whovianerisa-deactivated2018052 ASKED: Hello Mr gaiman. How old were you when you started writing stories ? I'm 14 and I try and try but they are all awful. I always give up in the middle and I can never finish what I wanted to write.
I know. I found a pile of papers of mine from my teen years and into my early twenties recently, and there were so many stories begun, so many first pages of novels never written. I’d start them, and then I’d give up because they weren’t as brilliant as Ursula K Le Guin, or Roger Zelazny, or Samuel R Delany, and anyway I wasn’t actually sure what happened next.
I was around 22 when I started finishing things. They weren’t actually very good, and they all sounded like other people, but the finishing was the important bit. I kept going. A dozen stories and a book, and then I sold one (it wasn’t very good, and I had to cut it from 8,000 words to 4,000 to sell it, but I sold it). I probably wrote another half-dozen stories over the next year, and sold three. But now they were starting to sound like me.
Think of it this way: if you wanted to become a juggler, or a painter, you wouldn’t start jugggling, drop something and give up because you couldn’t juggle broken bottles like Penn Jillette, or start a few paintings then give up because the thing in your head was better than what your hands were getting onto the paper. You carry on. You learn. You drop things. You learn about form and shape and shade and colour and how to draw hands without the fingers looking like noodles. You finish things, learn from what you got right and what you got wrong, and then you do the next thing.
And one day you realise you got good. It takes as long as it takes. So keep writing. And all you need to do right now is try to finish things.
“authoritarian” cuba:*passes the most progressive family code in the world via nationwide plebiscite*
“democratic” usa: Abortion’s illegal again because nine unelected wizards had a seance with the ghost of Thomas Jefferson and six of them said he said no.
Doesn’t dress too flashy, despite being the motherfucking King of Hyrule
Appreciates time of peace, seeing them as what any true warrior should strive for
Immediately PERSONALLY goes to aid Duke Onkled when Ganon was attacking, not sending a platoon of soldiers or Link or some shit
Despite being betrayed an sold out to Ganon by Duke Onkled, he sentances him to hard labor rather than death or imprisonment
10/10 monarch would vote for
but there’s more.
Doesn’t know what he’s going to have for dinner. This implies that he doesn’t place heavy emphasis on perfect service from his private kitchen staff, meaning that they tend to make whatever sounds pleasing. A lot of royal chefs would have been killed if this upset their ruler enough. This also implies that he is a just monarch to the rest of his people, though we can’t know for sure.
Takes the news of Koridai being under attack by Ganon with a grim face, pausing thoughtfully to consider the best strategies to protect his allies before having the wisdom to ask how his nation can help. This implies a great military leader. Sun-Tzu once said ”Every battle is won or lost before it’s ever fought.”, and The King of Hyrule’s careful moment of planning proves he knows this.
Is seen with a VERY full goblet in multiple scenes. The man is obviously quite free with his wine, and maybe even freer with his mirth and fortune.
The King is truly a king among kings.
Other things about Harkinian that we shouldn’t forget:
-He treats Link as a son, calling him “my boy” and including him in royal conversations. Harkinian doesn’t have to be so kindly to a peasent, but he respects Link’s courage.
-Has a sense of humor, even though Ganon had him and Link imprisioned, The King was able to laugh it off and celebrate with his daughter just moments after her victory.
It’s fine to enjoy childrens’ media as an adult but just say that. If you try to “defend it” (unnecessary) by saying that all adult media is about rape or murder etc you just look incredibly stupid.
Deciding that every adult that’s fucking annoying about liking kids media (which is, again, fine and does not need defending) must be autistic is also fucking stupid and a you problem.
image embedded in tweet is a full bin labeled “Free Condoms, Be Safe Today!”, with the aro flag on both the label and each of the condom packets, next to a full bin labeled “Free Water Balloons, Have Fun Today!”, doing the same thing with the ace flag.
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