Alright, I've decided I should probably get my shit together around here, so have a pinned post, lol
hello! I'm Hyde. I write about whoever and whatever strikes my fancy at the moment, and you can find me over on A03 as... drumroll please... MadameHyde
Yes I am the Hold Me Like a Grudge, Valas Morovai, Hard Rock Heroes, Love Is(n't), and Honor Among Thieves girl 🤙🤙
I've been at this fandom thing a long time lol (please don't ask me about anything written before about 2021, I do not see her 😵💫🙈)
Please do note, a lot of my works are archive-locked so you'll need an A03 account to see them. This is b/c I like to make life difficult for AI bot scrapers and phantom bot/scam commenters every chance I get. This is a service I provide free of charge along with the angst and feels o7
Feel free to HMU via asks! Bot/scam/etc. messages will be left on read. If you're an actual person, sorry, kindly try again with something other than "hello"
GENERAL DISCLAIMERS:
yes this is a blog that ships astartes x astartes. I do my best to tag it as such.
no I do not care that it's not possible in canon. if I wanted to argue about canon, I would go to reddit
tbh this goes for most of my fandoms.
I swear like a sailor.
I don't co-author things or take writing requests, generally speaking. Exchanges are fun and fair game though!
In conclusion, I'm just a rando on the internet; don't get parasocial and weird about it
Other than that, hello! I don't bite. I promise ;) I'm here off duty
Tags Guide so the Woman Herself remembers WTF she's doing with those:
gasp! an ask! = ask tag
the Writing Writer = writing references, prompts, & inspo
Words for the Word God = my writing
Lore ref = lore thoughts and references from folks (will also be tagged with whatever fandom it belongs to)
eyes emoji = things I think are simply interesting
rb = reblogs (aka 85% of what I do around here)
hyde speaks = my specific thoughts on something
lol = made me laugh
meme = so I can fuckin FIND THESE again
IRL = real world shit
art = other people's neat art (as I can't draw for shit)
nawww = cute shit
hopeposting = exactly that
shitposting = exactly that
thoughtposting = interesting thoughts
well that's fucking dope = thing I said out loud in regards to a post
Current obsessions: Warhammer 40k (certified chaos girlie [tm]), specifically Night Lords & World Eaters (with a few other random characters thrown, like Mortarion, the average Emperor's Children, and Sigismund <3); DnD; fantasy books; coffee
Sleeper Agent Obsessions (never truly forgotten, always lying in wait): Old School Bioware games, Attack on Titan, Bloodborne, pokemon, Fire Emblem, Elder Scrolls, Hollow Knight, the Hades Games, Stardew Valley, animal crossing,
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I actually recommend everyone write for a rarepair once because it completely changes your relationship with fandom. Engagement stops being numbers and starts being names. You know who's going to show up. You recognize usernames. Someone disappears for a while and then comes back and you're like “OH MY GOD WELCOME HOME.” It's incredibly wholesome. It is also deeply inconvenient when all six of you simultaneously get writer's block-
Spoke to a gen z person the other night and apparently the young folks don't know about the very legal sites from which you can access public domain media (including Dracula, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and other Victorian gothic horror stories)?
Like this young person didn't even know about goddamn Gutenberg which is a SHAME. I linked to it and they went "aw yiss time to do a theft" and I was like "I mean yo ho ho and all that, sure, but. you know gutenberg is entirely legal, right?"
Anyway I'm gonna put this in a few Choice Tags (sorry dracula fans I DID mention it though so it's fair game) and then put some Cool Links in a reblog so this post will still show UP in said tags lmao.
Spreading the news to my followers - if you weren’t aware of this before, here’s the link to Project Gutenberg - https://www.gutenberg.org/
Project Gutenberg is a gigantic collection of books that are in the public domain. You can read the books through the site or you can download them in various formats so you can get the format you prefer for your eReader of choice.
It is free.
It is legal.
I was reviewing the list of the top 100 books downloaded yesterday and I saw a fair few that I had to read for college classes - so if you’re a college student and your professor assigns you to read Plato or any number of older works, check here before you buy a copy.
I reread the Anne series several years back - they were free through this. I need to reread Pride and Prejudice at least once a year, and my e-book version is from this. Someone recommended Jekyll and Hyde to me a few weeks back and I got a free copy from this. When I went to Haworth on my last holiday before the plague times, I brought books by the Bronte sisters with me to read or reread that I downloaded from here. It’s a great resource.
Yes yes yes! I was honestly so flabbergasted that this young person hadn't heard of the gutenberg project! It's been around for AGES, maybe longer than the kindle has? And it's such a huge project and wonderful resource! It used to be a household name (or maybe that's just my family, thanks to my dad being a cheapskate nerd [affectionate]). I was so glad to be able to share this resource and others with them though, and I wanted to make sure no one else was missing out!
If you look at the first reblog from me I also recommended a few other resources, most of which were from www.archive.org, home of the Wayback Machine! They run openlibrary.org, where you can check out ebooks of some public domain titles! They even have the Bone series by Jeff Smith!
And archive.org itself has all kinds of public domain media including music and movies! For Dracula fans, here's a radio show adaptation of the book, starring Orson Welles! And here's a 1920 movie adaptation of "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde," starring John Barrymore, the grandfather of Drew Barrymore!
I'm so excited to see people falling in love with classic media through Dracula Daily! Let's keep that fire blazing!
Also, if you can't handle reading things, check out libirvox.org! it's a free audio book project taking public domain works and people doing free audiobooks! there's a lot of great stuff on there, but it takes things in the public domain and makes audio books out of them!
it's a super nice project, and you can find some really nice readers there!
Also don't think a book is old because it's in the public domain
lots of writers and publishers are prepared to waive future profits for entirely petty reasons
because of this the entire works of Philip K Dick [petty writer who found himself with lots of hangers on during his life] and HP Lovecraft [his publisher - who was his wife and hated him] became public domain on their death
Sherlock Holmes entered public domain this year, it's always worth checking because you can save a fortune
and the more popular the classic - the more likely someone has uploaded it
Anything published (in the US) from 1927 or earlier (this number goes up every year for quite a while), and
Anything published between 1928 and 1963 that wasn't renewed, and
Anything published before 1989 without a proper copyright notice.
(Don't go looking for things in that third category unless you've studied a LOT about copyright law. Mostly that covers things like "weird little newsletters" and "self-published booklets" and sometimes fanzines. But most publications have a copyright notice in them.)
There's also some oddball exemptions here and there; copyright law is a tentacled mess. But those are the basic guidelines. (Except for audio. Audio has its own set of rules. It's weird.) (I mentioned tentacles, did I not? Double the amount of them you were thinking of.)
There are a lot of works from the 50s and early 60s that were not renewed, especially short stories published in magazines.
Project Gutenberg began in 1971; the first text was the US Declaration of Independence, shared through the university computer system. That was the start of "hey computers + public domain text = FREE BOOKS FOR EVERYONE."
Adding on that Project Gutenberg is not just Eng language texts either! I know specifically about the French texts because I did independent study French lit in high school and all my sources were Project Gutenberg acquired (Candide my beloathed) but there's many open source texts available in a number of languages.
Oh man, yeah, young people definitely need to learn this. I read so many public domain things when I was fresh out of college and penniless but still needed entertainment. Just going straight to Wikisource works too:
And yes, Sherlock Holmes is in the public domain. But I got bored with Sherlock Holmes after a few months, and became much more pumped when I discovered his mirror opposite, Arsene Lupin. Because when you're not only young and penniless but living through the Great Recession, what you really want to read about isn't the world's greatest detective solving crimes. It's the world's greatest thief robbing fat cats blind while pantsing the police along the way.
And you can Ctrl-F find words in electronic texts.
This is so powerful that in the old times they made a whole-ass index of every word in the Bible, called a concordance. It is now possible for every electronic book
Which cursed t shirt would each primarch wear? (pt. 1)
Useless fact about me: i have a huge irl and pics collection of crappy t shirts and consider gathering them my hobby. Sooop yeah it's obvious why i wrote this one lol
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having your own money is fucking dangerous because the only person stopping me from buying whatever I want is myself. and myself has bad judgment sometimes
man sometimes friendship really is just "I saw this and knew it would give you psychic damage. please respond with agony" and then they do. and it's great
'Please spare us your moral relativism, uncle.'
Several of the Thousand Sons, resplendent in their crimson plate, stiffened at the warrior's words. Magnus narrowed his left eye as he gazed upon his brother, refusing to look at the Night Lord that had spoken.
'If your sons cannot keep from childish outbursts, brother, perhaps it's best if they leave us.'
The ragged primarch retracted his claws once more. The sigh that ghosted through his sharp teeth was weighted by weariness. He said nothing. His posture of tired defiance spoke for him.
...
'We should — ' Sevatar began.
'Silence', both primarchs said at once. And wonder of wonders, it worked.
The Abyssal Edge (part of Sons of The Emperor Anthology), by Aaron Dembski-Bowden
made a short, messy comic that i've been struggling to finish since last weekend and refuse to work on it anymore, but "and wonder of wonders" kept me going because it was really amusing to me
and color me surprised that after reading Savage Weapons a few days ago, i found out that this man had the balls to use 'unc' not once, but twice to two different primarchs on a separate occasion
this bat will never cease to amaze me...
ahhhh i really wanted to include ahriman but i spent way to much time on this thing than necessary :_:
@moj-cien's amazing animation from the same novella really motivated me to finish this thing today instead of abandoning it altogether, sooo biggest shout-out to them <3
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used to think it terribly silly (and kinda funny) when fantasy or sci-fi stories would have people refer to major recent historical events as The Flood or The Incident or The Revolution, and im sure historians fucking hate that because it's not helpful or descriptive, but we sure do be calling it The Pandemic
The Abyssal Edge by Aaron Dembski-Bowden. From the anthology Sons of the Emperor. Narrated by Christopher Tester. Belongs to BL and GW …yadda yadda… you know the drill.
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