Recommendations For Media About Translation, Interpreting, And Foreign Languages

Just finished an entire chapter-by-chapter outline in one day, I need a shot and a burrito

Hello! I’m a horror & dark whimsy writer/content creator, and I was just published for the first time a couple months ago with my environmental horror short story “HAUSTORIUM.” It’d mean a lot if folks checked it out! Keep an eye on this space, more to come 👀👻🌲

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Haustorium | 𝔇𝔢𝔳𝔬𝔲𝔯 ☙ 𝔐𝔬𝔯𝔰𝔢𝔩𝔰 𝔬𝔣 𝔊𝔢𝔫𝔯𝔢 𝔏𝔦𝔱𝔢𝔯𝔞𝔱𝔲𝔯𝔢

A dying lumberman joins a logging crew for one final job, only to face a supernatural nightmare when an ancient tree resists its felling.

Make the first move. Pronounce your OWN name wrong. Assert your dominance. You Have The Power Now

the most humbling experience of being a writer is when you spend hours writing and think you wrote 10k words but it was actually more like 400. and then you do it again

For some reason the versions of this where he gives two salutes is being deleted and replaced with a version with a quick cut to a cheering crowd so I’ll just share it here 🙃

Time For Some Extremely Important Reading Homework, North Americans

Some of these books you may have already read. A refresher never hurts, though, if you have the time.

1.

It Can't Happen Here - Sinclair Lewis. Historical Fiction, 1930s USA.

2.

The Book Thief - Markus Zusak. Historical Fiction, Nazi Germany.

3.

Parable of the Sower - Octavia E Butler. Dystopian speculative fiction.

4.

Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury. Dystopian sci-fi.

5.

The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood. Dystopian fiction.

6.

On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century - Timothy Snyder. Non-fiction.

Leave further suggestions in the comments! What else should I/we read?

Sometimes you need to outline a whole ass fantasy novel in a single day instead of dealing with your feelings

It’s uncanny how similar Trump is acting like Hitler. People are now doing the Nazi salute. They’re drawing the symbol. The KKK was seen in Kentucky asking people to join them. ICE has been ripping families apart. Companies have pulled back Diversity Initiatives. We’re no longer part of WHO and there won’t be any communication from the CDC at least until February 1st. We’re being censored and the news can’t be trusted. Thousands of Americans didn’t know there were protests against Trump yesterday outside the U.S. Quotes from The Handmaid’s Tale and Anne Frank have been compared to what’s going on right now.

According to The Lemkin Institute for Genocide Studies and Prevention the U.S. has officially been given a red flag alert for Genocide.

I’m exhausted but I will never stop being angry.

A goblin and an elf have decided to defy tradition and get married. Their ceremony will be held in the magical forest in accordance with elven tradition.

The thing nobody tells you about writing is that you have to keep fucking doing it