Also noting that this line has a lot of clothing that works for people who need easy chest access or have limited upper body mobility, like if you are recovering from surgery or doing chemo
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I am asked relatively frequently where to start with my fiction, which is an excellent question—there is over half a decade's worth of it now across all genres, much of it free, and who is to say what is most representative? Well, I am, and I shall, and here we are: the official beginner's guide to the yves. Canon. Please pass this one around; I don't quite have a marketing team to do it for me. ^__^
Tragic Accident gets across the major themes of borderline-supernatural "historical-aesthetic" transgender family problems in the rest of my writing... in under 1000 words! It's a classic "girl in the walls" story with a little transition-as-death for flavor; the genre-ambivalence (perhaps this is slipstream?) is characteristic.
Paper Tigress is my current favorite piece, featuring a stealth trans woman on a reality TV show with a tiger. Goes t4t early and stays there. A lot of my fiction explores gender (or existence) as performance, and this is one of the most pleasantly straightforward about it.
World Got Smaller was my favorite piece before Paper Tigress came out. Because the best way to deal with your boyfriend breaking up with you over your Deeply Unresolved Gender Issues is to go as your own plus-one to the same event. Shakespeare references, puns, and genderfears that had my transfeminine friends saying "no this actually happened to me pretty much exactly." Written as a spite piece which is, I think, a fun metatextual fact. Also got me invited to a class discussion to talk about the piece with real human college students! I think they expected me to look older.
Long Line should by all rights be higher because it is the best thing I have ever written (never mind my little favorites) but it is admittedly quite long (14k+ words). Fat transmasc butch x weird trailer femme who meet through online gaming, have ambiguously d/s phone sex, and catch awful terrible feelings... It gives me the feeling of reading really good porny fanfiction, which I can say, because it genuinely feels like something that was written for me rather than something I wrote.
Exhaustively is incredibly embarrassing because it's so personal and so personally self-indulgent—what if, instead of abolishing the family, we just did fathers but this time they're good and are physically incapable of hurting you?!—but let's be honest, sometimes self-indulgent writing is exactly what you need. This is Black Butler (for the dadbastian truthers) but with a college student and a golem instead, and if you don't understand that, you will still enjoy the snarky dialogue between this horrible lesbian and her even worse gay Creature.
Something Weird I Heard About Rebecca is about the elementary schooler Rebecca, who has this whole "girl" thing pretty much figured out: you grow up to become a woman, or a vampire. Finally someone takes vampire symbolism seriously... enough that they also wrote a companion essay.
The Traveler Wife is one of my early big hits; many people's personal favorite. Extremely lightly inspired by Afrofuturism, self-indulgent space politics, and the Twin Paradox but about a lesbian couple this time. I may be in a different place than I was when I wrote this but it is still a cornerstone of a particular style of my writing: something that is deeply emotional and wound very loosely, rather than hitting tightly-manicured plot beats.
Bride & Groom is the other early big hit. Quite a few people read this, were emotionally compromised by the ending, and began following me in the hopes of someday taking their vengeance. I still get very kind tags on it every time I reblog, and further vengeance threats. Do not read this if you like lesbian pairings to work out.
The Hands and the Mouth is a representative piece from my published queer monster short story collection, Something's Not Right. The book may be paywalled, but this story is free! You get a sense, I think, for a very sweet comforting style I used to write in more often five years ago, which allowed me to fulfill my dream of doing for (other) queer teens what I had had done for me. The paywall is truly the only reason Something's Not Right isn't on here, and I've always said that you're welcome to contact me for a free copy if it's something you can't afford. I wrote it so people could read it; I don't want to keep it from you.
Band Girls - You're not going to read Long Line and NOT read Band Girls. Two girls in (rival?) musical acts, 14k words of Unresolved Sexual Tension and a few thou more of Resolved Sexual Tension. Best read after an absolutely awful year; this will remind you there are reasons to keep going. Even if those reasons are lesbians who are actively fumbling you and covers of Bowling for Soup.
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a significant problem with crafting is that once you make something you now have it forever. you can sidestep this by making gifts for people but well now they have the thing forever and there's probably a limit to how many things they want. unless the thing you enjoy crafting is also a thing you want an infinite amount of there's just no good solution here.
i don't like to complain about this bcos i don't want to discourage people from giving me cross stitch related gifts but i do wish people would remember that if you give someone a cross stitch kit as a gift then you are also by extension giving them a piece of wall art to display in their home.
if i cross stitch a thing for someone i will generally give consideration to 'is this something this particular person will want in their home forever' and i am not afforded the same courtesy in return :(
This is why baking and decorating cookies or making candles / soap is a good compromise! You get an creative outlet, but the end product gets consumed.
What’s up with all the leeks in Norse imagery? I’ve been reading the Poetic Edda and it’s a kenning for a sword at a couple points. Why leeks specifically?
I couldn't begin to tell you. It also appears in relation to the rune Laguz (ᛚ).
That'd be a very interesting thing to find out more about though.
Leek was a very valuable vegetable for the old Norse! It's a hardy plant, growing quickly, strongly, and healthily, and it can be grown through many more seasons than most plants and often harvested well into winter, unlike other vegetables which had to be harvested and processed before or during the fall. Leeks can be viewed, in that way, not only as a source of life, but also as a plant that displays immense strength and endurance, and perhaps even fertility.
Further, leeks are in the allium family, which they share with garlic and onions, among others. They are anti-microbial and anti-bacterial, full of vitamins that may be hard to get from other food sources, and they have a lot of water and fibre in them. Often with foods that are so nutritionally dense, spiritual associations with health arise, for obvious reasons.
It is also worth noting that unlike in the modern day, many foods in the Middle Ages and before were seen as medicine as much as they were sustenance. In later medical texts we see medieval physicians recommend leeks as all kinds of medicine - as would have been common with loads of other foods. We privileged moderners are wont to underestimate the severe significance of good food sources and their healing properties!
Leeks have also been consumed since further back in antiquity than the Old Norse themselves, even, and it could be that such a primordial-feeling food, something that feels like it has always been part of society and human engagements, just naturally found a place in the zeitgeist. The leek riddle that we find in ON texts has parallels in Hebrew, and leeks were an important cultural emblem in Wales.
Alliums in general also have a very important position in other cosmologies, such as Hellenism, where alliums and their strong scent could attract the ancillaries of Hekate, or alternatively offend other gods and spirits.
Later, into the proper middle ages, when the doctrine of signatures became commonplace and visual symbolism took a far more important role in the determination of the properties of plants, the visual cues from the leek also came into their own. The obvious one is that anything long and more or less cylindrical can be viewed as phallic, but more subversively, cutting a leek in half will reveal a pattern within the stem that can strongly resemble a vulva. It is said that prior to this doctrine the association with fertility and childbirth already existed, and indeed we see it prescribed in Wales (?) as childbirth medicine, and in Greece there was even a minor leek goddess who was meant to protect against breeched births. So it would stand to reason that the various Germanic peoples would also have had similar associations.
It has also been suggested that *Laukaz, assuming that is even what that rune refers to (but it might!) doesn't even actually specifically refer to leeks, but rather all alliums - and a lot of these speculations do indeed apply to leeks, garlic, and chives. That's a bit of an aside, but something worth considering.
There's tons more out there to be discovered, but that's the end of my yap about leeks since it's about my bedtime. I quite like this article that I found while fact checking myself, and I think the Compendium of Ritual and Symbolic Plants in Europe by Cleene might have an entry on leeks - it's available on archive.org!
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I notice alot of my followers on here skipping these posts just to mess with my lgbt ones, suspiciously the white popular ones.
Heres a not so friendly reminder, as an lgbt metis person, i dont give a single fuck what your blog is themed or if this is too painful for you to look at. Reblog this post. Reblog this post with the sources of the 751 children who were found.
Your compliance and silence as well as the compliance and silence of your ancestors is what allowed these schools to open and kill first nations children. The children of MY people.
Dont follow me if you cant reblog this post or the one with sources to your political blog or your most popular blog. Add trigger warnings if you must but if your political blog is only focused on the harms you personally face like being lgbt then you need to see some bigger pictures and stop being afraid of angering your racist mutural or actually saying some shit about racism. If you can reblog some antifa graphics or add blm to your bio to be a surface level ally, you can reblog some sources on the genocide first nations people faced and still face today.
I’d like to add this photo I took last night in Victoria of the statue of Captain Cook. Though I myself am not indigenous, I 100% agree that these murderers, kidnappers and rapists shouldn’t have huge statues and plaques that decorate them and say how “great” they were.
Here’s another photo of the legislative assembly from yesterday. Later on there were more items, candles and signs at the memorial, as well as a big poster with 1505 painted on it but I didn’t get a picture
People need to see this. Not just quickly glance at the photos and keep on scrolling. They need to see this.
I had seen the first picture of the church, but not the second.
I went to a “Cancel Canada Day” event and burst into tears - not because I was surprised to learn of the unmarked graves (survivors told us they were there. Our government pushed it aside, and we let them), but because seeing all the people gathered in mourning drove it home: They. Were. Children.
This is my country’s legacy - and it’s not history. The last schools closed during my lifetime. My Father went to school with students who lived at the local residential school, after it was changed to a boarding house (read: holding centre) for indigenous youth who went to local schools.
They were all children, injured, abused, and killed in my country’s attempt to erase them. I want the world to see this and hold the state accountable to *active* reconciliation> I mean we could at least truly adopt UNDRIP in action instead of words for god’s sake.
here you can read an article about a survivor of the church and some of the things he experienced to help put into perspective how awful and just how recent it was
had to reduce The Imposter's level of detail for recording, but he's actually very complicated and made up of countless writhing tubes.. ........which may also be relatable to others.
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the thing about "people have talked about it you're just 21" is that it's not really "young people are stupid" it's more "if you come into an academic discussion you should know what people have said on the matter lest you talk out your ass"
I cannot express enough that if your reaction, as a hobby artist, to not getting that many notes on your art is to say "maybe I should just stop doing art altogether" you need to stop posting art to tumblr
not necessarily forever, not even for long, but just stop putting your art on here and start doing it for you again, remember why you enjoyed doing art in the first place and stop relying on the attention of faceless people on the internet for your enjoyment of your hard work
believe me, I get it, nothing crushes the artistic soul quite like labouring for hours on a piece only for it to get like 10 notes, so you need to find your own source of joy in the act of creation and a lot of the time that means making art and not showing it to anybody
Reblogging this because im seeing posts on this topic again, please allow me to repeat myself
If your enjoyment of your art is innately tied to how much engagement you receive you may need to remove engagement from the equation and start creating for you again
Im being so serious, get a sketchbook and be embarrassing in it, make things you never finish, experiment with new mediums, and dont show anyone because at the end of the day its not for them its for you
Anyway if you want to know if an illustration is AI micro-analyzing it will reveal nothing because AI is constantly advancing to hide known tells and also human art is imperfect and may have mistakes you're blaming on AI because you only want to see nails.
The best way to vet illustrations is to find the source and see if the original artist/poster has things in that same art style; whether or not they post wips, sketches, etc.; or whether they straight up claim or display more obviously AI art. Going over visual art with a fine-toothed comb is almost never going to help you and will result in false positives and therefore false accusations against actual artists.
You have to build your personality around fact checking instead of around doing bad-faith over-analysis. This is the em dash thing all over again and I'm starting to think some of you are just both mean and stupid.
Hey hi hello, welcome! Most of you who have been on writeblr awhile have probably seen me around, but for the last…however long it’s been, I’ve taken an unplanned semi-hiatus from writeblr. But in the last few weeks, I’ve started taking massive steps in prioritizing my mental health, so I think I am ready to return to writeblr in full again!
For those who don’t know me, I’m Jules! I use they/she pronouns and I’ve been floating in and out of the writeblr sphere since 2018. I’m a part time library assistant at a community college, which yes, definitely means I spend more time googling than writing, but hey, if you need to find a very specific post about memory loss and enemies to lovers tropes, then I’m your guy! (Just ask @revenantlore). In my writing, I tend to explore themes of grief, nostalgia, queerness, and self-discovery, with my WIPs often including:
Complex familial relationships, primarily with siblings and overprotective parents
m/f bisexual mcs and love interests
Rivals to lovers/best friends to lovers
Disability rep
Found family
ShEnaNigAns
I’ll admit I’ve been bad at staying on top of engaging with the community in the past, hence the unplanned hiatus, but I’m trying to get better at it! So please feel free to tag me in any tag games or pop into my inbox, and I’ll try to do the same. :)
My WIPs
I Never Asked for This | Drafting
A twenty-something disabled woman trying to experience independence for the first time makes a deal with her parents to move out with a roommate of their choosing. Little does she know, she’s just agreed to move in with the childhood best friend who broke her heart. Secrets abound and their pasts collide as they team up for the biggest matchmaking scheme of the summer.
Scars of a Burnt Memory | REVAMPED | Outlining
After a mysterious fire burns down their childhood home, three siblings move into a mountainous town where weird things are said to happen. The ten year anniversary of the town’s darkest unsolved mystery is steadily approaching, and with it the reawakening of a curse that demands one thing: a possession most lethal. The three of them must work together to break it, or be consumed by a grief determined to kill.
writing tip they don’t tell you is that in addition to reading good books you should occasionally read one really bad one so that it inspires you to write something better out of pure rage
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People will be like “this movie is evil and gross because it depicts a predatory relationship” and then you watch the movie in question and it’s about how preying on young women is bad and impacts their lives negatively
The problem with saying "Frankenstein is about [X]" is the same as saying "Dracula is about [X]"- these books are not fables, they are novels. They do certainly draw from their author's lives and the cultural zeitgeist around them, so you could say Frankenstein is about:
Mary Shelley's birth killing her mother
Mary Shelley's own baby dying
Mary Shelley never really getting her father's love and respect
Mary Shelley's close friendship with Lord Byron, who had been exiled from society
Mary Shelley being exiled from society herself following her elopement
Mary Shelley "breaking up" a marriage where the wife later (but before the book's publication) killed herself
A bad dream
Erasmus Darwin's experiments
A holiday in a place with history about alchemists
A ghost story contest
All of those things were surely on Mary Shelley's mind when she wrote Frankenstein, consciously or unconsciously. The book is about all of these things, and also it's about an entirely fictional scenario.
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