Joy Calle Martinez

@rose-colored-fancy

Besides the Shabbat, some of the other observances we keep that most Christians don’t are the other feasts, (we actually just got out of the High Day season with Feast of Trumpets, Day of Atonement, and Feast of Tabernacles.) and the dietary laws. We don’t follow the mention of separating dairy and meat, because we believe tha…

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@obrian-of-the-surface-world

I love that both of you are discussing this.  Mind if I silently take notes?

Not at all! Welcome to the discussion. : )

Dr. Ben Carson is a Seventh-Day Adventist. I love the man. Such wisdom and a love for our Lord.

By the way, seeing that you’re probably someone who enjoys reading theology, I’d recommend any of Ellen…[Read more]

@rose-colored-fancy

That’s awesome! We have Shabbat on Saturday too! *High fives*

High fives back!! #shabbatcrew

I’m a Messianic Jew, which is… a complicated thing to explain XD (Don’t worry if you’ve never heard about it, it’s really obscure XD)

Cool! I actually have heard of Messianic Jews. Correct me if I’m mistaken, but aren’t you guys kind o…[Read more]

@rose-colored-fancy

Besides, I often see books that don’t include women in domestic roles at all, which is such a pity since it gives off the message that you can’t have any impact on the world unless you’re in a traditionally masculine role, which is nonsense, obviously.

I actually haven’t noticed before, but now that you point it out, you’r…[Read more]

@rose-colored-fancy

And yes! Consistency is key! If half the army is women (Have actually read that) then you need a plausible explanation as to why they deviated from the cultural norm. (Which was established to be all-male armies.)

Exactly. Took the words right outta my mouth. Your “strong” female characters won’t make any strong impact if you…[Read more]

@rose-colored-fancy

I checked it out, I love it! I’ll totally be following you! I love your website design, it’s really cool! I took the quiz, and apparently, I’m Paul! Also, I started making a quiz for my characters via that website, which is really fun XD

Thanks for the follow! And thanks for taking the quiz! I was Paul too the first time I too…[Read more]

@noah-cochran

Jump in anytime! 🙂

@rose-colored-fancy

Incredibly weird is the only way to describe it XD Several things I have either said or thought while translating myths “He turned her into a what?” “I mean, I guess turning into a tree is one way to handle the situation.” “Wow, that’s gory.” “Did we really need the descriptions of every single dog? Really?” *While reading Icar…

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@rose-colored-fancy

What I find especially odd is that bleeding was in practice until Edwardian times. That’s a really, really long time!

Yup! Did you know that George Washington actually died because his physician bled him for a sore throat, and the loss of blood was just too much? It was not a good practice, needless to say!

Before I r…

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@rose-colored-fancy

Don’t worry about it! Life happens, of course, I understand   Best of success with school! I have about… two weeks of summer left before I start again.

Thanks for understanding! Especially ’cause my reply is rather late again. XD Best of success to you, too!

Ooh, that’s the coolest thing! Tell me the disturbing facts! *Leans…

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@rose-colored-fancy

First off, I’m so sorry that my replies will probably be getting kind of sporadic. I started school this past Monday, and things are getting busy, so I don’t have as much time as I used to. But I love chatting on here with you, so I don’t want you to think that because I don’t reply for a while, it’s ’cause I’m ignoring the…[Read more]

@obrian-of-the-surface-world

Thank you so much for sharing!

@rose-colored-fancy

Yeah, it was actually estimated that at least one person in every household could read, even among peasants. And as far as I know, nuns did also write. By medieval times, I’m pretty sure scribes mostly did administrative work and reproduced manuscripts.

WOAH! Your findings are so cool! That’s especially awesome that nuns w…[Read more]

@obrian-of-the-surface-world

I would love to read some of your work. Do you ever share it with beta readers?  I have a particular affinity for the Apostle Paul.

I do sometimes! Just not for a while at the moment since I’m working on some major problems in the first chapters. I would be pleased to add you to the list of future beta or alpha…[Read more]

@rose-colored-fancy

That’s so cool that Paul decided to teach her that! I’m actually just waiting for someone to point out that the literacy rate of my medieval characters is shockingly high. Ahaha, I have an entire essay on how literacy was actually way higher than we thought, almost 50%! (And the evidence we had that peasants did read and wri…

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@rose-colored-fancy

It’s actually really funny, when I finished the first draft, I knew nothing about my characters except their roles and some vague personality traits. Now, I could recognize any of my characters by their handwriting.

Haha, I’ve found character profiles SUPER helpful with that!

Liorah has extremely messy scrawly handwriting, G…

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Sahar is bright violet, and Faye (Oh, I don’t think I’ve mentioned her yet?) is a very soft, powdery green. She’s the nature girl, like Temira. XD

Ooh, AWESOME! I think it’s cool how you figure out your characters’ favorite colors. I literally know no one’s favorite color except Temira’s. I guess Paul might be a blue person…? Idk. XD That subje…[Read more]

I just want my characters to be happy and have nice conversations and eat cookies *I say while at least four of my characters are currently dying, injured, or both* XD

SAAAME! *sobs* All my poor characters suffer so much!

(Though sometimes my characters just randomly tell me stuff like their favorite color or favorite sound or something…

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@rose-colored-fancy

Yay! I’ll let you know when I have that short story done, then. Prequels are a lot of fun – and really good for seeing the backstory play out in real time, that way it doesn’t seem so distant.

Glad to see I’m not the only one who does the first draft and then spends months developing the characters before rewriting! Tha…

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