Hey there! I'm Emiliana. This is where I share things I've written and flail over things I like. Multi-fandom blog, but I do tag everything I can. My fledgling patreon is here. <3
i love pitting classically trained magic users against self-taught magic users in sci-fi/fantasy but it shouldn’t be snobbish disdain for them it should be terror
“WHO TAUGHT YOU LIGHTNING BEFORE BASIC TELEKINESIS. LOSING MY MIND WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU JUST DID IT. WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU CAST WITH YOUR BARE HANDS”
still truckin’!!! current total wordcount approx 78k, ch3-5 basically ready to go, about halfway done revisions for chapter 1 and I’m really feelin’ these edits.
huge thanks to everyone who’s read the fic and been waiting for the sequel – we’re getting close y’all!! I SO appreciate your support and care and patience. As we approach my target posting date I just have to say –
when w. h. auden said “evil is unspectacular and always human” and ursula k. leguin said “this is the great treason of the artist: a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain”
when toni morrison said “i just think goodness is more interesting. evil is constant. you can think of different ways to murder people, but you can do that at age five. but you have to be an adult to consciously, deliberately be good – and that’s complicated.”
when simone weil said “imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring. imaginary good is boring; real good is always new, marvelous, intoxicating.”
