#joanna speaks

[solsthiems]

Doomed by the narrative or whatever

[solsthiems]

Made myself :)

I've worked really hard on this new picrew, inspired by the style of those old barbie dress-up games. It has quite a lot of options, and I hope to update with even more in time!

CHECK IT OUT HERE!

(And please feel free to share your creations!)

[melrosing]

three generations of fucked up lion boys

[whiteshipnightjar]

“Those things can all be traced back to things I experience,” explains Joanna, “sometimes they're direct allusions to situations I got into and sometimes they're purely symbolic. I don't like explaining my lyrics. There's a reason those thoughts are put into song form. These are ideas that I can only express in a song. But for Bridges and Balloons, for example, I was inspired by the dust jets that swirl through my room at night. In the light of the moon that finds its way in through my curtains, revealing the dust caused by the fluttering back and forth of my little birds (“The sight of bridges and balloons / makes calm canaries irritable”). Those dust jets then look just like a silver miniature city. Silver bridges that bridge a stretch of air and silver hot air balloons that burst against the ceiling. Almost all my lyrics are autobiographical but not always literal. So something that sounds like a fantasy could be a pun on something I actually experienced.”

— Joanna Newsom on writing songs and Bridges and Balloons

[great-gronkamorka]

americans…..we are all talk talk talk talk and no action lately.

get off your asses. get off tiktok. start seed bombing vacant lots. go to protests. organize protests. call/email legislation on specific issues you can target. engage in minor crimes if it’ll get your message across.

like there are things we can do about the state of the world smaller than taking down trump. and we should be doing them

[libraryleopard]

reading a shore thing by joanna lowell (victorian romance novel about a trans painter and a female botanist bicycling around cornwall) and hello olivia cooke and misia butler i have an important proposal

[seconddoubt]

tagged by sweetie @noreign, thank you<3

Rules: list your favorite album from your top 5 artists on a poll so your followers can vote which album they think captures your vibe the best.

i'll tag @imeminemp3 @mobanjaree @symptomofloves @boys-say-go and @carelessmemories AND the reader of this post who wants to do this!!!

[readingoals]

I didn't really know what to expect going into You'd Look Better As A Ghost. I picked it up last year because the cover caught my eye so I knew very little about the plot. But I ended up enjoying it a lot!

In it we follow Claire, a serial killer, as she deals with the death of her father and attends a grief counseling group.

It made for a very interesting story. A couple of times I thought we were heading in one direction and then the plot shifted and surprised me. Claire was an entertaining character - funny and quirky and conflicting to read about. But beyond the murder, this book had a lot to say about the way older people are treated within society - whether it was 60-something year old Florence feeling invisible, or the discussions of care facilities for the elderly, especially those with Alzheimer's disease, and the mistreatment that can occur in them. That was very unexpected but very welcome.

Content warnings for elder abuse and child abuse/neglect in addition to the obvious murder and death.

[alvsanne]

veryyy nitpicky but

still shocked by hotd’s seeming refusal to use canon or even canon-sounding names for most of their made-up background characters like guys it’s ok you can name more people jeyne or alys or elinor.

and when they DO use canon names it’s like somebody in the writers’ room looked at the wiki page for house hightower and went uh lord hightower’s wife can be throws dart lynesse. otto’s wife can be throws dart al(e)rie

aeriana targaryen tho. that’s just insane. and her being a PRINCESS? was she born after the conquest??? was she?

aeryssa could work. aenora, aenyra, aerea, aelora, aelys, aella. aemma, aelinor!!! maybe even aenya if we take -nya from visenya and apply it to other valyrian name prefixes.

[burnbrighterthanever]

Genuine Canon Facts about the Mutant Brotherhood

- Magneto can dance the tango to championship standard.

- Emma Frost uses illusions on her outfits. Magneto, who is immune to her powers when wearing his helmet, is presumably too polite to mention this.

- Pyro writes bodice-rippers in his spare time.

- Frenzy is a big fan of Pyro's romance novels.

- Magneto was responsible for explaining modern things like 'the Earth goes around the Sun' and 'electricity' to Exodus.

- Destiny makes jokes that are only comprehensible after her prophecies have been fufilled.

- Magneto and Emma Frost both draw a moral line at outing someone as queer.

[wheelie-butch]

listening to my fave song which is just under 17 minutes long. this isn't a song it's practically a podcast.

[solsthiems]

New OC just dropped. This is my new Nerevarine, Nulsie Hlaalu, bastard daughter of King Helseth Hlaalu

[dracolizardlars]

I find it funny that out of the 70 or so musical artists I listen to only an entire 3 of them are American btw. That's equal to the number that are Australian.

[annebrontesrequiem]

My favorite haircut is bangs so blunt it shouldn't work but it makes all the wlw go wild

[whiteshipnightjar]

And I am his if I’m not deceived

who takes one breath above, for every hour below the sea; who gave to me a jewel worth twice this woman's life (but would cost her less than laying at low tide, to see her true love phosphoresce).

you get it, pal 💕 it’s the infinite regress.

[sabraeal]

Fic authors self rec! When you get this, reply with your favorite five fics that you've written, then pass on to at least five other writers. Let’s spread the self-love ❤️

As I said on my first fic rec post, I have written very many fics and I love almost all of them, so I can't pick FAVORITES so much as CATEGORIES, and this category is going to be "Fics Joanna Made Me Write Outside My Comfort Zone Because It's Good For Me Or Something"

Whenever I view the moon on the battlefield This was the FIRST fic I wrote outside of ANS fandom, and if that was not already out of my usual groove enough, it's also from the POV of one of the minor characters in Hakuouki, Shimada Kai. The concept was originally conceived while I was streaming a playthrough for the obiyuki discord-- Yamazaki (our best boy) and Shimada are both spies and spend quite a bit of time off screen, so we kept running into scenes and being like "how AWKWARD is it for those two to be watching this right now?" And so when it finally came time for me to throw my hat into the yamachi ring...Joanna asked for THIS to be the fic. You know. Instead of one where Yamazaki and Chizuru actually kiss or whatever. Sigh.

The Most Perverse Creature in the World Listen. I know there are people out there who LOVE xReader fics. I'm happy for you, truly. I am not one of them. But after answering the fandom fuck/marry/kill game (otherwise known as only one bed/slow burn/enemies to lovers) with small littler blurbs about the kind of story I would write for the older gentlemen in ANS (Shidan, Lata & Haruka), SOME PEOPLE got very invested in Haruka's little enemies-to-lovers blurb. Some people made puppy eyes. Some people made puppy eyes and then got very sick after, and I AM A GOOD FRIEND and wrote ONE CHAPTER and have never known a day of peace since. Six years later it's up to thirteen chapters, has a very complicated plot involving the politics of taxing oral sex, and I've learned how to effectively write in 2nd person.

don't speak boyshit I cannot properly explain how absolutely in our heads the Maria/Kamitani pairing is, but like. It's good okay?? Joanna did not so much force me to write this one so much as like...emphatically encourage its existence, to the point where I have a very complicated outline and she routinely reminds me I'll finish it when i'm like. 50. But this is certainly the gateway fic to the OTHER fics for this pairing she DOES want to twist my arm over, SO ON THE LIST IT GOES. I am one of TWO authors in this ship tag, and also one of TWO fics...and yet this is one of my most popular non-ANS fics 🤣

If the Mind Is Willing This is a fic Joanna will HAPPILY admit to being the main driver for, since, as she puts it, "there is no one else who could possibly ever write this fic." Taking TWO very niche concepts (LARP and a SURPRISE FOR LATER) and a very niche pairing (yamachi) would perhaps not have been MY first choice...but Joanna asked for the first chapter as a birthday gift a few years back and here I am, learning a whole new tabletop system and really giving my FBI agent something to talk about at the watercooler.

He Who Studies Evil Of all the niche fics Joanna has convinced me to put to paper (or at least, word document), this is probably takes the top spot. A prequel to my obiyuki Star Trek AU, this covers events about 10 years previous, with Haruka taking over DS9 and immediately being thrown into a political nightmare when he is informed that the Cardassians are in possession of a missing human child. This took...an INORDINATE amount of time to research and write-- I hadn't seen DS9 since I was in high school, and I watched through nearly half a season just to get the timeline right-- but I still REALLY love how it came out. Which is good, because it is definitely one of my least read fics 🤣