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“The best translations into English do not, in fact, read as if they were originally written in English. The English words are arranged in such a way that the reader sees a glimpse of another culture’s patterns of thinking, hears an echo of another language’s rhythms and cadences, and feels a tremor of another people’s gestures and movements.”
— Ken Liu, Translator’s Postface to The Three Body Problem. (via as-if-falling)
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do you like me? blink once for yes and decapitate yourself for no
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new meme just dropped
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Kompromat • Rating: T
The Man turned to face him, raising his glass and taking a tiny sip. Upon seeing him head-on, Light was rinsed by an unsettling feeling. He had quashed one rumble inside of him—that The Man resembled his faceless fantasy—but another roared to life: he was drawn to The Man because he was certain he already knew him.
He squinted at The Man’s familiar face. “Do I know you from somewhere?”
OR
Interpol Detective Inspector Light Yagami goes to a hotel bar in London and sees a familiar face. The Man denies any past between them, but is he telling the truth?
Read on AO3.
Thank you @quicktimeeventfull & @bi-snapdragon for being amazing editors!
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seen in Portland Oregon
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gay new yorker. faggot about it!
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why am i getting kudos on kompromat again did somebody do art or post in a discord who is doing pr for my passion project i will send you $20
IS IT BECAUSE SEVERANCE S2 WRAPPED FILMING OMG
why am i getting kudos on kompromat again did somebody do art or post in a discord who is doing pr for my passion project i will send you $20
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Metaruu’s Headcanon Ask Game
Send in a character or characters and an icon and I’ll give you…
🏳️🌈 A sexuality headcanon
🏳️⚧️ A gender headcanon
😇 A headcanon about their religion/lack thereof
🧸 A headcanon about their childhood
👻 A headcanon about what scares them
🎶 A headcanon about music
👽 A headcanon about a weird quirk of there
💤 A headcanon about their sleep
🦾 A disability headcanon
💝 A headcanon about their love language
🫂 A friendship headcanon
💔 An angsty headcanon
🪢 A headcanon about their family
📓 A headcanon about their hobbies
👗 A headcanon about their clothes
🔪 A headcanon relating to fighting/violence
🌟 A headcanon about their desires/wishes
🥇 A headcanon about what they’re best at
🍫 A headcanon about food
🎭 A headcanon about what they lie about
❤️🔥 A romantic headcanon
💄 An appearance headcanon
🖕 A headcanon relating to anger
😺 An animal related headcanon
😬 A headcanon about the worst thing they’ve done
😭 A headcanon about the worst thing that happened to them.
😶 A random headcanon!
lightyaoigami reblogged
guy who says "FUCK!" to every minor inconvenience x guy who says "oopsie daisies" to earth shattering catastrophes
lightyaoigami reblogged
Metaruu’s Headcanon Ask Game
Send in a character or characters and an icon and I’ll give you…
🏳️🌈 A sexuality headcanon
🏳️⚧️ A gender headcanon
😇 A headcanon about their religion/lack thereof
🧸 A headcanon about their childhood
👻 A headcanon about what scares them
🎶 A headcanon about music
👽 A headcanon about a weird quirk of there
💤 A headcanon about their sleep
🦾 A disability headcanon
💝 A headcanon about their love language
🫂 A friendship headcanon
💔 An angsty headcanon
🪢 A headcanon about their family
📓 A headcanon about their hobbies
👗 A headcanon about their clothes
🔪 A headcanon relating to fighting/violence
🌟 A headcanon about their desires/wishes
🥇 A headcanon about what they’re best at
🍫 A headcanon about food
🎭 A headcanon about what they lie about
❤️🔥 A romantic headcanon
💄 An appearance headcanon
🖕 A headcanon relating to anger
😺 An animal related headcanon
😬 A headcanon about the worst thing they’ve done
😭 A headcanon about the worst thing that happened to them.
😶 A random headcanon!
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so sick of this backtracking of feminism being led by OTHER WOMEN. these (wealthy conventionally attractive white) women are sending us back to the stone ages as a ‘lifestyle trend’ because nothing is at stake for them like ok. you gave up and decided to be some sugar daddys tradwife. fine whatever. KEEP THAT SHIT TO YOURSELF. you actually loooooove makeup and shaving and cooking for your husband with ribbons in your hair and your dream has always been to be a stay at home mom who makes organic granola. nothing wrong with that fundamentally but keep it to your fucking self!!!!!!!! stop imposing it like this is a base level of womanhood stop promoting it as the ideal lifestyle for other women stop letting the patriarchy use you as an example as to why women should be and are actually happy in the stereotypical roles theyve been cornered into for centuries. fuck OFF.
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sleeping with a knife beside me in bed, not because i’m afraid but because it is like a lover to me
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the idea that restrooms, locker rooms, etc need to be single-sex spaces in order for women to be safe is patriarchy's way of signalling to men & boys that society doesn't expect them to behave themselves around women. it is directly antifeminist. it would be antifeminist even if trans people did not exist. a feminist society would demand that women should be safe in all spaces even when there are men there.
btw this is maybe the single most key distinguishing feature of the terfy strains of radical feminism, the seed all the rest of it springs out of: they have absolutely no faith in the ability of feminism to actually destroy patriarchy. they do not think feminism can truly build a better world. they cannot really even imagine that possibility. they think patriarchy is an inevitable natural consequence of unchangeable biological facts, and therefore the goal of feminism can only be to mitigate the worst effects of patriarchy, not to get rid of it.
they can imagine a society where women get some designated safe spaces without men around. they cannot imagine a society where the presence of men is not inherently a danger to women.
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Anonymous asked:
this might be weird to ask, but how do I critically look at another person's writing and implement what I like in their writing in my own writing? I've been having trouble improving in my writing, and frankly Im not sure how to go about doing that, even. It's easy to see what I like about another person's writing, but hard to pinpoint exactly why...
THIS IS NOT WEIRD TO ASK. It is, in fact, the most important question EVER.
How to Read Like a Writer
Re-read. If you get halfway into a chapter and think, Wow this chapter is super creepy–I wonder how they did that. Or get to the end of a book and think, I feel the poignancy of the fragility of human life in an inherently volatile economic system–I wonder how the writer made me feel that way… Go back and re-read that shit.
Read slowly. When you read like a reader, you read pretty fast. When you go in for your second, or third, or fourth re-read of a passage, chapter, or book that you want to know more about, read it slowly. Really. Slowly.
Read for technique, not content. Readers read for content (”In this paragraph, Damien gave Harold a classified envelope.”). Writers read for technique. (”In this paragraph, the writer made me feel curious about the contents of the envelope by giving sensory details about its appearance and weight.”)
Ask the right questions. They usually start with HOW: How did the writer make me feel? How did they accomplish that?
Read small. Did a chapter make you feel sad? Find out WHERE EXACTLY. What paragraph, sentence, or WORD did it for you? Was it a physical detail? A line of dialogue? A well-placed piece of punctuation? Stories are made of words and sentences. Narrow it down.
Practice. Reading like a writer is a skill that takes time to develop. Over time, you’ll get better at it!
How about y’all? Anything to add to this list? I made it off the top of my head so I’m sure I’m forgetting something. What have been your experiences with learning to read like a writer?
Hope this helps!
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this is SO IMPORTANT for creatives! understand WHY you love things, why they move you, how the writer (or artist or whomever) did the thing that made you laugh or cry or see the world through a fresh perspective
I like to mark passages that really work for me, that reveal some insight into the human experience or deliver a beautiful image that lingers in my mind or a powerful scene our great dialogue or whatever. by marking it, one can go back later for inspiration or insight, especially when stuck in a revision or feeling uninspired
Protip: note the punctuation.