Tag: so true

I have finished watching Guardian and sweet damn. You were right about everything! Their relationship is so compelling that I watched 40 episodes of trash plot and it was WORTH IT.

xparrot:

I know, I know!!! Isn’t it just? It reminds me of fanning on shows in the ‘90s, there is so much ridiculous dumb chaff to skim through and forget – but the character stuff is SO good. And there’s so much of it, too, just, their faces, in like any scene they’re together…

(If you’re not on it already, the novel is definitely worth checking out; the plot’s better, the side characters are more appealing, and Shen Wei and Zhao Yunlan are arguably even more in love…though it would be an argument, because, as mentioned, their faces~~~)

(also if like me you don’t read Chinese, the translation is ongoing, which means you’ll have to wait, but it also means it isn’t over yet~)

squid’s laws of fic (not inclusive)

katherynefromphilly:

sacrificethemtothesquid:

first law: write the fic you wish to see in the world aka goddammit do I have to do everything myself around here

second law: it’s going to be longer than you think. much longer. hahaha so long. why are you crying 

third law: the time spent writing is inversely proportional to the amount of smut present, dammit

fourth law: flesh out your secondary characters. make them real people. have them take over. oh god. put them back. somebody please help 

fifth law: the time spent researching canon is directly proportional to the amount of time you’ll spend altering your plot. that one person on the internet 

sixth law: the time spent researching in general will eclipse the time you spend writing. the nsa agent monitoring your internet search history is curled up in a corner. his boss wants to know if you’re a threat. “I don’t know,” the agent sobs. “I just really don’t know.” 

seventh law: at some point, someone will ask what your favorite hobby is. you will feign a heart attack to get away

The amount of truth in this post is mind boggling.

Commander Vimes didn’t like the phrase ‘The innocent have nothing to fear’, believing the innocent had everything to fear, mostly from the guilty but in the longer term even more from those who say things like ‘The innocent have nothing to fear’.

Terry Pratchett (via beornwulf)