binaryeclipse:

I just wanna say, if you aren’t American, definitely try setting a modern AU in your country. Fill it with the things you know, to breathe life into it. It’s really nice to see new settings, to open up a fic and go ‘oh wait, hold up, I know that place’. It might only apply to a few people who read your fic but it’s really rewarding to get that feedback.

(Americans keep doing you, just trying to encourage the rest of us lol)

velvetjinx:

This might be the funniest picture I have ever seen.

bees-with-swords:

“Do you ever dream of land?” The whale asks the tuna.

“No.” Says the tuna, “Do you?”

“I have never seen it.” Says the whale, “but deep in my body, I remember it.”

“Why do you care,” says the tuna, “if you will never see it.”

“There are bones in my body built to walk through the forests and the mountains.” Says the whale.

“They will disappear.” Says the tuna, “one day, your body will forget the forests and the mountains.”

“Maybe I don’t want to forget,” Says the whale, “The forests were once my home.”

“I have seen the forests.” Whispers the salmon, almost to itself.

“Tell me what you have seen,” says the whale.

“The forests spawned me.” Says the salmon. “They sent me to the ocean to grow. When I am fat with the bounty of the ocean, I will bring it home.”

“Why would the forests seek the bounty of the oceans?” Asks the whale. “They have bounty of their own.”

“You forget,” says the salmon, “That the oceans were once their home.”

howlerbat:

Jonathan on June 25

end-orfino:

ALRIGHT FOLKS

WHICH TEAM??

VAMPIRES

WEREWOLVES

archibaldtuttle:

loubatas:

thestuffedalligator:

I deeply appreciate the fact that Discworld translators add their own terrible, terrible puns.

Patrick Couton, who translated the entire Discworld series in French, is absolutely excellent, and even won an award for the quality of his Discworld translation. For every untranslatable pun, he adds a new one (so the final translation has roughly the same amount of puns as the original) and they blend in so well it’s sometimes very hard to tell they weren’t from Pratchett himself
He actually wrote footnotes about Death’s gender in most of the earliest books, not just the first, going from “probably to the surprise of French readers, Death is male” to “Male, yes” or “once and for all, Death is male!”, until at some point the footnote went basically “fuck it you should know it now”

I went to a convention years ago and Couton was there doing a talk on his work translating Discworld - here are a few highlights

- When asked why he chose to translate Discworld, he said “I didn’t have a job and my buddy offered since he knew I speak English. I don’t really like fantasy actually I’m more of a noir novel guy.”

- like the previous reblog said, he added a pun for each one he couldn’t translate, sometimes puns referencing specifically French culture when the original joke referenced something most French people wouldn’t know about

- at first, Pratchett hated his guts because Couton would call Pratchett’s editor to ask questions - about words Pratchett made up, about specificities of the names of places and people - so he could make sure that he was translating it right. Pratchett found this irritating and thought that if this translator had to call him this often, he had to be a bad translator. “He said none of the other translators ever called him. When I checked out the German translation of one of the books - I am fluent in German - I noticed that it was a lot of nonsense. They clearly had never called Pratchett, but not because they were better than me.”

- at one convention in Nantes, Pratchett was invited to sign autographs. Couton was there too but just as a guest. When they opened the line for the autographs, the Frenchies refused to advance. They said they wanted the translator’s autograph too. The organisers had to run after Couton and fetch him a chair so he could also sign the books. “After this day, Pratchett never gave me trouble about my calls. I think he understood that my work was important.”

secondlina:

Crow Time - Statue 1

writerofblocks:

I read a post on here somewhere that drew parallels between most fanfics and how they tend to read more like screenplays and internalized it to the point that I can no longer write because I see it every time I try to put words to paper and it kills me

There’s multiple things I want to say in response to that. FIRST: you’re entitled to your writer’s block! Sometimes things just are like that, and with your url I think you Know things

While I haven’t seen the post you mention (I think) it does sound plausible and in general even something I agree with - to a degree. Is prose nowadays moving closer to the way we would write screenplays? Absolutely. The impact of film on writing, of pop culture action films on popular literature, is undeniable and evidence of that is also found in fanfic. HOWEVER:

1. There’s a lot of fanfic out there with writings styles not even remotely related to screenplays.
2. There’s nothing inherently bad about fanfics that read like screenplays - either you like it or not, but that’s because of reasons unrelated to whether or not it resembles a screenplay (unless you hate screenplays).

Now to actively combat your specific flavour of writer’s block:

• think of it as misplaced imposter syndrome and Kick It Out The Window
• write a fanfic in screenplay format and Despair after which you should realise that what you otherwise write is definitely not a screenplay
• read an actual screenplay I will send my hoard of James Bond scripts just dm me for the drive link
• I once tried to write a movie script I made it 2 pages in and it was hell you should try it <3
• if it makes you feel better, screenplays is just modern drama and if you write one you can experience what Shakespeare felt
• proof of the impact action movies have had on the way action scenes are written in prose: I read a traditionally published book that shall not be named with action scenes literally out of an anime, no matter what you write it will be better than that <3
• I would actually recommend reading James Bond fanfiction as that is a good example of how prose (the fanfiction) can portray scenes and characters and emotions and worldbuilding in profound, different ways than the medium of pop-culture-action-movie can
• similarly if you were to go to one of those pretentious film festivals and see literally any of those films, you would know that the way we usually talk about screenplays is with popular movies such as marvel (and James Bond) in mind, which are a very small part of a very big film world
• there’s this fanfic Redamancy and it’s about James Bond and added soulmates I think you should read it
• coming back to the topic at hand I really think it’s fine if your writing reads like a screenplay!
• some writers post their fanfic and say things like “podfic welcome :)” and I think you should post your fanfic and say “fanmade movie adaptation welcome :)” and I think that would be great

a-beautiful-word:

“As you read a book word by word and page by page, you participate in its creation, just as a cellist playing a Bach suite participates, note by note, in the creation, the coming-to-be, the existence, of the music. And, as you read and re-read, the book of course participates in the creation of you, your thoughts and feelings, the size and temper of your soul.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin

rayleearts:

Series of recreating classic artwork in my style (gay)

These are the illustrations of mine that get reposted the most without credit lmao so if you’ve seen these in the wild, it me

misanthropicjabberwock:

Ooh can we also talk about the parallels between Jonathan being seduced by Dracula’s three wives mirrored by Lucy’s three marriage proposals

maulusque:

fallingfulcrum:

order 66 didn’t happen if you au hard enough

Cody had nine cups of coffee that morning, and was vibrating into the fourth dimension so he stopped listening after “execute order six-” order six, CANONICALLY, is “get rid of your communicator as fast as possible”. So that’s what Cody hears, and that’s what Cody relays to the GAR. So Palpatine executes his master stroke and six million clones just YEET their communicators and keep going about their business.