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3 months late? Lmao, I've done longer. Wake up babes, new poem drop in a sec. ;)
Okay, update. Not in a sec, bc Tumblr's new post formatting sucks worst than before. So to Photoshop I go. Poem will post later tonight.
3 months late? Lmao, I've done longer. Wake up babes, new poem drop in a sec. ;)
Well, that was annoying.
Sorry if you got hacked bc this blog did. (Donât know how, never clicked those ray-ban links bc tumblr community made sure to spread it round quickly not to the first wave of it; all i did was not be on this account for a... very, very long while lmao whoops)
Anyway, whoâs up for some new content? I know Iâm ready lol
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So, let me guessâ you just started a new book, right? And youâre stumped. You have no idea how much an AK47 goes for nowadays. I get ya, cousin. Tough world we live in. A writerâs gotta know, but them NSA hounds are after ya 24/7. I know, cousin, I know. If there was only a way to find out all of this rather edgy information without getting yourself in troubleâŚ
Youâre in luck, cousin. I have just the thing for ya.
Itâs called Havocscope. Itâs got information and prices for all sorts of edgy information. Ever wondered how much cocaine costs by the gram, or how much a kidney sells for, or (worst of all) how much it costs to hire an assassin?
I got your back, cousin. Just head over to Havocscope.
((PS: In case youâre wondering, Havocscope is a database full of information regarding the criminal underworld. The information you will find there has been taken from newspapers and police reports. Itâs perfectly legal, no need to worry about the NSA hounds, cousin ;p))
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writingmythos > silver-smythe
Hello again everyone.
Long time no see, huh? lmao. Isnât that sad? But yes. Iâm back from the dead. This time for good. Starting with a new username.
Writingmythos is a good url, no doubt about it. But Iâve been feeling for a change generally overall in my life. Iâve been feeling for something different. The url silver-smythe is a good start for that. Why silver-smythe? Originally, I wanted it to be a straightforward silversmith, but seeing as how I couldnât use that url. I eventually came upon the alternative spelling for smith, i.e. smyth. Also for some strange reason i wanted an e at the end?? I have no idea why, but, I gotta say, it looks really good.
As for why silversmith in the first place, itâs a mashup of silvertongue and wordsmith. Can you tell how much I love Loki? lol.
Changing my url feels good. Seriously. But thatâs only step one.
Currently, I am working on refurbishing another theme specifically for this blog. I told you all last time that I might change my theme and I meant that. Even my last tweet said I no longer felt connected to my current theme. Which is true. I feel like a new era has dawned.
That new era has plenty in store. And I mean a lot.
Step one was changing the url. Step two is a new theme. Step three? This will be my writing blog. Not just original work, but also all my fanfiction. I am in the midst of consolidating all my blogs. Simplifying my life, I guess you could say.
Step four?
Working on my first project in eons. That project will reveal itself after step two. Trust me, youâll see. ;)
Step two should be finished soon. So be on the look out.
Until then-
Thank you all for hanging on and waiting for me to get my shit together. I will make you proud. Very soon, I promise.
From Limboâs Solitude To... Something
I wrote this in the tags of my last post, but Iâll say it again anyway. I apologize for abandoning this blog. I become completely focused on school and then... Life turned upside down and I essentially entered a creativeless limbo.
However, today after watching Jacksepticeye play Event[0] (which is an absolutely beautifully gorgeous and incredibly awesome and seemingly well-designed video game made by students no less!), I listened to this song afterwards. It plays during the beginning of the game and both I and Jack thought it sounded lovely. Although, in my love of the game and a sudden desire to immediately know more about it, I discovered a few things from the teaser videos and pictures on the gameâs own website.
I wonât spoil it, but it helped give me a different perspective to hear that song with. And, as many of you may not know, with my love and frequent daydreaming of a sanctuary where I stand in the middle of an open, wheat field on a nice, sunny day, as well as being trapped in Rapture and forced to adapt and reconcile with being there and never returning back home to our lovely 21st century in our own universe (Yes, I actually do dream of that.), when I listened to that song after learning some future context for the game, I had the image of a woman by a window. Space the only thing on the other side. Some darkness in the room she stood. And silence. An eternal solitude, if you will. ;)
But in writing that, I realized I wanted to write in that scene of the woman in the open, wheat field (forever my beloved representation of solitude). But I had already decided what I was going to do in the end by then. Yet the idea still clung. I made a new decision. I would add it in.
Not for my peril. Oh no. To instead be able to expand upon it.
Yes, you heard that right. I want to explore more of that person in that poem. I have a very intriguing idea, one Iâm not entirely certain is necessarily unique. But I canât remember an example of it, so oh well.Â
I want to further explore two questions: Can humans become A.I.s? (and) Can A.I.s come to believe they are human themselves? I want to write a story that blurs the line between the two. I donât know yet what kind of philosophical journey Iâm going to take with it yet, and I donât doubt that I will. With my influence of SOMA (and other games with a philosophical journey that I have liked), IÂ know for a fact I will.
I know that I said I was gonna work on a different piece a long time ago, but... Iâm really feeling this right now. So, Iâm gonna work on that. Itâs been a long time since Iâve written, let alone wrote something original. Iâm just glad I was finally able to hold onto both inspiration and motivation long enough to write it.
I realize this has become waay to long now, but for everyone whoâs still a follower, wittingly or unwittingly, thank you. Regardless if you completely forgot you followed me. Thank you nonetheless. I hope to start using this blog more. Without writing, without this blog... I feel like that had a lot to do with my feeling of being in a limbo. I do plan on using this blog more often now. If youâre deciding whether or not to keep following, thatâs your decision to make. But this blog will become more active soon. Actually, I might even change the theme tbh.
Anyway, thank you all for even choosing to listening to my long rambling if you even did and thank you for following.
Endless solitude. What is sound but the movement of atoms? The whirling and beeping of machinery is nothing more than that. Time plus anything will always equal acclimatization. Acclimatization equals... gradual recession. The cessation to exist. If an astronaut screams for help in an remote, abandoned space station and no one can hear them, do they make a sound? Do they even exist? Â ...no. I cannot- Â Begin again. Â A woman stands alone amongst a field of wheat. There is nothing but silence and the breeze of wind. It is cool to the touch. It whirrs softly around her. Past her. She pays it no mind. Â She stares vacantly up at the blue sky. Â Is she searching for meaning, purpose? Is she questioning her existence? What is she thinking? Â Who is she? Is she- Â Error. Logic Paradox. Â It has been said that the best way to work through an existential crisis is to-- Error. There is no definitive treatment for an existential crisis in our medical databank. Suggestion: Listen to calming music. Loading audio file properly suited for this particular human circumstance. Â Audio file loaded. Â Sol cycle is completed. Â Execute Audio file. Action: Play. Â Lunar cycle will now begin. Â Goodnight, Judith.
Writing Something Actually Scary
Itâs October. Itâs the perfect time to watch scary movies, catch up on you Stephen King reading, shake your head at that lame new Goosebumps movie thatâs coming out whenever (seriously what are they thinking?), and try your hand at the horror genre.
As the scary story/movie season begins, Iâd like to leave you with this guide.
The best horrors are psychological. At the time of my writing, I just finished watching The Awakening. I was impressed over all. Iâd recommend it to a friend who was looking for something not so scary but maybe just haunting (no pun intended). It was more of a psychological thriller. If youâre like me, youâre a wimp but also very disappointed by the amount of awful horror movies that have come out this past decade (Iâd like to put the blame on Paranormal Activity for starting the first-person jump scare craze). Theyâre bad for a simple reason: theyâre shallow. To write a good horror story, you need to know what frightens humans. Weâre all frightened by the unknown. Thereâs something in our brians that flips out when weâre met with something unfamiliar or something we canât decipher quite right. Here is a beautiful Vsauce video that goes more into depth about what we find âcreepyâ and why. (Warning: Thereâs some unsettling images and video clips in this one). Possibly the greatest horror stories were in the T.V series The Twilight Zone. They were rarely terrifying in the sense that there was a ghost throwing glasses or a monster was hiding in a basement. They were scary because only one man saw the monster on the airplaneâs wing, or the neighborhood couldnât find out who the real monster was and were reduced to attacking one another. They were scary because they played with our minds. If only William Shatner could see the monster, what damage could it do without anyone else knowing? How oblivious was everyone else to the threat? If all the neighborhood was suspecting someone was a monster, then how could they prove innocence? In the big reveal (I wonât spoil the end), we know that the actual danger was 1) human nature and 2) another unstoppable force. They made the audience think after each episode ended. They were unsettling â the basis of all fear.
Donât rely on stereotypes. Horror takes some thinking. You really need to understand what youâre writing. If youâre going off something you read in several other books or heard around several campfires or watched on several movie screens, youâre beating a dead horse. Sure, they may be scary, but why settle for something that is basically being half-assed by you? Letâs be honest, if you go off any stereotype for any genre, itâs going to be half-assed solely because you didnât put original thought into it, and you donât truly understand it.
AVOID THE TYPICAL WHITE MALE SURVIVOR CLICHE. It happens almost all the time. The women (or woman, as a lot of media typically will have only one female character) always die. The black guy always dies (again, only one if any at all). The white guy cries over the loss of his noble friends and/or love interest (âcause you know heâll be kissing the female protagonist at some point) but gets to walk away. This is similar to the point above. Just make your writing more diverse all around.
Not all great horror stories have monsters or ghosts or werewolves. Sometimes our own thoughts are the problem. Sometimes itâs our imagination that gets the best of us.
Donât be afraid of keeping it common. Halloween was a great movie. What made it great was that it could have happened to anyone. It was an ordinary man in a ordinary mask targeting an ordinary teenager. There was nothing special about any of these characters. It was just something that happened and didnât seem too foreign. At least with more traditional horror stories, we can tell ourselves at midnight, alone in our own beds, âGhosts donât exist.âÂ
Itâs a very broad genre. Go for anything. Experiment with old folktales or mythology. Create your own monsters. Make your own Latin chants. Have fun with it and try to make someone afraid of the dark again.Â
Enjoy Halloween and nearly peeing yourselves.Â

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imagine if steampunk was âactuallyâ punk and not just fucked up empire fetishism
#i think about this a lot#steampunk is based on the idea that the world wars never happened and the industrial revolution never stopped#so imagine that the social movements that were born in the aftermath of ww1 and 2 never happened#imagine if steampunk focused on the colonised countries and the secret technologies and hidden gagdets#that the resistance work on; bitter and disillusioned they cut open their hands on whatever metal gears they could sneak off#to build whatever kind of weapons they can cobble together to defend themselves against the white colonisers#imagine if steampunk focused on the disastrous consquences of a white supremacy that cannot be stopped in its tracts#b/c letâs face it; this is a much more likely to turn into a world-wide dystopia than anything cyberpunk gave us#cyberpunk was about the struggle for personhood in a corporate-dominated future but so many stories are white power fantasies#imagine if steampunk was about the struggle for personhood in colonialism disguised as gentility (via stardust-rain)
I have an embarrassing question! I've been reading different guides on how to write a male character (when you yourself are female), but for the most part, they seem to be covering how men /think/, and I was wondering more about how it physically feels to be a guy. Like, how does it feel to be hard? How often does that happen? How often is it an issue? How does it feel to get a boner when hugging someone? Is it weird/Is it ever embarrassing?(I'm an ace lesbian, so this is kind of awkward for me)
Well, my best advice to you as someone who also doesnât have a penis, is to read books by people who do, ha ha. Iâve read a lot of books here and there where the authors describe the sensation of things like that and it is honestly the best place to find out because youâll also come across so many different ways of describing which will build your understanding of how it might feel. And not necessarily from erotica - I just read The Girl With All The Gifts by M.R. Carey and here is a description from Kieran Gallagherâs perspective which might be the sort of thing youâre looking for:
âHeâs so scared, heâs worried that he might actually piss himself. Heâs never understood before how being scared could make you do that; but now⌠he can feel his nuts tightening and his bladder loosening with every step he takes.â
And then in the first few pages of Lauren Beukesâ The Shining Girls, there is this:
He squeezes hard on the plastic pony in his pocket. The furious buzzing coming from underneath the cup is a vibration he can feel all the way down his vertebrae, tugging at his groin.
Those are two books I would recommend for you to read as a start; the latter, if I remember correctly, has more mentions of what being hard and stuff feels like because the guy in it is pretty twisted⌠Also note who the author is: donât let your lack of experience put you off from learning and writing what you need to write anyways!
Read widely and in time you will come across the right kind of examples.
Generally though, you can sort of understand and imagine how certain situations might make someone with a penis feel, especially if it betrays them and their intentions, ha ha⌠I mean, I can imagine it is pretty embarrassing to get a boner whilst youâre engaging in a non-sexual activity. I have read a few accounts where the person has said they had no control over it and how mortified they were too, so that might kinda be a given?
If for whatever reason you donât want to go through a bunch of books to find examples and you also canât put yourself âin their shoesâ as it were to infer things, then the next best thing is Google. Please see my resources below for what I came up with if you canât sully your history or whatever. Takinâ one for the team (಼âżŕ˛Ľ)9
Otherwise, some of our penis-havers here on Tumblr might throw in a reply or reblog to give you their own personal account of what itâs like and what it does and how it feels when it does⌠the stuff that it doesâŚ
Not sure if this calls for a trigger warning but I feel I should mention to watch out for gendered language in the resources below, very much the assumption that only cis males have penises which no.
I find this kinda thing awkward too, hooooo boy, Iâm a bit of a prude a no-sex kinda person ghhhhhhh I still hope I helped a little bit
Best of luck!
Resources
Reddit: Ask Men - What does it feel like to get an erection?
Girls Ask Guys: How does it feel to have a boner and come?
What does a boner feel like?
Whatâs the Deal with Boners?
Teen Guys and Questions About Erections
When and how often do guys get an erection?
How Many Boners Does A Guy Get In A Week?
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On Writing Friendship in Fiction
Iâve noticed while reading that a lot of people, includingmyself, have difficulty writing realistic friendship in fiction. Here are somequick tips on how to make your fictional friendships more realistic. There will be a lot of Harry Potter references in this, so get ready.
1.      Shared History: Unless your characters just met, they have to have some kind of past with each other. Sketch out a history for them. Inside jokes donât just come out of nowhere.
2.      Best Friends Are People Too: Sure, theyâre not the main character, but never forget that best friends have personalities and flaws too. Thatâs what made Harry Potter so awesome. Harryâs friends, including Luna and Neville, had memorable personalities and character flaws. Your best friend characters may not have a major role in the novel, but you should at least figure out what makes them tick. Few things annoy me more than best friends who only exist to make the main character look more popular. (Hey there, Rebel Belle).
3.      Friends Have Other Lives: This kind of goes hand in hand with point #2. Friends have lives outside of your main character, donât forget that. Thatâs kind of what I like about Cora Carmack (yes, I read everything) . Say what you want about her, but the secondary characters in some of her novels have lives outside of the protagonist.
4.      Yes, they have common interests but they are not the same person:  Itâs true that friendships are often based on common interests. Harry and Ron both love Quidditch, have a certain disregard for the rules, despise Malfoy, and occasionally slack off in class. However, Ron has other interests outside of that. He loves Wizards Chess and teaches Harry to play with him even though Harry doesnât appear to like it as much as Ron does.  And think about Hermione. She loves books and studying, and Ron and Harry donât like that at all. So friends donât have to have EVERYTHING in common.
5.      Sometimes there are rough patches: Good friendships have rough patches. Sometimes one character or person is annoyed by their friends for some reason or another. Sometimes all of our flaws get the best of us. This is something that you can make use of in your novel. Once again, look at how J.K. Rowling worked in rough patches with the trio.
6.      Sometimes friendships just donât work out: Sadly, some friendships run their course. Snape and Lily Potter, anyone?
If you take nothing from this post, just remember to make your friends (and secondary characters) real people. Just because they donât carry the plot doesnât mean that they deserve to blend into the background. A good secondary character can make a story, and a beautiful friendship in fiction can potentially spawn a lot of subplots.
1.01 ânow is not the endâ
#OKAY SO #NOW THAT I CAN THINK COHERENLY ABOUT THIS SHOW #THEY NEED TO TONE DOWN THE JOKES#I KNOW I KNOW #JUST A BIT - IâM NOT ASKING FOR NOLAN MAN PAIN HERE IâM ASKING FOR THEM TO PLAY IT A LITTLE STRAIGHTER #BC AS MUCH AS I LOVE SEEING HAYLEY ATWELL CHEWING OBNOXIOUSNESS WITH HER FEET UP #THEY HAVE TO PULL IT BACK OR ITâLL THROW THE TONE #IâM ASSUMING THEY WANT THIS SHOW TO GO INTO THE CREATION OF SHIELD AND THE INFILTRATION OF HYDRA AND OPERATION PAPERCLIP IN 1945#THIS IS ONE OF THOSE CASES WHERE YOUR HUMOUR HAS TO FIT YOUR TONE OR ELSE THE WHOLE THING WILL SEEM SLAPPED TOGETHER #[GLARES AT THOR 2] #IM TOO DELICATE AND FRAGILE I CANNOT HANDLE TONAL WHIPLASH RN #ALSO MORE POC HOW ABOUT THAT #SO FAR THO #THE BAEST OF BAES (ilvalentinos)
Publish Your Stuff Interview: Brandon Chinn on Self-Publishing Platforms, Self-Promotion and Marketing
Brandon Chinn is the author of a sci-fi/fantasy series called The Kognition Cycle, and has self-published three books so far: First Fragment, Second Stage and Third Trial. He is currently working on the fourth and final book in the series, as well as many other pieces of writing. You can find his books on Amazon, and also find him on Goodreads. You can find out more about his books on his website, and also follow him on twitter!
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...the main thing you change, and change successfully to make for a tide to turn and change enough to feel like this is a step forwards is circumstance, not character. comic book movies do this ALL THE TIME - reboot, reboot, reboot, itâs not a medium for constant character growth or change, characters evolve but more they change the more they stay the same, thatâs the point. their core stays the same, just like we wouldnât watch an iron man movie if tony isnât constantly building and enhancing and evolving his technology to the detriment of himself, we wouldnât watch a cap film if steve wasnât fundamentally good and dealing with issues of national identity, etc etc. so what you do is you throw the characters into increasingly rising stakes that are DIFFERENT from the stakes that came before - itâs the world that has to change, because we know, externally and internally, the characters wonât.
ilvalentinos in her Avengers: Age of Ultron Review
Triangulation or The Subtle Art of Connecting Dots
One of the basics steps when writing a story is research. Looking for an specific topic is easy, but sometimes you forget that elements are connected and when you start writing about them you realise you have to make more research and have to stop writing just when your muse had shown up.
One of the easiest way to avoid missing something is triangulation, or as I like to call it, the subtle art of connecting dots. In simple words, triangulation is a systematic mechanism for research, is also useful when writing essays.
When we get asks like, Iâm creating a new world, what should I keep in mind? How do I create a new culture? How can I make a new government system? What do I have to keep in mind when writing about guns? We are the ones making the connections for you, we cover the majority of things but since itâs not our story, the connection of ideas work differently. Iâll be using the questions above as examples.
Creating a New World
First stage Astronomy, Geography, Ecology.
Second stage Climate, Main location, Societies.
Third stage Seasons, Urbanization, Culture.
On the first stage you define if your world will have one, two or three suns, the same with moons, planets, things like that. Also you define the geography of the world, how many oceans, continents, mountains, islands, rivers, among others. For ecology, flora and fauna, where species live, how many will be and how they interact. Ecology includes humans.
On the second stage you set the climate for your world. How it will be affected if it has three suns and two moons. On the other hand, the geography will give you your main location, where will it be, how many rivers will it have, mountains, if itâs going to be on a island. In societies, you get to know where your characters are from, how many people lives within those societies. Leave culture for the next stage, here define demography.
On the tird stage work on the seasons, how they behave and how they affect your world. In urbanization set the buildings, parks, highways, transportation. Culture is more difficult to work, thatâs why youâll have to triangulate one more time.
Below youâll find the following examples
Creating a Culture
Creating a New Government
Guns Research
Essays (example)
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