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continuing this one today! i'm still on 10% but really enjoying it. it's funny and brings some good questions to think about.
other than that, i apply for next semester's classes. hope i'll be accepted at all of them.
i'm trying to think more about the projects i'd like to work on.
i hope it rains today. 🌧
i'm still on lolita, damn this book is hard to read. every page i literally have a discomfort on the way he speaks about lolita. it's so sickening! but the writing is so good, i don't even know what to say. *Fiodora thinks so too!
on the other hand i'm gonna start 'pop song' and 'a peste' today! it's gonna be i guess my forth or fifth camus. i love him sm. also, i need to finish it soon cause my uni library doesn't accept us to keep the books on vacation and semester is ending. soooo... 🤸🏻♀️
it's nice day today, very cloudy. i love it, it puts me in a great mood! 🤍🌧
One of the most obvious arguments in favor of a romantic relationship between Achilles and Patroclus is simply that it makes sense from a writers perspective. Want to absolutely destroy your main character? Bring them to their breaking point? Punch your reader in the gut? Kill the love interest.
I mean, come on, the greeks were the inventors of the tragedy for a reason. What's more tragic? The death of cousin/comrade or the death of the person you are irrevocably and maddly in love with?
Ways I develop character relationships in my writing
This is just a small list of things I do to add a little bit of coziness into my writing through my characters! Relationships (both platonic and romantic) are notoriously hard to write, so here are some of my tips!
Characters picking up on each other’s mannerisms
Characters finishing each other’s sentences
When one character trips/falls/slips and their friend(s) make fun of them before helping them up
Inside jokes
When a group is laughing together, characters who immediately look at each other to see if they found it funny also
Friends who can’t keep it together in serious situations when they’re together
Platonic touching (hugging, hand holding, high fives, etc.)
Characters discussing future plans
Intentionally making fun of each other in front of their crush/partner
Books are a uniquely portable magic.
—Stephen King, On Writing
Indulge your imagination in every possible flight.
—Jane Austen
Not platonic, not romantic, but a secret third thing (the tragedy of a friendship so colored by romance)
WHY DID NO ONE TELL ME????? THAT MY FAVOURITE BOOK EVER, NO LONGER HUMAN BY OSAMU DAZAI. HAD A PREQUEL. BY THE SAME AUTHOR. ABOUT THE SAME GUY. CALLED THE FLOWERS OF BUFFOONERY ????
anyways I ordered it I'll update
it better break me as hard as No Longer Human did ifstg
I want to love and be loved. I want to find a way where I don’t hurt myself. I want to live a life where I say things are good more than things are bad. I want to keep failing and discovering new and better directions. I want to enjoy the tides of feeling in me as the rhythms of life. I want to be the kind of person who can walk inside the vast darkness and find the one fragment of sunlight I can linger in for a long time. Some day, I will.
Baek Sehee, tr. by Anton Hur, from I Want to Die but I Want to Eat Tteokbokki
i made this for a literary magazine, do you like it ?
I wish I knew this sooner
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Continua a leggere
I love how when you first read Catch-22, it can be, well, kind of confusing near the beginning. However, at least in my case, since it was interesting and well written I personally didn't mind.
But slowly, everything sort of ties itself together. It also gets increasingly more and more serious. An obvious example of this would be chapter 39, 'The Eternal City.' But for me, one that really stuck out to me was chapter 32, 'Yo-Yo's Roomies.' It really did a good job of showing how much Yossarian truly missed Orr, no matter how many times Orr pissed off Yossarian.
At the same time, that chapter I also found notably funny in the way it's written. Especially the lines "They reminded him of Donald Duck's nephews," and "They had not brains enough to be introverted and repressed." and I just love how it's them being nice and friendly to Yossarian with overall good intentions xD.
Also rereading this makes things so much more understandable. All the random details mentioned, its even better when you know the context behind those little references, like "It was still more frustrating to try to appeal directly to Major Major, the long and bony sqaudron commander, who looked a little bit like Henry Fonda in distress and went jumping out the window of his office each time Yossarian bullied his way past Sergent Towser to speak to him about it." It's fun reading that actually knowing who Major Major Major Major is and why he does in fact, jump out the window.
I think that's kind of why some people dislike/give up on this book (well part of the reason) because it can seem kind of random the first time through, but for me personally, that was part of the beauty of it the first time I read it. Idk though, I just personally reveled in the beginning chaos.
sennen aigis will never add big boob--
AH!
so even these guys have finally realized the change in industry
long ago normal romances were satisfying, nowadays the age of big boobs became ever since 2000s... maybe we are spoiled milf generation.
I was thinking of writing and you might already know, azur lane doujin, but i want it to have stakes. I was thinking about erotic aspects, and I found difficulty with the end goal so to speak. I had many ideas for erotic story, first I was thinking of a story of 3 different alpha protagonists of different paths fighting for the final remaining flame kind of like a holy grail type thing, battle royale of 3 harems.
I liked writing it, as I thought it would be cool to associate Logi (flame in nordic ancient language) and Loki (mischief character), I've always wanted to write Loki. He would be antihero who would stop the main villain Chad with giant harem from winning the war. I thought it'd be fun, 3 male heroes one of them your average simp emiya tier, another middle ground alpha chad and the other is pure evil chad. I thought it'd be interesting to write harem about it while also making story a bit deeper, but it wouldn't let me explore things and I hate the whole "came and conquered" shpicks erotica. However, due to piracy and growing up, a lot of light novels were killed for the bad? for the good??? in my opinion for the bad. So, the erotic business went underground, all the way to mobila gacha: now businesses of porno and simple "light erotic gacha" is doubled and halved simutaniously, because you have lots of money and yet also doujins which are not really legal from technical point. Btw, I like hazelnut, well i am bear I am ok with eating things up.
B-b-back to the point, gachas became popular offering variety of characters, but Azur Lane really pushed big bazonkas, but not exactly first game, other developers and erotic novels pushed it, especially Fate that introduced Passionlip in old psp game of Fate/Extra. It was so unbelievable how shameless they were and larped like nothing was different. But whether or not their intention for that character design were pure, I will not argue with you. Ever since then, big bood media has been showing slowly in erotic industry, and by that we got Last Origin, a gacha novel that really embraced the concept of large chest. The story however, and trust me I don't recommend anyone ever laying eyes upon it, is really boring. I was not inspiring and sad, so azur lane was my greatest pick that allowed me some freedom to write. I picked it and yes, I will!
Azur Lane quickly caught up to that, so I don't complain about big busts in their game, however that said big breasts aren't quite popular because the artist who drew this is quite famous for big breasts but in reality they're not popular that much in videogames. I cannot think of person with big breasts like these living healtily, yet alone someone who has big breats by social standards, which is in reality any visible breasts according to normie horny men.
But I am not one of them. I do WANT big boobs, they have to be big and the shape and the gravity all that are aspects of aesthetic in art that dont have anything to do with sexual gratification although clothed pushed breasts sadistically are awesome In my humble...
Anyway, as I've been watching at different gacha characters I stick with azur lane for my doujin, that said i like sennou aigis and of course flower knight girls or any other stories, as long as I can write characters in meaningful way that isn't extremely too boring. Unfortuinately, fantasy was never my apertuar and I hate Lord of the RINGS REALLY LOT. stay tuned if I ever think of it because i always dreamed of harem story where guy takes everyone but.... from plot it is... boring! sooo boring.. even if you add male rivalry... hell it makes me feel the only way to rescue plot is by making male rivarly. But that is gonna be a soap drama of low quality, not some cool fantasy story people would like to read about. Still, I have to say Final fantasy Lost stories also intrigue me, the idea of fantasy isekai that does not fucking suck is something I won't believe probably ever.
That said I kind of regret spending so many years on isekai smut that sucks fucking ASS, man...
this is almost certainly a post ive made before but when a character's grief is so strong it fully alters the form of the narrative itself... moby dick being so much longer than strictly necessary because ishmael's grief made him stall for time in the telling of the tragedy... harrow the ninth being in second person because harrow was so grief-stricken that she herself was not capable of making narrative sense of the events of the novel and so someone else had to do it.... do u know what i mean
glass, irony and good, anne carson // margaret atwood // enough, suzanne buffam // ? // in conversation: kathleen turner, david marchese // haunted womanhood, heather havrilesky // where to begin, sue zhao // the stream of life, clarice lisepector
Play it as it lays.