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Hot take: Actual literary analysis requires at least as much skill as writing itself, with less obvious measures of whether or not you’re shit at it, and nobody is allowed to do any more god damn litcrit until they learn what the terms “show, don’t tell” and “pacing” mean.

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You can analyze your favourite writers' techniques. You all know that right?

When you read a book or fic or whatever and are blown away by how amazing the writing is you can just go, "huh, how is the writer doing this? what things are they doing to get this affect?"

And if you can't figure it out you are allowed to google it. Check out YouTube videos, blog posts, and the wealth of posts on Tumblr even. If the writer is famous enough there might even be full-length academic papers on Google Scholar or JSTOR, or even 100+ page published books dissecting their style (Tolkien, for example, if you like his style). If you still can't find the information, ask someone. Ask more experienced writers or writers who write in a similar style. Ask writing advice blogs/channels. Ask the writer/author themselves.

And if you still can't figure it out, you can keep trying things and reading similar stuff, observing until it clicks.

I just say this because, well, reading someone else's writing and feeling like yours is horrible in comparison is pretty much a universal writer experience. I see a lot a posts on Tumblr offering encouragement like, "it is okay if you writing isn't like theirs, you just have different strengths," and "actually your writing is better than you think it is, you've just been staring at it too long." And these are valid.

But also, just because you can't write like that now doesn't mean you can't learn. You don't have to resign yourself to a particular style just because it comes easier to you. It is completely okay to be happy with the style you have, but it is also okay to not be happy with it and wish you could write like your favourite writers instead.

Just... when you get that, "oh my gosh, I will never be as good as them," feeling, maybe try figuring out what it is they are doing that you like so much. Maybe being patient with yourself doesn't mean accepting that this is your best work. Maybe it means accepting that this isn't and that it will take time, knowledge, and practice to get there. But you will, you just have to keep trying.

#writing tips

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@spidey-sense-projections

does whatever a spider can!

#spiderman #tobey maguire #andrew garfield #tom holland

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That sounds really rough :/ I’ve had trouble being productive lately too. I’ll try to write some tonight but honestly my brain is so tired I’m not sure if I can xD

I have so much homework to do and I’m kind of too tired/demotivated to do it, but if I don’t do it now it won’t get done in time 🫠 I just want to go home and sleeppppp

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heyyyy tumblr dot com. How is it that I have some days where every time I eat it makes me feel mildly tipsy/extremely nauseous? All I’m doing is eating chicken and rice soup that I’ve had before with no issues and I feel so ill???

#I’m sorry I just have to vent for half a second because I’m so over this #it makes my arfid harder to deal with #it’s been happening for days but today was worse #I think a lot of nausea is more stress related but then why does eating make me feel kind of tipsy #like ???? #pretty sure it isn’t food poisoning because this happens every now and then #and I don’t have enough food poisoning symptoms #a google search is saying dysautonomia and celiacs can cause this. I’m not diagnosed with either but I very likely have some type of #dysautonomia—hoping to do a tilt table test in a few months #but yeah I’m really prone to fainting or almost fainting #can stress make dysautonomia worse? #anyway. whatever. I gotta figure out how to finish this soup

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I’m sorry you’re dealing with that :( hopefully you can get some sleep tonight! My cycle is being crazy too. I’ve had some appointments and bloodwork and still can’t really figure out what exactly is causing it to be so irregular but I’m really hoping I figure it out soon because it’s making my normal fatigue wayyy worse :/ and emotionally it feels like a rollercoaster all the time

I have so much homework to do and I’m kind of too tired/demotivated to do it, but if I don’t do it now it won’t get done in time 🫠 I just want to go home and sleeppppp

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I have so much homework to do and I’m kind of too tired/demotivated to do it, but if I don’t do it now it won’t get done in time 🫠 I just want to go home and sleeppppp

#help #school is being too much #I have to print photos for a film photography class and it takes forever

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I love the feeling of being in hyperfocus after an extended period of struggling to be focused at all. I've been really struggling to write a paper for weeks and I just now started to actually get in the zone with it, and I also happened to get an idea to incorporate into a fic I'm working on that I've had some writer's block with. It just feels so nice because being unable to focus/progress with my writing has been so frustrating

#adhd #hyperfocus #actually adhd #gotta get this paper done then hopefully i can write some fic tonight!

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You know you're in deep when you create an AU for your own fanfic

#the two “Ralph and Agatha in Westview’ WIPs that I have exist because I couldn’t decide if I wanted a lighthearted #comedic fic or one that was like “what if the truman show leaned more into the horror/trauma elements” xD #speaking of. i reallyyyy need to finish writing those so i can post them #fietro's writing

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Peter secretly knows a ton of languages and surprises the other xmen during a mission when he can translate stuff for them xD

Peter Maximoff with an accent (Polish? Magda Eisenhardt was born in Poland) but he puts on an American accent (like James McAvoy with the English accent).

No one knows until one of these scenarios:

1. he stubs his toe and starts cursing in at least 3 different languages

OR

2. not long after moving into the mansion he falls asleep on a sofa in the afternoon, wakes up after dark, and stumbles into the kitchen asking what year is it in a heavy Polish accent

#peter maximoff #quicksilver #xmen #headcanon

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I don’t know who needs to hear this today, but intrusive thoughts are basically your brain’s (sometimes very upsetting) way of saying “If there were two guys on the moon and one of them killed the other with a rock would that be fucked up or what?”

I’ve personally found that adding the “would that be fucked or what?” part in myself really helps put the more disturbing thoughts we sometimes get into perspective. Helps me say “yeah thar sure would be fucked up” and move on with my day.

It’s not a secret desire, it’s not something that only occurs to you because you’re a bad person. It’s just your brain deciding to process the fact that it knows an uncomfortable thing exists in the world by feeding it to you in an absurd “what if” with you as the main character.

#got diagnosed w OCD last week after yearssss of symptoms. kinda relieved and kinda like 'great :( even more ways my brain doesn't work' but #at least now i can start treating it and hopefully have the symptoms not be as bad!! #ocd is the worst #actually ocd

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They are the same person and no one can tell me otherwise

#they will always be the same person to me #peter maximoff #quicksilver #xmen #ralph bohner #wandavision #peter maximoff truther

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listening to the jimmy darling nirvana cover but i just pretend it's dark phoenix peter doing karaoke 🎤⚡️

#wait a minute. THIS IS GENIUS #peter maximoff #quicksilver #xmen #jimmy darling #american horror story #ahs #nirvana #karaoke

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i know magneto is like, not a great dad, but have we considered it would be so much funnier if he was. world-class terrorist that remembers all of his kids (and grandkids!) birthdays. 

#see but like. in my head this is exactly how he is #terrible guy #GREAT father #I know it’s different in the comics and he doesn’t even know about quicksilver being his son in the movies but shh. that’s not important #at least he was a good dad with Nina in the movies #erik lehnsherr #magneto #dadneto #dadneto and quickson #the magnet family

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Good stuff.

#writing advice #fietro's writing

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X-Men: Apocalypse Watch Party Sunday, April 7

The @silver-goggles-guild X-Men: Apocalypse watch party is happening tomorrow on Sunday, April 7! The streaming time is 12pm PST/3pm EST/8pm GMT, and we'll be streaming through twoseven (which requires a free extension to use). We'll add the streaming link/room information tomorrow before the official start time, so be on the lookout for that!

#starting now! #x-men: apocalypse #silver-goggles-guild

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ugh, imagine if we'd gotten a quicksilver tv show circa 2015. IMAGINE

I posted a similar link yesterday, but given all the recent articles about this, I think this may actually be happening (I’m usually very skeptical). It makes sense to use Quicksilver, he’s been so very “meme- able” since they unveiled his look in January. I just don’t know how that could work with Evan Peters already doing another tv show.

My big hope for me is that all this increased tv / movie exposure would lead to Quicksilver getting bigger roles in the comics. I have my fingers crossed.

#it would have been amazing #although i guess there's the possibility that the writers would have ruined his characterization so maybe it's for the best #idk #peter maximoff #quicksilver #xmen #the zenith posts