#Tumblr: a User’s Guide #(sort of) #anything that makes me laugh this much deserves a reblog #music #nsfw text? #this post was queued because my to-reblog list is too long and I didn’t want to dump it on you all at once
#anything that makes me laugh this much deserves a reblog #out of context quotes #sexuality and lack thereof #this post was queued because my to-reblog list is too long and I didn’t want to dump it on you all at once
Evil wizard seeks immortality, mis-scribes critical rune, ends up with indestructible enchanted vessel into which their soup will be transferred in the event of their death.
Important addenda:
The evil wizard does not know this error has occurred.
Owing to their rulership of their Evil Wizard Empire, and the peculiar laws thereof, the evil wizard technically owns rather a lot of soup.
Whatever enterprising hero eventually manages to kill the evil wizard will have exactly one minute to figure this out.
Phylactureen.
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#overly literal interpretations #story ideas I will never write #death tw? #food mention #this post was queued because my to-reblog list is too long and I didn’t want to dump it on you all at once
I keep thinking about how alcohol is unique in that in can be generated from bacteria in the air and sugar and therefore has been discovered and consumed by like almost every culture in history, but this property is unrelated to the fact that it’s a CNS depressant, like we could live in a world where human nature was exactly the same but the easiest to produce drug was a stimulant or a hallucinogen or deliriant and that would effect every culture in the world massively!
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#story ideas I will never write #drugs cw #this post was queued because my to-reblog list is too long and I didn’t want to dump it on you all at once
If you’re writing something that involves an aspect of life that you have not experienced, you obviously have to do research on it. You have to find other examples of it in order to accurately incorporate it into your story realistically.
But don’t just look at professional write ups. Don’t stop at wikepedia or webMD. Look up first person accounts.
I wrote a fic once where a character has frequent seizures. Naturally, I was all over the wikipedia page for seizures, the related pages, other medical websites, etc.
But I also looked at Yahoo asks where people where asking more obscure questions, sometimes asked by people who were experiencing seizures, sometimes answered by people who have had seizures.
I looked to YouTube. Found a few individual videos of people detailing how their seizures usually played out. So found a few channels that were mostly dedicated to displaying the daily habits of someone who was epileptic.
I looked at blogs and articles written by people who have had seizures regularly for as long as they can remember. But I also read the frantic posts from people who were newly diagnosed or had only had one and were worried about another.
When I wrote that fic, I got a comment from someone saying that I had touched upon aspects of movement disorders that they had never seen portrayed in media and that they had found representation in my art that they just never had before. And I think it’s because of the details. The little things.
The wiki page for seizures tells you the technicalities of it all, the terminology. It tells you what can cause them and what the symptoms are. It tells you how to deal with them, how to prevent them.
But it doesn’t tell you how some people with seizures are wary of holding sharp objects or hot liquids. It doesn’t tell you how epileptics feel when they’ve just found out that they’re prone to fits. It doesn’t tell you how their friends and family react to the news.
This applies to any and all writing. And any and all subjects. Disabilities. Sexualities. Ethnicities. Cultures. Professions. Hobbies. Traumas. If you haven’t experienced something first hand, talk to people that have. Listen to people that have. Don’t stop at the scholarly sources. They don’t always have all that you need.
I … LOVE reading the replies and tags for this post! I’m happy that, out of all my posts, this is the one that’s blown up so quickly.
I love the people who are a part of a minority, that are gushing about their favorite fics or books that seem to have done this and offer proper representation.
I love the people who are bringing up the toxic mindset that is very popular on tumblr, the “you can’t write about it if you haven’t lived it” ideology that makes writers feel guilty for providing representation.
I especially love the people who are mentioning how they should start doing this. I love the people who are probably young or inexperienced writers that are seeing this and thinking of doing this for the first time. I love that there are people who read this and then think to better their writing because of it.
i was writing an autistic character and tried looking into firsthand accounts of what a meltdown feels like so.
now i’m here to tell you that you also might learn something fun and interesting about yourself
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#the wondrous variety of sapient life #writing #embarrassment squick? #this post was queued because my to-reblog list is too long and I didn’t want to dump it on you all at once
Extremely Important Update: in April 2023 the World Bird Sanctuary had an orphaned eagle chick in need of care, so they decided to see if Murphy could live up to his parental ambitions.
He successfully raised the chick, which is now thriving with the other juvenile eaglets!
Congrats Murphy, you made it happen through sheer determination.
(Pictures are from the Facebook page of the World Bird Sanctuary; I can’t link them directly because I don’t have a FB account and the site is a nightmare to interact with if you’re not logged in, constantly resetting and kicking you to registration pages.)
This bird took care of an effigy of a baby until the fae gave him a real baby
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#(I kind of thought I had queued a version of this update already but I can’t find it anywhere) #(apologies for any accidental duplicates) #birds #oh look an update #this probably deserves some warning tag but I am not sure what #embarrassment squick? #this post was queued because my to-reblog list is too long and I didn’t want to dump it on you all at once #(P.S. found the other copy I was thinking of) #(it was in an open tab‚ not yet queued) #(so we’re good)
now that’s a lot. Dabbing unicorn Love Is Love Zipper US Flag.
The best part is that a lot of these are vertically oriented and they only have a left-facing flag background to edit it over, which results in a ton of the american flags being flown upside down, which is a symbol of distress.
Alright, so the crimes against vexillology are uncountable so we’re not going to count them. Instead I’m going to say that my first reaction to “American flag skull + autism” was to automatically parse all American flag skulls as the Sport Death flag and go “makes perfect sense, Senior House (RIP) had tons of autistic people”.
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#anything that makes me laugh this much deserves a reblog #flags #juxtaposition #home of the brave #computer generated images #war cw? #this probably deserves some other warning tag but I am not sure what #this post was queued because my to-reblog list is too long and I didn’t want to dump it on you all at once
Serialised Sherlock Holmes adaptation which meticulously reproduces all of Arthur Conan Doyle’s continuity fuckups, at first seemingly out of excessive concern for fidelity to the source material. Eventually, it’s revealed that we’re actually looking at a pair of extremely similar parallel universes, each with its own almost-but-not-quite-identical Holmes and Watson duo, played by the same actors.
In the back half of the series, a plot by Time-Travelling Omni-Moriarty threatens both universes, obliging the Holmeses and Watsons of each universe to team up with their counterparts to stop him; the particulars of this portion of the story are such that understanding what the hell is going on critically hinges on the audience’s ability to keep track of which nearly-identical Holmes or Watson is which.
The ultimate resolution involves outsmarting Moriarty by having the Watson with the war wound in his leg and the Watson with the war wound in his shoulder secretly switch places, deliberately framed in such a way that, as far as the audience can tell, there was no conceivable opportunity for them to have done so.
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#Sherlock Holmes #story ideas I will never write #fanfic #this post was queued because my to-reblog list is too long and I didn’t want to dump it on you all at once
Brinens and Things 