basalt-dnd: Gourmet magic, a simple first draft of a more complex crafting system I’ve been working on. I’m most likely going to be changing up the system, but I wanted to post this just in case it turns out to be helpful for someone. Anyways, have a nice day or night, everyone! The images used […]
Writerscreed Discovery of March 2018
writerscreed: Writerscreed has been digging through the Tumblr Writing Community to find more writers to feature on our blog. Here are the talented writers we have found during March who deserve more attention! Check them out and give them a follow, and as usual, keep writing everyone! We cannot wait to see who will make
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How Women See How Male Authors See Them
How Women See How Male Authors See Them
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Color Synonyms
asterias-confused-writings: humunanunga: decorxtiveocean: missgoal: amphyria: damselwrites: White also: pale; blanched; sallow; pallid; waxen; spectral; translucent; albino; Grey also: dust; stone; pepper; Black also: coal; slate; dusky; ebon; shadow; murky; Tan also: flesh; khaki; cream; tawny; Brown also: henna; russet; sepia; chestnut; cocoa; drab; bronze; Red also: terracotta ; rouge; carmine; fire-engine; ruddy Orange also:
Raven Stratagem by Yoon Ha LeeMy rating: 5 of 5 stars Brilliant story. The worldbuilding of Ninefox Gambit comes to fruition here. The story also packs a killer plot twist & reveal, though there is plenty of foreshadowing of the possibility, so it’s both surprising and inevitable. One of my favorite 2017 sci-fi novels. 🙂
Ninefox Gambit – the joy of great world building!
Ninefox Gambit by Yoon Ha LeeMy rating: 4 of 5 stars Not only a good novel, this is also a window into an enormous world in conflict, and it begins in media res, with brutal and confusing warfare. At the center of the story is Kel Cheris, an infantry captain and brilliant mathematician, and Shuos
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A Great Peek Into a Very Special Fantasy World
Children of Thorns, Children of Water by Aliette de BodardMy rating: 4 of 5 stars This story, a novelette of just under 12000 words, is not only a wonderful story of loyalty and friendship but also a glance through a display window into a dark and vivid world. De Bodard’s prose is excellent, especially the
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A Conjuring of Light – last installment of the Shades of Magic series.
A Conjuring of Light by V.E. SchwabMy rating: 5 of 5 stars I loved the Shades of Magic saga. The world building was unique and made sense in the story. The characters are memorable, their positive and negative attributes. The magic system is coherent and well-matched for the world, and this author isn’t afraid of
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#winning
It’s no wonder Mom couldn’t live with you. You always think you know everything, but you can’t learn common sense from a book. “They’re not crisis actors,” you, my younger brother, said. We sit in Mom’s living room, in the tiny house she bought after fleeing your home in Florida. I leaned forward and pounced.
Dracula Gender Tropes and Victorian Sexual Panic
Almost 2000 years ago, in AD 54, St. Paul wrote the First Epistle to the Corinthians, wherein it states (verse 11:8), “For neither was the man created for the woman; but the woman for the man.” Taking this to heart, over the centuries, men took possession of their creations and liberated them from the burden
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“You Must Come With Me, Loving Me, To Death”–Sexual and Gender Tropes in Carmilla
From its inception, Gothic literature provided a vitrine for presentation of taboo subjects, especially forbidden love. Walpole’s Castle of Otranto, for example, tells of Manfred’s pursuit of an incestuous relationship with his ward. Carmilla, by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, written during the Victorian Era of adamantine sexual repression, features a steamy same-sex relationship, veiled as
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I am the winner of the realgm Miami Heat Guess How Mediocre We Are game.
Correctly predicted (unfortunately) only 44 wins. Chalm proof:
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Falling Faster Than a Helmet From the Sky.
As I ponder Walpolian and Radcliffean female characterizations, in an Airbus bound for Los Angeles, a prospective couple in a seat behind me attempts pairing. After casual chit-chat, the y-chromosome bearer asserts to a candidate for a computer science master’s program at University of Southern California, how surprising her success is, given that women are
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Some Gothic Impressions
The Gothic is a wide umbrella, able to encompass stories as varied as Anne Radcliffe’s The Italian, a passionate romance of young lovers set in “exotic” Italy against the backdrop of a corrupt Catholic hierarchy, and Bram Stoker’s epistolary Dracula, a horror tale where undead bloodsuckers are repelled by Van Helsing’s little cross. Common to them is an obsession
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Fire and Fury by Michael Wolff: A Review
Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House by Michael WolffMy rating: 4 of 5 stars Wolff gives what seems a reasonably accurate take on the infighting at the White House. My impression is that to a vast degree the book is correct. Wolff has tapes of interviews and an expert attorney doing a libel
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Coda’s first novel’s rough draft is done.
I already want to make a ton of changes but I have a Brönte paper to revise and the first act for my script to finish.
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