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Always love how much folklore especially creature folklore emphasizes that there is a way for you to win. These are the steps to ensure the dead don't rise: take them out through a hole in the wall and give them iron shoes. Vampires cannot abide sunlight. If you hear a dog howl on a churchyard path turn around and get home as fast as you can. Iron and salt and the colour red. None of this doomed idea, the world is incomprehensible but if you're a bit clever you'll survive it just fine, there's always ways out.
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If you can’t think of anything to say about a fic, writers also like to know:
- what time it is
- how long you’ve been reading
- how many chapters you’ve covered in the last 24 hours
- what you were late for because you were reading
- the woeful few hours you have left to sleep
- the emotional outbreaks you’re experiencing
- the inappropriate place you’re having said outbreak
- the general public’s reaction to your outbreak
- how much phone battery you have left
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I could NOT be in feudal Japan. Here are some reasons why
I wasn’t born then.
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Fic authors self rec! When you get this, reply with your favorite five fics that you've written, then pass on to at least five other writers.
Tagged by @antimony-medusa!
Let's see...
hit the continent running (engines were humming) - SMPEarth mixed-format fic where Emperor Philza discusses how the Antarctic Empire got where it is in the present day. Has been described as "like a wartime action novel" and is basically like if worldbuilding about Antarctic survival and fighter planes was distilled into 15k words. Probably my favorite Emerald Duo I've ever written.
rings of flowers round your eyes - Hermitcraft fic where Grian is an art thief, Scar is a magical painting, and the vault Grian just broke into has just trapped him inside with his quarry. This was an exercise in horror writing and also art descriptions and also complete failures of wine descriptions that do not at all hold up under analysis, dear god.
sunlight over me no matter what i do - Hermitcraft/Traffic Series fic where Grian decides to amputate his own wings because it's the only way to sever himself from Watcher influence. Written for Hermit Horror Week and has some POV weirdness that was super fun to write.
oxygen is getting low (one last round before we go) - Dream SMP fic where Philza, a marine biologist, is stranded in an underwater base in the Marianas Trench and waiting to run out of life support. This is clearly the perfect time to discover that deep sea merpeople such as Technoblade exist... especially when those merpeople can talk to you in your dreams. Someone in the bookmarks for this one said it changed their outlook on grief/death and I hold that comment closely to this day.
will the curse be reversed if you say it backwards - Hermitcraft/Traffic series fic that is actually a recursive fanfic of @definitelynotshouting's fic lost in the dark (he's got a heavy heart), also known as Hunger AU. Grian is recovering from a near-death experience on a server that doubles as an enormous music festival, with the help of a Watcher who shares his face. Grian is having confusing encounters with possibly-hallucinatory old friends, and strangers who seem very intent on talking to him, and he thinks things would be much easier if the Watcher with him wasn't refusing to eat properly - but things are a lot more complicated than he'd like to believe they are, really. Probably my favorite recursive fic I've written: I listened to so many songs for it that I could've created a Spotify playlist about it.
Not sure who to tag for this who hasn't already been tagged, so please ignore this if you're getting double-tagged or don't want to do it, obviously, but... @waveridden @shortkidenergy @good-chimes @definitelynotshouting @tea-with-veth
#AAA THIS IS AWESOME#it's just. so cool finding out which fics the author personally liked best :DD#i've read 4 out of 5 and LOVED THEM <33#(the exception is oxygen is getting low because i'm scared. that open/ambiguous ending tag is going to break me and i'm not ready)#dsmp fic rec#horror my beloved
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REVERSE TROPE WRITING PROMPTS
Too many beds
Accidentally kidnapping a mafia boss
Really nice guy who hates only you
Academic rivals except it’s two teachers who compete to have the best class
Divorce of convenience
Too much communication
True hate’s kiss (only kissing your enemy can break a curse)
Dating your enemy’s sibling
Lovers to enemies
Hate at first sight
Love triangle where the two love interests get together instead
Fake amnesia
Soulmates who are fated to kill each other
Strangers to enemies
Instead of fake dating, everyone is convinced that you aren’t actually dating
Too hot to cuddle
Love interest CEO is a himbo/bimbo who runs their company into the ground
Nursing home au
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has anyone seen my favorite youtuber, i've lost him in this desert :(
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Patton would wear these
#OH I LOVE THIS#goofy dad-style t shirts feel like SUCH a Patton thing#and the DESIGNS??#Patton would be rocking that pink silly goose one#and OF COURSE the frog one :DD
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Sometimes self-care is, actually, NOT getting onto the computer and little treats and watching youtube videos. Sometimes those things are self-care, but sometimes they're also avoidant behaviors.
Sometimes self care is waking up and just. Fucking getting in the car. And driving to the bank. And the store. And buying the cat litter. And changing the cat boxes you've been avoiding because your brains been stuck in a hole. And picking up the trash you've been piling up. And getting a load into the wash. And mowing the lawn before the village council sends you a formal complaint and potential-fines warning.
Like its hard and annoying to do because it sucks. It sucks so much. But if I don't start working on this pile of bullshit I've let build up because it stinks and i was stuck in deer-in-headlights mode, I risk letting it turn into fuckery. I do not have the patience for fuckery that I once - foolishly! - thought I had.
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me, sternly, to a blank google doc: i have written hundreds of thousands of words over the course of my life. you won’t defeat me.
the cursor, blinking: |
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person: thank you, that was very thoughtful of you.
me, humble, always deflecting compliments: actually, I wasn’t thinking of you at all. the benefit you derived was entirely incidental. I rarely think about you at all.
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The symbolism of flowers
Flowers have a long history of symbolism that you can incorporate into your writing to give subtext.
Symbolism varies between cultures and customs, and these particular examples come from Victorian Era Britain. You'll find examples of this symbolism in many well-known novels of the era!
Amaryllis: Pride
Black-eyed Susan: Justice
Bluebell: Humility
Calla Lily: Beauty
Pink Camellia: Longing
Carnations: Female love
Yellow Carnation: Rejection
Clematis: Mental beauty
Columbine: Foolishness
Cyclamen: Resignation
Daffodil: Unrivalled love
Daisy: Innocence, loyalty
Forget-me-not: True love
Gardenia: Secret love
Geranium: Folly, stupidity
Gladiolus: Integrity, strength
Hibiscus: Delicate beauty
Honeysuckle: Bonds of love
Blue Hyacinth: Constancy
Hydrangea: Frigid, heartless
Iris: Faith, trust, wisdom
White Jasmine: Amiability
Lavender: Distrust
Lilac: Joy of youth
White Lily: Purity
Orange Lily: Hatred
Tiger Lily: Wealth, pride
Lily-of-the-valley: Sweetness, humility
Lotus: Enlightenment, rebirth
Magnolia: Nobility
Marigold: Grief, jealousy
Morning Glory: Affection
Nasturtium: Patriotism, conquest
Pansy: Thoughtfulness
Peony: Bashfulness, shame
Poppy: Consolation
Red Rose: Love
Yellow Rose: Jealously, infidelity
Snapdragon: Deception, grace
Sunflower: Adoration
Sweet Willian: Gallantry
Red Tulip: Passion
Violet: Watchfulness, modesty
Yarrow: Everlasting love
Zinnia: Absent, affection
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You don't have a boop button, but imagine this ask is me repeatedly booping you <3
skjhdcksdc i do now!!
ALSO. booping you now <3
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Note to Self - Speaking without Words with Word Balloons
Word gallons are for more than just words. They can be used to emphasis and even add emotions and to a scene
Feeling dizzy? About to pass out?
A lilting playful swirl (Time and Time Again by Deo I)
The white and black of the text has been replaced with a sinister black and the words are off tilter (Sword Interval by Benjamin Fleuter)
The voice is coming from a place deeper and more unsettling and the text is uneven and handwritten
A dismissive comment literally (metaphorically) stabs someone (Marionetta by Míriam Bonastre Tur)
Being interrupted before finishing what is being said
A withering and icy reply (The Secrets of Soulford by the Quincil)
Wobbly uncertain bubbles that even break apart in some parts from dizziness (The Blind Prince by cozycroww)
Pain almost appears to be breaking the usually round bubble into uneven and broken balloons. The little smaller balloons around it are reminiscent of sweat or tears (Heir’s Game by suspu)
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rewatching SvS pt 1 because it is one of the best sanders sides episodes ever, and
i love how virgil starts off by acting like he doesn't care about the courtroom scenario but
poor boy, he's trying so hard not to play into Janus's wants but he can't stop himself. he's such a repressed nerd.
#sanders sides#op that's perfect i love your mind :DD#incorporating that into my headcanons immediately#also ALSO the contrast between each side's knowledge of courtroom law is so funny#Virgil has actual knowledge! so does Logan!#Janus does too even if he only plays by the rules when it benefits him#and then there's Roman. the literal judge#who understands the VIBE of a dramatic courtroom scene but not like. the rules#and Patton who's really doing his best but doesn't even know know the meanings of legal terms
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