Glade Dwells

For ever reblog, I will give him

For ever reblog, I will give him

apicula, -ae, fem. (ah-pee-coo-lah) – little bee

i really just adore latin diminutives. for all of u who want to embrace ur inner vergil, here’s the cutest term of endearment ever because bees are the most adorable

NOW HE CAN DO IT IN LATIN!!!

I do pretty meticulous research and I’m a slave to historical accuracy. I will spend six months or more doing research before I even start writing, continue to do research throughout the process (especially as I stumble on things I hadn’t thought to investigate before), and keep doing research even after I’ve done ten drafts of the book. I’ve been doing research for a book that’s in its fifteenth draft now since September of 2016. Do I make mistakes? Inevitably. But consciously “fudging” is not something I’m ever going to do. I respect history too much for that. It’s a major part of my academic background and willfully ignoring it just isn’t something I’m capable of. Here’s why that isn’t usually a problem: I don’t write stories that contradict history, because the stories I write which have a historical element are inspired by history, not written in spite of it. Writing any form of historical fiction–even/especially if you’re writing within living history–is an absolutely enormous amount of work, and doing it for any other reason than because you’re inspired, fascinated, and obsessed by that history doesn’t make any sense. (More here and under the research tag; but I’d start with older posts and work forwards.)

Hufflepuff Aesthetic (ft. Hedgehogs & Cactus)