Don’t you know your Sam? :(

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Reference: Eddie Berg

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never feel pressured to read a certain book, a certain series, a certain genre. never feel guilty about loving a certain book, a certain series, a certain genre. never think a certain format (ebook, audiobook, etc.) "doesn't count" as reading.

being a reader is yours. read what you want, when you want, how you want.

Kiki's Delivery Service (1989) dir. Hayao Miyazaki

most often, when i leave a comment asking for "grounding details" while copyediting, what i really wanna do is grab the author by the lapels and given them a good, friendly shake and explain that what they see in their head has to translate onto the page because the reader won't know what the fuck to picture if you don't explain where the fuck a house is in relation to a marketplace in relation to a bakery in relation to a city wall in relation to a slums in relation to a castle, and they certainly won't know that the castle is dilapidated if you don't ever fucking explain that

so yknow i just say "provide grounding details" (chill, i always give examples of what they can write or ask questions to get their creativity churning) and sound like a broken record the entire time

you used to be able to go into a tag after you watched a little movie and find a gorgeous little gifset or photoset or 12 and now you're lucky if you can wade through all the xreader posts to find even one we used to be a website

Strawberry Crows - Print by swanbones

You might be frustrated by the library never having a complete manga collection on its shelves at any given time, but the 12 year old checking out 14 volumes of One Piece at once is vital to the library ecosystem. He's like the sea otter keeping the kelp forest from being devastated by an excess of sea urchins.

To those curious some other keystone library species include:

—the retirees who’ve read more murder mysteries than I’ve had hot meals

—the paperback romance girlies (gender neutral) who check out every single bodice ripper the second it hits the shelves

—the dads very slowly making their way through a ‘1001 movies to see before you die’ list

—the one-man criterion collection who checks out like, three movies per day and brings them back the next. (TV series are only a minor roadblock.)

—kids who like Minecraft

---The new parents checking out 47 picture books for their 7 month old baby who clearly has nothing going on in their head except the Wii Sports Resort theme song

good morning and have a lovely day🌞

btw its always morally correct to reblog your own art or writing onto the dash. you are always right to do this. and if people get annoyed then too bad. this is not a satire post or sarcastic this is genuine. reblog your works. and every time someone complains that you reblog your own stuff too much do it again. be proud of what you create.

I bet it feels good as fuuuuck to slightly draw your sword with all the other knights in anger when a treacherous knave shows their face in the court

Me leaving comments on fics.

Trip along the river.

Marija Stefanovic

i met a lot of friends through nanowrimo and would never have grown into the writer i am without it. i'd never come across any event that celebrated the joy and messiness of writing quite like nanowrimo. the first drafts of every novel i've ever written (other than the one i started as a literal child) were written during nanowrimo. i was a ML in my hometown for a spell and loved it. but the last few years have been like getting punched repeatedly in the face by an old friend every time some new controversy was unearthed. and now it's shutting down. idk. mixed feelings. if anyone still wants to write thousands of words in november together without the use of generative ai i'm down

there are so many really cool writing challenges that have been created by people on Tumblr, and they break the mold of doing it solely in November

@novella-november has been killing it with year-round stuff and gathering resources for writers

@lavendershowcase (me) started a queer winter writing bingo challenge that stretches from November to January

There's @monthlywritingchallenges

There's challenges for learning to outline a novel in a month, filling a physical journal in a month, and the usual prompt-bases challenges a few times a year

A lot of people jumped ship a while ago, and there's never been more writing communities growing from the remains of NaNo!

The villagers watched a mighty paladin battle the demon under the full moon. At long last, the demon was vanquished.

"Did you see an old lady?" the villagers called. "It took her!"

The paladin looked at the moon setting, then shuddered and seemed to shrink. The armour turned to mist, the sword became a cane.

"I'm here."

"You're a… werepaladin? Is that a- How?"

"In my youth, I was bitten by a paladin." The old woman smiled fondly. "Many times."