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eigwayne · 10 hours
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Does anyone else low-key ship Xiaofeng with General Pei?
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eigwayne · 10 hours
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Controversial opinion maybe but the only person I ship Xiaofeng with is A'Du. My girl deserves a person who truly loves her and the only person who truly loves Xiaofeng is A'Du.
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eigwayne · 10 hours
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Finished Goodbye My Princess! The ending suited the show so that was good. Despite my complaints during parts of the viewing, the overall feeling was positive. The quality was consistent, although the plot pacing and interest and repetitiveness was not, and that's what lost me in parts. But the look, the editing, the soundtrack were all strong or at least satisfactory.
Some characters left stronger impressions than others, and I didn't particularly enjoy Li Chengyin- I wanted Xiaofeng to run of with Pei Zhao or A-Du and screw the plot for most of the show. Imagine it, Xiaofeng and A-Du and Mi Luo all make themselves at home at Pei Zhao's. He ends up with four wives who are more each others' wives than his, everyone is happy even if Pei Zhao and Louxi are confused for a while. Gu Xian can visit if he behaves I guess, but he's on thin ice.
Overall, this scored a 3.688. A show that sucks you in at times, spits you out at others, but great for some lovely costumes and sets and melodrama. It's dauntingly long but good enough that you'll think about watching it again someday. This is the same numerical score as The Lost Tomb 2: Explore With the Note (the Hou Minghao season), which is one of the DMBJ shows I rewatch the most so you know this is a good score.
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eigwayne · 11 hours
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It picked up after that, which is a common pattern with this show. A handful of eps that are hard to get through, a handful of eps that are great, rinse and repeat.
Picked up Goodbye My Princess again, and we've reached a paart where there's too much fat on the roast again. So many flashbacks, repeated scenes, waffling about decisions, and faffing about. And like, a little faffing about is okay to cool down for a bit, but these eps brought nothing new. I feel like all four eps I watched today could have been covered in one, or even cut mostly out, with no loss of story rhythm. And that's annoying.
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eigwayne · 11 hours
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the "canon isn't real we make our own rules" to "i am begging you people to revisit the source material" pipeline
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eigwayne · 13 hours
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We really do need to bring back the word "trolling" and warning ppl not to feed the trolls
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eigwayne · 13 hours
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Alternatives to google docs
For various reasons, this is now a hot topic. I'm putting my favorites here, please add more in your reblogs. I'm not pointing to Microsoft Word because I hate it.
Local on your computer:
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LibreOffice (https://www.libreoffice.org/), Win, Linux, Mac.
Looks like early 2000 Word, works great, imports all formats. Saves in OpenDocumentFormat. Combine with something like Dropbox for Cloud Backup.
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FocusWriter (https://gottcode.org/focuswriter/) Win, Linux.
Super customizable to make it look pretty, all toolbars hide to be as non-distracting as possible. Can make typewriter sounds as you type, and you can set daily wordcount goals. Saves in OpenDocumentFormat. Combine with something like Dropbox for Cloud Backup.
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Scrivener (https://www.literatureandlatte.com/scrivener/overview) Win, Mac, iOS
The lovechild of so many writers. Too many things to fiddle with for me, but I'm sure someone else can sing its praises. You can put the database folder into a Dropbox folder for cloud saving (but make sure to always close the program before shutting down).
Web-based:
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Reedsy bookeditor (https://reedsy.com/write-a-book) Browser based, works on Firefox on Android. Be aware that they also have a TOS that forbids pornography on publicly shared documents.
My current writing program. Just enough features to be helpful, not so many that I start fiddling. Writing is chapter based, exports to docx, epub, pdf. You can share chapters (for beta reading) with other people registered at Reedsy.
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Novelpad (https://novelpad.co/) Browser based.
Looks very promising, there's a youtuber with really informative videos about it (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHN8TnwjG1g). I wanted to love it, but the editor didn't work on Firefox on my phone. It might now, but I'm reluctant to switch again.
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eigwayne · 14 hours
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*Takes you by the shoulders* I ADORE character profiles and character trivia and likes and dislikes sections. I love knowing this ruthless, heartless, cruel man of a character has a childish dislike for mandarin oranges. I believe in the inherent beauty of making all characters, no matter the background or moral stance, being made fundamentally human by assigning them insignificant culinary preferences. I stand by the supremacy of humanizing villains by giving them relatable tastes and trivial interests and ordinary hobbies. I treasure the hidden reminders that everyone is inherently human even when everything else we know about a character might suggest the contrary.
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eigwayne · 16 hours
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Thank your for taking your time to shed light on Oropher's fateful military decision. I came to do some research about it because this is what stuck when there are discussions about Thranduil. I often read "Oropher did defy Gil-Galads order" or "Oropher did not respect Gil-Galads command". I know too little to be sure if he actually WAS under Gil-Galads command, in terms of military hierarchy.
Another theory people come up with his Sindarin descent and therefore, Oropher is blamed to disdain anyone of Noldorin descent, or at least to hold a grudge against the Noldor, and to not accept his authority. In short, it is the High King of the Noldor against a Sindarin King of Thingol's line.
As for Amdír, as a fellow Sindar from Doriath, familiar with the ways of living of the Silvan Elves, I assume he might have had a greater understanding of Oropher's tactics. I wonder if he knew, in advance, of Oropher's plan. If that early charge had been a plan at all. I wonder if his army that had been cut off the main host initally had been assigned a role in Oropher's early charge.
Then there is Thranduil. Where had he been? He survived, and with him, one third of his father's army, in a battle where complete annihilation was the higher probability than surviving, in a good enough health to travel home. I often wondered how this had been possible. Did those Elves survive because they were under his command, perhaps as another puzzle piece in Oropher's strategy that did not play out the way he intended it?
I have so many questions.
I'm going to link this to my previous reply,  and also take it as licence to ramble further :-D 
Gil-galad was High King of the Noldor, and his realm lay 'between the Mountains and the Sea'.    
And yet.  I think the hard lines between Noldor and Sindar become looser during the long peaceful early Second Age. 
Elrond chooses to be Gil-galad's herald rather than setting up a New Doriath of his own: Galadriel, Celeborn and Celebrimbor found Eregion, but none of them are referred to as queen or king.  
Cirdan, despite his age and the fact that he's been leading his own people since long before the rising of the Sun, seems to be quite content to become Gil-galad's master of ships and merge his people with the remnant of the Noldor. 
Elrond says of the king's death: "beside Gil-galad, only Cirdan stood, and I." 
The last High King of the Noldor in Middle-earth falls, and beside him is not some Noldo veteran of Gondolin or Nargothrond, but one of Thingol's lords (if not of Doriath) and Elrond, who is many things, but only marginally Noldor, at least by descent.  
So: I think that by the end of the Second Age, Gil-galad’s people are Eldar, not really Sindar and Noldor any more. 
There's a suggestion that Gil-galad might hold kingship over the exiled early Numenoreans too:  Elendil sets up his capital Annúminas close to Mithlond, in an area previously occupied by Elves (in fact, by Galadriel).
When Isildur's new city in Gondor is attacked, Gil-galad rides to war to defend him. The elves between the Mountains and the Sea follow him, apparently without argument. 
But Oropher and Amdir are different. They live East of the Mountains, outside any area possibly claimed by Gil-galad, and both are kings in their own right.  
I think Oropher and Amdir are independent allies of Gil-galad, not his subjects. I'm not sure that Gil-galad would give them orders, in the same way that he probably wouldn't give direct orders to the Dwarves of the House of Durin who also joined the Last Alliance.  
The fact that the House of Durin joined the Last Alliance is barely mentioned: 
"Of the Dwarves few fought upon either side; but the kindred of Durin of Moria fought against Sauron."
This is interesting in the context of Lorien.  Amdir has previously gone to war in close alliance with Khazad-dûm, during the War of the Elves and Sauron, when Amroth led a force through Moria to attack Sauron's forces together with the Dwarves.  
So Amdir might be closely allied with the force from Khazad-dûm, who after all do live right next door to him. Amdir might also have Noldor with him, refugees from Eregion:
"[Silvan Elves] had however been much mingled with Noldor (of Sindarin speech), who passed through Moria after the destruction of Eregion by Sauron in the year 1697 of the Second Age."  (Unfinished Tales: History of Galadriel and Celeborn) 
I feel both of those factors might be awkward for Oropher, and lead to a certain distance between him and Amdir.  
Though, we do get that tantalising mention from Gimli, in LOTR, that "Dwarves helped in building them [Thranduil's halls] long ago". 
Could it be that perhaps Thranduil's survival was linked to that small near-forgotten force from Khazad-dûm, and that's how he ended up commissioning Dwarves to help build his palace, a thousand year later?  They wouldn't be the Dwarves that fought in the Last Alliance, but there might still be a family connection. 
But you can certainly see that if Oropher was still holding a grudge over the fall of Doriath against the Noldor, it might leave him feeling a bit isolated.  His force is the only one that is entirely outside the cultural sphere of the Noldor, so far as we know. 
And yet... Oropher *could* have sat the war out. Greenwood the Great was a big place, he'd already moved well away from Amon Lanc.  He could have left the Last Alliance to get on with it.  But he didn't: he marched to war, and brought his people in force.
So, my feeling is that he'd probably not get into a deliberate confrontation with Gil-galad.  They have a shared objective, they both chose to go to war rather than retreating into the North and hoping Sauron would stay in the South.   
Oropher might not be under Gil-galad's command, but it's Gil-galad's war and Oropher chose to show up for it.  
And although Oropher is a lord of Doriath, Elrond is Thingol's heir, and Elrond is part of Gil-galad's command, as his herald.  
Of course, there could be tactical disagreements, communications breakdowns (do Oropher's people all speak Sindarin of the same dialect that Gil-galad's do, enough that there are no language issues?)
Even if we assume that Oropher is a seasoned campaigner from the First Age wars (which might explain why the Silvan elves decided he'd be a good choice to co-opt as king)  his forces aren't.  They are, presumably, mostly youngish elves born during the time of peace, when in Elrond's words "the elves believed that evil was ended forever." 
You can see that Oropher, looking at his young, untested soldiers, might feel it's urgent to end the war as fast as possible, and take them home.  Perhaps that might lead him to an unwise hastiness?
And you can perhaps also see Gil-galad, Círdan, Elrond and Elendil, old friends going out together against their enemy, might not bring Oropher fully into their councils.  They’ve probably met Oropher, at some point over the last 3500 years of the Second Age, but I'd guess they don’t know him well.  
They might know Amdir better than Oropher, since Amdir and Amroth are connected with Eregion and with Galadriel.
Which raises the question: where are Galadriel and Celeborn during the War of the Last Alliance, anyway?  
Their last noted location, according to Unfinished Tales, was Dol Amroth.  They went there after Galadriel was struck with sea longing after being given her Ring.  Not far from Mordor.
It seems likely that Celeborn, at least, and maybe Galadriel too, if her sea-longing allowed, would join Gil-galad’s war. Celeborn has fought beside Elrond before, in the War of the Elves and Sauron. 
“In the Second Age their king, Oropher, had withdrawn northward beyond the Gladden Fields. This he did to be free from the power and encroachments of the Dwarves of Moria... and also he resented the intrusions of Celeborn and Galadriel into Lórien.” (Unfinished Tales) 
Galadriel and Celeborn might be the only people on Gil-galad’s war-council that Oropher knows well: all three of them lived in Doriath, after all.  But of course, knowing one another well doesn’t always mean getting along well. 
This could be another reason for Oropher to hold his own councils and make his own strategy at Dagorlad.  If he can’t stand Galadriel and Celeborn sufficiently that he moved house to get away from them, even when they weren’t even living full-time in Lórien, you can imagine that joining in a council of war with them present might be an Absolute No. 
So many questions!  And really very few canon answers, so you just have to make up your own mind about them. 
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eigwayne · 16 hours
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Picked up Goodbye My Princess again, and we've reached a paart where there's too much fat on the roast again. So many flashbacks, repeated scenes, waffling about decisions, and faffing about. And like, a little faffing about is okay to cool down for a bit, but these eps brought nothing new. I feel like all four eps I watched today could have been covered in one, or even cut mostly out, with no loss of story rhythm. And that's annoying.
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eigwayne · 24 hours
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Source @ X
ID: tweets from @boulevarddouble:
okay SO. Just FYI i have an insider contact and i asked him about this new google drive nsfw scare.
backing up is never a bad idea.
99% of people will be unaffected, and this is NOT a crackdown on having nsfw content on gdrive
"What I think has happened is that drive has made several updates to its spam/abuse filtering and one of the focuses is trying to catch spammers who share explicit things in docs with random emails. Which is good in theory, but has the potential to hit false positives."
his recommendation is to keep NSFW words out of your doc titles and instead of sharing the "open link", share directly with you beta's email addresses.
It is also more likely to flag up explicit images, though that is less likely to be a fic problem.
/end ID
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eigwayne · 24 hours
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with the news Gumroad is going to be cracking down on nsfw content due to payment processor pressure, reminder that itch.io is mostly known for games but explicitly allows books/zines/etc too and many nsfw creators swear by them as a host for their paid works. (with the caveat that they do limit this to nsfw content that is fictional, not eg irl porn work, among other content requirements; the full policy is here.)
itch.io is especially noteworthy because their approach to creator/platform split is incredibly flexible; you as the creator choose the split. you can in fact choose to take 100% and give itch.io nothing, only losing out on any payment processor fees. obviously itch does need people to choose to share some revenue with them to continue going, but if you as a creator need to retain your profits to keep going, you can set it wherever you like and itch honours that. and as itch has a culture of people choosing to set it above zero because the community wants to keep it going, if you need to reduce their cut, it's an option!
itch isn't as popular as a platform to share non-game works so promoting your stuff elsewhere is important for visibility. but as someone who regularly buys both comics and books off there, it is very, very viable. here is a basic 101 guide:
now: itch uses the same payment processors that prompted the gumroad changes, and may at some point be challenged on the same grounds. it's not inherently a safe haven. but itch.io has historically made its commitment to working to keep nsfw content viable on its platform clear (look up the epic store apple lawsuit nonsense sometime; it didn’t result in a nsfw ban despite everything) and as of now is still small and niche enough they are not getting challenged the way larger, more generally popular sites like gumroad are; they are not trying to be a big commercially viable site, just stable enough to keep trucking, so they are less likely to be subject to that much scrutiny, or cave to it.
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eigwayne · 24 hours
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Alternatives to google docs
For various reasons, this is now a hot topic. I'm putting my favorites here, please add more in your reblogs. I'm not pointing to Microsoft Word because I hate it.
Local on your computer:
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LibreOffice (https://www.libreoffice.org/), Win, Linux, Mac.
Looks like early 2000 Word, works great, imports all formats. Saves in OpenDocumentFormat. Combine with something like Dropbox for Cloud Backup.
2.
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FocusWriter (https://gottcode.org/focuswriter/) Win, Linux.
Super customizable to make it look pretty, all toolbars hide to be as non-distracting as possible. Can make typewriter sounds as you type, and you can set daily wordcount goals. Saves in OpenDocumentFormat. Combine with something like Dropbox for Cloud Backup.
3.
Scrivener (https://www.literatureandlatte.com/scrivener/overview) Win, Mac, iOS
The lovechild of so many writers. Too many things to fiddle with for me, but I'm sure someone else can sing its praises. You can put the database folder into a Dropbox folder for cloud saving (but make sure to always close the program before shutting down).
Web-based:
4.
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Reedsy bookeditor (https://reedsy.com/write-a-book) Browser based, works on Firefox on Android. Be aware that they also have a TOS that forbids pornography on publicly shared documents.
My current writing program. Just enough features to be helpful, not so many that I start fiddling. Writing is chapter based, exports to docx, epub, pdf. You can share chapters (for beta reading) with other people registered at Reedsy.
5.
Novelpad (https://novelpad.co/) Browser based.
Looks very promising, there's a youtuber with really informative videos about it (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHN8TnwjG1g). I wanted to love it, but the editor didn't work on Firefox on my phone. It might now, but I'm reluctant to switch again.
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eigwayne · 1 day
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Hey jsyk that post u reblogged and Google docs was debunked :) have no fear, ur fantasy elf erotica is safe for now. Thread w relevant info:
https://www.tumblr.com/baejax-the-great/746111139875848192/good-news-this-is-absolutely-not-true-heres-the
OH THANK GOD MY ELF EROTICA
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eigwayne · 1 day
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Finished Strange Tales of Tang Dynasty! I really enjoyed this one, highly recommend. I already talked a bunch about it earlier, but I just wanted to add a couple notes.
There was one dragon (I have notes as to whether shows have dragons and some other things), and it was not bad looking, much more intimidating in design than most other C-drama dragons, who tend to be on the cute side. The resolution of the final strange tale was okay, but a little underwhelming. The ending of the series itself was spot on. Even if there was no second season coming, I'd be happy with the ending.
Scoring was mostly 4s, with an average of 4.063. This puts Strange Tales at the same level as Word of Honor and Heroes 2022, just below Tomb of the Sea and Love Crossed and just above A Journey to Love and Reunion: Sound of the Providence. I'd say Strange Tales is the most consistent quality of any of the other shows mentioned. There's no dull arc or nonsense ending to ruin the overall effect, so taken as a whole it's a really solid show.
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eigwayne · 1 day
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Luthien dancing in the forest. And there are some birds too ('cause as @lanthanum12 once said bird friends are the best! 🐦)
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eigwayne · 2 days
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medieval parchment repairs
in a psalter, south-western germany, late 12th/early 13th c.
source: Hermetschwil, Benediktinerinnenkloster, Cod. membr. 37, fol. 19r, 53r, and 110r
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