#Lani Diane Rich

[hedgehogreads]

“Just be careful not to lose it.”

“Do I strike you as the kind of man who loses important things?”

You lost me. The thought popped into her head and there was nothing she could do to get rid of it.

 - Dogs and Goddesses, Jennifer Cruise, Anne Stuart, Lani Diane Rich

[doodlebeeberry]

[avrelia]

I posted 2,396 times in 2022

118 posts created (5%)

2,278 posts reblogged (95%)

Blogs I reblogged the most:

@silvain-shadows

@virologistandpotato

@ninolovers

@sdwolfpup

@femmedplume

I tagged 1,853 of my posts in 2022

Only 23% of my posts had no tags

#atla - 413 posts

#atla mai - 182 posts

#zuko - 168 posts

#atla maiko - 94 posts

#art - 87 posts

#avatar the last airbender - 81 posts

#katara - 74 posts

#aang - 68 posts

#dracula daily - 62 posts

#stranger things - 56 posts

Longest Tag: 125 characters

#i am voting for democrats ever since becoming us citizen but what would it take them to actually accomplish something useful?

My Top Posts in 2022:

#5

Beach Wars

So, The Free Comic Book Day happened and I have one. It is not a very exciting offering, and, it seems, it is unfinished, but really< I am quite happy with it.

Because this is exactly what I want from Atla and TLoK comic stories: characters are having silly fun. In this case, elderly matriarchs Katara and Toph relaxing on a beach together and pulling their descendants and innocent bystander Avatars into their prank war. Bring it on!

Story and Art by Meredith McClaren

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92 notes - Posted May 11, 2022

#4

I was tagged by @bacchanalium

Favorite color: Blue, specifically this shade

#0000FF

Currently reading: I have just finished Iron Widow by Xiran Jay Zhao, the book that is about as intense, insane and amazing fun as I was lead to believe. Before that I re-read Piranesi by Susanna Clarke, which was my favorite read of 2021, and a very satisfying re-read now. And now I am looking intensely at How Story Works by Lani Diane Rich, hoping to read it next.

Last Song: Six Feet Under by Kissin’ Dynamite, because I’ve just watched the third episode of the Peacemaker, and this song kicked me in some sensitive place, and I had to listen to it several times to get this song out of my brain.

Last Series: I’ve just finished the Expanse, the last season and everything. I probably should start the books, but these days long book series scare me.

Sweet, savory or spicy: depends on a mood and circumstances. Usually, I prefer savory and a bit sour. But with my tea I would have something sweet or nothing at all.

Currently working on: Several unfinished fics, several unfinished original stories. Also I am trying to delete all the unnecessary and double photos I have collected over the past… fifteen years?

Tagging: @attackfish, @robb-stark, @yen-yen282, @yogi-bogey-box, @idkmybffgill, @poolsidescientist, @krastbannert, @ljf613, @avayarising, @catraboobwindow, @virologistandpotato, and of course anyone who wants to do it

107 notes - Posted January 21, 2022

#3

133 notes - Posted August 28, 2022

#2

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252 notes - Posted February 15, 2022

My #1 post of 2022

One moment that I think is underappreciated in Mai and Zuko relationship is their playfulness with each other. We see it in the picnic scene, and in the Mai’s house scene, and in the reunion scene. They are so different from their usual state, like they enter a happy bubble when they are together, when they can finally relax and don’t think about that pesky reality and its problems, and just be carefree.

And sure enough it doesn’t work for long, because reality is there, and its problems intrude quite rudely, often literally, personified by Azula, but their happy bubble is real, too.

They don’t pretend being anyone else, just themselves that no one else can see. So the possibility is there, for Mai and Zuko, when they manage to integrate all the different parts of themselves and deal with the reality, and to communicate better, to keep that playfulness not as an illusion, or a throwback to their childhood, but a part of their adult relationship. So that’s how I prefer to write them.

300 notes - Posted April 14, 2022

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[woodenpicador]

tagged by @yellowjacketslesbian and @haniawritesthings, because i'm actually terrible at checking tags on tumblr

three ships: shaunanat, shaunalottie, taivan

first ship ever: oh wow, probably hanleia (star wars) before i even knew what a ship was, but maybe harry/hermione (harry potter) before, well, a LOT of things.

currently listening to: Puberty 2 by Mitski

last movie: Glass Onion (dir. Rian Johnson, 2022)

currently reading: so much fanfiction, but also How Story Works by Lani Diane Rich, which I've found is really helping me formalize structures in longer, plottier stories and keep them focused

currently watching: perpetually Yellowjackets and Andor, but also Poker Face, The Last of Us, and i swear i'm going to watch bly manor and warrior nun and arcane and more

currently consuming: black tea (english afternoon and english breakfast in alternating cups, it's that kind of day)

currently craving: hot wings, more hours in the day

tagging: @sappy-sappho, @kleksuh, @katebaudelaire, @volcanic-ghosts, @chasingfictions

[lowcountry-gothic]

When you're looking for retribution, the question of ‘Are they responsible?’ becomes relevant. When you're looking for healing and the best outcome, it becomes irrelevant.

Lani Diane Rich, Endless, "Listen"

[writer-at-the-table]

Vulnerability is how we connect with each other. It is when we know each other's vulnerabilities that we become sympathetic to each other as humans, and we have human relationships with these characters that we read about in our fiction, so that is how we access these characters as well.

Lani Diane Rich, How Story Works, episode 1.02 “2. Character Roles,” 15:43-15:48

[thatsdeepyo]

“I have the ability to unfuck my life from what they’ve done to me without having to say ‘no no, that’s okay, I forgive you’”

-Lani Diane Rich

[chrysbuckley]

The Artist's Way Reflections - Re-Starting the Journey

The Artist’s Way Reflections – Re-Starting the Journey

In previous posts in this Artist’s Way Reflections column, I’ve written about having a two-decade relationship with this landmark book on creativity and its basic tools (Morning Pages and the Artist Date) and its essays and exercises and tasks, all aimed and at opening, or re-opening a connection to creativity. Discovering and recovering your artistic self.

And now that the Basic Tools have been…

[hedgehogreads]

This doesn’t feel like a dream.

She looked down at Wolfie. “Not a dream?”

“Nope.”

“Oh, hell,” Shar said, and faced reality.

It was bent.

 - Jennifer Crusie, Anne Stuart, Lani Diane Rich, Dogs and Goddesses

[bespangeled]

Seeing Red

Lani’s review - Still Pretty #9. Seeing Red (Video)

Lani from Dusted has continued with the BTVS reviews - and is doing an amazing job. In this episode of Still Pretty, Lani talks about solipsistic evil, the inoculative nature of the soul, men, women and all the horrible things that we deal with in Seeing Red (S6.19).

Run by NYT bestselling author and award-winning podcaster Lani Diane Rich, Chipperish Media creates podcasts that celebrate finding joy and happiness in the stories we love, never apologizing for loving what we love, and lighting a path to the bright side, even if that means engaging in an occasional bit of denial. Link  - to her other BTVS reviews, her new literature podcast and Storytelling (her fiction writing podcast). Check out her earlier reviews. I highly recommend!

[wepicy]

Humor Quote By Lani Diane Rich “You have to watch your language. People will think you have no fucking class” - Lani Diane Rich

[doodlebeeberry]

Just put em in a jar and shake em

[avrelia]

I was tagged by @bacchanalium

Favorite color: Blue, specifically this shade

#0000FF

Currently reading: I have just finished Iron Widow by Xiran Jay Zhao, the book that is about as intense, insane and amazing fun as I was lead to believe. Before that I re-read Piranesi by Susanna Clarke, which was my favorite read of 2021, and a very satisfying re-read now. And now I am looking intensely at How Story Works by Lani Diane Rich, hoping to read it next.

Last Song: Six Feet Under by Kissin’ Dynamite, because I’ve just watched the third episode of the Peacemaker, and this song kicked me in some sensitive place, and I had to listen to it several times to get this song out of my brain.

Last Series: I’ve just finished the Expanse, the last season and everything. I probably should start the books, but these days long book series scare me.

Sweet, savory or spicy: depends on a mood and circumstances. Usually, I prefer savory and a bit sour. But with my tea I would have something sweet or nothing at all.

Currently working on: Several unfinished fics, several unfinished original stories. Also I am trying to delete all the unnecessary and double photos I have collected over the past… fifteen years?

Tagging: @attackfish, @robb-stark, @yen-yen282, @yogi-bogey-box, @idkmybffgill, @poolsidescientist, @krastbannert, @ljf613, @avayarising, @catraboobwindow, @virologistandpotato, and of course anyone who wants to do it

[taperwolf]

I am a big fan of the podcast Still Pretty, a Buffy the Vampire Slayer rewatch by Lani Diane Rich and Noelle LaCroix. They recently hit the oddball episode "Restless", the season 4 closer (the one that's almost entirely dream sequences, the season's Big Bad having been defeated the episode before). They brought up some problems they had with racism and patriarchy in the episode, and while god knows I'm completely unqualified to wade into either of those topics, I'm feeling nonetheless compelled to make a couple of comments anyway. Forewarned and all that. Spoilers, obviously.

Point the first: it struck me that after the First Slayer (portrayed by a black woman; I'm not sure if my theory that she's meant to pre-date human migration out of Africa helps or not) and before the series finale, we see, on-screen, five Slayers. Three are women of color, and those three are all killed by either Spike or Drucilla. Two of those didn't get names when they first appeared. (Nikki Woods, the Slayer Spike killed in New York in the 1970s, gets a name later in the series; the Slayer he killed during the Boxer Rebellion was named Xin Rong in a later comics story.)

Point the second: I don't want to defend Buffy's ending speech, which, at this point in culture, comes off as entitled and full of white privilege. But in the same way that Angel's ethos is summed up in his statement, "If nothing we do matters, then the only thing that matters is what we do," I think Buffy's personal ethos is summed up in one line in her rant:

"I'm gonna be a fireman when the floods roll back."

It's why the weird fifth-season Angel episode that has her, post-series, as just partying in Rome, reads as so unlike her. If she were to wake up one day with all the vampires and demons simply gone, she wouldn't be able to take more than a handful of weeks off before finding a new way to save people.

[levelstory]

https://www.thisisdanielle.net/blog/re-a-statement

[writer-at-the-table]

Your character is what your character does.

Lani Diane Rich, How Story Works, episode 1.04  “4. Character in Action,” 45:35-45:37