MysticMermaid

— Sarah Brooke

So there is this Grimm's Fairy Tale about a nine tailed fox. Nine tailed fox is a married dude who fakes his death to see if his wife will remain faithful him, and she refuses suitors until another, young nine tailed fox shows up, at which point Ms. Fox decides the mourning period is over, she has to move on, and sets to properly bury "has been in an open casket all along apparently" old Mr. Fox, who goes "JIG IS UP" and drives everyone out of his house

Obviously, upon reading this Fairy tale, I was Pretty Fucking Psyched. A Nine Tailed Fox. That's relevant as Fuck! There was even a second version of this Fairy tale (with a normal, one tailed husband) right after it, so it is not spun out of whole cloth, it really is a regional story and all that!

What could be the reason! What possible euro-asiatic connections could there be here! What symbolic parallels between both continents' nine tailed fox were there!

So as you much may imagine, I was Insanely Fucking Devastated when I began searching and Immediately Found Out

It was... a dick joke.

plops lifelessly on the ground.

Illustration by Christian Birmingham

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(by chrisnanos)

what i love about being a writer is how eternal the craft is. no matter how long it's been since you actually worked on your wip, you're still a writer. it's in the way your subconscious looks at nature and sees metaphors, in the way your mind predicts a plot twist and sees it coming, in the way your notes app is filled with single lines of poetry that you never went back to, in the way you always have a notebook with you even if it's empty, in the way that you pick up pieces of history and twist them into stories in your mind without even realising it, in the constant daydreaming about a fantasy world you'll never actually write.

being a writer isn't just about writing, it's a state of mind. and i think that's really beautiful.

!00% accurate! ;-)

#AlwaysAWriter

me: okay, time to write

me: *turns on the kettle* *makes myself a snack* *takes a shower and wears comfy clothes* *scrolls through spotify trying to find the right music* *makes tea* *opens laptop* *pulls up unfinished doc* *stares at word doc for five minutes*

me: okay i think that's enough writing for today :) *closes laptop*

Yep! That just about covers the “process!” ;-)

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