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nunyverse-scribe · 5 months

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Behind every great writer, is a child who had no other sense of control in their life

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goodbyeapathy8 · 8 months

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Fickle fucking muses

The writing muse left me for almost an entire week and by the time Friday rolled around, I was practically begging and almost cried from frustration. I want to write, please just let me write an update - a drabble, something.

Tonight, the muse decided oh hello I'm back WITH A VENGEANCE. Here, write three chapters in a manic state. And I could have sworn it was midnight but now it's 3 AM?? Like I legit feel like I blacked out for 3 hours because how the hell is it suddenly 3?

I was really going to be happy with one chapter but now I'm at the point where I'm asking it to stop and I can't. FML.

#ao3 writer problems #kinnporsche fic #writing muse #please can we work out a reasonable schedule #is it the autism #or is it the trauma #constant question in my life #anyway there will be 2 additional chapters on top of the 1 I posted #Killing me softly fic readers rejoice #I am back

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vavandeveresfan · 1 year

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My Writing Muse is a bitch.

#writing #NaNoWriMo #WIP #writing muse #miraculous ladybug #Tikki #kwami #miraculous #MLB

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princessallura · 1 year

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I was supposed to go to jury duty today. I had already taken my medication and had been preparing for bed when LO AND BEHOLD I get an email stating my jury duty had been canceled. You have no idea how irritated I had been. There were things I needed to have done and things I wanted to start working on.

I know if they had waited at the last minute, I would have done a lot of table flipping and cow tipping of employees. Yes, yes, I know - I would be in jail for it. But at the same time, I would have been satisfied with it.

I honestly don't think my medication is working anymore. My moods have been really bad and to the point, I get short with everyone. I hate being around people once again and my anxiety is becoming a bit worse. I was supposed to see the doctor earlier this week, but my sister was worried that I was coming down with Covid again and called to reschedule my appointment. She told me she thought it would be "safer than sorry" if I did have it. She believed it would no good to give it to others.

I had tried to do some writing last night and no luck whatsoever. I suppose with my trying to get to bed early, my Muse just told me NO. I will try again maybe later. I don't know.

Maybe if I start using my reading journal things might change.

Anyway, I am heading off for a bit. See you all later tonight. :)

#jury duty #reading journal #writing muse

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celestinexcreations · 1 year

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"I might be the writer but you will always be the words"

-Ben Maxfield

#book #writing #writerscommunity #writing muse #quotes #beautiful words

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arwenkenobi48 · 1 year

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Each of the Seven Deadly Sins, as represented by Mephistopheles

Pride: *smirking arrogantly* Oh yes, I am a fabulous demon, aren’t I? Stylish, cunning, devilishly handsome, that’s me to a T *chuckles*

Greed: *laughing evilly while admiring a huge pile of soul contracts* they’re mine, they’re all mine!

Wrath: Who does that wretched rapscallion think he is!? When I get my hands on him, he’ll be begging for mercy! *growling as steam clouds blow out of his ears*

Envy: ugh, all those mortals, falling in love and raising families…why can’t I have any of that? *pouts grumpily*

Gluttony: *nomming an obscene number of red velvet cupcakes* omnomnomnomnom

Lust: *poses seductively on Lucifer’s bed* oh, master? Puppy wants to play *tail wags*

Sloth: *curls up in bed, clutching his Baphomet plushie* mmmf…what time is it? *yawns and rubs eyes* oh, 9:30 am? Meh, I’ll get up at noon… *lies back down and snores softly*

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sirensatyr · 29 days

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"You can't keep playing God, Bel!"

Adrian's voice is demanding and firm, almost throwing Beltane off with the sudden confidence exuding from her twin. She scoffs then, taking his stance for what it truly is...a plea.

"Why not? No one else is!"

The jab is quick, and his flinch tells her that it hit its mark. How dare he tell her what should and should not be done on this world. He hadn't been here! He didn't have to see the horrors arising from monsters wearing human guises for over a century!

"You're killing people! It doesn't matter what they've done, you do not have the right to pass judgement! Two wrongs don't make a right!"

Beltane huffs a derisive laugh at the self righteous response.

"You said that to me once before... and I listened....and mother ultimately died because of my inaction. You have a good heart...but your obedience to deitic rules weaken you."

She steps closer into his space, and he meets her steady gaze. She continues to stare him down, pouring every ounce of unwavering determination into her following words.

"The next time I see father, I will kill him...and if you get in my way again, I will run you through as well...brother or not."

He searches her eyes, taking a reluctant step back when he realizes she's serious. His brows furrow as his lips press into a firm thin line.

"So be it, then."

#writing muse #drabble #writing #writers on tumblr #writeblr #writerscommunity #wannabe author #blurb #creative writing #wip #work in progress

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jennycalendar · 6 months

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another cool thing is when you devour a book over the course of a handful of hours and it fucks you up and you just have to lie on the couch feeling like your brain went swimming for too long & only just came up from under the water. art is so good

#musings #i missed reading things…#more specifically. things not for class #things i don’t have to write essays on. those things

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buggachat · 5 months

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something so fucked up about Chat Noir’s whole deal is that he is in a lot of ways Adrien playing a character. Like Adrien picked up his miraculous and was told he’d be a superhero so he was like “ok, time to act like a superhero!” and he lets himself have fun w it and play up the role and let loose and kind of just allow himself to be silly and goofy and have fun and for once in his life not care about performing Perfection™.

But. But none of the other characters KNOW THAT. So everyone just sees Chat Noir and is like “look at this guy’s ego. He’s so full of himself. Surely it’d be fair to knock him down a few pegs” without being aware of how few pegs he actually HAS. He’s like the “insecure character who overcompensates in ego” trope except he’s really not doing it unironically, he’s just having a fun LARP pretending to have self worth in his off-hours but nobody else is on the same page about it being a game and he refuses to tell them. He just dramatically pouts about it and lets them laugh and pretends like he’s not internalizing it and it is almost 3 am and my brain forced me to write this instead of sleeping I’m gonna take a melatonin

#writing this my brain was like: what if he actually likes it?#what if he likes people openly criticizing him in ways nobody actually does to Adrien agreste?#because Adrien Agreste is perfect and can do no wrong. maybe he enjoys being insulted or something #and then I remembered chat noirs multiple breakdowns about feeling unworthy and yknow what yeah I don’t think he likes it LOL #do normal people actually fall asleep when they lie down #if you can’t tell I recently decided to make my random ml musings your guys’ business instead of keeping it to myself #hope you enjoy

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humunanunga · 1 year

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Enough of the trope where memory loss undoes the damage or the corruption or whatever. More content where removing memories just removes the context.

The tragedy of needing to grieve and not knowing what or who you lost or why. The angst of having trauma and being denied the awareness that it's trauma. The suspense of being different somehow and left to wonder how and when. The tension of knowing that something is off and you can't find where it hurts. The Adventure Zone gets it. Kingdom Hearts gets it.

There is an aching inside you and you don't know how it got there.

#i think about xion or the stolen century and need to lay down. i'm so normal about them.#tropes #narrative tropes #memory loss #tragedy #angst #the adventure zone #taz balance #the stolen century #kingdom hearts #xion #writing #musings #hall of fame

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selenekallanwriter · 26 days

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Person: What's your book about?

Writers:

I'm both somehow 🙃

#writers on tumblr #writeblr #writing #creative writing #writing memes #writer memes #writer mood #writer problems #am writing #urban fantasy #paranormal romance #writer musings #just something that came to mind while I info dumped my poor mom

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emeryleewho · 5 months

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There's a huge difference between redemption and humanization. I feel like a lot of "redemption arcs" aren't actually redemption at all, they're just attempts to humanize the villain so that they seem multi-faceted, but people read them as "redemption arcs" and think that that is meant to justify all the evil they've done before and negate whatever made them a villain in the first place. I think true "redemption arcs" are actually kind of rare because true redemption would take making the villain acknowledge their crimes, reevaluate their actions, actively choose to do better, and then proceed to make amends and become a better person, and that would this take more time than most stories are allowed to give their characters.

I've also seen people argue that a character has to be poised for redemption from the jump for it to work because once a character does something "too bad", they can't be redeemed. I completely disagree because redemption isn't justification or forgiveness, so no matter how horrible a character's actions, they could choose to become better, but because a lot of people (including writers) think redemption means "erasing the character's flaws and making it so they did nothing wrong ever", a lot of attempted "redemption arcs" just end up erasing a character's entire history or justifying every evil thing they've ever done. And yeah, in these cases, the only way to make a character go from a villain to a perfect cinnamon roll with no flaws *is* to have been planning it from the beginning and make sure they never do anything that can't be explained away later.

TLDR: real redemption arcs require a lot of self-awareness, patience, and growth, which are things that are rarely actually allocated to villains, and that's why real redemption arcs almost never get executed. The reason people think redemption arcs are overdone is because there are so many attempts to either humanize a villain that get misconstrued as redemption or attempts to blatantly erase who a character was in the name of "redemption", which is really just poor character development.

#just musing on some thoughts #fiction #redemption arcs #writing

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vodkatales · 2 years

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For old times sake is actually such a heartbreaking and beautiful sentiment. Like, let’s do it for the love that used to be here. It is reason enough.

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tofixtheshadows · 1 day

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I've been thinking a lot lately about how Kabru deprives himself.

Kabru as a character is intertwined with the idea that sometimes we have to sacrifice the needs of the few for the good of the many. He ultimately subverts this first by sabotaging the Canaries and then by letting Laios go, but in practice he's already been living a life of self-sacrifice.

Saving people, and learning the secrets of the dungeons to seal them, are what's important. Not his own comforts. Not his own desires. He forces them down until he doesn't know they're there, until one of them has to come spilling out during the confession in chapter 76.

Specifically, I think it's very significant, in a story about food and all that it entails, that Kabru is rarely shown eating. He's the deuteragonist of Dungeon Meshi, the cooking manga, but while meals are the anchoring points of Laios's journey, given loving focus, for Kabru, they're ... not.

I'm sure he eats during dungeon expeditions, in the routine way that adventurers must when they sit down to camp. But on the surface, you get the idea that Kabru spends most of his time doing his self-assigned dungeon-related tasks: meeting with people, studying them, putting together that evidence board, researching the dungeon, god knows what else. Feeding himself is secondary.

He's introduced during a meal, eating at a restaurant, just to set up the contrast between his party and Laios's. And it's the last normal meal we see him eating until the communal ending feast (if you consider Falin's dragon parts normal).

First, we get this:

Kabru's response here is such a non-answer, it strongly implies to me that he wasn't thinking about it until Rin brought it up. That he might not even be feeling the hunger signals that he logically knew he should.

They sit down to eat, but Kabru is never drawn reaching for food or eating it like the rest of his party. He only drinks.

It's possible this means nothing, that we can just assume he's putting food in his mouth off-panel, but again, this entire manga is about food. Cooking it, eating it, appreciating it, taking pleasure in it, grounding yourself in the necessary routine of it and affirming your right to live by consuming it. It's given such a huge focus.

We don't see him eat again until the harpy egg.

What a significant question for the protagonist to ask his foil in this story about eating! Aren't you hungry? Aren't you, Kabru?

He was revived only minutes ago after a violent encounter. And then he chokes down food that causes him further harm by triggering him, all because he's so determined to stay in Laios's good graces.

In his flashback, we see Milsiril trying to spoon-feed young Kabru cake that we know he doesn't like. He doesn't want to eat: he wants to be training.

Then with Mithrun, we see him eating the least-monstery monster food he can get his hands on, for the sake of survival- walking mushroom, barometz, an egg. The barometz is his first chance to make something like an a real meal, and he actually seems excited about it because he wants to replicate a lamb dish his mother used to make him!

...but he doesn't get to enjoy it like he wanted to.

Then, when all the Canaries are eating field rations ... Kabru still isn't shown eating. He's only shown giving food to Mithrun.

And of course the next time he eats is the bavarois, which for his sake is at least plant based ... but he still has to use a coping mechanism to get through it.

I don't think Kabru does this all on purpose. I think Kui does this all on purpose. Kabru's Post Traumatic Stress Disorder should be understood as informing his character just as much as Laios's autism informs his. It's another way that Kabru and Laios act as foils: where Laios takes pleasure in meals and approaches food with the excitement of discovery, Kabru's experiences with eating are tainted by his trauma. Laios indulges; Kabru denies himself. Laios is shown enjoying food, Kabru is shown struggling with it.

And I can very easily imagine a reason why Kabru might have a subconscious aversion towards eating.

Meals are the privilege of the living.

#Dungeon Meshi #Delicious in Dungeon #Kabru #Kabru of Utaya #Laios Touden #Dungeon Meshi meta #you can have him in the tags too. as a treat.#Dungeon Meshi spoilers #this was directly inspired by livelaughlaios's post about Kabru self harming but I decided it got too long to make it a direct reply #this is a theory I've been working on for weeks because I kept noticing this while skimming for screencaps #I'm hesitant to trigger tag this because of the way certain subcultures on tumblr operate #but if anyone needs me to add a content warning please let me know #also I included image descriptions! I did my best #I think they even help illustrate my points but my god were they sad to write. Kabru is so fucking sad you guys #musings with Dea

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princessallura · 10 months

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I finally managed to convince my Muse into writing again.

I got part of chapter thirteen written. I have been working on it for nearly an hour and I have about four pages written. I am hoping to have this chapter done within the next few days.

Although that may not happen as I hope. So, I won't make promises.

#writing muse

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starklyscifi · 10 days

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The thing people don’t realize about writing is that time spent just staring out the window is CRITICAL

#writing #writer musings

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