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Oh i meant I thought yiu said plague doctors didnt wear masks so I eas confused
No, they did lol Cholera patients wore masks but their doctors didn't
I think the final nail in my coffin came from an author talking about how to make your book truly capture the culture you're writing about, you have to have been a part of it and lived it so you can truly portray the ideals and archetypes that exist in that culture, because every culture values something different. And I know that I'll never be able to do that with any of my books because I haven't lived in any of those countries or experienced any of those cultures, so I don't know how to properly portray the spirit of a place. Therefore, my books will end up just having shallow imitations of what I THINK those nations are like, not what they actually ARE. But I don't really have any culture of my own, so....I guess I can't really write about anything...all of my book ideas involved someone from another nation in some way or another....
They can get over it. Shakespeare wrote of Rome and he's considered one of the greatest writers in the history of forever.Frankenstein is set in sone place in Central Europe. Like Switzerland I think? Either way, Mary Shelly was born in England.
Lol I think it's funny you mention Frankenstein since I finished reading it for the fourth time and you are correct, Frankenstein is Swiss nobility. Though most of the book takes place in England. But people didn't really care back then because it was just the thing for white people to write about other cultures. Nowadays we have a lot better access to people from other cultures and it's considered to be really rude for white authors to write about cultures that aren't their own because they're taking that chance from an author from that actual nation.
Besides, things like Frankenstein aren't really about the nation they take place in. My books are literally historical fiction. They are literally about the nation I am writing about. Therefore, it's different.
We tried reading it in English butnitnwas so wordy the teacher read us Sparknotes :D and I thought it doesnt go to England until after he destroys the female? Okay, well what about Rick rRoardan? He's not Greek, Roman, Egyptian or Viking yet wrote of their cultures.
And Ruta Sepetys! Yeah she's Lithuanian but was she ever in a Soviet gulag? Was she on a sinking German ship in WW2? She's not from 1950's New Orleans so when she wrote Out of the Easy, she went and did *research* to get it right.
The idea that people can only write about their culture is incredibly stupid, pointless, bigoted and other negative, intellectual adjectives.
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I thought he made the original monster while attending university in England? Or was it France? Ugh I just read it and I can't remember lol Technically she's half-Lithuanian. But she's still writing about her culture because she was likely brought up with a Lithuanian lifestyle. And part of the reason why she wrote what she did was because of her father. Like in Salt to the Sea, her father was one of the passengers on that ship. That is why it's so important to her; he was fleeing from the Soviets who had taken over his country, which is one of the reasons why she wrote her debut novel.
It is still a part of her culture and personal life. That's what I'm trying to get at here.
I thought it was in Switzerland and he flef to England to avoid the Monster's wrath.Okay, well she still wrote Out of the Easy which is still 1950s New Orleans and she had to visit to do research.
Because someone had been murdered on the beach, strangled to death and they arrested him for it.
Or wait...maybe he went to England TO create the female monster? I don't remember!!!!!!!!!
Mom tells me pretty much the same exact thing and says that 98% of people really don't care as long as the book is well-written and everything like that. Which I think is how it should be. But at the same time, we shouldn't be taking books away from more competent, ethnic authors either... Like how do I know there isn't already a Lithuanian version of my debut novel out there, written by a Lithuanian that just hasn't been translated into English because who would translate that?
I somehow doubt that but you shouldnt let fear control you. And besides, authors of the SAME ethnicity copy each other all the time!If anyone gets so salty about you writing a story because you're not of a certain race or whatever, thats literally racist and they need to shut their traps.
I still remember how mad my ex-boyfriend was when I told him Digimon was literally just Pokemon except digital lol
I just looked it uo and this book i read when I was a kid was written by Brits. It's about ARABIC djin. They made a whole series on it.And dont even get my started on Magic Tree House
My siblings went through a Digimon phase together :D
Digimon was always so much cooler than Pokemon, sorry not sorry My ex-boyfriend was obsessed with both of the series though.
My mom went to GameStop last night and I thought she was going to finally get my game, but I woke up this morning and found out she just got the new Doom for herself and that they were all sold out of the game I wanted, and I was extremely annoyed and spent my time this morning annoyed. She told me at this point she's just going to get it online, but with my luck I'm going to have to wait until like October to actually get it. She also told me the cashier was a huge fan of the games and started talking to her about them, glad to see another fan and he said he had seen all of the animes and watched all of the routes online and that he was sad that she wasn't able to get the first two for me.
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I decided that on every single fanfic I read, I would leave some sort of (positive) comment on it. Something was telling me to do so and that I would get rewarded if I did so. So now I leave some kind of comment on every fanfic I read. I thought it'd put me more on the fanfiction map and that if I gave some sugar, I'd get some sugar back, so to speak. It's pretty hard because sometimes I can't think of anything to say aside from 'good job' or whatever, but I still try my best. A lot of people have gotten back in touch with me after seeing my comments on their fanfics since I tend to comment on less-popular fanfics, and it makes me so happy to see how much I've brightened up somebody's day. Perhaps this is what the universe meant when it told me something good would happen if I did this. Well, fair enough, since I enjoy making people happy.
I wonder if that new book about Elizabeth Frankenstein is any good. I was really pretty excited when I first heard it was announced, but the more I learn about it, the more concerned I get because it looks like it's another one of those books that tries to turn famous literary girls from classic novels into the 'not all girls' YA archetype and it also looks like it portrays Frankenstein himself as being really crazy and manic and borderline abusive to Elizabeth? When he was never that way in the original book?(At least to me) I still want to read it since I really like retellings of classic novels(obviously I mean my debut novel is a retelling of a classic novel) but I'm worried about this book's implications. There's nothing wrong with taking a side character, especially a woman, and making her more interesting, like I love all the retellings of Dracula that feature Mina Harker as her own woman who gets to help the men fight Dracula, and I love the idea of an Elizabeth Frankenstein who helps Frankenstein with his monster, or becomes some other kind of scientist, but it doesn't seem like this book does that.
But perhaps I'm being too harsh and unfair to the book. After all, I just read the summary and some reviews, and I think we can all agree that reviews aren't always the most reliable sources on a book's content.
I mean, it won't be complete sacrilege if they ruin Elizabeth Frankenstein's character, but she's one of my favourite classic literary heroines from that period and the book itself has been a huge part of my life growing up too. So I think it's safe to say that I would be pretty annoyed if they completely miss the point of the original story by reducing Elizabeth and Victor to typical YA tropes that are popular to rely on when they retell classics like this. Like I could go on a whole spiel about how Elizabeth is actually pretty interesting and important despite her screentime in the original and how her death completely and utterly destroys Frankenstein, but this isn't the time nor place so I won't, lol
I'll still read the book, I'm still excited for it since I really do like retellings of classic novels and I also enjoy the original Frankenstein too. I just hope it won't be too tropey if you catch my drift.
I want to read the book about Victor's twin daughters. I had it at a Christmas book exchange then someone stole it from me D:
I've read it! It's probably not as good as you're thinking lol https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
I had another dream idea last night that I really wanted to turn into a book. Basically a few years ago I had a dream about this boy who goes to school on another planet after he lands there-it was some sort of agreement to keep the peace. He meets one of the locals on the planet and falls in love with her, etc. The dream was in the perspective of the boy.
This time, I dreamed in the perspective of the girl falling in love with the boy and learned that even though she looks really different from a human, she and the other people in her city are all humans who fled Earth years ago due to a disaster and decades of living on another planet changed their physical and mental appearances; the boy of course never actually learns this until he finds a piece of really human-like technology in her room. It's never really explained how or where the boy fit into this, like did he come from another universe, did he come from a rebuilt Earth, or did he come from the future, but it doesn't really matter.
I know it's not really the most original idea for a sci-fi novel out there, but it hasn't been done recently to my knowledge and I really like the sci-fi trope of humans visiting another planet full of aliens only to learn those aliens are actually evolved humans.
Even if I never write it, it was still a lot of fun to have that dream. I very rarely have sci-fi dreams due to the kind of person I am, so everytime I have one I savor it.
My mom said I'm not allowed on Reddit anymore because I view posts using her account and apparently she's flirting with this guy on there and she's afraid if I go on her Reddit account I'll accidentally delete his messages to her lol
Make your own Reddit? :p
I don't really think I'll use it very much, to be honest. The only reason I'm on hers at all is because she's logged in on this computer and so if I use Reddit on here, then I'm automatically using her account. But it's really not that big of a deal. It's not like I actually comment or anything while I'm on her account because I'm not stupid. And I hardly use Reddit anyway. I'm not a big fan of the community.
I guess I don't use it enough to understand.I'm not allowed on there but I end up there anyway, mostly due to looking stuff up about games or movies.
Like I said, I don't really like the community. I've been debating about making my own account for a long time now, even way before this, but I don't think I'm on Reddit enough to really warrant making an account. The idea of sharing my own theories and everything about stuff with other people is certainly tempting, but eh....I've been around the block a few times to know nobody really cares what I have to say in my fandoms regardless of where I post it, so why waste my time.
WHat's wrong with the community?
A lot of the topics don't seem to be very....civil? Like I know most social media is toxic especially when it comes to discussing fandoms but I feel like Reddit takes it above and beyond for how rude certain people can be to others. And this isn't really a complaint about the community but ever since they changed their layout the site has become really confusing to navigate. I feel like if I made an account I would be really lost for days, trying to figure out how to make a post, upvote, or even just make a comment on a topic.
I guess I've just been lucky then. I've yet to see this.
I think it varies depending on the fandom. Some are crazier than others.
OH MY GOSH I FINALLY FOUND THAT ONE VINE OF THAT GUY CRYING AND GIVING A PEP TALK TO A DEAD SQUIRREL ON THE SIDEWALK YOU HAVE NO IDEA HOW LONG I'VE SEARCHED IN VAIN FOR THIS VINE AND I FINALLY FOUND IT TODAY AND I WASN'T EVEN LOOKING FOR IT
Elizabeth ♛Smart Girls Love Trashy Books♛ wrote: "I think it varies depending on the fandom. Some are crazier than others."Which is weird because Star Wars in recent years has become one of the most toxic places in the galaxy.
True, but at least nobody erases the canon bisexuality of a main character, ships the main character in a toxic pedophiliac ship just because they hate his actual fiancee, send hate mail to the creator for being a queerbaiter, or literally blacklist people for calling a character their canon gender just because they personally don't agree with it Just to name a few of the stuff that happens in my fandoms lol
*Shrugs* They constantly complain that Lucas and now Disney is "raping" their childhood, demand the new movies to be removed from canon, insist that Disney is trying to brainwash us to become slaves to the feminazis by pushing a "libtard" agenda, that all Disney cares about is making money and will rape any franchise to do so. Then there's the whole legends thing >.> They also that forget Luke was a whiny brat that screwed up all the time and whine that they were cheated out of an epic Force duel in TLJ, that the entire movie was just SJW propaganda and ugh.
I feel like I've stepped onto Hutta whenever those things come up. Hutta being a planet that was poisoned by industry with toxic waste dumps turning the whole planet into a puke green swamp.
I was telling Mom about how I was researching dieselpunk cyborgs for my Ultimate OT3 which I plan to dress in the three main 'punks' of fashion, and one of them is going to be a cyborg, but all of the pictures I found were either of steampunk cyborgs or ones that looked like the back of a car was attached to your arm, and when Mom suggested that, I said that would work better for the mechanic of the group, for obvious reasons. I then realized what she meant and said only the computer nerd gets to be a cyborg because it fits, I'm not going to make them all cyborgs because I feel like it would be pretty redundant, and she got annoyed that I was making the ugly one in the group be the really hot cyborg and I said that was kinda the point lol
So, what exactly is "dieselpunk" ?
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Well I'm assuming you know what steampunk and atompunk are, right? Well, dieselpunk is like the one that comes in the middle; it focuses mainly on the 1930's to the 1940's. It focuses on diesel being used as fuel to power things like cars, airships, weapons, etc. It's also pretty gritty and darkly-coloured like steampunk. However you barely ever see it. Mom always cites Legend of Korra as being dieselpunk and that is the best example she can come up with. I see it a little bit, but always focused on a war setting. I want to see more dieselpunk that....isn't focused on war if you know what I mean?
Hence why I'm having trouble dressing these characters. I was thinking of dressing them in 1930's outfits that are really darkly-coloured, like dark green and brown and stuff, but I'm not sure.
But that's what dieselpunk is lol
I thought Korra to be kinda steampunk but that's just me.I think Fallout is a mix of diesel and atompunk, buuuut the whole premise is about war and how humans never change :P
Mom considers Fallout to be atompunk because of the huge 50's influence it has, at least the third one. I told her my Ultimate OT3 will be made atompunk next and I told her the character she thinks is ugly will be made into an atompunk cyborg, and she said that's okay because atompunk robots look really silly anyway lol
Definitely atompunk, but most everything ran on diesel. I mean, the nuclear war happened *because* the world were running out and invaded other nations to take more. They started using atomic energy to power cars, but it was too late.Oh wow they do :D
I think my biggest problem is the fact that the character I'm making be the cyborg is kinda femmy and I want his clothes to be both masculine and feminine to showcase that, and it's hard to do that with dieselpunk and atompunk. All of my previous ideas didn't look very good at all. Right now my current design is a 1930's tea dress in a pale green with a matching flower on his head, but the dress is shorter than normal and underneath it he has jeans and work boots on, but that doesn't look very good....and don't even get me started on the cyborg aspect lol
Lol"Hello there! Is there anything I can help you with, Madame and Sir?" She asked formally, tilting her head. Mitsuba and Yoichi both blushed when they realized she recognized their uniforms; if they had shown up in regular clothes she likely would've been more casual.
"We just came in here for some recovery shopping!" Yoichi laughed awkwardly. "Uh....like dresses and stuff? Things girls like?"
Mitsuba's face fell. He had no idea what girls liked at all!
Still, the woman smiled. She had bright orange hair that was curled into a bob and sparkly green eyes. A healthy sprinkle of freckles was on her face. "How lovely! Buying a present for your little lady friend, hm? A little treat to reward her for being such a faithful soldier?"
"Hey! I'm ranked above him!" Mitsuba snapped in annoyance, her blush growing.
"Just something to cheer her up," Yoichi added nervously, his whole face blushed a bright red.
"We're not as old as you probably think we are! I mean, he's older than I am!"
"C-Can we just look around for a bit?" Yoichi covered his face up in embarrassment. The woman nodded.
Someone I know is doing fanfic commissions and I really want to do that too. It'd be a good way to make money while doing something I love to do! I just know that nobody wants me to do that. If they did, I would've gotten a bunch of commissions and requests at this point. The first and only time I ever wrote a fanfic for someone else was when I did that artswap with my mom, and she hated what I wrote her with a burning passion.
So that's lowered my self-esteem about writing stuff for people, not to mention I feel like I'm very limited in what it is I can actually write about. I didn't even know fanfic commissions were a thing until this morning.
But I still want to do some fanfic commissions.....if anybody was willing.....?
NWS Indianapolis: "There will be no hazardous weather today! Just lots of sunshine and warm temperatures!~"Me, typing this in extreme darkness: "Are you sure about that?!"
I've apparently been really sick for the past few days. I say apparently because I didn't even really feel bad until yesterday when I literally couldn't get out of bed. I still don't feel a hundred percent better today but I had things due today at the library and Mom literally shoved me out of the door this afternoon to make me return them. So here I am at the library, though I'm getting ready to leave. I already returned everything and even though I want to spend more time here, I literally do not have the energy for it.
Lol one of these days I'll probably end up in the hospital and you guys wouldn't even know
I asked my mom if this one ship I'm writing in my current shippy fanfic should have a (non-explicit) sex scene or not since I'm conflicted, and she said no simply because she doesn't find the ship I'm asking about to be attractive, so I jokingly said back that I would give them a sex scene just for that attitude. Lol I'm actually going to do it...probably. If I can put it in the story naturally.
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And if you try to look up 'cholera mask' that's all you'll find
But like I said, they just look like carnival masks with extremely over-the-top designs. The only difference is what they're being used for.