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…….thinking about this………..always thinking about this…..

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few things more humbling than the realization that you really do write the same fic(s) over and over again

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I love spooky forests, and creepy lights in deserts, and idyllic suburban towns hiding dark secrets as much as the next person but WHERE IS THE URBAN SUPERNATURALISM?!

Give me spooky sludge living in pipes, abandoned lots between buildings that maybe were abandoned for a reason, street performers playing songs strangely familiar late into the night. I want urban/new york city gothic!

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Getting inspired to write is actually really easy! All you need to do is be the busiest you've ever been in your entire life and as far away from a computer as humanly possible. Hope this helps 🥰

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[#FFF280 Seek for Insight]

This prompt has been brought to you by someone who wishes to remain anonymous, thank you very much! You're on a quest for knowledge, on a journey of research! Whether you question ancient books or a futuristic machine, a person or the newspaper, you want to know something! And we want to know what that is! So tell us all about it, what is it that you're looking for and where do you think you'll find it? Go and write all about it!

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"I Love You" in Shakespearean English

Did my heart love til now? Forswear it, sight. For I ne’er saw true beauty till this night (Romeo and Juliet)

For where thou art, there is the world itself, With every several pleasure in the world, And where thou art not, desolation (Henry VI)

Hear my soul speak, Of the very instant that I saw you, Did my heart fly at your service (Twelfth Night)

I burn, I pine, I perish (The Taming of the Shrew)

I do love nothing in the world so well as you (Much Ado About Nothing)

I humbly do beseech of your pardon, For too much loving you (Othello)

I know no ways to mince it in love, but directly to say, ‘I love you’ (Henry V)

I love you more than words can wield the matter (King Lear)

I love you with so much of my heart that none is left to protest (Much Ado About Nothing)

I will live in thy heart, die in thy lap, and be buried in thy eyes (Much Ado About Nothing)

I would not wish any companion in the world but you (The Tempest)

Lady, as you are mine, I am yours. I give away myself for you and dote upon the exchange (Much Ado About Nothing)

My love is as deep; the more I give to thee, The more I have, for both are infinite (Romeo and Juliet)

O beauty, Till now I never knew thee (Henry VIII)

One half of me is yours, the other half yours - Mine own, I would say; but if mine, then yours, And so all yours (The Merchant of Venice)

Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate (Sonnet XVIII)

So is mine eye enthrallèd to thy shape (A Midsummer Night’s Dream)

Sweet, above thought I love thee (Troilus and Cressida)

Thou art wise as thou art beautiful (A Midsummer Night’s Dream)

When you depart from me sorrow abides, and happiness takes his leave (Much Ado About Nothing)

Source ⚜ More ways to say "I love you" ⚜ Terms of Endearment Word Lists: Love Pt. 1 Pt. 2 ⚜ Physiology of Love ⚜ Synonyms ⚜ Kinds of Love

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i do honestly fuck so hard with any fantasy or otherwise not a direct 1:1 recreation of the real world setting that acknowledges that mental illness and trauma still exist without compromising the fundamentally different common societal perceptions that would develop around it as a result of that convergent timeline. i love that it allows for more immersive worldbuilding without denying the reality of people's experiences to achieve it. like you can still have PTSD it's just called battle sickness or some shit.

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huh. i just thought 'it's ok to not know what the hell is going on when you start learning something new' and it soothed my anxiety significantly

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the most annoying stage of burnout is when i want to write, and i have the urge to write, and somewhere in my skull are the words that want to be written, but they have to get through the cursed minotaur maze first and nobody remembered to bring string

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developing your ocs is 50% waiting for bursts of divine inspiration like an oracle sleeping next the vapours seeping from fissures in the temple floor and 50% stalking them in your mind relentlessly like a persistence predator until they tire out enough for you to get close and scamper away with the bloody scraps of "eye colour: brown" and "dislikes: people who think they're funny" clutched in your mouth like a hunting trophy

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Media and Source Literacy

What it is and why it matters: the basics

WHAT IS MEDIA & SOURCE LITERACY & WHY IS IT IMPORTANT?

The goal of media literacy is not that there is a "right" interpretation of a piece of media, but to build critical thinking about how a media message is constructed, and then substantiate interpretations with evidence.

Media* (of all kinds) affects people in extremely real and visceral ways because we take and make meaning for ourselves out of whatever we've been given by those who do the creating.

*media is anything from news, books, the internet, social media, music, TV, journals, etc.

How we interpret media can have tremendous impact on other people's lives as well as our own. Utilizing critical thinking and analyses when consuming and sharing media is fundamental to protecting ourselves and others from harm.

WHO CREATED THIS MESSAGE?

All messages are “constructed”

Two fundamental insights about all media are: 1. How was it constructed and 2. What choices were made?

Media is not a natural occurrence; it is built. There is a plan and execution in its construction. A media message we experience was written by someone, images captured and edited, and eventually put together.

Choices are made. Words are spoken, others edited out. Pictures selected, others rejected. As the audience, we see, hear, and read what was accepted by the creator's choice.

Whatever is created by just a few people becomes "normal" for the rest of us. The goal here is to understand and expose the complexities of how media is constructed in order to create a critical distance in order to ask important questions.

WHAT CREATIVE TECHNIQUES ARE USED TO ATTRACT MY ATTENTION?

Media messages are constructed using a creative language with its own rules.

Noticing how a message is constructed is important in exploring the format of the media message, and imperative in understanding how all forms of communication depend on a creative language.

When consuming media, ask yourself:

"What do I notice...?"

"What's the emotional appeal?" "What makes it seem 'real'?"

It's noticing the lighting, composition, camera angles, editing, props, body language, symbols, etc. It's understanding grammar, syntax, metaphors.

Noticing the format of the media message in conjunction with who created it and what choices were made helps us be less susceptible to manipulation.

HOW MIGHT DIFFERENT PEOPLE UNDERSTAND THIS MESSAGE DIFFERNTLY THAN ME?

Different people experience the same media message differently.

Two important ideas: 1. That our differences influence our interpreations of media messages and 2. Our similarities create common understandings.

The more questions we ask about what we and others are experiencing, the more prepared we are to accept or reject a media message. Hearing multiple interpretations can build respect for different cultures and appreciation for minority opinions.

Our similarities are important to understanding how media makers "target" different segments of the population in order to influence their opinion.

WHAT VALUES, LIFESTYLES AND POINTS OF VIEW ARE REPRESENTED IN, OR OMITTED FROM, THIS MESSAGE?

Media have embedded values and points of view.

There will never be an unbiased content of media. Never. All media carry subtle messages about who and what is important. Because all media messages are constructed, choices have to be made. These choices reflect the values, attitudes, and points of view of the creator.

What is significant about this is not that ideas and values are embedded in media messages but rather the values of mainstream media typically reinforce, and therefore, affirm, the existing social system.

Being able to recognize and name missing perspectives is a critcal skill. We should expect media makers to strive for fairness and balance betwen ideas and viewpoints.

What political or economic ideas are communicated in the message? What judgments or statements are made about groups of people? What ideas or perspectives are left out?

WHY IS THIS MESSAGE BEING SENT?

Most media messages are organized to gain profit and/or power.

What is the motive or purpose of a media message? Is the message influenced by money, ego, or ideology? How?

The issue of the motivation of media messaging has changed dramatically since the Internet became a platform in which groups, organizations, and individuals have ready access to powerful tools that can persuade others to a particular point of view, whether positive or negative. The Internet provides multiple reasons for you to be able to recognize propaganda, interpret rhetorical devices, verify sources, and distinguish legitimate sources/media from bogus or hate media/sources.

Who is benefited by the message? (the public? private interests? individuals? institutions? Who profits from this? Who pays for it? What's being sold? Who are they sending it to and how do you know? Who's in control of the creation and transmission of this message? What economic decisions influenced the construction or transmission of this message?

SOURCE LITERACY

Media literacy is building the critical thinking skills about how a media message is constructed; source literacy is building the critical thinking skills about the evidence provided.

Using the key questions and concepts of media literacy as our working foundation allows us to ask important questions about a piece of media's evidence. It also allows us to determine and interpret source bias. While facts cannot be biased, the way in which they are presented and their source can be.

Understanding the complexities of a media message's evidence is critical in determining a reliable, credible source from misinformation, disinformation, and propaganda.

SO WHAT NOW?

The sheer amount of media that is available, especially on the internet, is daunting and overwhelming.

Media literacy is a learned skill that requires practice. You won't be media literate in a day, and certainly not after reading this one single tumblr post. I made this to serve as a starting point for you in this journey of, well, being a responsible media consumer.

I invite you to pause before you post (especially if emotions are intense), to read multiple sources, to cross check and verify and corroborate information, to identify reliable news, and, well, to practice media literacy. There's a lot of intentionally misleading information out there- I hope this helps a little bit. Stay safe.

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How to create an atmosphere

How to create an atmosphere: Coffee Shop

How to create an atmosphere: Library

How to create an atmosphere: Supermarket

How to create an atmosphere: Train Station

How to create an atmosphere: Club

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y'all ever reach the end of google

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I see many people talking about how head-hopping can be bad but there's a thing I still don't understand about omniscient narrators:

Is it bad to write the actions of two or three characters in a single scene or should the external actions be limited to one character too? (Example: Mary grabs the sword and throws it at door as John runs to catch the floating head of Liza before it gets on the way.) If so, is there a a good/better way to depict multiple characters doing different stuff in a fast scene?

Head Hopping vs Omniscient Narrators

Okay... a couple of things...

First, the example you gave isn't "head hopping" because it's all observational. A single POV character can be observing those things taking place. You don't have to be in Mary's head, John's head, or Liza's head in order to know that they're doing those things.

If, instead, the example was: "Mary grabs the sword and throws it at the door, inwardly cringing as she narrowly avoids skewering John. Really fearing for his life now, John considers his next best move and runs to catch Liza's floating head before it gets in the way." That requires us to be in both Mary's head (because we know she inwardly cringes) and John's head (because we know he's afraid without any visual cue indicating fear, and because we know he considers his best move). This wouldn't be a problem if you're using an omniscient narrator. It would only be a problem if either Mary, John, or some other character was the POV character.

Second, "head hopping" isn't a problem with an omniscient narrator. The point of an omniscient narrator is they can be in all places at all times, including inside every character's heart and mind.

Head hopping is only a problem if you're writing your story (or any part of it) in first-person or third-person limited, both of which mean that the story (or that part of the story) is being told specifically from that character's POV, meaning the reader can't know anything they don't know.

That said, let's say this is Mary's POV chapter or the whole story is being told from Mary's POV. It would be fine for us to know she inwardly cringes because we're inside her head. But because we're inside her head, we can't know that John is afraid unless Mary observes some external cues (facial expressions, body language) that John is afraid or he says he's afraid out loud. We also can't know that John is considering his next move unless he says so out loud, because we can only be in Mary's head, not John's head. I hope that helps!

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OP made the post unrebloggable but said it's fine to screenshot and I'm in love with this

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cant stop thinking abt ursula k. le guin’s essay abt the carrier bag theory….. she’s like, maybe the first human tool was not a weapon, but rather something that holds, a bag, a pouch, a vessel, something for gathering and storing and sharing. let’s shift the narrative of humanity from that of violence to that of safekeeping. and i’m like