#SETH.

[sable-hart]

@all-cf-me She could have started her building inspections anywhere, really. So if someone wants to ask why she's checking out the stability of the foundations of the Bearded Lady first, she'd just explain it away as random selection.

Being there does come with it's risks, though, and Sable is on her knees in the dirt with a tool stuck in the earth near the building's foundation when the risk manifests. "Hi, Seth," she says through gritted teeth. So typical that he'd come across her while she's in a vulnerable position; she'll be damned if she stands up, though, and gives him the satisfaction of seeing her scramble. "I'll be out of your hair soon. Just doing some routine checks after the flare."

[milesworld96]

If Cody and Seth win tonight imma cry, they CANNOT win tonight

Absolutely not

[seraphiimx]

where. somewhere over a rainbow perhaps who. @sethlozano

"So... I see you've gone through a little upgrade," it was more statement than question, for Ángel could sense the difference in the other. Even well hidden, there had been no denying that Seth was no longer simply a vampire. "Were you tired of being so short and so young? Had to get a one up on the rest of us?"

[livndie4luv13]

seth. seth stop. seth i can’t do this. seth.

[7sweets]

seth blackwell . vampire . twenty-five . thomas weatherall .

seth isn't your average vampire . he's a born vampire coming from a long line of them .

they blackwell's have several properties through out the world but mostly in the united states . one being in silverwood .

seth spent most of his childhood bouncing between these properties until he hit his high school years .

it was then decided that he would live in silverwood on his own as long as he didn't cause too much trouble ( kill too many people when feeding ) as the town wasn't huge & rumors could spread .

seth had basically been raising himself for a long time , anyway . the family couldn't keep a nanny due to . . . hunger . while his parents were always away on "business" ; never explaining what that meant to seth . didn't matter to him as long as money kept coming onto his credit card .

so , seth's house became the place to party . it was in a remote area of town , huge , & seth's money never seemed to run out .

he's cocky & confident , never meeting a stranger . oddly enough , you can't help but like the guy . maybe he's glamouring them or maybe he's just that charming .

spends most of his time bed hoping then ghosting everyone & anyone .

he doesn't work but you'd be sure to see him everywhere around town .

connections : ben ( enemy ) , aurora ( play toy , lover )

[welcometomeloxia]

[yoursminehourss]

😳 <- this emoji but without the blush or romantic connotation. im not blushing im staring you directly in your fucking eyes

[ulyuxe]

In the past fifty years, fantasy’s greatest sin might be its creation of a bland, invariant, faux-Medieval European backdrop. The problem isn’t that every fantasy novel is set in the same place: pick a given book, and it probably deviates somehow. The problem is that the texture of this place gets everywhere.

What’s texture, specifically? Exactly what Elliot says: material culture. Social space. The textiles people use, the jobs they perform, the crops they harvest, the seasons they expect, even the way they construct their names. Fantasy writing doesn’t usually care much about these details, because it doesn’t usually care much about the little people – laborers, full-time mothers, sharecroppers, so on. (The last two books of Earthsea represent LeGuin’s remarkable attack on this tendency in her own writing.) So the fantasy writer defaults – fills in the tough details with the easiest available solution, and moves back to the world-saving, vengeance-seeking, intrigue-knotting narrative. Availability heuristics kick in, and we get another world of feudal serfs hunting deer and eating grains, of Western name constructions and Western social assumptions. (Husband and wife is not the universal historical norm for family structure, for instance.)

Defaulting is the root of a great many evils. Defaulting happens when we don’t think too much about something we write – a character description, a gender dynamic, a textile on display, the weave of the rug. Absent much thought, automaticity, the brain’s subsconscious autopilot, invokes the easiest available prototype – in the case of a gender dynamic, dad will read the paper, and mom will cut the protagonist’s hair. Or, in the case of worldbuilding, we default to the bland fantasy backdrop we know, and thereby reinforce it. It’s not done out of malice, but it’s still done.

The only way to fight this is by thinking about the little stuff. So: I was quite wrong. You do need to worldbuild pretty hard. Worldbuild against the grain, and worldbuild to challenge. Think about the little stuff. You don’t need to position every rain shadow and align every tectonic plate before you start your short story. But you do need to build a base of historical information that disrupts and overturns your implicit assumptions about how societies ‘ordinarily’ work, what they ‘ordinarily’ eat, who they ‘ordinarily’ sleep with. Remember that your slice of life experience is deeply atypical and selective, filtered through a particular culture with particular norms. If you stick to your easy automatic tendencies, you’ll produce sexist, racist writing – because our culture still has sexist, racist tendencies, tendencies we internalize, tendencies we can now even measure and quantify in a laboratory. And you’ll produce narrow writing, writing that generalizes a particular historical moment, its flavors and tongues, to a fantasy world that should be much broader and more varied. Don’t assume that the world you see around you, its structures and systems, is inevitable.

We... need worldbuilding by Seth Dickinson

[hawberries]

Seth Lowell and the bad bitch he pulled by being autistic

[tscsunlover]

got my rainbow crate all for the game books! Im gonna add the bonus chapters here for anyone who didn’t buy the books cause they were EXPENSIVE

links aren’t working for some reason and you can only add ten pictures to a post so i’m gonna add the next two books in reposts

THE FOXHOLE COURT BONUS CHAPTERS SPOILERS BELOW

[animentality]

[kikipuff]

Kevin, leaning over Seth’s coffin: how could you do this to us, we’re so short staffed.

[stalebagels]

Edit: muted this monstrosity but if you're looking for the blank template it's on my blog and I'll tag this and it with "the stupid fucking shorts post" so you don't have to scroll through everything 💀😂 (I did not make the template btw, I don't know who the OP is but if you do please let me know)

[mixsethaddams]

“Oh my god you’re a writer? Can I read your stuff?”

[jojowentbananas]

I LOVE SETH AND JANE SO MUCH AAAAA I cannot shut up about them

[flexscene]

Jay Landford & Seth Santoro Raging Stallion, 2018