#but that's boring

[midnightmah07]

Christmas is getting closer and closer and I STILL don't know what type event I wanna host during that time

[taylortruther]

hope this isn't an invasive question, but you're a pretty popular blog. how did you get that way?

i've had it since 2020, and started as a niche kaylor debunking blog, which got me a small following early on. i've always done lyric/song analysis, and in 2022 i just focused more on that and general taylor content. most of my popular posts are song analysis. but idk, i think the key is really just being consistently active, being opinionated, and interacting with blogs you like. you have to interact with other blogs by commenting, rbing, adding tags, sharing your opinions. i did that, and over time, other blogs started reblogging me more and that got me more followers. and i think people know my blog is good for longer more thoughtful commentary on stuff (this sounds SOOOO egotistical lmao) and i stay true to that, instead of trying to be an update account or chart tracking account or something. idk! time and patience and being welcoming have served me better than anything.

[strifesolution]

SHAKES YOUUU. AGAIN.

Both me and Alto had been checking for any new updates for the past few days and then we saw the update notif and both went O_O. We're so invested in our cowboys you don't even understand

Anyways, some things we noticed on during our reading:

-The Jack-Kevin kiss was smooth as hell

-The 5 bullets in the gun... the five rounds, six cylinders...

-"He wishes they were here to answer the question for him. He has never missed someone he didn’t even get the chance to meet, until now.". Just. Man. Dan's parents would've loved the other 4 so much and they never got the chance

-Kiwo. :(

-The worrying about Daithi and Brian. Their Daithi and Brian. Mannn

-Dan with the tnt (We both pointed this out individually, lmao)

Anyways we're emotionally invested and terrified! Keep up the great work!

EHEHEHE!!!!! You have no idea how happy your book club makes us I LOVE it I'm so excited to finish this fic up :] <333

Fun fact! Dan loading his gun like that is historically accurate! (x) (x)

Also all I can really say here is oddly enough the best part about when we finish this fic is GETTING TO WORK ON ALL THE SPINOFF AND ONESHOT IDEAS WE'VE FORBIDDEN OURSELVES FROM WORKING ON BEFORE THE MAIN THING IS DONE. We wanna write more about Dan's moms and do something exploring Arc 2 through Kiwo and Mango's POVs and WILBUR STUFFFFFF that fic is gonna go hard it's the first thing I wanna write after I'm HYPED

[stumbling-towards-the-light]

All Named Free Folk Groups

Confirmed:

Hornfoots

Thenns

Ice River Clan

Craster's Keep and/or Wives

Harma Dogshead's Clan

Tormund Giantsbane's Clan

Lord of Bones' Clan

Whitetree

The Weeper's Clan

Hardhome

Skagosi

Not Confirmed: (based on official maps, anything named probably had a group of people living there)

Milkwater

Skirling Pass

The Gorge

Antler River

Frostfangs

Fist of the First Men

[blujayonthewing]

I have a bunch of Tasks I want or need to do before our trip, and the objectively most important one is going through my clothes/ doing laundry/ prepping to pack for a week of baseline human travel needs, but in my heart I'm prioritizing making a watercolor sketchbook and prepping camping gear and skills, and in my actual behavior I am on tumblr

[bixels]

As gen-AI becomes more normalized (Chappell Roan encouraging it, grifters on the rise, young artists using it), I wanna express how I will never turn to it because it fundamentally bores me to my core. There is no reason for me to want to use gen-AI because I will never want to give up my autonomy in creating art. I never want to become reliant on an inhuman object for expression, least of all if that object is created and controlled by tech companies. I draw not because I want a drawing but because I love the process of drawing. So even in a future where everyone’s accepted it, I’m never gonna sway on this.

[magpie-to-the-morning]

I don’t WANT a career. I want to cuddle and sleep and eat and read and create and love and be loved.

[inkskinned]

please i love you i'm begging you bring back suspension of disbelief bring back trusting the audience like. i cannot handle any more dialogue that sounds like a legal document. "hello, i am here to talk to you about the incident from a few minutes ago, because i feel you might be unwell, and i am invested in your personal wellbeing." "thank you, i am unwell because the incident was hurtful to me due to my childhood, which was bad." I CANT!!!!

do you know how many people are mad that authors use "growled" as a word for "said"? it's just poetics! they do not literally mean "growled," it's just a common replacement for "said with force but in a low tone." it's normal! do you hear me!! help me i love you please let me out of here!!!

[evidently-endless]

i think we should remind musicians they can absolutely make up little stories for their songs btw. it doesn’t have to be about them at all. you can invent a guy and put him in situations to music. time honoured tradition in fact.

[batboyblog]

it's true and you should say it.

[roseworth]

i think theres this idea in the general public that the "best" fanfic gets turned into real books like 50 shades of grey. but the truth is that the best fanfic can never be published as an actual book because its intricately woven into the canon material so its inseparable even if you change the names

[infectiouspiss]

[ered]

Here’s my take on the whole audio books vs. reading:

Oral tradition of storytelling predates written ones by millennias, and honestly, which one you like is just a personal preference.

The actual difference is

when listening, you have no idea how to write characters’ names

when reading, you have no idea how to pronounce characters’ names

hope this helps!

[miwachan2]

please reblog for a bigger sample size

RESULTS:

[micewithknives]

I let myself rest and now I'm daydreaming about academia and academic research and writing again