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Romantic style Toledo dagger, Spain, dated 1865

from Sofe Design Auctions

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Just opened my fic document and found this

Thanks, past me. Incredibly helpful.

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Keeping this quote to my grave

#my grandma calls me Pollyanna bc of this

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Always love how much folklore especially creature folklore emphasizes that there is a way for you to win. These are the steps to ensure the dead don't rise: take them out through a hole in the wall and give them iron shoes. Vampires cannot abide sunlight. If you hear a dog howl on a churchyard path turn around and get home as fast as you can. Iron and salt and the colour red. None of this doomed idea, the world is incomprehensible but if you're a bit clever you'll survive it just fine, there's always ways out.

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if we are mutuals we will be reborn into the same cicada horde

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In writing, epithets ("the taller man"/"the blonde"/etc) are inherently dehumanizing, in that they remove a character's name and identity, and instead focus on this other quality.

Which can be an extremely effective device within narration!

They can work very well for characters whose names the narrator doesn't know yet (especially to differentiate between two or more). How specific the epithet is can signal to the reader how important the character is going to be later on, and whether they should dedicate bandwidth to remembering them for later ("the bearded man" is much less likely to show up again than "the man with the angel tattoo")

They can indicate when characters stop being as an individual and instead embody their Role, like a detective choosing to think of their lover simply as The Thief when arresting them, or a royal character being referred to as The Queen when she's acting on behalf of the state

They can reveal the narrator's biases by repeatedly drawing attention to a particular quality that singles them out in the narrator's mind

But these only work if the epithet used is how the narrator primarily identifies that character. Which is why it's so jarring to see a lot of common epithets in intimate moments-- because it conveys that the main character is primarily thinking of their lover/best friend/etc in terms of their height or age or hair color.

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Link to Ao3

Please be warned that this absolutely filthy smut and you should 100% read all the tags. Dirtiest thing I’ve written since the Cocaine Fic™️ so enjoy 😈

#500 hits you so deserve it… #the old guard

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Joni Mitchell - Los Angeles, CA 1976

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baseball?? that game from twilight?

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My ideal aesthetic is what I'm calling "sexy tomboy". That is to say, I am 100% femme through and through, but I want to look like what a straight man's idea of a "masculine woman" is. I wanna be masc in the way that LaCroix is fruit flavored, just a little extra something to make things a little more interesting

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please elaborate in tags :)

#at this point no bc a) people have bad taste b) bisexual erasure is so real and so strong and c) just bc it’s queer doesn’t mean it’ll be a #good story altho there are inherent elements in queer narratives that are more appealing to me. however you can have those in any story #ALSO LIKE. i have a special place in my heart for stories that have protagonists with no love interest. no explicit sexuality or queerness. #it is entirely possible to have a good story and not address any of that so I think trying to rate stories by that metric is honestly not #the best use of your time…? like look for the genre and tropes you like and things may surprise you

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I've been really into making granny squares/granny polygons and using them for tilings

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Sam Claflin as Finnick Odair in The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013), directed by Francis Lawrence.

#thg

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if you're cringing at the genre conventions of the genre you are writing in then why the hell are you writing in it. either have something substantial to say about those conventions or shut the hell up! i will not cringe alongside you at superhero powers and spaceship battles and big eldritch worms and bone magic. i came to this story to SEE that shit and I don't appreciate it when an author tries to pretend they're above the very things they're selling themselves on

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DRAFT TWO DONE

#.txt #the behemoth #YEEHAW GIRLS anyway it’s been a batshit insane night and this story is going to live in my bones by the time i’m through with the next draft #like it doesn’t already live in my bones. idk man ik if i tell manyfacedmirror about the plot of this he’ll look at me and go. so this has #been living inside you since 2012 huh. and I’ll be like MAYBE SO #in another legendary manyfacedmirror moment btw. this is my best friend of 13 years. our friendship is a teenager. anyway I said hey bestie #manyfacedmirror I have written 150k and before I could say ANYTHING ELSE he was like well I know who that’s about. I was read for FILTH

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8, 10, and 27 for the ask thing? 👀

hello good evening! thank you for the ask!

8. Last thing you watched?

Immaculate! It was firmly mid. i have an enormous thing for Sydney Sweeney so that’s why i picked it. there was a really nice horror moment where she tore an umbilical cord with her teeth but otherwise it was meh run of the mill stuff

10. Books on your reading list?

on Libby I’m waiting for the second two books in the Area X trilogy by Jeff VanderMeer, Split Tooth by Tanya Tagaq, The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom, and Stolen by Elizabeth Gilpin. a variety for sure. i have more saved to my phone somewhere

27. What fascinates you about humanity?

how endlessly creative we are! if there’s one thing that can be said about humans it’s that we are certainly a creative bunch in pretty much every area imaginable. this is good and bad

sure some asks

#ask and you shall receive #sluttyhenley #body horror tw