#improve flow

[jlsupplements]

#cellulose pressing #improve flow

[familyabolisher]

haphazard assortment of thoughts on the unwanted guest:

firstly, it really does have to be said—crazy good, probably my favourite of all the tlt short pieces, and i say that as someone who lost my mind over as yet unsent for like a week. excellent conceit and excellent execution, just a really gorgeous piece of writing. the play format of course reminds me of what abigail says to harrow in htn—that the river bubble is a ‘play [she’s] directing’—the inside of one’s head as a stage in which other actors can intervene & whereby mileage can be gotten out of Symbolism as immediately “real,” tangible presences that the kind of realist baggage that a more quotidian prose form would usher in would probably falter in accomplishing. it’s a lot!! i think even if i wasn’t already a tazmuir writing style defender (contra the insistence that she’s yknow homestuck fanfiction serial numbers filed off hack) then this would have had me floored anyway. 

the play format also works in the way that muir’s general dexterity in form and willingness to really make use of craft as a technical space where discourse can be generated always works—i’m talking about the ‘fanfictiony’ voice in gtn which manages to say something both about fanfiction and about the text itself, the use of the dramatis personae as a space where atmosphere can be established and plot points hinted towards (thus blurring the lines between what is and is not diegesis), the drastic shifts in style between different close thirds, the shifting from third- to second- to epistolary first-person, the use of poetry both diegetic and not (the noniad, the epigraph poems…), the mimicry of the ‘voice’ of the king james bible in the nona epilogue—she never stays in one place for too long and she never seems to stick to one central style or form, and it really works in her favour. insofar as tlt as a whole is a very ‘patchwork’ kind of work, building itself up from its big big index of references and intertexts and memes with hugely variant levels of ‘prestige’ or legitimacy attached to them, the ‘patchwork’ use of form really works in muir’s favour. however i am also fuming because i was right in the middle of writing a tlt fic which jumps into a play format two-thirds of the way through and now my idea doesn’t look ORIGINAL but ANYWAY—

& i really do need to flag my good friend vee’s mercy/augustine fic, which makes use of a similar conceit and pulls it off masterfully—i am deeply jealous of vee’s talent and i think the unwanted guest makes this piece (from 2021!) shine even more, if anything.

i am DYING to see where muir is going with the use of hamlet, of all things—dulcie quoting it to palamedes immediately catapulted my mind back to abigail’s reference to ‘that undiscovered country’ in htn. obviously muir likes to drop contemporary (or contemporarily canonical) references and turns of phrase all over the place, but the attention drawn to the quote as diegetically referential (“I like that. Is it from something?” / “Yes. It’s complicated.”) has me wondering about a) the survival of ‘pre-res’ literatures ~over the river and like WHY and b) what a thematic interlocking of tlt and hamlet can do, here…….real aveheads remember cytherea ophelia theory where i tried to use ophelia as a point of reference for teasing out some arguments about cytherea and death and aesthetics and white femininity and whatnot. all of which is to say i need to sit with this hamlet reading a lot more but i love it, i am so here for it.

of course ‘kissing or feeding, we can’t be sure’ calls to mind ‘how meat loves meat,’ alecto biting harrow’s mouth by way of a kiss…and the general thematic throughline of, you know, certain practices of love as practices of consumption, naberius later being figured as the ‘meat’ in question contains echoes of this eroticism which ofc guides the contours of the necromancer/cavalier dynamic, eroticism as a currency of power, we know all of this stuff because it’s all over the text but i am just thumbs-upping it from the sidelines

the coffins had me thinking of utena’s black rose arc, which is a fun link to make considering the equivalent moment in the main body of nona is also referencing utena, ie. with the ‘rules’ of the duel being that cam has to get the handkerchief out of ianthe’s pocket as kind of an equivalent to skewering the rose. i feel like the tlt/utena overlap is pretty self-explanatory but it’s just fun to see the fingerprints all over lol

i think a lot of this was treading old ground thematically (erotics of consumption, dog motifs, we’ve seen it already!) but i will say that i did Yell Out Loud over ‘who's she got dawdling behind her but that creature—tugging visibly at her leash like an overeager dog.’ reminded of the other memorable use of ‘leash’—’even the devil bent for god to put a leash around her neck’—and, of course, the endless parade of commonalities between gideon & alecto. anyway there’s not really anything in this line that we didn’t already know about gid as a character, thematically speaking, but i point it out because it inflicted +100 psychic damage when i read it. gideon as a ‘creature’ is particularly slimy, & sort of puts me in mind of ianthe's tendency to talk about what appears to us as 'butch masculinity' (as opposed to the more effete masculinity of augustine or even babs) with a notably derogatory slant (the 'hurtful threats of sexual violence' line comes to mind); i don't know that i have much to say about it here specifically but it's an interesting one that i think informs the kirianthe dynamic pretty heavily (especially when held up against, like, harrianthe ... ianthe has a kind of respect for whatever harrow's gay and stupid gender is Doing (at least insofar as she can mould it to her own desires; i'm thinking of the dios apate forcefemme scene lol) in ways that i don't think she has for kiriona? but this is v off-topic, lol).

i have never been especially taken by dulcie as a character but i think this may finally have forced me to fold and admit that she’s great. her haters!!! her agonies!!! camilla would have to cook!! the balance between levity and sincerity was really well-managed. & i love the double meaning of “unwanted guest” as both palamedes intruding on ianthe’s mind palace and naberius setting up shop inside of her.

i need a week to sit with where this idea of the consumed soul as being literally ‘digested’ such that it can begin to ‘inhabit,’ however immaterially, the host body, or like to alter the characteristics of the host body such that to carry out such a consumption is to kind of kill yourself as well, slots in with lolita theory. or like, i need alecto right now. i am however reminded of chew, a short story that muir wrote in 2013, which also plays with these ideas of sexual assault as a forcing of a part of yourself meaningfully ‘into’ another person, and cannibalism as the reenactment of such a process, figured in the story as kind of a reclamation or at least an assertion of permanence—“I was always going to be in the ground with him in me,” she said. “I just wanted to make sure, that’s all. I just wanted to make sure.”—which the unwanted guest seems to kind of, play with in reverse? i don’t know, but i’m interested—as ever—in where muir wants to take these ideas of rape and consumption and absorption that she’s got in her hands.

i keep returning to…i hesitate to say ‘parallels’ because i think that imposes a narrative onus that i’m not actually that convinced by, but these, like, commonalities between babs and gideon. gideon is played off against so many people (cristabel, loveday, alecto being the big ones) that it feels kind of inane to add another person to the pile, but like…they’re the two who get got in canaan house, they’re both ironically ‘false’ cavaliers and expressions of the ‘truest’ or most paradigmatic form that cavalierhood ‘can’/’should’ take, they both have unconventionally gendered names (‘babs’ is a shortened form of ‘barbara,’ it is a typically feminine name imo) and (by our standards) somewhat unconventional genders (gideon is butch, babs effete)—and of course the unwanted guest places a lot of emphasis on the coercive ‘making’ of cavalierhood (the reference to babs being ‘fixed’ were he to have a disability! ianthe’s glib ‘society really is to blame’ comment—ironic, obviously, but not wholly untrue) not dissimilar to the emphasis that gtn puts on cytherea moulding gideon into the state she comes to be in at the end. babs and gideon as the two possessed corpses in nona, obviously. two wildly diverse but ultimately converging trajectories! a dialectical tension between their fundamental ‘opposition’ (as by-the-book cavalier vs whatever gideon is doing) and their fundamental ‘sameness’ whereby the dialectic is resolved in their mutual deaths. also just, of course, continuing the throughline that muir has had going for a while now, of gender/gendering as a set of coercive enforcements loyal to a hegemonic structuring of the world.

that’s all i’ve got, i think. just. really good everyone say thank you tazmuir

#.txt #tlt #the unwanted guest spoilers #this was originally bullet points but tumblr's formatting is bad and i can't be bothered editing to improve the flow here. so. #rape cw

[divvy-div-art]

Initiation

#this had 100 layers #i go months without drawing anything properly and then i just kinda go into a flow state and do something like this #this isn't a very original idea i don't think but i wanna think i did it my way at least #now back into hibernation for a billion years :) #Alan Wake #Saga Anderson #Alan Wake 2 #Alan Wake II #Remedy Entertainment #Remedy Games #The Dark Place #Initiation #fanart #digital fanart #alan wake fanart #my art #a fun thing about this was i see places i can improve but #instead of feeling bad for it not being as good as it was in my head i'm happy for the chance to learn #which is nice #i STILL cannot draw hands #and that's not a learning opportunity i just never am gonna learn #jk

[env0]

Rengoku Theme - Fire Breathing Fifth Form: Flicker and Flow

(turns out it's 13 minutes long and i sprained or rolled my ankle in the first hour of a 4 hour set.)

#Selfie #Selca #Demon slayer #rengoku kyojuro #Rengoku #Fire spinning #Fire arts #Performing arts #Dance #improv dance #Circus arts #Juggling #Flow arts #Flow artist #Poi #Bolas #street performer #Street performance #busking #Busker #Ballet #Street ballet #dancers #Male dancer #Video #Anime soundtrack #kimetsu no yaiba

[alecz-obssesionz]

🔥I WANTED TO DRAW THIS POSE WITH THE HALLOWEST AU FOR SO GODDAMN LONG🔥

It's actually a remake of an old drawing I made of them but without the theme of this AU

#grollow #DAMN THE IMPROVEMENT #The stilization??? I feel so proud #HALLOWEST AU #grimm x pure vessel #the hollow knight x grimm #the hollow knight #pure vessel #troupe master grimm #grimm #alecz'makingz #hk #hollow knight #even the pose flows more naturally #Hollow looked so stacked before #VIVA LOS NOVIOOOS #they fight together so cool so deadly #fr partners in crime

[snowflake-sage]

sketchbook doodle from a bit ago !

#trying to space out when i post a bit #theres so much art in my sketchbook thats genuinely so ugly and i dont wanna post it bc it makes me cringe #traditional isnt my strongsuit #but im trying to improve my creative flow #art #doodle #drawing #furry #furryart #fursona #digital art #furry fandom #furry art #furry anthro #mae

[totallyjazzed]

FUCK YOU MULTIVERSE!

IF YOU'RE DUMB ENOUGH TO LIVE ON ANOTHER PLANE THIS WEEKEND, YOU'RE A BIG ENOUGH SHMUCK TO COME TO BIG MOM NORN'S TREE.

MONSTERS! ARMIES THAT DON'T STAY DOWN! OIL!

IF YOU THINK YOU'RE GOING TO FIND FREEDOM AT BIG NORN'S, YOU CAN KISS MY ASS!

IT'S OUR BELIEF THAT YOU'RE SUCH AN IMPERFECT MOTHERFUCKER THAT YOU'LL FALL TO OUR BULLSHIT, GUARANTEED!

IF YOU FIND A BETTER PLANE, SHOVE IT UP YOUR UGLY ASS, YOU HEARD US RIGHT, SHOVE IT UP YOUR UGLY ASS!

BRING YOUR TRADE, BRING YOUR TITLE, BRING YOUR WIFE, WE'LL COMPLEAT HER, THAT'S RIGHT, WE'LL COMPLEAT YOUR WIFE!

BECAUSE AT BIG MOM NORN'S, YOU'RE FUCKED SIX WAYS FROM SUNDAY!

TAKE A HIKE TO BIG MOM NORN'S!

HOME OF CHALLENGE PLANESWALKING, THAT'S RIGHT, CHALLENGE PLANESWALKING!

HOW DOES IT WORK? IF YOU CAN PLANESWALK SIX SPHERES INTO PHYREXIA AND NOT GET COMPLEATED, YOU GET TO KEEP YOUR FREE WILL!

DON'T WAIT, DON'T DELAY, DON'T FUCK WITH US OR WE'LL RIP YOUR NUTS OFF!

ONLY AT BIG MOM NORN'S, THE ONLY PRAETOR THAT TELLS YOU TO FUCK OFF!

HURRY UP ASSHOLE!

THIS EVENT ENDS THE MINUTE YOU GIVE US YOUR SPARK, AND IT BETTER NOT BOUNCE OR YOU'RE A DEAD MOTHERFUCKER!

GO TO HELL!

BIG MOM NORN'S TREE!

THE FAIR BALISICA' FILTHIEST AND EXCLUSIVE HOME OF THE MEANEST SONS OF BITCHES IN THE PLANE OF PHYREXIA, GUARANTEED!

#mtg #phyrexia all will be one #is this funny? who can say #the posting will continue until morale improves #it was gonna be 'big E norn' but I didn't like the flow #partly inspired by Big Nick Balls' War from the WotS days #it's 'big mom norn' because mother of machines please don't be weird #well you can be weird just not in my notes or at me

[xysidhequeen]

No idea who needs to hear this. Because I've been writing, professionaly as my job for over a year and this only just clicked for me.

Dialogue does not have to be followed with 'X Said/Told/Yelled etc etc.' You can just move on to an action. IE: "Can't believe you did that!" X dropped to the floor, narrowly avoiding a sword that flew through the air where her throat had been seconds before.

I know for many writers this isn't some grand revelation but maybe it'll cause an epiphany for someone else.

#BRB having an existential crisis about this #hahahHaHAHahaHa definitely shouldnt edit my 500k word book series with this in mind in a hyperfixation daze #i want to bash my head into a wall for being so DUMB for so long #how did i not realize this #it can make dialogue flow so much smoother especially if you have a pet peeve like me about overused words in your own writing #also this is definitely a result of sleep deprivation but for once im not mad about it #i actually discovered something that will improve my writing tremendously #writing #Writer #writer things #writing advice #writer problems #author #fic writing #writing tips

[makail8xx]

₊⋆·˚🪷.‧ escapism˚ 🦢༉‧₊˚.

#lake #lakeside #waterfall #flowers #river flows in you #summer vibes #summer #escape #escapism #fairycore #fairy aesthetic #cottagecore #cozy #happiness #peaceful #self help #self improvement #positive mental attitude #inspiration #moodboard #hydrangea #tulips #lily pads #beautiful #pretty #girlblogging #lifestyle #tumblr girls #watching and dreaming #dream

[buwheal]

Working on the asks & 42 and it started to set in how fucking many of these ive done. What. Huh. What do you mean theres almost 500 people looking at these. What does that number mean,, i can only count to 3.

#Speaking of.. i counted a while back and #I DID LIKE 22 ASKS IN FEBRUARY??? Thats like almost one every day wtf you guys are lucky #I mean i guess ive achieved what i set out to do. I did improve #and by a lot. So did my consistency. #on the topic of consistency #ougghh that break i took for midterms messed me the hell up now my flow is off and it took a lot to even get started #but i pushed myself to get started and now its coming back naturally lol #i think anwyays #to be consistent i have to be consistent otherwise i cant be consistent its fucked up

[narsh-poptarts]

it's all fun and games until you become a little obsessed with the npc you only half helped create

love you, Robyn (she/her), hope you and Gozzi can become friends

#dnd #d&d #dungeons and dragons #tabaxi #dnd npc #npc #dnd character #dnd 5e #character design #my art #Robyn #compared to the last time i drew a tabaxi this is a vast improvement!!! #mostly in the hands #i didn't really like the way i drew nutok but thats probably cuz i drew him with very like. human hands #instead of paws like ive got here :3 #it's much much better for the flow of the character #anyways this is robyn #she has no beef with gozzi but also she doesn't not?? have beef??? #it's very complicated #and also i can't say to what extent because that would spoil everyone else :x #she's based off the egyptian mau!!

[aria0fgold]

Keep me from shattering...

#ariart #isat au #isat spoilers #<- cuz of the red... #ogap odile!!! can yall believe it? i drew this today. finished it today. LIKE! IVE IMPROVED! I GOT FASTER! YIPPEE!!!! #first time ive drawn odile and ofc its her being in pain. thats how odile is gonna look in this au #she has cracks. and well-- if i draw smth from this au again id make a bigger drawing so i can show #whats going on in the cracks more. basically like-- imagine a rock. but then you crack it open and Whoa! its actually a gem! #but then also imagine the gem inside that not Actually a gem and more so a material that Looks like a gem #so then imagine glass But make it slightly melted and flowing. so yea thats whats inside the cracks on odile #actually i got a better explanation. think of kintsugi but instead of gold its melted sugar. there we go #of gems and pages au #ogap au

[hoshigray]

Guys, guys....would you hate me if I said I'm already planning an enemies to lovers Gojo series for February + Valentine's Day?

#like i alr have all the dates and plot lines planned out #it's so fucking insane #like how tf am i thinking about February when I'm over barely done with this one Gojo fic #also WHY AM I WRITING SO DAMN MUCH LIKE THIS IS NOT ME HELLO??? #guys i promise you i never had 6k energy in my life; HELL MY EYES WOULD GO BLURRY JUST GOING OVER 3-4K 😭😭😭😭😭 #i mean improvement i guess??? idfk #better to just go with the flow than complain ig #𝑯𝒐𝒔𝒉𝒊 ˖⁺‧₊˚🎐˚₊‧⁺˖ 𝑫𝒊𝒂𝒓𝒚

[yeyayeya]

Big shoutout to James Cheek for making the English script of the TGCF Season 2 dub as gay as possible

Another shoutout to the dubbing team for choosing the best VA’s for it

#yeyarants #tgcf #tian guan ci fu #heaven official's blessing #tgcf donghua #tgcf season 2 #mxtx tgcf #mxtx #mo xiang tong xiu #ok but damn? I love the dub so much #ok I’ll be honest biases aside #the first season was alright #I was very biased on Xie Lian’s and Fu Yao/Mu Qing’s VA’s #who absolutely carried #but there was definitely a huge improvement of the script flowing more smoothly in this season #and it’s only been 3 episodes #so far #but can we talk about Jun Wu’s and Pei Ming’s??? #do not get me started on their voices omg #wind master’s VA’s as well! #also LQQ sounds so much like a himbo #they did everything right #ok but who voices Yin Yu in episode 3 #someone tell me I need to know IMMEDIATELY #they need to cast Qi Rong right #I know we haven’t even heard his original voice yet #but I need it

[retros-artandstuff]

some highlighter trolls

#been tryna get better at just like #going with the flow #cuz everytime i draw i use a lot of messy sketch lines and what not and im just not confident in my lines which like really slows done the #whole art makin process for me which kinda sucks. but hey im trying my best to improve so yay 👍 #but yeah im looking into more permenant mediums so we'll see how that goes ig #my art #traditional art #fanart #homestuck fanart #homestuck #karkat vantas #sollux captor #kanaya maryam #omg i hate drawing kanayas little sign thing bro. like i always get it wrong somehow it sucks dhgsjsbej #aradia megido #terezi pyrope #equius zahhak

[essektheylyss]

Okay I did start handwriting again for the first time since high school and I've only done a bit thus far but I'm remembering how much less pressure it is, which is great because I really needed some lower pressure writing.

But also I'm realizing it's fascinating for reasons I could not have appreciated when I was a teenager because I was so new to writing and didn't really know what I was doing; specifically I've realized that I can really identity strengths and weaknesses based on what comes more naturally and what I have to really think about to remember to include. It's super neat!

For instance I am great at scene motion and where active elements are relative to each other. I'm good at dialogue flow. I really struggle with the balance of internal narration, and drop it a lot when it would be good for character but I don't currently need it for exposition. I will straight up need to add atmospheric elements in later, because I have entirely failed to account for things like weather even though my pov character started out on a small boat on a busy waterway used as an major thoroughfare in the middle of the night.

A lot of descriptions are overall lacking per my taste, because I tend to go back and add those small details as I get farther into a scene and nail down the setting and vibes. And it's easy and unobtrusive when I'm in a word processor, because I jump back a few lines, type the phrase I wanted, and go back to the end, and it only takes me a few seconds, whereas on paper I have to flip back and then try to wedge it in nicely enough that it's legible later.

It's super neat to analyze and I highly recommend it if only because it might tell you stuff about your process that are so autonomic that you haven't noticed them, and could help point toward stuff that you could make more seamless if you deliberately practice putting more active thought in to incorporate.

#if you don't want that then yanno. disregard and keep scrolling but i am a process improvement bitch lmao #megs is writing #I'm having SO much fun tho i used to love handwriting and it's not as efficient but it does just... flow #which i really needed #i can sustain a typed writing flow longer but i find it harder to get into it if I'm not already feeling the writing vibes #and like. i wrote ten pages the other day without even realizing it. fucking wild