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A quick time out from commissions to make this quick chibi Sev.
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Goblet of Fire
I find it quite surprising how underrated the memory of Igor Kararoff was when he was interrogated during his trial.
Out of desperation to exonerate himself, he begins to list multiple Death Eaters and their crimes.
But in a last-ditch effort, he names his last one before Barty Crouch Jr's - Severus Snape. As a last thought, he is the final one to be ushered.
And the best thing about this? ...He couldn't even list a single one of his crimes, except for his remaining faithful to the Lord Voldemort.
But he still doesn't list his actual crimes.
No list of torture, or murder. Nothing else.
And this scene quite nicely compliments Severus' conversation with Bellatrix during the Unbreakable Vow chapter, later in the story.
'Slithering out of action' while the rest ran dangers.
So none of this 'Snape tortured, r*ped, and murdered mass amounts of people' kind of garbage the snaters say. Two high-profile DEs couldn't even assign him a crime. Three, if you count Narcissa who was with Bellatrix.
eurphrasie asked:
did you ever consider becoming a literary writer rather than a fantasy writer? w
neil-gaiman answered:
I don’t think I ever wanted to be anything more than a storyteller and a writer. Other people can decide where the books get shelved.
@eurphrasie That felt rude. Since when is fantasy not literature?!
You know, It's kind of fitting that It was Sir Terry Pratchett himself who answered this question in an interview, just going to paste this up real fast:
O: You’re quite a writer. You’ve a gift for language, you’re a deft hand at plotting, and your books seem to have an enormous amount of attention to detail put into them. You’re so good you could write anything. Why write fantasy?
Pratchett: I had a decent lunch, and I’m feeling quite amiable. That’s why you’re still alive. I think you’d have to explain to me why you’ve asked that question.
O: It’s a rather ghettoized genre.
P: This is true. I cannot speak for the US, where I merely sort of sell okay. But in the UK I think every book— I think I’ve done twenty in the series— since the fourth book, every one has been one the top ten national bestsellers, either as hardcover or paperback, and quite often as both. Twelve or thirteen have been number one. I’ve done six juveniles, all of those have nevertheless crossed over to the adult bestseller list. On one occasion I had the adult best seller, the paperback best-seller in a different title, and a third book on the juvenile bestseller list. Now tell me again that this is a ghettoized genre.
O: It’s certainly regarded as less than serious fiction.
P: (Sighs) Without a shadow of a doubt, the first fiction ever recounted was fantasy. Guys sitting around the campfire— Was it you who wrote the review? I thought I recognized it— Guys sitting around the campfire telling each other stories about the gods who made lightning, and stuff like that. They did not tell one another literary stories. They did not complain about difficulties of male menopause while being a junior lecturer on some midwestern college campus. Fantasy is without a shadow of a doubt the ur-literature, the spring from which all other literature has flown. Up to a few hundred years ago no one would have disagreed with this, because most stories were, in some sense, fantasy. Back in the middle ages, people wouldn’t have thought twice about bringing in Death as a character who would have a role to play in the story. Echoes of this can be seen in Pilgrim’s Progress, for example, which hark back to a much earlier type of storytelling. The epic of Gilgamesh is one of the earliest works of literature, and by the standard we would apply now— a big muscular guys with swords and certain godlike connections— That’s fantasy. The national literature of Finland, the Kalevala. Beowulf in England. I cannot pronounce Bahaghvad-Gita but the Indian one, you know what I mean. The national literature, the one that underpins everything else, is by the standards that we apply now, a work of fantasy.
Now I don’t know what you’d consider the national literature of America, but if the words Moby Dick are inching their way towards this conversation, whatever else it was, it was also a work of fantasy. Fantasy is kind of a plasma in which other things can be carried. I don’t think this is a ghetto. This is, fantasy is, almost a sea in which other genres swim. Now it may be that there has developed in the last couple of hundred years a subset of fantasy which merely uses a different icongraphy, and that is, if you like, the serious literature, the Booker Prize contender. Fantasy can be serious literature. Fantasy has often been serious literature. You have to fairly dense to think that Gulliver’s Travels is only a story about a guy having a real fun time among big people and little people and horses and stuff like that. What the book was about was something else. Fantasy can carry quite a serious burden, and so can humor. So what you’re saying is, strip away the trolls and the dwarves and things and put everyone into modern dress, get them to agonize a bit, mention Virginia Woolf a few times, and there! Hey! I’ve got a serious novel. But you don’t actually have to do that.
(Pauses) That was a bloody good answer, though I say it myself.
Have to say I agree with the man.
It's the casual death threat for me
friendly reminder that findtags is the best way to search tumblr’s absolutely destroyed tag system. it actually accurately looks through the tags without omitting results. it’s the only thing i use at this point because it’s the only thing that works
i was today years old learning about this and it’s great!
here’s the new link:
Search for tumblr posts with findtags
now if they make searching tags on specific blogs, it’ll be perfect!
Encouragment for writers that I know seems discouraging at first but I promise it’s motivational-
• Those emotional scenes you’ve planned will never be as good on page as they are in your head. To YOU. Your audience, however, is eating it up. Just because you can’t articulate the emotion of a scene to your satisfaction doesn’t mean it’s not impacting the reader.
• Sometimes a sentence, a paragraph, or even a whole scene will not be salvagable. Either it wasn’t necessary to the story to begin with, or you can put it to the side and re-write it later, but for now it’s gotta go. It doesn’t make you a bad writer to have to trim, it makes you a good writer to know to trim.
• There are several stories just like yours. And that’s okay, there’s no story in existence of completely original concepts. What makes your story “original” is that it’s yours. No one else can write your story the way you can.
• You have writing weaknesses. Everyone does. But don’t accept your writing weaknesses as unchanging facts about yourself. Don’t be content with being crap at description, dialogue, world building, etc. Writers that are comfortable being crap at things won’t improve, and that’s not you. It’s going to burn, but work that muscle. I promise you’ll like the outcome.
if capitalism didn’t exist what would your dream job be. btw if you say something like ‘engineer’ i’ll kill you
What’s… what’s wrong with engineer. Do you honestly think people will stop needing bridges. or water filtration plants. or electricity. or assistive devices. or. or. or. post-capitalism OP.
Hundreds Killed as Building Collapses in Leftist Commune
LITERALLY. Or it goes up in flames from an overloaded electrical system and no fire exits.
I DO dream of labour. There is worthwhile and meaningful work in the world, and I want to do it!
In a post-capitalism world there will still be rivers to cross, sick people to nurse, crops to be harvested, computers to program, and buildings to maintain. Some of the work will be dull and unfulfilling and necessary!
But you’d better HOPE we get enough engineers and building inspectors and fire safety marshals and janitors and maintenance workers and bricklayers and auto mechanics and electricians. Otherwise you’d better be ready to drastically reduce your standard of living.
People confuse “non-capitalist” (ie organized for motives other than the acquisition of profit within a model where those who accumulate capital are necessary for large enterprises) with “magically somehow work will be unneeded” and also apparently get confused about how actually right now one of the problems we have is that lots of people who’d LIKE to be engineers and indeed would be GOOD engineers have no opportunity to do so because of the structures of power and opportunities that underlie our current system.
Guys, the jobs that are now considered “good” will still be attractive. Because they’re not just attractive for money. I’m a programmer. I’d like to be a programmer. Give me the dull coding jobs. It’s fine. That’s what I like doing.
I can imagine there are people who love stocking shelves. There are days when I’d love doing that, too.
I can imagine there will still be secretaries who love organizing others as their purpose in life. So they, think doctors, have the time to focus on their thing, which is helping people get/stay healthy.
And I can imagine someone wanting to be that doctor, willingly learn for years about how humans work, and then cope with people’s health, trying to improve it.
“But nobody would want to…” Yes they do. People love danger, dirt, repetitive tasks, responsibility, stress, talking to people all day, hiding away in a dark basement all day, working with animals (with all implications), working at a computer all day, …
For everything that needs doing, you’ll find someone who loves doing it. It’s more about finding enough people for the things that are needed, where they’re needed, when they’re needed.
My mother is a bureaucrat and a farmer and living her dream life tending to her garden in her free time just as much as when she’s at work doing what she herself drscribed as “the most dry, administrative, paperworky position you can find” and she said this to me with such excitement and joy. For every job you can imagine, it’s somebody’s dream job.
