R.M. Brown's Blog, page 11

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JK Rowling has done more damage to feminism than any other person in modern history and I’m not…

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boghermit:

boghermit:

JK Rowling has done more damage to feminism than any other person in modern history and I’m not joking.

Because of people like her, women, regardless of birth gender, are expected to conform to impossible standards. No unique features are allowed, no strong noses, no square jaws, no hormonal conditions, no form of biological variety is allowed. All deviation from the delicate Victorian era white woman is forbidden. If you don’t conform to these impossible standards, then they call you a man. The facts don’t matter to them - all that matters is that they maintain their clique of rich old British bints with high school mean girl mindsets, neurotic victim complexes, and too much time and money on their hands. I’m not hyperbolizing when I say my boomer mother’s era of feminism was way more progressive than whatever the fuck is going on right now. It’s the polar opposite. JK Rowling and her cult of radfems took the feminist progress of the past seventy years out back, shot it in the head, and pissed on its corpse.

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can someone please get this girl her dog back

vintrage:

can someone please get this girl her dog back

facts-i-just-made-up:The Game of Thrones series with a sticky...

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The Game of Thrones series with a sticky tag for every time someone utters the word “Cowabunga.”

I was extremely insufferable in Edinburgh yesterday and took photos of Song of the Stag at every…

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I was extremely insufferable in Edinburgh yesterday and took photos of Song of the Stag at every landmark that even so much as reminded me of something in the book.

I’m planning to start a little SotS tours Edinburgh series but first, the absolutely stunning Monarch of the Glen by Edwin Landseer 😍 It was painted for the palace of Westminster and perfectly encapsulates the Victorian ideal of a biscuit-tin-lid Scotland, with majestic glens and the romanticisation of a Highlands that had faced hardship after hardship at the hands of imperialism.

To me, the painting has always been a bit of a personal symbol for the book, given its history, symbolism and aesthetic. Plus, it makes a banging playlist cover!

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catchymemes:

catchymemes:

…there’s always someone bent on breaking the world.

keyvei:

…there’s always someone bent on breaking the world.

… so I slipped and drew Dragon Age again.

Did I have 50 free hours to spend? I didn’t.

Do I have a rekindled obsession with the franchise that formed me as a person and I haven’t hoped to get more of? Yup.

Can I spend these 50 hours I didn’t have hyperfixating on my obsession with barely managing to do anything else besides (🤡🤡🤡)?

Oh certainly!!

I have this Dragon Age Artbook that has a tapestry with characters’ faces all over the first 2 pages and I was always so in awe and I wanted to do something like that too. I can’t be more hyped, I haven’t hoped after 10 years to have more of this world (that I can talk about 3 hours straight no kidding) and still can’t really believe it please tell me I haven’t dreamed it!!

The devil is in the details and I’m his pet

The thing that takes me the longest in writing isn’t drafting, or revising, or plotting, or characterisation - it’s fighting my own urge to make everything mean something.

I’m filling in gaps in my world-building right now in preparation for book 2, part of which involves sussing out an accurate timeline of wider historical events and attaching years to them. It’s all well and good being able to say ‘This happened 200 years before that happened’ but when it comes down to specifics, god forbid I just choose a date and move on.

Song of the Stag takes place in the year 1441 of my world because the Battle of Bannockburn took place in 1314 and the Scottish independence referendum took place in 2014 and 1441 is the number 14 forwards and backwards. The legendary Queen Asha of Afren is crowned in the year 922 because 9 represents the end of a cycle and 2 represents balance, and I thought there ought to be two 2s.

No, but it gets worse. As of the beginning of Song of the Stag, the epoch for the calendar of the Talasaire (a magic-wielding community that lives in nature) happened 7,368 years ago. Why? Because firstly, 7 is a magic number. Secondly, the Groves that the Talasaire live in were based on the vibes of the Stonehenge Festival Campsite. And the first time I went to Stonehenge for the summer solstice was 21st (2+1=3) June (6) 2017 (1+7=8). Ergo, 7,368.

It makes NO sense. No one else knows or cares, but there’s a goblin inside me that simply must ascribe meaning to everything. So if you check on me in three months and I’m not any further forward with book 2, this is why.