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ashfordlabs · 7 minutes

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why are you haunted?

creature, half•alive // why be happy when you could be normal?, jeanette winterson // one need not a chamber - to be haunted, emily dickinson // robert breault // midnight visitor, dean gioia // real estate, richard brautigan // the bloody chamber and other stories, angela carter // i'm broke and mostly friendless, and i've wasted my whole life, heather havrilesky // ghost i, christina marie brown // john koenig // velocity, dean koontz // ghosts in the attic, cosimo s. // real estate, richard siken // remaining, dean gioia // tomorrow, and, tomorrow, and tomorrow, gabrielle zevin // haunted womanhood, heather havrilesky // haunting of night vale live show

#CURSED BODIES ( post ) / inspo.#( queue ) / when i needed you; you were gone.

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ashfordlabs · 2 hours

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You know what I want, I want the glasses trope but swapped

you know how movies will do the thing where they take the nerdy character and make them look beautiful without their glasses

we’ll have it swapped where you take your love interest, someone who doesn’t normally where glasses and then show the main character catch them when they’re by themselves and they’re using reading glasses, or wears contacts normally when they’re out in public and wears glasses at home and have them get attracted to that

not only will be a nice way to turn a trope on its head but it could also be a physical representation of characters B getting more comfortable with Character A where they show a more personal side of themselves

#CURSED BODIES ( relationship ) / eli and theo.#( queue ) / when i needed you; you were gone.

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ashfordlabs · 3 hours

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──── 𝒓𝒆𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒎𝒆𝒏𝒅𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒔 · ˚ ༘ *

( in no particular order, do look up tws just in case )

currently reading ⋆ once upon a broken heart by stephanie garber (started 04/03/24)

books ⋆ the hunger games trilogy by suzanne collins, his dark materials trilogy by phillip pullman, the folk of the air series by holly black, the secret history by donna tartt, the atlas six by olivie blake, alone with you in the ether by olivie blake

writerblr wips ⋆ bloodless heir by @bloodlessheirbyjacques, cursed bodies by @ashfordlabs, ghost notes by @phantomnations, the great glavenisean theater by @pinespittinink, phei of the wind by @zeenimf

webtoons/manhwas ⋆ the remarried empress, under the oak tree, the villainess needs a tyrant, i have become the hero's rival

tv series ⋆ his dark materials, alchemy of souls, anne with an e, black mirror, alice in borderland, the haunting of hill house, quicksand, biohackers, the queen's gambit, queen charlotte

#ahhh zeta 😭😭#thank you for the rec 💕💕#i have some wips to check out 👀#also superb taste in shows with anne with an e & alice in borderland

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ashfordlabs · 4 hours

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Grief

ref photo by @jawsstone

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ashfordlabs · 6 hours

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trying to motivate myself to be a little more active here, i want to discover some new writeblrs to follow!! feel free to reach out if you wanna!

i'm particularly interested if you...

🎧 write adult fiction, especially literary fiction, horror (gothic or otherwise), gothic romance, fantasy, or really anything with a gritty/emotional feel

🎧 like any bands from the 90s grunge scene (or 80s hard rock) (i can and will yap for days)

🎧 like vampires, pirates, or cowboys

🎧 are a fellow college student (we can struggle together!!)

even if we don't have any of this in common, i'd love to chat anyway! hopefully this finds some folks <3

#( boost ) / other writers.

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ashfordlabs · 7 hours

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Labyrinth (1986) dir. Jim Henson

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ashfordlabs · 9 hours

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Details: The Backwater, Charles William Wyllie

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ashfordlabs · 11 hours

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and on the fifth day god invented people who are younger and more successful than you in order to teach you some kind of fucked up and evil lesson

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ashfordlabs · 13 hours

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Writing two characters who you intend from the beginning to have a romantic relationship, writing characters for each other, is absolutely fantastic in its own right, but there is something to be said for writing two characters independently, and then a good bit into the writing process seeing them side-by-side and going “GASSSSPP WAIT A MINUTE”

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ashfordlabs · 15 hours

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the ache of nostalgia

#CURSED BODIES ( post ) / inspo.#( queue ) / when i needed you; you were gone.

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ashfordlabs · 20 hours

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Me just after opening a Word document

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ashfordlabs · 22 hours

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Botanica No.23 by Gail Potocki

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ashfordlabs · 1 day

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mutuals in my heart we are all doing arts n crafts together

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ashfordlabs · 1 day

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you should be able to say "line" if you don't know what to say in a social situation

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ashfordlabs · 1 day

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#POST ( media ) / art.#POST ( media ) / video games.#( queue ) / when i needed you; you were gone.

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ashfordlabs · 1 day

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i hate you "pair the spares"/"everyone must be paired" tropes, i hate you forced last minute romances, i hate you implication that a happy ending means a romantic partner, i hate you amatonormativity

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ashfordlabs · 1 day

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what is a ghost?

ghost eaters - clay mcleod chapman / stranger in the alps (2017) / war of the foxes - richard siken / summer sons - lee mandelo / yellowjackets (2021) / right where you left me - taylor swift / ghost eaters - clay mcleod chapman / ghost (1990) / haunting of hill house (2018)

#CURSED BODIES ( character ) / mayumi sakamoto.#( queue ) / when i needed you; you were gone.

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