#whatstheword

[oxenbury]

What's the word for feeling nostalgia for a time or place you've never been before? I'm nostalgic for the 80's but I was born in the early 90's.

[themarimosystem]

new group photo ? more likely than you think

hope i did everyone justice

oh yeah and i added myself to the card n pinned post

[strqyr]

i think the hiatus is getting to me. not that my interest is lowering, far from it, but i have nothing new to ramble about. everything i've rambled about i've already done so extensively and i don't like repeating myself that much so now i'm just sitting here like

feels bad man

i thought about writing my cinder branwen au (finally lmao) but i had to think about the xiao long-rose house again and i'm stuck redesigning it for my own sanity, so my procrastination skills at least are in top shape.

[donsincerewan]

Tumblr what's the deal?

[alamari-chibi]

Woke is aave

...1 word

[yeyinde]

so sorry if this is a bit of an off question but i was wondering if you had any specific thesaurus you liked to use? i’m absolutely in love with your range of vocabulary but i haven’t been able to find any good thesauri either online or a physical version. unless of course you just come up with it all for. your brain, in which case, holy moly.

off topic but i also love the blog re-theme!

ahhhh, thank you!!! i'm so happy you asked this, but it's also the worst thing you could have because i am unrepentant logophile lmao i can talk about words, etymology, why i picked the word i did in a fic foreverrrrr

but for the sake of an actual answer: i don't. it's rare that i use one tbh because i prefer knowing the word at its core over just swapping it out with something else. etymology is a huge passion of mine, and i've been collecting words i like for a long time now. i have a massive google doc filled with them that i try to add to at least a few times a week.

i usually pick them up reading fic or nonfic books. they're pretty technical—especially the ones about nature—so they always throw in ones i've never heard before. and then i start to think about how i can use this in a fic. how can i relate this particular word about mountain anatomy to an emotion. and that's kinda how it starts.

wikipedia is a hugeeee source of inspo for me, too. it's where i start first when i come across a word just to see if there's anything else in relation to it. etymonline is good, too! i love r/Words on Reddit. the biggest place for logophiles, tbh. WhatsTheWord and Vocabulary are also really good. i like these better than dictionaries or word of the day stuff. mostly though—i just google it.

[spiritofhyena]

I found a piece of snake shedding in the backyard and I was thinking to collect it and add it to either one of my shrines or on the bone shelf... but I'm not sure how should I go to store/preserve/whatstheword that snake skin as I mainly dealt with bones and shed horns.

Does anyone have some tips??

[rileyslibrary]

This is a message to the anon who sent me their idea for a multi-chapter work as a request.

I’ll put a break after this because it’s a long post. At the end, I’ve provided some resources that help me with the writing process. Maybe they can help you too.

So, hi anon! C’mere, step into my office.

Thank you for your kind words and for trusting me with your request.

I love your idea. I really, really do! It’s exciting and intriguing, and it would make a great Simon “Ghost” Riley x Reader series!

You mentioned that you want to start writing, but so far, you’ve been preparing yourself by reading posts with writing tips.

Here’s the thing, anon. I won’t use your idea for that specific reason: I think you should be the one who writes it.

See, when I had the idea for my first multi-chapter work, I thought the same way: maybe I should send it to someone, and they would do it instead.

But they’d never portray the characters as I had them in my mind. Personal opinion here, but I feel that multi-chapter works need much more planning than a 2K-word one-shot. And your ask is so detailed that it looks like you have everything figured out; the plot is conceptualised, the emotions you want to convey are clear, and you’ve even laid out the chapters (maybe you did this subconsciously, but each paragraph in your request is an actual chapter!) You know how it will start, how it will progress, and even how it’ll end! You’re the only person who will do your story justice.

And as for me, I can only provide you with a few sites that often help me during the writing process.

Take a look around wordsnstuff. Their Resources for Describing Physical Things page is handy, especially for non-native English speakers.

SPW for their Words to Use Instead of SAID page. If you don’t like the website, you can google "other words instead of said" or something like that. I like it because it has these buttons that you can click on and redirect you to the section.

The How to Write Dialogue: Formatting, Examples, & Tips page from the Self-Publishing School. I go back to this every single time. I usually keep it open as I write. It helps with the dialogue “rules”.

Word Hippo for synonyms and similar words. It’s a thesaurus. Some people say it’s too basic, but I like it for that specific reason.

The Emotion Thesaurus: A Writer’s Guide to Character Expression by Angela Ackerman and Becca Puglisi. Some people download this off the internet, but I wanted to support the authors so I bought it for 6.00 EUR which is almost as much as a venti iced brown sugar oat-milk shaken espresso from Starbucks. Difference is that the thesaurus will prove helpful and it will stay with you forever, whilst the latter will go poof and make you jittery.

The r/writing, r/fanfiction, and r/whatstheword subreddits.

I hope the resources above can help you (and anyone reading this) with your journey.

Maybe start small; write drabbles. Or create another account/side blog if writing makes you feel too exposed. But don’t wait until you’re ready; you’ll never be.

Give it a shot.

P.S. I didn’t answer directly to your ask since you’ve laid out the entire plot for your story, and I don’t want to spoil it for everyone else if you choose to write it.

[milflewis]

LITERALLY the last alpha teammate he had turned out to be a disaster and the only other alpha driver Lewis feels comfy with is Seb and so Val has to properly earn his trust and everything and ahhhhhh

no but like !! the care n consideration n the years n hours of work valewis put into their relationship ??? and then. to throw a/b/o into the mix ??? whatstheword. fascinating. !! just lewis being so very careful n val comes along with his coffee!! and his quiet smiles!! and his do u want me to blow up his mailbox when horner says smth n lewis laughs so loudly val startles a little. smiling. and his video games !! feeling kind of nauseous rn thinking about them…🤧🤧 just val being there. always. solid n unmoving n it wasn’t always easy but it was them n lewis chose it. he chose it. they were his choice. VAL was his choice n he was val’s n that matters

[mccarthymolly]

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[ubi-goes-uwu]

Fan Theory

man in hurry IS general macnamera and here's why:

in nightmare time episode 2 part 1 (the wedding), he's at the reception and looks at his watch, complaining about how long it's taking. this made me think; why is he so obsessed with time? and i was reminded of the famous quote from TGWDLM: "WEAR A WATCH!"

so! the man in a hurry went to beanies in the beggining of TGWDLM right before the meteor fell and met Emma but he disappears after that and the general appears – can he travel through time? Is that why he's so obsessed with his watch being synched with Paul's in the finale? Is THAT why he's in a hurry? Is he always trying to go back in time and save Hatchetfield? He's also there in the beginning of Black Friday but then he disappears! 

AND he wears....an overcoat.

Anyway I'm sorry there's no substantial evidence but I do believe this with my entire being :)

[kamchronicles]

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[paraphraze615]

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[tayadatgyal]

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[scrappappero]

There is something in humility which strangely exalts the heart.
-Saint Augustine