Lady @Lady@cat.family

in the pokémon world nobody cares about maintaining the survival of the Teutonic race in central Europe and they certainly wouldn’t wage a disastrous war on two fronts over it

they'd just like try to capture a legendary and then an 11-year-old would show them up and be like “racial nationalism is bad”

i’m trying to write a WWI pokémon AU while also completely ignoring the causes of WWI and also where it was actually fought and i think this is fine

Sorbébé

reading the pinyin is definitely helpful in hearing the tones and getting them correct but on the other hand i do want to be able to read actual chinese

oh good you can turn off the pinyin

a lot of symbols were added which i’m happy to see:

• asterism
• tironian et
• turned digits two and three
• place of interest sign
• ballot boxes (empty, check, x)
• copyleft symbol
• smiling, neutral, and frowning faces

there are new releases

pokémon are hot enough as they are you don’t need to make them hotter

it is fucking forty minutes after midnight it is not time to practice my chinese

you ever make a commit message which is just like “yes i wrote this code but i have no idea why i did it this way and how about not”

you read…

is this negging

can't even talk about my feelings without it being a subtoot

@amaranth@weirder.earth resources? not really. but i'd be happy to chat about it

in particular i think the narrative arc you've described (exposition, rising action, climax, resolution) doesn't work and never has worked for sentimental fiction (romances) and is really, uh, masculine in its understanding of literature (if you want to hear french feminist theorists complaining about this, look up écriture féminine). women's writing and women's genres historically have not been so climax-focused.

i do encourage you to read about and think about media from non-Western sources. there is a different between emulation someone and learning from them. people from other cultures and speaking other languages know things about literature which you could spend a lifetime reading Western works and never encounter, and you can and should seek out and learn those things. knowing more about literature will never make you a worse writer. make use of that knowledge respectfully.

i also encourage you to think about how works in other mediums do things. look at poems, look at albums, look at games, look at comics, etc. there are interesting things happening in these spaces which are transferable to literature