i was tagged to get to know the blogger by @nieded, thanks friend!
Share your wallpaper: i’ve had the same wallpaper and lock screen for the last two years. wallpaper by lizulimu and lock screen by ewezfell
Last song you listened to:eat your youngby hozier has been on repeat for the last 3 weeks
Currently reading: im jumping between several fics right now butbleating heartsby hkblack has it’s hold on me. who can resist these precious goats?
Last movie:jurassic world. i just spent 2 weeks in a hotel room and there was a jurassic movie marathon over the weekend
Last TV show:friends. did you know nick at night exclusively plays friends after 6pm until ??? and is one of the only channels hotels rooms get?
Craving: some contentment would be nice. also maybe a nap
What are you wearing right now: jeans and a gdq shirt. it’s a chores weekend
How tall are you: im the same height as a victreebel
Piercings: i’ve got 3 in my right lobe, 1 in my left lobe, and 1 in my right nostril
Tattoos: two! a crescent moon on my thigh and a celestial snake on my forearm. both done by my incredibly skilled friend lynnz @/tofutheifzzz
Glasses or contacts: glasses always. the bigger the better
Last drink: raspberry ice tea
Last thing you ate: french fries my beloved
Favorite color: every shade of purple. not a single miss amongst them
Current obsession: i’ve had the same obsession for the last 4 years and it’s still good omens. although i have recently been watching a lot of crochet tutorials recently
Any pets: one good doggo named helga
Favorite fictional character: it isnt possible for me to pick just one so here is a list of several
aziraphale and crowley good omens
sakura cardcaptorsakura
howl and sophie howl’s moving castle
azumane asahi haikyuu!!
alphonse elric fullmetal alchemist
The last place you traveled: i’ll be making a quick trip to connecticut next month and going on a norcal road trip this summer
i’m going to tag @losyanya and @lazulibundtcake and @aestheticcluttercore with zero pressure to do it. and anyone who might want to fill it out please do and consider yourself tagged 💜
I am an aspiring author who very much enjoys reading your books, so first of all, thank you for your great works :)
(my favourite book is probably Good Omens, but maybe just because it was my first one, and because I also adore Terry Pratchett a lot)
secondly, while I enjoy writing, I very much have a problem with describing things. most of my chapters are just internal monologues with barely any context to the setting, and I want to change that. Every time I try to describe surroundings or rooms, it feels like I just poorly described a room and filled with a thesaurus' worth of negative adjectives (I enjoy writing angsty things)
Do you have any tips for me, or by extension anyone else who is trying to get better at writing?
Sometimes it’s best to describe places as if you are telling a friend on a postcard or in a text about the place you stayed last night and you don’t have much room to explain. So you hit the high points or the one most important thing. “The kitchen wallpaper had probably once been cream coloured but appeared to have had food thrown at it, had never been entirely cleaned off, and now was mostly a rancid collection of browns.” “The lounge was dominated by a large grey sofa, composed of four unattached modular blocks, which meant that when people sat on it they would rapidly find themselves drifting away from each other across the polished wooden floor.” “The bedroom was small and airless and the furniture that had been abandoned there was old and unloved.” Or whatever.
I really enjoyed the LGBTQ+ representation in this season of Good Omens! It was lovely to see queer characters that weren't skinny young waifs that appear for a second to be oggled and then disappear. Seeing Andrew O'Neill be unquestioningly referred to as Mutt's spouse (without any funny looks or jabs about their gender or appearance from any of the characters) made my heart sing
Hi Neil, I just finished watch season two, and apart from emotional devestation of the plot (thank you I hate you I love you), I wanted to say how emotional the sheer Pratchett-esqueness of it all made me. Obviously the easter eggs were a pleasure (CMOT Dibbler, six-inch tall angry scottish men, seamstress humour and the countless more I'm sure I'll pick up on on repeat viewing.) But the street traders meeting felt like something straight from the Discworld. Terry had such a keen eye for the beautiful humour in mundane, silly, regular people. Of course the apocalypse might happen. But people have things to say about the Christmas lights. Of course they do. I started reading the discworld books when I was 8, and the supply was so great (our library would order books in if you asked nicely and had it no limit on how many books you could borrow), I quickly became addicted. I read them all, too quickly, looking back. And then one day there weren't any more new books to read. And today, watching Good Omens s2, it was almost as though I got to revisit a new chapter. And I wanted to thank you. Because Terry's spirit is so present in season two its hard to imagine you didn't come up with it together while eating sushi.
