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ELODIEUNDERGLASS

@elodieunderglass / elodieunderglass.tumblr.com

Scientist, official adult, angry swan, cautionary tale. Someone has to be the grownup here and I hate it when it's me
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It is borderline shameful how loud I just laughed.

I CAN’T STOP LAUGHING

i want all police sirens to be replaced with thsi audio

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gingeelise

Guess what seasonally appropriate post I haven’t heard in a while!! 

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valtsv

self destruction really is such a fascinating human response to various factors both external and internal. what if sisyphus could leave at any time but kept rolling the boulder up the hill just to watch it roll back down anyway. what if he kept pushing it even as the rock cut into his palms and his legs began to ache with the desire to rest for even a moment and his body became a canvas of bruises and cuts that never have time to heal. what if he did it because it's the only thing he knows how to do. the only thing that gives him a sense of certainty and control in a world that takes both and offers neither.

& needless to say this trait is a lot more fun to observe in fiction than it is in you. or your mother.

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If there’s a piece of writing you love, that makes you wish you had the ability to do what it does, the tools you're looking for are inside the story itself. Fiction is rarely mysterious in how it works. All you have to do is pay attention with the right mindset.

What you’re looking for is cause and effect, set-up and pay off. What does that piece of dialogue set up a) within the scene and b) later in the narrative? What purpose does this moment serve for the story as a whole? Can you identify the turning points within the scene and the turning points in the larger narrative? How do they fit together? You’ll find these things tend to fall into general patterns. Don’t get distracted by focusing on character details, analysis, or speculation! Fandom tends to overemphasize character to the exclusion of everything else. You probably already know how to analyze characters, but how much time do you spend thinking about the mechanics of the narrative? If you can figure out what makes the stories you love work, you can teach yourself to do any kind of storytelling you want to.

(All my stories are clockwork)

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"Scrooge said that he would see him—yes, indeed he did. He went the whole length of the expression, and said that he would see him in that extremity first." - Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol
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Thank you SO MUCH for sharing your knowledge that "Britomart is a character from Spenser’s Faerie Queen". You literally solved a years-old mystery for me :) I've seen that Diana Wynne Jones quote numerous times over the years and never knew what Britomart meant in that context. I knew Britomart was a Greek nymph. Britomart also happens to be the name of the downtown area in the city I live in in New Zealand (I suspect it's named after the "HMS Britomart" or some such). None of that helped me decode what DWJ meant in context.

Anyway, thank you and have a good day :)

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Oh glad I could be part of your synchronicity today! Thanks so much for telling me!

You may also enjoy reading about Bradamante, an even earlier lady knight.

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hiveswap

Not expalining WHY bookburning is bad and WHAT books were targeted has left us with Bookworm uwu girlies treating any art project or act involving destorying/modifying any random ass mass printed novel as if it was a crime against humanity

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rumade

We literally had this at the eco squat I used to live at. People would donate stuff to us all the time and on one occasion it was trash novels. We were low on wood that winter and started burning them, and one of the older guys got up in arms about "burning books" and where that would lead us.

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skelegun

If you don’t learn the context and reasoning behind your politics, you risk that it will degenerate into some kind of half formed religion where you have a series of commandments and taboos that you don’t understand.

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