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#interesting. talking about the end of the world at the end of the poem etc. hmmmmm.
inkskinned · 1 year
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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.
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icycoldninja · 2 months
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I’m begging on my hands and knees for more MGS 2 Raiden x pregnant wife reader headcannons
Ahahaha the fluff is addicting, ain't it?
MGS2!Raiden x fem!Reader pregnancy headcannons part 3
-Wants to learn to bake yummy treats to spoil you and the kid.
-Buys you guys matching shirts, one for you that says "I'm the world's cutest mom" and one for him that says "I'm the world's hottest dad", and you two flaunt them loud and proud in public.
-When he's at work he can't stop talking about how excited he is for your baby to be born. His enthusiasm is terrifying; some people are starting to wonder if he's losing his mind.
-And he kinda is--out of love! He just loves you and his unborn baby sooooo much.
-Wants to write his own storybooks so he can read them to your kid but isn't all that experienced at creative writing, so the best he can manage are short little poems.
-If you're interested, he'll take you shopping for essential oils so you can do aroma therapy.
-He'll also give you a gentle massage if you need or want it.
-Spends his (rare) downtime researching ways to make you more comfortable, how to take care of the baby once it's born, what foods to make for the baby once it grows up, when to start saving up for it's college fund, etc.
-When he goes to work he really puts his all into it--sometimes comes home exhausted because of it. Can you really blame him? He wants to make money to support his precious babies.
-In the end, Raiden's just as exhausted and excited as you are. Pamper him a little too, won't you?
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badboychaser · 6 months
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as the resident cole AND morro guy, uve GOT to have some interesting opinions on wu, so im gonna bite the bullet and ask what u think of my epic guy of all time wu.
I don’t really like or dislike Wu. He’s more so a character to me that is just…there.
He served more as a guide character within the pilots-s2 to sort of introduce us to the lore and world of Ninjago outside of the Ninjas perspective when we weren’t focusing on their world- like Coles father, Jays parents/crush on Nya, Kais ambition towards the green ninja, Nya coming to terms with growing up as a women (saying this as afab), and Zane’s sense of purpose. I’ll get to Lloyd later.
I joke often about Wu forgetting to tell the Ninja about important situations such as the Time Twins, Morro, etc. as most people do, however, I see this more as a fault of the writers than anything else. Characters are bound to be written and expressed differently depending on the writers of the time. This extends to the character of Wu and very noticeably the Ninja throughout the later seasons.
*I’m gonna talk about Cole & Morro a lot but it’ll circle back to Wu I swear.
~ Cole ~
During the beginning of the show we’re introduced to Cole; whom is shown to be somewhat a leader of the group in sense that he’s strong-willed. He’s not afraid of taking down someone who’s threatening the lives of others, but he can easily shed that hard exterior to reveal a caring person. Someone who, later on, is revealed to have had this revelation in childhood as well. He wants to go his own path even if others advise against it.
I believe that Wu did notice this in Cole when Cole was younger. The particular age that Wu started officially training Cole is unfamiliar as the mainline tv show has retconned this a few times while the comics go their own way. Besides that, I don’t believe Wu ONLY wanted to train Cole to become a ninja I believe he wanted to train Cole a certain type of discipline- to pick his battles and to know exactly what he’s fighting for.
I see Cole as someone who would get lost without proper guidance. Someone who has the potential for destruction whether that be internal or external. Someone who fights for what he thinks is right and to help others, but may end up actually hurting those he loves to prove a point.
Cole turning into a ghost is one of the BIGGEST points in his character arc. He sacrificed himself to get the map inside the Temple of Airjitzu thus turning him into a ghost. He accidentally chose his battle incorrectly because he felt obligated morally to help more than he needed too. He knew he was fighting for Ninjago and against Morro, but he didn’t know what he specifically got out of the situation which put him in a type of purgatory. This purgatory is worse than what is normally described, because instead of being cleansed of past sins and mistakes he is substituted to watch himself create more mistakes and “live” through the ones he’s already made without amends. In a perfect world, Cole only realizes he can move forward from his ghostly form if he actively WANTS change.
Wu trying to aid and guide Cole through life so he doesn’t end up like a child he used to teach- only to end up seeing Cole stuck due to circumstances out of his control. Circumstances brought on by someone from the past. Someone who cannot move forward and doesn’t believe in change. Morro.
“I tried to warn you when you were a child
I told you not to get lost in the wild
I sent omens and all kinds of signs
I taught you melodies, poems, and rhymes”
The Yawning Grave - Lord Huron
~ Morro ~
Morro is the same as Cole, at least, in the sense that they’re both strong-willed. Wanting to go his own path and achieving the destiny he thinks he’s entitled too. Wu definitely saw a little bit of Morro in Cole at some point and I believe the ghost arc sealed it.
A lot is unknown about the relationship between Morro & Wu other than knowing that Wu took Morro under his wing to train him to become a ninja. Lore like this isn’t really explored much in Ninjago seasons as they like to focus on present situations instead of past ones. It did seem that Wu really did care for Morro and did try to comfort him after it’s revealed that Morro wasn’t yet worthy of the green ninja title. Although, when Morro started acting out that’s when Wu started to become stern which is where I believe a lot of people have misconceptions about his character.
While we don’t know much about Wus student of the past I think it’s safe to assume this is the moment where Wu recognized that people have to been taught and trained differently. Maybe he taught Morro wrong? Maybe Morro cannot be taught and had to experience hardships himself to actually learn? Next time it can be different- it has too.
The first time I watched Day of the Departed I thought Morro mentioning Coles danger to Wu was to get some type of ulterior motive and the writers were going to explain it at a later date. This..didn’t happen. Typically because of this I joke about Morro helping Cole to get “heaven points” or “helpin another ghost bro out” but if I were to look deeper into it (a territory that the writers had 100% no intention of) I like to picture it as Morro not EXACTLY forgiving Wu but accepting the fact that he’s done wrong and wanting a better life for someone else.
Morro has done bad things, he knows that, and he’s not immune to consequences. Whether or not it was his own fault or Wus doesn’t matter because it’s all in the past. What matters going FORWARD and helping others is the important part.
~ Lloyd ~
Lloyd had a bit of a tricky relationship with Wu. It’s very obvious that Lloyd loves his Uncle, but the lingering thought of his father does get in the way of that love sometimes. Wu was very sweet to Lloyd when they took him in during s1 and even advised the ninja to look past where and who Lloyd initially came from and focus on befriending him and moving forward. From then on mostly it was the ninja and Kai who raised Lloyd.
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Misako…I’m not a Misako lover. I don’t resonate with her character at all so I don’t think it would be appropriate for me to speak on her relationship with Wu. Not my place to say.
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Reiterating, while Wu does do the infamous “there’s something I forgot to tell you…” that’s ABSOLUTELY just a writer shoe-in to push more seasons and should not actually reflect Wu as a character.
The way I see it; Wu at the beginning of the series was a character to push guidance and lessons for our characters to learn from so they can “defeat the big bad” of that season. A LOT misdirection of Wu’s character comes from s5. Honestly, I’m an early Ninjago season lover so anything after s7 is not my strong suit so I cannot speak for his character beyond that point.
I’ve been a little distant from Ninjago lately so I wish I could have given a more in depth response, so I tried to reason with what I already knew from the top of my head.
*Side note: I think “The Yawning Grave” by Lord Huron is a really good song to express the relationship between Wu, Morro, and Cole. Highly recommend the listen and looking up peoples thoughts about the meaning of the lyrics online.
*Side note: “Ninjago Mini-Movie #4: An Underworldly Takeover” is a good Cole and Wu focused short where Wu explains the relationship he had with his brother Garmadon after Cole gets curious and asks.
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Hello fellow asp enthusiast lol not to ask you like…. Half of your ask meme but 4, 5, 6, 13, and 14??? I would love to hear asp thoughts
no no believe me this is the ideal situation since i have a limited number of asp mutuals so THANK you for all the questions i am rubbing my hands together gleefully
4. favorite part?
i’m bad at favorites but one part that always gets me is the section where gene talks about “his” moment in history, which in his words is supposed to be the moment where if asked generally about the world or “the world today”, a person will think of this moment/era. and his is of course devon during the war, aka his school days. i just found that very poignant, and i think it’s so in line with everything we know about gene, how he continues to live in this very specific traumatic time bubble and how it has never really died for him, it’s just as present as it always was, he remembers it just as clearly as he always has and (as the explanation implies) always will. it haunts him, it is alive for him still, he carries it around inside, etc etc. it hits me in the heart a bit
5. favorite quote?
“[E]verything at Devon, the playing fields, the gym, the water hole, and all the other buildings and all the people there were intensely real, wildly alive and totally meaningful, and I alone was a dream, a figment which had never really touched anything. I felt that I was not, never had been and never would be a living part of this overpoweringly solid and deeply meaningful world around me.”
goodness does this one hurt/hit! again i’m bad at favorites, but after i read this in middle school i was like i think i know exactly what he’s talking about in fact i think he’s hit the nail on the head. i was obsessed with that quote for quite a while and made this art piece that was a watercolor painting of devon at sunset and then i had a cut-out sketch of gene i’d done on looseleaf that i pasted in the middle. and yeah that’s exactly how i feel about it
6. brinker opinions? love or hate him?
LOVE! i cannot lie i love that boy and i also think he sucks 🫶🫶🫶 he has that lovable smarmy rudeness, which i can’t find flatly hateable. and i mean, he’s a funny guy, like he writes those poems and i think they’re very much written to be at least kind of funny. i’m not an apologist in the sense that i don’t think he did nothing wrong, but i find him a fun and interesting character with fun and interesting flaws. he also has a level of conviction about everything that he believes that is kind of endearing to me, especially when he does that 180 at the end of the book about his war opinions. he’s all, i LOVE the war everyone should come do the war with me, and then by the end he’s like i fucking hate the war. lol or at least he thought it was stupid and was sort of disillusioned about it. which was especially interesting in the context of that allusion to his Complicated relationship with his father, plus the fact that gene was AWARE of how complicated it was. i love the camaraderie implied by those two’s wariness of each other’s parents lol. and i love to think about their relationship after devon. i like to think brinker continues his 180 away from his father’s politics and expectations and becomes the loud bisexual that the spirit of gore vidal inside him is willing him to be, and i think down the line he’d be a lot more open and liberated about his sexuality than gene. but i mean, gene’s a low bar to beat in that department. i am a capricorn brinker truther
also, i'm a firm believer in the idea that all of the main four are queercoded in various ways, and i find him interesting to place in the tapestry of queerness/map of gay drama that asp paints. i'm majorly mixing metaphors but whatever. brinker is obsessed with monopolizing the attention and time of gene, while also feeling the need to present himself as morally superior to the object of his affection, to the point where he takes on literally the role of a judge. like there is something deeply wrong with him but not just in the silly asshole way and i think we haven't talked about that enough. i imagine his relationship with popularity and having kind of a curated public face/persona is more similar to gene's than it seems, and i think they understand each other in ways that neither of them were necessarily able to do with finny, which is why their friendship remains strong even at the end the book. plus i've always thought they knew each other before the events of the book took place. there's a lot of shared history there and i think that would cause them to continue to share their lives even after enlisting. this went on a tangent i didn't intend, but i have a very detailed idea of their lives after the war lesjdkksdlj
13. appearance/voice headcanons?
finny:
has heterochromia, parts of his eyes are different colors
very melodic voice, a bit higher than average (the melodic part might actually be canon)
dimples
tan for a white guy, freckles
bad at volume control, always ends up talking Loudly. if you take him to a diner, the next table over will hear his entire half of the conversation, terrible in libraries, etc
never wears his uniform fully properly. it's always folded up or modified in some way or he's just not wearing part of it
i think he has curly hair, but the color changes in my head all the time
gene:
brunette bowl cut bitch. the early 2000s movie was so right about the bowl cut. hair is wavy
pale, sunburns easily
i always draw him with these big downturned glassy eyes, always looks a little teary
ill-fitting clothes (hand-me-downs from his brother)
BAD posture that makes him palpably little next to other people
i think he has a weird like tired quality to his voice that i think dane dehaan also has. not raspiness but that kind of low, slow, round, weirdly nasally sound. is that a tired quality? idk but he and dane dehaan both have it
this is not a headcanon this is completely canon but his ass does not have a southern accent or at least not a very strong one. he was playing it up to get attention
brinker:
in ms/hs i headcanoned that he had some form of a buzz cut or crew cut at devon because he was such an enlistment enthusiast
gene described him as athletic looking which in middle school i could only conceptualize as buff. so now i just imagine him stocky, wide, and chubby, with a brief period of weight loss during/after the war
lipless. notably so
i think he cares the most about fashion out of the main four in that elitist rich people private school way, so he’d have all the right pieces and brands, everything would fit properly
enunciates very sharply. has like, a teacher voice lmao
blond but like of course he is
leper:
light brown hair, kinda dorky middle part
very quiet, breathy voice. people ask him to speak up often
overgrown hair. grandma always says he needs a haircut
i am a tall leper truther. i think he’s a beanpole and i think he’s the tallest one. i had a friend who thought the opposite
layered the fuck up in terms of clothing
the book mentions him wearing “spectacles” when he goes off to find the beaver, which were probably just snow goggles or something, but i like to think he wears glasses
leftie with an always-stained hand (paint, pencil lead, etc) and badly bitten nails
lots of knitwear from gramma
14. what would you change about the book apart from [REDACTED]?
you know i’ve admired and liked a separate peace for so long and spent so much time dissecting its various intricacies that i just haven’t been in the mindset of looking for/noticing things i want to change about it very much. if anything, i think leper’s ptsd or “madness” or whatever it was was handled poorly and with an obvious lack of understanding of what that was and how it worked, although to be fair the mental illness knowledge at the time was probably lacking in general. leper’s actions and choices at the end of the book are explained away by generic tv movie craziness when i think it could’ve been a lot more interesting to explore the implications of leper having more obvious agency in those choices, leper actively choosing to be vengeful towards gene (he definitely had reason to be!) and battling with that internally during the trial. his explosions of emotion would’ve been more impactful to me if that had been the case
i would’ve of course loved for the book to be canonically queer, just so we could get a more explicit exploration of each character’s relationship to their queerness and how it colors the book’s pet topics of repression, rivalry, devotion, and coming of age, but i don’t even think it’s necessary because you can truly just read the book as if it were queer and nothing need change. like it all works, no leaps in thought or reading-into required. i mean it certainly helps to do those things, and i think reading into things is often part of a good reading experience, but it is literally about gene’s repressed desire for finny and the unintended consequences of that repression, among other things, but very explicitly that. plus there's the ass paragraph and the characters’ relationships with family, etc etc. like gene LITERALLY stops himself from telling finny how much he means to him at the beach and that could just as much be about gay love as straight boybestfriendship, in fact i think the case is stronger textually for it being queer than not. no straight person can read asp and not have at least one moment of, hmm this seems gay, but you can absolutely just read it as gay without issue. as much as i would love to see the "canon" version of their queerness, i am also very comfortable with the amount of freedom we have to take it in many different directions ourselves, and i think there's something very poignant and true about asp's queerness being heavily implied but never outright confessed
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kestalsblog · 2 years
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Things to Keep in Mind While Writing Poetry: for "Pretentious Poets"
(Long Post)
Let's start this off with an important reminder. In poetry, we should never assume "I" or any first-person pronouns are the same as the poet/author. They relate to the speaker of the poem, who may or may not be the poet. The speaker is like a characer in a story. With that being said, be prepared for many readers to conflate the two no matter what - and let's be honest, many times you do intend the "I" in poems to be you, the poet.
In poetry, there is a tendency to meditate on philosophical concepts, right? And something interesting often happens when we meditate on the meaning of life, the nature of man, etc., etc. We get big egos. We get pretentious and think we have all the right answers and start blaming everyone else, developing a "me vs. them" mentality even if we don't mean to.
This can lead our poems to sound pretentious, preachy, or more arrogant than we intend. In attempting to condemn what we see wrong and rewrite reality to mach our own ideals, we forget that we too are often responsible of the same vices of which we accuse our fellow human beings.
This habit can lead us to do many harmful things in poetry, including but not limited to the below:
Imposing our own thoughts on other living things (including animals, which are definitely not sharing our same thoughts and perspectives). I recommend reading "The Fish" by Elizabeth Bishop if you want a fantastic example of a poem that uses an animal to talk about human ideas and then by the end appropriately lets it go. But this one can be super terrible in some cases. Remember those wretched people who tried to claim slaves were happy because they would sing in the plantation fields? Yeah, never assume you know what another person is thinking and never impose your thoughts on them.
Using the suffering of people we know to make a point. Example: you might write a poem about a loved one's death to stake a claim about the unfairness of the world. Well, don't forget that you are writing about a real person. Make sure you do that person justice and don't just use them as a springboard or a symbol. Your loved one is MORE than a symbol. Much more. You might be so caught up in your heightened emotions, you don't even realize. But no one is just a symbol for your poem! Yes, suffering can be included in poems. But should it be romanticized at the cost of another human being?
Positioning yourself as the know-it-all saint, God's mouthpiece. Preacher Poet. "Look at all these people and all the ways they have ruined the world! Let me teach you the truth!" Well, bud, take a look in the mirror. I bet you've hurt someone else. I bet you've contributed to the destruction of the environment. I know you don't want to come off as holier-than-thou in your poems. This can lead to the below issue too.
Ignoring all the bad things to save face. You know that Facebook friend you have you're super jealous of? The one who's always posting flawless pictures of her super-amazing family while you're miserably scrolling along, wondering how anyone can be so happy. Like those white-teethed people on Facebook, perfect, sugary-saccharine poems about good ol' you start to give more cavities than joy. You're not the perfect FB person in real life, so don't be that in poems. Not saying to air all your dirty laundry for the world to see, but a good reader can point out fake-cheer. There's an opposite way to go, too (see below).
Competing in the trauma/oppressed Olympics. "I am the most hurt person alive. Everything that has happened to me is the worst thing ever and no one understands." I don't think I need to elaborate much on this one, but open your mind while writing and remember the plight of others as much as your own. Many people do understand and poetry can be a beautiful way of connecting to other people and sharing our truths. We love to write about our trauma because it helps us work through it in a healthy way, but we shouldn't diminish others' pain to do this.
Assuming you know everything. Spoiler: you don't. No need to keep reading your poem. One of the best parts of poetry is its inquistive nature. Poets and readers can ponder a question together, and what is more intimate, more lovely than that?
All this is to say that poetry requires a kind of self-awareness and empathy some other forms of writing don't. It's personal. It's both private and open. Can you get away with the above if you're an amazing, self-aware poet? Sure. Can you break the rules and write a satirical poem, purposely positioning yourself as a pretenious a-hole? Yeah. But the issue is that a lot of beginning poets are making these mistakes very genuinely and might be a little horrified to realize how their poems come across to some readers. I believe in the goodness of most people deep down.
Anyway, stay mindful, poets.
[P.S. No, I don't know everything either! I think tip and advice articles can start to sound know-it-all themselves. I just compile thoughts and ideas I've gathered and have learned from others along the way that I find useful :) We're all learning, right? I'm just really passionate].
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from Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg (Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Bill Morgan & David Stanford)
Allen Ginsberg [n.p., New York, New York?]
to Jack Kerouac [n.p., New York, New York?]
after May 18, 1948
Monday Night : 1:30
Dear Jack:
I got your letter Sat. evening—I had been in Paterson for a few days. I will be in this weekend (in N.Y.).
You seemed overly proud that it was “ancient material.” What I was saying   in part (lesser part) was that it was not recognizable (to me in your prose) but but but. This is not the same old maturity that I (as [Bill] Gilmore) have been talking about before. This is something I wouldn’t have the slightest idea if Gilmore would understand and don’t care much. But you are right, perhaps it’s under my nose in you. This is a kick I don’t want to continue.
School is over and I have been reading Dante, which I have found very inspiring. I finished the Divine Comedy during the term, and am reading books including The Vita Nuova (New Life) [by Dante Alighieri]. I dreamed up an enormous tentative plan tonight, which I will tell you about. My interest in reading is the profit by other men’s experience. I sometimes find (only “lately) authors talking directly to me, from the bottom of their minds. I think I am going to write a sonnet sequence. I want to read Petrarch and Shakespeare, Spencer and Sidney, etc. and learn about sonnets from beginning to end, and write a series on love, perfectly, newly conceived. I conceived the whole idea all at once seeing the first word in a title embedded in a page of the Vita Nuova: my poems have always been prophesied by their titles. That is, a poem often has a single “transcendent, personal, and serious idea” behind it, as a novel—a single image. I want to celebrate my “lovers” in all various manners, intellectually, wittily, passionately, raptly, nostalgically, pensively, beautifully, realistically, “soberly,” enthusiastically, etc., every possible perception fitted out in inwrought, clear, complex stanzas—including the one as yet undefined or un-stated mood, or better, knowledge, that I have and that at times you are aware that I have, no matter how silly I get. The title of this is: “The Fantasy of the Fair.” Just repeat it aloud, it carries the whole idea in it. One of the major ideas is the dynamic sense of “Lucien’s “Face” which you once propounded to me and which I half understood at the time. I want to formulate it poetically, if possible as the end of the poem, but without any private or subjective, or N.Y. idea of L.I. [Long Island] use the name to bridge at the moment. I am talking about humanity, and beginning to try to write in eternity.
I have been enduring a series of troublesome dreams lately about Neal [Cassady]. Your notice comes at about the crisis of them, though it is not a passional crisis and is accompanied by no tempests of intellect. I wonder what he is doing in his eternity. I feel so far away from people, without loneliness, that I am rather happy now. [ . . . ]
I’m not worried about the theory of writing, I am only just vering the practice. The Doldrums are antiquated. For that reason I am sending poetry out for the first time. I got my first rejection slip from Kenyon; a note from J.C. Ransom, editor and poet: “I like very much this slow, iterative, organized and reflective poem. At times it’s like a sestina. Thank you for sending it. But still I think it’s not “for us exactly. I guess we need a more compacted thing.”
I had sent them “Denver D. [Doldrums]” but, as luck would have it, I have some compacted things around that he will get next week.
Your season sounds beautiful. I particularly wish I had seen Lucien so drunk. Make what you want out of that.
No, it sounded like you. (Some one is singing a ditty “So please pass a little piece of pizza”) and it makes me wish I were alive, that’s why I can’t say any more.
Everybody’s fine, but it’s sweet, beautiful, but not so dumb, this world. Lucien means dumb because we don’t know what we know. I mean, won’t admit how much we know.
White said that Scribner’s rejected you, too, just like the goil. Can I see the novel [The Town and the City]? But don’t worry, it really don’t mean a thing. That’s my opinion.
Grebsnig
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ozon-speaks · 11 months
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break up thoughts
The Infinite EGO
I have gone through lot of what the modern world calls them “pain” along with that there is her “memories” making me sleepless nights. When I say all these things many will judge me, and come to the conclusion that these men don’t know about being an Alpha, and many of you will definitely, would have heard the modern proverb “Many bitc*es in the sea bro”.
Well, I am not talking about a b*** here, it’s about a woman, who stands out from all the women’s, at least The women’s whom I meet in my world. An elegant, strong, wiser and hottest. That one woman whom we could die for whom we could live our rest of our lives with.
but what happens when she dumps you, for your mistake, that’s what we gonna discuss.
May be if you could read a page from my journal you would understand, how much she was meant to me. And maybe it can help you out, how to overcome this tragedy. I can’t promise you that you will understand the plot out of my journal page. Yet try to read out.
The page from my journal
hands are getting Cold while typing her name, may be that’s love what it should be, wanted to say sorry to her, But I am stuck inside of fear, war, EGO, and of course LOVE.
If I love her, I would never have made mistakes, but making mistakes are inevitable in human life at least in my life it’s inevitable.
I am scared to talk to her, scared to even take her name out, I too know these 10 years down the line, I am Gonna feel like shit, coz I know I was dumb, coz I was scared to say sorry, Where I never this scary when I proposed her off.
What Gonna happen is my only fear and answer to lies in that question, what will really happen, there is not gonna have a world war for this.
I should have said that I need attention from her, instead of saying I am possessive enough. I should have said that your mom is the person whom I care about only after you. I should have said that I need my project component coz I am dyeing for that from days. I shouldn’t have shouted at her, at least in the place where we romanced. I should have said her That I miss the way we romanced and didn’t let our hands forbid no matter what happened or doesn’t care about what will happen it was all in the present. I should have said her I missed to be with her when She required me the most, and also informed her in the OATH of living me behind when I needed her the most. I agree we never tried to resolve our issues together, may-be we never meant to be. At least, now we need to recognize that we are humans with compound of Love, hate, EGO, Wars etc. I tried to Move on but these Emotional Scars, didn’t left Behind. Now at this moment I feel you, all I wanted is a sensible Talk between us. I really don’t know whether will it happen or not. But sincerely, I wish us a good fortune and good luck many more to come.
Hope you remember when I proposed you with a letter in my hand, when You were not so interest on me, I said that if you didn’t like me show these poems or love letter to your kids and you had that one pure smile on your face, I wish You keep the promise up and Happy life Ahead.
For some there might be lot of things which is not up to the mark. But I trust that you know ,now what to do , take a paper and write down what you want to do for you , not for her but for you , start executing it, if you are in a phase to resolve the issue than please resolve, if you are in relationship and had a fight , leave you ego for a moment and please try to resolve if its not working for you , trust me its not meant for you. End of the day its on you
And This is ozon for you .
Cheers.
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witchthewriter · 1 year
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Hello! I was wondering if I could get a level 3 Witcher, game of thrones, and Merlin matchup? I’m 20, she/her pronouns and bisexual. As for my mbti i have no clue cause it changes everytime i take the test but I’m definitely an introverted intuition type. For personality I’m creative, introverted, structured, and individualistic. Though I’m introverted, around my friends I can be quite talkative, humorous and outgoing. I love and treasure my alone time in the bat cave of my room the most however. I’m currently in art school working with technology mediums. I love my practice and everything from digital illustration to creative coding. Im currently trying to figure out 3D modeling and printing! Once I get in the zone, there’s no stopping me on an art or design idea. As for hobbies, i love escaping to new worlds while reading books and comics, watching movies, and playing video games. My favorite genres are fantasy and sci-fi. I have a tendency to read novels and watch their adaptations at the same time analyzing the differences. I also start multiple books at the same time oops. Guess you could say I daydream a lot about whichever piece of media I’m into at the moment. These stories are definitely inspirations of my art as well. Apart from that, I do love working out and weight lifting. I used to also kickbox a lot and definitely want to get back to it sometime. Thank You!
Want one? Here be the rules 🦋🌈
𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐖𝐢𝐭𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐫
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𝐷𝑒𝑠𝑐𝑟𝑖𝑝𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛
I ship you with Jaskier! I think he would find you so very interesting. Your way of thinking and when you get into the zone, you become unstoppable. In this world you could be an elf, or witch, (or whatever you wish!) and your powers of focus would be intensified.
𝐻𝑒𝑎𝑑𝑐𝑎𝑛𝑜𝑛𝑠
・He makes SO MANY SONGS ABOUT YOU. Not only songs, but poems and love letters. They make you smile, and he loves seeing you smile
・He can be annoying at times and you have thrown a pillow or two his way. But he’s learnt to dodge 
・Calls you every pet name under the sun, “sweetheart,” “sunshine,” “angel,” “love,” “sweetcheeks” etc. 
𝑻𝒉𝒆𝒎𝒆 𝑺𝒐𝒏𝒈:
↬ The Night We Met by Lord Huron
𝑹𝒆𝒍𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒔𝒉𝒊𝒑 𝑻𝒓𝒐𝒑𝒆𝒔:
↬ Opposites Attract
𝐌𝐞𝐫𝐥𝐢𝐧
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I ship you with Merlin! I think you would find someone who understands you on a different level than others. It’s like you’re on the same page, nay, wavelength. Whatever you putting down, he’s picking up. 
𝐻𝑒𝑎𝑑𝑐𝑎𝑛𝑜𝑛𝑠
・Your comments make him snort. Like an actual snort snort - like a pig. Whenever he does that, the both of you end up rolling on the floor laughing
・Will gently hold your chin steady while he plants a kiss to the side of your forehead before he has to leave
・Does not care what other people think of him, but if anyone talks smack about you in front of him ... ohooo... he will make ‘em wish they were never born
𝑻𝒉𝒆𝒎𝒆 𝑺𝒐𝒏𝒈:
↬ From Eden by Hozier
𝑹𝒆𝒍𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒔𝒉𝒊𝒑 𝑻𝒓𝒐𝒑𝒆𝒔:
↬ Aggressively Supportive
𝐆𝐚𝐦𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐓𝐡𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐞𝐬
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I ship you with Pod! I think he would love to listen to your hobbies; just absolutely stare at you in wonder while you babble on. He never interrupts you or tells you to stop talking. 
𝐻𝑒𝑎𝑑𝑐𝑎𝑛𝑜𝑛𝑠
・He likes when you watch him train - he feels really manly, but more often than not, he’ll fall over or knock the weapons off the table which makes a really loud noise.  
・He’s so used to being a squire that he automatically goes to help you with ABSOLUTELY EVERYTHING. You have to remind him that he doesn’t need to do that, especially with you 
・Likes when you tickle his back - the kind where you gently stroke his bare skin with your fingers. It’s such a gentle way of expressing intimacy 
𝑻𝒉𝒆𝒎𝒆 𝑺𝒐𝒏𝒈:
↬ Sweet Disposition by The Temper Trap
𝑹𝒆𝒍𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒔𝒉𝒊𝒑 𝑻𝒓𝒐𝒑𝒆𝒔:
↬ Talks A Lot x Likes To Listen
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catelyngrant · 2 years
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For the writer asks, how about 1, 9, 12? 😄
1. what’s the fic you're most proud of? This is a really interesting and hard one! There are a few that come to mind, in no particular order:
my house is haunted by rotten desire (CAOS, post s3, Zelda-centric): I always feel satisfied when I feel like I've a) nailed a character that I find hard to write and b) made sense of or fixed something that really frustrated me or was just plan wrong, gross, or ignored in canon. I felt like this fic accomplished both.
beckoning towards me from behind that closed door (Supergirl, Kara-centric): Gen fic doesn't usually get the same love as fic tagged with popular fandom pairings and I totally get that, but this was one of the very first Supergirl fics I wrote (shortly after season one ended) and I've always thought it was a bit underrated. I think it does a good job of exploring a lot of different aspects of and possibilities for Kara in ways that felt believable.
love leaves a mark and love leaves a strain (Supergirl, Supercat): I thought that this one explored parts of Cat in a way that I hadn't really seen, and considering what a talented and thoughtful fandom this is, that felt rare! I also really like reading/writing Kara and Cat navigating new stages of their relationship dynamic, no matter what that dynamic is, and I thought that this fic was set in an interesting moment between them.
sugar, we're going down swinging (Hacks, Ava/Deborah): I hesitate with this one because I'm really proud of the first chapter but less so about the second chapter - I was so determined to get it out before season two started, and I think if I'd spent another week or two with it, I'd be much more satisfied for having fleshed out some areas that right now leave me a little disappointed. That said, this was a fic I never expected to write, was terrified to write, gave me no small amount of grief, and really challenged me in new ways. I'd written next to no really explicit smut before, for one thing, and picking Ava/Deborah as the ship to change that was...a choice.
I was in my mid-twenties through 30 (my current age) when I wrote all of these, but I do have a few older ones that - while I'd definitely change some things - I think hold up really well for having been written when I was much younger.
9. what’s your writing process like? Lie awake at night or get caught up in daydreams while commuting, fleshing out entire worlds and specific scenes, and then being frustrated at how many of them vanish before the Divine Inspiration to actually put them on the page hits. When it does, I pretty much slam them out very quickly. This also happens when I'm facing a deadline of any sort, only without the Divine Inspiration and a lot more anxiety.
For non-fic writing (mostly poetry), it's a little different. It involves a TON of reading and being inspired by other works, which serves to get me into a mindset where I feel like I just start viewing the world a little differently and everything suddenly feels like it has potential to be a poem. Generative workshops or my local queer craft night are great, and I have so many bits and pieces of imagery/phrases/anything that feels like it might have a place in a poem someday scattered all through my life (my phone, scraps of paper, jotted in notebooks or the margins of books, voice memos, etc.)
12. What’s your perfect environment to create/write? I like working in groups with other writers, so local writing groups are great even if I don't share much of what I'm working on. At home, it's usually just me on the couch. My favorite - though rare - options are holing up at my aunt and uncle's little camp on a lake and writing on the dock or in the cozy cabin which feels like it's designed for writing, or on my mom's porch with the cats dozing nearby. I like silence when I write, at least in terms of no music/TV/talking going on in the background.
Ask me fic questions!
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187days · 1 year
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Day One Hundred
One of my students won’t come to class because he’s struggling, but he’s struggling because he won’t come to class. This is a vicious cycle, and I- and so many other adults in the building- are trying to pull him out of it, but, so far, nothing we’re doing is working. I wish I could make him see that I’ve got other students in the same section of World who find it difficult- and, heck, maybe they find me difficult, too- but just by showing up, asking for help as needed, persevering even when they’re frustrated, etc... they’re going to be successful. And he can be to. 
It’s extremely frustrating that I haven’t been able to convince him of that.
Today I was teaching one of the more difficult lessons in the first unit, but one of the most engaging. It’s about migration, so I started by asking students about the impact it has on cultures- ie, people bring their culture with them when they move to new places, cultures interact and blend, sometimes there’s backlash to that- and asked them what they knew about their own immigrant ancestors. I’d guessed (correctly) that many of them had ancestors like mine who’d fled poverty, famine, conflict, etc... Segue to me explaining how many people fleeing those things today are quite young. 
We’d talked about Korea in previous classes, and that situation seemed to interest a lot of them, so I showed a Ted Talk by a woman who’d escaped North Korea and also gotten her family out. We discussed that for a bit, I got some great questions about asylum-seeking, legal vs illegal border crossings, etc... as well as questions about North Korea, specifically. After that, I had them read Warsan Shire’s “Home” to get another perspective on what it means to be an asylum-seeker. 
It’s that poem that makes the lesson difficult; it deals with very serious issues and it has some profane language, so it requires a certain level of maturity, which is not always a guarantee with ninth graders. A few of the boys in Block 2 tried to make jokes, so I responded with the classic, blank, “I don’t get it,” and they knocked it off. We discussed lines that were unclear, or lines that stood out, and I ended the lesson by saying we’d be doing some research tomorrow to learn more about what is being referenced in those lines. Students are learning that it’s my style to string lessons together very deliberately, and some of them have said they like how clear I am about it, so that’s a win. 
My APGOV students have a test on Wednesday, so they did some MCQ practice to identify which topics they need to review prior to it, and which ones they have down. After that, we discussed FRQs and I showed them how to write  concept application questions. We tackled one together, then I had them do one on their own. We’ll do the same with quantitative analysis and SCOTUS case comparison questions tomorrow; I’ll save argument for the next test. Some of my students find it very easy, some find it very difficult, and it led to a hilarious discussion about whether my class or calculus is harder.
It’s definitely calculus if you ask me. I have no idea how to do that. But, of course, some of my students find that as effortless as I find political stuff, so it’s about learning the tools and tricks to make the political stuff easier. 
That’s what I’m here to help them do!
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kckenobi · 1 year
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helloooo!!! Sage, taro, and papyrus for the asks?? 💕
Hiiiiii!!!
sage ⇢ what ‘medium’ of art (poetry, music, fiction, paintings, statues etc.) is the most touching to you? why do you think that is?
I think it might be music. It's interesting to me though, because that wasn't always true—like I've been doing music since I was 5, and it was never something emotional for me until after I'd stopped taking it seriously. The first time I can remember a piece of music making me cry was Beethoven's Symphony No. 4, I was in a concert hall in college with my freshman roommate, and I just went :'))))) "oh."
And in recent memory, music makes me cry all the time. Usually it's the combination of lyrics and melody, rather than just instrumentals, but I think that's the way I'm easiest moved. Or poetry, but poetry and music are similar for me in a lot of ways. Just like, the rhythm of words and all that, ya know.
papyrus ⇢ if you put your ‘on repeat’ playlist on shuffle, what’s the first song that comes up? what do you like about it / associate it with?
lol it was anti-hero by taylor swift! And oh wow okay, this album has a lot of things associated with it, but specifically this song I was listening to a lot when I was having some family issues, and it was just like,,,,a way to vent fear, like "oh hey maybe I'm just as bad/worse than (person I was in conflict with)" and that was!!! Kind of weirdly healing!! Lol like let's take my insecurities and turn them into an absolute bop, which yeah, is like the entire point of the song sksjsks
taro ⇢ if someone called you right now to catch up, what’re the things you’d tell them about?
I would tell them about finishing my first semester of grad school, about how living with my parents is fine but weird and how most of my friends moved far away, which is lonely. I would tell them about how I ran a 5k last month and how I want to get back to running but it's too cold and I'm always tired lol. I'd talk a little about work, and how I love it even if it's draining. And lastly, I'd tell them about this girl I really like, and how I'm scared of how it feels like magic, but how I'm learning that being scared is okay.
There's a Mary Oliver poem that goes something like that: "When it's over, I want to say: all my life I was a bride married to amazement. I don't want to end up simply having visited this world." So I am trying to live, and be messy, and scared—and it is all good :)
getting to know you asks
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Your tags on the post with Theoden's speech at the Pelennor were very interesting - I learned something new :)
Can you imagine being one of the guys way off at the side or in the back, who can't hear a damn thing?
Guy 1: What's the King saying?
Guy 2: No idea. Something about spears and death.
Guy 1: *sighs* Great. Death again.
Guy 3: He says the world's ending.
Guy 1: *snorts, waves at Orc army* well, I think we knew that.
It would be like the 'blessed are the cheesemakers' scene in Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
hahaha yes! That's basically it.
So, my notes/tags are a bit of an oversimplication/misspeaking. Historically, speeches were given (probably. We're pretty sure they were, at least in late antiquity and medieival Europe, to paralell LOTR world), but they weren't what we think of when we think Pre-Battle Inspirational Make Your Hair Stand on End Speech Ooo Ra. That's Hollywood.
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Essentially, yeah, generals probably gave some form of a speech. Like, short of going back and filming good ole' Julius Caesar or and 15th century Italian mercenary captain before battle, we can't say for certain, but literature points it at least having been a thing. (And that's for Rome and societies heavily influenced by classical antiquity - it'd be different for other society. E.g., Boudica before battle - was she giving a speech? a poem? a song? nothing? Was Harold Godwinson following classical structure of a speech or did he do his own thing?)
Even if in books, poems and plays they dress it up a lot and make it fancy (we also know generals were criticized if a battle was lost and they didn't given some sort of remarks ahead of it).
But when we think of speeches, we think of Theoden's speech before Pelennore, we think of Aragorn's speech before the Black Gates - those kind of perfomative, eloquent, well planned speeches? That's hollywood (or, rather, hollywood riffing on the nice refined version of events that get put into histories and poems).
Because the purpose is different.
Historically, generals needed to provide their men emotional momentum to carry them through the inevitable moment battle commences and fear comes for them as a tsunami.
The classical pre-battle speech tended to follow a specific formula (and it would have been short and repeated multiple times as the general rode up and down the line).
In terms of speech structure, there were four parts:
intro/opening which included talking about the bravery of the soldiers and past feats
description of the enemy and future dangers they're going to face
what they get if they win/what they'll lose if they're defeated
some emotional wrap
The order might move around and certain things might be emphasized over others, but that's the gist.
The really key, core parts of this structure - the ones that are never left out - are the reminders of past feats and description of the horror and fearsomeness of the enemy.
This is because, as a general, it behoves you to acknowledge your soldiers' fear. They're going to feel terror no matter what! You might call them lions, tell them they're invincible and fearsome warriers, but none of them feel that. Not when enemy fire begins and their friends start dying around them.
What is important is to acknowledge that fear and then balance it against reminders of past victories (we've done this before!) and reminders of why they're fighting (to keep our families safe! to liberate ourselves/these other people! etc).
Whereas in Hollywood, the point of the pre-battle speech is to convey information to the audience.
So, Saruman is saying "A new power is rising; its victory is at hand! This night, the land will be stained with the blood of Rohan! March to Helm’s Deep! Leave none alive! To War!"
This is a shit pre-war speech. This is useless. It's not going to help the very (very) green army he has feel brave and fearless and carry them through the difficulty of the battle to come. (And the Uruk Hai do know fear! They know pain! They did, at least, get to taste manfelsh. Saruman didn't breed a some super-fearless army. We know they feel all the same things humans feel.)
However! What this speech does do is tell us, the audience, what is at stake for Rohan and our plucky heros.
So - inaccurate and shit pre-battle speech, but useful narrative/exposition dropping for the audience.
Now, Aragorn's speech before the Black Gates is a little better in terms of aligning with the true purpose of a battle speech:
Sons of Gondor! Of Rohan! My brothers.
I see in your eyes the same fear that would take the heart of me. A day may come when the courage of Men fails, when we forsake our friends and break all bonds of fellowship, but it is not this day.
An hour of wolves and shattered shields when the Age of Men comes crashing down, but it is not this day!
This day we fight! By all that you hold dear on this good earth, I bid you stand, Men of the West!
He acknowledges the fear the men are feeling, very important.
But there's no calling back to past victories (many of which are recent! We just won Pelennore! Helm's Deep! And in the past we defeated Sauron! We can do this again!) nor does he remind them what they're fighting for (Sauron will kill you and your families; he will ruin the land; he will enslave people etc. There's a lot to be fighting for here).
And unlike Saruman's speech, it's not serving a strong secondary purpose of delivering key information to the audience by showing the stakes that are at hand. In this scene, we know the stakes! So we could have Aragorn give a more traditional speech (and it would fit within the world, it wouldn't be out of place).
Arise, arise, riders of Théoden! Spears shall be shaken, shields shall be splintered! A sword day, a red day, ere the sun rises! Ride now! Ride now! Ride! Ride for ruin and the world’s ending! Death! Death! Death! Forth Èorlingas!
This is definitly one of the most powerful scenes in the movie - I think most people agree it gives chills and Bernard Hill went hard - but as an actual pre-battle speech? It's terrible. On so many levels.
Tolkien doesn't give people pre-battle speeches in LOTR. There are poems, especially for the Rohirrim, that sit in place before battle - but it's a little ways before battle. It's not the speech given two seconds before you ride.
These poems serve as pre-battle speeches and provide leaders, particularly Theoden and Eomer, the opportunity to perform their leadership/kingship.
I really like how Brett Deveraux describes leadership performance (emphasis included in original):
Soldiers going into battle often look to their leaders to perform leadership. After all, the infantryman on the line has little sense if the battleplan is good or not (this is not a Total War game – he cannot view his line from above and get a true sense of the field; on the ground, what he can see is very limited), but he’s likely to be reassured if his leaders look like how he imagines good leadership to look. Enacting that sort of leadership can be very culturally contingent and seem quite random to us looking from a distance – an American general who slaughtered a goat in front of his army before battle would not reassure his men; a Greek general who failed to do so might well panic them. It’s reasonable to suppose then that composing these short poems ‘on the fly’ (or having them prepared) may well be part of the Rohirrim’s expectations for what good kingship, generalship and general martial excellence look like, in which case, seeing their king performing that role with excellence could be confidence building – “I may not understand the plan, but we have a good general and thus a good plan.”
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As for how the general's speeches were relayed to those beyond the first line or two - it would have been done pretty much as you have it described.
We see this in medieval and early modern religious spaces. Traveling, charismatic preachers weren't uncommon and when they arrived in a town or city to speak people flocked. Mostly for the novelty (thank god we don't have to hear padre pietro do the sermon this Sunday) but at times these preachers provided a different depth or engagement with their faith and theology than the typicla local priest had on offer. So newness, yes, but sometimes it also enabled greater depth. Not to mention news was sometimes shared from other towns and cities.
Savonarola wasn't a travelling preacher, in the way some of the friars were at the time, but he was charismatic and whenever he gave mass the duomo couldn't fit everyone in attendance and it spilled out into the piazza (so like from the chrurch doors to the bapistry was just shoulder to shoulder people). And yeah! Nicollo up near the front who can hear Savonarola (and that man was a strong orator, you could hear him for miles), would pass it back to Girolamo who passes it on to Maria to tells Franchesca who turns around to Pietro who gives it to Zuanne etc. etc.
In later years, such speakers would sometimes have their sermons printed so they could be read later on, in case you didn't hear them or get a good spot. It was also a means a course correct what Monty Python pokes fun at (Nicolo: pretty sure friar Savonarola said visit your mistress. Marco: That's you wishing, Nicolo, he said visit not your mistress. Also go to mass more you tiny wee heathen)
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So yeah, there's a bit of a rundown of pre-battle speeches. In a very high level, not at all nuanced fashion that misses a lot of details. It's an interesting part of performing leadership! History of oration is super facinating and worth looking into, if it's of interest to people.
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quelsentiment · 1 year
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helloo happy spring my sweet!! if u want answer me these: 15, 30, 32 muac
Thanks friend <33
15. Do you write in the margins of your books? Dog-ear your pages? Read in the bath? Why or why not? Do you judge people who do these things? Can we still be friends?
Most of the books I read these days are library books, so no to these. I don't mind dog-earring pages though, and I went through a phase where I would write in books quite a lot, so no judgment for people who do that
Also I have to say that I'm a shower gal through and through, but the idea of reading in the bath feels way too dangerous to me anyway. Maybe it's because I'm clumsy though
30. Talk to me about the role dreams play in your writing life. Have you ever used material from your dreams in your writing? Have you ever written in a dream? Did you remember it when you woke up?
Hmm interesting... I wish I had some wild story to share, but I don't think I ever drew inspiration from a dream. Maybe I should explore that! And as far as I can remember, I've never even dreamt that I was writing, nor have I dreamt of my stories/characters—which is actually wild because I spend so much time thinking about them so you'd think they'd follow me in my sleep 🤔 I will say that I do a lot of 'writing in my head' when I'm in bed, though, and sometimes I'm like half-asleep if that counts 😅
Also I think there's quite a few of my fics that involve the recounting of dreams, because it's an obvious and easy way to get access to a character's subconscious
32. What is a line from a poem/novel/fanfic etc that you return to from time and time again? How did you find it? What does it mean to you?
Not sure if I'm supposed to share a line I wrote or that belongs to someone else so I'll do both, and I think they're connected in a way.
“I want to grow up with you, idiot. I want to get a shitty job and a shittier house and live.”
How badly he wants to promise George the entire world, promise him his leaky studio with a double bed they have to keep a secret. How badly he wants to give him a band of silver nobody can know about, gentle kisses in the shower, skin sliding with hot water, grocery lists stuck to the fridge and hands joined under the covers. Autumn rain pressing against the windows. Snow petals drifting into their hair when spring comes. Maybe then he wouldn’t be so terrified of the future, eyes filling with primal fear every time he thinks about getting older.
This is from katabasis, which I've read a few days ago and has haunted me ever since (as has every work from this author tbh). This paragraph in particular made me stop and look out the bus window and be like 'Damn... That's insane dude' (especially in the context of that fic, the angst is just up there. Anyway)
I think there's something about writing intimacy by turning very specific and mundane details into something more that really appeals to me. I don't always know how to write intimacy, and I'm also not a description/setting-driven writer (it's all about the dialogues and conflict for me), so when I do manage/remember to do it, I always end up feeling like it's my best writing. An example of it that I think of quite often is this line from Somewhere Only We Know:
Sometimes they both reach out at the same time and end up kissing each other slowly for hours, while all they can hear is the low buzzing of the fridge coming from the kitchen. 
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bravelittlenippa · 2 years
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Writing Promt: Time-travel/Dimension-travel shenanigans:
I'm working on some WIPs already, plus I have to deal with some pretty heavy real-life stuff, so I let this little prompt/bunny free to roam and find a home at some beautiful writer.
I'm a sucker for time-travel and dimension-travel stories with some original characters. So how about this:
A Time-travel/Dimension-travel story where two or more OCs accidentally turn up at the Carribbean in the golden age of piracy (but also OFMD-world, so period inaccuracies are SO welcome!) Would be fun if it would be from the Revenge's POV, reacting to these characters.
Imagine the pirates of the Revenge finding an interesting piece of trinket floating on some broken planks - oops, it's ham-radio, but they don't know what it is, also it's free loot, okay? It looks funky and the crew is enamoured with it.
The strangest thing is: during evenings, for a few hours, a weird noise comes from their newest booty, then a voice. (OC1) They say the strangest things (distress calls for help) sound far-away and sad/desperate/panicked.
Cue the fun reactions from everyone: Frenchie thinks it's a sea-witch, the Swede thinks it's a siren, Buttons is convinced that it's a person from the future, etc... Reactions to stuff this person says with increasingly more sad/desperate voice. Would love to see some co-captain reactions.
After a few days, the voice stops the weird things they say and starts to sing/tell stories/poems/talk about their days - they sound lonely. Bonus point if the crew ditches Stede's storytime, because they want to hear the ending of the "lion's story about becoming a king", or how "these interesting folks, called Ross and Rachel were on a break".
Fast forward a few days, they want to pillage a vessel, but when they board, the strangest thing happens: a person (OC2) is already kicking some ass and asks weird questions about someone.
They want to find their sibling/relative/friend/spouse - maybe there's something on the ship that indicates said person was captive there.
Long-story short, the voice calling through the ham radio day after day is said sibling/relative/friend/spouse - and this new person looks for them.
They show the crew how to answer the calls - and the crew has a million and one things to say/ask the mysterious voice on the other side. You can make it funny, cute, angsty or all of them.
Co-captains decide to find this person with old-timey navigation and good-old-fasholioned communication.
Go nuts with the swash-buckling adventures, but bonus point for Izzy of all people slowly falling in love with this mysterious voice and being extra cranky because of it, the whole thing being in reunion-era (so many cute co-captain PDAs) and Buttons having the singular brain-cell.
So I just let this go here, maybe some wonderful writer will be inspired. It's all yours, just the bones of an idea. But I believe the world needs more swash-buckling, fun, unrealistic stories right now. @ me if you decide to make it, so I can scream about it ❤️❤️❤️❤️
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dreamofstarlight · 2 years
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Hi! Been all over your blog liking things & I want to talk to you about Bobby/get your thoughts. Also I'M SO SORRY THIS IS SO LONG. I had even more to get off my chest but I held back because I feel crazy for writing a novel, but I digress.
I was rewatching Bobby Kennedy for President and knew it would send me down a spiral, but did it anyway...ended up on the couch, sobbing into my shirt and stuffing my face with chocolate until 3am.
So many people say "oh, he wasn't a great orator" etc., but obviously he was good to begin with & got better over time. BUT what I think is cute about his awkward moments is that it's so relatable and so human. It's so...real...to feel awkward, or stutter or trip over words, or be shaky or nervous. Versus perfectly rehearsed fake smile politician delivery. He was a little quirky, and always spoke from the heart. FUNNY AS HELL, too. I think that's something a lot of people (who aren't this obsessed lol) don't know about him.
Going through some mental struggles of my own right now and felt like crying even more today so I watched JFK's funeral coverage on YouTube and I sweeeeear there's a brief moment I saw Bobby wipe a tear :( killed me. He seemed like such an emotional and vulnerable person (which makes sense knowing he couldn't be fake and pretend to like things/people that he didn't), but also private and a little introverted at the same time. Like he was outgoing and great with the crowds but seemed very much, deep down, a love-my-alone-time person, who'd rather have a small close group of confidants than be drifting amongst high-profile randoms with superficial friendships. I could be wrong. Obviously this was kind of a part of the life he was born into, but I wonder if he struggled with any of it.
Since he loved to quote poems, here's a relevant one I love that always breaks my heart:
"For all sad words of tongue and pen, the saddest are these: it might have been." - John Greenleaf Whittier
Hi! Yes yes yes yes!!! I always find it so interesting when people say he wasn't a great public speaker because I wholeheartedly disagree. I think people confuse his slight awkwardness and him not being the most confident in front of crowds as him just not being very good at public speaking. So many of speeches are amazing and considered to be some of the best speeches in American political history not only because of how he spoke honestly and you could tell he cared and he showed that through his actions that matched his words. I truly believe that Bobby before JFK's death and after are 2 totally different people, I think him going through that level of grief and survivors guilt and he really sunk into those feelings (idk if that helped or hurt him) and that opened him up emotionally. Jackie said that he would spend hours and hours in his office at Hickory Hill just reading and trying to make sense of what happened and why it happened. He wore his heart on his sleeve and connected to people. Many people in the civil rights movement, most notably John Lewis, felt like when Bobby was killed it was like a light was fading in the world and no one felt like it would ever be the same without him.
that quote is so heartbreaking and I always say that the question for so many in the Kennedy Family is, "what if?"
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I think I remember you once saying that you used to be Christopagan? I was hoping you could talk about that more. What exactly does that mean? What did you believe that made you call yourself that?
yeah. big questions.
first things first. what did it mean? well it just meant that at the time i considered myself a christian but looking back i see a lot of pagan influence in my beliefs. which leads me to your other question. why did i call myself that? i didn't at the time. at the time i simply saw myself as christian. obviously unorthodox and heretical, but still christian in my own eyes. so it's mostly a term that i retroactively apply to my younger self to describe the later "phase" of my belief in christianity.
as for what i believe...that's a big question that i don't know if i could answer comprehensively but i'll try to give you a few of the big ones.
probably the biggest one that basically enabled all the others was that i simply rejected the infallibility and inerrancy of the bible. i still believed it was divinely inspired and generally authoritative, but not absolutely so. this goes doubly for the old testament, which i eventually disregarded completely as little more than a collection of interesting myths and poems and bits of wisdom. i thought people who were too concerned with the bible were bordering on idolatry.
i should note that for me "divine inspiration" is on a spectrum. on one end is "every single word was directly and perfectly dictated by god with the authors being basically possessed and simply acting as a conduit" vs "the authors of the bible were simply wise men (the wisdom a result of divine inspiration) doing the best they could to interpret god's will within the limits of their particular circumstances". i think most christians believe in something closer to the former, i fell closer to the latter.
lightning round: i generally accepted the trinity but had some fairly unorthodox beliefs about it, i believed in and venerated other gods/angels but the "christian god" above all, rejected the divinity of jesus the man (at first i believed the son basically possessed jesus at his baptism but eventually i rejected his divinity altogether), by extension i rejected the virgin birth of jesus, i rejected original sin, rejected the idea of eternal torment in hell, really emphasized the belief in something like deification/exaltation, embraced mysticism and gnosis, believed in continuing revelation, rejected creation ex nihilo, relatedly i believed in a panentheistic conception of god, didn't believe god was omniscient or omnipotent or omnipresent (at least not in the traditional sense), i believed god was responsible for all the good /and/ evil in the world, by extension i believed satan was an agent of god and was ultimately "good", etc.
this is just a few of my atypical beliefs i had back then (used to get a lot of weird looks from other christians i knew). now obviously not all these beliefs were necessarily "pagan", but a lot of them were or they were at least pagan-influenced or pagan-adjacent. this was probably because at the time (and through the course of my entire life really) i was deeply immersed in classical greco-roman philosophy and enlightenment era deism and transcendentalism and even some dabbling in gnosticism.
actually it's always funny answering these sorts of questions because it reminds me that my religious beliefs haven't really changed all that much over the years. i still believe basically a lot of the above. now it's just viewed from a slightly different perspective and i've since dropped the bible entirely and fully embraced the pagan stuff.
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