A.M. Divine

I have been called out. 

The entire world had to close in order for me to run out of distractions from writing. Huh.

Can I give completely unsolicited advice to fantasy writers that I wish someone had given me when I was into fantasy writing? The cliche “write what you know” is bad advice if taken literally, it’s how we get books about depressed middle-aged creative writing professors who contemplate having an affair. But generally speaking it can be helpful. Tolkien wrote a medieval fantasy because he was the world’s foremost expert on medieval English literature. His book about Beowulf is still considered academically significant. He gave every race detailed languages because he was also a linguist. He wrote about giant battles because he was traumatized by his time in World War I and wrote during World War II. You don’t have to do any of this because that isn’t you. You are allowed to write a whole fantasy epic without a single battle (or you can make battle scenes modern urban melees because clashes of great armies aren’t a thing anymore.) If, say, you’re really into fashion, feel free to describe in painstaking detail every outfit that elves wear for all possible occasions. I promise you it’s no weirder than describing the dialects of tree people. What I’m saying is, you’re not Tolkien and that’s a very good thing because your voice is needed more. Let your freak flag fly and make the world that comes from you specifically.

“Your voice is needed more.” Let’s be the writers of our generation.

Omg LMAAOO

some great inspiration for outfits~

another lotr thing I think about a lot: Legolas, in Minas Tirith during ROTK, trying to explain to people what he knows about hobbits

Someone asks Merry about the ‘if you feed them enough they split in two’ thing and he’s like ‘haha yeah I ate too much and that’s how Pippin got made’

Pippin says that he was the original.

Who came first, the Merry or the Pippin?

I live for dumb shit like this 

these are gorgeous and I’m thinking of doing some sketches of my characters in these for practice at some point...

THIS IS SO FUCKING FUNNY THE LAST ONE

Every single one of these is Veryn x’DDD I may draw him in some of these situations. especially since I literally just made a mini zine in which part if it is featuring him having tall people problems…a sequel is brewing lolol.

and here we have veryn featured in each of these photos lmaoooo

take this down i didn’t give permission to post pictures of me orz