Elmara

The Gravity of Tempered Grace

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terra aquea by Anthony-Ryan, literature

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terra aquea

on the far side of the river where it curves the water pushes farther onto the land and turns it to mud I write your name into it with my foot limping in half steps the way wounded animals move feeling your name harden in my throat I gouge the shape of it into the squelching earth over and over until your facelessness coats the riverbank first with my heel then with a broken stick and finally on my knees I draw each syllable out with my fingers, touching them to my lips every time it's finished.

The Female Suicide by Nichrysalis, literature

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The Female Suicide

Twenty years of nursing emergency room wounds and my grandmother puts down her fork, rubs her brow and tells me the female suicide is a more methodical, calculating beast. A woman will close the curtains, cleanse their apartment of clutter for the first time in months and proceed to overdose in the comfort of their own hospitality. A woman will do this because she is aware someone will have to discover her like this. Someone will have to bury her like this. My grandmother says this because when my uncle speaks paramedic about the male he pronounced dead from a house’s television antenna he never mentions a burial.

Why the fish-men are so many, and we, so few by reflectionsinwater, literature

Everything You've Learned About Writing is a Lie by PinkyMcCoversong, journal

Everything You've Learned About Writing is a Lie

Jul 23, 2014

Literature Basics Week Okay, so maybe not everything. But there's a lot of stuff that I remember learning in middle and high school that turned out to not actually work for me -- or for pretty much anybody -- as a writer. I'm hoping that if I can lay these lies out for you, we cans turn it around and unlearn some of these bad habits. Because, man, nothing says "noob" like practicing some of these frequently-taught faux pas. Lie #1: Be super duper descriptive! Wait, wait, I know what you're thinking. Descriptive language is good, right? You want your reader to know what you're talking about, and to be able to see, smell it, hear it, touch i

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Artist // Student // Literature

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An intern physician, working in a haunted hospital in an empty city, in Pakistan. Interests include mathematics, photography, late night television and post-rock.

Favourite genre of music: Progressive Metal, Post-rock, Trip-hop

Favourite Bands / Musical Artists

NIN, Jakob, Sigur Ros, Tool, Lady Gaga

Favourite Writers

Neil Gaiman, Stephen King, Peter Straub, Naeem Murr

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Elmara

Oct 21, 2016

https://www.deviantart.com/elmara/art/Fiery-Fairytales-641280207

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Elmara

May 23, 2016

I'll be slowly migrating my Bookstagram photos to dA as a back up over the course of the next couple of weeks. APOLOGIES <3

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Elmara

Feb 28, 2014

Zoey-istan :)

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Dear All, As an excuse to start writing more, I have started a Tumblr, which you can enjoy here: http://zoey-istan.tumblr.com/ All reblogs, hearts and follows will be greatly appreciated Also, this is supposed to fill in the gaping void left in my life sans facebook but we all know that's a lie-- I'll never let go, fb, i'll never let go. ((lets go as fb sinks slowly to the bottom of the Atlantic))

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Oct 21, 2016

Thank you for Favouriting my journal! And Favouriting means: getting to ask a question to the Djinn! -->

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TheBritWriter

Sep 6, 2016

Hello, you speak Urdu by chance? If so then I have a commission, I need someone who translate a small script into Urdu for a comic I'm currently working on. If your interested let me know.