#does manuscript tumblr exist?

[allthefoolmine]

I think that script is protogothic. or gothic. The feet of the letters are pointing right, so it’s probably written after 1100 or 1200CE?

Capital C from the first page of Catullus manuscript G.

[physalian]

On self-publishing, and why I did it

Based on the research that I have done, following other indie authors across multiple platforms, I think I've made an approach to this that is a lot less... shall we say, *intense* than people make it out to be? I've seen some YouTube videos acting like picking one route or the other might be the worst mistake of your author career.

I mean, I guess?

Back a few years ago I had a manuscript I was querying around and couldn't find any takers. Couldn't find any publishing houses that were accepting open submissions to pick up my manuscript either. So many of them had clauses in the application verifying that you were submitting to them and only to them and to expect a reply within 8-10 months. Coooool.

I did not have time for that.

—

The manuscript I had was 120k words. Baby’s first novel sitting at 120k words is not attractive to publishing houses. It’s a risk. I was younger and didn’t know much about finding an agent and all that jazz, so I had looked into self-publishing and was staring down an editor bill of about $3k minimum because of my word count. I did not have the money for that.

So that manuscript got shelved, meanwhile I wrote the sequel and got halfway through book 3 before writer’s block took hold.

Enter February 2024. I have an idea for a new book. 31 days later, I have that book’s first draft done—Eternal Night of the Northern Sky, on sale from draft to publication in seven months.

This time, I didn’t consider for one second trying the traditionally published route. ENNS is 111k words, it’s a doorstopper of a book, but the bulk wasn’t the only reason I decided to bootstrap myself to the finish line.

I wanted complete, absolute creative control every step of the way

If I have to market myself anyway, why am I splitting profit with a publishing house?

I *really* don’t have time to wait around hoping the right person sees my manuscript. I have a new job coming that’s going to eat up all my free time and could either delay ENNS a year or more, or get it out while I still had time to do so

I didn’t do this for money

I think that’s what makes so many of those rather intense arguments for one or the other so harrowing—the pressure is a lot higher if you invested all this time, money, and effort expecting returns to break even, if not actually turn a profit. Publishing with a publisher doesn’t guarantee people will buy your book, mind you, but it’s a helping hand nonetheless. If I even want to break even, let's say just on royalties from the ebook, I'd have to sell over a thousand copies.

Breaking down my above points:

I’m a firm believer in “if you want something done right, you do it yourself,” which does bite me in the ass from time to time, this I know. I didn’t want to get caught up in contracts or editors telling me what I could and couldn’t do or what I had to change. If ENNS fails, I will have no one to blame but myself, and I am at peace with this. If ENNS fails, and I’d gone through the trouble of signing my book’s soul away to a publisher, then I’d probably be a little resentful. 100% of ENNS is mine, even the cover. I had an image in my head of what I wanted the cover to look like, and I sat down and I drew it and it matches perfectly. Aside from the feedback implemented from betas and editors, my story is told the way I wanted to tell it. If it fails, I am at peace with this.

On marketing, I am not a person who does well with social media. Maybe it’s autism, idk, but trying to keep up with an Instagram is exhausting. I just don’t get anything from tiny text posts and blurbs and doomscrolling through influencers and advertisements. Social Media is, for me, exhausting. Tumblr is different, because writing is my strong point and this blog exists to share and curate something useful. But either way, I’d have to market this book alone, so why not do so with full creative control? If it fails, I am at peace with this.

I have a new job coming very quickly. My current job allows me about 5 hours of free time during my 8 hour shift on a good day not including the time outside work, and I work from home. ENNS was written in 31 days thanks to this job. The new one? Not so much. Seeing “please allow 8-10 months” and “please ensure this is an exclusive submission” on so many little publishing houses, and I did search far and wide, was incredibly disheartening. For me, personally, it wasn’t worth the gamble of waiting all that time, following the rules, and being told no or just being flat-out ghosted. Nor did I want to sit around querying agents into the void. This time, I didn’t have time to sift through agents. ENNS had to get out on the shelves as quickly as I could get it, and all that time (five goddamn months of editing, 500% of the time it took to write it) was spent perfecting the manuscript that it is, *not* waiting around trying to find an agent. If it fails, I am at peace with this.

And lastly, I don’t care if I make absolutely nothing from this book. I didn’t do it for the money, I did it to say I could. I have a day job, and I’m about to have a much higher paying day job. Maybe I’m lucky enough to have that, but I am under no illusions that putting in the hard work guarantees success. Success as an author is a crapshoot and being an amazing book is not the metric sales are measured in, if no one wants to read it. I’d like to make money, I didn’t do it for charity. It’s going to be priced exactly the same as another fantasy book of its caliber. But if only one person buys it, and finds something good from it, something in it that changes their life, then I will have succeeded, profit be damned. If all else fails, I am at peace with this.

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This is not a post meant to sway people one way or the other. I know I didn’t do enough research or scour the internet hard enough to find a good agent. All of this is irrelevant when time was the most important factor in my debut novel. I was in a position where I could drop that $3k on an editor, so I did. I’m a capable enough artist to draw my own cover, so I did. I might be abysmal at managing social accounts, but less than a year ago this blog didn’t exist and it has over 5k reblogs and 950 followers and I think that’s pretty swell.

I’m 25 years old. I was not about to let it keep sitting around waiting for the golden opportunity with the perfect publishing house that might not have been coming. I had the means and motive to get it done, and by god, I did it.

If it fails, at least I can say that I failed trying. I am at peace with this.

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Eternal Night of the Northern Sky is available now on Amazon in ebook and paperback! It is also available through your local bookstore.

Check it out on Goodreads!

[paraphwrites]

for the ask game:

12: how does receiving/not receiving feedback or support impact you?

17: what do you do when writing becomes difficult? (Writers block, lack of motivation, etc)

40: if someone were to make fanart of your work, what scene or fic would you most want to see?

12) i used to care a lot more about seeing support, but since i joined tumblr and dbdahaunt and started talking to more people, i've felt a lot chiller about posting something and peopling not caring. like, oh well? i worked hard & the people i love care & that is what matters. and sometimes it's a bit sad, when something you work on hard doesn't find it's audience, but it's okay to be sad sometimes, so i'm not bothered too much

as for feedback. i mean don't bully me?? but i'm totally open to constructive feedback. i might not take it, depending on what it is, but i like hearing what people think, and it can help me course correct. like i said before, if i got an information bit wrong, dear god please tell me. i don't know so many things. if you know something i don't let me know. i will probably fix it. unless it is rather integral to the plot and it's too late, or it's super minor and i just don't care

17) so personally, writer's block isn't something i deal with all too often. writing is like breathing, for me. the only times i've properly felt it has been when i start writing in a different tone/genre than usual (ex. non au's are really fuckin challenging for me because i never wrote fantasy/supernatural before this).

honestly usually i just force myself to write it. like yeah it might be shit but at least it will exist and that's better than not. sometimes that doesn't work tho and i end up working on the same oneshot for 6 weeks and have exactly 2k to show for it and that's just unfortunately how it is ocasionally

if this is asking for advice?? probably read something similar to what you hope to write, make yourself a cute themed playlist, set aside specific times to write, and don't be afraid to write something shitty. because sometimes what we write sucks. but it's better to have written something bad than to have not written anything at all.

40) IF ANYONE WANTS TO MAKE ANY FANART OF ANY OF MY WORKS I WOULD AUTOMATICALLY BE HONORED??? LIKE THAT'S LIKE THE HIGHEST COMPLIMENT THERE IS. anyway probably Manuscript because I think it's the most fanart-able. though Lemonade & Sunrises would be cool as SHIT to see fanart for tho that would be so hard to draw. but no literally anything is automatically just so to die for.

[wolfofansbach]

Personal thoughts and meditations upon the occasion of the Riverdale series finale. 

Probably like four people are going to read this but I feel compelled to write it out anyway. This show has genuinely been a massive part of my life. I watched the first episode because some high school friends encouraged me to (IRONICALLY, BRO). I was in high school when I started this show. Those friends of course long ago fell away, unable to continue, unable to wacth anymore, but I have kept the faith. All seven seasons. Every. Single. Episode.

I’m not even entirely sure what captivated me so much about the show. I loved the atmosphere of season 1. I genuinely wanted to find out who killed Jason Blossom. Was genuinely fucked up by episode 1 x 12 and the first season finale.

I have such fond memories of watching the first season. I distinctly remember a road-trip I Tok with my friends the summer of 2017, and joking about  maple syrup drug empires and the “weirdo” line back when that was the wildest scene on the show. Joking about how sick of the song ‘Believer’ by Imagine Dragons (2017) we were. 

And then I decided to get involved in a fandom for the first time in a couple of years, and so I revived my old Tumblr, and I began Posting. And reading posts.  

That was my last summer after high school and I was so nervous about college but this show and this fandom helped me get through it. My freshman year I lived in a dorm, and if you wanted to watch TV you had to go down to this common room, so every Thursday I would go down there like an hour ahead of time and occupy the place to make sure the remote was in my hands by 7 PM. A few times I failed, and I missed an episode because of it. But rarely! 

I remember that slowly dawning feeling as season 2 progressed. Scrolling my Tumblr feed and slowly seeing people come to the realization: “wait…is it just me or does this show actually suck.” Was kind of frustrating at the time, realizing that the writers just like…were bad, but in retrospect? Beautiful. Incredible. Legendary. 

And you could even say that’s where the fun really began. Yes, there’s plenty to hate, but also Riverdale is brilliant. The show of all time. For real. No other show has done it like Riverdale. They just haven't, and they never will. The age of the cable television teen drama is ending, and what a hell of a last hurrah Riverdale has been.

The Red Circle. Jingle Jangle. The Gargoyle King. Edgar Evernever and his fantastic rocket. Bret Weston Wallis and Donna Sweett (genuinely cannot say their names without giggling). Jughead getting hit in the head with a rock and faking his death for like…some reason? I genuinely can’t remember, something to do with the Hardy Brothers idk. Tabitha sprinkling the devil with the tears of the Virgin Mary. The normies can laugh all they want about “epic highs and lows” but do they remember the even funnier lines like “if there’s no wedding, that means the gargoyle king has won” or “word of my exploits serving Nick his comeuppance…” THEY NEVER WILL. ONLY THE TRUE FAITHFUL UNDERSTAND. 

And is silly as it all was, I have genuine affection for these characters. Like Betty, Veronica, Jughead, Archie, Cheryl, Toni, actually mean a lot to me. YES they’re fake but I want the best for them (and for Beronica to be canon but you know we can’t win them all). I’m genuinely grateful that this show has existed and been a part of my life for the past six years. 

Moreover, I credit this show for seriously getting into writing. I’ve actually written almost a million words of Riverdale fanfiction. Much of it will never see the light of day, but it exists. Maybe I even have one or two left in me, I don’t know. At the very least I’d like to finish a few uncompleted fics. But I’ve also branched out. Since I started seriously writing in 2017, I’ve also finished several original manuscripts, and who knows, maybe one day I’ll get one published. Stranger things have happened. 

So, thanks Roberto.

And thanks to all of the very cool people I’ve run into in this fandom. I honestly wish I’d gotten to know most of you better, but them’s the breaks. Hopefully this isn’t weird but I’m going to tag a few people in particular. 

@village-skeptic. I know you’re not in the fandom anymore (lucky you), but thank you for, once upon a time, reading every one of the 200,000+ words of a 17-year-old kid’s turgid, indulgent, Riverdale Spanish Civil War fan fiction. I never, ever would have finished that story without you, and I credit it with giving me the confidence to keep writing, and in fact to write everything I’ve written since then. You’re brilliant and awesome. 

@satelliteinasupernova. Thank you for also reading Interbellum (are we noticing a pattern), and more importantly for all of your wonderful drawings. INCLUDING fanart of some of my fics. You have no idea how happy that Strange Death of Elizabeth Cooper piece made me. You rule. 

@sullypants. You were a perennial presence on my feed. Always wonderful to see. I love your taste in art, and I love those ‘penguin classics’ covers you made for a few of my fics. Thank you also for beta reading a few fics for me back in the glory days. And thank you for chatting with me a couple times over the years, including a few times when I was in quite unhappy places. 

@stillhidden. I’m not sure if we’ve ever actually talked, but you like or reblog everything I post and it makes me feel like I’m not just shouting into the void. Same goes for @frauleinfunf Thank God for dutiful mutuals. 

@sonyascomet. I can’t remember when I started following you but you have a really good sense of humor. And I’ll always remember when you kept posting about “Greg” for Succession and I, not knowing anything about Succession, kept imagining Greg Heffley. 

@stillhidden thank you for your world-weary Riverdale posts. You truly understand fandom like few others.

@halcooper. Your devotion to the neglected parents of Riverdale is truly admirable. Every time I see Lochlyn Munro in some weird low budget horror movie I’ll think of you.

I hope I didn’t forget anyone who would be offended by my forgetting, but I doubt it. 

All this to say this show has been a genuinely huge part of my life for six years. SIX YEARS. I graduated college, my God. I wish I could say I became a millionaire or a successful author in that time, but nah. Maybe one day, but for now I’m just kind of vibing. And unfortunately, I’ll have to vibe without Riverdale from now on. 

But as I sit myself down to watch the very last episode of this show, I remind myself that we’ll always have the memories. And I’ll always be an unapologetic Riverdale enjoyer. As a great man once said, snakes don’t shed their skins so easily. 

[chronotopes]

12.6.24

i want to get a needlessly expensive haircut so badly but convincing myself having gay little curtain bangs would fix me instead of making me worse is probably self-deluding on a deep level. i also want to buy a second cardigan thats identical to the cardigan i already own but in a different color, which is a little bit more practical and necessary. i just want to be able to ponytail my hair without hating how i look in the mirror and i hate having a Bare Forehead and i hate doing the stupid little Swoop that dates me straight to 2014. sigh. but also almost every time i change my hair i freak out jo march style and hate it. have been dealing with the consequences of the last time i tried to change something for like 8 months now. however long ago may was.

seeing friends tonight!!!!!!!! (at the very least mo + billie + rob + amara, others might show up.) seeing improv tonight, which i'm sure will have its moments and also its non-moments.

one day i need to publish an essay that isn't about stephen because right now i'm coming up on two for two. embarrassing really. if he could be around to do it he would mock my lack of range. anyway enough of that. throws up.

I'M NORMAL!!!!!

ekko astral is a good band and so is native sun and so is dim wizard even though we missed most of their set lmao

i really have no business feeling a Profound Emptiness In My Chest and Crying All The Time today i am literally seeing friends tonight and christmas is in 19 days even though were rather #peeved at jennys mom rn, and new years eve is in 24 days even though ivan and melinda won't be there and the party atmosphere will thus be rather subdued. and we're seeing another concert in the city a week from yesterday and hosting a party a week from today and making french onion soup tomorrow. and i'm rereading my favorite book faster than i've read any book all year. there is literally so much to not cry every day about. it's literally just The Agonies Of My Period lol. fucking skill issue

nobody besides me is blogging about the epic highs and lows of being rose wilder lane on tumblr.com except one of those 'have not interrogated these books from my childhood very strongly' little house people whos making wrong vibes-based claims about the little house authorship "controversy" (lol). "the style here is going rose vibes" how about the manuscript in Clearly Not Lane's Handwriting that extremely already exists. how does that factor into your feelings about stylistics. we can find the bits of the books that lane had the biggest most direct hand in because they are really obvious and, oftentimes, documented. wilder wrote and even sometimes published pieces that clearly have the little house dna. the broad shape of this collaboration is not a "mystery" that a Blogger on Tumblr needs to weigh in on and pick a side on, grow up

i wish there could be a tv miniseries about rose wilder lane. i would watch the hell out of that but i would only trust caroline fraser and the editors of the annotated pioneer girl and ann romines a team of underlings (including me, i could be an underling) to create it. there are so many riveting human stories in history and shes one of them but that doesnt stop her from being kind of a ~villain~ and it certainly doesn't make her the Secret Author of books with, once again, known and existing manuscripts that are not in her handwriting. how are you going to do stylistic analysis of two women who have extremely fucking extensive bodies of work and lived in the 19th/20th centuries. if it's shitty history when people do Authorship Controversies with shakespeare it's laughable about 20th century writers. girl the manuscripts!!!!

i distracted myself with a ~Special Interest~ or whatever the kids are calling it these days and successfully made myself less sad. yay!!!

[auraboo]

Get to know me tag

Tagged by: @yoiku - thanks for the tag! I've really missed this part of Tumblr culture, it's been literal years since I last saw these things in the wild.

Last song: Queen of Kings (Italiano) by Alessandra Mele. I've been on a Eurovision kick since this year's final and I looooove the Italian cover of this song. It has lowkey become a character song for the main antagonist of the second book in my fantasy trilogy, and since I've been writing a lot of scenes involving her recently, I've been blasting the song on repeat for hours :'D I love my angriest daughter very much

Currently reading: The Faithless by C.L. Clark, Over My Dead Body by Sweeney Boo, and getting started on a whole pile of manga that I just received in the mail (the first 2 volumes of Mao by Rumiko Takahashi and vols 3-4 of Idol Dreams by Arina Tanemura). I love reading, I almost always have a book or two at hand, and way more in my library bookings queue.

Currently watching: Rewatching a bunch of Trine playthroughs. I don't really watch stuff otherwise - my attention span for watching shows or movies is non-existent, I can't do anything else if I want to remember what I just watched and it drives me up the wall to just sit still doing nothing for hours - but I like having game videos about my favourite games on the background while drawing or painting. I've also been watching a lot of Sailor Moon collector videos recently.

Current obsession: Does my manuscript count? My creative life has pretty much orbited around it for the past 2-3 years and there's no end in sight, I can't go a day without thinking about my characters. Author problems #489871.

In the fandom sense, Sailor Moon is my current #1 obsession - I recently managed to get my first Q Posket figures (Venus and Mars!) and they did something funny to my little fangirl heart. It makes me so happy to see them in the bookshelf with my tiny Sailor Moon collection, my girls are so pretty! I've never been a fan of figurines, but I fell in love with Q Poskets when I first saw images of them. I want Cosmos so badly aaaaa

Tagging: not sure how well the tagging system works on Tumblr nowadays/if people even get notifications about them, but here goes: @tehri, @cypjj, @lamppuart, @lemsart, @nappi. No pressure, though!

[xsoldier]

It's like he's TRYING to broadcast to the entire world how little he knows about any of the things he's doing and how he's eliminated all of the competent staff who would normally prevent this kind of thing.

Like "Twitter" is one of the most globally recognizable brands in the WORLD, and trying to achieve that type of marketing awareness is INSANELY difficult, not to mention that effective SEO for a single letter is basically impossible to achieve.

For example: think about searching for something like "Jack Black Twitter" and now think about the search for "Jack Black X" how likely are you to land on the result you're trying to find? There's a REASON companies choose names that are natural sounding but slightly obscure. Google, Bing, Yahoo, MySpace, Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, TikTok etc. are names designed to effectively optimize the ability for search engines to locate and elevate the results when people are looking for them. Now think about how many other pages have "X" in them and how a search engine can effectively surface that.

The worst part of this is that this is what the ultra rich are capable of doing to an entire communications system at their whim. Imagine if this was a private postal service, but if it suddenly shut down, every letter or piece of mail that you'd ever sent with them would also vanish. Like, there will be Internet Archive backups, but that's mostly it.

Back in the early 2000s, if your admin went fucking nuts & privated the whole community, if they became mad with power and drove everything into the ground, if someone just didn't renew the domain name or the server owner didn't allow you to keep being hosted — the community could still find backups of the information and restart it somewhere else. I know this because we did exactly that in the early 2000s with the forums I've been an admin of now for almost 15 years.

Twitter can't really do that and Threads or other pop-up replacements are just solutions of other mega corporations trying to monetize upon an unstable market and reinforce their own existing ecosystem, and further gain control over more of those things in a single location that's incentivized AGAINST allowing multi-party interoperability like Reddit cutting off API access to third parties after Twitter did the same. Yes, tumblr is a refuge but for how long?

This is also why online communities moving off webforms and on to Discord gets worrying, because when THOSE communities go dark, the totality of that information up and vanishes. No Web Archive backups. Nothing. There is a worrying volatility about historic information these days, and while I know online platforms don't seem all that important sometimes, it's important to remember random documents and manuscripts are historically significant.

Conversation about preserving digital video games is getting more prominent as companies stop supporting the distribution platforms and the games just up and COMPLETELY vanish at the whims of some random rich idiot who doesn't know what the fuck they're doing, or who does know and doesn't care.

Not just that, but a lot of modern social media platforms are usually the only methods of correspondence we have with at least a few people, and there's a wealthy third party who essentially owns your ability to stay connected to them. It's kind of terrifying to watch how easy it is for someone to sabotage that out of idiocy and ignorance, but it should be more worrying to consider how much easier that would be for someone with the full intent to do so.

Capitalists & oligarchs don't care about the things they preside over, and while it's fun to point and laugh at their expense when the extension of the thing they represent is catching fire, it's important to also consider exactly what the big picture of that means for the future.

I slept in and just woke up, so here's what I've been able to figure out while sipping coffee:

Twitter has officially rebranded to X just a day or two after the move was announced.

The official branding is that a tweet is now called "an X", for which there are too many jokes to make.

The official account is still @twitter because someone else owns @X and they didn't reclaim the username first.

The logo is 𝕏 which is the Unicode character Unicode U+1D54F so the logo cannot be copyrighted and it is highly likely that it cannot be protected as a trademark.

Outside the visual logo, the trademark for the use of the name "X" in social media is held by Meta/Facebook, while the trademark for "X" in finance/commerce is owned by Microsoft.

The rebranding has been stopped in Japan as the term "X Japan" is trademarked by the band X JAPAN.

Elon had workers taking down the "Twitter" name from the side of the building. He did not have any permits to do this. The building owner called the cops who stopped the crew midway through so the sign just says "er".

He still plans to call his streaming and media hosting branch of the company as "Xvideo". Nobody tell him.

This man wants you to give him control over all of your financial information.

[im-always-the-problem-its-me]

good god, i make a lot of promises i just can't keep

i forgot about tumblr again and every time i feel myself falling into depression (probably depression...i don't know...i've only ever been diagnosed with "situational depression" following grief or some kind of trauma or whatever...i struggled with the 'i don't know why i feel this way for no reason' stuff since i was a teen, but honestly i had a reason then, i have reasons now...they're often the same...so i dunno...i just don't feel right at all lately) i remember that it exists and that it's a space to just spew whatever anonymously and i need that sometimes.

my journal is so shit lately. just a record keeping thing a la Virginia Woolf or something. i've been busy 'living'. doing the music writing thing i talked about during my last update (which was like 9 months ago!) i've been a 'working writer' again i think. i want to step back from the music scene stuff though because it's exhausting and i'm poor and can't always go out to see shows all the time. a lot are free but in bars or restaurants where i'd feel like a total dick if i didn't buy something and since i'm a public transport rider sometimes i have to plan long stays and a girl has got to eat which can get expensive as hell downtown. i'm also getting poems published, winning poetry contests (!) (I don't know how honestly) and working on a poetry book for a contest with a deadline approaching. (i'm not worried, i'm almost done even though i haven't looked at the manuscript in over a week...it will be sent in, and early...honestly, it will be) i'm giving readings, attending events, going to writing groups...you know....WORK

making promises again...there i go. i have to stop doing that. i should start being honest. 'yeah, i'll write you back...when i feel like it..." (it's nothing personal...sometimes i'm just like 'i'm in a mood and don't want to snail mail you a letter of woe and terror'....and yes i have a bunch of penpals all over and i love contributing to the dying art of mailing handwritten letters and receiving them) 'yeah, local musican, i'll come out and tour your home recording studio and do a write-up of it...as soon as i don't find it exhausting to leave my bed....oh and even while i'm in this bed...i'm still nodding off over books, notebooks. the laptop, the stupid fucking cell phone i contemplate throwing into the lake every other day...as soon as i feel like i don't want to crawl out of my skin...whenever that will be...time undetermined." that's honesty. i'm walking around thinking or saying out loud 'i don't know what's wrong with me' because i don't.

my mother is telling me maybe i'm going through 'the change of life'. When have i not been going through some 'change of life'? i dunno. my cycle got weird but i read that was probably because of my having cov*d (AGAIN!) and what can that virus NOT do, seriously? this last round was 'mild' i guess but goddammit i hate that fucking illness. every time i swear it takes years off of my life. it probably does. don't get me started on vacc**es. they obviously don't fucking work to prevent and i have no way of knowing 'would it be worse if i wasn't unvacc**ated?' like so many people feel like they need to ask me. no one can know...we're all the mercy of something we can't control. i know someone who lost someone to c*vid and they were vacc**ated so all that 'be a good person and get the jab' stuff was a fucking lie. try not to get sick. it's not your fault if you do either. don't let anyone make you feel like it's your fault you caught any kind of illness, EVER. all i know is that it SUCKS to have it. it's SCARY still. i hate it.

i hate a lot lately. my outlook is so bleak these days. i get in that whole 'what's the point of doing anything?' mode more often than i'd like. i'm tired of the entire internet either being some bigot cess pool or a bunch of 'do-gooders' trying to guilt everyone into sharing their delusion that they can 'save the world' with them. look, i can't. i can't save this place. i can't save you or anyone. i can barely survive. also, i don't give a fuck about your politics at all and no i'm not participating in any election ever again. you don't have enough time nor do you care to hear why. so don't ask. 'choose the best for right now'. ok, i'm choosing me and my sanity, then.

i'm reading books i've read dozens of times. wurtzel. frame. plath poetry. watching the same movies over and over again or watching every video this one girl on youtube ever made because i like her voice...i don't even care what she's talking about half the time...i can barely focus on it...but her voice soothes me and the things she does talk about that capture my attention, really do capture it. also can't stop listening to fall out boy, ethel cain, and joy division. on repeat. odd mix, but okay.

people have pain i can't do anything about but relate to and i hate that. others are so far away and growing even farther away. i hate that too. my 'childhood issues' keep coming back to the forefront of memory and i hate all that too. i didn't even realize how shitty a lot of it was that wasn't so obvious. like the obvious things were obvious...being physically ab*used, etc...but other things like being forced to sleep in a room with a rat in it, not because there was no other place to sleep (totally a spare bedroom with no one in it available) but because you let the rat in by winning this giant stuffed animal from a carnival that obviously had the rat living in it because there was this rat sized hole in it that no one noticed until it was too late. i'm like 9. unable to sleep because i hear that thing scurrying around for over a week before a trap finally caught it. terrified that it's going to bite me and give me some disease or something. i was even told when i did leave my room 'don't let that thing out of there'. i mean, really? now i'm terrified of every furry cute creature (except chipmunks, i love chipmunks) and don't even get me started on spiders. i hate summer for so many reasons but bugs and spiders is probably worse than the heat.

oh and yeah wtf. why is it still 80 degrees out? maybe i'm just impatient, and not actually depressed. (here i am, in denial again) i see that october is going to bring some actual autumn temps and maybe that will pull me out of the funk. or maybe i'm just fucked? i don't know.

i hate days when i try to write poems and it's all shit, which has been how i've felt about anything poetic i've attempted to write in the last week and a half. i was on such a roll. but hey i've got a shit ton to edit so whatever.

i think i can declare myself 'too old' for the internet anytime now. i want out of the social media shit but it's not practical right now especially since i'm getting all these opportunities. i just want tumblr. or maybe i want tumblr from 15 years ago? everything's changed.

i just need more self discipline. 'why am i scrolling this shit?' 'yes, WHY ARE YOU?' we did this to ourselves.

ok i'm getting blown up with texts from someone i actually want to chat with so there's another conundrum. communication with others is something i'm addicted to. i can only say that i'm glad i'm doing more face-to-face connecting than being glued to the handheld box day after day. but yeah, sometimes you just aren't able to see people all the time. ok, ok...i'm going to respond to these texts now...

baiii

[elevenspond]

for everyone who is really enjoying this concept of goncharov as a movie that doesn’t exist yet is provoking such passionate thought and in-depth analysis, i highly encourage you to read the book House of Leaves (yes this is a real book that actually exists and has been published in the real world).

it’s a fiction novel about a guy who discovers a written manuscript that analyzes and critiques a film that, within the world of House of Leaves, does not actually exist. this film is like goncharov— it’s not real, but the manuscript the guy finds is like tumblr’s collective study of goncharov— it details the nonexistent film in such a thorough, elaborate, comprehensive way, it’s hard to imagine it’s not actually real.

House of Leaves gets very trippy and deals with elements of paranoia and the paranormal, so it may be best to avoid it if that type of fiction might be triggering for you. but if you’re loving the crazy layers of real and unreal regarding perceptions of art and cinema, thematic analyses, and so forth within the goncharov phenomenon, i highly recommend it.

[tanadrin]

agreed about the christian interpretations being divergent and reading their own messianic predictions into jewish texts. But both the second temple jews and the rabbinic jews are just also guilty of the exact same thing with texts and traditions that are much older than their religions. basically everybody appropriated from everybody else and Second temple Judaism is a mishmash of different religions thrown together in the Persian period - there's Egyptian, Babylonian and even some Greek traditions all ducktaped together, and fairly poorly to boot. sometimes we have manuscripts of older texts from before the alleged events happened. Which is why they can't quite figure out if Abraham, Jacob, Moses or David is supposed to be the founder, and they've got some other patriarchs like Isaac, Joshua, Caleb, etc that they pay broad lip service to.

but like, even the existence of a "talmud" itself is silly, it's a commentary on a commentary, the torah was the interpretation, then a new generation that came along after the destruction of Jerusalem, and didn't like the theology in it, and worse, didn't have a temple to sacrifice at anymore. and much the same for the prophets, etc. There weren't even prophets in the second temple era, and half of amos and hosea is in a dialect so old you can barely understand it, what the heck do you do with that?

The earliest christian interpretations are worse of course. But i was mostly referring to contemporary confessional (i.e. non-critical) interpreters, both of whom are so far removed from the authorship of the original texts that any claim of continuous, coherent tradition is bunk. Like, if you think there really was a moses and that he led significant number of captives out of Egypt, or had anything to do with the composition of the torah, you're doomed to get everything so absolutely wrong. blind person doesn't see better than the one without eyes.

and like, the critical scholars on thetorah dot com that i read are always complaining about e.g. how many jewish people think the jews built the pyramid when that's not even in the torah. so yeah not buying that jewish people know their scriptures very well at all. and especially because tumblr jewish people dont say anything that even resembles anything i read from actual torah scholars. oh well...

i take issue with your rhetoric

saying "Second temple Judaism is a mishmash of different religions thrown together in the Persian period - there's Egyptian, Babylonian and even some Greek traditions all ducktaped together, and fairly poorly to boot" implies that there are religions or cultures out there that aren't complex integrations of different traditions based on the unique circumstances of local history and the rhetorical and philosophical needs of the time and place they're found in, which is false. it also denigrates some cultures arbitrarily as "impure" or "mongrelized," in a way which is uncomfortably 19th century race science of you.

(also, it's "duct tape," not "duck tape")

the human tendency toward hybridization and amalgamation--what Salman Rushdie called "chutneyfication" in Midnight's Children--is a source of innovation and strength. it's how we get new and interesting cultures. it is a source of value, not a lack.

and like, yes, rabbinic judaism does not produce the same analyses as the historical-critical method applied to the same texts. but crucially, it's not trying to. the historical-critical method and the devotional approach are aiming for two very different things.

and while i have a jaded view of religion in general, i think if you can't understand why anyone could ever get anything out of a devotional approach to religious literature, you're either being deliberately obtuse (and thus pissing on people on purpose), or you are very stupid

[eyrieofsynapses]

Aggregating some of the tips in the notes, plus adding a few.

Anyone telling you that you have to read X book to be a "true reader" is a snobbish lying asshole. Don't get caught in their superiority complex.

Audiobooks! If you just can't stay focused on a text, you can listen while you do chores or drive or whatever you want. (As someone with ADHD, I adore audiobooks, because they make boring tasks tolerable and even fun sometimes.)

Find the format that works for you! Don't like physical books? Use e-books. Don't like reading text? Listen to audiobooks/audio dramas. Don't like texts or audio? Try graphic novels/mangas/webcomics/comic collections/etc. Don't like long stories? Check out some literary magazines or poetry. Hell, you can go read online blogs, news articles, whatever. None of these are more or less valid than the other.

Read it out loud to yourself! Try silly voices! Or, even better, find a reading buddy to read out loud to.

You don't need to challenge yourself; you're more than welcome to stay in your comfort zone. If that zone is one specific genre or plot, go for it! (there's a reason why fanfic tropes exist, you're hardly alone)

On the flip side, sometimes challenging yourself to try something new is the spice that you need to stay focused or interested. Of course, you don't have to stick to the challenge if you don't want to--like everything else, you can drop it at any time.

You can come back to things! Think you'll enjoy a book, but you just can't quite get through it right now? Pick it up again in a couple years and see what's different.

There is no superior genre or form of literature. Kid's books, ancient Greek epics, young adult, poetry, nonfiction essays, educational books, purely for-fun sci-fi and/or fantasy, philosophy, classics, short stories, Wild West, mechas, mystery novels, erotica, horror, high fantasy, it literally does not matter. If you like it, it has just as much value as anything else.

Don't know what to read or what you'd like? Ask around! A librarian can chat with you and match you to a book; a friend can point you to what they know you might like; ask around on social media, whether that be a Discord server, Tumblr, whatever. Be as specific or as general as you please.

Chances are good that the thing you want is out there somewhere. It might take some digging to find, but it'll be there.

Don't just pick up whatever you find at the front of the library or bookstore. Go wander around the shelves, pull things off at random, read the first paragraph or two, and put them back on if you want. (This is sadly harder with e-book apps, but not impossible; usually there are collections you can skim through. They do provide samples.) Librarians won't be mad if you pull ten books and return nine (or all!) of them unread; you're just figuring out what you like.

Fond of a TV show or movie series or games or something similar? Ask readers in those communities what they like to read. If you've got similar taste in shows/games/etc., you'll likely have similar tastes in reading.

Check out some open mic nights! Yeah, it's not reading a text or anything, but you're enjoying stories. That's what it's all about, at the end of the day.

From personal experience: if you enjoy writing, it's absolutely worth joining a writing community and reading other people's WIPs and drafts. I have absolutely loved my writing workshops, because I get to read some fantastic work from my classmates. Too many times have I read a manuscript and gone "...well fuck, I want this as a book." Plus, writers often have good taste, so they can point you to good stuff.

Two things I've learned about through writing classes that I didn't know otherwise:

Take a look at nonfiction essay collections. (Essays in the sense of short stories, mostly.) One of my best friends writes the most delightful short stories based on his experiences, varying from eye-opening reflections to laugh-out-loud fun. Plus, nonfiction essays can be pretty dang short--sometimes nonfiction essays only run a page long, occasionally even shorter.

POETRY IS NOT JUST RHYMES AND MIND PUZZLES (for fuck's sake, education systems). There's free verse! There's modern poetry that is gorgeous and also hilarious! There's poetry to raise awareness, to educate, to rage at oppressors! There's poetry that's just there to make you laugh! Poetry is not a genre, it is a form. Here's two opening stanzas from Tim Seibles's "Ambition II: Mosquito in the Mist" (I could only find it online in that article, so just scroll down a little):

You human-types, you two-legged sapien-sapiens, you guys are walking smoothies ta me, milkshakes wearin’ trousers, a cup’a coffee mowing a lawn. I gotta hand it to you though— all the colors, the smells, tall, petite, skinny-minnies or whoppin’ whale-sized motha’ humphries—you got variety: I’m zippin’ around some summa’ nights and it’s like an all-you-can-eat situation.

And that's just the first two stanzas! I promise you, if they taught this type of poetry in high school people would fucking love it.

And finally: if you don't want to read, don't. There's only so much time to be enjoyed in life.

Don't make yourself do something you don't like just because everyone tells you to. "Be yourself" applies to reading just as much as it does to everything else.

people will read books they Do Not Like™ and then wonder why they hate reading

[spectralarchers]

Woah, so maybe you've already talked about this so in that case, you can redirect me to that post, but what are some of the most common misconceptions you've heard? Or, preconceived ideas that you find stupid?

Okay, so this comes like four days late but I had to sit down and think about it, lol!

Misconceptions about the Viking age in a non-academic answer:

(Putting it under a read more because it dragged out)

Clothing:

Their clothing was much like that pictured in Vikings the TV show. False.

Textiles found in graves like Mammen look like this when they've been reconstructed after detailed analysis of dye pigments, thread counts and what kind of fabric/fur was used:

Notice the colors and the details. These reconstructions are on display at the Nationalmuseum of Denmark, and pieces of the original textiles are also on display there.

Notice the clothes in this picture here as well. There is a noticeable lack of "dark" leather and grim colors and IKEA-fake furs thrown onto the shoulders of the men Game of Thrones style.

We have a lot of accurate finds for textiles and reenactors have their picks to choose from. What Vikings did was basically what Wagner did with his Die Niebelungen and went "what do I think the Vikings looked like and I will disregard all the archaeological evidence". Worst part is that The History Channel is the producer behind Vikings which makes it look like it's historically accurate.

It is not.

Timeline

People usually say the Viking age started with Lindisfarne in 793, but the Vikinge age started earlier - sometime during the Migration Period (years 200-800).

The ships that attacked the monastery at Lindisfarne didn't pop up out of the blue - drakkars and viking pillaging must have existed before 793. Lindisfarne is just the first written source we have of a viking raid in England.

Let's look at the Fimbul Winter in Norse Mythology: we now know that it relates to the volcanic winter of 536. Many gold artefacts were sacrificed to bogs and the gods around that period, possibly as an offering to the gods to end the winter. A good example of these items are the Golden Horns of Gallehus ("Guldhornene"):

They are usually associated with the Viking age but are dated to the early 5th century - aka BEFORE where the current books set the Viking age to start.

What Vikings also does is establish that all the discovering Ragnar and his sons do, the Vikings did within the span of 2 generations - the Viking age lasted from somewhere around the years 500 to somewhere around the year 1200, even though Wikipedia will tell you exactly 793-1066.

They didn't exactly disappear out of the blue.

And their "discoveries" during their expansions didn't all happen within 30 years.

Runes

Only Vikings used Old and New Futhark runes, correct?

Wrong!

Elder Futhark runes were used already in the 2nd century and all the way up into the 8th, where as Younger Futhark runes were used from the 9th until the 11th. In between all of that are Anglo-Saxon runes, Medieval runes (used up until the 15th century!)

And, surprisingly, runes were not only used for "weird religious shit" but also for the state of the art "Tormund likes boys" and "this belongs to Cnut" things.

There is a difference between the use of Runes and the languages used - Old Norse, Norrønt, Primitive Norse - but that's a longer discussion which a tumblr post couldn't do justice.

There are only the Elder Edda and Prose Edda as sources about Norse myths and legends

False.

The eddas are only two of the written sources we have on the Viking age.

The Poetic Edda contained in the Codex Regius manuscript, dated from the 13th century.

The Prose Edda (written by Snorri Sturluson) is also dated to approx 1220.

Knowing we established further up that the Viking age "ended" in 1066, these two sources are biased with their contemporary views on the stories they've written down. It's the equivalent of someone in 2022 writing down stories from another culture from anywhere between 1500 and 1800 - there's bound to be modern and cultural bias take into account with it.

We have the Gesta Danorum (from 12th century Saxo Grammaticus), runestones (sprinkled from the 4th til the 12th century), the Konungasögur, the Íslendingasögur, the samtímasögur, but we also have the lost texts like the Skjolungesaga (Scylding Saga), etc.

Beowulf could also be interpreted as a source on things Norse.

You can browse the Heimskringla webpage for sources on Old Norse source materials here.

"Modern day vikings"

Wardruna, Danheim and Heilung, etc. are not making "authentic" Viking age music. We have found music instruments of different kinds, but nothing actually played 1000+ years ago has survived this far - we have the words to the Voluspa and the other texts that are poems, and we have instruments.

Do with that as you will!

Nordic animism, neo-pagans and modern day Asatrú are not what the Viking age contemporaries did - we can't know for sure because we don't have sources we can trust about it this far.

We have reenactors who do their best to be as historically accurate as possible, but the problem with that is that what we know of the Viking age (and how far they went into the world and how long they existed) all depends on archaeological finds - and historical finds.

Until very recently, the location of Lejre in Denmark as a seat of power, for example, was thought to be a myth.

And then in 2009 and 2010 they found several early Viking age longhouses in Lejre during an excavation.

Who's to imagine what they find if they keep digging in the area?

It's also why so many new things are showing up from the dirt on Falster in Denmark, where they're building the Femern connection to Germany - archaeologists are working hard to make sure nothing gets lost with modern building.

It changes almost daily.

But we will never know nor be what "ancient" vikings were, because 793 and 2022 are simply two very different worlds to live in.

So, if you want to do a blót ritual and get married under the Ásatrú faith, awesome! But remember it's a modern take on what little we have from the historic ages we take inspiration from.

Tattoos and hair

Don't get me started on those.

We have no archaeological evidence of tattoos in the viking age and hairstyles are dubious at best. The best witnesses we have for hairstyles are bog bodies, and there aren't a lot of those from the Viking age due to the way the Vikings paid their respects to the dead.

Modern "viking" hairstyles are just that. Modern interpretations of what once was.

[jinxneedssleep]

house of leaves is a horror book published in the year 2000 by mark z danielewski, about a troubled young man named Johnny who discovers his deceased blind neighbor's manuscript for a book. the book might have killed him, literally, as his body was found with scratch marks in the floor.

the book zampano (the old man) was writing via dictation is a critical theory book about other people's and his own analysis of a movie that doesn't exist, the navidson report. even in the universe of the criticism where the movie does exist, it's debated whether it's real or visual effects. it's sold as a documentary by a known photographer with beautiful cinematography, filming a house that is bigger on the inside than it is outside. the house grows more menacing as the book continues and the young man reading it grows increasingly more unstable, and we learn more about the writer(s) as the story goes on.

the book heavily plays on the concepts of metanarrative and intertextuality, while also being a study on the limits of literary criticism--and it's also one of the most unsettling books ever written imo. it really was the first big successful book to play with format in an extreme way. there are pages with one word and pages absolutely packed to bursting. pages that matter and done, pages that lie, pages that promise to be there and simply aren't. it's a frustrating, weird, very beautiful book.

i could critique parts, especially Johnny's narration, but overall it Works like nothing else I've ever read. it's especially good when put next to the author's sister's INCREDIBLE companion album, haunted. like her album might be better than the book. hard to say. they are definitely in conversation, and i still get goosebumps listening to haunted.

Thank you! I’m new to tumblr, so I assumed house of leaves was another goncharov phenomenon that I wasn’t privy too.

[margridarnauds]

[img desc: “A Facebook post by the user Frances May from the 18 of February, 2021, that reads “I write to you on behalf of the Diwan Breton language immersive schools that have existed for 43 years now. The secondary schools (six in all) have been informed that from September 2021, instead of having 3 hours of Breton a week for each class, the French education system will be giving 3 hours per school year. This could mean as little as half an hour a week, as we continue to grow and open new classes. Already for the next school year, there will be 6 year 7 classes on two different sites. 

The argument put forward by the government is that our pupils “don’t need” any more lessons, as they are taught other subjects through the medium of Breton. How we will be able to study grammar, literature, and Breton culture with an hour’s lesson a week is a mystery. This argument is baffling to us, as all pupils in French language and literature classes also are taught all subjects through the medium of French, yet, French language and literature classes are maintained. 

We have been warned that this is “only the start.” As you know, the Breton language has no official status in France. Only too often we see that the ethos of ‘liberté, égalité, et fraternité’ on which the republic is built does not apply to us. Breton and indeed other minority languages are seen as inferior, and are known as ‘regional languages’ as opposed to French, which is ‘national.’ The lack of official status leaves us constantly vulnerable. 

We very much need support from all over the world. Could I ask you to address a letter of support that we could pass on to both the media and regional government? We have worked so hard to maintain a good education for our pupils - Pupils, staff, and parents are deeply hurt by this attack on our basic human rights. 

Diolch o galon i chi amm ystried ein sefylla. gan edrych ymlaen i glywed oddi wrthych. Ffran May, athrawes saesneg, skolaj Diwan Gwiseni, cynfyfyrwraig prifysgol Aberystwyth, yn enedigol o Sir Benfro. /img desc.] 

This constitutes a further attack on the Breton language by the French government, in keeping with a trend that has been in place since the 1790s (and affects other minority languages and dialects, not just Breton). The language has made great strides in the past few decades, but remains endangered, with this constituting yet another attempt at gutting it. I am begging anyone who can to reblog - I understand that the world is on fire at the minute, I understand that it’s long, but anything to raise awareness would have my immense gratitude. 

If you’ve ever felt saddened or angry when I talk about what happened to the medieval manuscripts in Ireland, if you’ve ever appreciated anything I’ve had to say about Celtic Studies, Celtic languages, Celtic literatures...this is the chance to help one very endangered Celtic language out before irreparable damage is done. 

Because Tumblr swallows anything that has links, I’ll be reblogging with the relevant links. 

[fenmere]

"No, but I've been doing that, and I've noticed something. Maybe it's not relevant how long someone's been on the site for, but their earliest dated posts do matter."

"What do you mean?"

"Well, when I noticed this feature I got curious."

"Yeah?"

"What happens if you backdate a post to before Tumblr was created? Or better, to before the Internet existed?"

"I mean, I'd expect it would either just do it, or catch the error and tell you to pick another date."

"You would expect that, wouldn't you? Well, maybe I'm stupid or something, but I imagined some kind of weird glitch. Anyway, I tried it."

"And?"

"I was right. And also so wrong. So frighteningly wrong."

"What do you mean?"

"Ah, well... Um. OK, so you know those tumblr heritage posts?"

"Yeah?"

"Pure silliness compared to this. Check this post out. I typed in 'destiel forever' in the biggest type and tagged it '#favorite ship' and back dated it to May 11, the year 868. The date the first printed manuscript was produced, the Diamond Sutra. Just for shits and giggles. I looked it up."

"You are such a nerd."

"Look at the notes."

"Yeah?"

"Over 700 million notes, dude."

"What?"

"And they just appeared the instant I hit 'post'. They've always been there."

"What? No, you're shitting me."

"Check the reblogs. See?"

"They’re all deactivated?"

"Yep. Nobody alive has seen this post yet. So, they're all dead accounts."

"Bullshit."

"Try it yourself!"

"Wait. But what does this mean? If this really happens, what's actually happening?"

"I wondered the same thing. So after doing this, I googled 'first mention of destiel', and you know what I got?"

"No."

"Try it."

"No."

"Dude, if you're gonna ask the question, you've gotta be prepared for the answer. Here. Done."

"Holy shit."

"Holy shit is right."

"Did - did you just alter history with a tumblr post about destiel?"

"Should we google for 'graduate studies on the impact of destiel on the cultural development of China' to see how extensive the damage is?"

"I think I'm gonna need another cup of coffee for this."

"Sure."

Hi!

[bloodfld]

MANNIMARCO HEADCANONS

Summery: Just a few miscellaneous headcanons for the lich.

CW: Brief allusions to necromancy.

Author’s Note: This is my very first post—I've never posted content on any of my tumblrs, let alone any headcanons so I'm a bit nervous. Regardless, I hope some of these aren't too ooc or venture too far from canon lore :))

𖧷He is fragrant of damp earth and bergamot. It's almost intoxicating, overwhelmingly pleasant, so much so that it makes your stomach feel ill after inhaled for too long.

𖧷He greatly prides himself in his eloquent vocabulary and how he articulates his thoughts, his wit, and his unquenchable ambition. He utilizes this skill through his efforts of manipulating others for his own personal or political gain. Think of the worm cult’s underground organization being completely disregarded by law enforcement or powerful political figures, or perhaps the lich’s pact with the God of Schemes when he deceived the Companions and opened up Akatosh's barrier to Nirn for Molag Bal and his enforcements.

𖧷A passionate mer despite the way he carries himself as cold and reserved. Although callous and cruel, like every being brought into existence, he is susceptible to something. For him it’s the smell of old tomes, rich spiced wine, and candlelight which softens the appearance of everything the dark encompasses in the late hours of evening. He appreciates beauty, hypersensitive to what he finds favorable and what he does not. A true critic in every sense of the word, claiming he knows most, when he feels as though he’s the most ignorant and powerless— he uses his acquired taste and charisma as an attempt to feel more powerful, an undeniably defensive action.

𖧷Mannimarco’s hands are chilled yet not clammy, with long graceful fingers and slender wrists. Many would consider them elegant.

𖧷His involvement in the dark arts was a development of youthful curiosity, and fascination of what follows after we have concluded our existence. Death was something which unsettled many of his peers in the (Psijic) Order— and many people in general, including himself at the time. However after he began studying manuscripts and recollections of the necromantic rituals of the Yokudans, he slowly found himself appreciating the beauty within the macabre. Finding power and resolution within the thing he feared most, he slowly began to experiment on his own peers and corpses he would find abandoned. Becoming crazed and completely enthralled (pun intended) by his findings; he continued vigorously attempting to achieve greater and more successful results through conducting his research of the dark arcane and forbidden arts. Eventually Vanus Galerion; a fellow Psijic and rival, discovered Mannimarco’s recreational activities and confronted him. The rest is relatively clear to us in confirmed lore.

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