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Changes!
Well, after contemplating a while about my story, I've decided to redo it. Not because I hate it or found it too terrible, but mainly I want to make it more mainstream. This means the explicit erotica will go away and leave room for more action, adventure, and comedy. As I started writing the second story I found myself looking back on the first one and really not liking parts of it. I really had to think about my goals for my story and figure out what I wanted to change. Making Blue Rain for the erotica genre excludes it from many readers and this is a story I'd like to share with almost everyone (kids shouldn't read it obviously). My second story also has the characters going out to fight, inspect, train, etc. The characters are also more playful and sarcastic and it's something I enjoy writing. The first story felt boring in the sense that nothing really happens. Shid is in Daimon's castle practically the whole time which is fine if other stuff was going on. The story will still be about Shid regaining her memories as well as fighting off the retards from the neighboring continent. Daimon and Shid's relationship will change and I'll have to come up with more exciting things to throw at the characters. It does suck having to redo a large amount of work I've spent a year on. I was feeling depressed about the story and wondering what to do with it because I felt lost. The past few days the idea popped in my head of what to change and I feel that spark again. After discussing my ideas with a few people, they seemed to like the changes as well. So here goes another attempt to write a better Blue Rain story!
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Tarakanov Fortress in Dubno, Ukraine (source)
Source: abandonedography.com
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This is Arod, a character horse in the movie, “Lord of The Rings.” Arod was ridden by Legolas (Orlando Bloom) in the movie, and played by a Percheron cross stallion, called Percy. Bloom said that Percy was the friendlest horse on the set.
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100 Beautiful and Ugly Words
by Mark Nichol
One of the many fascinating features of our language is how often words with pleasant associations are also quite pleasing on the tongue and even to the eye, and how many words, by contrast, acoustically and visually corroborate their disagreeable nature — look no further than the heading for this post. Enrich the poetry of your prose by applying words that provide precise connotation while also evoking emotional responses
Beautiful Words
- Amorphous: indefinite, shapeless
- Beguile: deceive
- Caprice: impulse
- Cascade: steep waterfall
- Cashmere: fine, delicate wool
- Chrysalis: protective covering
- Cinnamon: an aromatic spice; its soft brown color
- Coalesce: unite, or fuse
- Crepuscular: dim, or twilit
- Crystalline: clear, or sparkling
- Desultory: half-hearted, meandering
- Diaphanous: gauzy
- Dulcet: sweet
- Ebullient: enthusiastic
- Effervescent: bubbly
- Elision: omission
- Enchanted: charmed
- Encompass: surround
- Enrapture: delighted
- Ephemeral: fleeting
- Epiphany: revelation
- Epitome: embodiment of the ideal
- Ethereal: celestial, unworldly, immaterial
- Etiquette: proper conduct
- Evanescent: fleeting
- Evocative: suggestive
- Exuberant: abundant, unrestrained, outsize
- Felicity: happiness, pleasantness
- Filament: thread, strand
- Halcyon: care-free
- Idyllic: contentedly pleasing
- Incorporeal: without form
- Incandescent: glowing, radiant, brilliant, zealous
- Ineffable: indescribable, unspeakable
- Inexorable: relentless
- Insouciance: nonchalance
- Iridescent: luster
- Languid: slow, listless
- Lassitude: fatigue
- Lilt: cheerful or buoyant song or movement
- Lithe: flexible, graceful
- Lullaby: soothing song
- Luminescence: dim chemical or organic light
- Mellifluous: smooth, sweet
- Mist: cloudy moisture, or similar literal or virtual obstacle
- Murmur: soothing sound
- Myriad: great number
- Nebulous: indistinct
- Opulent: ostentatious
- Penumbra: shade, shroud, fringe
- Plethora: abundance
- Quiescent: peaceful
- Quintessential: most purely representative or typical
- Radiant: glowing
- Redolent: aromatic, evocative
- Resonant: echoing, evocative
- Resplendent: shining
- Rhapsodic: intensely emotional
- Sapphire: rich, deep bluish purple
- Scintilla: trace
- Serendipitous: chance
- Serene: peaceful
- Somnolent: drowsy, sleep inducing
- Sonorous: loud, impressive, imposing
- Spherical: ball-like, globular
- Sublime: exalted, transcendent
- Succulent: juicy, tasty, rich
- Suffuse: flushed, full
- Susurration: whispering
- Symphony: harmonious assemblage
- Talisman: charm, magical device
- Tessellated: checkered in pattern
- Tranquility: peacefulness
- Vestige: trace
- Zenith: highest point
Ugly Words
- Cacophony: confused noise
- Cataclysm: flood, catastrophe, upheaval
- Chafe: irritate, abrade
- Coarse: common, crude, rough, harsh
- Cynical: distrustful, self-interested
- Decrepit: worn-out, run-down
- Disgust: aversion, distaste
- Grimace: expression of disgust or pain
- Grotesque: distorted, bizarre
- Harangue: rant
- Hirsute: hairy
- Hoarse: harsh, grating
- Leech: parasite,
- Maladroit: clumsy
- Mediocre: ordinary, of low quality
- Obstreperous: noisy, unruly
- Rancid: offensive, smelly
- Repugnant: distasteful
- Repulsive: disgusting
- Shriek: sharp, screeching sound
- Shrill: high-pitched sound
- Shun: avoid, ostracize
- Slaughter: butcher, carnage
- Unctuous: smug, ingratiating
- Visceral: crude, anatomically graphic
Notice how often attractive words present themselves to define other beautiful ones, and note also how many of them are interrelated, and what kind of sensations, impressions, and emotions they have in common. Also, try enunciating beautiful words as if they were ugly, or vice versa. Are their sounds suggestive of their quality, or does their meaning wholly determine their effect on us?
By Mark Nichol
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A short list of several types of poison and their effects.
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Receipt with Seal, England, 1361
Receipt by Peter de Marthelay received from John de Hawkesworth, rector of the church of Gyselay [Guisley] fifty shillings for rent of Lofthouse in Sualeyngmore, in London. Feast of St Martin [11th November], 1361. Lofthouse, 3 miles north of Wakefield.
Manuscript on vellum, 7 lines, one red wax seal of a lion rampant with good impression, lacks another seal, folds, slightly creased, small stain on lower edge, 64 x 203mm.
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Part of the Medieval and Early Modern Manuscripts Collection at UVic Special Collections and University Archives.
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Sometimes I hate sharing my art because I really think it’s terrible even if it’s a quick sketch. Couldn’t write so I’m just derping along today.
Also, I’m terrible at drawing guys. Most of them look pretty androgynous at times which is fine but I’d love to draw some meatier looking dudes. Haha! Gimme some meat!
Anyway, I’ll just stick with drawing girls.
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Source: arsenicinshell
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zauberhaft by Oer-Wout
Source: oer-wout.deviantart.com
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The 1,500 year old Byzantine mosaics in the Basilica of San Vitale in Ravenna, Italy.
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Ms. Codex 1572, Part 1; Manuscript Cannibalism
This manuscript is a complete portable gradual with chants for the Mass according to the Use of Brixen (now Bressanone), possibly from a Benedictine monastic foundation. The internal text was scribed in Italy between ca .1300 and 1325 (more on that in a following post).
The binding is from the 15th century, chamois over beveled wooden boards, and most of its leather is now lost. Now that the spine has been exposed one can observe a line of text running down the right hand side. Similarly, both the front and back pastedowns have been created from cannibalized parchment pages. The front pastedown is a leaf from southern Germany with visible prayers including the Credo, Gloria, and Da pacem Domine. The back pastedown was made from a fragment believed to be from a 13th century Italian missal or gradual. The text along the spine appears to be from the same or a similar fragment.
Manuscript description and digitized images can be found here: http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/4823417
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Did a sketch of Shid. I really miss drawing. Still trying to finish my story before I try to do any art. I’d love to try doing a digital painting again. Ahhh… Art!
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people being interested in my oc
people asking in-depth questions about my oc
Almost finished editing the third draft of my story. Ahhh... Been working on it forever! Blah! I'm excited to publish and see if other people enjoy it. There will be many stories and I can't wait to write them and share with everyone. I dork out over my own stuff. Haha! I have everything developed soooooooooo far into the future as well as other character story ideas. Just wish I had more time to edit and write.
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Published in 1854, this copy of The Illustrated Book of Scottish Songs is perfect for any book collector interested in fine book design. The gauffered edges (the gold detailing on the fore-edge) really adds to the beautiful green leather binding. The zoomed-in images also give you a sense of how delicate this process must have been to create this effect.
Inside the lovely exterior are folk songs, ballads, and other types of Scottish music from the sixteenth to nineteenth century. This book only contains illustrations and lyrics, however it does include references to where to find the tunes for some of the songs.
-Lindsay M.