I’ve been absent for a while, due to RL and other demands, but just in case, I’m also on Dreamwidth, on Discord (but don’t know how it works yet), and will join pillowfort as soon as possible, both as Ysilme, too. RL demands are still high, though, so it might be some time until you’ll actually see me being active anywhere other than DW.
Here’s to the fanfic writers who can only write sporadically.
Here’s the writers who can’t output enough to keep up with the most popular writers.
Here’s to the writers writing even though they get no feedback.
Here’s to the writers who somehow manage to scrape together a little inspiration and a lot of hard work to write that story they know nearly no one will read.
Here’s to the creators who keep going even when it’ feels like screaming into an empty void.
You’re inspiration, and I don’t know how you do it.
OMG yes, this, so much!!!
Anonymous asked:
I wish more learning writers understood that it’s good and okay for a first draft to be garbage. I once went to an talk but published writers, including Joe Hill and Joanne Harris, and they were all bragging about how terrible their first drafts always were. You write a shit first draft, you get it down, then you go back, edit, and make it better. Then you edit again. Good writing takes time and work for most people. Don’t ever be discouraged by imperfect writing in a first draft.
that’s really good advice, nonnie! i tend to edit as i go, which is not always the greatest because it slows my writing down, but if you get that first draft down, that’s just so you have the story out of your head. the next draft you go over and edit and rewrite if you need. make it better.
we’re all learning. even the the Fandom Olds! XD
Young Maglor, dressed all princely and prettily. Paper, watercolour, lace, ribbons, tiny beads.
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Chapters: 30/? Fandom: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings - All Media Types Rating: Mature Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence Relationships: Fëanor | Curufinwë/Fingolfin | Ñolofinwë, OMC/OMC, various, Beleg Cúthalion/Túrin Turambar, Sauron/OMC Characters: House of Fëanor, Fingolfin, House of Finwë, Túrin Turambar, Beleg Cúthalion, Morgoth Bauglir | Melkor, Sauron | Mairon, OMC, Maglor, Balrog(s), Gods and Angels Additional Tags: Incest, Drama, Threesome - M/M/M, Slash, Destiny, Fate, No simple pairings, Doom, Action/Adventure, Gay Sex, Original Character(s), Sexual Tension, Incestuous House Of Finwë Series: Part 4 of Magnificat of the Damned Summary:
From Angmar to the Dagor Dagorath. The final story in the Magnificat of the Damned series.
The Doom and destiny of the Noldor, and Vanimórë, son of Sauron, grandson of Fëanor, will be fulfilled.
Source: archiveofourown.org
Good Omens: a gentle reminder
Your headcanon is your headcanon. The characters in your mind are what they are, and nobody is trying to take them away from you. Think of the Good Omens TV series as a stage play: for six full hours, actors are going to be portraying the roles of Crowley and Aziraphale, Shadwell and Madame Tracy, Newt and Anathema, Adam, Pepper, Wensleydale and Brian and the rest. Will they look like the people in your head? The ones you’ve been drawing and writing about and imagining for (in some cases) almost 30 years?
Probably not. Which is fine.
The people in your head and your drawings are still there, and still real and still true. I’ve seen drawings of hundreds of different Aziraphales over the years, all with different faces and body-shapes, different hair and skin, and would never have thought to tell anyone who drew or loved them that that wasn’t what Aziraphale looked like. (And a couple of years after we wrote it, I was amused to realise that the Aziraphale in my head looked nothing like the Aziraphale in Terry’s head.) I’ve loved every instance of Good Omens Cosplay I’ve seen, and in no case did I ever think anyone was doing it wrong: they were all Aziraphales and Crowleys, and it was always a delight.
Good Omens has been unillustrated for 27 years, which means that each of you gets to make up your own look for the characters, your own backstories, your own ideas about how they will behave.
The TV version is being made with love and with faithfulness to the story. It’s got material and characters in it that Terry and I had discussed over the years, (some of it from what we would have done it there had been a sequel). Writing it has taken up the greater part of my last three years. You might like it – I really hope you will – but you don’t have to. You can start watching it, decide that you prefer the thing in your head, and stop watching it. (I never saw the last Lord of the Rings movie, because I liked the thing in my head too much.)
Remember we are making this with love.
And that your own personal headCrowleys and headAziraphales and headFourHorsemen and headThem and headHastur and headLigur and headSisterMary and all the rest are yours, and safe, and nobody is ever going to take them away from you.
This is such a good message for any fandom.
A true warrior queen has risen
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do all the jeff goldblum stans realize that he’s on his third wife and she’s literally half his age
Half his age, as in she was born in 1983 making her 35 years old and an adult with adult agency and life experiences to balance out the inexperience and power dynamics that make age gap relationships questionable at best and predatory at worst?
Like I get where you’re coming from, a lot of the time there is good reason to side-eye wide age gap relationships. But there’s also sometimes nuance, like the fact that they met and got engaged when she was 31, and as near as I can find from a quick google search, his other marriages although having ended, did not end for awful or violent reasons. Sometimes people just realize they made a mistake or their needs change, and they are allowed to do things to rectify them, like responsibly end a marriage for the sake of those involved rather than continue torturing each other.
Also if the objection is to how many times he’s been married, his second wife Geena Davis (also in her 30s when she married him) has been married four times. Is that unacceptable too?
I’m not trying to be hostile and I don’t particularly care about him either way. This just seems like such vague phrasing designed to provoke an inflammatory response and I can’t seem to find any receipts to back it up other than the fact that he has indeed been married three times, married a younger woman in her 30s, has a son with her, and has talked openly about how they go to couples therapy to deal with their shit, which is actually, if you think about it, a very healthy thing to do.
And for what it’s worth, his first wife Patricia Gaul was born in 1945 making him the younger of the two (1952), but making them of comparable and compatible ages when they got married to each other in their 30s. Like I’m just not seeing the behavior or someone here who is a repeat offender of chasing after vulnerable young women in the same way say, Drake is blatantly grooming a 14 year old girl.
lordhellebore
OP: Would you, maybe, consider letting women in their 30s make their own life decisions? I promise we’re capable. Really. We’re able to have our own jobs, raise our own children - and choose our own partners. Even if they’re older than us. We don’t need your - or anybody’s - protection or permission. Don’t infantilise gown women, how about it.
It’s not creepy or predatory to be attracted to women in their 30s, don’t be ridiculous, guys. And have you ever considered that some people are interested in older people? It’s entirely possible.
(Excuse me, I’m going to look at pictures of Clint Eastwood’s newest movie now. I’m 36, he’s 89, and I couldn’t care less.)
This.
Been feeling kind of blue lately, so I tried to make something cute to counteract it. A little Otter Tea Time.
lordhellebore
Awwwwwww, how cute is that? *loves to pieces*