tiemforliterachure

[tiemforliterachure]

stealing this from twitter

[tiemforliterachure]

[tiemforliterachure]

Goncharov wouldn’t be half as entertaining if Tumblr weren’t completely and utterly willing to “yes and” all the initial flaws. Katya’s name should be Goncharova? Her calling herself Goncharov reflects her complicated relationship with both her gender and her queerness. Andrey’s name should be Andrei? No, because he’s actually a Ukrainian being mistaken for a Russian by the Italians, which is central to his character and the themes about identity and nationality in the wake of the collapsed USSR. The USSR wouldn’t even fall until 20 years after the film was made? Matteo JWHJ0715 was ahead of his time.

It’s a great example about how good faith approach to writing can really enhance the reading, when you treat flaws as opportunities rather than just nitpicking them or erasing them. The mistakes being folded into Goncharov makes for a deeper, stronger, and more interesting story than if those mistakes had never happened at all.

[tiemforliterachure]

writing tip #3644:

to succeed at writing romance, you gotta make the love interest as annoying as possible

[tiemforliterachure]

cool so you can hide ads for knowing too much now

[tiemforliterachure]

People against piracy fail to realize that no, I can’t just ‘buy it.’ They stopped making DVDs and Blu-Rays. They’re barely offering digital copies for download. I am not spending money I could use for food or bills to pay for a subscription service just so I can always have access to a beloved piece of media. Especially not when the service will remove media on a whim without concern for how the loss of access to that piece will make its artistic conservation nigh impossible.

For example, I recently learned that Disney+ had an original film called Crater. It’s scifi, family friendly, and seems cool - I would love to buy it as a holiday gift for my little brother! But: it’s exclusive to D+ and THEY REMOVED IT LITERALLY MONTHS AFTER ITS RELEASE.

The ONLY way I can directly access this film is through piracy. The ONLY available ‘copies’ of this film are hosted on piracy websites. Disney will NEVER release it in theaters, or as something to buy, and it may NEVER return to the streaming service. It will be LOST because we aren’t allowed to purchase it for personal viewing. If I can’t pay to own it, I won’t pay for the privilege of losing it when corporate decides to put it in a vault.

So yes, I’m going to pirate and support piracy.

[tiemforliterachure]

I'm at a :.|:; for words.

[tiemforliterachure]

if a professor has a single digit (or ZERO) number of allowable absences that means they really really want to hear a grotesquely detailed description of every medical problem you have btw. your goal should be as much disgust on the face as possible

[tiemforliterachure]

i love!! my!! novel!!!!!!

[tiemforliterachure]

No, no, and NO.

AO3 does not live in “the cloud” because that is other people’s computers, and other people’s computers are vulnerable to censorship.

AO3 is on its own computers. It does still have to be housed somewhere, and I suppose a determined enough hater could try to find that place and go after it, but it’s a lot harder than sending spurious complaints to Amazon or whomever going “BadWrong things are hosted on your cloud service!”

Owning the servers is a core tenet of OTW/AO3.

[tiemforliterachure]

«At the Internet Archive, this is how we digitize a book. We never destroy a book by cutting off its binding. Instead, we digitize it the hard way—one page at a time. We use the Scribe, a book scanner our engineers invented, along with the software that it runs. Our scanning centers are located in universities and libraries around the world, from Boston Public Library to the University of Toronto to the Wellcome Library and beyond. Eliza is one of our fastest and most accurate scanners. Next she will execute quality control checks and fix any errors. Then she ships the book back to our Physical Archive for long-term preservation. Now imagine this: scanners like Eliza have done this 2,000,000 times. That’s what it takes to provide you with a free digital library.» – Plus Internet Archive’s Modern Book Collection Now Tops 2 Million Volumes, by Chris Freeland, February 3, 2021

♥

[tiemforliterachure]

hey btw if you wanna read dracula in real time as it happens you can have the chapters delivered to you via e-mail by signing up here:

it's fun

[tiemforliterachure]

The first thing you discover when using the philosophers stone is that since Pb weighs 202 g/mol and Au 197 g/mol, every mole transmuted causes a 107 kiloton TNT explosion. You will not make a second discovery, for obvious reasons.

[tiemforliterachure]

(CW for homophobic and ableist language and mentions of homophobia in the general thread, also general CW for Kiwifarms-brand stuff.)

The forum post I’ve attempted to link has a specific context, but seems generally applicable to anyone who gets shitty/cruel comments on their online writing.

“1. Understand that you did nothing wrong or really anything to deserve this. [They] are [their] own person and so are you. Do not let [their] words hurt or change you. 2. Keep writing and enjoy what you are doing. Writing should be fun and like any skill it only gets better the more you do it. So keep writing and seek responsible reasonable critics. 3. Block [them], delete any comments, and ultimately ignore [them]. [They] want conflict and drama. The best thing you can do for yourself is to not give [them] what [they] want. 4. Do not try to troll, argue with, change, white knight, or "save" [them]. All are very bad ideas and will only draw you into [their] drama. It will hurt you. There is no good outcome here. 5. Remember you have more important and fun things to do like writing. Writing is fun and gives you a form of expression enjoyed for centuries. Keep writing and make your mark by inspiring people for years to come. The more time you put into it the more you will enjoy it and improve.”

[tiemforliterachure]

pop culture intertextuality is just so damn *fascinating*

today a parody movie (50 shades of black) comes out, based on the 50 shades of grey movie, which was based on the 50 shades book, which was based on twilight, which was somewhat based on interview with the vampire (which anne rice based on an earlier short story she wrote), which was based on Dracula and other vampire stories, which originally came from Dr. John Polidori’s The Vampyre (even though Vampires were a thing in folk tales before then, he was the one who made them all classy, etc.)

so really, like so many things, this is all Lord Byron’s fault.

[tiemforliterachure]

People will say “write what you know!” But I know so little

[tiemforliterachure]

i know an engineer-type dude who said fiction bored him, because fiction is mostly-formulaic and tropey, and you can generally guess what’s gonna happen next, and yada yada

so his solution for this problem was… to solely read serial web novels in languages that (1) he did not speak, and (2) for which there was no actual translation, fan or otherwise

apparently, the combined forces of “trying to figure out WTF is going on via the power of Google Translate" + “cultural differences in storytelling conventions” + “the inherent randomness of where the hell amateur authors are gonna take their plots”—those all mashed up to make stories that were unpredictable enough to keep him guessing all the time

then he described to me this totally batshit-sounding Hungarian story he’d been obsessively reading once a week for years

and god i think about him all the time.  like.  that is the most wild way to process fiction that i have ever heard of, but also, i’ve gotta admire the sheer chaos energy of it