phantomrose96:

phantomrose96:

When pet owners talk about their pets it’s guaranteed to fall under one of two categories:

  • Rover is the sweetest kindest force in my life, my closest ally, my best friend, the family member who molded me as a person who I would absolutely lay down my life for. Please let me show you photos of this perfection incarnate.
  • Socks is on double secret baby probation now and she’s gated in the living room because she wont stop sneaking out and trying to eat all the towels in the house, like the bastard idiot child she is.

I would like to clarify this is not a “which type of pet owner are you” post. There is no choosing. Pet owners are both of these, all the time, forever. It’s a matter of which one is the conversation topic of the day, and the outcome depends entirely upon how recently their pet tried to eat plastic

That clarification perfectly embodies my relationship with Fiyero, fyi.

basically, my strategy for right now is to make this a simple-ass world in most respects, because what I want to focus on is 1) spinning, and magic done by spinning, 2) people learning their strengths and learning to rely on each other through death defying adventures, and 3) girls kissing. The rest of it’s going to be “generic fantasy” in the loosest of possible terms, bc it’s filtered through my weird weird mind, but I’m not building anything with a lot of depth or nuance here. I just want my girls to kiss, inbetween fighting evil and getting into technical digressions about fiber.

I’m not gonna lie, as someone who 1) is a polytheist themselves, 2) loves developing fictional religion in many of my works, and 3) is a little obsessed with divine casters in D&D, it feels a little weird to be thinking that in this novel I’m gonna go with a “generic” faith in the Light but – I’m really kinda feeling it. This novel is (partly) about people who have faith, not about the religion itself, and breaking it down to extremely basic elements seems like a good way to keep myself focused on that. 

(Also I already have that other novel project where I’m self-indulgently making the major cultural religion GaelPol, so I don’t wanna recycle that into a totally different setting. I’ll start confusing myself if nothing else.)

lovepsychothefirst:

isaiahmustafa:

Watson and I feel that, in order to do our best work, the chemistry needs to be right.

#see THIS is what makes Sherlock in Elementary so unique#a lot of versions of Sherlock#or pretty much Any modern crime drama would have the brilliant detective calling the other detectives ‘idiots’#or ‘amateurs’ or basically insulting their intelligence and ability as detectives#here Sherlock is both acknowledging their skill as detectives and crediting that to their Captain’s leadership#while also acknowledging that he can’t work with them because THEY don’t like him#all the while he is accepting as fair because he’s self-aware to know he’s not easy to work with#there are ways to depict an anti-social genius without being a huge asshole to everyone#and this is it

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jumpingjacktrash:

ihasafandom:

jumpingjacktrash:

the only place the ranges of elk and reindeer/caribou overlap is in central canada. i know this shouldn’t make me question my ‘stalemate’ worldbuilding, it’s a fantasy verse and i’m already borrowing from a dozen arctic cultures. but it throws me anyway.

i can have finnish names and canadian wildlife if i want to! who’s going to stop me? nobody!

hell, for all i know the reason the witness takes the form of an elk is because ancient taiga people got hold of elk skulls and were like “it’s like a reindeer but pointy and spiky, it’s kinda scary, it’s like a DEATH REINDEER” and it became symbolic like that. i can do anything i want, it’s my world. why can my brain not grasp the I Do What I Want part of writing fiction? there’s nobody else making the rules here! just me! FRUSTRATION SHOUT!

suggestion: add another type of animal or plant or something that DEFINITELY should not be there. (something from Antarctica perhaps? or the wrong time period?) this (hopefully) moves the location in your brain from “X but with a Mistake” to “not any real place.”

If this does not work, try adding yet another thing from a different region. The point is to make things mixed enough that your brain stops trying to identify the region it’s supposed to be and oust any outliers as bad fact-checking.

you’re a genius!

This could be seriously helpful for my hangups regarding my fantasy novel plans!

cannibalcoalition
replied to your post “So I still really want to write that paladin/witch wlw adventure…”

living humbly and many, many side gigs.

That’s kind of the vibe I’d been leaning towards, tbh. I had a good talk with @asynchseedling on the commute home last night about the rough realism of some of my ideas, since asynch has done more extensive history-of-knitting reading than I have. I still have the itch to do more research on late-medieval wool economy, but that’s almost more the fiber special interest at work than entirely needed for this story. And given that the primary relationship will depend at least in some part on a good amount of anachronism regarding how fiber technology was passed on, I’m determined to get comfortable with inaccuracy.