pretty space words

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aphelion – the point in the orbit of a planet, asteroid, or comet at which it is farthest from the Sun.
astral – relating to or resembling the stars.
caldera – a large volcanic crater, especially one formed by a major eruption leading to the collapse of the mouth of the volcano.
celestial – positioned in or relating to the sky, or outer space as observed in astronomy.
constellation – a group of stars forming a recognizable pattern.
cosmos – the universe seen as a well-ordered whole.
equinox – the time or date at which the sun crosses the celestial equator, when day and night are of equal length.
faculae – bright patches that are visible on the Sun’s surface.
lunation – the interval of a complete lunar cycle, between one new Moon and the next.
interstellar – occurring or situated between stars.
nebula – a cloud of gas and dust in outer space, visible in the night sky either as an indistinct bright patch or as a dark silhouette against other luminous matter.
perihelion – the point in the orbit of a planet, asteroid, or comet at which it is closest to the Sun.
synodic – relating to or involving the conjunction of stars, planets, or other celestial objects.

@vell-vet​ Thanks for the tag!  =D 

Have you ever posted your writing anywhere online? If so, where?

Archive of our Own!!  https://archiveofourown.org/users/NineOfSpades/

Also a few other places, but I like to keep those separate, and ff.net has some of my poetry from when I was 15, which I’d rather not share here!  

What’s the piece you worked on the longest?

Umm… that really depends on what you mean by “worked on”.  

I have an idea from all the way back in middle school that I told to a friend once and she approved, so that’s a thing I might go back to if I feel like it’s viable and I feel like writing it.  But I guess I haven’t really worked on it.  There’s also a piece from high school that was my first novel idea that might’ve gone somewhere, if I’d been more hardworking and talented, but I wasn’t.  It somehow accidentally predicted certain decisions made by MCU and I’m still shocked at how that happened.  The first few chapters were written in 2014 but arguably set a year after the 2016 election.  So now I can’t publish it without it seeming like overly on-the-nose commentary about current events in media and politics, which is annoying as hell because, hey, my stuff predated all of this chaos!  

I think out of all of the works that I’ve spent time on in the last month, though, the story I have with villains trying to save the world is probably the one that’s been active for the longest – maybe 3 years now?  It’s still nowhere even close to completion, though.  

And the thing I’ve written the most words for might be my current project, a romance about two wlw who can’t seem to figure out that they’re in love with each other even though it’s ridiculously obvious to anyone who sees them – they’re useless and it’s infuriating.  I’M infuriated, and I’m the one writing them.  

Is there a story you still have in your head but never got around to writing it down?

I write down a few words for every story idea I come up with.  There are lots of scenes that I plan out in my head but don’t get around to writing down, though.  

Do you fear you’ll run out of ideas at some point?

Every month or so I get a little bit antsy that when I’m forty or something I’ll be boring and gross and won’t have any ideas… but right now I come up with way more ideas than I ever use, so hopefully that’s a good sign.  

Have you ever tried to get published at a magazine?

I’ve been published in school literary magazines.  I’ve tried for book anthologies and websites or ebooks, but I’m not sure if I’ve tried for official magazines… 

Tagging @c-foley, @pianopadawan, @authorsophiawhitte, @caffeinewitchcraft, @elisawinther, Stephanie whose page I can’t seem to find, and anyone else who wants to do this!  

prokopetz:

Headcanon: I can muster a cogent argument for why it would make more sense or make for a better story if this were the case

Heartcanon: I don’t have a particular rationale for why this ought to be the case, I just like to imagine it’s true because it gives me the warm fuzzies

Gutcanon: it’s not that I actively want this to be the case – it just unaccountably feels like it should be

Junkcanon: I like to imagine it’s true because it gives me the other kind of warm fuzzies

Spleencanon: I insist that this is the case specifically to spite the author, because, like, fuck you, sir or madam

Reblog if you think fanfiction is a legitimate form of creative writing.

– Inferno and Paradise Lost are Bible fanfiction
– anything written by Rick Riordan is technically world mythology fan fiction
– West Side Story is Romeo and Juliet fanfiction
– Pretty much all of Shakespeare’s plots are borrowed
– Laurence Block admits to getting heavily influenced by the media he consumes
– The Iliad is RPF
If you’re going to exclude fanfic because it isn’t original, that’s …a lot of stuff to be excluding, is what I’m saying.

Our (Non-Comprehensive) List of Fairytales

allosaurusfragilis:

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easternheathens:

Here’s our list of fairy tales, fables, ghost stories, myths, legends, and sacred tales, classified according to land of origin. Many of the stories are available online; others can be found in folktale collections in libraries. Feel free to use these, or any of your own choice outside of this list.

MALAYSIA/SINGAPORE/INDONESIA

Sang Nila Utama and the founding of Singapore

Badang, the strongman

Lancang Kuning

Siti Zubaidah

Singapura Dilanggar Todak (The Legend of the Swordfish and Bukit Merah)

Puteri Gunung Ledang

Bawang Merah, Bawang Putih

Sangkuriang

Prince Panji

Keong Emas, the Golden Snail

Legend of the Pontianak

Legend of the Penanggalan

Sang Kancil, the Clever Mousedeer

Hang Tuah

Dang Anom

Pak Pandir, the Village Fool

Mahsuri, the Maiden of Langkawi

The Dragon of Mt Kinabalu

Dewi Sri, the Rice Goddess

Bangsat and the King of the Crocodiles

Rangda and the Barong

The Tale of Sisters’ Islands

The Tale of Kusu Island

CHINA

Pan Gu creates the world

Nü Wa creates humans and repairs the sky

Hou Yi shoots the sun, Chang’er flies to the moon

Nian and the Story of Chinese New Year

The Canonisation of the Gods

The Legend of Ne Zha

The Cowherd and the Weaver Girl

Hua Mulan

Lady Mengjiang and the Great Wall

The Eight Immortals Cross the Sea

Journey to the West (aka Monkey King)

Liang Zhu: The Butterfly Lovers

Lady White Snake

The Magic Paintbrush

The Fox Fairy (and anything from Strange Tales of Liaozhai)

The 24 Paragons of Filial Piety

The Dragon King’s Daughter

Mulian Rescues his Mother From Hell

Tales from Justice Bao (e.g. the Civet for a Crown Prince)

Ma Zu, the Sea Goddess

Tales of Ji Gong

INDIA

Tales from the Ramayana

Tales from the Mahabharata

Tales from the Life of the Buddha

Tales from the Panchatantra

Sukhu and Dukhu

Tenali Raman the Jester

Tales of Akbar and Birbal

The Mongoose and the Jackal

Tales of Suppandi

WEST ASIA

Scheherazade

Aladdin

Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves

Sinbad the Sailor

The Fisherman and the Jinni

Tales of the Mullah Nasruddin

The Tale of the Hunchback

Rostam

The Seven Wise Princesses

JAPAN

Izanami and Izanagi

Amaterasu and Uzume

Issun-Boshi, the One-Inch Boy

Momotaro the Peach Boy

Tokoyo

Urashima Taro and the Turtle

Kiyohime

Hanasaka Jiisan, the Old Man Who Made the Cherry Blossoms Bloom

The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter (aka The Moon Princess)

The Rabbit in the Moon

O-Jizo San, the Grateful Statues

The Magic Tea-Kettle

The Tale of the Gallant Jiraiya

KOREA

The Story Bag

The Mirror and the Villagers (aka The Bridegroom’s Shopping)

Janghwa and Hongryeon

Heungbu and Nolbu

Chunhyangga

The Disowned Student and the Field Rat Spirit

The Three Princesses and the Land-Below-the-Earth

PHILIPPINES

Alitaptap, the Princess who became Fireflies

Ibong Adarna

Bernardo Carpio

Juan Tamad

Lam-Ang

Maria Makiling

The Creation of the Pineapple

The Creation of the Banana Tree

The Creation of the Durian

The Creation of the Rose

THAILAND

Nang Nak Phrakhanong

Manohra, the Kinnari (Bird Maiden)

VIETNAM

Tam and Cam

The Hundred-Knot Bamboo Tree

This is a collection of Asian folktales, fairytales, myths, and legends. Good for mixing things up from the usual Greek and Roman variety. I would personally recommend Siti Zubaidah, the Chinese creation myths (Pan Gu and Nü Wa), Journey to the West, the Japanese creation myths (Izanami and Izanagi; Amaterasu and Uzume), Tokoyo, and Kiyohime.

The original post only listed all of this, so I added links for almost all of them (some I couldn’t find resources for). Found this while I was looking at a Singaporean indie publisher.

Re-blogging for reasons

when the story is just not working, but you keep writing anyway

bardofheartdive:

pearlcrandall:

amynchan:

missannaraven:

howitreallyistobeanartist:

Current mood…

Reminder that she actually wins that season, so keep your head up.

Reminder that she constantly had trouble believing that she deserved to be there and her first few could best be described as ‘not the worst’.

And she won. She stayed positive, cried when she needed to, and kept going.

Once more:

  1. Stay positive
  2. Cry when you need to
  3. Keep going

gayfishmod:

By the way, coming up in about two or three pages, I’m going to need to populate this little scottish fishing town! So if you have a human character that could reasonably be in an early 20th century rural scottish fishing town or could easily be modified to fit in, I’d love to give them a cameo! Pop in a ref in the comments for this post. :3

Jackbird – Asian, nonbinary, kinda feminine, nice bone structure, wears fancy formal outfits all the time, is an over-the-top charming salesperson who tries to supply whatever people need at the moment

Agnes – blonde, young, chubby, a Good Witch TM but could just be a herbalist or pharmacist or apothecary keeper in a non-fantastical setting.  

Feel free to draw whoever you’d like (or none of them; that’s fine), or message me if I’m not giving you enough description!  

@my followers – if anyone’s interested, hop on the bandwagon!  

lullabyknell:

One of my favorite things about writers is that you can post any vaguely relatable “writer’s problems” sentiment and writers will use it to call themselves out. It’s like going up to a stranger of a fellow writer and saying, “Hey, are you down to absolutely roast yourself?” And the answer is always an enthusiastic, unwavering, “Oh, hell yes, let me tell you about this fuckin’ bitch.”