Obsessed with the lives of imaginary people. #Reader. #Writer. Marcher Lass.
Genderqueer. she/her/they
Far too analogue to fit in any of your binaries.
was @SLindseyWales on Twitter
[video of cute non-human mammal doing literally any activity]
tumblr: you are KILLING them!
(I'm both happy, and slightly offended that I never get comments about how "doing that is, in fact, abusing ants"... I may however make such comments... but that's a whole other story. Nah, only puppies and kittens get this kind of worry...)
@sarahijackson anytime weasels are mentioned, I think of Nanny Ogg's insistence that the man who puts weasels down his trousers is the height of good entertainment :-D
1100 words. Which is not nothing, & has got the story started, but good grief I didn't realise how much I'd forgotten about 18th century naval terminology!
Or did I just not care quite so much about getting it right when I was younger?
Happy writing news: a rewrite request on a story has turned into an acceptance! 🎉 It's a pro rate market too, and a story that has been turned down almost 30 times. Very pleased it will get its moment in the sun 🌞
My son is amazing at art and is now trying to decide where he wants to go after college. Thanks to our passports he can go anywhere in Europe and he’s considering the Netherlands. He was a bit hesitant as he’s worried about making friends in a country where they don’t speak English, so he’s also applied to UK unis.
He had an interview with a uni this week and while he was offered a place on the spot, the person interviewing him told him he’d be better off going to an art university or college outside of the UK because he is very interested in thinking and talking about art, what it represents, what message it wants to send etc, and in the UK you mainly get taught to just “make the art” without researching anything. Which I find to be true with so much UK schooling. Kids are encouraged to regurgitate, not analyse, question, investigate. I know that’s the point of British education but it’s still depressing. #education
@RomanticIsa from my own (admittedly limited) travel experiences, most people in the Netherlands can speak English & I'm sure he'd have support as an international student.
You're right about the UK education system though :-( Schools etc are measured on how many students pass exams, so the focus is on teaching them to pass exams rather than truly educating them.
I just read the most ridiculous book. Allegedly a Regency Romance, but there was little to distinguish it as Regency (except multiple mentions of most young ladies wearing pastel shades but the Heroine doesn't) & almost a catalogue of Things Which Wouldn't Have Happened - including a ball that finished so early the heroine was able to sneak out later at midnight (!)
Oh, and the main sex scene was so boring I just scrolled through several pages.
In #WritingNews today I finished the new outline for my 18th century pirate/naval officer enemies-to-friends-to-lovers romance. I struggled when I tried writing it before because I couldn't figure out the middle.
So now I just need to draft, edit, check it all for historical accuracy, and then...
Been interesting reading the answers to today's #WritersCoffeeClub question "How much of yourself is in your MC [...]?"
My MCs tend to have lives very different from mine (I do mostly write historical tales, after all), but their values - such as my current 18th century MC being anti-slavery - often align with my own.
They also tend to have romantic relationships that grow from friendship, because those are the kind I know (there are some obstacles to writing romance when you're aro!)
#WordWeavers Feb 17th.
What's the most embarrassing thing your MC has ever done?
Cmdr Henry: "Oh that's easy to answer - back in my first week as a midshipman I fell for the old 'long wait' gag."
Thornville: "How long were you waiting before you worked it out?"
Cmdr Henry: "That's the really embarrassing part - one of the lieutenants had to explain it to me."
Hello #Mastodon! So long story Short, this platform was introduced to me by my professor at Uni. I'm simply taking a gander; a feel for what this platform is like. Anyone got any starter tips that do not entail - "go to reddit"?
#AskFedi
Way back in my dim & distant youth, the computers I knew & used were Acorn A3000s. These came bundled with a vector drawing software package called "Draw".
Is it possible to get a version of this software which runs on Windows 10/11? (I can learn to use an emulator if need be).
Please note! I'm not asking for vector graphics software recs. I've used many different things over the last 25 years & none of them are as easy & intuitive as Draw.
Currently running on approximately 8 hours sleep out of the last 4 nights and while I have more urgent and important things to try and think of I am currently stuck on what songs might soundtrack dragon erotica.
