#wwi tag

[my-darling-boy]

I was at a bookstore looking through the art section and I saw a spine that said The Camden Town Nudes which was interesting because this didn’t seem like the bookstore where I would ever find something like that and I wanted to have a casual look but like. This also wasn’t exactly the bookstore where you felt like you could look at naked pictures let alone just suggestive paintings of them, it’s a really small shop as well, so I was like right I’ll just take a quick peek, I’m an art student, I love history, maybe I’ll buy it. I looked both ways and saw the shopkeep had left momentarily and no one was about, so I opened it and found it was an entire book featuring nude Edwardian women all painted by Walter Sickert between 1905-1912 and it was actually quite a revolutionary set of paintings for its time given that it featured very raw depictions of working class nude women in dark London instead of the elegant, white bedsheet clad, Demure middle and upper class women usually depicted.

And of course RIGHT as I flip to this lady’s boobs practically taking up an entire double page spread, every customer in a 5 mile radius appeared from around the corners of the shelf including the shopkeep and immediately regressing to a wet, pathetic Edwardian man from 1908, startled, I dropped the large book which caused a giant SLAP on the floor in this already silent store thus causing all patrons to look down at me scrambling on my knees to close a giant book of Edwardian boobs and let me tell you it would not have been nearly as funny had I not immediately felt like some Edwardian local pervert who just tried to sneak a cheeky peek at the erotic book in the bookstore only to drop it dramatically causing a scene, red up to his ears trying to shove it back on the shelf. Like such a casual and normal thing in modern day but looking at Edwardian women suddenly turned it into this egregious act as I apparently became possessed by the spirit of a moustached man in a bowler hat and morning coat going Good Heavens I mustn’t gaze upon these images in public lest the constable haul me away!

[lagsemantics]

shockwave but its an metaphor for the horrors of war beyond man's comprehension

or alternatively: me at 3AM going into the kitchen in search of shredded cheese (8 found dead, 36 injuried)

based on that one cover by Mark Bright. you know the one.

[spineless-lobster]

Hey bro no homo but the way the shellfire lights up your sleeping face at night makes you look so pretty lol I guess even in the horrors of war life’s beauties can still persist lmao no homo tho

[hisuianwilds]

ive been having them on the brain

[cirr0stratus]

fraternity

[bigmack2go]

Smn please ask me to make moodboards cuz i wanna make moodboards but idk for who:(((((

You can be very specific if u want

Like modern/canon, any possible au (like fantas/ sci-fi/etc, but also like coffeshop/iceskaters/royals/etc. or crossovers too!) what ever person, or ppl its fir, ships or like siblingsor friendships idc!!! Also if u want anything specific to be included.

Srsly im begging at this point

What i’ll do is in the tags!! Also u can ask me for other ones, cause i may very well forget some. But like the tags are thise that I’ll DEFINITELY DO

[lalaloobzy]

We need to go back to dealing with our trauma like early-mid 20th century male authors that fought in WWI or WWII

(by writing an epic novel hiding the trauma behind metaphors/fantasy/absurdism and characters that are a little insane)

[gaslightwestern]

Writing Pride Tag: Blackwater

📝 Post a snippet you are extra proud of having written.

Beneath him the pavement was bleeding black, turning into a faded cobblestone. Ears ringing, Arthur gripped onto a streetlight to stay upright. People kept streaming by but their clothes were all wrong. Longer hemlines from yesteryear rippled; khaki cotton in place of suits. Expressions grew exaggerated as time stretched thick and slow like pulled taffy. Lips spoke without sound as the ringing swelled into the rumbling of a rolling barrage. The waterfront was gone, replaced by little houses and shops with gaping holes from artillery shells. Heart pounding furiously, Arthur could feel the throbbing in his roots of his teeth as they clenched down around a single name. “John.” He needed to find John. That wouldn’t happen down here. Not with the crowds and chaos and memories blending with the here and now. He needed to get up high. Narrow and taller than the rest, the ferry terminal became a lighthouse drawing Arthur through the man-made fog. Smoke clung to the air the way his sweat-soaked shirt did his back. Through the haze, concrete and steel shot out of the ground like jagged teeth, swallowing the war-town village whole. Arthur couldn’t tell whether he was running through the past or present but he kept going.

This is from Chapter 31. Finding something from the more recent Chapter 32 without spoiling everything proved impossible!

Thanks to @winterandwords for the tag! Tagging you back along with @orphanheirs, @pipdepop, @karkkidoeswriting, and @writingamongther0ses. No pressure, as always. <3

[the-casbah-way]

it’s time to break my silence. i ship glenn cullen and hugh abbot. i think they’re both weird miserable morally bankrupt old men who are seconds away from a catastrophic mental breakdown at any given moment and they deserve each other in every possible way. and maybe they could also have a little smooch or something. there i said it

[chamerionwrites]

If I had a nickel for every time I’ve encountered people on Tumblr discussing Tolkien’s WWI experiences and the obvious influence they had on his work and responding with, “Oh but you hate allegory? Oh but your books aren’t allegories? Checkmate jirt” then I would have way too many nickels. All of you are SO annoying. Read the original quote.

[tweedfrog]

He is seated and ready

[my-darling-boy]

Missed fit opportunity by the British to wear the Lewis gun pouches in the sluttiest way possible

[brawngp2009]

8, 12, 25 & 58 for the fic writer asks!

8. Post an out-of-context spoiler from a wip. — once again the elusive WWI AU... and yes IN MY HEAD it's a huge spoiler. (you can also check out a snippet from another ask!! hehe!!)

"Would you like to dance?" he offered Jenson a hand. He noticed how Jenson was tapping his shoes the whole evening. How his head swayed slightly as he listened to the music. How he glanced around, but never asked any of the gorgeous women there for a dance. "No, it's fine," Jenson shook his head, but the sparkle of excitement in his eyes was too bright to be ignored. "So now you decide to refuse," Shov smiled, taking Jenson hand.

12. Do you outline your fics?  If yes, how detailed are your outlines?  How far do you stray from them? — i usually have the general idea/time-line and then just go with the flow. i don't write in the chronological order of the fic (which is not ideal) i just write whatever i'm in the mood for and then go insane when it's time to sew the parts together. see below: actual footage of me "outlining"

25. What’s your favorite part of the writing process (worldbuilding, brainstorming/outlining, writing, editing, etc)? — oh definitely the writing itself, especially when The Insipration Hits Hard; and i also like just sitting and staring into the void, making up the dialogue in my head or just searching for Vibes.

58. Do you have a favorite piece of figurative language you’ve written? — i have no idea!! i like this line "It all made him feel like his brain was about to short-circuit and his heart was about to flat-line at the same time.", but i don't how figurative it is.

Fanfiction Writing Asks

[stbrutus]

clay-face

[misiahasahardname]

i’ve had this long list of td surname headcanons (and i guess some of them are nationality headcanons) for a while and haven’t done much about them, so…

here are each generation’s surnames! (except for rr since i’m not too confident about them)

gen 1:

harold norbert cheever doris mcgrady V

cody emmett jameson anderson

lindsay tyson

noah könig (german)

eva barta (czech)

izzy clark

owen fraser

trent evans-grant

gwen kennedy

heather ryeo

bridgette summers

leshawna simelane (south african iirc)

beth spring

devon ‘dj’ joseph

alejandro burromuerto (spanish)

sierra kauffman (german)

tyler wilson

ezekiel miller

courtney cortez (spanish, or from somewhere where they speak spanish primarily)

duncan butcher

katie wan (malaysian)

sadie peterson (originally was gonna give her a romanian surname but here is peterson)

justin kāne (hawaiian)

geoff jasper

gen 2:

josef ‘jo’ kaczmarek (Polish)

brick macarthur

anne-maria chahuán (chilean)

michele ‘mike’ russo

cameron corduroy wilkins

rudolph ‘lightning’ jackson

staci sterling

zoey gates

dawn oakwood

scott brackin (irish)

dakota milton

sam stevens

beverly ‘b’ jones

gen 3:

ella ito-courtemanche (japanese and french)

scarlett montgomery

max mayhem (yes. i’m actually giving him that as his surname. get sillyed)

jasmine reynolds

shawn tremblay

dave korrapati (indian, more commonly in telugu-speaking areas)

sky sanderson (i was a bit uhm. stuck with this one. i looked up ‘cree surnames’ but found only three. i went for this one but i’m still uncertain.)

amy martin

samantha ‘samey’ martin

topher mccann

rodney rogers

sugar silo

beardo mbomio (equatoguinean)

leonard howe

gen 4:

nichelle ladonna (italian)

bowie davis

emma fletcher

julia hartwell-hughes

priya khan (indian)

millie carter

chase boonmee (thai. it means ‘reliable, generous, loyal’. ironic)

raj ghosh (indian)

wayne watterson

mary-kate ‘mk’ yí (chinese. in honour of fai yí, my beloved)

damien reid

hezekias ‘zee’ guzman (argentinian (it means ‘good man’ which is what he is!!!))

rhinffrew ‘ripper’ bowen (welsh (WELSH RIPPER REAL))

caleb garcia (hispanic)

axel sanchez-guðmundsdóttir (hispanic(?) and icelandic. yes, apparently ‘axel’ is an icelandic name!)

[toastmrlord]

Not what I usually post, but wanted to draw some oc art 👍