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Writing tip

squigglydigglydoo:

the-kittens-of-voltron:

maddymayobsesses:

M-most people don’t t-talk like th-this when they st-stutter from n-nerves.

It’s more…it’s more like going back and…and starting over. Maybe repeating some, some words.

Bonus tip: this is ESPECIALLY true in thoughts. Thoughts are a lot more fluid than speech because there’s no physical barrier to get past when they form into words.

Thank you for the tips!

Stuttering like this is closer to what happens when somebody’s got a speech impediment that makes it difficult for them to form words. It’s not that it doesn’t happen, it’s just that it happens in different circumstances from what people think! Like OP said, somebody who’s got no speech impediment but is stuttering when they’re nervous is gonna sound more like:

“I… I don’t… This can’t… No, I-I don’t have ANY idea what’s happening here.”

…rather than:
“I-I d-don’t have an-ny id-d-dea what’s h-happening here!”

maalacath:

shadedevlin:

tumblunni:

kawaiianimeredhead:

vyrenrolar:

obstinatecondolement:

Are there any works in the post-apocalyptic genre with post-apocalyptic librarians? People who worked in the public library and after the Bad Thing decide to stay and keep the library clean, safe and available for anyone who needs it. People can’t remove books from the premises anymore, because they’re too precious, but you can stay as long as you want and read them or copy them out–the librarians encourage making copies, so that the information can circulate beyond the physical boundaries of the library. 

After a while it becomes an unspoken reality of the post apocalyptic society that you Just Don’t fuck with the library. You don’t fight there, you don’t steal from it, you don’t allow harm to come to librarians when they have to leave the building for supplies. 

People donate food and books and paper with no expectation of reciprocity, because the librarians don’t ask for anything when you need a place to hide or information or, fuck, to read a schlocky crime novel because you need to escape reality in some purple prose. 

i need this like water and also air

@a-fragile-sort-of-anarchy

OH HELL TO THE YES

Also consider: a library has a duplicate book, and wants to hire mercenaries to transport it to a library that doesn’t have a copy of that book. The most well known mercs in the world show up to volunteer for the job because they haven’t read that one yet.

@edderkopper