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freesia-writes · 2 days
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Ted talk to every artist, writer and just general human being on tumblr!
I say this with love, care and the utmost affection:
Stop
apologizing!
I see so many writers and artists apologize for being sick lately. Oh you were sick and on bedrest??
"How fucking dare you be a living organism that isn't immortal and indestructible!!"
Jesus christ no! So you couldn't draw as much as your followers expected or reach your monthly word goal?
Did they die??
you couldn't work on the latest update because you kept on getting physically sick or mentally stressed to the point you are honestly guilt ridden?
The earth didn't open up and eat a town
You had to work or study too much and you just didn't have the mental capacity to open tumblr or answer asks?
No one thinks you are a bad person
We live in 2024 people. The world is a weird fucking place and everyone's depressed! It's okay. We understand and the people that don't understand and put pressure on you, make you feel like crap or tell you your a failure as an artist are FUCKING LOSERS.
I feel so fucking crap everytime I see someone apologizing for being unhealthy or unwell, or stressed, or have too much stress from exams and work or their personal life is just a shit show.
You aren't a robot, you don't have teams behind you, you aren't AI, you don't have a whole production squad that can help edit everything you need, or help you create and you cannot create when you aren't well.
Water doesn't spring from an empty well. You need time, rest, peace and kindness especially to yourself by yourself!
Yes I know you feel obligated to answer to us and give us an update as to why you've been quiet but let it be because you want to, not because you feel you need to. As a people we all need to just give ourselves more kindness. I'm stressed as fuck about work atm but I find some joy in the moment I have to scroll on tumblr.
FIND YOUR GODDAMN JOY AND ENJOY IT!!! YOU DESERVE IT!! YOU EARNED IT!! YOU ARE ENTITLED TO IT!!!
YOU ARE STILL A BADASS BITCH!!
Yes I'm sorry for shouting... thanks for listening to my Ted talk and please repost to every artist u know Tag that friend that constantly is down on themselves for not achieving their monthly goals. Tell them they still rock! Because lord almighty you guys are all just human. So please take care of your health and mental wellbeing💜
If I @ you I say this with love. Don't come for me. There's so many more of you but I have a shit memory.
@bladeweaver-if @hellkeepers-if @kal-down @wiz-writes @sevensdeadly-if @wanted-game-if
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jude-thedude98 · 1 year
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For all the writers they're looking for a Cozy home to geek out about their fiction stories short or novels come join us at discord's Writing Endeavors: Secret Imagination Place!
You'll be one of the first to enjoy the geek out station for being able to write and talk about your fiction stories! Share with all your writing Buddies!
https://discord.gg/kDqkgmKy
PS if you have a fiction book and your friends don't get it you know that talk that you talk about your fiction story book and you need somewhere to geek out come join Writing Endeavors: Secret Imagination Place where we sip on writing!
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firsttimewriter92 · 7 months
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Explaining brown eyes
Recently I got a comment on my fic ´Neighborly shenanigans´, asking why I write Simon Riley having brown eyes instead of blue.
I would like to explain why I do that, cause it scratches some topics I´d like to address.
First of all: I haven´t played the games, so I can´t say that I´ve seen Ghost in every possible angle in every possible lighting.
What I did see was 5 to 8 hour long Cutscene Movies and Play alongs to get a feeling for the franchise and the characters that I´ve come to adore.
When Ghost is wearing his skull mask, the light almost never reaches his eyes to determine weather they are blue or not.
He removes it for the first time at the los vaqueros hideout. There is light coming from the right, illuminating his blond lashes and I´m sorry...those eyes look pretty dark to me:
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There are several occasions in the game where we get close ups like this with Soap and Price as well. They clearly are depicted with blue eyes, so in my opinion, if they wanted the same for Simon, they would have just done it, right?
Another example is the bar they all gather at in the end. When Simon sees the picture of Makarov and momentarily looks straight into the camera, his eyes appear almost black. I do however see how this could be an illusion due to the lighting.
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Lastly: Simon Ghost Riley is a fictional character with a lot of mystery and backstory to him. He is depicted in so many stories and so many art pieces. Everyone of us has their own version of him in our heads and that is fine. That´s the point!
If it is canon that his eyes are blue, then that´s fine with me. My bad. In that case my fic just has a minor flaw that I will not change. It´s nothing major.
If some people however think that the blue eyes are canon because the actor who plays him has blue eyes then that´s where my tolerance ends!
I am not writing him with the actor in mind. I´m not writing about the actor. That´s weird and depending on the fic a little disgusting. That is a real life person with a private life. We as fans of the franchise need to respect that.
Creativity should be the one thing we can all agree on. If you write about a fictional character or make art of him, especially one where his face is canonically not known, please feel free to interpret him to your hearts content. As far as I´m concerned I love reading and seeing so many different versions of him. Blue eyes or dark eyes. If it doesn´t fit into my perspective of him but I like the fic or art, I simply ignore it and enjoy someone else´s hard work.
Alright, I´ve been ranting about this for too long now. I hope this explains why I write Simon with brown eyes instead of blue. Because to me, they are not CLEARLY blue.
Thanks for indulging in my ranting <3 :D
P.S.:
His eyes in the comics that explain his backstory are brown:
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differentcatcat · 3 months
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To all you wonderful fic writers:
OK - what if I have a third party and it's a really good third party and I invite you and you come?
I just wanted to tease you so you'd slap me.
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ALEX as Jimmy Foster (killing the doggie) in Infinity Pool OR y'all.
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celisibeth · 4 months
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20th November 2023
Total WC: 66597 / 50000 Todays WC: 0 / 0
Well. Oops. Starting a new Tarot crawl where I draw a new card each day for the rest of the month though... so there's still room for me to keep going! ♥
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theauthorpaula · 8 days
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(via Writing About Substance Abuse in Your Fiction)
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mallpretzles · 8 months
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I was curious about this in terms of original work on ao3. This article gives a pretty good overview.
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starklyscifi · 2 years
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Bluebirds by the Sea
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It is hot. Too hot. Everyone in their right minds is following the lead of the locals and taking a mid-day nap in their hotel rooms.
The beach is empty.
“So that’s it then?”
Sweat drips down her back, rolls uncomfortably into the waistband of her jeans.
“It’s over?”
She couldn’t not wear jeans. No one looks badass in shorts.
“Really over?”
Thank God for linen shirts. And the well known fact that leather jackets were only a necessity for being taken seriously in the cooler months of the year. She is boiling alive as it is already.
“Shelia?”
She blinks, the fake name taking too long to register.
“Sure.”
He looks down at his bloody hands.
Amateur.
“You’re lying,” he says.
At this point, she’ll say anything to get out of the fucking sunshine. Tell him he’s a purple unicorn with wings, or that he’s good at his job. Or that she likes spending time with him.
“Will you take care of that already?”
He seems to register for the first time that he’s covered in blood, his eyes darting around nervously. She doesn’t move. It’s noon in the middle of July in a resort town in Spain. There’s no one to hide from.
“Everyone’s asleep, just wash up and let’s go before that’s not true anymore.”
He wonders down to the water’s edge, looking like a puppet with a bad master pulling the strings. All jerky movements and feigned nonchalance.
She rolls her eyes behind the high-end sunglasses. Looking badass requires sunglasses, and specifically high-end ones. She spent the entire payout from one job on these, and they’re worth every penny. If no other reason than to hid her irritation from a partner she never asked for.
He comes back, looking like an idiot, but blood free enough for the short walk back to the hotel, where she has to wait for him to shower and scrub the remaining stains out of his shirt.
Anyone worth their salt knows a knife makes a terrible assassin’s weapon.
She ticks off everything about him she doesn’t like as he takes too long in the bathroom. He’s slow. He’s clumsy. He doesn’t know what he’s doing.
He thought that trying to slit someone’s throat was a good idea when she was right there with a syringe in her hand.
Men.
So messy.
“You’re an assassin,” he’d said, the first time she’d complained about his love of knives. They’d been on a train, heading out of Germany and into Denmark. She likes Denmark. It’s one of those places that almost stays a leather-jacket-wearable temperature all year.
“Doesn’t mean I have to be a slob.”
He had looked genuinely offended by that one. But then again, he looked genuinely offended by most things.
He walks out of the bathroom, breaking her reverie, wiping his hands with a plush towel before throwing it on the pile of clothing to be burned. Or discarded in someone’s dumpster, just before trash pick-up. There was no way she was letting him play with matches. He’d burn the city down.
“Is it over?”
She shakes her head, and tells him to leave it to her this time.
Later, when they find the tourist trap they're looking for, he waits outside, lingering in the falling dusk. The heat is just as oppressive in the dark.
She asks for a drink she doesn’t like in a language she doesn’t speak, the order memorized carefully. The bar is filling up with tourists. Perfect cover. No one notices one woman standing at the bar, slipping powder into some God-awful cocktail and swapping glasses out with the old, fat white guy sitting next to her and drinking the same.
On her way out, she takes one sip and grimaces.
Anyone who liked something that sweet deserved to die.
He’s waiting for her in the alleyway, like a bad hangover that just won’t go away.
“Is it over now?”
“You’re not very good at this.”
“I’m new.”
“You’re fundamentally not very good at this.”
He looks her up and down, massaging one hand with the other.
“There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.”
He takes off, in the confident, assured, male way that assumes she’ll follow. He never looks back. She never looks forward.
“Are you coming?” he calls out.
She is.
She’s always hated summer anyway.
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atlasscrumpit · 2 years
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HEY, Writer here's a good tip I've learnt!
If you want to check if someone has shared or copied your work without your knowledge get a bit of your writing about 4 sentences, pop it into Google and search it. It'll come up with everywhere that sentence was used.
It's good to be able to see if anyone is stealing your work.
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ebookporn · 10 months
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Barnes and Noble’s Updated Buying Policy for Middle-Grade Fiction
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by Navkiran Dhaliwal 
James Daunt (CEO of Barnes & Noble) has come up with a new buying policy for middle-grade fiction hardcovers. In this new strategy, B&N will reduce the number of new books in the middle-grade fiction genre and only pick one or two books that are leading the charts (per publisher, per season). This whole incident has initiated an outage in social media with many unhappy and disappointed publishers/authors.
The genres that were affected by the new policy also included young adult and adult fiction titles. These titles are hardly included in the best-sellers list.
Paperbacks Will be Introduced
When Daunt was interrogated about the incident, he spoke in defense about how 80% of middle-grade hardcovers purchased by B&N were returned to the publishers due to low selling rates. The rates were somewhat similar for adult fiction covers, in fact, slightly lower. He also stated how B&N had avoided this responsibility earlier. The company simply stocked its stores with “anything and everything” and returned back the ones that did not sell.
Daunt also talked about how B&N was focusing on spreading new titles to younger audiences via paperbacks lately. He further stated that low-priced and child-friendly formats of paperbacks would help the books to reach a wider audience.
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saphoditesblog · 1 month
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Hello, my name is Annika Stein. I'm a writer, aspiring, that is. I haven't published anything yet. But I really want to. I've been in a deep depression for years now and only wrote scraps and bits. My flame for writing has been reignited with a simple idea for a new trilogy series. It has given me a new deep burning passion for writing and also just life in general. I'm excited to share it with the world one day and first with anyone who finds this blog. I'll probably make an entire side blog for the series. It's called The Avarice Trilogy. I'm kind of workshopping the name but the Avarice really seems to stick. It's a series about how greed causes humanity's downfall.
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filmcourage · 5 months
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Best Way To Learn Screenwriting - Daniel Calvisi
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ramyeonpng · 3 months
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[ Fiction Author ] in her eyes, we saw an endless world unfold: a fiction author.
#Lucy Dan (Tiny Poems from the Pandemic)
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hislittleraincloud · 5 months
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I logged into my old account and found this comment under my old fic from another fandom and it's just...I love you, person who left it for me 😭🫠✨
I can't tell how recent it is, I'm exhausted, I still have to iron my costume, and I only noticed it because I had recent activity on the fic. People are still reading that wonderful story, nine years later.
I needed something like that today. I feel loved 🥹🎃💖✨
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