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A lot of the really funny moments in Lord of the Rings come from Tolkien playing with language like this, where we have relatively formal, archaic, “high” language responded to with informal, modern, “low” language.
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If posting fic online has taught me anything, it’s that I have no idea how the reader will react to anything. Nada. Zip. Zilch. Not the faintest clue.
Fics that I think I scribbled off just to get them out there get the kindest, most rapturous feedback. Fics I slaved over, agonized over, bled my soul into get a couple tepid replies. Fics I thought were me revealing the darkness and weird kink that lives in my brain, scared to even post it for fear of judgement, get, “Aaaw that’s so sweet!” replies. Baffling.
My conclusion? You just never know. You really just can’t know. When I did a workshop with 20 other writers I would try to guess what their critique of my story would be and I was right maybe 1 in 20 times. Only one other writer would have the same critique for my story that I had. And it wasn’t even always the same person.
The encouraging part about this is, if self recrimination, the fear that you know what people won’t like about your story, is holding you back, just say fuck it! You’re almost certainly wrong! All you can do is make it the best story you can for the energy you have. And yeah, sometimes that means scribbling it out in an evening and kicking it out to the void of the internet before you can change your mind or worry about editing it more than once because then you’ll never post it.
It’s all chaos, man. You don’t get to decide what the audience thinks. All you can do is create it and put it out there for them to decide.
Defy the Gods - Celebrations!
Another piece for Defy the gods, a very busy piece full of joy and kissing (and sideyes from the rich folks). Who's your favourite crowd member?
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Steerpike and the Twins Drinking a Toast to the Burning of the Library (1973) by Charles W. Stewart for an unpublished edition of Gormenghast, volume two of Mervyn Peake's Gormenghast Trilogy.
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
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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