People are going to come for me for this, but I know I'm not alone.
I keep seeing on Goodreads reviews readers coming after authors for things that weren't flat-out explained. In most instances, the author hinted at the answer previously in the story. Yet, the readers were upset because the author didn't explain it in that exact scene.
To me, the reason was clear. This author is a new favorite of mine because she leaves clues throughout her stories that lead to answers later on. For me, that's half the fun of reading. Another thing they attacked her for was not explaining how they broke the curse. Again, with a little imagination and thinking, it was obvious. It was the entire theme of the story.
I'm seeing reviewers tear another author apart because of inaccuracies in the industry in which her story takes place. Some are fair, but a lot of them are people nitpicking over things that, unless she was a professional in the industry, she wouldn't have known.
I'm not saying research isn't necessary. I spent months learning about motorcycle riders for Darcy and Sebastian. I watched videos and read articles about bike safety, maintenance, and proper gear. For Darcy's dance history, I took my experience, combined with books, watching performances, reading professional dancer's blogs, and learned as much as I could. For that car chase scene between Daisy and Stephen in Looking for Signs in the Snow, I watched dozens of videos of cars drag racing against each other, read stats, learned what they meant, and researched how to drive a stick. Regardless, I will never know a subject as well as the person experiencing it firsthand. As writers, it's our duty to research, but it's never going to be perfect. And if we only write what we know, we're going to run out of ideas pretty quickly.
In my opinion, social media has created a monster in the publishing industry. They're churning out dumbed-down, poorly edited carbon copies of the same book. Meanwhile, we have these amazing Indie authors whose stuff never gets seen because it doesn't meet that criteria. I'm over the moon that people are reading and buying books. But seeing two books I've enjoyed get ripped apart for things that require a tiny bit of imagination and critical thinking worries me.
I started writing again because I was tired of seeing the same books over and over. While fanfiction is a great opportunity for me to practice my craft, writing and publishing something original is terrifying in this current industry. And frankly, I refuse to write a carbon copy of everything else that's selling. If that means I never publish anything, so be it.
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So, you know that masterful tweet about how Katniss is a huntress in a performance while Lucy Gray is a performer in a hunt? Where I find this the most applicable is with their respective renditions of the hanging tree-
While Katniss' is beautiful, it's simple. No extended lyrics, no vibrato, just clear, sweet music. That's honestly a pretty good representation of Katniss herself (w/o the sweet part). No embellishment, gets the job done. And then there's the fact that Katniss only sang when she was asked to by someone she cared about. (Rue in the 1st book, Pollux in Mockingjay)
But Lucy Gray, though using the same lyrics, takes as much time as she wants to, not cutting anything short, packaging the verses with a perfectly tied bow. Her's is the kind of thing you would expect from someone who enjoys adding their own spin on something that could be done with much less effort. Though we see Lucy Gray singing for herself and the people she cares about more than anyone else, she's not closed off to singing for the sake of giving others entertainment.
Lucy Gray enjoys even the superficial parts of singing done for added melody and to her own liking. Katniss only does as much as she needs to, for the people she wants to sing it to.
Another important thing is that while singing is Lucy Gray's escape, it's something Katniss avoids as much as she possibly can.
Thank you for reading<3
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I am following you because of your recent dragon comic, and I want you to know that saw it and was like “oh shit I should probably go outside”
I did and immediately infinitely felt better, thank you for helping to drag me out of my cave
hell yeah!!
go get that fresh air my funky dragon friend!
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Signs Of The Past
A @carry-on-big-bang collab with @palimpsessed
Find the art here
Rating: Teen and up
Word count: 11k
Tags: Alternate Universe - Historical, late 1890s England, not historically accurate, cursed!baz, Enemies to Friends to Lovers, Angst with a Happy Ending, Hurt/Comfort, Slow Burn, haunted house vibes, Insomnia, mentions/discussions of death
Simon lifted his shaking hand, pointing the switchblade at the man slowly backing away. “That man—He—The cabinet—” Simon stumbled over his words, unable to get a coherent sentence out.
Ebb’s gaze followed the pointed tip of the blade, but as she turned back to him, her brows only creased with worry as she slightly shook her head. “Simon, calm. There’s no one there,” she said, her voice meek as lowered his hand.
“What, no—He—” As Simon’s gaze snapped back to where the man had just stood, all he had been met with was an empty kitchen.
Simon is a down on his luck twenty year old, struggling to survive on the streets after he was thrown out of the orphanage with no higher education or a job to fall back on. So, when he stumbles onto an ad, promising a handyman job at the Pitch Manor, one that offers him not only money but also a place to stay, Simon takes it without a second thought. But as he begins his work for David Cadwallader, the owner of the estate, things quickly begin going sideways; the house is never quiet, groaning at night as if it is alive, lamps lighting up with no one around, and most unsettling of all, a ghostly figure that seems intent on scaring Simon into an early grave.
A massive massive thank you goes out to Pal, who created incredible art for the first chapter, as well as the cobb mods for putting this entire even together. Putting this together has been a pleasure :)
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Another secret spamton/mike mystery page?
This is a bit of an walk-through on how to get to it, some things that might be important, and some thoughts, but I haven’t seen anyone mention this yet either so here we go!
SO if you go onto the TV page (https://deltarune.com/d_a_m_n_y_o_u_t_e_n_n_a/) and click on the TV it’ll bring up all the static. The webpage title is “DELETE THIS!“
Next (I’m using firefox so it might be different on chrome) you need to inspect the page. Inspecting it will give you the option to remove the static image from the background. Then do ctrl+A to select everything. Doing that results in this:
Then scroll down to the bottom of the page (it’s a long page). It will give you two options. The webpage title is now “YOU’RE EARLY!”.
By pressing one of these it’ll take you to more hidden pages. The bottom one takes you to here, ramb/the Green Room. (other people have found this already. From what I could tell there was nothing new here).
The top one takes you to here (same link as the TV, so I can’t link you to it). The webpage title is now “AREN’T YOU FORGETTING SOMETHING?
Interestingly, the class titles for these various screen options are “Tenna” (at the very start with the TV), “Snow” (with the static. Another interesting note is that Snow can refer to both the weather and the visual or audio static tvs get! There’s also a vision condition called snow vision, or static vision.), and “Ocean”.
The “Ocean” page has a background image to it called “ice.png” and also has a different background static noise than the other pages! The audio is set really low so you need to turn it up to listen. (Link here: https://deltarune.com/assets/audio/ocean.mp3)
NEXT (bear with me here I know it’s long) if you click the black rectangle (code refers to it as “Entrance”) it brings you to Noelle’s page: https://deltarune.com/icepalace_glaceir/
I checked the page out and there wasn’t any additional hidden links other than https://deltarune.com/code/ (which other people have covered)
The last thing I’ll mention is that Noelle brings up “eating too much fruitcake“ here and here, perhaps that’s important in some way?
(feel free to share around! or don’t, I’m not your [parental figure])
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you seem very cool and all around pleasant to be around tbh
it's all thanks to viewers like you 🫰
this being anon makes me feel some ways
mostly curiosity about why you felt like you had to be anon to send it
love u......... take care..................
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the fact that amazon cancelled both the wilds & paper girls despite their popularity, acclaim, diverse cast, and sapphic characters makes me worried for a league of their own
I dunno. The assumptions for Paper Girls are that Amazon didn’t want to foot a bigger S2 budget (I call bullshit, they fully could have afforded that, but whatever) and the claim that PG never broke the top ten Nielsen Ratings in its first few weeks (I dunno anything about that, but it WAS in the top ten Prime shows for the first month, so). If ALOTO doesn’t need a crazy budget, it might be safe; I know it’s been getting a decent amount of attention. Fingers crossed for y’all.
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