#dimestore novel

[dimestorenovel]

Despite everything she's still cute

#art #original character #natasha winter #dimestore novel

[mrencyclopedia]

#digital art #drawing #artists on tumblr #original character #natasha winter #dimestore novel

[diamondnokouzai]

does europe have a word for the mandate of heaven? like saying that the ruler was divinely chosen?

#.din #.txt #guy who onl y b rie fly surfaces from pdfs about medieval china to read pdfs of dimestore fantasy novels #and whose keyboard has a broken space bar as well i guess

[2usan]

susan loves trashy (and tragic) romance stories

#heaving bosoms and all that #in narnia it was archenlander poetry ( those people have a freaky side they like to keep under raps ) #in england it was dimestore novels #in both stances she’d be mortified if people knew #….. edmund did

[spacealien-afterdark]

Idea for later:

Megatron finds a trashy dimestore romance novel that’s as hilariously terrible as you would expect.

He and Optimus end up passing it back and forth while they get buzzed on highgrade and laughing themselves into a malfunction as they take turns reading.

But it's all fun and games until the first sex scene comes up and these embarrassing old men get hot and bothered over it.

#valveplug #megop #fanfic #fanfiction #fanfic ideas #this idea could also be applied to literally any ship anywhere #but i like the idea that the novel megs finds is just a parody of every bad orion pax/megatron or starscream/megatron trope I can think of

[kingwuko]

before mako came along, was there any favoritism from wu towards fire nation/firebenders?

SO I have a silly hc that I've kind of hinted at in my fics.

Wu has this one really cheesy mystery/dimestore detective novel that he was OBSESSED WITH during his adolescence and he always had a crush on the fictional protagonist. And Mako kiiinda looks like the way this fictional protagonist is described (plus he's a real life detective). So I don't think it's so much the fire nation heritage, but it's more the vibe Mako gives off that kind of matches this character in the novel (who isn't explicitly said to be fire nation, but I think I did reference the character having amber eyes).

#wuko #prince wu #mako #king wu #answered ask #anonymous

[thegracelessfaceless]

Sal Fisher Reading Headcanons

Sal will read pretty much anything he can get his hands on

Weird Scifi tales? ✅

Dimestore romances? ✅

Rambling Westerns? ✅

Larry's stereo manuals? ✅

And of course horror ✅✅✅

Sal could read at a very early age, starting picture books in the later part of his terrible twos

Diane noticed him squinting at the pages around four even though the book was within normal viewing range, and she took him to the optometrist

Little Sally was near sighted in one eye and far sighted in his other, making reading a painful experience

He still has to wear glasses to read to this day

When... The incident happened, Sal lost his near sighted eye

And yes, even though Sally is monocular, his glasses have two lenses, but the right side is just regular glass

But I digress

He impressed extended family members by reading to them, and family tested him to make sure he hadn't memorized a few Diane had read to him.

They gave him a chapter book randomly pulled from his abuela's shelves and he not only could read it, but retained basic information from it. Cue impressed family members convinced Sal was a baby genius.

Later on, Sal viewed it as a rite of passage when he was old enough to get his own library card

In fact, the library was the first place Sal hit in Nockfell, after thoroughly exploring the apartments

It's safe to say that Sal is an avid reader

Because he used reading as an escape from the bulk of his childhood

I mean,

He was an only child, with an extended hospital stay, who lost one parent while the other was present but absent at the same time

While Sal WILL read anything, he has his favorites

Authors, or books Sal greatly appreciates, some explained, some not:

Charles Dickens- Sal read A Tale of Two Cities in the hospital after an elderly nurse on her way to lunch, left her book on his nightstand. He really liked the world building, it allowed him to see London without even leaving Jersey. After that, he asked the nurse for more like it and slowly made his way through most of Dickens' works.

HP Lovecraft- Sal can't really tell you how old he was when he found Lovecraft, just that he's been reading his works for a while now. You can thank Todd. He likes how the stories offer almost complete immersion, sometimes down to deciphering old English. The creatures and deities particularly interest Sal, and he's spent countless hours trying to imagine what they look like based off of descriptions in the stories. A few times, when neither Larry or Sal could sleep, Sal has commissioned Larry to sketch out a few of the creatures.

Ray Bradbury- another one from Todd, Sal first read Fahrenheit 451 in a group assignment where he was partnered with Todd and Chug. They decided to just do the literature report on what Todd was currently reading and the rest was history. Sal made short work of the rest of Bradbury's bibliography, his favorites among them being Something Wicked This Way Comes, and Dandelion Wine

Stephen King- actually one of the first authors Sal read, Diane had a few of King's more popular novels. The first one Sal got hold of was Pet Sematary 😶. He found it around age 4, drawn to it because of the mention of pets, which he'd been wanting lately. Granted, Diane had to handle a rough night of nightmares brought on by Kings vivid imagination and descriptors, but this moment was the catalyst for Sal having a love for spooky things.

#sally face #sal fisher #sally fisher #sally face sal #sal fisher headcanons #sal fisher hcs #gracieface returns #graciefacewrites #sorry it ended so abruptly #my brain ran out of juice for the night #may add more later idk #help me my phone won't do page breaks

[pb-dot]

WIP Wednesday special: Olimar Trent

Since it came up in the last snippet I posted, I decided to have a look at the smallest, most insignificant part of the worldbuilding that still has some kind of a point behind it today. That's right, we're talking about the Olimar Trent series, the books that 13 likes to read and from which he finds inspiration for choosing his new name.

In short, the Olimar Trent books are a series of dimestore novels set in the pre-collapse Imelian empire following the eponymous private detective in his attempts at rooting out crime and corruption from the city, both as a detective and as his secret vigilante alter-ego The Pearlescent Mask. Along the way, Trent is hindered by many a foe and helped mostly by a rotating cast of supporting characters, among them Adrian Disimila, a filing clerk at city hall whose intensely cowardly predisposition doesn't stop him from doing all he can to aid the righteous detective.

These books are supposed to be a particularly pulpy blend of Sherlock Holmes-inspired detective fiction and early superhero stuff, think Golden Age, or even Pre-Action Comics #1. Another important piece of inspiration is the Dresden Files books that took me through some tough times in ways perhaps somewhat comparable to 13 and these books. I imagine that similarly to DF, the Olimar Trent books re-introduce important elements from earlier books when they come up in the story to be approachable for new readers. This is probably a blessing for 13, as the first book he read was the second one in the series, The Coal-Car Conspiracy.

These books are part of a wave of similarly pulpy stories set in a slightly mythologized version of imperial-era Imelia. As with any trend in literature, there are any number of variations on the themes and angles, but in general, they tend to portray life before the collapse of the empire as more exciting and vibrant, but also dangerous and made more so by corruption on multiple levels. The Trent books are notable mostly in featuring a gay protagonist, but also for being considerably less cynical than other entries, such as The Traitor Circle and In Sway of Blood-series.

I don't think it's possible to have books or similar entertainment in your writing without using it as a vehicle to talk about fiction in general and your writing in particular, so I have simply not tried to avoid it. The Trent series are disposable and at times somewhat silly stories, but that doesn't mean they don't have any merit. In fact, the books are, in their own small way, contributing to 13's development into a happier, more independent individual. Also, not to spoil the next book entirely, but let's just say the fact that he was recommended the books by his (maybe?) frenemy One may not be entirely irrelevant.

I could go on, but this covers the basics of this aspect of the world just fine. Tempted as I am to recount the entire narrative arc of the first seven or so of these books I have plotted out, that does sound a lot like consigning myself to sitting down and actually writing the damn thing, and I just plain don't have the time or energy for that even though it could, admittedly, be an interesting spinoff. Ah, the worries of a writer huh?

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#hearts in clockwork #the clockwork boy #writing #writeblr #wip wednesday

[timelesslords]

I feel like I’ve been seeing more and more judgmental posts about reading on here lately and I hate it so fucking much. I don’t even care if they’re meant to be jokes bc they’re going to make people feel bad about reading and enjoying completely harmless things they like. Anyway I have a degree in English literature, ive read all the stuffy pretentious “real” books you can imagine and I would just like to say that you don’t have to feel bad about reading romance novels or smutty dimestore paperbacks or YA literature or books that other people don’t consider “real” because they’re not ~high level~ enough. They are real books and they do count as reading and anyone who tells you otherwise just has a stick up their ass and needs to find a new personality trait besides reading pretentious novels and acting superior about it. This idea that reading is only valid as an intellectual activity is so fucked to me y’all sound like elementary school teachers who get mad at kids for wanting to read comic books

#i did my honors capstone on the legitimacy of the YA genre and it’s exclusion from the literary canon #shocking nobody #anyway this is just me venting people acting like this is my biggest pet peeve

[dimestorenovel]

#art by op #dimestore novel #artists on tumblr #traditional art #natasha winter

[toomanyassassins]

rdr2 truly has set my standard for westerns too high. i’m tryna find a book set in the old west that isn’t just a John Wayne cosplay. yes the real west was short on women, it was also mostly black men gay men mexican men asian railroad builders, and the women who did live there came from all different walks of life. and what about the themes of exploitation and exploration and the myth of an untamed land vs society, and the brutal force of capitalism and colonialism, where the ones touting freedom from the law are just as guilty of violence as the ones who uphold it? so many themes to explore in the genre that so often get ignored for “lone tough guy shoots up the baddies and don’t need no body”

also when i search for queer cowboy books all i get is dimestore romance novels with terrible photoshop jobs on the cover. some people like that, that’s cool, just not my cup of tea.

anyway, anybody got some actually good yeehaw book recs? ya girl is starving over here 😩

#currently reading outlawed by anna north and its #fine i guess?? #not much has happened tbh #but every list of queer westerns kept reccing it #it’s more like an alternative history that just happens to be set in the west #the plot feels just as directionless as the main character

[soapfcrce]

Decker breaking the protein bar he scored in half, not even blinking or turning towards Soap as he held out the (larger) half to him <3 No he will not say anything about it

Half reading the dimestore trash novel he had snagged in a trade for his trail mix and some extra toilet paper, Soap just takes a bite without much extra thought.

Flip page, chew...

"Strawberry?"

#mvnces #intel report «¤» ( in character #debriefing due now «¤» ( asks #see he's successfully socialized yet another silly lieutenant

[fidget-scribbles]

Western: Heat, Hitches, and Hands

Rating: T Word Count: 400

A virtuous young lady ought to stay far away from a man like Malfoy. Hermione knew that. The new Deputy Sheriff was practically a walking scandal.

Sheriff Shacklebolt proclaimed him an honest lawman, but rumors of his wild outlaw past swirled regardless. It wasn't hard to see why. Head to toe in black, twin colts at his hips, black tack on a roan stallion; his hair might shine like a halo, but nobody mistook Malfoy for an angel.

Hermione had read her bible cover to cover too many times to count, but lately she was captivated by dimestore novels covertly borrowed from Madame Rosmerta. When Malfoy rode into town one hot afternoon, looking straight off the page, she couldn't deny herself the harmless pleasure of looking.

And what a sight: sleeves rolled to the elbow, casually guiding Ulysses with strong thighs, reins loose in his large, competent hands. Hermione imagined those hands could circle her waist entirely. The thought made her tremble and flutter her lace fan.

Her pulse jumped when Ulysses stopped in front of Granger's General Store, not ten paces from where she sat.

Malfoy dismounted gracefully, spurs jingling, and looped a rope from horse to hitching post with practiced ease. Then he lingered a moment, broad, calloused hands stroking Ulysses' glistening withers with tender, masculine affection. His long fingers carded through the horse's mane and Hermione felt a pang of envy.

She fanned herself, watching his dexterous fingers twirl the roughspun hemp with practiced precision, guiding it around and back to form a clever knot. An inarticulate longing sparked inside her at the masterful way he handled the rope. Satisfied, Malfoy cinched the tie with a firm, steady grip that left her breathless.

The afternoon really was quite warm.

He mounted the stairs, stormcloud eyes smoldering like he could read her thoughts, lips curving like he enjoyed them.

"G'day, Miss Granger." His voice was rich as sin, the words a caress. "You bein' good now?"

"Always, Deputy Malfoy."

He chuckled, low and throaty. "Well, not too good, I hope."

With a roguish wink and a widening smirk, Malfoy sauntered into the store, leaving Hermione to swoon and fan herself in his wake.

Perhaps she ought to pretend it was only the heat, but her traitorous imagination returned to her adventure novels and Malfoy's words. Perhaps Hermione didn't want to be such a virtuous young lady after all.

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#dramione fic #dramione drabble #draco/hermione #dramione ldws #fidget fic

[ionlymadethissoicouldleaveanask]

This is my first time ever being tagged in something like this. It's very exciting.

How many works do you have on AO3?

Under my Brown_Coat profile I have 22, under Space_Dweeb 4.

(I made a separate account way back when because Space_Dweeb was my holdout from FFN, but when I decided that I wanted to just bite the bullet and start writing cute shippy stories I was afraid of associating it with my "serious" works. I know it's dumb. I lead a double life. I am a fraud and a charlatan.)

What's your total AO3 word count?

BC - 76,137 SD - 112,868

What fandoms do you write for?

Pretty much exclusively Halo. I wrote a story for the Illuminae Files a little while ago because I read that trilogy this spring and it changed the chemical balance of my brain and hasn't let me go since. I also write some for the Artemis Fowl fandom because by golly somebody is going to keep the Holly Short/Trouble Kelp tag alive!

What are your top 5 fics by kudos?

Promise - The only in-universe John/Cortana ship that I've ever written.

Serenity - A Halo/Firefly crossover in which Blue Team are made into space cowboys and I love it.

Halo: Homecoming (formerly titled Welcome Home) - My most bestest creation. The first actual story I ever wrote to completion.

Twenty-ish Days - A series of Halo one-shots as a summer follow up to my other story, Twelve Days (which was a series of one-shots counting down the twelve days of Christmas)

Take Care of Each Other - Another entry on the list of "Why This Dude Should Not Be Allowed To Name Things." Anyhow, it's - you guessed it - a series of one-shots. This time they are all focused on the Fred-104/Kelly-087 ship because I have shipped those two since I first found the Halo novels in middle school and I'll be deep in the cold, cold ground before I let that tag slip quietly into that good night.

Do you respond to comments? Why or why not?

Comments are an uncomfortably large portion of my self-esteem, particularly as a writer of dimestore trash fics. I definitely respond to comments, because I'm desperate to keep people commenting.

What's the fic you wrote with the angstiest ending?

I angle heavily toward the bright-and-happy side of things. Personally think that there's too much angst in the world without me adding to it.

Having said that, the last chapter of Twenty-ish Days dealt with some angst and some character death that I won't spoil here on the off-chance that someone may read this and feel inspired to go find out for themselves. Other than that... maybe Mister Zhordee? It's a Halo-fied retelling of the song Mr Shorty by Marty Robbins, which has a decent touch of angst to it I suppose.

What's the fic you wrote with the happiest ending?

Again, I lean toward the happy endings naturally so this is kind of a tough one. In general though, I'd say my dumb college AU series The University of Northern South Carolina because every one of those has been happy.

Do you get hate on fics?

Not really. On some of the stuff I still bother to cross-post to FFN I have gotten some weird comments from people who didn't understand the universe I was building in my Halo/Firefly crossover, but other than that anyone who's bothered to leave a comment has been very pleasant.

Do you write smut? If so, what kind?

Nope. I like to keep that level of intimacy just between my wife and me.

Do you write crossovers? What's the craziest one you've written?

Serenity, the Halo/Firefly crossover I've been slowly chipping away at for some time now. I'm also (spoilers?) kicking around an idea of a DnD crossover just for the fun of it all.

Have you ever had a fic stolen?

No. I did get a meme stolen once though.

Have you ever had a fic translated?

Nuh uh.

Have you ever co-written a fic before?

I co-wrote Halo Fractured Glass: Fireteam Cutlass with a friend of mine. We made a Spartan pirate crew. A plentitude of both kicks and giggles were had.

What's your all-time favorite ship?

Fred/Kelly probably. Or Han/Leia. Or Fred/Daphne. Man, I don't know. I just love love I guess.

What's the WIP you want to finish but doubt you ever will?

One time, for no reason at all, I looked up Harry Potter fanfiction. I have avoided it forever because I actually like the established relationships in the universe and detest anything that implies a romantic connection between Hermione and Draco, so it's a pretty clear no-fly zone for me. However, during this one occurrence I somehow stumbled upon a ship of Katie Bell and Oliver Wood, read all of the stories with that tag, and then wrote ~70% of a one-shot of my own for the pair. Will most likely never finish it, because I really don't have much reason to do so.

What are your writing strengths?

I've been told (by kpmh2001, one of my all-time favorite authors and people) that I have somehow harnessed a talent in writing cute fluffy stories. Personally I like to think that I'm good at writing action sequences, but I have no outside information to corroborate that.

What are your writing weaknesses?

Keeping a coherent plot, and keeping my focus for more than a single chapter at a time. I'm absolute garbage at it.

Thoughts on writing dialogue in another language for a fic?

I speak fluent Portuguese (lived in Brazil for two years in my late teens/early 20s) so I'm confident with that. I can also understand Spanish, but every time I try to speak or write it still comes out in Portuguese so I end up relying pretty heavily on Google to fix my errors there.

First fandom you wrote for?

I think I have at least a dozen notebooks with Clone Wars fanfiction strewn throughout my parents' house. I'm a Star Wars man at heart, even though I don't ever write anything in that universe.

Favorite fic you've ever written?

Already said it, but Halo: Homecoming takes this spot again. It probably doesn't hold up as well as I like to think it does, but being my first ever success at writing an actual story with plot and motivation and a concrete ending has cemented it in my personal hall of fame.

@authortobenamedlater tagged me in this (and it was super fun, thanks for including me!)

Unfortunately, she is the only person I know on this site, so I don't really have anyone else to tag.

#my writing #fred 104 x kelly 087 #halo fanfic #halo

[anonymous-dentist]

WAIT WAIT AD have you ever heard of/played monster of the week. if you haven’t it is really really good it’s like if dnd was supernatural instead of high fantasy and also good (<- subjective but it prioritizes roleplay and narrative more than 5e does so i prefer it for that reason)

Yeah! I played in a magnus archives inspired motw campaign a couple years ago where I played the uuuuhhhh the ‘class’ that is all about knowing things! But my character knew those things because she wrote dimestore erotic supernatural novels about the creatures being investigated

#asks! #friends tm #i also played a literal bear in a motw oneshot a couple years ago

[soul-dwelling]

Thoughts on "Young Adult" literature? Do you think that it lets readers stagnate and become trapped in wish fulfilment for ever, never picking up more chalangening and emotionally complex stuff? Like to relate this to Okhubo - dont think that he read more "real" books besides what his higschool curciculm had him do

No.

There is enough young adult literature where wishes don't come true, it is not wish fulfillment--unless your wish is to see how bad things could get for someone and either live vicariously to deal with that pain and suffering, or to learn a lesson from it.

And I don't agree that young adult fiction is less challenging and less emotionally complex than other content. Have you seen stuff adults read? Not to cast aspersions on anyone who enjoys "common" literature, the kind of bestsellers you see at libraries all the time (the old gags about "Stephen King and James Patterson and Danielle Steel published 300 books per year"), but how are any of those somehow more challenging or more complex?

I've read and taught enough literature that is considered canonical and classic--and I still think a lot of it is less compelling than other content that would be considered low-brow or middle-brow or kids' stuff or young adult. Hell, look at canonical and classical literature that was initially considered for younger readers--yet is held up as really good, not only for canonicity, not only for historical value, not only for cementing common practices in writing, but because they are just flat-out good stories.

The practice I've had to take in researching, teaching, and enjoying literature is that the goal is learning practices for serious analysis of the work itself, whether that work is middling or amazing. You can read the worst pulp dimestore novel with the same practices as you would read Shakespeare or Toni Morison or Haruki Murakami, and I think you would come away with learning more about how to tell or not to tell a story. It's about what you put into it. If you are going in just for something superficial, that's all you get out of it, whether you're reading young adult or the classics (or, you know, young adult literature that is or may one day become a classic).

And for all the shit I'll give Ohkubo, if he isn't well-read, then he at least knows how to fake being well-read, because he cites major authors. You don't delve that much into Lovecraftian horror and not have read, if not Lovecraft, than all the other authors in that Cthulhuian circle. B Ichi brought up the Brothers Grimm' "Town Musicians of Bremen." Soul Eater brings up Lewis Carroll, Arsene Lupin, and Arthurian legends. Do those not count as "real" books? I have zero clue all that Ohkubo has read, but I have to imagine he did a bit of "reading" (whether we want to toss in good stories told in comics, TV, and film as well as "real literature" or"real books") to demonstrate some command of storytelling practices (...even as I still needle him for some sloppy plotting, story structure, toxic messages...).