Specified lines tag game

Tagged a while back by @indecentpause -- thank you! Let's see what I got here in Stars and Ships...

Rules: Find a line in your WIP that fits each of the parameters given to you, then give new prompts for the people you tag <3

A line about happiness: [Jax POV]

“Well then,” Quin said happily, over there in his element. “Prepare for jump.”

A line said in anger: [Aaliyah POV]

“Jax!” she barked, striding over to where the idiot himself was strapped into a seat like a law abiding citizen.

He jumped, unbuckled and stood up, which only served to make her angrier, because Jax was tall on a good day, and on a bad, he only looked taller.

A line about nature: [Quin POV]

The ride through the countryside was pleasant, if you ignored the oppressive sunlight sinking into Quin’s thick clothes, the rattle and bumps in the road, and the occasional large fly. Vivid green fields gave way to carefully tended rice plants, which turned into beds of wild foliage, large flat jagged leaves, small palm trees, and hundreds of thick vines, twining up and around anything within reach.

A line about nighttime: [Jax POV]

The sky was deep blue on the other side, nearly black, with only a few visible stars dotting the otherwise inky dark. Taking up most of the view was a large purple planet, boasting three different moons and one big swirl of blue in the center. As they watched, Quin’s middle screen blinked out information: current political leaders, climate and precise coordinates, and notable features.

Tags for anyone and everyone that sees this! And also @eli-writes-sometimes @writernopal @loopyhoopywrites @ahordeofwasps and @avrablake.

New lines:
A line about the color green
A line stuttered
A line about family
A line mentioning a weapon

jack in 15

i spun my picker wheel for this and it decided jack deserves some love. thank you @oh-no-another-idea for the tag <3 the rules are to pull 15 lines of dialogue for a character that you feel encapsulate them. jack has a lot of good lines, so let's go hunting :)

the raedoran cycle

1. "I played a prank on them and they didn't think it was funny." -- the thieves of morbhard, chapter 1
2. Jack turns to him with that wide grin and says over the cheers, “I’m going to steal the crown jewels.” -- the thieves of morbhard, chapter 2
3. “Old family heirloom that I’m finally willing to part with,” Jack says, the lie sounding nearly true on his lips. Not that Arthur thinks much about his lips. “It’s hard, but I prefer food security to sentimentality.” -- the thieves of morbhard, chapter 4
4. “I’ve won most of my gambles with the gods.” -- the thieves of morbhard, chapter 4
5. "Can I at least be a clueless prick inside?" Jack asks, gesturing at the door. "I'm sure the neighbors would appreciate a buffer between them and your yelling at me." -- the thieves of morbhard, chapter 5
6. “We're going to die,” Jack whimpers, but he treks along behind Arthur anyway. -- the thieves of morbhard, chapter 11
7. “No thanks,” Jack says, even as his stomach growls loudly. “My parents taught me not to eat strange witches' food.” -- the thieves of morbhard, chapter 11
8. Jack ponders for a few minutes, staring at the table instead of her. “If you turned into a venomous lizard,” he finally says, “would you be able to bite someone and poison them?” -- the witch of the west
9. "I'm a curse on your family." Jack gulps in shaking breaths. "I'm a curse." -- the witch of the west
10. “We’re all worried about Birdie,” Jack says, grim-faced. “You can’t go running off and putting her in danger—” -- the witch of the west
11. Jack throws his tea back like a shot. “I love being used as a magical magnifying glass.” -- the witch of the west
12. “I hope she kills [Fabin],” Jack grumbles, pressing his face into Arthur’s stomach. “Burns his stupid ass to a crisp.” -- the witch of the west
13. "Truthfully, sir," Jack says, with the glint in his eye that says he’s about to lie through his teeth. Arthur sucks in a breath, keeping focused on holding up his glamour. "My friend here is sweet on one of the kitchen maids, and I convinced my little brother to let me help him out. Anything for true love, you understand?" -- the witch of the west
14. "Gotta give me credit for boldness," Jack wheezes, closing his eyes when O'Leyne presses the knife further into his throat. -- the witch of the west
15. “Yep,” Jack says, popping the p. “I always knew I would end up in this castle somehow. Did I think it would be because the dead princess is actually a living witch who dragged me into her insane prophecy? No, no, I did not.” -- the witch of the west

taglist: @k--havok @oh-no-another-idea @lyssa-ink @space-writes

and tagging @akindofmagictoo @avrablake and @ink-flavored and anyone else who would like to join in to do this for a character <3

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don't curse me for doing a marketing i know you're all using these artists on your DND and OC playlists too 🫵

Learn more about Runaways Here!

Or if you already follow runaways, here's a sneak peek at some of the artists and songs I'll be sharing on the playlist this Friday! You might even find some new favorite artists this way, who knows?

Taglist: ask to be added or removed!

@tiredlittleoldme @abalonetea @happyorogeny @weaver-of-fantasies-and-fables @quilloftheclouds @rainydaydarling @bladeverbenas-blog @andifthestarsweretodie @thelaughingstag @ladywithalamp @avrablake @prettylittlelyres @rainbowsnowflakee @theroseempress

It's very endearing to me how many people are willing to keep an eye on a video feed so they can push a button and let a fish in the Netherlands get to the other side of a dam.

It is genuinely baffling to me, in a very kind and positive way, especially coupled with the local news continually going several shades of 'wtf, this thing is a roaring success again and we don't quite get why'. They've already quadrupled their capacity for simultaneous clicks and it's still nowhere near enough and there's just... Bewilderment.

1. I think people want to help the environment in small but tangible ways, which is hard right now because of.. well... because of The Horrors. And being able to say 'wow! I helped this creature cross a dam' makes you feel good.
2. I also think that most people can relate to a small, helpless creature trying to get from one place to another and there's a FUCKIN WALL in the way.

But to come back to point 1- Citizen Science fills a hole in the soul that wanted to go out on adventures and discover things when we were younger, but the study of it was hard or we didn't have the money or our schools were garbage. But you don't have to have a degree to do things like... press a button or download and use an app, or count or transcribe notes.

Anyways- here's some Citizen Science links if the Fish Doorbell makes you feel happy and you yearn for more ways to help scientists do stuff:

Foldit (folding proteins)

Fathomverse (sea animals)

Project Monarch (butterflies)

Bioblitz, an event where citizens identify as many species in an area within a period of time

Species Watch (animal species)

BOINC’s Compute for Science

Zooniverse is a website that hosts information on many citizen science projects

Label trees in aerial photos

Count cells in fossils and modern leaves

Digitize Atmospheric Data

Count penguins

US-based Citizen Science Database

eBird (bird identification)

Merlin (bird identification by sound)

iNaturalist (nature identification)

MapSwipe (collaboration between several Red Cross organizations and Doctors Without Borders, update vital geospatial data)

Smithsonian Archives Transcription Center

hello fellow non-Black tumblr users. welcome to my saw trap. if you'd like to leave, please name one (1) Black woman author who is not Maya Angelou, Toni Morrison, bell hooks, Octavia Butler, or N.K. Jemisin. bonus points if she's published a book in the last five years.

For my own future reference, and for anyone else who wants it, a list of authors mentioned in the notes. (I cannot promise this is comprehensive, there are a lot of reblogs and I might have missed some.) I've included a link for each author, where possible I've tried to find one that leads you to their books, prioritising own websites/publishers, falling back on wikipedia otherwise.

If you find any mistakes in the links let me know and I'll edit. This post will be in two parts, because I literally broke tumblr with how many authors there were. I think it's about a hundred and fifty.

• Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé - speculative fiction
• Marguerite Abouet - graphic novels
• Elizabeth Acevedo - fiction, poetry
• Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - fiction
• Tomi Adeyemi - young adult fantasy
• K Ancrum - speculative contemporary young adult
• Lily Anderson - fiction
• Ashley Antoinette - fiction
• Ama Ata Aidoo - poetry, fiction, plays
• Kemi Ashing Giwa - speculative fiction

• Kalynn Bayron - young adult, fantasy
• Malorie Blackman - childrens' books, young adult
• Natasha Bowen - fantasy
• Gwendolyn Brooks - poetry
• Natasha Brown - fiction
• NoViolet Bulawayo - fiction
• Constance Burris - speculative fiction

• CL Clark - fantasy, speculative fiction
• Wahida Clark - urban fiction
• Lucille Clifton - poetry, fiction
• Alyssa Cole - romance, thrillers, graphic novels
• Kamilah Cole - fiction
• Claire Coleman - fiction, essays, poetry
• Maryse Condé - fiction, non-fiction, plays

• Emma Dabiri - non-fiction
• Edwidge Danticat - fiction
• Angela Davis - philosophy
• Carolina Maria De Jesus - memoir
• Hayley Dennings - fiction
• Tracy Deonn - fiction
• Nicky Drayden - speculative fiction
• Tananarive Due - horror, comics
• Camille Dungy - memoir, poetry

• Esi Edugyan - fiction
• Zetta Elliot - childrens' books, teen fiction, adult fiction
• Bernardine Evaristo - fiction
• Conceição Evaristo - fiction, non-fiction
• Eve Ewing - poetry, fiction, non-fiction, comics

• Radna Fabias - poetry
• Namina Forna - young adult fantasy
• Latoya Ruby Frazier - non-fiction

• Stella Gaitano - fiction
• Camryn Garrett - fiction, middle grade
• Roxane Gay - fiction, non-fiction, comics
• Nicole Glover - fantasy, speculative fiction
• Nikki Giovanni - poetry, essays
• Jewelle Gomez - fiction, plays
• Annette Gordon-Reed - non-fiction (history)
• Pumla Dineo Gqola - non-fiction
• Deanna Grey - romance
• Yaa Gyasi - fiction

• Andrea Hairston - fiction
• Lorraine Hansberry - plays
• Saidiya Hartman - non-fiction, theory
• Alexis Henderson - dark speculative fiction
• Adriana Herrera - romance
• Talia Hibbert - romance
• bell hooks - fiction, non-fiction, poetry
• Pauline Hopkins - fiction, non-fiction, plays
• Nalo Hopkinson - speculative fiction
• Jordan Ifueko - comics, fantasy, young adult
• Samantha Irby - non-fiction
• Justina Ireland - science fiction, fantasy, comics

• Meka James - contemporary and erotic romance
• Tiffany D Jackson - young adult
• Beverly Jenkins - romance
• Alaya Dawn Johnson - speculative fiction
• Micaiah Johnson - science fiction

• Mariame Kaba - non-fiction
• Petals Kalulé - fiction, poetry [Petals is noted as using she/they, I'm not 100% sure of their gender identity and past a certain point it feels weird to investigate too much]
• Mikki Kendall - fiction, non-fiction
• Jamaica Kincaid - fiction, non-fiction
• Zaire Krieger - poetry

• Nella Larsen - fiction
• Karmen Lee - romance
• Kirsten R. Lee - young adult
• Margot Lee Shetterly - non-fiction
• Audre Lourde - poetry, non-fiction

And here's part two:

• Terry Macmillen - fiction
• Robin Maynard - non-fiction
• Amber Mcbride - poetry, young adult
• Janet Mock - non-fiction, screenwriting
• Brittney Moris - comics, young adult, fantasy
• Bethany C Morrow - fiction, science fiction, young adult
• Leila Mottley - fiction, poetry

• Beatriz Nascimento - non-fiction
• Leticia Nascimento - I think non-fiction primarily
• Gloria Naylor - fiction
• Zora Neale Hurston - fiction, non-fiction
• Grace Nichols - poetry
• Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu - fiction

• Trifonia Melibea Obono - fiction
• Shirlene Obuobi - comics, fiction
• Nnendi Okorafor - science fiction
• Melatu Uche Okorie - fiction
• Chinelo Okparanta - fiction
• Helen Oyeyemi - fiction

• Nell Painter - non-fiction
• Morgan Parker - poetry, non-fiction
• Nikki Payne - romance
• Koleka Putuma - plays, poetry

• Claudia Rankine - poetry, plays, non-fiction
• Sarah Raughley - young adult
• Dia Reeves - fantasy, horror, science fiction
• Kiley Reid - fiction
• Stacy Reid - romance
• Djamila Ribero - philosophy
• Legacy Russell - fiction, non-fiction, poetry

• Layla F. Saad - non-fiction
• Sofia Samatar - fiction, non-fiction
• Liselle Sambury - fantasy
• Analeigh Sbrana - romance, fantasy
• Namwali Serpell - fiction
• Ntozake Shange - plays, poetry
• Christina Sharpe - non-fiction
• Nisi Shawl - fiction, alternate history
• Jamison Shea - dark fantasy/horror
• Patricia Smith - poet
• Tracy K Smith - poet
• Zadie Smith - fiction
• Sister Souljah - fiction
• Kiki Swinson - fiction

• Mildred D Taylor - young adult/children's lit
• Katerina Teaiwa - non-fiction
• Teresia Teaiwa - poetry
• Angie Thomas - young adult, middle grade
• Leah Thomas - non-fiction
• Spike Trotman - comics
• Tloto Tsamaase - science fiction
• Nikki Turner - urban fiction
• Maxine Tynes - poetry

• Ngozi Ukazu - comics
• Shola von Reinhold - fiction

• Wanjikũ wa Ngũgĩ - fiction
• Jasmine Walls - graphic novels
• Alice Walker - fiction, non-fiction, poetry
• Jesmyn Ward - fiction
• Monica West - fiction
• Phyllis Wheatley-Peters - poetry
• Rita Williams-Garcia - young adult, middle grade
• Stephanie Williams - comics, non-fiction
• Tia Williams - fiction, romance
• Raquel Willis - non-fiction
• Jamila Woods - poetry
• Jacqueline Woodson - childrens' books, young adult, fiction, poetry
• Alexis Wright - fiction, non-fiction

• Zane - erotic fiction
• Fiona Zedde - fiction

• Attica Locke - Mystery/Thriller Fiction
• Oyinkan Braithwaite - Fiction
• Isabel Wilkerson - Non-fiction

Hell yeah!!!

Jay W Song - poetry

KV Meadows - fantasy romance

How well do you see color?

I’m cry I scored 60, I feel blind

so everyone is aware, a lower score on this means a better score.

I got a 30!!!!!!!! Yes!

7, but i’m an art student so

Sorry to flex

Friendly reminder that not once does Faramir ever say "put that sword down if you want to marry me, I expect you to be a docile wife who doesn't fight and knows her place." He doesn't even mention a career as a healer.

All he does is affirm that Éowyn has accomplished her dream of achieving valor and renown, and he does not pity her for it; he ADMIRES her for it, and he'll love her no matter what, whether she's sad or happy (in sickness and in health, basically), then asks if she feels the same way about him.

It's Éowyn and only Éowyn who decides to be a healer and love all things that grow.

And his response to this is "well then if you want things that grow, I'll give you a whole garden!" Making good on his earlier vow and supporting her new dream.

Éowyn becomes a healer because SHE WANTS TO, not because any man, including her fiancé, tells her to.

hahahahahha………………..

youve been fooled………………by the april fools beeper……………..it was a fully grown bird the entire time…..no egg………………it tells u it hopes u hav a good april 1st

I just queued this for a year

Some women are conditioned to be fragile and weak, and to believe that it's a sin to outperform a man. Her feminism would involve allowing women to be strong.

Some women are expected to be strong at times when they can't. Her feminism would involve reassuring her that it's okay to not be strong.

Some neurodivergent people are raised to believe that they're too stupid to ever amount to anything. Their disability activism would involve reassuring them that they're capable.

Some neurodivergent people are raised to believe that they're smart and gifted, and are expected to live up to impossible standards. Their disability activism would involve allowing them to fail, make mistakes, be stupid, etc.

Some children are constantly reminded "you're the child, I'm the adult" in order to deny their autonomy. Their youth rights activism would involve treating them like an adult at times when they feel ready for it.

Some children are treated like adults in order to justify increased expectations or to downplay abuse against them. Their youth rights activism would involve allowing them to be a child.

There is no one-size-fits-all solution to oppression. Each individual person's experience is different. Whatever trauma is caused by their oppression, the activism should focus on undoing it.