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Huginn and Muninn, block print Ravens 🖤⚔️
((the song is kinda tangentially related at best but the pun is too good to pass up
the update’s gonna be a while longer so take this as an apology))
Harlequin Stagwing: These agile creatures cast dragon-shaped shadows as they dart through the sky.
i decided to do a pic of my peryton. please fullview this! tumblr is horrible at displaying wide images
(also here’s some of the lineart because it got kinda lost in the coloured pic)
don’t go where i can’t follow!
"Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing,
Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before."
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- Edgar Allan Poe, “The Raven (via greatliteraryquotations)
When someone asks me my favorite poem and my favorite lines from a poem, it’s this one and these lines right here. I love poetry and have many favorites, but for some reason, this little bit says so much about how we look at things. We look into the darkness and wonder what lay within it and within us. Do we dare to hope or dare to fear? What does that introspection truly tell us?
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get to know me meme: Favourite Films (6/10) → The Lord of the Rings Trilogy (2001-2003)
Even the smallest person can change the course of the future.
Using the appropriate vocabulary in your novel
It is very important that the language in your novel reflects the time and place in which the story is set.
For example, my story is set in Italy. My characters would never “ride shotgun”, a term coined in US in the early 1900s referring to riding alongside the driver with a shotgun to gun bandits.
Do your research! A free tool that I found to be very useful is Ngram Viewer.
You can type any word and see when it started appearing in books. For example…one of my characters was going to say “gazillion” (I write YA) in 1994. Was “gazillion” used back then?
And the answer is…YES! It started trending in 1988 and was quite popular in 1994.
Enjoy ^_^
This is really important, especially because language can change in very unexpected ways.
For example, did you know that before 1986 people never said “I need to”?Instead, they were far more likely to say “I ought to”, “I have to”, “I must”, or “I should”.
Don’t believe me?
Anyway, most people won’t notice subtle changes like that. But your reader will notice and be confused when characters in your medieval world use metaphors involving railroads and rockets.
One of the things you can do besides use Google Ngrams is to read books or watch movies written in the time period you want to set your story. The key here is that they can’t just be set in that time period, they have to have been made in that time period.
Also, there’s a Lexicon Valley episode on this very topic which I highly recommend. It’s called Capturing the Past.
Look at this beauty.
It’s difficult to read, but I think credits go to Kimberly Godfrey.
Marvelous work.
Beautiful! Thank you!
Although I believe that Chara is with Frisk during their entire journey and is the one who Saves Asriel, the idea that they’re the last person being Saved is so sweet. <3
Breakdown by MethodforMadness
I can’t imagine what it must have felt like for her to be alone with her thoughts that first night
BEHOLD
I HAVE ANGSTED
Someone give her a hug
Loki and/or the MCU in general, if you've already gotten one of those!
[send me a topic and i’ll tell you something i like about it]
I mean, I wrote some about what I like about Loki in Norse Mythology, but I can go on about Loki in the MCU. You know, if you want.
one of my favorite things about Loki in the MCU is how complicated he is - how twisty, how it’s hard to pin him down. his motivations are both clear and opaque, and it often seems like they’re contradictory - he says one thing and projects another, he presents a different face in public or alone. he doesn’t like to fit in one mold. he plays roles, he performs, and every so often that mask gets pulled away and there’s a glimpse of what’s underneath - and then it’s back, and the thing is that both of those things are real, are true, are a part of Loki.
also: I love how emotional he is. like, he denies it, he wants to be cold and closed off and impermeable, but Loki is a seething mass of feelings: anger and hurt and misery and yearning, and they’re all tangled together in this big gnarly mess that I don’t think even he knows how to untangle. he wants like six contradictory things at the same time, and doesn’t know how to choose one.
and the identity issues around Loki, around him not knowing who he is or who he wants to be - the “performing roles” cuts into this, but also in Thor the way he is trying to re-establish his identity by symbolically eradicating the part of himself (the Jotun part) he desperately wants to reject, and the way that part becomes his synecdoche for everything he hates about himself. like, everything bad, as in his speech to Odin, comes from this one thing.
also, like, let me tell you about my feelings about self-loathing characters. there are a lot of feelings. especially specifically about self-loathing villains, actually. A Lot of Feelings.
As much as I adore scenarios in which Chara is saved from corruption post-No Mercy, I think something big is missing. Chara isn’t the only child in need of saving; Frisk is, too.
These two children were partners throughout the No Mercy run. Chara looked to Frisk for guidance and was gradually taught that their purpose was to gain power, that kill or be killed was the only answer. They fell into the depths together. It makes no sense for Frisk to somehow come out of the No Mercy run untainted while Chara is left in a corrupt state alone.
I think this ties back into the fandom tendency to absolve Frisk of all wrongdoing across the entire game. Frisk is not a perfect angelic human being; far from it, actually. And is it not more interesting to have Frisk struggle to be good in a world that’s throwing everything at them? Being kind in tough circumstances isn’t easy, but can they do it anyway?
If we want to save Chara then we need to save Frisk, as well. Both of them are in desperate need of healing after No Mercy, not just one of them. These children need to be saved together; they are partners, after all.