johannadc:

mottlemoth:

johannadc:

bookcasewraith:

johannadc:

justusmice:

sherlock-nanowrimo:

johannadc:

skulls-and-tea:

i’m sorry but mycroft IceMan Cometh holmes was kicked back in serbia watching his brother get tortured with a lead pipe without batting an eyelash

who the FUCK is this guy? 

Mycroft is very good when creating a cover personality, able to manage emotion per the role. He knows what he’s supposed to do and follows through per his duty. 

Mycroft himself doesn’t like legwork and (imo) has never understood Sherlock’s fascination with crime and bodies. 

So when asked to kill someone himself, Mycroft can’t cope. 

Makes sense to me. (shrug)

Mycroft was attempting to get Sherlock out of Serbia without them both being murdered, so it makes sense he would have to call up every steely reserve he has to get through watching his brother hurt until they could figure things out.

At Sherrinford, he was caught wholly unawares by his sister giving him the choice between murdering someone or watching someone else get murdered by her.

Not even John was able to go through with it, think about that for a hot minute.

i’m pretty much 100% in the “mycroft was covering for both of them as if their lives depended on it because they did” camp regarding serbia. and, as noted above, john couldn’t shoot the governor either, so let’s not rag on mycroft about what a wimp he is here.

Yeah! Excellent points from more members of the Mycroft Defense Squad! 

@johannadc may I please apply to join the MDS?

Everyone’s welcome! I’d come up with a handshake but it would more likely involve a hug. Because we’re all about taking care of people. 

Now, who’s got the badges? 

*arrives with sacks of badges and baseball caps*

Surely Mycroft also had like 12 separate back-up plans in place in Serbia. He’d probably envisioned a hundred different tortures he might see being performed on Sherlock, so he was ready for it: to see it, to act like it’s nothing, and to remind himself Scenarios #34-#50 were sooo much worse.

In the gifs above there’s no one coming for him, no one listening, no one knows how this is gonna end.

That’s not Mycroft Holmes reacting in distress to plain old violence. That’s Mycroft Holmes experiencing his worst fucking nightmare: absolute lack of control.

As always, Moth knows the score. And handled the fashion. (Pulls on gimme hat.)

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Using the appropriate vocabulary in your novel

still-intrepid:

storiesintheashes:

gaiabamman:

It is very important that the language in your novel reflects the time and place in which the story is set.

For example, my story is set in Italy. My characters would never “ride shotgun”, a term coined in US in the early 1900s referring to riding alongside the driver with a shotgun to gun bandits. 

Do your research! A free tool that I found to be very useful is Ngram Viewer. 

You can type any word and see when it started appearing in books. For example…one of my characters was going to say “gazillion” (I write YA) in 1994. Was “gazillion” used back then?

And the answer is…YES! It started trending in 1988 and was quite popular in 1994.

Enjoy ^_^

This is really important, especially because language can change in very unexpected ways. 

For example, did you know that before 1986 people never said “I need to”?Instead, they were far more likely to say “I ought to”, “I have to”, “I must”, or “I should”.

Don’t believe me?

Anyway, most people won’t notice subtle changes like that. But your reader will notice and be confused when characters in your medieval world use metaphors involving railroads and rockets.

One of the things you can do besides use Google Ngrams is to read books or watch movies written in the time period you want to set your story. The key here is that they can’t just be set in that time period, they have to have been made in that time period.

Also, there’s a Lexicon Valley episode on this very topic which I highly recommend. It’s called Capturing the Past. 

SEE ALSO Etymonline.  Word origins and when they’re first recorded. So, say I wanted to find out when a “coffee break” became a thing – around the 1950s, as seen in magazine adverts – or characters might talk about more genrallly “taking a break” from the 1860s…

See also the Tiffany problem

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88missmarauder88:

Harry: *looking with wonder at the Marauder’s Map* Is that really…?

Fred: Dumbledore.

George: In his study.

Fred: Pacing.

George: Does that a lot.

Harry: So… what do the other professors do in their spare time?

Fred: Well, we’ve seen Flitwick’s dot hopping up and down in his office loads of times… figured he had some hidden passion for aerobics, but turns out Peeves just likes to drop his wand onto shelves he can’t quite reach.

George: Then there’s Snape. Creeps about at night quite a bit, which isn’t a surprise, but after we noticed him in the Trophy Room a few times, we went down one night to see what he was up to. He was changing your dad’s name to “Rotter” on all his Quidditch awards. 

Harry: HEY!

Fred: No worries, we set them right whenever he does it.

George: Man’s got to have a hobby.

Fred: Sprout sleepwalks, we reckon. Watched her bumping into the greenhouse wall for a half-hour one night. Lupin goes for a long jog in the Forbidden Forest once a month, it’s a bit odd. 

Harry: And McGonagall?

George: You know old mum. Standard stuff. Classroom, office, Great Hall one minute… 

Fred: …climbing the drapes, chasing birds, tipping over cups in the kitchens the next.

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lavenderandvanilla:

princeofdoomrps:

hexandbalances:

Someone sent this to me today and I thought I would share.

@mychronicillnessblog

@eventhorizon451  @merindab

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