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kawa-goat · 21 days ago
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This will probably be my stupidest post, but can anyone tell me I'm overthinking this?
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These are screenshots from pages 66 and 67 of Waking Nightmare, respectively.
The focus here is the last few paragraphs (i.e., the ones highlighted).
When I first read this book, I thought that the reason Maritza's cheeks turned red was because she was angry at Nicky for keeping this hidden from her for so long (the event between Nicky and Mya happened a few months before this scene).
Think of it like this: Maritza was Mya's closest friend, and since her disappearance she's been going to the GAAP by herself despite Enzo's protest. Next to Enzo, Nicky is Maritza's closest person and really the only one she can confide in her burdens with the Peterson family. So when Nicky keeps such a crucial piece of information hidden from her like that, it's understandable why she'd be upset.
Besides, Nicky retorts defensively in an angry tone, further evidence for what I said before.
And yet...
I don't know. I'm not sure if I'm seeing things where they don't exist, but lately I've been thinking her cheeks turned red over something else (you know what I mean...) rather than, y'know, the explanation that should make more sense, IMO.
And then again, Nicky turned defensive for "no particular reason", or so he said. Which is... strange. If Maritza was trying to accuse him, shouldn't that be the reason why he turned defensive in the first place? Nicky is not stupid. He's very observant.
So maybe his reaction is because Maritza wasn't trying to accuse him? And her question was for... something else?
Man, wtf am I even writing.
I hope my first assumption is the correct one, because I hate love triangles (no matter how short-lived they are) and how they are poorly written.
At least, if the passage was implying in that sense, I'm glad Mya died before this became an actual thing, icl. /j
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kittenkes · 11 months ago
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"He has the maddening ability to addict and satisfy all in the same breath."
Iron Flame.
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theashop · 6 months ago
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the twins are completely fine in every timeline just a bit sleepy
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ifyoucandaniel · 8 months ago
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In the end, his mind kept straying back to that moment, the moment where the sharp edges of the batarang pierced his neck and took the one thing that was his away. The wound had finally healed, but the phantom throbs of pain he felt whenever he thought of that moment had yet to cease.
i didn’t get around to posting this here until now, so if you haven’t read @bluelotuswrites series “Red is the Color of Sinners” yet, this is your sign to do it
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flowery-king · 2 years ago
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He's from a musical its not my fault
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sanguinaryrot · 10 months ago
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every time someone realizes they’re trans, an angel gets its wings
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of-the-eventide · 5 months ago
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Come on now, who cares if you have two left feet? Let us dance!
auraugust 2024 - dance
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wee-english-fella · 5 months ago
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have realised all my current comfort media is about people escaping big cities and building lives they love and finding their people in small mostly coastal communities....... much to think about........
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ace-fandom-dumbass · 3 days ago
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Pulled up Mistborn the Final Empire because I wanted to find a specific quote but while I've got it may as well reread the book and man it's been way too long since I reread this. Just, going back through it, it's so easy to see why it was the perfect introduction to Sanderson, why I fell in love with this book so quickly, why it sucked me into this universe. It's just so good and I'm not anywhere near the bit with the quote i wanted yet.
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bigcats-birds-and-books · 8 months ago
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Daisy Chaining; Or, Connecting the TBR!
Does anybody besides me like to find Connections between Seemingly/Largely Unrelated Books and use those connections to plot a route through the old TBR?? I don't know about you, but I have a LOT of books I want to read, and sometimes I get Whelmed™ by my choices. So I'll either pick a small stack and make that a particular month's micro-TBR (good if I have specific Goals!), OR I'll start with something I really want to read, and I'll daisy chain from there.
For example: I'd been waiting for TRANSLATION STATE to release in paperback since the hardback was announced (because Translators, my beloveds). So I annihilated that in a couple days (it was very good, all right??), and then I had to figure out where to go next despite cruising on the Translators High.
Because the Translators' fucked up body horror (which I mean mostly affectionately, but I'm side eyeing the matching pretty hard) was at times....goopy...I thought a book about a shapeshifter whose default form is an amorphous lump would be good next, which got me to SOMEONE YOU CAN BUILD A NEST IN (which I also enjoyed!! shout-out to @asexualbookbird for gifting it to meee!!).
Since NEST is Monsters in a Fantasy Forest with a side of Politics and Power, my next read is THE BUTCHER OF THE FOREST (because it's also...wait for it...Monsters in a Fantasy Forest with a side of Politics and Power). And after that, I'll come OUT of the forest with AT THE EDGE OF THE WOODS, which promises to be weird and vaguely monstrous but with a literary bent (I put it on one of my writing TBR lists, and my general "read this by the end of 2024" list).
So, yeah! That's how you daisy chain to get from SF to fantasy/horror to fantasy to weird Lit Fic in the span of four (4) books, while maintaining something like a continuity. By the end of the year, my Books Read shelf looks a little chaotic, but there generally really is a rhyme AND a reason about it!
(Please click on the photo for better image quality! I edited it weirdly compared to usual and it looks good on my screen but ah. Less So, in tungledlandia.,.,)
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pussyluvr2000 · 17 days ago
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ghost-proofbaby · 10 months ago
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Hi ghost! Wanted to ask you, if you would be ok with me binding twenty four hours into a book for myself. I love the fic so much and it would be a dream to get to bind it🩶
absolutely under one condition:
you've gotta show me alllll the pictures once you do!! <3
no but seriously. this ask just made me cry. you guys absolutely can bind my fics if you truly want to, as long as it's just for yourselves and you're not reselling them or anything. alright. going back into my corner to sob now because someone likes my writing enough to want a physical fucking copy. god you just made my day my dear
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acey-of-spades · 7 months ago
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~Original sketch~
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Love this page so much I had to share (:
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forflightlessbirds · 2 months ago
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what is your favourite thing you’ve ever read…….fanfic included
OKAY. anon thank you for thid you've given me an excuse to ramble
i'll give you the sun (book)
all the bright places (book)
girl, woman, other (book)
that one cod (???) fic that i read at 3am that sent me into a breakdown and i can't find it but it was so impactful and raw that i can't help but adore it
my mutual's poetry
hamlet
the creeper man (book)
anagapesis and soulmate!au (fics)
the annotations in the back of a science textbook in my biology lesson where people were trying to help someone who was going through a breakup through leaving notes
eragon (series)
the enemy (series)
flying tips for flightless birds (book)
anything by patrick ness
atyd (fic)
crimson rivers (fic)
probably more that i can't remember
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jankwritten · 2 years ago
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i think one of my biggest gripes with TSATS is the sentence structure and the way that things are phrased.
Sentence structure: the book is CONSTANTLY using ", and", or "then", or "but" instead of splitting up a phrase into two separate sentences. Once I noticed it, I couldn't stop noticing it. In some places it works fine, but right out the gate, as the first line of chapter one, it 1) caught my attention in a negative way and 2) felt immediately clunky and awkward.
The way that the book demonstrates action also feels unnatural and doesn't flow as well as it could. Things are described as happening "now", such as when Kayla takes her lolipop out of her mouth and holds it at her side, the book narrates it as "now holding the lolipop at her side". We didn't SEE that action occur, we're just being described the RESULT of the action, does that make sense? As a reader, you want to SEE the action, you want to SEE her tug the lolipop out of her mouth, see her hand hang by her side as her expression pinches with anxiety over the discussion. We don't want to just be told that "now" her lolipop is out of her mouth, y'know?
There are also sentences that just feel flat out unedited, phrases that have too many words for what they want to accomplish, or with a structure that doesn't make sense - like on page 56, the sentence "They raced up the steps to the platform, Nico easily outrunning his boyfriend, though that was mostly due to Will having to get his land legs again."
First of all - why are they running up the platform? In the previous line, where we're told their cab driver got them to the station with 6 minutes to spare, the specific choice of saying "to spare" makes it sound like there is plenty of time to make it to their train. In the sentences after, we even learn that Nico and Will wound up waiting for their train anyway, so, the fact that they're running when Will feels sick reads...weird, to me. If I was car sick, and then somebody forced me to run for no reason, I would not be a happy camper.
Second of all - The addition of the final third of the sentence, after the second comma, should be it's own phrase. It should be given it's own space, like "(though that was mostly because Will didn't have his land legs back yet)." because it's not important information, just an offhanded comment Nico is making.
Third of all - "though that was mostly due to" and "having to get his" are clunky and wordy. It could've just been "Nico easily outrunning his boyfriend, who didn't have his land legs back yet." It's a smoother sentence that doesn't get bogged down by the extra words.
And that's just one instance. This book is LOADED with moments like this, where action will get lost in a sentence's wordiness. The book tries to be quick and snappy, in Riordan's style, but it fails because it can't quite nail down the phrasing.
There are also moments where the only thing the characters are interacting with is each other, only grinning, grimacing, sighing, glancing at one another, etc etc, instead of doing actions while they speak. Fidgeting with their hands, shifting from side to side, looking away at their surroundings, that kind of stuff is how you convey a MOOD. Body language is important when writing character conversations!! Is somebody relaxed, or are their shoulders tensed up, arms folded across their chest with their muscles flexed, leaning back on one leg with their body halfway tilted away, as if they were ready to flee at a moment's notice? These are the kind of details that I'm missing in TSATS, the kind of things that feel like they're missing.
I also have a lot of gripes with the dialogue itself.
People don't talk like they do in TSATS. The content of what they're saying is realistic enough, sure, yeah, but the specific way that a lot of the dialogue is phrased? It doesn't feel natural. Try reading some of the sentences out loud without editing any of the words. It doesn't sound the way a human being SPEAKS.
THAT'S what I mean when I say these characters are OOC. The way that they're speaking is uncomfortable and feels as if they're being used as a puppet, or a mouthpiece for what somebody ELSE wants them to say.
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sophieswundergarten · 1 year ago
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Rhonda Kazembe
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