#it's not quite a rewrite and not quite an incorrect quotes... but i thought of it so i wrote it down :P

[princecharmingwinks]

Sterek Fic Rec - July 2022. Haha you thought I was going to be late, didn’t you? And to be fair I’ve only made it into my normal timeframe by 2hrs but I count this as still making it. So! Onto more fics - enjoy!

In The Name Of Science by Nutellargh (1/1 | 1K | General)

Submission for incorrect sterek quotes challenge March 2021

Prompt: derek - Yesterday I overheard erica saying “Are you sure this is a good idea?” and stiles replying “Trust me.” and I have never fled a room so fast in my life.

Connecting the Dots by thePurebloodPrat (1/1 | 4K | Mature)

"The sharp clatter of his mug of dry erase markers hitting the floor isn’t enough to draw Stiles’ attention away from the clue board he’s staring at from an uncomfortably short distance, but his hand failing to make contact with a new pen while blindly fumbling for said missing mug finally is. He takes a moment to scrub a hand over his eyes and he drops to the floor to pull the markers out from under the desk where they’d rolled, mumbling to himself about rewriting the last section he’d scribbled on the board in red instead of yellow. This was only a… minor setback. The third one in as many hours, but that was hardly the important part. The people disappearing throughout Beacon Hills only to be discovered exactly eight days later in eight separate pieces, well… That seems like the part that’s far more important."

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Stiles has been awake far longer than he really ought to have been. Derek doesn't want to admit it, but when Stiles doesn't harass him after school the day after finding out about a new supernatural sighting, he gets concerned.

punch-drunk by elisela (1/1 | 6K | Mature)

Derek knows he’s staring, knows he should stop, drag his focus back to his daughter and not this—this stranger, gorgeous as he is with his slight upturned nose and bright eyes, lips that Derek is going to see in his dreams and long fingers folded into a fist that his jaw rests on. He should stop staring but he feels punch-drunk, knocked off his feet by the overwhelming attraction he feels, blood pumping so fast he can hear it rushing in his ears, can feel it in his pulse points.

The guy turns his head to look up at Derek and winks—winks, and Derek gets a glimpse of a black bar that pierces through the end of his eyebrow, and he realizes he really needs to grab Evie and get out of there when he starts wondering if this guy has a tongue piercing to go along with the rest, or just how far across his broad shoulders the tattoos go, if they stretch all the way down his tapered hips, lines like a map for Derek to follow with his tongue.

Tell Me, So I Know by TroubleIWant (1/1 | 7K | Mature)

It took years for Derek to finally confront the way he felt about Stiles, and even after he figured it out he could only explain in Spanish. It took them two years more to get to where they were now. Only with neither of them quite willing to commit, where exactly is that, anyways?

Well, for Stiles it’s a deserted stretch of road behind the Hale house, half trapped in a car wreck after being abducted by hunters. Frankly, he could really use Derek’s help if he’s going to get out of this alive. Mates are supposed to be able to tell when the other is in pain, right? As Derek would probably say, 'querido, no.'

Or, a love story in two parts... and two languages.

Sexily Ever After by indentations (whenwordsmakesense) (1/1 | 1K | Explicit)

After fighting off the latest supernatural terror loose on their town, Derek and Stiles finally find their way to each other.

Operation: Chick Flick by Inell (1/1 | 7K | Teen)

Stiles knows agreeing to be Derek’s fake date for Cora’s wedding is the stupidest thing he’s ever done, but it’s a little difficult to say no to the man he’s been in love with for seven years.

Inattentional Blindness by aussiebee (1/1 | 5K | Explicit)

Derek finally sees Stiles... and then promptly melts down about it.

He’s two people away from the counter, though, when it happens. Derek has just finished scanning the board overhead and let his eyes drift back down to the guy just in time to see him bend down to pick up his backpack from the floor when the guy turns. There’s a moment of complete cessation of brain activity when Derek’s libido registers lips! Eyes! Skinnnnn! before his thoughts begin spinning like a Gravitron, turning his brain to paste against the inside of his skull because what the fuck, the guy he’s been quietly lusting over while he waits in line for coffee is fucking Stiles.

What Derek says when he thinks Stiles wont understand by Delilah2040 (1/1 | 3K | General)

five times Derek complimented Stiles in Spanish thinking he wouldn't understand and the one time stiles confesses not only that he understood the whole time but much much more.

Hot Gym Guy by jesuisgrace (1/1 | 900 | Mature)

“What are you looking at, Stiles?”

Stiles looks up from his phone to find Hot Gym Guy smirking at him. Fuck. He definitely doesn’t blush and stammer because he definitely wasn’t just looking at Hot Gym Guy’s instagram. Absolutely, definitely wasn’t watching him squat for the millionth time since he posted the story yesterday afternoon.

My Tongue Dances Behind My Lips by xxjinchuurikixx (1/1 | 8K | Explicit)

Stiles is seventeen and very, very horny. Derek just adds to the hormones, and Stiles likes to torture himself, getting off to thought of Derek’s hands, his mouth, his everything. Mostly those things on Stiles in some way. One night, Derek gets him to spill the truth.

princecharmingwinks special mention (I only recently fell into a bodyguard Derek and president son Stiles vibe but I like it very much ! And this fic is an awesome example of it <3 )

reGuardless by raisesomehale (1/1 | 3K | Mature)

The president had been to the point when he explained to Derek the rules of the job.

Stiles was in the room while these rules were recited: Never take your eyes off of him in public. That’s how he liked to dodge his last bodyguards. No more than an arm's length apart. He’s more slippery than you’d think. Escort him to and from appearances. Intervene in any situation that might tarnish the Stilinski image...

The list went on and on. As did the games of chicken Stiles initiated to test Derek with these rules.

Enjoy enjoy! Hope you find some good reads here. Remember to leave kudos and comments so we can give virtual big hugs to our amazing fandom writers. Till next time!

#sterek #fanfiction #fic rec #teen wolf #stiles stilinski #derek hale #princecharminglists

[hyperfixation-hideout]

Oscar: It’s not about forgiveness. It’s about the chance to move forward and change. I’d like to give her that chance.

Jaune: I think she’s run out of chances.

Yang: You weren’t there. You didn’t have to watch them die because of her.

Oscar: Yes, I did. I’ve seen what she can do. The scale of her powers have been used to aid Salem in mass casualties and widespread destruction. Imagine if she chose to dedicate herself to good.

Emerald: I’m not dedicating myself to anything. I just want to get out of here.

Ren: We all do. That’s why we need your help.

Oscar: It’s your choice to make, Emerald. But we could really use someone like you on our side.

#oscar pine #jaune arc #yang xiao long #emerald sustrai #rwby8 #idk what this is... I just had the thought that oscar's 'i've seen what you can do' was referring to more than just Haven #it's not quite a rewrite and not quite an incorrect quotes... but i thought of it so i wrote it down :P #I guess it's just... a slightly alternate version of that scene XD #quinpost

[incorrect-foundfamily]

Masterlist of Our Fics

Hey everyone, Liv here! So since a lot of our incorrect quotes on this blog come from or are inspired by our fanfics, and include our OCs from those fics, we thought it might be good to provide a masterlist of all of the stuff we’ve written (both individually and together) along with a short description of each (+tws)

Kat’s Fics: 

The Noel/Lex series

Noel Michaels (no relation to Noel from Santa Claus is Going to High School) and her relationship with Lex Foster. Very cute would recommend 10/10 <3 

The Place I Belong

An Emma/Becky Stardew Valley AU featuring lots of useless lesbian pining and Farmer!Emma, which is a really good concept if I do say so myself.

Sleigh Ride

Noel’s backstory and the fateful Christmas night that changed her life for good 

TWs: domestic violence, drunk driving, alcohol abuse, description of a car crash

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Liv’s Fics: 

We Survived the Crisis, Babe

A Black Friday rewrite in which Ethan survives the attack at the movie theatre with the help of a certain spider from outer space and tries his best to keep himself and Hannah alive. 

TWs: descriptions of violence, what could be described as torture, kidnapping, as well as all the normal TWs for Black Friday

What Happens in Nightmare Time

The fic I’m currently working on!! Also this has Witch in the Web spoilers!! 

An AU where, instead of being thrown in jail for selling drugs, Lex and Ethan are trapped in Nightmare Time by the witch, and with the help of Duke Keane, Miss Holloway, and a mysterious little girl who lives in a void, Hannah has to try to save her family. 

TWs: Kidnapping, descriptions of violence, Child abuse, descriptions of panic attacks + nightmares 

Making Monsters of Men 

Elsabeth tries to calm her siblings during a storm by spinning tales of fighting off monsters outside, all while hiding the bruises from the one within the walls 

TWs: Child abuse 

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Liv + Kat’s collab fics: 

And While You’re Saving The World (multichapter)

A crossover fic of a lot of different starkid shows and Spies are Forever, in which they all live in Boston, and the villain is Wally the Green Monster: the Red Sox baseball mascot. 

TWs: Kidnapping, descriptions of violence, descriptions of psychological torture, major character death, references to child abuse 

Not Alone at Hogwarts (multichapter)

Another one of our crossover fics, but this time make it Hogwarts! 

Ever since Paul Matthews was attacked as a baby and his parents were murdered, he's sported an odd blue mark on his cheek. He hates that blue mark, he hates his foster father Stanley, and he hates his life. Until he gets his Hogwarts letter on his eleventh birthday, that is.

TWs: Child abuse, descriptions of character death, mentions of violence/injury 

Mirror Talks 

A spinoff fic/oneshot compliant with Not Alone at Hogwarts 

Tatiana Slokhnvo visits the Mirror of Erised to visit old friends and try to move on. She doesn’t think she ever will. 

TWs: Mentions of character death, grieving 

do you all see the memories?  (multichapter)

Noel Michaels, Elsabeth Pekkala and Lex Foster, along with their sisters, Hannah Foster and Lyanna Pekkala, escape the PEIP faciility they were taken to after the world ended and run into some old friends and family. The reunited group has to try to survive the harsh world that PEIP created, and avoid the ones that are trying to hunt them down. The caveat is that none of the girls taken to the facility remember anything at all.  

TWs: mentions of torture, child abuse, character death, descriptions of violence, alcohol abuse 

A Tale of Two Kingdoms

A royalty AU where the prince and princess, Kris and Noel, fall in love with a handsome foreign prince and a pretty commoner from a vibrant farming town, respectively. Featuring possibly my favorite tag ever: homoerotic sword fighting 

Tws: Child Abuse, (eventual) Kidnapping

Saturday Night at Watcher World

When their parents and guardians bring them to Watcher World, Noel and her friends: Elsabeth, the Chastity twins (Grace and David), Lex, Ethan and Alice have to work together to try and survive the horrors of Watcher World 

TWs: Descriptions of violence, implied/referenced child abuse, major character death, kidnapping, eye horror (essentially any TW from Watcher World also applies here, plus these) 

The Barnes-Foster-Houston Household and Found Family Series

A universe in which Black Friday doesn’t happen, and Tom and Becky take in Lex, Ethan and Hannah, and of course Tim’s around. These all take place in the same universe but way back when Kat and I didn’t realize that co-creating a series was a thing we could do on AO3. 

TWs: Child abuse/references to child abuse, a lot of discussion of Jane’s passing, implied/referenced PTSD

I Feel Safe Here With You

Noah Monroe doesn’t particularly think his lifeguarding job will lead to falling in love, but Ophelia Matthews-Perkins has a tendency to disrupt people’s plans. 

Essentially this is Linda Monroe’s son, Noah and Paul and Emma’s daughter, Ophelia, falling in love. 

TWs: brief mentions of child abuse 

I Know A Thousand Tales

This is essentially a “greatest hits” of pieces of things we’ve written that don’t quite have full-blown fic potential (of which there are so, so many) but we wanted to have someplace for them to live anyway! This is honestly a really great way to get to know our ocs too because this does feature them a lot. 

TWs are on the individual fics because they’re all very wildly different 

#black friday #starkid #lex foster #ethan green #noel michaels #elsabeth pekkala #hugo pekkala #lyanna pekkala #hannah foster #grace chastity #david chastity #noah monroe #linda monroe #ophelia perkins-matthews #paul matthews #emma perkins #can you tell that writing is our coping mechanism lmao #trail to oregon #starship #the guy who didn't like musicals #tgdwlm #memories-are-mine #shipsthatcouldshowyouthestars #liv posts

[growingingreenwood]

So basically the reason I’m feeling so alone is because I’m nonbinary and I’m out to my friends and they’re really supportive and that’s really nice but I’m not out to my parents because they’re transphobic and lately I’ve just been really dysphoric and every time I hear them use my dead name or incorrect pronouns it just feels like a bullet in my side and I want so badly to be out to them so that I can get a binder and wear clothes that are comfortable for me and use my real name -🏳️‍🌈 (1/2)

another thing that’s bothering me is I’m out to my parents as a lesbian and I have lesbian pride stuff but what if nonbinary lesbian isn’t valid and I have to reinvent my identity? And I’m not out to my best friend because he’s super sheltered and only just recently started to learn that lgbtq+ isn’t bad and I know he’ll support me but I’m worried about losing his parents’ support because they’re like my second set of parents and I love them and I don’t want to have them disown me -🏳️‍🌈 (2/2So this is an add on to my 2 part (now three part) ask. I think my dad might actually be the only one of my parents that’s transphobic. I’m worried that I’m going to tear their marriage apart by being who I am (3/2) -🏳️‍🌈

--I tried to put in a read more link. Didnt work--

Hello my love, I want to firstly apologize for the late response to these questions. I was wary of trying to answer them on my own without any personal experience with this particular situation, because I know how important this situation is important to you. I had reached out to a friend with personal experience but have not heard back about their contribution. So I will answer with the info I have gathered in my psyc classes/ research I've done the past few days/ and helping friends through similar situations. 

I am obviously, by no means an expert, and anybody is welcome to add their KIND, RESPECTFUL, SUPPORTIVE, and HELPFUL advice or stories as well. 

I’ll start with your best friend: 

When I came out as Asexual (I’m acutally Demi-sexual but I didn’t know that yet) to my best friend at the time, I started by sort of… expressing that I felt my current identity wasn’t fitting quite right for me. It felt like something was off with the way I was trying to live my life and be me, I just didn’t know what it was yet. I explained my feelings to her the best I could without applying labels (I was SOOOO stressed because she has a super high sexdrive and works at an adult toy store and all that so yeah) 

So I explained to her that I just didn’t understand what books/songs/ and movies were referring to when they talked about this “sexual attraction you literally cannot resist) because the concept is literally absurd to me. She asked about all of my favriote celebreities and if I would have sex with them or not, and I told her that the thought for real disgusted me. I explained that I had literally never once at any random human and even thought about kissing them, or having them in my space in any romantic way at all. 

A few days later I cam back to her and told her about some research that I had done, and that I had found something that I thought might fit me better. I brought a little quote somebody had written online about how they felt as an Asexual to help those who were questioning themselves help to figure it out. And I pointed out all the places we felt the same. I told her how much better it made me feel to have this label, this one that finally fit because it stopped the thoughts that there was something wrong with me. 

Your best freinds is new to the community, so maybe start by telling him about a really beautiful story about an individual who discovered their Non-binaryr identity and how wonderfully it touched their lives. How it helped to heal their lives. Explain in a greater detail what it means to be Non-binary. Give him a chance to adjust to the idea of the identity, while you continue to talk about it positively. 

Then when you do come out to him, just remember how much he loves you. It might be helpful to ask him at the start of the conversation to not interrupt you or ask questions until you’re done talking or explaining the situation. Another tactic that I often use for really difficult news, is to write it all in a letter and go sit in another room while they read it. This way, you have the freedom to write and rewrite the letter however many times that you want until it sounds how you want it to. In this discussion, you could ask him not to tell his paretns until you are ready for more people to know. Remind him that you’re telling him this because he is your best friend, and you need his support and love now more than ever. Perhapes ask him to do some research on his own before he really decides anything.  

For your parents: 

Coming out to your parents is…… literally so scary. And there is really never a food time in which to do it. Having to live while keeping this secret from them can be so hard, I understand that so much. But your safety is also the #1 priority right now. 

If it is not safe for you to do so, now might be the time unless you can set up arrangements to stay somewhere else for an extended period of time. You are a beautiful person, and the world needs you here, safe, and full of love still. So please, be careful. 

To start, perhaps ask them to use a nickname instead? Perhaps say that friends at school gave it to you or something, and it makes you really happy to hear it. Or that you’ve recently met somebody with the same name as you that you STRONGLY dislike and don’t want to ‘share’ the name with them. Is there any way to start to slowly transition your clothing? 

For example: If your usual style right now is something like yoga pants maybe swap that for a pair of jeans that aren't super form fitting. Instead of getting a binder right away, invest in some really high quality sports bras. It isn’t the exact same effect, but it might help in the meantime and is much safer than using things like tensor bandages. 

If they question this change in dress, perhapes tell them that this is the new style at your school. Or a new trend started by your favorite celebrity. Tell them you’re bored of your old look and wanted something new for a change. Perhaps if you make the changes ‘slowly’ per say it won’t be as jarring to them. 

If you still decide this is a good and appropriate time for you to come out to your parents, it might be a good idea to have the discussion with your mother first. If you think that only your dad is homophobic/transphobic. That way it will be less likely that you will be interrupted during your heartfelt explanations, and your mom should (theoretically) be more open to the idea. It might help you figure out the best ways to tell your dad, but also you’ll have an ‘ally’ of sorts when it happens too. 

More care should be taken into your information and resources, I think, when you tell them. Such as printing out a sheet of websites to help parents to ‘cope’ with their child telling them of their new non-binrary identity. If you want, you can even find the one you connect with most and print it, give that to them on paper with links listed after it. 

Statistics might be nice, like having how many non-binaryr or genderfluid people live in the same city/ state / country as you so that it does not seem so uncommon for them. 

Here is a sample sentence to get things started for you:

“Even though you may see me as a woman, on the inside, I am not a woman and I am not a man. I’ve been using the word ‘genderqueer’ or ‘non-binary’ to describe my gender, which means that I don’t identify with either. If you placed me on a spectrum, with ‘masculine’ being at one end and ‘feminine’ being at the other, I’m somewhere in-between. Identifying as genderqueer has made me feel so much better because being seen as a woman or a male made me feel so distressed and unhappy. Like I was forced into a box at birth that nobody would let me out of it”

Analogies might also be helpful, as it can help frame this new information to them into a more familiar manner. Like this: “Imagine if someone just assumed that you liked ketchup on your hotdogs without even asking you. For your entire life, they refused to put anything on your hotdogs but ketchup – even though you know, deep down, you like relish.

Finally, you decide to come out and say that you like relish. But every time you ask for relish, people say to you, “If you don’t like ketchup, you must like mustard. There are only two options.There are obviously more than two ways to eat a hotdog, just like there are more than two ways to express and explore gender, but society seems fixated on hotdogs with ketchup or mustard – and nothing else.

Similarly, society seems to think there are only two valid options when it comes to gender – man or woman – when there are actually lots of other ways to embody gender, and even ways of having no gender at all.” 

A good strategy for serious conversation is to use a lot of “I felt” or “I feel” statements. That way, you are still expressing yourself and your feelings while also not making them feel like you are attacking them directly or anything. For example, a good sentence might be to say: “

I feel afraid that if you knew who I really was, that I would lose you,” or “I have been feeling very alone lately, and I’m hopeful that now I won’t be.” 

Lastly, I would suggest being prepared to tell everybody but especially your parents exactly what you need from them in this situation. You may be familiar with all of this terminology and stuff but they arn’t. This is alien territory to them, help them help you by making the things you require them to do or change as clears as possible. Maybe write down a list. 

Stop using my dead name. (Maybe work together on a good nickname with them to use instead? When my friend transitioned from FTM, when he legally changed his name he went with “Emmet” instead of “August” like he wanted, so that his mother could still call him “Em” which had been his nickname since childhood, as he was born with the name ‘Emily.” This might help your parents feel like they still have ‘their’ child still.\

I need to change the way that I am dressing, because it makes me feel very uncomfortable and self consciousness. 

And whatever else you might need form them. 

My beautiful little bean, if you come out to your parents and one of them wants to support you, and one of them doesn't and it ends up breaking them up, I’m certain that they had differences fundamental enough that its probably for the best. And if they didn’t have fundamental differences, they do now. 

One of them took the fundamental concept of parenthood seriously and one didn't: The concept of loving and supporting your child for as long as you’re around on the earth to do so. 

I don’t really think the difference could possibly be more fundamental. 

Sometimes, it takes people a while to get used to the idea. If they react negatively now, they might still change their minds the more they think it over / see how much it means to you. Some people (like my own mom) H A T E change. Hate it. And their first response is always to go on the defensive without thinking. I think you all will have to remind yourselves and eschither to have patients with this.

Remember: Your worth as a human can never change, no matter how much it may feel like it can. You are starting your journey to find the home and the body that you were made to find, its scary, so so so scary. So take your time, enjoy your path. Take deep breaths. Others will ALWAYS love you for the divine creation that you are. The worlds is always ready for you to meet the next ones to love you.

I hope this has helped a little bit at least. I love you. 💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛

#not tolkien #haleigh speaks #advice with haleigh #love you 🥰🥰🥰🥰 #feel better 💛💛💛💛 #non binary #coming out #coming out tips #feel free to leave them!!!!!!! #genderqueer #love and support #lbgtqcommunity #lbgtq #lbgtq pride

[draftingtides]

So recently I rediscovered my Quotev account and went on a nostalgia trip, so here's some memories from 2015:

I went by "Maxine" online

Also occasionally "Maxxy"

I thought I was a girl

I was a sarcastic little shit. Like, even more so than now

I signed every single journal entry as "Peace out, sauerkraut! ~Maxxy"

All I ever read was Draco Malfoy/OFC fic

And occasionally Dramione

If I found a fanfic that was badly written, I would write my own version and post it on my account

Like, I wasn't even trying to hide that I just completely plagiarised all these people's plots

There was this one girl I followed and she would copy popular incorrect quotes from tumblr and put them on Quotev with her characters' names

Then when I found tumblr I didn't quite understand that everyone did that so I commented on all her posts telling her she was plagiarising at it was Not Cool™

I'm sensing some irony here

I had a fanfiction where Harry Potter had a mute twin sister

It was a super fucking ableist fic 0/10 recommend

I also had a fic where Draco Malfoy had a little sister

Also very ableist, but salvageable, so I'm rewriting it now

Literally all my characters were straight and cis what the fuck

#most of it was big yikes #some of it was funny #overall i'm a better person now #and a better writer #it's good to see i've improved #my post #nostalgia trip #quotev

[alwayslukason]

Why do the fandom(including yourself) likes to make Luke a witty prankster? He never seemed the type who cracks jokes and enjoys doing pranks. In fact,canon a kinda contradicts that,IMO. In Diary of Luke Castellan,his humor seemed more like bitter sarcasm to cope,and he didn't tell jokes to Thalia. And in TLT,he also seemed a bit too serious. Is it just because he's a son of Hermes? Luke's not Travis,nor Connor. Perhaps Luke merely let his siblings have their fun. Just curious.

Hmm, it’s not really about Luke being a witty prankster being a key part of his personality. Luke /knows/ great pranks, I feel but he doesn’t actively do them because he just wasn’t interested throughout his canon instances due to his circumstances (which is really too much for a teenager to handle) that leaves him with no time or desire to do real fun. However, I feel that he is capable to pull off pranks because of his 1) poker face (handing Percy those shoes), 2) ability to not get caught and 3) confidence and own creativity.

In Diary of Luke Castellan, he was only 14 years old and a great deal of time has passed. You can argue that him being in Hermes’ cabin has influenced him somewhat. In my unposted fic, I had Luke giving Connor and Travis advice on how to do better pranks but he isn’t such a frequent prankster himself because he’s the head counsellor and argumentatively, capable of standing in a responsible role. That, and he is struggling with a lot of problems.

Again, in the series, Luke was already having evil thoughts pumped into him by Kronos (for six years, I believe? If I remember things right) so I feel that it may have diminished his more ‘light hearted’ areas as a result. Personally, I find him to be that older big brother who still puts in some fun to lessen the tension so he is still capable of being witty in a non-bitter way. Think of how Luke manages to be a favourite and popular among the camp. I’m sure that him being witty is not just in the realms of bitterness (though he slipped it once to Percy) or else most other campers (who are still kids) would’ve stayed far and wary from him which will create an unwanted type of attention that he doesn’t need as Kronos’s spy lmao. Although being witty doesn’t have to be part of the big bro package, I feel that this can be attributed safely to Luke as compared to let’s say Nico? 

What if Luke isn’t preoccupied with his anger? Or rather, what would be Luke’s outlet for him to be able to stay composed on the outside? Some people even write him as a frequent one-night stand-er even though sex was never mentioned in the books. I believe that even the most perfect humans need somewhere or some way to free up the spaces in their messy minds for them to at least be sane on the outside. Being bitterly witty isn’t just Luke’s realm of humor even if it’s what he actively entertains inside his head. Or perhaps being a prankster is a way for the fandom to portray Luke outside the boundaries of canon? Remember, canon always doesn’t show even 1/1000th of a character’s entire life, especially Luke who was an antagonist with limited scenes and a single minded driven purpose. And there is always more to tell. Luke being a prankster isn’t canon - but it could make a good fanon or headcanon or au as an addition to what’s not been said. 

Although, in my posted fics, I have never made Luke to be quite the prankster too tbh. While I do mention it somewhere in my hcs (which all of them takes place in an alternate universe where he survives Kronos and overcame those situations and become less hostile towards Hermes), they are also pretty much just impromptu musings I get it out on whims or headcanons rather than something that I really think is canon (they’re not lmao). And my rule with my hcs is that they are always, and always subjected to change (you cant imagine how much i delete and rewrite my hcs lol). I believe that as long as you can see a character with an additional element, go at it until you find a reason not to feel comfortable with this trait then take it away. I dunno. I kinda feel like if Luke goes on the route of reconciling with Hermes, he’d probably want to start trying out things related to his dad more out of curiosity and just for the sake of, y’know, trying. Again, everything is hypothetical. 

If you’re talking about the random chat posts in this blog, they’re just incorrect quotes and is what they are - incorrect and very much crack lolol. Even so, I can see him as someone who loves to tease someone he likes (either as friends or lovers) since he isn’t quite open about his affections in a straightforward way either (as seen in the books and diary). I definitely can’t see him as a hopeless romantic as much as I see Jason is. While I think he’s probably not a prankster on the same level as Travis and Connor, I’m not opposed to the idea of others portraying him as such either for entertainment, filling in blanks and a more 3D development element that the books can’t cover because he’s kinda deader than my own soul. 

I hope this conveys my thought process? :^D

#luke castellan #anonymous #this is a kind of fun thing to do while im taking a break from all that studying.

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I'm also optimistic for the future! And I won't qualify it! There's this quote from Howard Zinn, who is neither an idiot nor an optimist, I've been returning to with great frequency over the last year & a half:

"To be hopeful in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that human history is a history not only of cruelty, but also of compassion, sacrifice, courage, kindness. What we choose to emphasize in this complex history will determine our lives. If we see only the worst, it destroys our capacity to do something. If we remember those times and places—and there are so many—where people have behaved magnificently, this gives us the energy to act, and at least the possibility of sending this spinning top of a world in a different direction.And if we do act, in however small a way, we don’t have to wait for some grand utopian future. The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory."

Amazing how we adapt to things, isn't it? You're the third person to write me an email unpacking the way we've acclimated to covid, primarily through the lens of the new rhythms associated with their work (though you're alone amongst those I correspond with in quitting coffee full stop! You're officially one of the strongest people I know. Not hyperbole. I'm thinking I may have to do the messy work of weaning off the stuff as it 'has' me, & I can't stand to feel had by anything!) Still some time left in the month, did that firm-wide meeting happen yet? Praying it's not lay offs & that if it is, some other occupation will reveal itself that will bring you some joy. 

People created climate change, people can also undo it. Unlike Mr Zinn, my hope isn't in us to unbreak the world (so to speak) but I do agree, we can do an awful lot for one another & the world just by hoping and acting out of that hope. Thank you for sharing your perspective & what stood out for you re E/W Germany! The wall was the symbol, but as in so many other hi-stories, its destruction was precipitated by a change on the ground. I'd love to hear more about that trip & your host! Observant waiters see/can report more about a city & her people than most.

There seems to be an interesting paradox within your thoughts on the future being more perilous for the way that tools of the present allow us to easily rewrite or erase history. Though I don't think any generation is ever given an accurate history of the past (insert 'written by the winners' & every other cliche here), those that received history before technology exploded (at present, a much larger group) weren't any better at using it to create a better future. I see overcorrections & cyclical, mimetic destruction in every age, no matter the age's precursors or historians. People deny the Holocaust, despite survivors, video footage & a pretty universal consensus that it did happen. When everyone who lived through it dies, as you say.. their children & grandchildren & any sane person paying attention WILL remember & will continue to flout the naysayers. It's the same with Tiananmen Square, and with those other, unknown horrors that are never publicized or shared beyond the little group that survived them & those they know. Going back to Zinn, are these even the things we should be zooming in on in our history if we want a better future? Maybe asking if we're zooming in with the right lens is a better question. When we remember the Holocaust or Tiananmen Square -- do we remember them solely as massacres, or do we keep their reality alive because they tell us something about resiliency & resistance in the face of widespread, murky delusion, injustice & evil? Not saying or asking any of this as if you disagree, just thinking. 

Watched a couple of recent interviews with Gladwell & cede that the work doesn't sound v interesting in them, overshadowed as it is by the societal issues it hopes to help address. I also haven't read any of his earlier work (yet), so it could be that coming in backwards has a lot to do with my enthusiasm for the book! I am curious about which assumptions he made that felt dubious and/or incorrect to you? 

Cannot overstate how pleasant the idea of you reciting poetry to yourself as you walk, a free and fielding young soul, to the beach and beyond! Would've liked to be contemporaries for a day with most everyone I know & if they ever develop & make time travel common, as of now, those free-day, fulla lectio walks to the beach would be where I'd choose to spend a day with past you. Haven't heard of Bierce -- any recs, satire or poetry? Kenneth Koch!! Cool, cool, cool! + If you ever locate that frogs & butterflies volume, I'd like to see it. 

Don't deny your complexity. Or at least don't expect me to go along with such a denial. Without doubt, the term means something different to you than it does to me, & its meaning changes with context. To me, in the context of being alive you are infinitely complex, existing physically, psychically, emotionally & spiritually in a completely different form & manner than I. You live beneath the surface, and you don't fully know yourself - how much less can I know you? I don't say this to hint at any grand expectations or put pressure on you to reveal exciting, unusual, mysterious things about yourself. I'd say the same thing about anyone else. Although, the narcissist in me hasn't yet been starved to death, so I admit, it's more exciting to get to know someone with whom I share genealogy. 

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Blogger shows why women want to stop focusing on their flaws

She then pointed out what others see – and what she does.

The effects had been idea-provoking, with Parisian pupil Louise’s annotations highlighting just how cruel ladies may be to themselves.

She wrote: “I am responsible. I am right here to continually be absolutely honest, due to the fact I feel social medias need more of it.

“As a whole lot as I preach self-love and sincerely made a few development accepting myself, there’s some thing I really struggle with: photos.

“Whenever I see a photograph of me, the first matters which catches my eyes are my FLAWS. I usually see what is incorrect.

“I, in reality, do not study people’s flaws first after I take a look at a picture of a person else. On the opposite, I have a tendency to recognition on their property. “We really want to learn not to be so harsh on ourselves. It isn’t always healthy. I am going to paintings on it, and I wish you’ll too.”

Louise cited that strangers would see her “big smile, lengthy legs, and robust butt”, but she saw a “huge nostril, lower back fat, and cellulite”

“The impact of role models, the usage of photo enhancing; it puts the first-rate strain on our shoulders and nourishes the sensation of now not being worth sufficient.”

Louise, who blogs about health and healthy ingesting, has additionally established the difference among right and terrible digicam angles.

How to Become a Professional Blogger – 2017

The term blogger became popular within the late 1990s and the success memories of humans in this subject led many to recall how to emerge as a professional in blogging. There is a fashionable impact that it is simple to turn out to be a seasoned blogger but the fact of the matter is it’s far as difficult as any attempt wanting to earn the first rate income. For a few human beings but running a blog is a passion and the cash that goes with it comes simplest as secondary.

Just like every endeavor, there are requirements to come to be a professional blogger. Anybody may be a blogger but to be regarded in this discipline, you ought to keep in mind the following.

You need to love to put in writing

The ardor to write should be there, first of all. It has to not be only a spur of the moment preference to go surfing and create an internet site. Every running a blog internet site you see that ranks nicely in serps has notable contents in it. Contents are written words that entice traffic.

Start along with your expertise

You must have a knowledge or as a minimum enjoy in what you’ll be writing approximately. So many bloggers just write about anything beneath the solar because it is straightforward to investigate information at the internet and rewrite thoughts of other people. Although it’s also one way to head, it’s miles difficult to be identified as a professional blogger if there is glaringly no expertise on the topics being written.

Study SEO

There are a few expert bloggers who made it without surely concentrating a good deal on the use of search engine marketing techniques. They are the elite few who have targeted on a niche that occurs to be their knowledge and without difficulty earned natural site visitors to their web page. But they’re a unique class of bloggers who mainly have a sturdy offline network. To make certain, you need to have a look at at the least the fundamentals of search engine optimization to end up a professional blogger.

Set-up a website

Get a website name and sign up it so that you can have an identification in your internet site. Some bloggers start with a loose platform but if you want to emerge as an expert in this area, you have to start with a paid internet site.

Monetize your web page

An expert blogger is one that earns from the weblog internet site that he places up. One can’t be called a professional if he is not incomes from what he does and that is also proper in the case of blogging. There are quite a few ways to monetize a website and it is just a matter of selecting the great on your website.

The time period expert blogger absolutely has no clean reduce definition. One may think that he is a professional but others may think in any other case. But the commonplace barometer to be referred to as one is the capacity to attract masses of unique visitors to the web page in addition to the earnings ability.

Portrayal of War and Women in Bernard Shaw’s Arms and the Man

George Bernard Shaw’s Arms and the Man is a drama revolving across the War among the Serbians and the Bulgarians. The story depicts Bluntschili, a mercenary for the Serbians being rescued with the aid of Raina the protagonist. Raina belonging to the distinguished Petkoff circle of relatives is likewise in love with Captain Sergius who is capable of comfy a large victory for the Serbians at Silivinitza. The relaxation of the play takes region within the home of the Petkoff circle of relatives. Bluntschili returns to the house and returns a coat belonging to Raina’s father. In it became Raina’s portrait and a written inscription: ‘To my Chocolate Cream Soldier’. When Raina’s father demanded the coat, she became able to artfully avert and cast off the inscription.

War is portrayed as a semi-comedian antic by using Shaw. Both the comedian side and the tragic facet of battle are depicted with a real tinge. Raina’s room is invaded by way of Blutnschili the Serbian mercenary. He is included with mud and blood and is escaping the Bulgarians. Raina takes pity on him and protects him despite the fact that she is a Bulgarian. When the Bulgarian infantrymen input her room she brilliantly hides him behind the curtain. Raina turns into a pacifist.

As a mercenary soldier, Bluntschili is portrayed comically. His revolver does now not have bullets and prefers a small college kid he consists of goodies with him. When Raina palms him chocolate to devour, he goes to the extent of emptying the carton by scrubbing it with his hands and carrying out the whole lot. Raina turns into affectionate towards him and labels him as: ‘My Chocolate Cream soldier’. Bluntschili is a toddler archetype who’s least worried approximately the seriousness of warfare. When his existence is in hazard, he takes protection in Raina’s room. Through Bluntschili we come to remember that war is a tragic comedy, an anathema, a volcano that injuries peoples thoughts and our bodies. Bluntschili is least afflicted approximately whose facet wins the war. He isn’t brave sufficient to combat back and attempts to save his own skin. Through Raina, we come to keep in mind that even in war enemies may be turn out to be friends, a high-quality that it’s far primary human instinct to be existentially kind to the other. Raina is a prophet of no violence even though her romantic tendencies converge with men being in struggle and being intrepid, bold and courageous.

Sergius the might-be husband of Raina is characterized as a brave soldier. He with the aid of overruling the orders of his superiors makes formidable cavalry fee and wins the battle for the Bulgarians at Silivinitza. Sergius is portrayed as a person with the battle like features. Raina and Catherine her mother have a good time at the Bulgarian victory and that they experience proudly that would be son-in-regulation and husband is a success at thwarting enemies. The critical component of struggle is given a room for idea thru this person.

The two contrasting character types engaged in battle suggests ambivalence in Shaw’s depiction. People by using their very nature are peaceful and the battle is satirized as a comic adventure through the man or woman of Bluntschili. On the alternative hand, the seriousness of War is given vent through the psyche of Sergius. There’s not anything to recognize approximately conflict except that it brings devastation on life and assets. Shaw will become an apostle of nonviolence and questions the integrity of nations to indulge in violence and cruelty.

Message From the Universe: Focusing on Helping Others

“Ever observe how on a nearly day by day basis, both directly or circuitously, you’re driven by helping others?

I actually have.

Actually, all here have.

Legend, The Universe”

The famous Zig Ziglar shared a number of his well-known quote:” When you inspire others, you in the technique are recommended due to the fact you’re making a dedication and difference in that individual’s lifestyles. Encouragement clearly does make a distinction.”

Helping others must be a day by day exercise and now not be taken in useless. When a person is in want of assist and asks for it, you are certain that they’re in a pretty difficult bind. Most people chorus from soliciting for the assist but after they do, make it an addiction to be there for them and offer them with some assistance, or anything you may do to make their mission easier to overcome. The principle “WIIFM” (What’s In It For Me) shouldn’t be carried out, despite the fact that maximum humans undertake this approach in life. Helping others shouldn’t be observed with ulterior reasons inside the hope that this individual will sooner or later pay you returned. Sometimes, they may by no means be in the position to ever pay you again for the good factor you did for them. Should that forestall you from doing more desirable for others? The answer is NO.

There is a lot of abundances out there, and while you assist someone and make a difference in their lives, you have impacted the belief they’ve for other humans, which in go back, that same character you helped will go and help someone else, and that is what is “Paying Forward”. The man or woman you helped will help someone else, and not you especially. That is OK because you’re property deeds is being increased and the person you help will assist a person else so that you can deliver that man or woman faith in humanity and will pay forward with their movement supporting a person else. Look at this like compound hobby. Your money multiplies and the previous capital plus interest you earned will growth in cost and could multiply with out you being worried from that first accurate deed. The key here is to invest in humanity. It will pay lower back in the end. There are many films available on YouTube these days discussing the paying it forward and it is essential to exercise it normally.

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Rules of the Road for Regency Language

Recently, some writers online were discussing language, particularly the use of language for an historical period such as the Regency age. I was traveling and unable to jump into the discussion, but the comments set me to reflect about my approach—which I had considered for quite a while as I began my historical fiction based on Jane Austen’s life.

As for general language, I take the actor’s approach when preparing to play an historical character: don’t imitate the person, inhabit the person. Learn all you can, absorb the way the individual thinks, feels, and acts, then speak naturally. The voice will come to you. Afterward, with a period piece, check for anachronisms. It’s not unusual for me to check five or six words a page. Trouble is, some old English words sound new, and some new English words sound old. “Ignition,” for example, sounds like a modern word: We relate it to car ignitions, “ignition, liftoff,” and so on. However, this word has been firing up our vocabulary since at least 1612.

The discussion covered a variety of bugaboos, mostly prohibitions that grammarians in the 19th Century tried to force on English to make it more like Latin, to rein in English’s sprawling structure to become more “proper.”

Among these rules, there’s no law against beginning a sentence with “And” or “But” or other conjunctions; however, that usage was not typical of traditional English and it does sound modern. Austen, though, uses an opening conjunction once in a while. Here’s an early example from “Mansfield Park,” when Fanny is trying to settle in: “And sitting down by her, he was at great pains to overcome her shame in being so surprised, and persuade her to speak openly.”

When I begin a sentence with a conjunction, it is usually to express a character’s thoughts, to distinguish a character who speaks abruptly, or to mark the less formal aspect of speech. Austen does the last in the same section in “Mansfield”: “And remember that, if you are ever so forward and clever yourselves, you should always be modest; for, much as you know already, there is a great deal more for you to learn.”

Austen commonly uses the “semicolon-and”; perhaps fifty for every “period-and.” Why should the former be seen as stately English, connecting two balanced phrases, and the latter as improper?

Split infinitives are another bogus issue. English is an accented language, and sometimes sentences split an infinitive for the rhythm: “To boldly go where no one has gone before” is a “Star Trek” phrase in almost perfect iambic. “To go boldly” or “Boldly to go” strike the English ear as wrong.

The phrase originated in a 1958 White House pamphlet on space travel; it was amended to “where no man has gone before” for the first “Star Trek” television series, then returned to “where no one has gone before” for the revival, “Star Trek: The Next Generation.” The phrase is also brought out in the split-infinitive debate. I’ve always wondered why the phrase wasn’t “to boldly go where none has gone before,” because that is perfect iambic pentameter. Perhaps the author thought it sounded too lyrical. Or perhaps “none” might have been contradicted by alien species, of which there are aplenty boldly going somewhere in the “Star Trek” saga.

There are other sentences in which the only correct sense requires the infinitive to be split. How else could you construct the following: “Prices are expected to more than double by next year.” The words that split the infinitive are nothing more than modifiers of the main verb; i.e., adverbs.

Split prepositions are also fine. Both Austen and Shakespeare used them. When challenged on his use of sentence-ending prepositions, Winston Churchill is reputed to have responded: “This is the kind of arrant pedantry up with which I will not put!” Though there is no definitive source of the remark that traces directly to the British Prime Minister, it sounds like the English bulldog—though he might have thrown in a “bloody” or two. Ending a sentence with a preposition is fine if it gives the sentence a punch. The same is true of keeping the preposition with its object where it technically belongs.

Among the other language issues that arose in the earlier lively discussion, I admit that it bugs me when people don’t know the difference between “farther” and “further,” but Jane Austen didn’t. Neither did Thomas Hardy, who wrote nearly a hundred years later. They both used “further” to mean distance. “Further” has always had the broader sense, but it’s a relatively recent development to separate the two so that “farther” means only “distance” and “further” means everything else. A nice distinction, but new.

Having been a copy editor, I learned and enforced all the rules. I was part of the priesthood. Over many years since, I have become more flexible. I do not believe technicalities should overcome the sense the writer is trying to convey. Some technically correct solutions are so cumbersome they break the spell by taking the reader out of the story. Usually, the best solution is to rewrite the sentence entirely, but that sometimes creates other problems.

I have a good friend and fellow writer who was never very good with spelling and punctuation. He asked me one time if the technical stuff really mattered, since the writer must focus on content. I replied that the rules were part of our box of tools and after twenty or thirty years we should be able to use them. I noticed decided technical improvements in his work after that. These changes, in turn, led to crisper writing. Sharpening his tools paid off.

There are many good style guides, from the plain and simple “AP Style Book” to the dense and complex “Chicago Manual of Style.” Even when the rules seem unintelligible, you can usually find an example that matches the phrase you’re concerned about. E.B. White’s “Elements of Style” is another classic, more about elegant writing than technical style.

One of the problems for American writers with an English audience is the difference between English spelling and punctuation and American spelling and punctuation. Some of the differences, mostly in spelling, evolved over time (“colour” = “color”, “encyclopaedia” = “encyclopedia”). A few developed independently (automobile “boot” = automobile “trunk”).

The main differences, however, happened abruptly and deliberately. Have you ever wondered why American punctuation is the inverse of English? American usage begins with a double quotation mark, and any interior quote is a single quotation mark: “Jones said angrily, ‘I hate quotes within quotes!’ ” English usage is the opposite: ‘Jones said angrily, “I hate quotes within quotes!” ’ Another difference is that in English usage, a noun that has a plural sense takes a plural referent: “The government/they.” In American usage, the same word has a singular sense: “The government/it.”

The reason is purely arbitrary. After the Revolutionary War, American printers wanted protection from the more established and cost-efficient British publishers. In a patriotic and protectionist fervor, Americans established a style just different enough to keep British printers from winning U.S. print contracts. It was the literary equivalent of driving on the other side of the road.

(Originally, most nations used the left side of the road in order to have the (right-handed) sword hand in a protective position against people coming the other way. The U.S. switch to the right side related to Napoleon’s preference for the right, which shifted the continent in that direction, and to the larger freight wagons over here in the U.S., which favored a rider on the left rear horse. This person would have a whip in his right hand for the horses and would want to see oncoming traffic on his left, putting his wagon on the right.)

Back to language. In some cases, the arbitrariness of the grammatical rule frustrates sense.

Consider a mixed group of men and women asked a question, and no one knows the answer. Which should it be:

“Everyone shook his head in confusion.” grammatically correct but leaves out women

“Everyone shook her head in confusion.” grammatically correct but leaves out men

“Everyone shook their heads in confusion.” grammatically incorrect but correctly inclusive

Most “singular/he” constructions can be avoided by changing the noun to plural, something like “people/they.” This is one example of trying to write around the problem. Most grammarians say it is fine to use the “everyone/they” construction in informal usage, but not in formal usage. I would normally use “everyone/he” or “everyone/she” in nonfiction, depending on sense. Nonfiction wants to be rigorous. In the above example, I would use “everyone/they” in fiction. Why? Because in fiction, there’s a different kind of rigor, which is maintaining the spell of the scene. There is no good substitute for the word “everyone” in English. Try recasting the above sentence to “people” and you’ll see what I mean: “People shook their heads in confusion.” What people? Everyone!

Also, rewriting the section might create more awkwardness than it solves; and being the way most of us speak, “everyone/they” is far less intrusive to a reader who, you hope, is caught up in your story. If the only one who objects is a grammar freak, I’m OK with that. I know I would have tried every workaround beforehand.

There’s only one unbreakable grammatical rule: You can’t break a rule unless you fully understand it, know why it exists, and have a good reason to break it.

As an American, I use U.S. spelling and punctuation. I know the obvious differences between U.S. and UK style, but a UK publisher will be far more capable than I of properly dealing with the nuances. English and American readers buy the opposite editions all the time, and neither has any trouble reading the other’s punctuation and spelling style. The best thing is to be proper and consistent with whichever you use.

When writing from an English point of view, however, I avoid Americanisms. In writing about Austen, I have readers versed in both the Regency period and UK English review my work before I publish. I have been corrected in the American use of “fall” for “autumn,” “creek” for “brook,” and a few other such provincialisms. I was embarrassed to learn from an English friend that I used the American “momma” instead of the English “mama” near the end of Volume II of “The Marriage of Miss Jane Austen,” my novel on Austen’s life, after having used the correct form earlier. This was a late addition and suffered from the lack of vetting.

A few times, my intrepid early readers caught a few words they thought were anachronisms but were not. One flagged “administratrix” as modern technical, but it goes back to circa 1561. I follow a rule similar to that of Regina Jeffers, another Austen blogger, who will use a word if its documented use comes within ten or twenty years of the time she writes about. The rationale is that a word must have been circulating in speech for a while before it became part of the written lexicon. In my Austen trilogy, the character Ashton Dennis uses the word “stomp” in late 1802. The first known written use of the word was 1803. I decided that Ashton must have been the one to coin it.