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I TURNED BOOPS ON TWO SECONDS AGO HOW DO I HAVE THIS MANY BOOPS

I TURNED BOOPS ON TWO SECONDS AGO HOW DO I HAVE THIS MANY BOOPS

I TURNED BOOPS ON TWO SECONDS AGO HOW DO I HAVE THIS MANY BOOPS

for april fools we’re deleting this entire site sayonara you weeaboo shits

superhero romance is actually so fun because what does “I would die for you” mean from a guy who would die for anyone?

by cry yanni

URGENT APPEAL!

Hello my lovely followers!! I’m sure my absence hasn’t been noticed, but long story short, it’s down to the fact that, before Christmas, we found out my mum’s cancer (that she was first diagnosed with in 2017) had spread to her liver and pelvic bones and holy fuck was it a painful and stressful Christmas. But here we are in the middle of February and she’s still fighting strong. We’re raising money for her cancer treatments and any amount of money makes such a difference so I’m offering digitally drawn portraits of people’s OCs in exchange for a donation. I’ll be drawing them similar to the example below and you can pay anything from £10 and over (obviously it takes me a little extra of everything to draw nowadays because my time and energy is spent taking care of my mum and my disabled sister), so I think £10 as a starting point is reasonable, but if you wanted extras like shadows and lighting then that can be discussed- please DM me if you’re interested! All payments are taken via Ko-fi!

It’s funny when American authors come up with a new European nation so their main character can be a secret royal without the pain of researching a real nation. We should all start doing that with North America, just make up a new state. My protagonist lives in New Utahioshington which is the 51st state and located between Delaware and Maryland

IDGAF if the women in my fiction are empowering or aspirational, I'm an adult, I don't need role models, I want the women in my fiction to be interesting, and if that involves being pathetic, hypocritical, amoral, or trapped in a delightfully dysfunctional relationship so be it

“Living weapon” covers a lot and all of it is hot

Another worldbuilding application of the "two layer rule": To create a culture while avoiding The Planet Of Hats (the thing where a people only have one thing going for them, like "everyone wears a silly hat"): You only need two hats.

Try picking two random flat culture ideas and combine them, see how they interact. Let's say taking the Proud Warrior Race - people who are all about glory in battle and feats of strength, whose songs and ballads are about heroes in battle and whose education consists of combat and military tactics. Throw in another element: Living in diaspora. Suddenly you've got a whole more interesting dynamic going on - how did a people like this end up cast out of their old native land? How do they feel about it? How do they make a living now - as guards, mercenaries? How do their non-combatants live? Were they always warrior people, or did they become fighters out of necessity to fend for themselves in the lands of strangers? How do the peoples of these lands regard them?

Like I'm not shitting, it's literally that easy. You can avoid writing an one-dimensional culture just by adding another equally flat element, and the third dimension appears on its own just like that. And while one of the features can be location/climate, you can also combine two of those with each other.

Let's take a pretty standard Fantasy Race Biome: The forest people. Their job is the forest. They live there, hunt there, forage there, they have an obnoxious amount of sayings that somehow refer to trees, woods, or forests. Very high chance of being elves. And then a second common stock Fantasy Biome People: The Grim Cold North. Everything is bleak and grim up there. People are hardy and harsh, "frostbite because the climate hates you" and "being stabbed because your neighbour hates you" are the most common causes of death. People are either completely humourless or have a horrifyingly dark, morbid sense of humour. They might find it funny that you genuinely can't tell which one.

Now combine them: Grim Cold Bleak Forest People. The summer lasts about 15 minutes and these people know every single type of berry, mushroom and herb that's edible in any fathomable way. You're not sure if they're joking about occasionally resorting to eating tree bark to survive the long dark winter. Not a warrior people, but very skilled in disappearing into the forest and picking off would-be invaders one by one. Once they fuck off into the woods you won't find them unless they want to be found.

You know, Finland.

Mirror, mirror on the wall, were the sacrifices worth it all?

Ossuaries, Dionne Brand

Naomi Shihab Nye, “Sometimes I Pretend.” A Maze Me: Poems for Girls