unironically big fan of when a book is written in a way that it’s completely unadaptable to movie/TV
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umar 🌾🍂🦬
@uskglasses
i talk about writing and litfic and fantasy novels a lot
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Joined March 2025
- i think we should get better at distinguishing between a bad (emotionally upsetting) ending and a bad (poor storytelling) ending
- dark academia constantly wants to do "the da vinci code" except universities aren't ancient esoteric organizations they're mismanaged bloated businesses.was literally thinking about this yesterday this is why i love leonie
- this is why C.S. Lewis (protestant) made edmund and eustace and J.R.R. Tolkien (catholic) made bilbo baggins
- “marauders fandom” you are experiencing group psychosis
- will never complain about modern-day fantasy readers when this was the state of things in the 2000s
- the description of fantasy books as mere escapism has always bothered me and i think this is part of why
- brandon sanderson thinks he's robert jordan. robert jordan thinks he's jrr tolkien. jrr tolkien thinks he's 13th century icelandic poet snorri sturluson
- Replying to @uskglassesthe **idea** of an old money private institution is only mysterious and sexy until you get there and realize everyone is so egregiously stupid
- between piranesi and jonathan strange, susanna clarke is my greatest living fantasy author because she is singularly possessed of clarity of voice. her words have the immersive capacity of a method actor, on a pure sentence level no one in the world could replicate what she does.I'm begging everyone who hasn't yet to read this book. The premise, about a man living in an infinite house, is terrifically inventive, and it goes in a direction you don't expect. No other living author writes with such a keen sense of horror & beauty. The book of the decade.
- if you’re ever having trouble researching for a book instead of using chat gpt you can use ursula le guin’s strategy
00:57 - Replying to @thefoolbelovedright i can MAYbe sympathize with creating lore for like sirius but who in christ’s name is dorcas meadows and why do you care about her. why not do idk anything else
- genuinely what are people mad about at this point like how do you rationalize your anger to yourself without sounding insane. You’ve had 15 years to find something else to readGeorge R.R. Martin defends working on other projects amid ‘THE WINDS OF WINTER' delay “Yes, I do love Winds of Winter. I'm still interested in it, I'm still working on it, but honestly, I love these other things, too” (via: EW)
- Replying to @everrvaleYES exactly like why are your action scenes written like screenplays
