#<- for the book and the recs hehe

[obsob]

hgrng...thinking of love 

#mine #original #yes i realise i keep posting felttip cats but. they are fun #my sketchbook is just felt tip cats. almost exclusively #ive had a DAY. some how spent 3 hours sitting at my laptop and achieved nothing #trying to find answers to technical problems. i once had 20 tabs open and i was like okay i should like. have lunch #also my mum kept talkin abt my childhood n i was like. almost completely dissociating..mental illness >:) #i have headache >:( #but now is weekend...hehe.....its gna be warm tomorrow im going to read my book #i would LIKE to finish it....maybe i will....can i read 300 pages in one day mm maybe not #i feel like this book is gna end in tears. hmm. #okay im going to bed now goodnight! #going to play rainworld hehehhehehe #song rec of the day is bible belt my dry the river #song rec is also the NEW mcr song. hohfhbgdfgk

[cha1cedony]

Idk what it is that makes me fixate so hard on one specific thing for years at a time, but I need it to chill out 😭 DnDads has been my only long-term media interest for like 1 and 1/2 years now, and it’s BORING to only like one thing ever lol I’m BORED!!! I need other things to be interested in, but I struggle with getting into new stuff (other than video games) sooo bad :(

That said, if you have DnD podcast recs that have interesting characters……… GIMME 👀 Also where the early episodes aren’t a nightmare to listen to 🙏 I have never listened to any other DnD podcasts, and I think it’s mostly bc the earlier seasons are always poor audio quality or like 3 hours long 😭 I’m also good with any type of narrative podcast. I just want compelling characters and platonic/familial dynamics pls. Stuff I can write sad shit about!! But also not TOO sad the whole time… maybe a little bit silly idk

So far, ones I’ve written down to listen to are Cast Party and Friends at the Table? I don’t know anything about either of them, though so? Also I keep seeing my mutuals posting Oxventure and Woe.Begone (although the latter isn’t a DnD podcast.. I think?) sooooo let me know your thoughts. And recommendations! Send me your propaganda! Tell me about your blorbos

#the only podcasts I’ve really listened to are dndads and tma #but not the new tma one or whatever it’s called #I don’t really remember anything about it and was never into the fandom anyway #it was interesting ig but just not for me #I listened to it on 2x speed 😭 #I’ve also listened to a bit of wtnv and it was fun #but I also just wasn’t super invested. I like the concept a lot though hehe #anyway pls give me podcast recs. you guys can probably assume my favorite types of characters/relationships #I’m easy to read lol #tv show and book series recs are also appreciated #but idk I feel like there are probably a lot of podcasts and audio dramas I’m missing out on #and I drive 45 mins - 1 hour pretty often so it’s nice to have something I can listen to instead of sitting down with #also my last super long-term media interest was fucking danganronpa 😭 #which I exclusively fixated on and talked about ad nauseum for like 4 years so. so yeah #chalcy stuff #tma #danganronpa #<- remembered I should probably tag things that aren’t what I usually post lol sorry #hopefully the other stuff doesn’t need tags

[maddiesbookshelves]

This might just be my favourite series of the year, I love it so much 🥺

#i'm starting a propaganda campaign for this series #I've already gotten one of my friends to add it to her TBR #hehe #marie brennan #the memoirs of lady trent #mémoires par lady trent #le sanctuaire ailé #within the sanctuary of wings #currently reading #books #booklr #booklr community #book recs #book recommendations #DRAGONS

[bloomingsalma]

what is the best/most significant/most moving book/novel/piece of text you have read this year?

#answer in replies or asks hehe #I really want book recs and I want to see which books have been the most impactful for people #salmaspeaks

[ik-kudi-da-khwab]

i wanna read a life changing book it can be fiction/non fiction SHARE YOUR RECOMMENDATIONS 🎀

#my writing #writers on tumblr #writerscommunity #writeblr #writers and poets #feelings #writing #editorial #desi tumblr #hehe :3 #book blog #book review #bookish #book recs #batao #high school #uwu

[liriostigre]

#can u guys pls check out this playlist and rec me songs with the same vibe :)) #u only have to listen to the first 2 songs to get said vibe hehe #but if u don't wanna listen then think of the book/movie Never Let Me Go #it's not collaborative so u can interact w this post or send me an ask #😬

[dwtdog]

i’m trying to read more books this year but every book i choose is so mid i can’t do this 😭

#does anyone have good book recs #preferably with gay ppl in them #also i have attachment issues and i cant dnf (hehe) books so. #fawk #cq.rambles

[tzalmavet]

do you listen to welcome to nightvale? i think youd like it :3

I haven’t tried it yet, so nope!  Kind of a surprise I guess, since I’ve actually been on tumblr for about as long as it’s been around, and I got to see its rise in popularity, peak of its fandom, and its twitter quotes being shared around endlessly on here, in real time...

I’ve always thought it sounded really cool and like something I’d possibly enjoy, but the sad truth is... I don’t like podcasts.  I usually avoid them like the plague!  So many of them just seem so improvised (even lacking transcriptions!), and that combined with the lack of visuals makes for a medium full of repellant vibes that I can never sit down and pay attention to. WtNV though, from what I can tell, came out before everyone and their dog was making podcasts, so maybe it’s different?  It has the framing device of being a radio show, which is a clever way to take advantage of a purely audio-based medium for fiction, and I have been meaning to try out radio-based fiction for a while...  I’ll definitely give it at least a try, someday!  I’ve seriously been meaning to for years.  I just struggle to listen to podcasts without getting annoyed, bored, or distracted, since there’s rarely scripts (I also assume that if a podcast is Good, there will be something special you get from the audio experience that you’d lack if it were just the script, or even a novelization), and I can’t idle scrolling tumblr or daydreaming while listening since I’d have to pay attention to the words being spoken.

Maybe someday...!

#(remembers that this ask has been in my inbox for over a year) uh oh!! #the fact that WtNV is an Actual Work Of Fiction instead of just some friends chatting over something that'd be better as an article or book #is definitely promising... I'm just Neurodivergent and my ability to pay attention to and get invested in certain mediums varies wildly #thank u for the rec though. hehe #welcome to night vale #wtnv #answers #anonymous ask

[thequeerlibrarian]

Reading goal 2022

So because all I do lately is reading one direction reunion fanfictions I want to set myself a goal/challenge for 2022.

These are the books I want to read this year + the five I'm currently reading

#i love that all the books are queer #i hope i can reach my goal #wish me luck hehe #booklr #reading #tbr #reading challenge #books #queer books #lgbtq books #book recs #booklr community #my post #my pics

[noodledesk]

books i read this month 💖

A tall half-stranger emerged, wearing diamonds, face still rouged from the night before. She smelled like sour flowers. My brown wool life was all gone. — Lisa Taddeo, Animal

And what would it mean to know that these two rooms contained every space we ever occupied, every morning (November on Earth, five degrees Celsius, sun dazzling low in the morning sky, the child in the carrier seat on the back of the bicycle), every day (the ivy reddening in the frost on the outside of the office building) and every night (in the room below the stone pines, someone’s breath upon your eyelid), and that every place you ever knew existed there in these two recreation rooms, like a ship floating freely in darkness, encompassed by dust and crystals, without gravity, without earth, in the midst of eternity; without water and rivers, without offspring, without blood; without the creatures of the sea, without the salt of the oceans, and without the waterlily stretching up through the cloudy pond towards the sun? — Olga Ravn, The Employees (trans. Martin Aitken)

#books #book recs #reading #book rec #mine #elaborated on in the link above! #new newsletter hehe

[iwantyoursexmp3]

crazy how i only set RR in the 80s because i was writing it as a short story and was like oh when is this even set (which is hilarious bc when i DID write the short story version - the rabbit knows how to bury itself - there was no indication that it was set in the 80s) and i only did that because i was in my the girls by emma cline era and also writing cults era and i was like oh that's in the 60s but i want them to grow up in the cult. so they would probably be adults in the 80s. that would be fun i guess. and then that just shaped my entire personality and identity STILL it's been three years

#my obsession w collecting retro things + dating vintage clothes #and 80s music #AND THE ONLY REASON I CHOSE SAN FRANCISCO WAS BECAUSE I WAS STUDYING THE SAN FRANCISCO RENAISSANCE IN CLASS #AND MY FRIENDS WHO KNEW CALIFORNIA BETTER THAN ME RECCED IT #these two things colliding was literally perfect for the presence of queerness in the book too?? none of it was intentional at first like?? #but now it ALL makes sooo much sense #SOOO much research has gone into RR that i dont even realise because im just like hehe special interest

[hawnks]

youre the only bitch i ever respected meme

pls share some books you think are worthy of bigolas dickolas fame 🤲🏻

KSJSJDJDKDKDKR

If you want gay scifi PLEASE read Gideon the Ninth

Page one the main character escapes from space prison with nothing but her dirty magazines; if that’s not a recommendation idk what is <3

#also….. my book 👉👈 #I have a lot of books I really love but idk if u want romance or lit fic jsjdjxjx #I have a lot of histrom recs that like….. have more character than Bridgerton I’d say NSJSJDD #I will drop a couple recs if people want hehe #mint talks

[pancakehouse]

hiiii send me a ‘🥞’ and i’ll recommend you a book based on your personality/vibe <3

#hello. hehe :-) it’s like that one post but in reverse! have got wayyy too many books on my tbr i need to get through #but i’m all done w my day soo sleepy cozy comfy in bed rn doing nada and would lavvv to rec y’all some!! if ya want !!!!

[kumbhakarni]

Remembering these beauties from school.

#yes i have a pattern #horror #horror nerd #gothic literature #horror literature #steampunk horror #steampunk #gothic aesthetic #victorian horror #book recommendations #book rec list #kind of #i guess #School fiction #school days #oscar wilde #literature #books and libraries #Borrowed every bit from the library #Hehe #hehehehe

[samsspambox]

Hi Sam!

Do you mind sharing how you write your fics? Do you have a process? A starting point?

Also, I know a lot of ppl talk "show not tell" in writing, but how do you know if you're telling instead of showing (& vice versa)? That's the part of writing I struggle with most, cause I never know if I'm showing or telling.

heyo roshie! i've answered a similar ask before but i don't mind sharing how i write/my process! in all honesty it isn't much of a process but more of a 'what concept can i daydream about while doing stuff that'll evolve into a solid idea' type of thing lolol.

i guess my first step is getting inspired? this can look like many different things, but to me it looks like talking to friends, consuming media outside of the fandom you're writing for, deriving from your own experiences, stuff like that. a really good example of this is the ficlet i have on here, time, which is based off of personal feelings but twisted enough so it fits the von hagen dynamic.

if i like the concept enough, i'll start developing it in my head or ping pong it with friends to build it. i guess this is my 'outlining' stage even though i don't actually get down and write an outline myself. you know how every story has a beginning, middle, and end? well, if i can get 2/3, i'll start writing. like for the current fic im writing! i have the beginning and middle, but i haven't planned for the end yet. (i have an extremely vague idea where i wanna go with it tho, so i'll count it as a win) ((actually, most of the times i rarely have fic endings planned and if i can be my own worst critic, you can clearly tell. my openings are usually pretty good but some of my endings, to me, fall flat)

from there? i just write. i do a lot of editing while i write and the one thing i swear by is using a tts (text to speech) reader parse though my fic and read it for me. (i need to go back and edit the first chapter of return to sender bc i posted it without bc i was anxious but also wanted to go to bed lol). it's why my writing has a lot of commas. i like the pauses in tts lolol. after that i just chuck it onto gramarlly and post when i feel like i'll start to nitpick at myself. it's a habit i have with a lot of my academic papers but this reminds me that what i write doesn't have to be perfect. my target audience is me (and my friends), this type of writing should be met with liberty and warmth. i don't have to follow a rubric or a guide. it doesn't have to be perfect, it just has to be.

as for your second question, i can tell you what i think seeing and telling is based off of what ive picked up reading other peoples stuff. i think 'showing' has a lot more metaphors, actions, and implications/inferences. let's say you wanted to convey that it was cold. you might not put that it was cold, but you could put that a character shivered and burrowed into their blanket. you're implying that it's cold with an action. showing, to me, looks more like cause and effect and blunt statements. here you state that it's cold, causing your character to shiver. or it's so cold that your character's breath is showing.

im in a weird third camp that is 'talking'. a lot of my fics are dialogue heavy but they do get a lot of points across, so there's that option LOLOL

but yeah! i hope this answers your questions! thanks for dropping by!!

#roshie-writes asks #roshie-writes #sam answers #i honestly get so flattered when people ask for my advice bc like #i haven't been on the writing scene for long and you want lil ol *me* to help you? golly sure! #which now that i think about it makes sense bc i haven't been here for long so i'm also still learning the ropes hehe #*points at galena and zak and ace/quarterweeb* those are peoples writings i thoroughly enjoy tho and i wanna write more like them #they just feel like proper book writers and idk bro but that's the goal #have u seen that sandy cheeks meme that goes 'he has such a way with words' #yeah that's me @ all of them LMAO #i really admire them as u can probably tell LMAO #if someone ever asks me for a fic rec list 90% of it is gonna be filled with the #their fics #bc i like their fics a lot and could probably write wax poetic about them lolol #anyway im getting carried away i hope i have answered your questions!!!

[chryzure-archive]

i love ppl that read books they love and still don’t blind themselves to the books’ faults…………….. me w within these wicked walls, btw

#strong points: character ; plot #weak points: the execution of it all is very jarring and it hops around a lot #YES this was one of my 4 star books i read this year because the characters more than made up for it #one of my friends said that my honest opinions is the reason they trust my book recs so like 🥰🥰🥰 hehe #memorie.txt