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Carl Budtz-Moller - An Afternoon in the Garden at Melsted with Cat (1927)

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unpretty

How did you get so good at writing??? Did you take classes? I feel like you should get paid all the money for this! (I subscribe to your website!)

after i dropped out of high school i found a torrent of like 5GB of OCRd romance novels and i read like 3 romance novels a day for a while

read enough romance novels and you will realize that they live or die entirely on technical skill. if you are new to romance novels then even bad ones can dazzle you with novelty but by the time you are on your 30th historical fake engagement between a bluestocking and a rakish duke you can grade them and you know when they've failed. when two books have what should be the same main characters hitting the same plot beats, but one of those books is delightful and the other fucking sucks, you learn some things. some books are bad and still delightful. other books are good but they just don't hit. you start to see the seams in the bad ones. 'oh, this is a weird out of character moment because she wanted to have the kabedon moment and didn't know how to get there'. 'she didn't want the ust to end but couldn't think of a better reason than this deus ex cockblock.' that kind of thing.

you could probably do this with other genres but i like romance because the plot is two people fall in love. that's it. everything else is set dressing. if you can figure out how to make that work you can carry it over into whatever other genre you feel like. mysteries would give you a different skillset around plotting that i don't have.

anyway after that i wrote a lot.

unpretty

i said it in my original tags but i want to talk out of my ass and say that one place that a lot of current romantasy falls short for me is that it ends up being written by people who mostly read other romantasy without going back to the original genres of romance and fantasy. it's like a 'learn the rules before you can break them' kind of thing. you have all these magical macguffins to hit the tropes but can you make me believe that these characters have chemistry without that? is there chemistry, or did you tell me they're fated mates and now i'm supposed to assume this fight is sexy? does the fantasy aspect exist for anything aside from the magical macguffins? i'm not going to throw stones from inside my house made of worldbuilding designed to make all my fetishes happen, but the really fun part is when the lore spins out of control and you end up really going in depth on linguistic anthropology things that aren't relevant to the makeouts.

and the other thing is that you can't really sub in fanfic for this. plenty of fanfic takes characters from other genres and plops them into romance, but it's not the same. a good romance novel says, "here are two characters. you may know their archetypes, but you don't know them. you are going to get to know them, and you are going to love them, and you are going to want them to love each other, and when they love each other you are going to be happy for them". i love a rakish duke. when a man who's never had to do his own laundry is slutty as fuck that's my shit. but you still have to make me like him. you can take that archetype and make a guy who fucking sucks. most fanfic will not impart to you any knowledge about how to make a reader like a guy from scratch. you already know that guy. that's the whole point. fanfic with as much character building as an original work is the exception, not the rule.

the whole reason i get catty about fics that just make a different guy is that... you've made a different guy. i don't know who this guy is and i don't like him, and you haven't bothered trying to make me like him, because you slapped another guy's nametag on him like a cheat code. it's cool if you did make me like this new guy, but why is he wearing that other guy's nametag if no other aspect of him is present?

read the genres you want to write, obviously, but there's a reason the shitty comphet romantic subplot is a cliche. it's because romance is its own skillset, and if you try to fit romance in your thriller when you only read thrillers it's probably going to be the weakest part. if you want an ensemble cast then chemistry between characters is important regardless of whether they're going to fuck about it.

thegunlady

#this is also what i call the Star Wars Problem (although: wide category lol)#but i mean specifically the thing where george lucas watched a BUNCH of westerns and samurai films and ww2 flying ace films#and then made a space movie ABOUT high points in those other story forms#because he knew those pulp genres inside out and knew what bits he needed to hit in RAF Dambusters pulp when he added laser swords#or in western saloon showdowns when he added spaceships#but then you fast-forward a few decades and people are making star wars movies ABOUT other star wars movies#and like not many of those scenes are going to hit that way - they just wont have the chance#they’ll be a copy of a copy and the emotion is going to degrade like the worlds crustiest reformatted ocr PDF#or a xerox of a xerox of a xerox#they’ve ceased to be about the feeling generated by the Form and have become simply the Form in isolation (via harrietvane)

#storytelling

classicalcanvas

The Promenade at Argenteuil (1872) by Claude Monet

#summer

cleverreports

We report: we come across our storm chaser friend at dusk, while he is not chasing any storms. He tells us that he has taken up crosswords in his downtime, of which he has had quite a bit lately. The clouds get longer and wispier, utterly un-stormlike in their peaceful demeanour.

#too pretty not to reblog

eirene

Thistle, 1886 Fidelia Bridges

#summer

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Now come, sir, this is heading far too neatly Toward your victory, and my dismay. The plot has shifted starkly, indiscreetly. I thought *I* was the hero of this play? My cleverest of schemes have gone completely (And ever so conveniently!) astray. There’s some contrived shenanigans afoot — Offenses, up with which I will not put!

#shimyereh writes poetry

classicalcanvas

Forest Path (1875) by Pierre-Auguste Renoir

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urgetocreate

Choy Moo Kheong (Singaporean b.1950), Blue Whispering Day, 2022, Acrylic on canvas

#summer

cleverreports

We report: after a night of stargazing, we are on our way to sleep, but the sun is doing everything it can to keep us awake. Our expert is continuously yawning as they comment on the movement of the crepuscular rays, and we are trying very hard not to rub our eyes.

#too pretty not to reblog

eilooxara

Oat milk was discovered much more recently than you may have known. Like many now-familiar technologies, it was found by accident during the Apollo program when NASA learned what a zero-g environment does to goat milk.

#words words words

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random-brushstrokes

Eugene Henri Alexandre Chigot - Fleurs d’été – Étaples (ca. 1905)

#summer

lawrenceleemagnuson

Jeremy Miranda, USA The Deep End (2 August 2023) acrylic on panel 50.9 x 81 cm

#summer

kavohh707

Summer memories - this roe buck was standing on an already harvested field and seemed to look into the direction of the neighboring field. Eventually he moved on and out of that field poked the head of a female roe deer.

#summer

random-brushstrokes

Louis-Charles Verwée (Belgian, 1832 - 1882) - A Summer's Day

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fontseeker

"The News" is in Manuscript Capitals (1972) [Daylight Fonts · Fonts In Use]. They used an upside-down M for the W.

"VIsitors from Within" is in ITC Bauhaus Demi (1975) [Daylight Fonts · Fonts In Use].

This one's in Microgramma (1952) [Daylight Fonts · Fonts In Use · Identifont].

"The Zetetic" is in Ringlet (1882) [Daylight Fonts · Fonts In Use].

"Strange Times" matches the free font Blobs (2003?) [dafont.com]. Either Blobs is a digitization of an earlier font, or this logo isn't actually from the early ufology scene.

#typographical flourishes

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mscoyditch

"August". 2025.

"Summer Day, Logan Rock".

"Song of the Sea Cave".

"Summer Sunset on Porthmeor Beach in front of the Tate in St Ives".

"Porthmoina Cove".

"Honeysuckle".

"Rinsey Rockpool".

"Coastal Path".

Paintings by Hazel McNab. British. b. 1965-

Source: @huariqueje

#summer

cleverreports

We report: we see half a dozen sunrises on the train. The sun emerges from behind the clouds, casting an orange glow across the whole sky, then the clouds swallow it back. Minutes later, another place, the shape of the clouds has changed, but it happens again the exact same way.

#too pretty not to reblog

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