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So... I found this and now it keeps coming to mind. You hear about "life-changing writing advice" all the time and usually its really not—but honestly this is it man.
I'm going to try it.
I love the lawyer metaphor, because whenever I see “John knew that...” in prose writing I immediately think “how? How does he know it?” Interrogate your witnesses. Cross-examine them. Make them explain their reasoning. It pays dividends.
All of this, but also feels/felt. My editor has forbidden me from using those and it’s forced me to stretch my skills.
This is your "show not tell" advice explained!
Editor here.
First, let me preface this with something very important: you can treat all of this advice as SECOND-DRAFT ADVICE. It is so much easier to rewrite this kind of stuff once you have words on the page. Telling yourself the first draft is totally appropriate and acceptable.
What we’re talking about here are FILTER WORDS (and to some degree verbs of being). Yes, “thought” words are included. But so are “heard, saw, looked, tasted, smelled” etc.—most words having to do with the senses.
This isn’t black and white advice; sometimes you’ll use these words and that’s okay. They’re not WRONG. They’re just weaker. And they’re weaker because they create distance between the reader and the experience of the character.*
If you want your reader to feel like they’re experiencing the story right alongside the character, you want to cut down on filter words.
*This is particularly important with first person and close third POVs. The reader always knows whose eyes they’re seeing through and thoughts they’re privy to. So you don’t need to tell them “I saw X.” Or “I heard X.” Or “I thought Y.” You can just jump into the action/observation as it’s happening.
This is also where you want to pay attention to verbs of being.
“It was rainy.” Versus: “The rain pounded against the roof.” Or “The rain howled like an injured animal.” Or “The rain tapped against the window like an anxious lover.” All of these are inviting the reader deeper into the experience of the story by using stronger verbs and similes. And, at the same time, they stir feelings (instead of TELLING feelings). And feelings keep your reader engaged. Engaged readers keep turning pages; engaged readers become FANS.
This is also where
you want to pay attention
to verbs of being.
Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.
The most valuable advice that Author Ex gave me through the years that we wrote together was this: the problem with all these filter words is that they create distance in the POV.
That means that when you read a line like
John saw that the curtains were open.
It immediately takes you OUT of the character's perspective and instead tells you what they experience as a secondhand observation.
You don't have to get fancy or purple with how you rephrase things like this. Not everything needs a ton of breathing room.
You wanna know what's perfectly impactful while keeping a tight POV?
The curtains were open.
Simple as that.

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What is beautiful and comforting about reading the Old Testament and lives of early Christian’s is when we feel this great anxiety about living in the “worst time in history” it’s simply untrue. Since the times of Noah humans have been cruel, the wealthy have been selfish, humans have suffered greatly- and yet virtuous and good people have lived through it all anyway. They have persisted and done good anyways.
things in fic I'm used to people kind of faking their way through writing about:
the city of los angeles
the city of new york
sex
how drinking alcohol works
how getting high works
how a child of any age speaks
how nuclear physics work
how [my job] works
how debilitating being shot in the shoulder is
how hypothermia works
things I have never before seen someone fake their way through writing about, until today:
what french toast is
read through the notes on this one trust me
Here's some of the notes, starting with the things multiple people brought up:
SHRIMP COCKTAIL:
banahbanah: #flashback to that one fic where Peter Parker frets about drinking shrimp cocktail because of the alcohol
generaldeliciousness: adding: what a prawn/shrimp cocktail is
#why is your character turning it down because they're under 21 #do you think prawn cocktail is a cocktail #this lives in my brain rent-free constantly #the rest of the fic was so normal #and good enough that i'll still re-read it #but bro
And then many, MANY, people wondering if this was actually authour mistake, since Peter really would do this!
POMEGRANATES:
zhajhassa: #haha where's that post that was like someone describing someone eating a pomegranate but they ate it like an apple
thornhands: #once someone wrote persephone biting into a whole Pomegranate #had to stop and stare at a wall for a minute
sungsingsanguine: I once saw someone very confidently write about a character eating slices of pomegranate.
FRUIT TREES:
zagreuses-toast: #given a very endearing glimpse into a writers blindspots by seeing them describe someone sitting under a ''pineapple tree''
salatrash: I remember something about picking watermelons... OF A FUCKING TREE
baander: #cranberry trees
DOUGH/BATTER:
maycelium: #I'm a chef so I'm really used to people not accurately describing how to cook food #But I was surprisingly flabbergasted when someone was writing making a cake and was kneading it. Which uh #Not necessary for cake. It was interesting for sure but just bizarre
livebloggingmydescentintomadness: #the one that drove me nuts was when a character set aside a batch of PASTA DOUGH 'to rise' #pasta doesn't have yeast!! #it does need to REST but it will never RISE #you do not want an airy crumb on your noodles
lovesodeepandwideandwell: #THE ONE WHERE THEY MADE COOKIES BY LADLING BATTER INTO A TRAY
Some other topics:
In King Ludwig II’s defense, if I had basically infinite discretionary funds, was accountable to absolutely no one, and was king of a country full of picturesque landscapes, you couldn’t stop me from building myself a big gay fairytale castle on a mountaintop either.
This post is spreading and I feel bad about it because it contains misinformation, so for the record: Ludwig II did not in fact have infinite discretionary funds. He only acted as if he did. He never dipped into the public coffers for his building projects, but he spent his own fortune extravagantly and borrowed heavily from everyone he could think of. By 1885, the year before his death, he was 14 million marks in debt.
~ ✨✨ 14 million marks in debt ✨✨~
I always find this inspiring because try to name another prince of a German state. What did the rulers of Hamberg do? The Grand Duchy of Hesse? Gone with the wind, no one knows them anymore. But Mad Lad Ludwig built a top 5 most famous castle in the entire world. Money is fake, castles are real. Go broke and die like a winner.
EXCUSE ME, this is still wrong. He built 3.
Neuschwanstein, literally the inspo for the castles in Disney's Sleeping Beauty and Cinderella
Hohenschwangau, the practical castle
Linderhof, the final, the smallest, and the MOST fab.
Every room is incredible and the park is beautiful, but shoutout to The Bedroom, the biggest room
The Hall of Mirrors, which he probably wandered by candle light because he was a serious night owl
The Dining Room, with a wishing table that lowers to the kitchen, and rises with a crank, returning magically full of food
The Venus Grotto, constructed for the sole use of Ludwig to larp to his heart's content
A full artificial cave, it features a waterfall, fake stalactites, and a custom-designed swan boat floating on an artificial lake. The first electricity in Bavaria was generated here, to change the colors of the stage lights and to power Ludwig's fountain and wave machine.
Now THAT'S ~ ✨✨ 14 million marks in debt ✨✨~
I love that- and I cannot emphasize this enough -none of this was tax money
the public paid for zero of his fairytale castle hobby
rare European monarch W as far as spending money lavishly goes
And all of this at once.
so we know that humans share 50% of their dna with bananas. and also, they say one in four humans are related to genghis khan. using this information, we can determine that genghis khan was 200% banana
this is how political statistics work I think

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“Don’t hate the player, hate the game.”
For Mermay 2026’s prompt ‘Mer-thology’ can I introduce you to Mr Boto Rosa?
I just googled this and… yes, it’s absolutely real.
And there are so many articles and videos and discussions. Like, the scientific community is buzzing about this.
So much research will have to be redone because the data was absolutely compromised, off by orders of magnitude, by using standard lab gloves.
The world is probably not horrifically contaminated by microplastics. Sterile laboratories, however, are contaminated by latex and nitrile gloves.
Thank God someone bothered to check.
when you put the characters in too much of a situation and now you don't know how to get them out of it
Look, I went to all the trouble of getting them this far, they need to pull their weight.
The crown of Ariadne
Pseudo-Hyginus (1st century) tells of a version in which Liber (Dionysus) came to Minos, Ariadne's father, with the desire to have her. As a gift (I imagine it was a bride-price, gifts that suitors gave to the woman's guardians in order to marry her), he gave Ariadne a very beautiful crown. The beauty of the crown enchanted Ariadne, so she consented to Dionysus. However, she later gave the crown to Theseus, with the intention that its immense brilliance would help him find his way around the Labyrinth of Knossos.
[...] But, as the author of the Cretica says, at the time when Liber came to Minos with the hope of lying with Ariadne, he gave her this crown as a present. Delighted with it, she did not refuse the terms. It is said, too, to have been made of gold and Indian gems, and by its aid Theseus is thought to have come from the gloom of the labyrinth to the day, for the gold and gems made a glow of light in the darkness.
Astronomica, § 2.5.1. Translation by Mary Grant.
He credits this version to Cretica, and although he doesn't tell us the outcome, it's basically consistent that the reason Ariadne helped Theseus is that she fell in love with him, so it isn't impossible that, even though she was betrothed to Dionysus, she used the gift of courtship to help Theseus. Whether this action of Ariadne affected Dionysus in any way, Pseudo-Hyginus unfortunately doesn't give us enough information.
This version apparently was also know by Erastothenes (3th century BCE), as the summary "Epitome Catasterismorum" about his lost work says:
This is said to be the crown of Ariadne, which Dionysus placed among the stars when the gods celebrated their marriage in the place called Dia. The bride received the crown from the Horae and Aphrodite and was the first to be crowned with it. The crown was said to be the work of Hephaestus and to be wrought of fiery gold and Indian gems. It is recounted that thanks to this Theseus was saved from the labyrinth, because it gave off light.
Catasterismi, 5. Translation by Matthew Robinson.
This rabbit hole is so fascinating. I recently came across a really interesting thesis from the 70s, "The Origins of the Goddess Ariadne" by Robert T. Teske which goes over various versions of Ariadne's ending.
And I wish I could remember where I saw it, but somebody pointed out that some versions of Ariadne's death seem very different on the surface but actually overlap.
Ariadne dies in childbirth (with Theseus' child? Although whenever her kids are named, they're very clearly connected to Dionysus).
Ariadne is executed by Artemis (a goddess of childbirth) because of Dionysus (the father of Ariadne's children).
Ariadne becomes a goddess. Death and apotheosis are linked, whether it's Dionysus making her his immortal bride, or Theseus putting up statues at her tomb.
Dance in Theseus and Ariadne myth
I would like to comment on an underrated element in the myth of Theseus and Ariadne: dance. I imagine that people already associate dance with Ariadne, especially since in The Iliad, from Archaic Greece, we have the description of Daedalus building a dance floor for her:
[...] And on it the famed crook-legged god made a patterned place for dancing, like that which once in broad Knossos Daedalus created for Ariadne of the lovely hair. There the unwed youths and maidens worth many oxen as their bridal price were dancing, holding each other’s hands at the wrist; and the girls were wearing finest linen, and the youths wore fine-spun tunics, soft shining with oil. And the girls wore lovely crowns of flowers, and the youths were carrying golden daggers from their silver sword-belts. And now the youths with practiced feet would lightly run in rings, as when a crouching potter makes trial of the potter’s wheel fitted to his hand, to see if it speeds round; and then another time they would run across each other’s lines. And a great crowd stood around the stirring dance filled with delight; and among them two acrobats, leaders of the dance, went whirling through their midst [...]
The Iliad, 18.590-606. Translation by Caroline Alexander.

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Once Upon A Time or Snow White (19th century)
by Henry Meynell Rheam
Adding this to the file of "blond Snow Whites". It is amazing how this whole trend got ignored
We can't even say that the artist must have read the Grimms' first edition, because the first edition describes Snow White's eyes as being black as ebony, and here her eyes are blue.
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