#it’s not a bad book overall!!!

[thatgirlonstage]

Yeah yeah “show don’t tell” get mis-explained and misinterpreted as writing advice a lot and yeah sometimes you SHOULD be telling the reader things however I am unwilling to discard this particular phrase given the number of stories I have encountered that make me want to slap the author across the face with it

#tal reads #this post brought to you by my current audiobook #telling me. REPEATEDLY. in conversation and internal narration #that the mc is this incredible rebel who never follows the rules and who everyone knows likes to live on the edge man #meanwhile in terms of his actual ACTIONS in the story #the most exciting thing this man has done is buy a coffee shop without his family’s approval #(there’s a LITTLE more weight behind this than I’m making it sound bc his family is politically important. but not much.) #there’s this whole conversation he has with one guy #to whom the mc mentions his family wanted him to take religious orders #and the next like. ten lines of dialogue #are all just the guy repeating how UTTERLY UNBELIEVABLE this is and how NO ONE is less suited to that than the mc #and I’m just sitting there like. this guy is neither a serial killer nor afaik a political atheist so like calm the fuck down perhaps #it’s not a bad book overall!!! #but the reputation the author wanted her mc to have is HILARIOUSLY out of step with the character she actually wanted to write him being #if it was all internal narration I might call it a brilliant bit of unreliable narrator of the self-aggrandizing flavor #and take it as an artistic choice #but it’s clear other people think of the mc how he thinks of himself #just with…zero justification in the actual story lmao #every time he gets close to actually doing something seriously risky he’s like ‘but I’m not stupid so I didn’t’ #me: WHY DO YOU HAVE A REPUTATION FOR DOING STUPIDLY RISKY THINGS THEN??? #anyway if you have to TELL your audience what kind of person your character is #rather than letting their actions speak for themselves #then it’s time to reassess if that character actually is the kind of person you’re describing

[sophfandoms53]

Anyway shout out to Dewey who constantly looked like he was having the worst time of his fucking life in the pitches

Just an 11 year old pissed off at the world it seems😭

#insane he ended up being so happy go lucky in canon #like in the art book they talk about the character shift dewey had once ben auditioned #and he made them realize they could take a more comedic approach with him #but initially dewey’s character seemed very negative and irritable #they had the label ‘the bad boy’ of the 3 on him for a bit too #bc of the massive chip on his shoulder and how unsatisfied he was at the time #and tbh you can see bits of that in the pilot #dewey’s character and overall demeanor is very different in the first two eps of s1 #i LOVE my boy as the brighy imulsive ball of sunshine and danger that he is #but this original pitch of him intrigues me a lot #like i can talk about pitch!dewey for hours bc #kinda feels like wasted potential idk LMAO #bc he didn’t entirely disappear at least in s1 so #just a lot of dewey thoughts #bc that’s my boy🫶 #ducktales #ducktales 2017 #dewey duck

[camelspit]

uhh very quick alternate graphic novel clothing design ideas for sophie.

@skylilac @callas-pancake-tree @arson-anarchy-death @steal-nightmares-leave-dreams @neverseen-nevermore @abubble125 @purplesoup-lad-le @gay-otlc @thefoxysnake @keeper-of-the-lost-dadwin @ravs6709 @did-i-say-you-could-get-up @kamikothe1and0nly @that-glasses-dog @presidentroarie @even-if-in-another-time @nyxpixels @slozhnos @katniss-elizabeth-chase @sofia-not-sophie @moontoastt @lemon-girl-in-devil-town @three-bunnies-in-a-trenchcoat @purpleunicycle @just-a-honey-badger @loverofallthingssmart @antisocialdork @tamsong @cutebisexualmess

#these arent very well thought out but still! not that ugly! #i do kind of get the gn artist now though #she wants to blend into the background and she has little to no experience with elven clothes #she doesnt like fancy things but she also has a certain weird girl charm that needs to be kept #all while keeping things simple enough to draw over and over #overall i dont think mine are bad but! would def have to go through more drafts that i dont feel like doing rn #im guessing the bird dress from the last scene in the book #and the weird greenish orangish dress from everglen #came from the desire to make her a bit weird and out of place #this girl wears gray her whole life! shes suddenly tossed in a world of bright colors and fancy clothes! #ofc shes struggling #i think dellas really the one to blame. for buying her those outfits in the first place. #kotlc #kotlc fanart #sophie foster

[rotisseries]

rick riordan dickriders on here will be like "why are you complaining about the pjo tv show, go watch the movies and see what a bad adaptation really looks like" ok well listen to the musical watch it on youtube and see what a good adaptation looks like bitch. it can be done. as a fucking stage musical. what did that 15 million per episode do for disney that chris mccarell couldn't

#this is such a mean post from someone who does genuinely like the show I'm sorry #like there are aspects I really love!! and aspects I really don't!! which makes it mid for me #but I do genuinely like it overall. at least enough to continue watching #it's just that I see sooooo many people who seem to have this attitude like you can't critique it at all?? #and their arguments are usually just. “movies were worse” (so we'll take anything now as long as it's not that?) #or “rick was involved in the writing” (<- NOTTT guaranteed to be a good thing lmao) #anyway it's pissing me off. I'm gonna bitch. “if you like the books so much read the books” I WAS PROMISED A BOOK ADAPTATION #AM I WRONG FOR COMPLAINING WHEN I DON'T GET WHAT I WAS PROMISED #“oh but changes are okay as long as it preserves the spirit of the books” since when was the *spirit* of the books a FUCKING BORE🤨 #also the cast doesn't deserve this. stick leah and aryan and walker in a better show #pjo #pjo tv show #pjo disney+ #percy jackson #percy jackon and the olympians #the lightning thief musical #anyway all this to say some of the changes and choices are Actually Bad and it won't kill you to admit that I think #rereading this post in the drafts and editing before posting when I was handwringing about how mean it was bitch this is mild

[resurrection-beastie]

just saw a post that compared TLT to the MCU and I feel like engaging in fisticuffs tbh

#tlt #the locked tomb #I'm sorry what!! #sorry you have bad taste and don't get Muir lmao but come ON #yes i get how the memes aren't for everyone but to act like that's all the books are is... #I'm feeling like it's lesbophobic! #to discount the overall brilliance of Muir's writing because you don't like the humor. #this comparison is making me homicidal lmaooo

[prolibytherium]

The Song of Achilles is one of the most garbage books I've ever read and I kind of want to talk about it but I'd have to reread The Song of Achilles to do that in a cohesive manner, which is garbage

#I went through a phase of reading the like... Feminist-ish adaptations of Greek mythology genre . Which as a whole is absolute dogshit #Like almost everything I read was outright BAD. #Silence of the Girls is the only one I read that I would describe as 'good'. Which I have issues with but still think is overall solid #Which if you are looking for a good novel with Achilles story is the only thing I could possibly recommend #(It really isn't about that (It's the Iliad from Briseis' perspective) but happens to have the only depiction of Achilles and Patroclus tha #I did not absolutely loathe) (And also it kind of feels like the author couldn't decide what kind of Iliad retelling they wanted to do #because it starts switching to Achilles POV randomly around the middle) (Which is one of the problems with the book but after #the absolute garbage heap that was Song of Achilles I appreciated it anyway)

[bigcats-birds-and-books]

Books of 2023. VILLAINS by V. E. Schwab.

Time for a NaNo Prep Reread! I love Victor and this vicious little family with my whole chest. This'll be my second time rereading VICIOUS, but only my first time rereading VENGEFUL.

#books of 2023 #villains #vicious #vengeful #ve schwab #books #book photography #seriously i love these so much #shades of magic was good but vicious as my heart lol #vicious held up on the first reread a few years ago so im excited to dissect it for the Revenge Arc this time #i feel vaguely bad because i remember nothing about marcella but. tbf. how could i when victor and sydney and mitch are RIGHT there #also this is just. so much better. than hench.... #i finished hench at three o'clock this morning just to be Done #the pacing was Messy™ and it didn't get better #definitely brutal and fucked up (that body horror at the end was epic actually) but. overall mediocre for me.... #parts did make me laugh and i'm love the spreadsheets take but. i couldn't get over the pacing #WHICH AGAIN I KNOW IS RICH COMING FROM ME #sigh #anyway i read the first scene this afternoon but now i'm gonna watch nate wreaking havoc in heist fambly while my laundry goes #and THEN bedtime reading

[death-by-sc0tland]

i read one review of divided loyalties on storygraph that said they liked the book but found the flashback boring and too long and i’m just like,, my brother in christ this is the deca book why would you read the deca book if you didn’t want to hear about the deca. like you’re telling me people read this book for other reasons than deca content?

#like valid ig but it’s so funny to me cause anytime i hear someone say they read this book it’s almost always an academy era fan #i wasn’t aware people go into the book for the overall plot #not that the overall plot is bad #the deca #divided loyalties #academy era #doctor who

[clonerightsagenda]

My parents are both reading Murderbot and my mom is reading Lockwood & Co so when I shift into my TV adaptations era we can bond as a family over being Haters.

#I mean maybe we won't be haters. I was fairly impressed by the ASOUE adaptation overall #however I do love being a hater #my dad struggles with kids' books bc he gets mad when they make bad kid decisions and the plot is obvious (for kids) #you should have heard him in my teen years getting furious at tally youngblood #now THOSE were some bad teen decisions #tally youngblood unsung trendsetter in the mentally ill teen girl with a homoerotic bestfrenemy situation #scott westerfeld (a genius): after the timeskip she did not settle down and have kids. #she is still an ecoterrorist

[bastart13]

Thank you @lazyvoyager for getting me into Fallen Hero: Rebirth. It’s been fun to read and think about designing for the past few days.

Top to bottom we have: Dylan/Shard/Sidestep (they/them), Dr Mortum (she/her), Julia Ortega/Charge (she/her), Wei Chen/Steel (he/him), Lady Argent (she/her), and Herald (he/him)

I went with the female versions of Dr Mortum and Ortega mostly because I like drawing ladies

#fallen hero #fallen hero: rebirth #fhr #julia ortega #dr mortum #lady argent #herald #wei chen #sidestep #fhr oc #character design #art #i need to practice the superhero aesthetic #and i'm surprisingly bad at coming up with designs based on books #these especially seemed a bit sparse on description #so forgive any inaccuracies #but i'm overall very happy with how they turned out

[accursedthing]

Tbh I kind of hate those "NOT the same person. ARE the same person" Kingdom Hearts memes, not cause there's no humor to them but because most of the explanations for these things aren't actually that difficult, it's just possession or clones or spiritual connections most of the time, which are pretty common in fantasy stories (some of them like the Nobodies are kind of a can of worms but also not hard to understand in context and ANY fantasy story with multiple installments is going to have stuff like that), and yet people who aren't familiar with the series use these images all the time to support the running idea that Kingdom Hearts is like. Impossible to follow and makes no sense. Which I, of course, don't like because at its core it's just people calling a thing I like stupid. And I WILL take it too seriously because I have the kind of autism that makes you deranged about Kingdom Hearts

#i stand by that KH overall is not really particularly confusing to begin with. you just need to actually play at least most of the games #which isn't an unreasonable ask for a continual story. you wouldn't skip the middle book of a trilogy #and then act like the book is bad cause you're confused #but there also ARE some parts of KH that are not well explained or that were retconned #but people still insist on doing the 'KH is so confusing' bit about the things that half the story is ABOUT that are explained thoroughly #the stuff that's actually confusing sometimes are the things that DON'T get focus #and yeah I am taking it too seriously. i know. i also don't care if fans joke about all the lookalikes and shared hearts cause I do too #it's just come to bother me online how it plays into people making fun of my special interest #especially when the mocking is based on a misleading pretense #all done now goodbye

[yourqueenb]

Also quick focus on Mal… If I ignore some of the things that happened in this chapter, I still like his “reunion” scene from last week. It was fun and felt kind of like old times. But when you factor those things in — mainly the fact that he said he thought we were dead — the way he acted last chapter is so upsetting and doesn’t even make sense now. If he really thought MC was dead, why wasn’t he more shocked to see her? If he couldn’t express that during/after the heist, why couldn’t he express that on the dock or at camp or literally anywhere else? Why has everything been so rushed? What are the writers doing??

#choices blades #choices bolas #blades of light and shadow #mal volari #playchoices #the problem is that the heist scene is good on its own #but it’s not like we can just pretend it happened outside of the story #the narrative they’ve crafted for this book is based on MC being kidnapped and experimented on for a year #but the Mal scene does not work within that narrative #it would work if the group had just been separated for a while or if MC had gone off on her own for whatever reason #but that’s not the case and I really don’t know why the writers are making all of our friends act like it is? #idk how the individual scenes with the other LIs went bc I didn’t get them #so that’s also why I’m only speaking on Mal’s but overall the interactions with everyone are so disappointing #I’m kind of suspecting that it’s because they said they were planning to introduce one or more new LIs #and I’m assuming one of them is Valax #but if the writing for the original LIs has to suffer for that then don’t do it! #I mean how hard is that to understand #maybe I’m wrong though but I can’t think of any other reason why they’d be botching the story this bad already #choices #choices stories you play #choices app

[mermaidsirennikita]

"he reaches out to protect the heroine..."

:)

"... and the two small children in her care"

:(

#romance novel blogging #lol there are so few authors that do children effectively for me #like... lorraine heath is one #very few others #it's getting to the point where i'm almost just not even trying kid books from my faves #bc there's a strong chance that i just won't enjoy it #even the IAD book with a kid is like my least favorite IAD book #what's funny is that technically the heroine i'm writing is a mom? #but to be fair she isn't one until p late in the book #and babies are easier to keep off-page #and i'm deliberately writing a heroine who LOVES her baby #but does not find motherhood easy or natural #and like takes advantage of the privilege of having nannies #and feels kinda bad about it but is overall like i am a loving mother but being a mom isn't my favorite role #bc idk i think that's important #especially when you're writing a historical wherein motherhood wasn't always something women could opt out of #and especially in this day and age #to have heroines who like do accept motherhood and do love their kids #but aren't like... 'oh this is my favorite thing in the world' #like she's a solid mom and she's a loving mom but would she be a mom TODAY? if she had options? who knows #anyway that's another thing i just really don't often have time for kids and parenting in romance

[magicalbats]

how do you get out of a bad writers block?? and what inspired u to get back into writing after ur hiatus?

Oof, I’m ngl that’s a bit of a difficult question for me to answer xmdkxkdnd for me at least, I wanted to write pretty much the entire time during my hiatus but I just couldn’t get my brain to function through the ✨ depression fog ✨ and even just opening up a word doc to force myself to write two sentences was extremely draining. My mental headspace just was not there. So what I did a lot of was read books.

I think I’ve read something like almost 60 books this year of different genres and topics - four out of five novels for the Court of Thorns and Roses series, Carrie by Stephen King, some old (really old xmxmdnd) Harlequin romance novels, a folk horror anthology, like six entries from the Anita Blake Vampire Hunter series, etc, etc - and that helped me get back into the mindset of creative thinking. I found inspiration in these works, ideas I wanted to explore, things that left me disappointed with their execution and wanting to do better, and I sort of relearned how to string a narrative together in the process. Then I started reading over some of my old WIPs. In some of them I saw real potential and was even occasionally surprised by my own writing abilities when juxtaposed against all those published novels I’ve read. I’d think to myself “oh, this actually isn’t half bad?” And that would make me want to finish that piece or rework it with things I’ve learned in the interim.

One of the very first things I wrote and completed was that Itto x reader x Gorou kinktober fic. I saw the prompt, had the inspiration and impulsively jotted everything down. When I was finished and I read it over I felt GOOD. Proud of myself for actually completing something from scratch. I thought “hey, maybe I could do another one of these” and then proceeded to write Scara’s (which I’m actually very proud of tbh cmdmxm) and from there it was really just a matter of keeping that momentum going. In particular I think writing them for myself at that point, thinking I might post them some day when I was feeling brave enough to come out of hiding and just enjoying the satisfaction of writing again in the meantime, was what really helped me find my confidence again. It kind of took some of the pressure off of having people perceive me and my work dmdmdmd and I was able to sort of let everything flow organically as a result without worrying about how terrible or messy it was. A lot of this was very spur of the moment and idk if it will actually help you anon but in my case these were the things that helped me kick my extremely uncooperative brain back into gear lol

So the TL;DR of it would probably be to read other stuff. Pay attention to what you like, what you don’t, what makes you excited, sad, horny, happy, grossed out, etc and basically expose yourself to different kinds of writing styles and topics. I’ve read some pretty terrible books over the last year and some amazing ones too, and each one taught me something, even if it was not to do a thing haha. When you revisit your own works approach it like it belongs to one of those other authors, look at it objectively and sort of remove yourself from the equation. I’d say a big part of getting over writers block is just tricking your brain out of it tbh. 🤣 Like I said idk if any of this is helpful but I believe in you, anon! I am cheering for you and I know we’ll get through this together!

#also I know buying books can get really expensive!! #but honestly my favorite thing to do is hit up different thrift stores in my area and buy books for like 50 cents a pop in some cases #I’ve found some really good stuff doing this and ofc some pretty bad too but overall I think it’s a really great way to expose yourself to #a wide variety of writing styles topics and settings without breaking the bank #I actually have a fairly impressive collection of V.C.Andrews novels just from buying them second hand xmdmdmd #currently reading Flowers in the Attic as we speak but it’s been slow going since I fell behind on kinktober orz

[stimboardboy]

SPOT

“And though you are not sentient, Spot, and do not comprehend, I nonetheless consider you a true and valued friend.”

x - x - x | x - x - x | x - x - x

#stimboard #my posts #cats #animals #star trek #star trek tng #spot the cat #petting #soft #texture #gold #hearts #books #page flipping #writing #drawing #brown #spot tng #I may remake this at some point #overall not so bad but I have my problems with it #reading abt spot and data for this board made me 🥺🥺🥺 #stim #stimmy #sensory

[rohirric-hunter]

Some studies show that people are working less when they're working from home. These studies usually take this form: We interviewed X number of people, and found that their average workday at the office lasted 8 hours, but now that they're working from home, they only work for about 5 hours. They spend less time working; ergo, they are working less.

This is missing a crucial bit of the story, however. Other studies, that take their questions one step further, find an additional tidbit of information: they analyze these employees' productivity and find that despite the fact that they are working less every day, they are getting the same amount of work done. These are salaried employees we're talking about. Who the hell cares how long they took to do something, so long as they get it done?

Also forgive me for not taking business practice advice from Martha Stewart.

#this is just me vagueing about the same old argument with my mom #she thinks working from home is bad and yeah im sure some people are abusing it #but overall everyone benefits from people working from home #in many settings #not all of course #and i just dont at all get my moms stance on it actually #because a while ago i was looking at jobs and i saw a listing for 'remote dental office receptionist' #and i was confused because how on earth can a dental office receptionist be remote #and my mom was like 'no yeah that makes sense. that would work' #no it wouldnt?????? #the whole point of having a receptionist is to have them be there to greet your patients #listen if i go to a dentists office and they have like. a self checkout for me to pay and book my next appointment #im going to go into the xray room and chew through the bars that hold up the padded thing you press your forehead and chin into #'remote dental office receptionist' my ass #call it what it is: a virtual pa