heather | Abyssal Plain System | please read my about before following, also not the most unfriendly, talk to me if you'd like (i follow back from a different blog)
Don’t have them die of old age after a long, fulfilling life. Many people don’t even think of this as sad (note that this can still work if you have enough of the other factors).
Leave one of their major goals unfinished. The more enthusiastic they are about completing the goal, the sadder.
Give them strong relationships with other characters.
Make them fight against whatever is causing their death. Their ultimate loss is sadder if they struggle.
Kill them in the middle of their character arc.
Don’t describe their funeral in detail. Maybe it’s just me, but I find that long descriptions of funerals kill the sadness.
you don’t have to prove that someone is abusive in order to cut them out of your life, if they’re wasting your time and energy, draining you, making you feel miserable, putting way less effort in communicating than you are, blocking your thoughts and opinions, triggering you, making you cry, causing you pain, making you feel awful about yourself - you can cut them off with no further reason needed “I need different things in life right now” is a reason enough.
i love scrolling through my blog because 40% of my posts are me crying about cute animals, 27% are other fucking alters using my blog as their personal playground like inconsiderate assholes, and 97.8% of my posts are tagged "i can't remember my tags"
my favorite thing is when one of us manages a personal internal-voice thing? that makes no sense, but usually when i think something, the words don't come out completely how i interpret my voice to sound, basically, like it's diluted or distorted slightly. sometimes, though, my voice comes out sounding exactly right and it's like i can actually feel it in my chest since i register my voice as lower than how it usually comes out? i haven't pinpointed the intigation for those real-voice moments but i honestly live for them
i'm doing better than i have in a..long, long time, and to be quite honest it's terrifying. i'm aware it could become a self-fulfilling prophecy, but i'm. waiting. for something else to go wrong