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can someone PLEASE upload the ben platt diet pepsi cover here PLEASE

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How did you like the graphic novel???

hooomg in the greatest act of 2025 collective restraint @or-dhuilleag and @flightspathfic and i are holding back on reading it until we can sit on someone’s porch and kvell together. from what i’ve heeeeeard ronan’s had all his spikes sanded off, which breaks my heart a little, but also i’ve seen all the chainsaw panels and you know 🫠🫠🫠

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man i have evicted myself from the hockey rpf building (and as a new fan i have no idea how fringe/off the radar this flavor of investment is) but i can't help thinking as rpf breaks containment: wouldn't the panting yaoi of it all disincentivize gay nhlers from coming out publicly? particularly high profile ones. like would you wanna stick your nose out of the closet if it meant a couple thousand fujoshi swiveling their heads on their necks towards you like t-rexes hearing an edmontosaurus (lol) in the underbrush

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hi, i'm yikes (they/them)

ao3 -- best (grown pynch) || barns renderings, soundtrack, fanbind the pile (drarry filth) with @garagepaperback & @eleadore --

essay on the intimacy of editing (siken, gluck, etc) bmw after dark (collected ronan nsfw)

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The Dark Rupture (portrait of James Baldwin), 1941, by Beauford Delaney

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The Victory of Faith  (1891) Saint George Hare 

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forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit

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KEVIN BERNHARDT Hellraiser III: Hell on Earth (1992)

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just popping in to say no pressure but i'd read the hell out of more pynch latin homework i loved verg. a. 6.136

ty v kindly. they do need to translate some catullus together don’t they

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hi! I love your writing! It’s been a few years since I’ve graduated university. I’ve always wanted to write things, but I am not very confident in my creative writing. I think it’s because although I am a native English speaker, I don’t feel like I know the rules of constructing sentences that well, beyond some basics (I know what a dependent clause and a complex sentence are, but not much beyond that). Not knowing the rules makes it hard to follow the rules or change the cadence of my writing confidently. Wish they taught more grammar in school, ahaha, but I am curious - do u have a book or some sort of source you reference that helps you feel confident that you are putting sentences together properly?

Thank uuuu

sorry to answer so late! I don't have a book or reference I use for putting sentences together. Knowing what a dependent clause is is a good start, and it's more than many great writers know. I'm saying this because I have talked to many people who I think write exceptionally well, but if I mentioned anything about clauses they didn't know what I was talking about. I think they probably got basics in school, then read enough to develop some good instincts, and then they get editors like me who really know their shit. That's what I would recommend generally--lots of reading and lots of good betas.

However, since you're looking for recommendations, here are three more specific things to look into:

Sentence diagramming. I actually can't diagram a sentence from memory, and I'm not sure I could even do a very complicated sentence when I learned it, but learning to diagram sentences means you learn all the parts of a sentence and the different way words go together. Being able to identify the subject, predicate verb, direct object, indirect objects, appositives, and articles can really help you understand what a sentence needs to operate and how things like word order can be changed to vary syntax. A lot of mistakes in syntax happen because the writer forgot what the subject or predicate verb was by the end of the sentence. Here is an explanation of sentence diagramming.

Learning Latin. Just as I can't diagram a sentence, I can't read or write Latin. However, I did take a year of Latin at college, and it really beefed up my understanding of English grammar. This is because Latin is morphologically rich, whereas English is morphologically quite poor. This means that words in Latin change depending on what part of the sentence they're in, which in English is rare. As such if you're reading or writing Latin, you're paying lots of attention to what a noun in the sentence is doing, which can really start making you look at English in new ways. There are other morphologically rich languages, and learning another language in general can be a great way to make you think about the way we say things in English and how they can be said differently.

Reading 18th and 19th century English language novels. I mentioned reading above, but I wanted to specify these books because they tend to be syntactically rich in a way that can give you interesting ideas about what is "permissible" in an English sentence. I also think books in other languages can be great for this, but you're more at a mercy of a translator there. When I am striving to be more syntactically complex and interesting, I always pick up Jane Austen.

Now that I've said all this I want to say that I don't actually think correct grammar is necessary to tell a great story. Some of the best books in the English language are books that flaunt the rules we see as most basic. However, as you stated in your ask, a better understanding of the rules, such as they are, can help you think of ways to use them, bend them, or break them in ways that create meaning and make your message clear to the majority of readers.

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declan lynch web weaving, part 1/?

maggie stiefvater, the dream thieves; carol lee, to die for; eugene o’neill, brighton beach memoirs; maggie stiefvater, mister impossible; stephen adly guirgis, the last days of judas iscariot; sufjan stevens, fourth of july; maggie stiefvater, the dream thieves; terry pratchett, thief of time; lindsay gibson, adult children of emotionally immature parents; maggie stiefvater, the raven king

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no one knows if art is good or not

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seven sentences game

tag from @sonofa-dream gracias!

share seven sentences from the last thing you wrote:

no seven sentences from my abandoned hp wireless are fun in isolation; here is a bit from my latest published pynch

Right. This would go how it would go, and already it was more than Ronan thought he’d get again. He wanted—the peace, the calm between them, if he got to choose the way the minutes counted down. Straining on his elbow past Baby, Ronan kissed Adam one more time, slow and hedonic. “Parrish. Adam,” he said. Adam’s hand came up to cradle Ronan’s skull, like it always had.  If Ronan was kissing a ghost, so be it. Easy to love him all over again, blur-eyed like this, with his breath stuttering, an apparition straight out of the summer of Ronan’s life. 

@flightspathfic @garagepaperback @knucklecurve @hephaestiions @smugrobotics @cheeeryos anybody else who feels like it!

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2 please if I'm not too late :)

2. if your writing process was a spotify playlist, what would it be called?

"2008 dubstep for hating yourself"

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25 & bc i want to watch u torment someone, 22 (doesn't have to be a wip)

hi babe!

25 here

22. select a mutual to ensnare in one of your WIPs uhhhhhhhhhh. uh?

i think i might be out of the fic writing game so no WIPs only abandoned outlines, but @kamaela as an extremely salty therapist who fires harry for being a little shit uninvested in his own recovery in my depressed master of death fic? sure! sure. maybe she has a replica bronze age artifact in her office that he plays with during sessions and remembers as part of unlocking the uhhh archaeological component of the fic. most important part is that she's a forbiddingly hot gay australian mom so

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11, w 18a and vapour :)

perv

11. what would the lovechild of 18a and vapour be like?

sauna sunday morning meet-cute with a devastatingly attuned, silent, frankly nasty-mean bj, but no names exchanged; that night on the way home from a last minute hosp shift (still in scrubs) dr. adam spots ronan on the subway platform and chooses to walk 30 ft to get into the same car behind him, fic ends with adam sitting down across from ronan, making eye contact, and starting to grin

that's probably more 18a than vapour but vapour is....insubstantial. i suppose to match some of the intentional draco-seeking vibes from harry in vapour, ronan could see adam is 20 feet away on grindr when going for coffee that morning, and swipes right, but adam's already put away his phone? so ronan on a whim just tracks him down in the sauna, but wimps out on a number exchange

DOES THAT SCRATCH THE ITCH

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