Inspired by scenes such as this and this from Bahrain, and pictures such as this (used by Williams themselves in their own marketing – they know what sells ;3), I wrote a drabble. It’d be nice if I could keep writing short things when they actually occur to me without getting bogged down, so maybe I’ll keep trying. I already have an idea for China so woo maybe I’m on a roll! …Maybe.
(Thanks also to the Gozo bar after which this fic is named. Some very interesting naming conventions over there.)
I have soooo much to say about this haha. Firstly, i’s really, really great that the drivers are showing unity in the face of unrest in F1. It’s very important to not crumble in the face of Bernie’s attempts to cow everyone and enforce his will time and time again.
Buuut also:
1) Awww Sebson in the top one 2) Only Felipe (and Jenson I guess) dressed for dinner! Hulk, wtf 3) Feet on the dinner table??
I NEVER KNEW THAT WAS WHAT AMERICANS MEANT WHEN THEY SAID “QUITE”
WHY DIDN’T ANYBODY TELL ME
SUDDENLY THAT ONE SONG THAT GOES “HELLO I MISS YOU QUITE TERRIBLY” MAKES LIKE A MILLION TIMES MORE SENSE
are you serious british people
i feel like this means i’ve been overestimating your enthusiasm about things for my entire life
And thus we have defined British/American relations for the last 3 decades
“Quite” is extremely dependant on intonation too. “Really quite attractive” with rising tone is “yes, they are attractive”, but “quite attractive”, with falling tone and drawn out “quite” is “I’ve seen better”. “It was quite good actually!” with rising tone means it was good against expectation; “it was quite good i suppose” with falling or neutral tone is “it was alright but not great”.
“Quite” as an intensifier is quite (ha) archaic, and usually only prefixes other hyperbolic words such as “exquisite”. It’s the opposite of an intensifier, it’s a qualifier – it usually makes the following word milder.
Soooo now you know! …Maybe 😴
me: i have a new fic idea!! if i write this well i think it could be really neat!!
brain: abaabbahabababhababahabababababababah
me:
stop telling ppl to write like hemingway i promise u adverbs are not another face of the dark lord satan its ok
If writers took every bit of writing advice that was in the format ‘Don’t use X part of the English language’, all English fiction would read like Spot the dog
IMO Adverbs can be pretty nasty sometimes (”’I can’t wait!’ said Tom excitedly” is still a pretty bad sentence) but it all comes down to how you use them, and what words you put them together with.
Generally, you should try to avoid using adverbs in phrases like ‘she said happily’ or ‘he screamed loudly’. Aside from that, adverbs aren’t inheritly bad.
And ‘So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past’ isn’t a bad sentence at all.
thats not really anything inherent to adverbs, it’s just redundancy. the dialogue is speaking for itself. ’“i can’t wait,” said tom excitedly’ is a bad sentence, but ’“i cant wait,” said tom flatly’ is chill. id probably throw a comma in there before ‘flatly’ for pacing but u do u
“dont use adverbs” is basically a really shitty way to verbalize “redundancy is often awkward and makes your audience feel condescended to if it’s not done well”–because lgr there are times when redundancy is okay, there are times when literally everything is okay
break the rules of literature. theyre shitty rules anyway
First they came for the verbs, and I said nothing, because verbing weirds language
Then they arrival for the nouns, and I speech nothing, because no verbs
Then they for the descriptive, and I silent because verbless and nounless
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