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Hey! Do you have any favorite scenes in What You Think is Right?

SPOILERS

Such a good question! Maybe the flashback scene with Hermione reminiscing about holding her grandfather's "heart" in her hands

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What You Know Is Wrong: Chapter 2

Ao3

Beautiful art by the amazing @asta-blackwart

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It’s dark when the cab pulls up to the house. The windows are closed, the blinds pulled down. I’ve never noticed before, but our home looks fairly haunted at night, a faint suggestion of eeriness discernable in the worn shingles and chipping paint. Draco isn’t here right now. I look at my mobile, a force of habit. There are no red notifications alerting me to a message, but I click on the application anyways. Sometimes I think that’s the worst part, not the disappointment of being wrong, but the humiliation of wanting something enough to suspend disbelief.

For a moment, I stay molded to the car seat, phone in my hand.

“We’re here,” the driver says. He clears his throat when I don’t answer. “Six Acorn Drive.”

<Light and Shadow> by @icepower55

<Свет и тень> translation by me

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“Male fantasies, male fantasies”

1. John Berger, Ways of Seeing 2. Adrienne Rich, Of Woman Born 3. Susan Lee Bartky,  Femininity and Domination: Studies in the Phenomenology of Oppression 4. Theodora Hermes, “Reflections in Contemporary Feminist Literature” 5. Carol J. Adams, The Pornography of Meat 6. Margaret Atwood, The Robber Bride

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I particularly detested the past-perfect progressive tense, which I called the Annoying PPP: a continuous action completed at some point in the past. I felt giddy every time I heard the Annoying PPP; I just couldn’t understand how anyone was able to grasp something so complex. For example, my grammar book said: “Peter had been painting his house for weeks, but he finally gave up.” My immediate reaction, even before I got to the grammatical explanation, was: my God, how could someone paint his house for weeks and still give up? I just couldn’t see how time itself could regulate people’s actions as if they were little clocks! As for the grammar, the word order “had been” and the added flourishes like “ing” made my stomach churn. They were bizarre decorations that did nothing but obscure a simple, strong building. My instinct was to say something like: “Peter tries to paint his house, but sadness overwhelms him, causing him to lay down his brushes and give up his dream.”

Xiaolu Guo, Once Upon a Time in the East: A Story of Growing Up, excerpted in The Guardian here (via emberlinsmiscellany)

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I want to infect you with the tremendous excitement of living, because I believe that you have the strength to bear it.

Tennessee Williams, from The Selected Letters: 1920-1945 (via victoriajoan)

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Tomas Tranströmer, “Midwinter″, The Deleted World: Poems (versions by Robin Robertson, bilingual ed.) [transcript in ALT]

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Sunny back garden    -     María Moreno , 1972.

Spanish, b.1933  -

Oil on board,  109 x 75 cm

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“Time, I think, is like walking backward away from something: say, from a kiss. First there is the kiss; then you step back, and the eyes fill up your vision, then the eyes are framed in the face as you step further away; the face then is part of a body, and then the body is framed in a doorway, then the doorway framed in the trees beside it. The path grows longer and the door smaller, the trees fill up your sight and the door is lost, then the path is lost in the woods and the woods lost in the hills. Yet somewhere in the center still is the kiss. That’s what time is like.”

— John Crowley, from Engine Summer (Doubleday, 1979)

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Edward G Malindine. Christmas tree. Denmark in Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire. 1938

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As adults, we have many inhibitions against crying. We feel it is an expression of weakness, or femininity or of childishness. The person who is afraid to cry is afraid of pleasure. This is because the person who is afraid to cry holds himself together rigidly so that he won’t cry; that is, the rigid person is as afraid of pleasure as he is afraid to cry. In a situation of pleasure he will become anxious. As his tensions relax he will begin to tremble and shake, and he will attempt to control this trembling so as not to break down in tears. His anxiety is nothing more than the conflict between his desire to let go and his fear of letting go. This conflict will arise whenever the pleasure is strong enough to threaten his rigidity. Since rigidity develops as a means to block out painful sensations, the release of rigidity or the restoration of the natural motility of the body will bring these painful sensations to the fore. Somewhere in his unconscious the neurotic individual is aware that pleasure can evoke the repressed ghosts of the past. It could be that such a situation is responsible for the adage,;No pleasure without pain.

Alexander Lowen, The Voice of the Body (via unmaiden)

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Kate Cayley, from “Lent”

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“A tongue will wrestle its mouth to death and lose— language is a cemetery.”

— Natalie Diaz, “Cloud Watching”

“Where do words come from? They come from the dead. We inherit them. Borrow them. Use them for a time to bring the dead to life.”

— Ruth Ozeki, A Tale for the Time Being

“All the dead voices. They make a noise like wings. Like leaves. Like sand. Like leaves.”

— Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot

“Do they sense it, these dead writers, when their books are read? Does a pinprick of light appear in their darkness? Is their soul stirred by the feather touch of another mind reading theirs?”

— Diane Setterfield, The Thirteenth Tale

“The sentence is adorned with all of its dead.” 

— Jacques Derrida, Cinders

“There are no people in what I’ve written. Only ghosts.”

— Susan Sontag, Reborn: Early Diaries, 1947-1963

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*stops you in the middle of the street* *points a mic in your face* 🎤: The people want to know, how does it feel to be wonderful? ( also, unrelated but equally serious topic, have you been staying hydrated?)

Hahaha anon this is so lovely! I'm sending you all my best wishes and hydration tablets.

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For the Fanfic ask game:

B, L, M, O please ❤

Hey there! Thanks for these asks <3 Answers after the jump.

Any of your stories inspired by personal experience?'

Almost all of my stories are, in some way or another, inspired by personal experience. The personal aspect of my fiction derives not necessarily from the plot itself, but sometimes from the little moments I try to thread through for realism or as part of interiority. The last time this happened, it was in What You Know is Wrong, when Hermione is theorizing about all the words that should exist in English but that don't. My best friend and I played that game the other day and ended up with a whole lot of conceptual answers (i.e., there should be a word for that feeling when you're wondering if someone else is thinking about you)

How many times do you usually revise your fic/chapter before posting?

God, it used to be so many. Lately, I've been chaotic and have just been writing and letting myself post. I'm in kind of a writing slump, and I've been trying to let myself feel a little more free in my fandom life.

Got any premises on the back burner that you'd care to share?

So many! I have like half an outline for a fic about Draco and Hermione in Shanghai. There's a whole section where, due to a language barrier, they end up sharing a hotel room and bed. I also have half an outline and a couple of paragraphs about a story where Hermione is a burn victim and Draco is a nurse

How do you begin a story—with the plot, or the characters?

Honestly, my first thought when writing is: how much pain can I inflict on my readers?

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Light & Shadow: Chapter 2

Ao3

Maybe that’s what I find hardest: I’m not sure where he begins and I end.

How do I even try to answer that question?

Credits for this amazing graphic to @hayllasworld​

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FanFic Ask Game

A: How did you come up with the title to [insert fic]?

B: Any of your stories inspired by personal experience?

C: What character do you identify with most?

D: Is there a song or a playlist to associate with [insert fic]?

E: If you wrote a sequel to [insert fic], what would it be about?

F: Share a snippet from one of your favourite dialogue scenes you've written and explain why you're proud of it.

G: Do you write your story from start to finish, or do you write the scenes out of order?

H: How would you describe your style?

I: Do you have a guilty pleasure in fic (reading or writing)?

J: Write or describe an alternative ending to [insert fic].

K: What's the angstiest idea you've ever come up with?

L: How many times do you usually revise your fic/chapter before posting?

M: Got any premises on the back burner that you'd care to share?

N: Is there a fic you wish someone else would write (or finish) for you?

O: How do you begin a story—with the plot, or the characters?

P: Are you what George R. R. Martin would call an "architect" or a "gardener"? (How much do you plan in advance, versus letting the storu unfold as you go?)

Q: How do you feel about collaborations?

R: Are there any writers (fanfic or otherwise) you consider an influence?

S: Any fandom tropes you can't resist?

T: Any fandom tropes you can't stand?

U: Share three of your favourite fic writers and why you like them so much.

V: If you could write the sequel (or prequel) to any fic out there not written by yourself, which would you choose?

W: Do you like more general prompts, or more specific ones?

X: A character you enjoy making suffer.

Y: A character you want to protect.

Z: Major character death—do you ever write/read it? Is there a character whose death you can't tolerate?

Transcribed from @stylinbreeze60's post.

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