Lady @Lady@cat.family

what we actually need in creative writing is mentorship, the same thing we need in the arts in general

not coursework

like it was fine but i could take a hundred such upper level creative writing classes and still never be any closer to being a good writer

i have taken exactly one creative writing class and honestly it justified me not taking any of the others

« he tended to want a bit too much eye contact for her nervous disposition »

this author can't write dialogue

i have already read significantly more pages of random scholars in the qing dynasty fucking ghosts than i have of any chinese classic

it’s fine i have four and a half more volumes of chinese strange stories to get through

hey tor ebooks do you have something for people who aren’t brandon sanderson fans as well

and some of them are still our friends, but dead

probably brass actually now that i'm zooming in on the picture

originally i wanted to say iron but no iron knuckle is a kind of enemy

it is not appreciated enough how zelda's gloves in botw have a bit of steel on the knuckles

« (If this were a good piece of hypertext, it would have well researched links to webs on science, society, politics, ethics and philosophy -- but isn't and it doesn't. Suggestions for related material welcome.) »

« Several months went by till one night by lamplight, Lian Suo smiled at Yang as though wanting to say something, then, blushing, stopped short, repeating the action several times. He hugged her and asked her what was on her mind. "For a long time," she replied, "you've treated me with love, bearing my ghostly presence and making me part of the human world, till now my dead bones suddenly have a little vitality. I only need some semen and blood from a living person and I can return to life."

Laughing, Yang said, "I wasn't the one who resisted sex—wasn't I keen on it?" »

« Yang was so infuriated that he was ready to kill the ghost, but when he thought about the differences between mortals and ghosts, he wasn't sure he had the power to carry it off. »

there you go i just taught you about the differend

“better safe than sorry” fails as a legal argument but is quite sufficient as a moral one

@dried i think google font CSS is set up to prefer local fonts; the problem is that the user still has to load the CSS file. this is a privacy concern because it sends google your IP address and potentially the page you are on (unless the link has no-referrer set i believe). if you could use an adblocker to block the entire google fonts domain though, the default fallback should just be to use local fonts with the same name should they exist

there shouldn't be any JS involved; it's all just declarative CSS and HTTP requests