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what do you mean netflix is making a tpodg adaptation and making basil and dorian brothers what
#that doesnt work for a lot of reasons. like really. it doesnt.#mostly because imo dorians family situation is extremely relevant to his character and mentality and the way hes influenced so easily#he has a DIFFERENT situation as wotton and basil thats why they both can influence him like its nothing#it also highlights the power/age difference#i GUESS it could work if basils his older brother but it makes no fucking sense really#plus basils obsession/idealization of dorian as an artistic ideal rather than a person is unfortunately extremely plot relevant and romanti#even if not in the healthiest way! it is romantic! and romantic relationships in tpodg are important#because characters use them to manipulate & decieve each other! dorian/allan dorian/sybil wotton/victoria etc#making them brothers simply makes no fucking sense. it takes a loooot away from their actual relationship which is one of the main points o#the fucking novel#not even saying this in a oh no queer erasure way i dont like basil nor the way he was attracted to dorian for looking like a teenager#idgaf about that#but man. tpodg does NOT work like that#tpodg#the picture of dorian gray#roscaposting
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hey writers we have to talk.
if you've read any romance or fanfic in the past twenty years (i know you have), you know that there are a certain number of scents associated with hot dudes. you can probably recite the list of Things Men in Fic smell like in your sleep: leather, black pepper, pine, sandalwood, "something uniquely him", clean sweat, and if the character has ever fucking been within 50 yards of a firearm, something called "cordite".
here's the thing.
NO ONE SMELLS LIKE CORDITE.
cordite was a highly specific type of smokeless gunpowder developed in the 1890s by england specifically and used mostly in wwi.
if your good-smelling guy is not (a) english (b) using a very specific type of british rifle (c) dying in a trench in flanders, he does not smell like cordite. technically even if he does meet all those conditions he still doesn't smell like cordite because he smells like trenchfoot.
the point is, cordite is so far from universal that no one but the most hardcore gun nerds give a single shit about it. making your Sexy Hero smell like cordite is like naming a cassette-only bootleg live recording from the 1970s as your favorite grateful dead album. everyone at the party hates you immediately and knows you're doing it for clout. also, it's just factually... wrong. please stop. i know everyone else is doing it, but you can do the right thing here, i believe in you.
so what do people who are using guns smell like?
well if your story is set before the late 1880s, the smell of a fired gun is black powder, which, unfortunately, smells like seventeen flatulent cows have been shoved in a tire factory. trust me, you do not want your Hot Dude to smell like black powder. it's b a d.
if your story is set after the late 1880s, guns are using some variety of modern 'smokeless' powder - which speaking broadly doesn't really have a ton of scent when used. it does have some, but it's sort of non-descript: the best way i can describe it is the sweet, ozone, hot-plate smell of popping your car hood with a warm engine.
people who use guns a lot don't smell like fired guns all the time anyway, so while those scents might work in a fight scene, they're not realistic all the time. but there are some things that your Sexy Shootist will smell like basically 24/7 and that's metal and gun oil. metal you can go and sniff (i recommend non-stainless steel), but if you want a reference, most gun oils have a sharp, organic smell that's not dissimilar to canola oil but muskier and with a tang overtop. it's not unlikely leather is in the mix as well due to routine handling of leather equipment and gear. modern gear also tends to have a certain smell although it varies by production country and storage conditions - lots of opportunities there.
in conclusion: gunslingers and hired killers and military folks can be sexy and smell great on page, but i am begging you not to say "cordite" when you mean "gunpowder" ever again. we can do this. we are writers and therefore pedants. i believe in us!
#i will kiss the first romance writer who makes their MMC smell like cosmoline on the mouth#(actually don't cosmoline smells fucking awful)#firearms#romance novels#fanfic#meta#writing reference#also if anyone has a hypothesis about WHY cordite took off i would love to hear it#historical firearms#nb4 the gun nerds show up yes this post does contain sweeping generalizations about the history of gunpowder
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#me opening my notes app this morning bc i had written down things i wanna review today before my study session#and instead opening a whole fucking exercise about my ex from last year 💀#it’s literally a whole novel i’m so embarrassed#i
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the day i picked up dazai or smth idk i've never read it
#can you tell i don't know how to draw animals#first time drawing odasaku he kinda reminds me of 22!dazai but older..........i'm in pain#they are so similar yet not#anyway i refuse to actually read this light novel bc it's going to be my thirteenth reason. i will absolutey fucking snap#no one could save me#ALSO NO TAGGING THIS W ODAZAI THEYRE FAMILY >:((#bungo stray dogs#bungou stray dogs#bsd#oda sakunosuke#dazai osamu#osamu dazai#the day i picked up dazai#lotus draws
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⸢This story is for just that one reader.⸥
#im in my yoohankim feels nobody talk to me#asked the squad what kind of sky suited these bitched and they were like “dusk” and i was like “fuck yeah i love that”#but holy shit orv rewired the circuits in my brain especially these three and their sun moon star motif#i could ramble about them forever but aye I'll shut up now#i will never be getting over this novel#feel free to use the wallpaper for your phone just don't repost it or claim it is yours pls thank#yoohankim#orv#yoo joonghyuk#kim dokja#han sooyoung#doksoo#joongdok#joongsoo#myart#anime art#anime fanart#artists on tumblr#digital art#omniscient reader's viewpoint
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HOLY SHIT THEY FUCKING KILLED GRIFFIN MCELROY
#The adventure zone#TAZ#TAZ Balance#taz graphic novel#The suffering game#TAZ spoilers#taz gn spoilers#TAZ Balance spoilers#He's fucking dead!#What the fuck
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If someone is calling for others to help them murder you how many people do you let them recruit before you try to shut them up?
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one of the Moments of jane eyre is when jane is conflicted about st john rivers' offer and calls for a sign from god about what she should do and then she fucking hears mr. rochester calling for her in her head and immediately makes up her mind to Go To Him after a year and says she's coming and asks where he is and a while after she reunites with him he goes "oh yeah one time a little bit ago I was so anguished that i cried out your name and I actually heard you answer back. you said you were coming and asked where i was. crazy how that happened because it's not like you could have actually heard me or anything" and then she just tells The Reader that she knows that somehow she Really Was Answering Him but then she also goes "...y'know what I don't think he can handle that information right now so i'm just gonna keep that to myself" and then it's just never fucking brought up again
#when you and your Dark Romance Situationship Lover have. fucking telepathy ig#i'm fucking obsessed with this novel#jane eyre#mr rochester#mine#hannah reads
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i think shang qinghua and tianlang-jun should have a weird chemistry that make other people (lbh, mbj, sqq, etc) confused and uncomfortable
post-maigu ridge but pre-moshang getting together, for whatever reason sqh and tlj are in the same proximity in front of others, probably their first ever conversation -> sqh is really not as scared as the others think he should be! sqh usually does his snivelly coward bit when around demon lords, and no one would call him stupid so why does he seem...weirdly chill? is he starting a conversation about the latest bingqiu rpf?! 🤨
why is tlj interested in what sqh is saying? why is he laughing at the joke sqh made? why is he so enthusiastically responding, leaning forward in interest, eyes glimmering??
Shang Qinghua, why are you staring at the former demon emperor's boobs????? why are you smirking like that??????!
#mbj is sulking in the background#from sqh's pov he knows tlj is usually the chillest demon around#also hes hot and he likes the sort of novels sqh writes#he just has to bring up that he actually wrote so-and-so book and he's in#(tljs pants)#tlj thinks this dude is cute and fun#and also everyone knows this human is into demons#hes willing to see where this goes#bingqiu is so fucking pissed#tianshang#tianplane#tianlang jun#shang qinghua#svsss#scum villain's self saving system#z
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Me: hm, I want something to put on the TV as background noise... Huh. Looks like YouTube is recommending something called The Last Unicorn. That's perfect, it's probably some old shitty animation that has aged poorly! I can watch it ironically!
Me, 2 hours later as the credits roll: *crying, cheering, buying the book, composing the songs*
Me, 2 weeks later: So I have compiled all of the quotes from the book that I think could make good tattoos, and also, HOW HAVE I NEVER LEARNED ABOUT HOW THE LAST UNICORN FUCKING SLAPS??? This gay-ass little fairytale fed my soul! Watered my crops! Transed my gender! Can't believe I heard of this story from youtube recommendations, of all places!!
#original#the last unicorn#tlu#peter s beagle#molly gru#schmendrick#schmendrick the magician#two of my favorite characters in anything right there in the center of the story! and I'm glad I saw the film first!#my reading ability has diminished due to trauma disability etc. but it seems like having a visual reference actually really helped!#no wonder i only ever want to read fan fic! turns out reading is not actually Superior to other types of Storytelling. it's just different.#to say otherwise is snobbishness I have been eminently guilty of in my life!#but like it is easier for me to consume tv and movies and that is fine actually. also that's why I'm doing a graphic novel lol#because i wanted to make something i would actually be able to read if i found it at a library. altho the audio book IS gonna be bomb#the audiobook is for visually impaired readers and anyone who wants or needs it! accessible stories for everyone! yeah!!#my gender was already transed but now I've gained an ADDITIONAL gender! which one? I'll never tell 😘#i am so powerful i have so much fuckin gender. my wife has no gender. and she is equally as powerful.#and also she has STUDIED THE BLADE#mostly zoro's blades from One Piece#normally YouTube recommends me shit movies like idiocracy or smth this is like if every day ur cat brought you a piece of rotten food and#then one day it brings you a BEAUTIFULLY ANIMATED TALE FEATURING MY BELOVED TWINK FUCK-UP WIZARD FRIEND AND MY ALL-TIME HOMEGIRL MOLLY GRU#and also it's soft and beautiful and funny and fucking weird!! i wrote melodies to the songs in the books on my ukulele
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This came to me in a vision at 3 AM and I got out of bed to make it.
- Gabe
#booklr#memes#book blog#monster fucking#monster romance#monster fucker#books#reading#bookworm#humor#Gabe posts#polycraftory#okay look so i read SEVERAL books last month that claimed to have monsters in them and then had an aggressive lack of monsters in them#i complained CONSTANTLY about it and by god i intend to continue doing so#I’m taking suggestions for basically any book with good worldbuilding and MONSTERS#i’m not married to it being romance. monster hunting is fine. i am not picky.#also: humanoid angels are for cowards#my eternal love to anyone who can deliver me a romance novel with a monstrous angel in it
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there’s something beautiful and tragic in the fall out
here’s more babygirl. alternate version and commentary UTC (not really a process discussion more like. wailing.)
i’ve never been so indecisive on a piece in my life !!!! i redid the rendering once and this strayed so far from what i originally wanted for the sketch. idk how i feel about it actually. i might come back and redo it someday cause this isn’t what i wanted to do but im so sick of this drawing lmao i don’t wanna spend another 10 hours figuring it out again. i got finals to study for 👎
i was trying to combine my painterly art style with the more graphic style of my last drawing cause i thought it’d be cool. i was also looking at some of the art from reverse: 1999 but that didn’t really carry through in the final piece. i really wanted to do more painting ☹️ but whatever ive drawn so much in the last 2 weeks i need to stop lmao
this is the sample i made after i restarted the rendering. i like how this looks a lot more but i think a big problem was how i rushed the second lighting source (blue) so it wasn’t executed very well. the finished piece is just way too clean for what i imagined but i mean its still cool!
i could not figure out how to do the weird magic soul taking thing for the LIFE OF ME. i spent 20 minutes just redrawing it 😔
ok that’s all. i need to go will myself into studying now. o7
#another fucking panic lyric caption from me. what’s new.#he’s sooo twtltrtd to me. please agree. 🙂#my art#fanart#digital art#a date with death#a date with death visual novel#casper a date with death#two and a half studios#artists on tumblr#artists of tumblr
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I can’t believe Gideon and Harrow had like 3 weeks of something approximating fun before experiencing 2 solid years of endless suffering 😭 lemme tell you, nothing could’ve prepared me for that or the realization that post book 1 these poor fuckers just never get to spend any time together, I miss the old days of One Flesh One End Bitch!!!!! We had it so good and we didn’t even know it
#Tlt#tlt spoilers#gideon the ninth#harrowhark nonagesimus#gideon nav#griddlehark#like give them a BREAK pls#Still not done Nona but I’m so close#I love these novels in case it wasnt clear#But oh man their story#Just tragedy after tragedy#the locked tomb spoilers#the locked tomb#Harrow finally realized how much Gideon meant to her and then immediately lost her#Very :((#Harrow the ninth#I adore book two#Like man is it sad as fuck#But it makes me want for them to be happy even more#They deserve the universe
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I always wonder how they’re doing between episodes
#total drama#chris mclean#td chris#total drama island#chef hatchet#chref#td chef#you fucking know chef reads novels about a young woman who isn’t treated right by her husband so a handsome man from out of town saves her
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But whose heart would not take flight? Betray the moon as acolyte On first and fierce affirming sight Of sunlight, sunlight, sunlight
#bg3#bg3 edit#bg3 screenshots#astarion#i have so many fucking FEELINGS about this scene#like the bathing in sunlight would be powerful enough#but it's freedom it's cleansing it's healing it's peace#in the context of what happened the previous night#he doesn't want to turn and look at the PC#his FACE when he has to#UGH#I could write essays#novels#epics
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HE'S GONNA STEAL--NOT JUST YOUR HEART--BUT EVERYTHING YOU OWN AS WELL!!!
#chrisrin doodles#grian#mcyt#persona 5#hermitcraft#i should probably come up with a name for this au?#anyways GRIAN!#i didn't have a firm persona in mind for him#but i was thinking about maybe someone like artful dodger?#from oliver twist#ill be frank i know nothing about the novel#i was just looking last night for famous thieves but specifically like#very sterotypical pickpockets/classic thieves#not very gentleman-y at all#he's probably a wind user#super quick on his feet#he does not have a gun he just throws explosives#if youre wondering about his outfit i think it's VERY fitting for grian to have his ideal version of 'rebellion'#be literally like. a petty robber who causes absolute chaos#he still has his shackles on#theyre broken#he just got out of jail#he's going to rob another bank#he's going to be a Fucking Menace#and no one can stop him#his codename i think would change every single time#scar just calls him something new every time they go in#and the rest of the thieves just roll with it
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