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Ficlet: Still Untitled, Sorry
Follows on from this one. Still AU, still pretty aimless, more fruk than maple tea because this one’s from Arthur’s POV and Arthur likes to think rude things about his fiancée and needs smacking with a cluebat before he realises people actually might like him.
Marianne is sick. It’s naught but a summer cold, for all the wretched woman will carry on like all her tomorrows are meant for the next life, a grand excuse for the princess to lie in state in her chambers and have seemingly all of Wessex call upon her there to offer her their respects.
Arthur snarls at what looks like half his Court outside Marianne’s rooms when he goes to do his duty one morning and inquire after the health of his beloved bride-to-be – and they scatter, hastily parting like the waves to let the prince through to Marianne’s door. They don’t leave though, not until Arthur rather pointedly puts his hands on his hips and stares the lot of them down, and even then they depart grudgingly, edging off into the shadows with sulky reluctance.
Whilst politically advantageous, Marianne’s obvious popularity at Court is beginning to grate on Arthur’s nerves. Just a little bit.
A very, very little bit.
God damn the woman.
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“mother says there are locked rooms inside us. sometimes, the men – they come with keys, and sometimes, the men – they come with hammers.”
HAPPY (super late) BIRTHDAY @p0ck3tf0x, YOU WONDERFUL AND AWESOME YOU!!!!!!:D
Those are just the two first page of a 4 pages comic i will do of the fic “Making friends” . I hope you like and and that is is close enough to what you where imagining while writing it.:3
Thank you so so SO MUCH for being fantastic and sharing all those ideas with me and everyone else. HUGS
Please do not repost my art on ANY website without my consent. thank you.:)
SOURCE
Tony Ward spring 2017 rtw
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who the FUCK told society that depression and awkwardness is cute and adorable
Flower Masterpost: If you ever have the specific emotion ...
(Updated whenever a new flower is used) - just use the “search” button or search through my tags by changing the url; I always tag my flowers / if it’s a flower of a specific color, eg: rose (pink), then search “pink rose” (or you can just look up the “rose” and see all the suggestions tagged with “rose”)
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Bad Emotions (pain, grief, apology…)
star of Bethlehem : atonement for crime, reconciliation, guilt and fear
lobelia : malevolent thoughts
snapdragon : deceit and concealment of identity , elegance
geranium : stupidity and folly
bluebell : humility
lily (orange) : hatred, intense abhorrence
columbine (red) : anxiety
hyacinth (purple) :forgiveness, repent
marigold : pain and grief
peony : shame and bashfulness
TULIP
tulip (white) : one-sided love
tulip (yellow) : hopeless love
CARNATION
carnation (yellow) : disdain, disappointment, rejection
carnation (striped) : Refusal, rejection ; sorry I can’t be with you, wish I could be with you
rue : regret and sorrow, lamentation
mallow : consumed by love and life, frazzled
ROSE
rose (dark red) : mourning
rose (yellow) : apologies, a broken heart, intense emotion, jealousy
rose (black) : death, mourning, rebirth
anemone : forsaken, fading hope
primrose (evening) : inconsistency
morning glory : love in vain
mint : suspicion, lack of trust
chrysanthemum (yellow) : slighted love
petunia : resentment, anger
begonia : future misfortunes, dark distracting thoughts, fear
rhododendron : beware
acacia : concealed love
monkshood : the enemy is near, danger
fungus : stupidity, solitude, loneliness, resilience, disgust
weeping willow : love forsaken, lost of love
tuberose : risky pleasures, unsafe love
dead leaves : sadness, sorrow, hopelessness in life
coriander : lust
cactus flower : lust; maternal love
daffodil : uncertainty, unrequited love, new beginnings; love me back
zephyr : illness, sickness, sincerity
Good Emotions (love, happiness, remembrance..)
iris : your friendship is precious, thank you for being a friend
cosmos : peaceful bliss
gardenia : purity, sweetness, secret love
snowdrop : hope, consolation
poppy (yellow) : victory
zinnia (mixed) : in memory of an absent friend
columbine (purple) : driven to win
baby’s breath : innocence, pure at heart
azalea : take care of yourself for me, temperance, gentle passion
lily (white) : it’s heavenly to be with you; purity and majesty
lilac (purple) : the first emotion of love
rosemary : recollection of once-forgotten memories; remembrance
dandelion : coquetry and gentle flirtation, young love
sunflower : pure, lofty thoughts. confidence
hollyhock : ambition and drive
ROSE
rose (coral/orange) : desire, yearning, passion
rose (blue) : improbable odds, mystery, love at first sight
rose (light pink) : passion, youth, energy, desire
rose (lavender) : love at first sight
rose (red) : ardent passion, relentless desire, true love
violet (white) : let’s take a chance
camellia (pink) : longing for you in the future
CARNATION
carnation (mauve) : dreaming of fantasy
carnation (red) : my heart aches for you
pansy : thoughtfulness and caring
hydrangea : heartfelt gratitude and thankfulness
fern : magic, confidence, fascination
apple blossom : promise
daisy (white) : new beginnings, true love, purity, innocence, trust and secrecy
lily-of-the-valley : sweetness, return to happiness, you make my life complete
aster : patience, love of variety, elegance and daintiness
sweet pea : goodbye, departure, blissful pleasure, thank you for a good time
ivy : fidelity and loyalty, faith
forget me not : true love, undying certainty
bachelor’s button : celibacy, purity, single blessedness,hope in love, delicacy
statice : sympathy, success, remembrance
calla lily (white) : purity, innocence, magnificence and beauty
honeysuckle : bonds of love and friendship
birds of paradise : joy through challenges, faithfulness in relationships, gratitude, freedom, yearning to travel
lavender : healing, purity, devotion, royalty, feminine beauty
stephanotis : good luck in life and love
euphorbia : purification and protection
salvia : i am thinking of you, togetherness, hope
cactus flower : lust; maternal love
stargazer lily : i miss you, i wish you were here, i really do love you
ORCHID
orchid (green) : nature, longevity, health, healing
orchid (white) : humility, grace, beauty, innocence
narcissus : self-love, self-admiration
chrysanthemum (white) : loyal and devoted love, truth
fuchsia : intoxicating beauty, overflowing abundance, lovely, spread your wings in glorious freedom
If you’re having a bad day here are a few baby animal pictures which surely should cheer you up! :D
But I miss you most of all my darling, when autumn leaves start to fall.
APH | { Autumn. } Portugal.
basically, i think the general rule of thumb is: if someone REALLY wants the blood that’s inside of your body, and they’re like… a vampire, or a dracula, or some sort of mansquito, then that’s probably okay. a dracula and a mansquito are made for removing things like blood and swords from inside your body. that’s basically fine.
if something wants to get at your blood, and they’re, say, some kind of murdersaurus, or maybe a really big frog, that’s where the problems start to arise. a really frog is not made for removing blood, and your blood knows this, which is why it is so vehement about wanting to stay IN your body instead of coming out.
unfortunately this will not deter a really big frog, because a really big frog is full of things like prizes, and value, and quite a lot of hatred, and it would REALLY rather like to replace any and all of those things with your blood, and basically by any means possible.
2016’s Top Books
How many lists can Dan and Phil appear on? Here’s another.
1. The Harry Potter series by J. K. Rowling 2. Percy Jackson & the Olympians by Rick Riordan 3. The Raven Cycle series +1 by Maggie Stiefvater
4. The Mortal Instruments series by Cassandra Clare 5. The Captive Prince Triology by C. S. Pacat 6. A Song of Ice and Fire Series −3 by George R. R. Martin 7. A Court of Mist and Fury by Sarah J. Maas 8. The Foxhole Court by Nora Sakavic 9. The Amazing Book is Not on Fire −3 by Dan Howell and Phil Lester 10. Pride and Prejudice −1 by Jane Austen 11. The Throne of Glass series −1 by Sarah J Maas 12. The Trials of Apollo series by Rick Riordan 13. Carry On by Rainbow Rowell 14. The Warriors series +2 by Author Collective 15. Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo 16. The Infernal Devices series −8 by Cassandra Clare 17. The Lunar Chronicles series by Marissa Meyer 18. Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard by Rick Riordan 19. Lady Midnight by Cassandra Clare
20. Wreck This Journal by Keri Smith
The number in italics indicates how many spots a title moved up or down from the previous year. Bolded titles weren’t on the list last year.
þ!
A feature of English which I think is stupid,
If we’re carrying on with this game,
Is how we abolished the thorn and replaced it,
With two letters that meant the same.
The þ was a letter, amazing, astounding,
Perfect in every respect,
Representing the ‘th’ sound and shortening words,
The one thing it didn’t expect;
One day T and H went and burgled its meaning,
And then, thanks to the printing press,
Its symbol mutated and morphed into Y,
Which is pointless, I must confess.
Þoughtlessly, the þ was forgotten,
Þreatened as the language evolved,
Þankful for þose who knew of old English,
A topic where it was involved.
It only survived in Modern Icelandic,
In English it’s treated with scorn,
And as barely anyone knows it exists,
Please try to remember the thorn.
Random Headcanon: That Federation vessels in Star Trek seem to experience bizarre malfunctions with such overwhelming frequency isn’t just an artefact of the television serial format. Rather, it’s because the Federation as a culture are a bunch of deranged hyper-neophiles, tooling around in ships packed full of beyond-cutting-edge tech they don’t really understand. Endlessly frustrating if you have to fight them, because they can pull an effectively unlimited number of bullshit space-magic countermeasures out of their arses - but they’re as likely as not to give themselves a lethal five-dimensional wedgie in the process. All those rampant holograms and warp core malfunctions and accidentally-traveling-back-in-time incidents? That doesn’t actually happen to anyone else; it’s literally just Federation vessels that go off the rails like that. And they do so on a fairly regular basis.
Kindness is the sweetest magic spell.
APH | { Hufflepuff. } Liechtenstein.
she raised an eye indeed to the beauty of Gilgamesh, or, Ishtar did nothing wrong
One of the canons I follow just introduced its version of the goddess Ishtar as a character. From what little I’ve been able to read translated so far, I like her a lot. But a lot of the fandom has been kind of losing its shit over what a horrible character she must be based partly on very limited and biased in-universe evidence but mostly on cherry-picked selections from the Epic of Gilgamesh.
Did I mention Gilgamesh in this canon is a huge fan favorite? Yeah.
Anyway, I’ve spent most of the past year researching the mythology surrounding star goddesses of love and sovereignty in the Ancient Near East, starting with Inanna and her near-counterpart Ishtar. So I am well-placed now to explain why, in fact, Ishtar did nothing wrong in the Epic of Gilgamesh.
I mean, that’s a bit of an exaggeration. She’s a goddess, and ancient deities are frequently assholes just in general. But it’s not entirely untrue either. See, you can’t divorce stories from their culture entirely; you need to know a little about the culture of ancient Babylon to understand the Epic of Gilgamesh. It turns out that in context, the whole matter of Ishtar’s advances on Gilgamesh and subsequent reaction to his rejection of her is way more complicated than it appears.
Under the cut: a brief lesson in ancient Sumerian and Babylonian religion and the explanation of why Ishtar did nothing wrong.
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Happy 12th Birthday, Little Details! ♥
…well, that escalated quickly. I posted it way back at the end of 2014, it got reblogged by several BNFs in quick succession yesterday, and then it proceeded to rack up like 2,000 notes in one day, so apparently it still needs to be said:
Yes, you are allowed.
You are allowed to write the fic you want, rather than the fic you feel obligated to write. You’re allowed to write crack, crazy realism-defying stunts, self-indulgent trope fic, fucked-up fic about problematic people doing unhealthy things. Fic that doesn’t go through the pre-flight safety check for every swordfight and every BDSM scene, fic that glosses over the ugly real-life fallout of psychological trauma and/or jumping out of a quinjet without a parachute. Or, hey, if that’s your thing, fic that dwells on psychological trauma in loving, messy detail and has at least three punchlines about characters not being able to defy the laws of physics. Any of those things! All those things! We contain multitudes!
Any fic you write is probably going to be a net positive for fandom. The people who were looking for something in your niche get it, the people who didn’t know they wanted something in your niche discover a new thing they like, the people who don’t like it click the back button, the people who really really hate that entire genre of fic get to stroke their hateboners and get high off their own self-righteousness.
If it upsets people? The back button is a failsafe and instantaneous safeword. If it’s not as ~quality~ as other people’s fic? Don’t make me break out that “holy shit! TWO cakes!” comic. If someone takes away a disturbing, unhealthy, or otherwise less-than-wholesome message from your fic? You are not responsible for their failures of critical thinking or reading comprehension, to say nothing of those reading with outright malice looking for something to pounce on after interpreting it as uncharitably as humanly possible. Jesus fucking christ, it’s fanfiction, if people legit want sex ed they should be on Scarleteen. It’s not your job to educate them, certainly not with your fic. It’s not. It’s not. Fic serves so many other purposes. You are allowed to write what you want.
allroundlostcause said:
My best advice would be to read, a lot, because reading is your fuel. Read critically. Read good stuff and bad stuff and decide what is distinct about them. When you read a sentence you love, write it out, analyse it, and ask yourself why it’s so precious. DON’T skim read; if you find yourself doing that, you’re missing too much. Read out loud instead.
Write drabbles (short scenes which might never make it into your writing) to explore characters. Ask yourself questions about them that you don’t need answers for in the book. Think about them. Are they a cat person or a dog person? It’s not enough to have the answer, you also need to know why. What drives them? What makes their voice unique?
You need to know what your characters want, and which of those desires matters for your story, and which of those desires is going to get in the way. If they want to be good but they’re ultimately selfish, when will that trip them up? If they want to be reckless but they crave security, how is this going to prevent them from doing what they have to?
When you read, consider what makes a character feel rounded out, and study story structure. Well-written stories often have a solid structure under them which is almost invisible until you think critically; but it drives tension and movement.
Last but definitely not least, have fun. Why don’t you like your writing? If you’re new to it, then it will come, with loads of practice (most of which never goes anywhere) and learning to love the process itself, the creation of worlds. If you’re not having fun, and if you don’t value the process, and crave the practice, you will probably never throw yourself into it in the way you need to to really get amazing at it.
Who are you and why are doing awake this early on a Saturday? Thank you for the addition, is better than the original answer.
Another advice coming from this: Your current mood will affect your writing, being in a bad/sad mood won’t help when writing a happy scene, unless it comes from nostalgia.
L.-
Women have more power and agency in Shakespeare’s comedies than in his tragedies, and usually there are more of them with more speaking time, so I’m pretty sure what Shakespeare’s saying is “men ruin everything” because everyone fucking dies when men are in charge but when women are in charge you get married and live happily ever after
Behold! The grand chart for flower language compiled by @hasty-touch & @halonic. After being introduced to it, a number of folks have taken to using bouquets, delivered within Ishgard (and perhaps without) to convey messages. Can confirm that House Pepin delivers discretely and provides excellent service.
why is it humans not humen
Behold! The grand chart for flower language compiled by @hasty-touch & @halonic. After being introduced to it, a number of folks have taken to using bouquets, delivered within Ishgard (and perhaps without) to convey messages. Can confirm that House Pepin delivers discretely and provides excellent service.
you’re damn right they have (x)
follow @the-movemnt
Just believe in yourself. Even if you don’t just pretend that you do and, at some point, you will.
Venus Williams (via onlinecounsellingcollege)
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DO NOT QUESTION MY COLLECTION OF JANE AUSTEN SNAKE PHOTOS
A MAN IS ALLOWED TO HAVE A HOBBY
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Giveaway Contest: We’ve partnered with Alma Books to give away five of their beautiful Alma Classics Evergreens editions (pictured above)! Won’t these look lovely on your shelf? :D To win these classics, you must: 1) be following macrolit on Tumblr (yes, we will check. :P), and 2) reblog this post. We will randomly choose a winner on June 4, at which time we’ll start a new giveaway. And yes, Alma Books has agreed to make this an International giveaway! Good luck!