The Chronicle of She

June 1st
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Kurt Vonnegut’s 8 Tips on How to Write a Great Story

1. Use the time of a total stranger in such a way that he or she will not feel the time was wasted.
2. Give the reader at least one character he or she can root for.
3. Every character should want something, even if it is only a glass of water.
4. Every sentence must do one of two things—reveal character or advance the action.
5. Start as close to the end as possible.
6. Be a Sadist. No matter how sweet and innocent your leading characters, make awful things happen to them—in order that the reader may see what they are made of.
7. Write to please just one person. If you open a window and make love to the world, so to speak, your story will get pneumonia.
8. Give your readers as much information as possible as soon as possible. To hell with suspense. Readers should have such complete understanding of what is going on, where and why, that they could finish the story themselves, should cockroaches eat the last few pages.
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Between this and good readers and good writers. Nabokov and Vonnegut taught me how to craft tales.

Kurt Vonnegut’s 8 Tips on How to Write a Great Story

1. Use the time of a total stranger in such a way that he or she will not feel the time was wasted.

2. Give the reader at least one character he or she can root for.

3. Every character should want something, even if it is only a glass of water.

4. Every sentence must do one of two things—reveal character or advance the action.

5. Start as close to the end as possible.

6. Be a Sadist. No matter how sweet and innocent your leading characters, make awful things happen to them—in order that the reader may see what they are made of.

7. Write to please just one person. If you open a window and make love to the world, so to speak, your story will get pneumonia.

8. Give your readers as much information as possible as soon as possible. To hell with suspense. Readers should have such complete understanding of what is going on, where and why, that they could finish the story themselves, should cockroaches eat the last few pages.

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Between this and good readers and good writers. Nabokov and Vonnegut taught me how to craft tales.

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psychoholic:

buster, you’re 8 years old. stop having an existential crisis.’

buster u ok

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holy-sherlock-amadeus:

cuncumberbatch:

Cannot unsee Moriarty saying goodbye to Moran…ugh…

Why ..? Why are you doing this to me ?

#BECAUSE JIM’S READ ALL THE STORIES #AND THE VILLAIN ALWAYS DIES #NO-ONE EVER STOPS TO THINK IF THE VILLAIN HAD A FAMILY #PEOPLE THEY CARED ABOUT #AND WHO CARED ABOUT THEM #EVEN IF THEY DID REALLY TWISTED THINGS #BUT THE STORY HAS TO BE PERFECT #OTHERWISE WHAT’S THE POINT? #NOT ALL FAIRY TALES HAVE A HAPPY ENDING

…Sorry, incoherent mess at the minute. Thanks for that. D’:

Oh my precious MorMor…

“You know what to do, Seb. One last job and then you can rest.”

“I don’t want to rest. I want to keep doing this. I want to keep working for you.”

“Always loyal. Unfortunately, after tomorrow your employment will have to be terminated. Unless you can keep going without me.”

“I can’t.”

“Then do this job and forget about what we had. Forget the empire we built.”

“I had hoped that we could…”

“That what? That we could keep committing crimes until we ruled the world? Silly boy. Villains don’t have happy endings.”

I didn’t think A gif and a paragraph would make me cry. Oh mormor why?

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scherwood:

Is this what happens when Sherlockians leak into other fandoms?

Is this what happens when Sherlockians leak into other fandoms?

Is this what happens when Sherlockians leak into other fandoms?

We really need season 3 as soon as possible.

We should start renting ourselves out to other fandoms.

Got a tough problem you can’t solve? Hire a Sherlockian!
Nagging doubt about your favorite series? Hire a Sherlockian!
No question too insane; no detail too tiny to miss.

WE ARE THE FANDOM THAT WAITED. And then got bored.

(chuckle) The world’s only consulting fandom.

The world’s only consulting fandom.

njfos;ehfugohurnvbhgriuhguorhwgfo COMMENTS. LOOK AT THE COMMENTS.

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In my personal headcanon I think Uther sometimes has those days (like with the pillow fight moment) where he feels like he’s trying to raise two kids instead of one. He’s just so used to Merlin and Arthur’s antics that he can’t even be bothered to act surprised or argue with it anymore.

I do too. I also like it best when he refers to merlin as “That servant with the mental affliction.”
But mostly, in cannon, he treats Merlin like he’s Arthur’s pet or some sort of inconvenient but completely necessary object that follows his son at all times.

In my personal headcanon I think Uther sometimes has those days (like with the pillow fight moment) where he feels like he’s trying to raise two kids instead of one. He’s just so used to Merlin and Arthur’s antics that he can’t even be bothered to act surprised or argue with it anymore.

I do too. I also like it best when he refers to merlin as “That servant with the mental affliction.”

But mostly, in cannon, he treats Merlin like he’s Arthur’s pet or some sort of inconvenient but completely necessary object that follows his son at all times.

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I love jousting the most. It’s so saucy. Like when Arthur tries to put his lance in Merlin’s tiny ring. Or when Arthur told Leon “I was wide open, why did you pull out?”— SAUCY, I tell you.

I swear they did this on fucking purpose. They know who we are. They know what we like…….
Lets see if we can make them make merlin kiss arthur, or vice versa. POWER TO THE FANDOM

I love jousting the most. It’s so saucy. Like when Arthur tries to put his lance in Merlin’s tiny ring. Or when Arthur told Leon “I was wide open, why did you pull out?”— SAUCY, I tell you.

I swear they did this on fucking purpose. They know who we are. They know what we like…….

Lets see if we can make them make merlin kiss arthur, or vice versa. POWER TO THE FANDOM

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bleedy:

…Centuries later, there’s still something about you I can’t quite put my finger on.

#”we were also boyfriends in a past life but i’m counting on fucking some sense back into you later tonight.’

One of the most amazing things about this fandom is that these two characters don’t actually die in the middle ages. Merlin (who is immortal) is buried alive beneath a tree in lieu of being killed. And Arthur doesn’t quite die on the battle field and is taken to the fairy kingdom where he will rest until the world needs him again. (Not a spoiler. Just part of the actual hundreds of years old literary legend. Go read books guys.)

So the whole concept of them coming back and meeting each other again in our time and falling back in love is TOTALLY FUCKING CANNON.

I have never in my life found a ship that sails itself as much as Merlin/Arthur does.They don’t even need us.

We’re just partial observers (and in some cases, worshipers) of their timeless and pretty fucking ballsy, love story.

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uguutaker:

yepperoni:

if u guys dont kno about this show

its a game show where people have to do things in complete darkness

FUCKIGN BEST OKAy fuck i love this show lmfao

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[colour photo: a badge showing a grotesque rosy-cheeked child, asking “Mummy… what is a SEX PISTOL?”]

Hahaha. Grotesque.

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