#i need tag for my talks on this book

[strawberrybouvine]

I got a little further into House of Leaves and I wanna write an essay about it so baaaad

#i need tag for my talks on this book #🏡🔷🍃 tag #that'll work lol #buuut the horror thats been introduced so far is so good ! #and watching navy and karens relationship dynamic change is so fascinating #not to mention truants rambles #just the themes of isolation and communication failure #and the drive of curiosity and exploration and the self destruction tied into it #like aaaaa !! #i need to finish the book and then re read it and make annotations to get all my thoughts down #house of leaves #jester jabber™

[inkskinned]

hey it's nanowrimo. i have tips bc i've done it about 34 times.

Don't edit. Ever. Stop it. If you just decide to start a new project half thru this one with all new characters, no problem. pick up and keep writing as if you'd already written the first half of that.

"but i spelled it wrong" whatever. "but the grammar" whatever. make it exist first. no time for sense. think like you're working on a typewriter. no backspace. only forward go.

Don't re-read further than a paragraph or two backwards. "did i mention the gun before?" listen - it doesn't matter. if you need there to be a gun there, the gun is there. put it back in once you finish the book.

"i forgot the specifics of X thing i already wrote" whatever. change it, make a note/comment to figure it out later, and just write what makes sense for the moment. "no raquel it's legit the characters name and origin" idc that character is now reborn as Claudius from Elsewhere. it's fine.

only you see your mistakes. nobody else knows. one of the ways writing and dance overlap - only you know the choreography. nobody else will know if you miss a step, so just keep dancing and pretend you meant to do it like that.

it's an illusion that you need to write linearly - from point A to point B to point C. Nah; that's just timeline propaganda. I've written a LOT of books out of order and just reordered them once i've finished. if you have a scene you'd LOVE to write but can't get there yet because of plot, just fuckin write the scene. I've always found its easier to establish "point F" "point J" and "Point A" and then wiggle my way between those scenes.

write what you WANT to write. 230 pages of smut? of well-researched discussion on bread? whatever. the point is to strengthen muscles however you can.

if you miss a day, a week, whatever. not the end of the world. we all have dry days. also time is a myth so u can do this challenge whenever u want.

as soon as you try to write for a specific audience, you kill your voice. you are writing for yourself. stop thinking about how people will take ur book. it don't matter. what matter is u, enjoying writing. i luv u.

play to your strengths. i have characters talk so much because i don't know how to write a plot if it kills me but i'm really good at dialogue so.

i love a flight of fancy. write a poem in there. shift tactics and write in code. keep it fun for yourself.

see what happens if you shift something major about ur main characters - gender, wealth, superpowers. or if you change point-of-view. or if you kill everyone in a big explosion. do NOT edit anything before this or after it. often these little weird one-off exercises teach me what interests me about what i'm working on. it is never what i thought. plus it is a fun way to add like 1k words.

stretch.

it's for fun and for practice. stop doing that project if it's giving you anxiety. once my nano was literally 50k words of half-started stories. just things i tried and tried and tried and wasn't able to flesh out. oops. but i am now 50k words of a better writer.

add dragons?

read books/listen to books on tape/etc. people often make the mistake of "buckling down" to just write. you need inspiration. you need to like. fill up on words. you need to remember how it feels to lose yourself in a story.

i don't have the time or space to really talk about this in this post but a lot of creative people turn to drugs/alcohol because it can help you be more creative. this is harmful, and walking a blade that only cuts deep. if you notice you and your loved ones are turning more to substances, please know i love you and i hope you are able to get help soon. i feel like this almost never gets mentioned because it's kind of a hazy underbelly to art. you are always more important than the work.

on that note. drink your fukin. water.

don't talk about a story until you've finished it. once you tell the story, it exists already, and isn't about discovery. i usually have a very canned "haha we'll see" response.

grapes :) tasty snack.

i love you be free.

#edit: the command not to talk about it is from personal experience! #i have heard Otherwise in the tags so i will edit to say: #if you've noticed that you tend to like Talk A Lot about ur piece but never WRITE it - #consider voice-to-text #also #u might be like me and ... need to figure it out on the PAGE and not OUT LOUD #i am often an auditory processor so i wont tell people specifics but i'll be like #huh. so i have a character who is in love .... and they don't know it #and my friend will be like ''oh they should kiss' and meanwhile #somehow #saying it out loud im like #yeah thank u ur right the dress SHOULD be purple that's what the problem has been <3 #idk!!! it's up to you!!! my suggestion is to say LESS until you know for a FACT that saying MORE works better for you #-- always better to slowly unspool in ur exploration of that #than to accidentally talk too much and get Bored Of Project #idk idk idk #i have adhd so every book surprises me bc im like #wait where did any of this even COME FROM #and whatever little gremlin in my brain that writes is like :) #''heyyy girlie.......'' #WHICH IS A LONG WAY TO SAY: #i didn't know about Not Talking About It as an option until i'd ruined a few projects!! #but there are people who need to do the other thing!!! and i love us both!!!! #wow brains are so funny!!!!

[aroaceleovaldez]

im rick rordian ur right nico is autistic

okay i know this is a silly goofy haha and I could just respond to this "so true thank you rick" but i haven't talked about this in awhile and i feel like it again since this is apparently an under-recognized topic -

Nico is, in the books, autistic-coded! This is not a headcanon thing I personally have, there is textual and contextual evidence that he is purposefully autistic-coded.

The main point for this is that the first series featured a very overt theme about awareness for learning disabilities, particularly in the first three books. Obviously The Lightning Thief focuses primarily on characters with ADHD/dyslexia - Percy and Annabeth (since we don't actually know if Grover has adhd/dyslexia or not). But in Sea of Monsters the scope begins expanding and we have Tyson as a major character, who is very clearly coded as having down syndrome.

Then in Titan's Curse we have Nico, who upon introduction is very stereotypically autistic - He's immediately introduced as having a clear hyperfixation, missing social cues or otherwise behaving socially inappropriately/having difficulty with empathy and emotions, getting easily emotional particularly due to change, relying heavily on familiar things/people for stability, etc etc. And this is clearly described as being different to standard demigod ADHD. Especially given TTC was written in the mid-2000s, this is basically neon arrows pointing at Nico saying "look! This kid's autistic!" except not explicitly saying that, just like nobody explicitly ever said Tyson has down syndrome (or Percy having PTSD from Gabe, or Reyna being ace, or etc etc etc) - because that's what coding is. It's implying it without explicitly stating it. That doesn't mean it's not canon, it's just you have to actually read between the lines of the text to go "ah, okay, this is what this character has going on."

And this isn't just a thing that goes away with Nico's character - it's a basis for Nico's characterization for the rest of the series and into the next two series as well. He continues to explicitly have difficulty with emotions and social cues. He continues to reference having hyperfixations (mythomagic, pirates). Heck, we even get more notes about him having both sensory aversions (touch, potentially implied also bright colors/lights, etc) and being sensory-seeking (wearing oversized layers often, seeking out clothing with specific patterns [skeletons/skulls], etc), and stimming (twisting skull ring) later on.

So yeah, Rick Riordan, I am right, Nico is autistic. Because you wrote it in your books, very clearly. You just didn't explicitly say "autistic." And you didn't have to, because the point is for people to figure it out on their own.

#pjo #riordanverse #nico di angelo #analysis #i need to make a ''Nico is Autistic'' tag #ask #Anonymous #cause i talk about this a lot #and a lot of people seem to be of the misconception that i'm talking about it like it's a headcanon when it's not - it's in the books! #so i should probably consolidate my ramblings at some point #autistic nico #< there we go this has a tag now #autism

[theprincessandthepie]

ned stark's daughter will speak for them.

#game of thrones #sansa stark #ned stark #robb stark #asoiaf #a song of ice and fire #sansadaily #got #dailysansastark #am i allowed to put this in the asoiaf tag??? I did use book quotes and a lot of inspo from the books but i dont wanna be spammy. #lmk if its bad form and i'll remove the tag. #anyway. it's been 84 years.... #this vid. took so long. like. over a month. and she's HEFTY. #i'm really super happy with this. I am also going to have to post my 20 page (!!!) google doc with my notes and quotes and cut content #especially because - like a gremlin - i changed some of the quotes just a little bit to make more sense in the context of this vid. #which felt weird and bad and wrong but it did make the vid better. and so i can live with it. #also there is a shorter version on my youtube page for anyone who doesn't want to watch thriteen minutes of game of thrones vid #though this is the intended viewing experience #i could talk about this all day but i need to press post so. #my fanvids #Youtube

[coquelicoq]

what i love about the Famous Actor Natori Shuuichi of it all is that...it's not just that he's famous and therefore widely recognizable wherever he goes. like yes that is very funny because he was an exorcist before he became a famous actor, which means he CHOSE, on purpose, a day job that would make it harder to hide his double life/secret identity from the hordes of his adoring public, but it's more than that. it's not just that he's famous, it's that he's famous specifically for being an ACTOR, aka a person whose job it is to dissimulate, to make believe, to inhabit roles and emotions other than his own. like he decided he was going to become as visible as possible (which again was literally not necessary! he could have gone into any other career for his day job!!) but in such a way that everyone would see him but no one would see him - they would just see his various made-up personas, including the Famous Actor Natori Shuuichi persona. i can't decide if he's a genius or if he just made so many absurd decisions that they canceled each other out and circled back around to working out. he's either playing 9-dimensional chess or he's eating the pieces. too soon to say.

#the other thing i love about it is that in a very real sense it's his actor day job that is his alter ego #being an exorcist is his normie job. he's just a famous celebrity on the side #which isn't that uncommon in secret identity setups but it's still very funny #natsume's book of friends #natsume yuujinchou #natori shuuichi #natsuyuu meta #my posts #f #i think probably the actual answer is that acting was a very natural career choice because he already masks so extensively #both to hide that he can see things other people can't (and that youkai exist and that he exorcises them) #and to hide what he's really feeling so that no one can use it against him #so if it's already something he has to do & he's good at it...why not have someone tell him exactly how to do it & get paid for it? #and the other part of the answer is that most ppl don't go into acting assuming they'll get famous. the fame was a side effect #so each decision as it was being made probably made perfect sense. but put them all together #and you have this hilarious assortment of elements that seem to directly contradict each other #okay also i would be remiss if i didn't mention the other possible answer which is that the attention came first and was unavoidable #and the acting developed from the need to protect himself from the attention that he was going to be attracting no matter what he did #because he's so beautiful. and (in the exorcist world specifically) because he's the last of the natori #the more i talk about it the more i'm like no becoming a famous actor was the only path that made any sense for him lol #1) he's gonna be watched no matter what bc he's him -> gotta figure out how to hide his secrets -> learn to act as self-defense #or 2) he's got secrets -> he's gotten a lot of practice hiding them -> hey you could make a career out of this! #all roads lead to actor natori shuuichi. and since he's beautiful...all roads lead to FAMOUS actor natori shuuichi #i love it when i ramble so much in the tags that i end up contradicting my own post lol #he's neither thinking ten steps ahead nor is he irrational. he's simply making sensible individual decisions #that follow logically from what is available to him and what his priorities are

[theclosetedskeleton]

extremely low quality and kindof bad needful things art i made today/yesterday

#alan looks so sad in the first image for a REASON but if i explain it would be massive spoilers #alsoo the leland gaunt fanart is cropped bc of the same reason #its so hard to talk about the book without reaching spoilers PLEASE. #anyways the text for the third drawing says “hes so silly (mass projecting my trans self on him)” #i dont hc ace as trans but. he could totally be if i wanted to strike him with the trans hc hammer #the trans hammer. if you will #but hmm maybe not because hes canonically like. a cishet guy whos 40 years old HELPPPPP #GET YOUR ASS TO THE RETIREMENT HOME 🤣🤣😨😨🤨🤨☹/J 40 is not THAT old but STILL #WHATEVER i already hc someone in needful things as trans. he is also canonically a 40 (?)y/o grown ass cishet man #pov me wondering why my fav characters act cishet (they were written to be cishet) (i hc them as lgbtq+) #(theyre literally living in the 1990s) (they live in a republican town) #closet rambles again on tumblr #closet art tag ^^ #not tagging needful things i am TOO scared to

[henreyettah]

Moment of silence for the people starting gtn (after reading my comic) because I accidentally tricked them into thinking Gideon and Harrow have healthy communication skills and Domestic Intimacy when they do, in fact, have neither

#I’m sorry #I’m so sorry #gtn spoilers #htn spoilers #ntn spoilers #don’t read the tags here unless you want spoil #anyways #y’all are heading into this expecting these bitches to talk and be soft and shit #and I’m letting y’all. while knowing full well that they haven’t spoken a word to eachother in almost two years in canon #I mean. they want to talk #but they haven’t been able to At All due to extreme reasons. including multiple deaths of different kinds between the two of the #m #I feel bad but also not #I need to reread it btw but I’m currently working my way through aftg #which is fine so far. I’m obsessed with it when the book is in my hand but the moment I put it down I’m like ‘meh’ #and then I pick it up again and I’m absorbed #love fucked up people #Gideon Nav #harrowhark nonagesimus #griddlehark #let the soft animal of your body want bitch

[pinkfloydmuser]

Some of the bookmarks I’ve conjured up ✨🪄

⦿ Red Matt Bellamy 🎸♣️

⦿ Yellow Dom Howard 🥁♠️

⦿ My lovely rainbow angel Newt 🥹💗💗💗

⦿ Retro OC with vinyls 🎶🎵

You can find them (and more) at TechnicolourDreams17 on Instagram 🌟

#bookmarks #handmade #crafts #books and reading #matt bellamy #dom howard #muse fanart #oc #my art #newt tmr #tmr #how many tags do i need #These tags have been your Ted Talk

[soldier-poet-king]

It is not quite 11am I am on break and I am once again Thinking About Vampires, bc ofc I am

Please rec me ur fave vampire stories (books preferred but any medium is ok!!)

I realize that the bulk of vampire fiction out there is ~sexy~ and like I Get It, I am a known to be a Have The Hots For Vampires On Main person, but also the literary potential of vampires in ficiton?? The angst? The tragedy of the dhamphir? When the sire is evil? Fighting the self as monstrous? The unending hunger for something More Than Human? The Everything of it all??? When all of that is accompanied by well-written redemption, atonement, romance, or friendship arcs???

Idc how obvious you think the rec is PLEASE send it to me I have been hungering (ha) for more vampire stuff lately that isn't just terrible romance

#vampire tag #idk man i just. think theyre neat #vampires #literally was thinking abt alucard and then rose talked abt her son of strahd oc #and i was like. OH??? OH??? #i am also reading redacted TERRIBLE AWFUL romantasy book series for trashy bookclub #its SO BAD. LIKE MAKE SJM LOOK LIKE PEAK LITERATURE BAD #and it plays with vampires but very disappointingly #i just. want more good vampite ficiton tbh. #empire of the vampie did NOT deliver despite a fee good moments #ofc alucard is my darling #my wotr dhampir pc ofc #and like #astarion. obvs. #Discworld vampires #but i need MORE ok. im so fuckin into those fucked up guys

[trans-leo-valdez]

i need more legendborn content why isn't there more legendborn content let's talk about legendborn pls

#those books are soo good #more ppl need to read them and talk about them #and i need someone to talk to about them bc im slowly losing my mind over bm ending #i have to survive somehow until the next book #legendborn #bloodmarked #tracy deonn #<- putting this in tags so my mutuals know what im talking about but also to hopefully attract more lb fans so we can be mutuals <3

[markantonys]

man i love gawyn so much. he’s like “rand al’thor is so sexy and seductive that every single person in the world has fallen under his evil spell. i, however, am the only one who is immune to this, and i think about him 24/7 purely for normal rivalry reasons.” okay honey

#gawyn trakand #rand al'thor #wot #the wheel of time #wot book spoilers #it is thinking about my boy hours #where is s2 i need to see Him!! #i'm probably the only person in the world who counts 'seeing gawyn' among my reasons to be excited for s2 jdkfjg #i will make so many gifsets of him and then silently suffer as all the reblog tags are people talking about how much he sucks

[meamiiikiii]

i will not elaborate further beyond the original notes i had:

these are the type of thoughts i have while eating breakfast ASDASD

#isat spoilers #isat act 6 spoilers #isat act 6 secret encounter spoilers #isaloop #in my mind this is isaloop even if u cannot see isa he is there metaphorically off screen u see #seperated from prev cuz it did not distinctly fit the sentimental vibes this is infinitely sillier to me ASFASDA #well that and i kept messing with the way i was coloring it lmao #...okay maybe i will elaborate a bit more in tags ASFASFAS #the thought process was to divvy up the most identifiable wearable items from each party member onto siffrin and loop #these items needed to be reasonably removable ofc #they were also not going to be related to their customs (no bonding earrings for example) #the original plan was to give siffrin miras shawl bonnies hat isas belt and odiles glasses #then i was like ehhhh actually idk if the dangling gem bit is like a custom thing or not since it could be??? #so i switched up to odiles coat and miras gloves and rest remained #realized midway thru YOU WOULDNT BE ABLE TO SEE MIRAS GLOVES THAT WELL??? #so i gave siffrin the rope belt from mira instead #as for loop the plan was always to give them miras bow and bonnies bracelet #i revisited just the glasses part for odile briefly then thought a lil more and went #i do not think odile would chuck her glasses #hence the book since i dont think i couldve reasonably removed anything else from her #the pants #the pants. #in terms of identifiability to me the striped pants are fun and striking #hence the immediate next thought in the original notes ASFASDAS #however i do not think isa would just??? chuck his pants like that???? esp in context with the rest of the party????? #but in my minds eye this was a little bit funny so yea ASDASDSA #OKAY. tag talk over it is nap time ASFAS

[katierosefun]

bro . .  . the ai voice technology thing is so incredibly creepy like. do. do we not see this as a problem in this age of recording people without their consent and just blasting it all over the internet. are we not thinking about like. the potential pitfalls of fake evidence. are we. are we not concerned about this

#caroline talks #anyways i was scrolling through the taylor swift tag today #and saw something that made me. want to scream #like. i get it not everyone likes taylor swift and that's fine #but gaylors scare the living crap out of me #saw someone like. have a taylor swift AI read a part of seven husbands of evelyn hugo #but it was like. a k*ylor thing and like. #can y'all be fuckign normal. u don't know them!!! you don't know them!! you don't know the whole story!!! chill! #also it just feels extra ugly considering that whole taylor-kanye-kim thing about the phone call those years back like. are u serious #and i'm just annoyed about this over a piece of celebrity stuff #but like. do. do. do people not get freaked out by this #maybe it's bc i too have this fear that someone is going to manipulate my voice or my actions on camera/audio #and misconstrue something i say or do and so I get super freaked out about it #but it's just. bro. do we. do we not. DO WE NOT SEE THE PROBLEM-- #feeling like. i need to whack some people on the head. with a book.

[liquidstar]

a friend who'd wait :)

#im posting this very late because i was sort of weary of how it came out and ended up messing w it until it was like 4am oops. #and i have plans tmrw so... oh well! i did my best and ill put it out while i can! #and i tried to make the scene match barnard's colors lol #finn's ocs #finn's art #i know i said id do more sillay stuff with the simpler screentone only style but i had a couple more of these in me #and this is the first piece im making thats like an actual part of the story too rather than just setting stuff for fun #i wanna write something to go with it too but for now ill just sort of briefly explain the context in the tags here: #barnard has a pretty bad case of OCD and his compulsions have made it difficult to make friends in the past #he was never outright bullied or anything but people just didnt really have the patience to deal with it #he has compulsions that include stuff like walking through doors until it feels right and needing things to be perfectly aligned #which in group settings has lead to people having to wait for him to finish his rituals and join them #they might find it tolerable at first but eventually they grow impatient and hes just... not invited to stuff anymore #but juno is a newer member of the guild who ends up frequenting the same library. hes also kinda a little weird #and they dont become fast friends or anything but just sort of naturally spend time in the same place #though they never plan meetups they eventually fall into a routine. around the same time theyd just both be at the library #and read next to each other. and maybe talk a bit. and eventually they end up walking back to the guildhall together #since theyre going to the same place after all. and juno always waits for barnard outside the door #eventually barnard asks if this bothers him. juno kinda just tells him 'of course it does' without any malice or anything. just a statement #barnard is surprised and apologizes and juno says not to. but the next day juno doesnt show up at the usual time. #barnard assumes hes committed somekinda more by bringing it up. he ends up staying there late reading to get his mind off it & not ruminate #but when he leaves juno is in fact still waiting for him down the hall (see pic) having collected a bunch of books literally abt ocd #he fell asleep bc barnard stayed later than expected. and hes an eepy guy generally. and also one very bad at expressing himself #but now barnard gets that juno's 'of course it [bothers me]' had the implication of 'but its worth it' which no friend has previously done. #and from the interaction juno was also able to understand that this isn't something barnard just does for the hell of it so. he studies. #and checks a bunch of stuff out because he thinks it could help his friend too (theres ocd workbooks and such- i remember working w them) #and thats the point where they became more ''friends'' than ''pleasant library acquaintances'' #from there on they also do get into juno's problems. whole other bag of worms. but this specific scene is more about bernard from his pov #sorry about when i said briefly explain. i lied </3 #but compared to the whole sequence im picturing its brief so shhh

[thesmokinpossum]

I can't believe y'all almost made me pay to go watch po*r th*ngs in theater without telling me that the whole thing revolves around a hardcore born sexy yesterday trope with a side dish of pseudo necrophilia where a woman with the brain of a litteral foetus who don't have periods or body hair (but do have boobs!) find joy and freedom by having a lot of sex with a bunch of men, shoving a apple up her vagina for some reason and joining a brothel (but it's a cool socialist brothel and all the girls looove being there, don't worry guys), all of that written and directed by two men, I'm never gonna trust you guys after this one lmao

#she also piss on the floor at some point and talks about fucking with the vocabulary of a toddler but i'm supposed to believe it's not sus #lmao ok sure #'there's more to the story than this!' idgaf! 'you're taking it out of context!' idgaf! 'it's actually a feminist story!' no it's not lmao #i cannot let go of the socialist brothel either like wooooow #men are so obsessed with the idea of natural born sex workers it's almost comical #also i cannot comment on the original book since i haven't read it #but apparently a big thing is that at the end it's revealed by the woman character that the male ones where bullshitting... #...about pretty much everything to look smarter and more important than they are #but in this 'feminist' movie they actually do frankenstein the woman and give her a second life fr fr #like aiiiight lmao #btw i truly don't care if you love the movie that's perfectly fine i love plenty of movies with very questionable content #plus i don't think anyone need my approbation to enjoy anything in this world #but boy does it personally gross me out #poor things spoilers #i hope this don't pop in the tag btw #if it does i'm sorry but people who wants to see it *will* complain about being spoil

[cha1cedony]

Idk what it is that makes me fixate so hard on one specific thing for years at a time, but I need it to chill out 😭 DnDads has been my only long-term media interest for like 1 and 1/2 years now, and it’s BORING to only like one thing ever lol I’m BORED!!! I need other things to be interested in, but I struggle with getting into new stuff (other than video games) sooo bad :(

That said, if you have DnD podcast recs that have interesting characters……… GIMME 👀 Also where the early episodes aren’t a nightmare to listen to 🙏 I have never listened to any other DnD podcasts, and I think it’s mostly bc the earlier seasons are always poor audio quality or like 3 hours long 😭 I’m also good with any type of narrative podcast. I just want compelling characters and platonic/familial dynamics pls. Stuff I can write sad shit about!! But also not TOO sad the whole time… maybe a little bit silly idk

So far, ones I’ve written down to listen to are Cast Party and Friends at the Table? I don’t know anything about either of them, though so? Also I keep seeing my mutuals posting Oxventure and Woe.Begone (although the latter isn’t a DnD podcast.. I think?) sooooo let me know your thoughts. And recommendations! Send me your propaganda! Tell me about your blorbos

#the only podcasts I’ve really listened to are dndads and tma #but not the new tma one or whatever it’s called #I don’t really remember anything about it and was never into the fandom anyway #it was interesting ig but just not for me #I listened to it on 2x speed 😭 #I’ve also listened to a bit of wtnv and it was fun #but I also just wasn’t super invested. I like the concept a lot though hehe #anyway pls give me podcast recs. you guys can probably assume my favorite types of characters/relationships #I’m easy to read lol #tv show and book series recs are also appreciated #but idk I feel like there are probably a lot of podcasts and audio dramas I’m missing out on #and I drive 45 mins - 1 hour pretty often so it’s nice to have something I can listen to instead of sitting down with #also my last super long-term media interest was fucking danganronpa 😭 #which I exclusively fixated on and talked about ad nauseum for like 4 years so. so yeah #chalcy stuff #tma #danganronpa #<- remembered I should probably tag things that aren’t what I usually post lol sorry #hopefully the other stuff doesn’t need tags