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DIVINE FOLLIES:

Rating: explicit

Categories: F/M

Relationship: God!Gale/(named)Tav

Words: 26,771

𝘞𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘵𝘢𝘭 𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘤𝘭𝘢𝘪𝘮 𝘵𝘰 𝘬𝘯𝘰𝘸 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘢 𝘨𝘰𝘥?

Four decades hence his divine ascension, the God of Ambition hungered still. Hungered for power, for glory, for worship— and for love.

Scorned by his love, a mere mortal, a slight which the mind does not forget easily, he jumps at the chance to rekindle their love affair and bring her to the heavens.

The only way they can be together still... Or is it?

Aka. Tav [redacts] the godhood out of Gale, but also God!Gale character study

in middle school for a creative writing assignment one of my classmates wrote the line "on a slice of bread, i sailed over to the sea of satiety" to describe feeling satiated after eating a sandwich. and my literature teacher read it out loud just to tell us "don't write something like this. please don't."

Started reading Lymond Chronicles after @deadendtracks' comment that SK must've read them too / based Tommy on Lymond....

and like i'm what, at ch3 or 4 maybe and...

yeahhhhhhhhhh XD

I had a creative writing professor who was a prick but could be right sometimes, and he talked about how poetic writing is most effective in contrast with simple and straightforward writing, which is why "purple prose" can become incredibly dull and numbing to read as you go on. This isn't a perfect rule because there are some works that utilize a specific register of writing that feels elevated or poetic throughout, and they're doing it to achieve a specific effect, but it takes a skilled writer to do that and not make it punishing or parodic. But it's always come in handy for me as a thinking tool and I find it tends to hold true in other settings and applications, that the strongest effects are generated by contrasts, and I think that's what the horror genre does as well. A movie about a child who is lost to loneliness and death, thinking she's entered a magical world (Pan's Labyrinth) is effective precisely because of the ironic contrast between the reality we understand she's living in and the reality she perceives, the fate we know she experiences and the fantasy she has of the meaning of her death (and this isn't even talking about the roles of gender and politics in the story). (Coraline could also be argued as an example of this type of story, but it's aimed at children so has a happier ending.) Horror often generates its effects by contrasting the world as it should be and the world as it is in the context of the story, so naturally will have stuff to say and teach about what "the world as it should be" is and means.

hey if they deviate enough from the original writing this might actually be goo -

nevermind

I feel like this would read completely differently for me if he hadn't kissed her (his mom) like a page before

enough with the ✨💘🌷giving your longing to god in this season of waiting 🌷💘✨ shit i want a book for christian women who are spitting mad at god and get dealt psychic damage every time they open instagram to see a new engagement pic

dayas smile is so precious and special

In honor of christopher eccelston coming back to do audiobooks about pre-rose adventures i have been flung back into rewriting my pre-rose companion oc fic from 2015

my dumb ass writing letters from the perspective of two of my fan ocs and literally ending up with Someone Who Has Only Ever Written Formal Letters vs Someone Who Regularly Writes His Friends Notes

holy shit why is my writing style "epic poetry" what the fuckkkk

Fictionhunt did, in fact, steal two of my stories. It got them from fanfiction.net, the account I had when I was 12 and have since forgotten the password to. I don't know how I feel about this.

and he would not elaborate 🤸‍♀️

[VD: An Omniscient Reader's Viewpoint comic. The audio is captioned in both English and Spanish. First, Han Sooyoung grins, "Mama didn't raise no fucking bitch. We keep going. (Mamá no crió a una puta perra. Seguimos.)" She starts with her hands on her hips, then raises her hands to emit magical black flames.

Next, Yoo Joonghyuk draws his sword and says, "No, no, no... Mama raised a bitch. Let's go. (No, no, no... Mamá sí crió a una perra. Vamos.") Finally, Kim Dokja is on his phone as he says, "Mama didn't raise nobody, actually, my mom was in prison. (Mamá no crió a nadie, en realidad, mi vieja estaba en cana.)" (The actual audio says "My mom was absent.")

There's a "bonk" sound, and the style turns cartoony as Yoo Joonghyuk goes "Oh my god... (Dios mío...)" with distress. Han Sooyoung wheezes with laughter, captioned "Cagándose de la risa," and Yoo Joonghyuk says, "Wall going down, wall going down." Kim Dokja is still on his phone. End VD] thank you so much for the id, @princess-of-purple-prose ♡♡

It is time for me to unleash a portion of my jung heewon mental illness onto the paper. Clicks pen. She is just. My goodness. Everytime I feel like crying because of something dokja does, jung heewon reacts in a way that makes me want to cry ten times harder.

Thank you @princess-of-purple-prose for the ID (available in ALT text)

rambling about jung heewon further under the cut

I fucking love heewon, she's literally the husband ever. Whenever she gets a judgement hour moment I scream and cry and shadow box the ghosts of my ancestors in the room because holy shit, it is jung heewon. Jung heewon is so cool. And she has such a big heart.

She was saved by dokja, was literally just some random dying person in a shop that he ransacked, and then became one of their most important assets. Like Wow. Work it queen. And her personality just makes me giggle kick my feet and tuck my hair behind my ear. Right off the bat she's snappy, sarcastic and confident, but kind and compassionate. She's loyal and righteous but she can be selfish and desperate and emotionally vulnerable. She is so cool. When I saw her in a suit I was so grateful the gods sprinkled me with fruit before spawning me in this world.

She's so super strong and cool, but she keeps failing to save dokja, and my god, singshong really leans into how She's the one that screams and begs in anguish, and is absolutely fucking livid when he does reckless shit like that. She truly cares so so much and she hates him so much but all that hate is because she loves him so so much. And it Hurts and I desperately need her to be happy forever. ForEVERRRR