“Being A Good Writer Is 3% Talent And 97% Not Being Distracted By The Internet.”

“Being a good writer is 3% talent and 97% not being distracted by the internet.”

— the writer reblogs, being distracted by the internet (via hughsdancys)

More Posts from Elanorpevensie and Others

elanorpevensie

5 months ago

LOTR MUSICAL EXCHANGE: A BONUS SURPRISE GIFT FOR EVERYONE - FROM EILEEN!

i'm so excited to get to share these videos from eileen: ✨Now And For Always ✨Special Thank You

thank you SO SO MUCH to ben, michael, spencer, suzanne, and especially to eileen for reaching out to take part and making this incredible gift for us!!!

67 notes View Post

elanorpevensie

4 weeks ago

I 100% adore the Lord of the Rings movies, but the fact is that the Arwen-Is-Dying-Because-Ring-Magic plotline makes zero sense by the lore (if I’m wrong please correct me I’d love to learn). Don’t get me wrong, it works great for the movie, brilliant, in fact, but it doesn’t really make much sense in book logic. Why would Arwen’s fate be tied to the Ring? If she’s mortal now she can’t Fade, and if she’s still Elvish there’s no reason why it should affect her more than anyone else.

BUT, I was watching the extended scene where Aragorn looks into the Palantir and Sauron speaks to him in Black Speech and shows him pictures of a dead Arwen and smashes the Evenstar (Which is a whole other The-Books-Call-Bullshit shebang), and I came up with my own in-universe explanation.

Sauron: *Chilling in Mordor*

An Orc of some kind: My Lord Mairon (Because THAT is what they would call him), the spies have come back from Rivendell.

Sauron: Show me.

Magic Evil Spy: *Shows Sauron the image of a mortal man of the race of Numenor making out with an Elf lady who looks suspiciously familiar…*

Sauron: OH HELL NO!

Evil Spy: Indeed, Master. The Heir of Isildur lives.

Sauron: Get rid of her, now.

Evil Spy: Right away, Mast- her?

Sauron: Yes! Yes yes yes, I don’t care what it takes, get her out of here.

Evil Spy: My Lord, but surely, Isildur’s heir-?

Sauron: Do not harm that man, you hear me? Do not lay a finger on him until she is taken care of.

Evil Spy:

Evil Spy: Are you sure-?

Sauron: Was there a dog?

Spy: A dog, Master?

Sauron: Yes, yes, a dog, a big one.

Spy: Not that I could see, no.

Sauron: Oh well thank Eru for that, at least.

Spy: Are you feeling ill, Master?

Sauron: No, and I’d like to keep it that way. Arwen annihilation is priority number one, ok? And don’t you lay a finger on her man until I say so, got it?

Spy: Alright then…

Sauron, still looking at the image: HE’S GOT THE RING OF FELAGUND!!!

Spy:

Sauron: KILL HER KILL HER KILL HER KILL HER KILL HER RIGHT NOW!

Tags

lord of the rings excellent theory I love it lolll sauron learns from his mistakes

627 notes View Post

elanorpevensie

1 month ago

Could somebody give me Dorothy L Sayers 101? I had never heard of her until joining tumblr, where you fine people seem to talk about her a lot 🙂 She sounds like some kind of hybrid of Agatha Christie and CS Lewis! Where should one start with her? And can one pick up any old Lord Peter Wimsey book from the library with no context, or do they need to be read in sequence?

Tags

i love these books lord peter wimsey dorothy l sayers i should read the rest of them

62 notes View Post

elanorpevensie

1 month ago

"If you use em dash in your works, it makes them look AI generated. No real human uses em dash."

Imaging thinking actual human writers are Not Real because they use... professional writing in their works.

Imagine thinking millions of people who have been using em dash way before AI becomes a thing are all robots.

REBLOG IF YOU'RE A HUMAN AND YOU USE EM DASH

41K notes View Post

elanorpevensie

2 months ago

A tweet from MicroFlashFic: I was out getting water when they followed me home and asked about the spare room.

I didn't want to say they could use it, but I did because it felt like I was supposed to. That's never happened before.

I've always wanted a purpose. I just thought it would be grander, somehow.

A tweet from MicroFlashFic: This is awkward. Dinners should be lively things. Stories. Arguments. Jokes. Everyone is picking at their bread, staring at their cups.

Wouldn't it be nice to say goodbye with something other than goodbye? To break and divide the moment? Share it? Take it with you when you go?

A tweet from MicroFlashFic: Water changes how you see the world, even if it never touches your eyes. When your feet were covered in dust, the room was familiar; now that they’re clean, it feels like a threat.
You carefully fasten your sandals. And just for a moment, you resent being given something to lose.

A tweet from MicroFlashFic: I like to rank my temptations. I find it's easier to fight what I understand. Usually, I'd put pride at the top of the list.
But now that I'm sleepy, sloth is making a very compelling case. Not just rest, but release. Abandonment. Floating away. It's so hard to say 'no' to that.

A tweet from MicroFlashFic: You’d expect there to be some fanfare; this was almost casual.
I gushed blood from the hole where my ear used to be. It only hurt for an instant, just long enough to know it was real.
Then a few words were said and I was whole again. But the world sounded different after that.

A tweet from MicroFlashFic: "Why won't you let me help you? Just say the right things, and we can make this all look like a big misunderstanding. I'm not a bad guy; I know the system is broken. But we're not going to fix it today, and I've got my own skin to save. So play the part. Let me do what I can."

A tweet from MicroFlashFic: No one likes pain but at least it's finite, bounded within a space, a time, a body. When it is over, it is over. It becomes easy to pretend it wasn't that bad. But loneliness sticks to everything. Look out at the crowd; count the faces who aren't there. That's the real torture.

A tweet from MicroFlashFic: I wanted to be special, to be remembered.
But I was never the smartest, so I became a crook.
I was never the toughest, so I stuck to petty theft.
And I was never the luckiest, so I got caught.
Now I'm being upstaged by the guy next to me.
Even my death isn't about me.

A tweet from MicroFlashFic: Pain's hard to measure. What unmakes one person inconveniences another. You can stand right over someone and not understand their suffering.
This one didn't seem too anguished but he was gone before the crowd had their fill.
People think torture's easy. But there's an art to it.

A tweet from MicroFlashFic: "Everyone says, 'they look so peaceful,' when confronted with a dead loved one. But I think the dead look angry, about how they were treated, what they lost, and what they left behind. We want them to be at peace; they want us to share their anger. No one gets what they want."

A tweet from MicroFlashFic: “Everyone knows that if someone says ‘Let me know if there’s anything I can do,’ they’re not actually offering to do anything.
But she asked, ‘Can we borrow your tomb?’ like it was a cart she could return in a week. I said yes out of shock, but I know I’m never getting it back.”

A tweet from MicroFlashFic: "'What will you do with the body?' they ask. That's an absurd question. Don't you know the story is over? Close the book, roll up the scroll, break the tablets— do what you need to do. But do not ask me what comes next. History is finished. I will not take part in the epilogue."

A tweet from MicroFlashFic: "Nice cloak."
"Thanks."
"Where'd you get it?"
"Work."
"No one you work with dresses like that."
"I didn't get it from a coworker. I got it at work. Let it go."
"Did you steal a dead man's clothes again?"
"I didn't steal it, I won it. And what's he going to do? Come back for it?"

A tweet from MicroFlashFic: "At the end, he looked at me and said his friend was my son now, and I was his mother.
I've gone along with everything, but...this is hard. Neither of us knows who is meant to comfort who. We sit in a silence we couldn’t hear alone, measuring each other against what we’ve lost."

A tweet from MicroFlashFic: "I wish someone would just ask. Wherever I go, their eyes follow. I know they're thinking: 'Weren't you?' 'Didn't you?' 'Couldn't you?' Yes, yes, yes. All of it. But those aren't the real question. They want to know what I'm going to do about it. Nothing. The answer is nothing."

A tweet from MicroFlashFic: "Here's something they don't tell you: There's a day after the worst day of your life. People will expect you to eat and sleep and talk and breathe as if the world wasn't over. The only thing worse is knowing there will be another day and another, for who knows how long."

A tweet from MicroFlashFic: "Let's say, hypothetically, the last few years of your life revolved around an idea. And suppose you found out that, maybe, that idea was wrong. What would you do? Pretend it never happened? Find another idea? Or wait around, hoping you missed something? Asking for a friend."

A tweet from MicroFlashFic: "All my life, whenever I have a problem, people fall over themselves to give me bad advice. It's not helpful but it's encouraging. Like they're saying, 'This is fixable. We haven't given up on you.' Not now. Everyone's avoiding me. I'm starting to wonder if I'm the one who died."

A tweet from MicroFlashFic: "We're not getting out of this alive."
"Nobody does."
"But we're going sooner and harder than most."
"Could we say we've reformed?"
"Not after what we've seen."
"Could we disappear?"
"They'd find us."
"So there's nothing we can do?"
"There's one thing."
"What?"
"We can earn it."

A tweet from MicroFlashFic: "Turning down work doesn't make sense, not in this economy. But guarding a tomb doesn't feel right. There's something unsavory about the notion that a dead man needs protection. Who are you protecting him from? Or maybe it's the other way around. Oh, that would be so much worse."

A tweet from MicroFlashFic: Something is happening in there. There are lights, voices, footsteps where there should be silence. Marcus backs away from the entrance. His mind skips over whether to stay or go and leaps into how he'll excuse his absence. Robbers? Illness? He runs. He'll figure it out later.

A tweet from MicroFlashFic: The guards are long gone by the time it happens. They do not hear the voice. But every bird within a day's flight is awake. Silently they gather in trees, and under bushes, and even atop the stone. Their little heads are all titled to one side, listening to the world change.

A tweet from MicroFlashFic: This is what the darkness does not comprehend: The victory does not happen once. It is built into the turning so that if you denounce the dawn, it still comes. Deny spring and flowers still bloom. Kill love itself and it will walk out of the grave each day to welcome you home.

A tweet from MicroFlashFic: "The angel was beautiful. But I didn’t appreciate how strange it was until I tried to look away. It was always there. It didn't move, it just was wherever you looked. I wanted to ask a million questions. Then it told me why it had come, and all I can remember is running."

A tweet from MicroFlashFic: The news is so odd it makes your vision blur. Next thing you know, you're sprinting out of the city to see. You can't feel your legs; you can feel your heartbeat though. You might die if you keep it up. But that's okay, so long as you get to see the truth for yourself first.

A tweet from MicroFlashFic: “The sun sets, then rises.
The snow falls, then melts.
The river floods then it recedes.
We eat of the land; then the land eats us; then we are replaced.
Sometimes, it feels like the only true thing you can say about this world is: 'It turns.'
And yet, I was still surprised.”

MicroFlashFic on Twitter did a lovely series for Holy Week and I wanted them preserved in one place.

All tweets described/text copied into the alt text for each screenshot.

Tags

easter THIS IS SO COOL??? christianity :OOO

350 notes View Post

elanorpevensie

2 months ago

Sophie's denial is literally the best part of the book because in 300+ pages she:

a) Managed to convince herself that the smile Howl was using was a special smile that he used specifically to attract women. And that's the only reason she "fell" for it.

b) Listed absolutely everyone around, from people to dogs, as the reason for her recent anger, but didn't mention the real reason, which she knew perfectly well was Howl visiting ms. Angorian.

c) Describied Howl's beauty in one line with insults in his direction, and thought it was completely normal.

d) Sewed a suit for him and accidentally enchanted it to attract women, them began to explain any positive feelings towards him with this.

e) Was ready to literally destroy the garden when it turned out that the suit was not the case and so couldn't blame her emotions on one from now on.

f) Created a murderous weed killer among her jealousy and specific dislike for lilies. Still couldn't explain it to herself.

g) Almost killed that one crazy daredevil who decided to come and tell her that she's actually down for him pretty bad with it.

h) Went so far into her denial that the thought that the person she was in love with did not love her was a relief for her because it meant that nothing would change and she could continue to be in it.

i) Almost killed the above-mentioned person with the above-mentioned weed killer because she did not want to face her own feelings And because she chose murder.

j) Pushed a person out the door out of sheer jealousy. Still didn't do what she was expected to do, though.

k) When her own crush on Howl finally started to dawn on her, she decided to go save the person she thought he was in love with. He very obviously wasn't.

l) And, in the end, continued to think so even when Howl came to save HER in an absolutely terrible state, almost afraid of the thought that his appearance was a sign of true love.

What a woman.

Tags

howls moving castle book

431 notes View Post

elanorpevensie

1 month ago

14K notes View Post

elanorpevensie

3 weeks ago

List Challenges

Aslansjedi's Favorite Books

This is a list of my favorite books, though the odds of me having forgotten some book that I love dearly and is really important to me...

I've been enjoying seeing the book lists everyone has been posting lately, so I thought I'd join in! I'm very interested to see the results!

Tags

this was so fun i dont know you !!! 7/4 but apparently we read a lot of the same books as kids

13 notes View Post

elanorpevensie

3 months ago

3x07//6x12

Tags

I LOVE IT phil coulson agents of shield owwww melinda may philinda

275 notes View Post

elanorpevensie

3 months ago

obsessed with re-embodied First Age war heroes interacting with the aman-born youth

Youth: Wow, your hair is so pretty! Such a first age throwback. Could you be related to Maedhros Fëanarion? Maedhros Fëanarion: Never heard of him

Finrod Felagund: That's a cool ring, kid. Reminds me of early first age bëorian metalwork. Youth: Gee, thanks, that's exactly what I was going for! Does it make me look like King Felagund? Finrod Felagund: Absolutely. He'd be proud

Youth: Atar said you're from the first age. Did you know the sons of Fëanor? Was Celegorm hot? This blond guy the other day told me he was really hot Caranthir: Don't listen to that blond guy again. I know what he's doing

753 notes View Post