it #because i dont want to keep going; i dont want this wonderful story to end #but i have to because i need to see it through to the end; i need to keep reading and find out #its so bittersweet i suppose #i felt the same way when i was listening to #tma #and im sure ive felt it before with other things #this feeling is just. the best and worst thing ever. #exhilaration of having made it THIS far #but knowing that this wonderful story is about to draw to a close #and the only thing you can do is #keep reading #book #books #i dont even know what to tag this as #fandom #podcast #podcasts

[waloeders]

think imma add rian to my names list too :33

#jupiter.speaks #> ever since using it bg im like hmm. yes i like this #> its nice to have a name w some heritage to it again cuz my deadname has a bunch of irish heritage that i kinda lost a bit? #> like its a pretty name! but its dead to me for a reason bsjsndjd its very girl. like how ppl code virgo as girl. do u know what i mean? #> nyway yeah. rian is irish too so yippeee #> also not that i have to be sorry but also. sorry for the lack of selfship this is the chaos den i dont control it #> whatever ya get me. but if folks do read pls do tag me in ur stuff i miss it 🙏 i know have a few ive missed still that im gettin to eee #> just wanna have the time to like. absorb it n fully appreciates yalls work! cuz its always so epic + pretty + interestin to see #> love learnin abt other ways of viewin n perceiving n story tellin love when mutuals r having a wonderful time i wish u all the best! /gen

[to-skit-or-not-to-skit]

personally, i find it fascinating how the warriors fandom deals with aus. anything goes usually, and most of the time people come up with really cool ideas for these little battle kitties. it's really interesting because it follows this pattern of bad books where the books do not utilize its full potential, so the fandom has to do it because the canon just wasnt good enough. and the truth is the books COULD have been good. in all honesty, the premise of kitty cats worshipping cat god and fighting in the woods really isn't that bad? it makes for some interesting scenarios.

but since the erins are stupid and don't think about what they write, we get kittypet xenophobia and ableism and misogyny and no self awareness. without all the horrible writing and shit character moments and discrimination, these books could be something to look fondly back upon for their writing, but they're not. the fans have to fill in the gaps in the erins' writing with maps and aus, because the books are so bad that it leaves readers wanting more than the erins are willing to give, because they honestly don't care about readers. but the fandom does, and the fandom makes aus and maps and art of this silly little battle cat series. and i think that's great

#warrior cats #wc #skit's silly speeches #tldr the erins suck and aus rule #also hawkstorm is honestly one of the best aus ive ever seen in this fandom solely because of the way it's executed #the way the story is told is so much better than what the erins could have accomplished #and other aus like where they're little kitty pirates sailing the seas #r so cool too because it's better than what the erins can write #and personally i think pretty much everything in the fandom is better than what the erins wrote and r writing #because at the end of the day a kid making cute battle kitty art and writing battle kitty fanfiction #will hold more value to me than middle aged women writing about misogynistic xenophobic cats in a cult and not seeing anything wrong #with the message they r telling kids who read these books

[michibikionmain]

cant believe i waited so long to read the evillious novels. ive loved vocaloid for YEARS. and only NOW have i experienced them and theyre so GOOD!!! im over halfway through the novels and ive been loving every second of them.

even if u dont like vocaloid id recommend these books bc theyre just GOOD.

#yeha #also miclarith is the best relationship ive read like ever #oh my god ive been LOOKING for a story like theirs #its like. actually fleshed out w development of both their character and relationship

[waterberry-strawmelon]

i don't know how to put this into words exactly, but The Bear feels so big to me. it reminds me of something i feel like ive forgotten. a dream i once had. idk. im trying to make this sound poetic or profound but what i really mean to say is please go watch The Bear.

#it's everything. i think this is what life is. #i want to write like this. i want to make stories like this. holy fuck. #im gonna simmer in season 1 for a few days. that last episode was something so special somehow. i dont know. #i think this is maybe the best tv series ive ever watched. not necessarily my favorite; but the best-made one ive seen in my life. #i feel like ive finished reading a life-changing book at two AM or something #i dont know. summer makes me feel like this #bittersweet acrid nostalgia. idk. #i know season 2 gets into some romantic subplots so im already just a little disappointed #do you know how hard it is to find a well-written show with literally zero romantic plot points. i cannot think of a single one. #season 1 does not have any romantic plotline whatsoever. do you know how long i've been starving to see this. #and it's still fucking real and raw and well-written. #i was so pleasantly surprised. #i know season two gets into it #and thats gonna suck a little. just the knowledge that a show can still be good and interesting and well-made without romance #and now that same show DOES end up adding it in. it's a bit of a let down for someone like me. #but i will always have this first season; which in itself can stand alone as a complete story in my opinion. it is truly truly phenomenal. #just some thoughts #writing #television #mine

[altruistic-meme]

3,7 and 29 for the fic writers ask! :]]

hi sappho darling!!

3. Is there a trope you wouldn’t touch with a ten foot pole?

the only one that i know of that i would for sure never touch is the uhhhh "sex pollen" thing?? ive literally never even seen it but it's supposedly one of the "well-known" tropes or aus or whatever and i just. don't get it. i don't understand the concept of it. i don't understand the point or interest. absolutely a no from me.

i also would probably never write a cheating fic. but i only say probably bc thought i would never read one and then i did and it FUCKED me UP (positive) and i still think about it bc holy shit

7. Share a snippet from one of your favorite pieces of prose you’ve written and explain why you’re proud of it.

Wilhelm took a deep breath, closed his eyes, leaned against a desk. He thought of how terrible an idea this was, how he had once again been being so selfish, how he hadn’t considered that his own freedom may cost the freedom he had tried so hard to guarantee Simon. And then he looked at Simon. And he fell in love. He fell in love with his curly hair, with his brown eyes, with the scar on his cheek, with the way he kept looking at Wilhelm and how it felt like he was seeing him, with the way his lips parted as he let out a steadying breath, with the small smile that he was giving him.  And it didn’t hurt. Falling in love with Simon didn’t hurt the way that falling in love with the sky, and with the way his coffee tasted, and with the people on the street had for the last seven years. Falling in love with Simon now felt exactly as it had the first time: freeing. This love was the most freeing thing that Wilhelm had ever felt, and he remembered why he had refused to ever let it go. Because he deserved to love freely, but the only love that had ever felt free had been the half of his love that he had given to the curly-haired boy, now a man, named Simon that he had once fallen in love with seven years ago, and was now falling in love with again. So maybe it was selfish, and maybe it was cruel, and it would definitely hurt, but Wilhelm could only be free if he said it, so he started talking. 

okay so if it wouldn't be ridiculous of me i would simply give the entirety of LVOE. because that whole story i tried to write more as prose and i love it so much. even this section is pretty... long for a snippet but i couldn't cut any of it off bc it's just so. AAAAAA.

i chose this specific area because it i think it's a very beautiful way to tie up the fic and i am so so proud of it!! of how it turned out and the ways it connects with other aspects of the story while still standing on its own: the war within Wilhelm about love vs. hurt and are they the same thing or are they consequences of each other, how painful falling in love has been since he and simon broke up but how he has kept doing it with everything anyway because Wilhelm is simply so full of love that it bleeds into everything he does, how his first taste of freedom felt like his last. as well as pulling back lines that repeated throughout the fic, "And every day, Wilhelm fell in love all over again. With the sky, with the way his coffee tasted, with the people on the street. And then one day, with a curly-haired boy named Simon." and changing them as he feels love truly without pain for the first time in seven years. and!!! also!!! including the ways Wilhelm grew in those seven years as well, how he hesitates and almost doesn't say what he came to say because he understands how selfish it was of him to come. but it also includes Simon's own growth, very subtley, because he is more sure of himself than he used to be. even though Wilhelm's thoughts tell that he's afraid of hurting Simon, Simon is SMILING SOFTLY at him because Simon has also grown up and he has long-since forgiven Wilhelm because he has learned to see his side of it, too.

WELL THAT WAS. MORE OF AN ANALYSIS BUT SIDHFKSDH yeah im proud of all of that though. im so proud of myself for being able to put all of that subtlety into it, all of these small details that still showcase big emotions. i'll stop rambling about this now sdkgfsdk

29. If you could write the sequel (or prequel) to any fic out there not written by yourself, which would you choose?

this is going to be INCREDIBLY out of left field ksghsdhg bUT there is a yuri!!! on ice fic, "Behind these Locked Doors" that i read forever ago. i don't think i ever.... actually finished reading the fic, i think i fell out of the fandom enough to stop keeping up before it completed. but from the last thing i remember of it, i would maybe consider writing a oneshot sequel to it that follows Victor and Yuuri after they escape, and has maybe a moment where one of them has a breakdown remembering what they experienced and the other works them through it. idk. like i said i haven't read it in years so details are so fuzzy. but. yeah!!! as i was trying to think what i would do, this story popped into my head so :]

[ writer ask game ]

#i could talk for so long about lvoe. in case you couldn't tell #like i wrote that story in maybe 2 hours after a very sudden inspiration from a poem #there was no thought no planning only Write It Now and im still so fucking proud of how it came out #possibly some of the best shit ive ever written and definitely some of the best non-dialogue ive written imho #very emotional 10/10 #askers #iworshipsappho #shh ac #ask game #also i can only ever Vaguely remember plots of fanfics i read a while ago lmaooo #im just glad my brain gave me a yoi one not a hetalia one tho im sure i could find one of those too