#anz's writing

[yellowanz]

okay, imagine this: daniel but he’s a headstrong, rowdy biker. he drives in a fully black motorcycle on interstates and highways, shiny biker's helmet strapped tight to his head. when he's cruising around somewhere else, he casually wears shades and a leather jacket with a popped collar, sometimes even revving his bike just for the attention. he's rebellious and reckless after he got out of the cult.

and then, one day, david decides 2 go on a ride with daniel. with david's warm hands wrapped around him from behind, daniel spontaneously pops a wheelie, while david screams at the top of his lungs and holds onto daniel's core for dear life. daniel laughs like an idiot afterwards.

finally, if david ever gets cold on the nights that they're out, daniel makes sure to lend david his jacket—helping him put it on, each arm through each sleeve and zipped tight. daniel doesn't care if he himself is freezing while speeding through the chill night wind on his bike. he only cares about david.

and david cares about him, too.

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A scene where Eddie comes to pick Buck up for whatever activity they’ve been planning to do (watch a game or what else), but the traffic was light enough for him to come over for a good 30 minutes early. so when he knocks the door, first he hears some indecipherable noises and then Buck’s face appears in a very much narrow door opening gap, so he can only see a half of it (very much flushed btw).

- heyy Eddie, you’re uh, you’re early

- hey man. yeah, the traffic was light. and I figured-

- yeah, yeah but uh- but we agreed on 7:30, and now it’s only 7

And Eddie’s eyebrows start to rise slowly, cause Buck is just… being weird?

- hey, you okay?

- yeah I’m fine, fine. It’s just you’re earl-

He’s interrupted with Tommy’s hand on his shoulder, who’s face appears silently in the doorframe behind him and just- looks at Eddie. Expression absolutely blank, like, zero emotions at all, he just looks and says nothing.

It goes for seconds before wheels in Eddie’s head finally start turning in the right direction and the clears his throat with:

- uh, yeah. I’m- i’m gonna go grab some coffee then.

and Tommy just closes the door.

[cureforbedbugs]

New mix -- Beverley Knight, Nia Archives, Anz, Amaarae, Angel Olsen, couple good things from Quebec.

[adhoori-kahani]

Sunoo,

Tum jo beete hue kal pe udaas ho aaj,

Woh jo dost reh gaaye hai qaid ab yaadon mein,

Keh rahe hai mudkar tumse,

Tumhara aane wala kal aur bhi khoobsurat hoga,

Peeche nahi ab aage dekho.

[yellowanz]

THIS

THHIIISS!!1

The plural of octopus is octopuses

Not octopi

The 'i' suffix is only for words with a Latin root, and octopus has a Greek root

A lot of people understandably mistake octopus for a Latin-rooted word because of the 'octo' bit, but it's actually Greek-rooted, so the rule for plurals is different

To reiterate: the plural of octopus is octopuses.

[wisteriagoesvroom]

another rarepair fan, yay!! i LOVE rarepairs (gax intrigue me very much, i went back to the politics au idea about three times lol). the hungary gp was literally my first live race so i'm still figuring out who goes where, etc, but at the moment i adore landoscar, they just give off very warm friends-to-lovers kind of vibes :) also shoutout to charlos and whatever they have going on, and golden retriever/black cat-coded bearnelli. equal opportunity multishipper all the way lol

do you have any fic recs? (for any ship) - @monegasquess

i rly need tsulaw to happen @monegasquess ... and i'd love an ANZ rivals narrative with oscar/jack doohan/liam lawson too even tho that's the whitest bread to ever white but there you go. also i think about jack doohan's slightly dumb jock cartwheel video whenever his name comes up, he's so funny to me.

"charlos and whatever they have going on" is so real lmao

bearnelli have potential!! they're just so babie to me so i feel like i'm cheering on nice but slightly bonkers highschool kids. it'll be cool to look back on this by 2028/29 🥲

like, wdym they're being set up as the next great generational rivalry when they act like THIS:

(it would be so refreshing for them to stay this way tbh even if it very likely won't)

p.s. thank you for going back to the gax political au kljfakldflksd it is very dear to me even if idk that i'd ever write it...

p.p.s. my first race was like, vegas last year so you're not alone in being new even if it feels like half a season is 7 lifetimes atp

[carlyleandco]

Campaigning for Lockwood & Co:

Prepare the kit bags and oil the iron chains Lock Nation. We aren’t done with this case yet.

I thought I’d compile a list of methods to voice our displeasure with Netflix’s recent decision for those of us who want to engage in saving the show.

The only string of hope I am holding onto right now is that Netflix was not the production company for the show, and as such Complete Fiction may hold more weight in its future than the former. Whilst Netflix doesn’t have a history of passing over cancelled shows to other platforms, that doesn’t mean it has never happened at all. “Uncoupled” recently got renewed by Showtime after being binned by Netflix. It’s not outside possibility.

We need to use streamlined hashtags to accompany posts on Netflix’s socials, on fan edits, and fan art; #bringbacklockwoodandco and #savelockwoodandco seem like good options to start with.

You can seek out the feedback options on Netflix’s online homepage to express your dissatisfaction.

Commenting on all of Netflix’s socials. And I mean all. For instance on Instagram alone we have Netflix US, Netflix UK, Netflix Geeked, Netflix ANZ, Netflix Brazil, Netflix Italia, Netflix Deutschland, Netflix Espana, Netflix France, Netflix KR, Netflix Queue and many more. As always I implore people to be passionate but POLITE AND RESPECTFUL. I know we are all upset, but let’s maintain composure whilst we voice our complaints. To further elaborate on this, our commenting needs to be sustained over a month at the very minimum for maximum impact.

Engage with other potential future streaming platforms. Disney+ isn’t worth our time as they have already announced massive cuts to productions due to the strike. Amazon Prime (specifically the UK branch), Paramount+, Apple TV, HBO, and the BBC are just some examples. Let’s comment and bring the show to their attention. This is what was done by fans of “The Expanse” when it was cancelled and Amazon eventually picked it up.

Consider writing to Netflix’s headquarters via old fashioned letters voicing your displeasure!

Take part in the watch party happening May 20th/21st!!

And let’s just keep spreading lots of love and share our joy for the show!

Will these methods most definitely ensure Lockwood finds its way back into production? No, I can’t attest to that. But will they at the very least let the creators, the actors, and Mr Stroud himself know how loved and appreciated this story was to us all? Absolutely yes.

If anyone out there has any other ideas, please feel free to brainstorm!

[yellowanz]

TTHHIS I'm honestly so tired of people saying "OC's" when it isn't possessive. Or any other acronym, for that matter.

plural acronyms do not have an apostrophe and neither do shortened decades. OCs & 80s is correct. OC's and 80's is incorrect (or possessive, as in, something belonging to one OC. "The OC's cat is nice to the other OCs.")

[ranticore]

curious about pronunciations of things- ik there are at least 2 language spoken (the phocid language with clicks and the languages the harpies speak that seems to be somewhat more universal), but i'm curious a.) if there are any other languages spoken on siren and b.) how the consonant "w" is pronounced? is it a "uu"/"wuu" sound/similar in any way to the pronunciation of the welsh "w"? are there differences in regional dialects between longwings/shortwings/etc? sorry this is so in depth,

Ooh good questions

a) Many different languages are spoken on Siren but there are three broad categories. There's spoken languages or "air" languages, all of which have a common root in English. There's click languages which are used underwater and produced using mixed tongue clicks and long, song-like vocals, these obviously can't have a root in English so they are less mutually intelligible than the air languages, with a few distinct families. And then there's sign languages used by zeta & anyone else who might need to use sign (deaf, mute etc). Zeta do not have tongues so they cannot vocalise the way most others can.

b) I haven't defined 'w' for Spire language but I do know that in pelagic spiral speech (a click language from the south-west) a written 'v' produces a 'waa' sound and there's no 'w', however this is just my own way of writing the words and i haven't worked or thought much about writing systems and alphabets.

c) Every language can be spoken by every type of person (with the sole exception discussed above). Even a shortwing can use & interpret click languages underwater (though in the absence of echolocating whiskers they might struggle with some intricacies). There's no such thing as a longwing dialect or the like because language is cultural and culture is based on geography. Everyone in that area speaks the language; most settlements are very mixed. I'm actively trying to avoid the common fantasy trope of like "elf language", the language spoken by elves (which elves? where? all of them??). I find it offers a very flattened and mistaken conception of what culture actually is.

Some language random facts: dry bowl language uses repeated sounds and syllables (names like pem-pem, kattakati, byin-byan). These are supposed to evoke bouncing and leaping actions, the language sounds very rhythmic spoken aloud

Misunderstandings of the spire's honourific chain system can lead to unintentional insults elsewhere in the world so people with spire names like qedi-var and kemi-anz will just introduce themselves as qedi or kemi to foreigners and go without suffixes in other languages

An air language is considered a very private, intimate way for pelagic people to talk with their loved ones. This is because murmuring some words into the other person's ear means that nosy eavesdroppers are unlikely to overhear. By comparison, if you say anything in a click language underwater, it can be heard hundreds of feet away and by everyone else in that radius. This inherent lack of privacy is hardbaked into many pelagic cultures, and in huarva's home village south of the spiral, air languages are strongly romanticised.

[yellowanz]

☼ this post is best viewed in light mode!

★︴ About me!

hi! my name is anz! im a normal guy trying 2 live my life :3

i’m a minor and I am transmasculine, genderfluid, bisexual, and grayromantic. my preferred pronouns are he/him and it/its, though I’m cool w anything!

i have many, many things i like and enjoy, from media to hobbies! here’s a huge list of the ones I can recount from the top of my head:

︴Media:

⋆ Yakuza/Like a Dragon ⋆ Camp Camp ⋆ FNAF ⋆ The Stanley Parable ⋆ Bluey ⋆ My Little Pony ⋆ Stray ⋆ Adventure Time & Fionna and Cake ⋆ Centaurworld ⋆ Steven Universe ⋆ Trolls ⋆ Moral Orel ⋆ Bojack Horseman ⋆ Smiling Friends …and more!

︴Ships:

⋆ Kazumaji ⋆ Stannarrator ⋆ Docmo ⋆ ProhibitedWish, Bubbline, and Gumlee …and more!

︴Interests:

⋆ English, writing, linguistics, & grammar ⋆ Art and drawing ⋆ 3D art ⋆ Kandi & Perler …and a lot more!

♡ feel free to interact with me anytime! I don’t bite. If you wish to speak with me personally, please contact me through tumblr DMs or ask me privately for my discord tag! ^_^

★︴ Do NOT interact if you…

⋆ are a proshipper. ⋆ are homophobic, racist, or anything similar. ⋆ are a MAP or a general creep. ⋆ fit into the basic DNI criteria.

✷ if I interact with anyone that fits into these categories, please let me know and I will immediately cut ties/remove anything about them from my blog! ✷

★︴ Blog tags!

because this blog is my main and there are lots and lots of posts of all different types, here’s some tags you can use as navigation to make your way around the blog! :3

⋆ #anz's art — my own art! ⋆ #anz's thoughts — miscellaneous posts that don’t fit into my other tags! ⋆ #anz's reblogs — all of my reblogs! ⋆ #anz's writing — my own writing! ⋆ #anz's lists — lists or very long posts I reblog for later! ⋆ #anz's duck collection — duck posts that I reblog! I love ducks :)

♡ I also attached these tags to the end of this post so you can easily travel throughout my blog with just a click!

★︴ Other socials or blogs!

︴Blogs:

⋆ @danvidweekcomeback (not associated with grillocestgrillo. yuck!) — a currently discontinued danvid week blog I ran twice in 2023 and 2024!

︴Socials:

⋆ currently, I have no socials I want to share! come back to this category later to see if things have changed! ^_^

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Seven Sentence Sunday

tagged by @evanbi-ckley 🩷✨ thank youuuu! I have no idea what I'm doing but here (that's hopefully gonna be 'what if Tommy never left 118' au piece):

“Not everyone wants to fuck you, okay? You’re thinking too much of yourself, you’re not that special.” Buck tightens his jaw but doesn’t reply to that. And if his face turns somewhat petrified, that’s exactly what Tommy was aiming – for that imp to shut up for once. He turns around and walks out of the locker room, but there’s one more thing he needs to add. Without slowing his pace, he throws his final over the shoulder: “In fact, you’re nothing special at all.” Burn baby, burn.

no pressure tagging @neverevan @steddielations and I'm too shy to tag anyone else but please feel yourself very much tagged if you want to share 😌❤️

[kenslilove]

I already have a Drabble in mind 😔

I’m going down a dark, dangerous path.. dark, dangerous and underwater path..

[reyaint]

ARiSEN GENESiS DR | intro

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date: october 13, 2024. 2:31 AM

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--took this off Pinterest bc it fits

𝒊𝒏𝒕𝒓𝒐𝒅𝒖𝒄𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑮𝑶𝑫𝑺

ARiSEN : GENESiS (아리센 : 창세기), often abbreviated as ARIGEN is a 8 member multinational south korean co-ed idol group under DeadSound Entertainment. the group consists of members; Vyjin, MORI, RiZE, anZ, ky, ZeNa, ACE, and CyPHER. they debuted on september 19, 2018 with mini album “ASCENSION” with the title track, “Hala Hala” and "SAY MY NAME". Before debut the group was a dance group but signed under JYP Entertainment before leaving together after not getting credited for their work and pretty much being put on the backburner. Right as they signed under their new label, DeadSound Entertainment, on july 5 2016, the group went on America’s Got Talent and ended up winning the season. Their identities were hidden up till debut.

INTRODUCTION: “ go up ! we are arisen genesis ! ” (may change bc this is boring)

FANDOM NAME: gods (신들)

LIGHTSTICK: (found off Pinterest)

-So you know how dreamcatcher has a mood light? well in my dr we have a mood light. Also there's a music mode where the light is controlled by the sound. There's also this part on the app that you link to your Spotify (or any streaming app that you like) and like if you play one of our songs depending on what member is singing the light changes. -It only works with our songs tho like it only recognizes our songs 😭 but yea pretty cool mood light -And the packaging for the lightstick is REALLY creative, like a lot of people keep the box because of how pretty it is

LOGO: (found off Pinterest)

OFFICIAL COLORS: gloomy blood (#7D1E20)

SUB-UNITS: 🪽SUR_REAL, 🩸OBLI_VIAN —SUR_REAL - MORI, anZ, ky, and ZeNa —OBLI_VIAN - Vyjin, RiZE ACE, and CyPHER

𝑼𝒏𝒎𝒂𝒔𝒌𝒆𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑮𝑶𝑫𝑺

VYJIN

Leader, Main Rapper, Vocalist, Composer, Producer

April 8, 2000

Aries

Italian-Korean

Rep Emoji; 🦊

MBTI; ENTJ

193cm (6’4)

VC; Guozhi, Chogakusei

MORI

Vocalist, Rapper, Visual, Lyricist

January 11, 2000

Capricorn

Japanese-Russian-Quarter Chinese

Rep Emoji; 🐺

MBTI; ENTP

172 cm (5’8″)

VC; KOKO

RiZE

Main Dancer, Vocalist, Visual

September 9, 2000

Virgo

Korean-Netherlands

Rep Emoji; 🐻

MBTI; ISFP

186 cm (6’1”)

VC; Singyeo

anZ (me)

Main Vocal, Lead Dancer, Songwriter, Center, Rapper

November 17, 2001

Scorpio

Haiqinian

Rep Emoji; 🦁

MBTI; ISTG (formerly INTJ)

177cm (5’9)

VC: 96neko, Rubyeye

KY

Vocalist, Rapper, Composer, Visual

November 25, 2001

Sagittarius

Hawaiian-Korean

Rep Emoji; 🐬

MBTI; ISFJ

178 cm (5’10″)

VC; 6FU

ZeNA

Lead Vocalist, Lead Dancer

March 23, 2002

Aries

Korean-Chinese

Rep Emoji; 🐯

MBTI; ESFP

178.5 cm (5’10”)

VC; Serafina

ACE

Main Dancer, Main Rapper, Vocalist

August 9, 2002

Leo

Japanese

Rep Emoji; 🦝

MBTI; ESFP

184 cm (6’0″)

VC; Chogakusei

CyPHER

Main Dancer, Vocalist, Maknae

October 1, 2002

Libra

Filipino-Korean

Rep Emoji; 🐶

MBTI; ESFP

180 cm (5’11″)

VC; Dacapo

𝑩𝒆𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑮𝑶𝑫𝑺

-I scripted our debut was kind of unknown in korea, but internationally we went popular pretty fast since we were on AGT

-We wore masquerade like masks on AGT

-We are known to have the best visuals and stage presence (bc yeah)

-Our storyline is pretty in depth and interesting. Debating if I want a webcomic or show.

-We produce and write most of our songs, as well as choreograph them. But obvi we have help from the company if needed

-Tbh the discography i created i like but don't like SOOOOO. I need to add Japanese and sub unit comebacks🥲😥😖

-We ALWAYS have really iconic stages

-We have a signature dance move in all of our dances

-We have our own signature ending fairy pose

-We are a group that masters dancing so we have really hard choreographies and when we dance we are on sync. I feel like that's to be expected since we were a dance group before debut SOOO.

-Gonna be real, idk many of the fcs I chose for my members so i apologize. I just went on Pinterest.

[alpineshift]

find a blorbo!: a tag game for the new NHL season

RULES: Go through the roster of each NHL team and find at least one player that you can root for.

tagged by the legendary @imperatorrrrr ! my knowledge of hockey teams is spotty at best save for my top tier blorbos so just know that players come and go in my mind like ships passing in the night and I am not wearing my glasses as I witness them. If I know them I'll know them. More often than not I will look at a hockey icon and go "who?" 🫣

Anaheim Ducks - Brian Dumolin (Dumo! Former Pens! This is also how I found out he's now with the ducks wtf)

Boston Bruins - Charlie McAvoy

Buffalo Sabres - Jason Zucker

Calgary Flames - Kevin Bahl

Carolina Hurricanes - Seth Jarvis (Harvard shirt with huge arm holes. born 2002 looks like he's 36. Wrote his name with upside down goggles on messily but legibly then went oh hey! that's my normal writing anyway. absolute icon)

Chicago Hockey Team - Connor Bedard

Colorado Avalanche - Gabe Landeskog

Colombus Blue Jackets - Adam Fantilli

Dallas Stars - Wyatt Johnson, Jason Robertson (favourite paper mâché blorbos - two guys with :] smiles and cannot grow playoff facial hair)

Detroit Red Wings - Olli Maatta (fond of him from his Pens days)

Edmonton Oilers - Zach Hyman, Ryan Nugent-Hopkins

Florida Panthers - Aleksander Barkov

Los Angeles Kings - Anze Kopitar

Minnesota Wild - Marc-Andre Fleury 🌸

Montreal Canadiens - Cole Caufield

Nashville Predators - Roman Josi

New Jersey Devils - NICO. NICO HISCHIER. DO YOU KNOW NICO? HISCHIER. NICO HISCHIER. IT'S NICO. NICO. 🦭

New York Islanders - Bo Horvat

New York Rangers - Mika Zibanejad (I learned this summer he's a DJ?? what??)

Ottawa Senators - Tim Stutzle

Philadelphia Flyers - Travis Konecny (tiki bar my fave genre aware fella)

Pittsburgh Penguins - Sidney Crosby (who doubles as the corporate-appropriate "celebrity" crush answer I have on rotation for icebreakers)

San Jose Sharks - Will Smith (I know he just got here but that tiktok of him swinging his bag around was very endearing)

Seattle Kraken - Jamie Oleksiak

St. Louis Blues - Pierre-Olivier Joseph, Mathieu Joseph (joseph bros accidental mutual high sticking moment in front of their parents u will always be famous to me)

Tampa Bay Lightning - Conor Sheary (also largely from his Pens days)

Toronto Maple Leafs - Mitch Marner (thinking of the :) tattoo he got recently :(((( )

Utah Hockey Club - John Marino (Johnnyyyyyyy)

Vancouver Canucks - Quinn Hughes (my most haunted guy)

Vegas Golden Knights - Zach Whitecloud

Winnipeg Jets - Genuinely, from the bottom of my heart, I do not know a single person on this team lmfao not a single guy here the Jets have finally stumped me

Washington Capitals - Nicklas Backstrom, Dylan Strome

[444lpblue]

The Witch and the Beast #2 - The Witch's Pastime: Final Act

Screenplay: Yuuichirou Momose Storyboard: Toshiyuki Sone Episode Direction: Masahiko Suzuki Chief Episode Direction: Makoto Tamagawa Chief Animation Direction: Hiroya Iijima Animation Direction: Makoto Shimojima, Kazuharu Tada, Miyoko Shikibu, Miyako Nishida, Geun-Su Lim (Monster AD: Shouya Gotou) Key Animation: Yuka Anze, Yasunori Yamaguchi, Kouichi Takai, Ryou Suzuki, Mizuki Nakane, Shouya Gotou, Tomokazu Gunji, Aya Nagumo, Mayu Nakamura, Mitsuyo Tsuno, Riku Yamahira, Kazumasa Takeuchi, Hideo Maru, Seon-Hui Kim, Studio Toy Box, Kou Kitakaze

Better late than never, right? On my first watch of this episode, I'm not going to lie; I was a bit harsh on it. I couldn't keep the inconsistency and off-model nature of the episode out of my mind (most of which I hope will be fixed in the Blu-rays), and it kind of blinded me in my real assessment of this episode. I want you guys to keep in mind that this is one of my favorite mangas of all time, so I have very high standards for it. Seeing these production issues crop up just isn't a great feeling when the animation itself is already quite limiting.

Despite all of that, I'd still describe it as a reasonably decent episode, though not quite on par with episode 1. However, it did feature some remarkable shots that were visually stunning, courtesy once again of Hirotsugu Kakoi's art direction plus his team at Kagoshima Ramecahirim. The storyboarder of this episode, Toshiyuki Sone, while quite derivative of the manga, I believe, had many shots that make great use of the excellent background art and has a serious sense of depth.

When the scenes are good, they're REALLY good. I've noticed that the show particularly shines during nighttime, and I absolutely love it; it has become my favorite visual aspect of the series so far. Recently, I saw someone describe The Witch and the Beast as a grotesque and gory show, which is only partly true. This manga is aesthetically inclined, balancing the gory and the beautiful, and I believe these specific shots emphasize that quality. The new city setting is dark, empty, and moody, yet it's visually captivating—almost like eye candy. The ethereal lights style, illuminating everything, coupled with the depth and details presented in the aftermath of the victims, all come together in a gory yet beautiful amalgamation for example.

The animation in this episode was still overall limiting, but it wasn't one that particularly needed much per the narrative (of this episode). As mentioned before, the consistency really bothers me, along with some odd choices that could perhaps be attributed to the direction of this episode. The zoom in with Ashaf casting his spell looked low-res when zoomed in and somewhat disrupted my immersion in the episode. Guideau hitting the handrails had this weird effect applied instead of proper animation, which felt awkward. The entire restaurant scene in the second half of the episode was extremely off-model. Despite these issues, the actual episode, both in the narrative adaptation and the background/board ideas, still meshes pretty well with my vision of the manga.

I also hope that, considering this is arguably one of the less important arcs, when we reach Episode 4, which focuses on Johan and Phanora's arc or beyond (don't worry, I'll write about Episode 3 right after this), there will be an improvement in the production levels compared to what we've seen in this episode. I'm optimistic that they've been saving their staff for these more significant episodes. While I acknowledge that this isn't the best production ever, I appreciate the art direction, some of the storyboarding has been quite good, and the show as a whole has been a decent adaptation of the manga. However, I would like to see more consistency going forward.

[studyscrasic]

Langblr Reactivation Challenge 2.2 - Part 2

Write an explanation on a grammar rule in your target language (such as verb tenses, exceptions, word order, etc). Include sentences to show how and when it is used.

Continuing with the same idea as last time, today I'm going to go over some tips for identifying feminine nouns in German!

Things (as opposed to living beings or ideas) ending in "-e" tend to be feminine (ex: die Rose, die Grense, die Ecke, die Gitare)

Nouns ending in "-anz" tend to be feminine (ex: die Dissonanz)

Nouns ending in "-enz" tend to be feminine (ex: die Frequenz)

Nouns ending in "-ung" tend to be feminine (ex: die Zeitung, die Bedeutung, die Prüfung)

Nouns ending in "-ur" tend to be feminine (ex: die Prozedur)

Trees , fruits and flowers are often feminine (ex: die Eiche, die Birke, die Pflaume, die Tulpe, die Chrysantheme)

Countries and provinces ending in "-e," "-a," "-ei," and "-ie" tend to be feminine (ex: die Turkei)

Nouns ending in "-ei" tend to be feminine (ex: die Datei, die Partei)

Nouns ending in "-ie" tend to be feminine (ex: die Drogerie, die Geographi, die Demokratie, die Komödie, die Industrie)

Nouns ending in "-ik" tend to be feminine (ex: die Musik)

Most of the nouns deriving from verbs and ending in "-t" are feminine (ex: die Ankunft, die Fahrt, die Macht, die Aussicht)

Nouns ending in "-heit" tend to be feminine (ex: die Gesundheit)

Nouns ending in "-keit" tend to be feminine (ex: die Möglichkeit, die Schnellingkeit, die Einsamkeit, die Fähigkeit)

Many compounds of "der Mut" are actually feminine (ex: die Anmut, die Armut, die Demut, die Langmut, die Großmut, die Sanftmut, die Schwermut, die Wehmut)

Nouns ending in "-sion" tend to be feminine (ex: die Explosion)

Nouns ending in "-tion" tend to be feminine (ex: die Revolution)

Nouns ending in "-schaft" (similar to the English "ship") tend to be feminine (ex: die Freundschaft)

Nouns ending in "-sis" tend to be feminine (ex: die Basis)

Nouns ending in "-tät" (similar to the English "-ty") tend to be feminine (ex: die Universität, die Realität)

In general, there are fewer categories of feminine nouns, but still plenty of grammatical endings that tend to be feminine.

90% of the words that end in "-e" are feminine. One of the exceptions to this rule is words that end in "-e," but begin with "ge-"

Most words that end in "-nis" or "-sal" are neuter, but the exceptions to this rule (most of them coming from adjectives or states of mind) are feminine (ex: die Bitternis, die Finsternis, die Besorgnis, die Betrübnis, die Erkenntnis, die Erlaubnis, die Mühsal)