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The Avengers, by kaciart.
All of these Avengers-inspired ensembles hit the right notes, perfectly capturing the key elements of each hero’s look, such as the minimal designs in The Hulk and Hawkeye’s outfits and the structured, tailored digs on Iron Man.
In short, kaciart is definitely delivering some straight-up Avengers REALNESS in here.
I would so wear that Thor outfit.
I would wear the hell out of that Thor outfit, as I will actually wear leggings, and it’s awesome. LAYERS. I love layers. I also really like Black Widow’s outfit, but I’d probably actually never wear it even though it’s a skirt. I like colour.
Instead, I’d wear the hell out of Cap’s if you lengthen the striped top a bit out into a short dress to be worn with leggings instead of jeans or slacks.
Hmmm, possible summer projects!
Diane Duane: "Mycroft's Delight"
(More interested in the cake recipe than the fic? Scroll down.)
Once upon a time, in somber mood, Mycroft Holmes asked Dr. John Watson what, in the light of the qualities of Sherlock’s mind and certain piratical tendencies, one might deduce about his brother’s heart. He asked this — so John…
I am going to have to attempt this. I am reminded of my favorite chocolate cake recipe, which came from a book of fantasy short stories.
Very, very good.
The dish box is warm and high. Cat heaven.
Richie. So cool
Miles loves the dvr.
prnd:
Keeping this… forever…
Excuse me as I copy this down. :o
I needed this in my life so badly it’s not even funny
For all my writer and English-loving friends. uwu
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Oh, please, dear Goddess in Heaven, NO. NONONONONONONONONONO.
This is the latest incarnation of a dreadful thing called the SaidBook. It has been around for generations.
IT IS THE WORST THING, the SINGLE WORST THING, a writer can stoop to.
Using a saidbook is as quick a way to prove you’re a dilettante, a parvenu — someone who is never really going to be a writer even at the amateur level — as exists anywhere on the planet.
Saidbooking is a byword in the publishing industry, and among working writers everywhere, for laziness and/or cluelessness in the art of writing.
PLEASE KNOW THIS:
You do NOT have to keep picking an alternative to “said.” The purpose of the word “said” in prose is to fade into the background and leave the dialogue to do the work.
The gift of writing, the thing all of us work hardest at from the moment we get started to the moment we expire over our typewriters or computers, is to make the dialogue itself tell how your character is saying something. If you need an alternative to make the emotion or context plain: you screwed up your dialogue somehow. GO BACK AND FIX IT SO THAT THE DIALOGUE ITSELF MAKES PLAIN HOW THE CHARACTER WAS SPEAKING.
“She orated”? “He brought forth”?? YOU HAVE GOT TO BE KIDDING ME. It’s only a step from this to “‘Good morning,’ he pole-vaulted.” (This being one of the most famous and widely-derided versions.)
If you’re thinking of ever selling professionally? Editors will see this stuff and push your manuscript aside. If you’re thinking of just writing well? Using a list like this is like having strong sound legs to start with, and then deciding that crutches might suit you better.
NONONONONONONONO.
There is maybe one acceptable alternative to “said”: “whispered”. Very, very occasionally, “screamed”. NOTHING ELSE. (“Thought” is OK, but thinking something is not saying something.)
Really, people. Really.
Saidbooks are poison. AVOID THEM.
Make the dialogue do your work. Don’t use crutches.
Yeah, I saw this posted at our school, I wanted to bang my head on the board. Said is meant to be invisible, and there is nothing wrong with it.
In the same vein, dear fanfic writers, there is nothing wrong with using the character’s name. You do not need endless variations on ‘the blond’ or ‘the detective’ to avoid using their names. really.
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A japanese ice-cream vending machine! with crazy flavors such as purple sweet potato, almond jelly, pudding, lavender, and “full maturity melon.”
I kind of want to try these now x3
bet people wouldn’t be describing the ice cream flavours as ~crazy~ if they were a) named in French and b) served in a French restaurant all dainty-do and mango coulis
BECAUSE THEN IT WOULD BE ~*~*AVANT GARDE MODERN CUISINE~*~* blobviously
To be honest, some people would. It’d be a completely different thing, though, because it would be mostly completely different people who would be calling it crazy: it wouldn’t be ‘oh, those crazy Japanese, lol, isn’t this amazing’, it’d be more like ‘those crazy gourmet nuts, who the fuck eats ice cream like that?’ Which would make it’d be more of a class/artisan tension thing. And of course it would still a race thing, because the reason it would be reading as a class/artisan thing is because reframing it and renaming it as something that gets read as ‘white people food’ DOES mean people react differently.
Long story short: exoticising foods from other countries is skeezy and is a thing you are doing when you go ‘so many crazy flavors!’ at things like. Normalising food because it came from a background that is, well, white is also skeezy and is also a thing people do.
(Seriously, I’m at the point where I want to punch people over stuff like this all the time and it’s not even aggression in my direction since I’m, um, just a white chick who likes a lot of foods and is just fucking tired of hearing about how ~wacky~ some of them are.)
How is pudding an odd flavor anyway? That’s a caramel custard (kinda like flan). Almond jelly is also a really common Japanese dessert (gelatin+ almond milk), as is ripe melon so of course they’d be flavors.
And they make sweet potato ice cream in the US. (the purple variety is really popular as a dessert flavor in Japan).
Just saying, those are all pretty normal flavors….
