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WOW WOW WOW WHAT A WONDERFUL PIECE I LOVE IT

THE SCREAM I SCRUMPT

I LOVE THAT YOU INCLUDED THE ANIMALS AND A REFERENCE TO ONE OF MY OLD POSTS THANK YOU SO MUCH BABEEE THIS IS BEAUTIFUL <333

IT IS ABSOLUTELY GOING TO BE MY BACKGROUND FOR THE NEXT FOREVER THANK YOU IT'S PERFECT I LOVE IT

Got flowers growing out of your chest? Might as well feed the wild life :U

My gift for @anxietymuffin featuring their OC Peanut the Circus Synth. I hope you like!

Happy Celebradiation 2024 <3 And Thank you @falloutfandomeventhub for hosting an event for the community once again.

#fo4 oc #celebradiation24 #peanut the circus synth

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Giving them a surprise birthday party!

Elder Maxson, Deacon, and X6-88 reacting to celebrating their birthday with you.

My gift for @tesscorner, I apologize for the delay. School swamped me pretty bad. I hope you enjoy! Happy Celebradiation 2024!! Thank you @falloutfandomeventhub for hosting this event.

Gift below the cut :3

Elder Maxson

His birthday is treated as a pretty big event in the brotherhood.

Almost cultish if you will, however the Proctors and the Captain make a bigger deal out of it than he ever would.

Although it is a day of life they respect it as much as his (inevitable) death day and it's like a harrowing glimpse of the future.

By the end of the day he's alone in his office cradling yet another bottle of whiskey as celebrations can be heard outside his door.

When you enter the picture, things are different.

He doesn't care for his birthday so he never tells you the date no how much you pry.

You overhear buzzing excitement in it's regard when a handful of initiates get ready to celebrate

With your newfound knowledge you go and prepare something small, simple, like you'd grown familiar with.

When he walks back into his room the knight before his birthday he's bewildered to find you sitting there with the table in the centre of the room all set up, an old table cloth and some candles to decorate, rib eye steak, tato's and carrots on your plates and in the dead centre.

Fancy lad snack cakes stacked to look like an actual cake.

"y...y/n what is this?" He asked.

"I know you said you didn't want anything for your birthday... or for me to know about it, but I wanted to do something special." You'd go to explain yourself, approaching him and giving him a big hug before igniting your lighter and holding it before his face.

"Now make a wish."

Skepticism melts into a look of fondness, a rare sight from the Elder as he seems to think for a moment before taking a breath and blowing out the light.

"What was your wish?" You ask jokingly, as would anyone.

"To never lose you Y/N." He replies.

Hearts full but stomachs empty, you both go to the table and sit across from each other to enjoy the meals you prepared.

Sitting on the couch, you both sighed in contentment. Arthur seems relaxed and checking the time you notice it's midnight. You pull a colourfully wrapped gift from behind your pillow and hand it to him with a tired smile. "Happy Birthday, Arthur."

He carefully opens it, each fold undone and piece of tape unwrapped. he couldn't imagine destroying such a marvel.

When he gets to the gift his eyes open wide. "Aged bourbon?" He asks.

"I had to convince Proctor Teagan to send a group of scribes to retrieve it. It was supposedly "top shelf" back before the war. I hope you like it."

You see a smile, an actual smile grace his face as he turns to you and pulls you into a side hug.

"Thank you, it's perfect." he whispered.

Deacon

Deacon was a mystery

He lied like it was the truth, each word rolling off his tongue with a friendly laugh and nudge like it was nothing. He had no tells, never broke a sweat, you could never tell what he was thinking.

So when you asked when his birthday was, you didn't get a straight answer.

In fact, you didn't get an answer at all!

He segued out of the conversation before you realized what he was doing.

This occurred over the next couple of weeks where you begged him to just tell you, that you wanted to celebrated *him* but he never budged.

Eventually you had to trick him into following you, saying you got a lead somewhere.

You brought him to Ticonderoga.

At first, at the sight of no lights or population, he thought that it was under siege and panicked thinking the worse, but when the two of you answered the door everyone jumped out.

"SURPRISE!" they shouted.

"Y/n.. what is this?"

You saw the look on his face, he looked sick.

"A surprised party... don't you like it?" You asked carefully.

"No- I mean. Yes. Yes it's cool, thank you." he stumbled over his words, *trying* to appear grateful before disappearing into the crowd of Synths and allies.

You found him hours later on top of the building, staring out into the commonwealth.

"Deacon? I'm sorry I hope you're not mad. I just wanted you to feel... celebrated? You do so much for the Railroad and them, If i couldn't give you a birthday celebration i just wanted them to celebrate you normally."

He takes a deep breath and turns to you, with a straight face but sad aura.

"It was nice, but I'm not someone who should be celebrated."

It was quiet between the two of you and he kicked his feet at the ground, like he wanted to say more.

before he could he felt your arms around him in a warm hug.

"It's okay Deacon, you don't have to say anything else."

You now realized he wasn't ready to tell you anything else, you could see it in his eyes that he wanted to. But now wasn't the time.

"You want to come down and have a drink."

There was a small chuckle that came from him as he pulled back and pat you on the shoulder. "yeah... let's go. Can't let that go to waste."

The two of you walked back inside together, greeted by friends and Allies.

X6-8*

Ever since you'd met X6 he'd been... well, less than enthusiastic about everything.

Trying to break routine was hard, especially since the fall of the institute.

You'd tried to teach him the joys of being human, not a machine born to slave away and work. One day, you brought up probably the most human and universally celebrated tradition.

"A birthday?" X6 repeated when you proposed the idea.

"Mhm! Surely you've heard of it." You replied joyously

"Y/N, I'm a Synth. I was not birthed, I was built. It's not something we celebrated in the institute... except for the humans." He explained.

Even with the Sunglasses you could tell he was rolling his eyes at you.

"Well why don't you just pick a day and I'll give you the experience of one! It's like a party, something special all about you."

"There is no need."

"Just once? Please? Just pick any day and we'll celebrate."

You could see him thinking for a moment before he sighed and nodded. "How about today?"

"What- TODAY!?" You shouted in disbelief. "Why today?"

"You told me to pick any day, so why can't it be today?"

His logic was without flaw, as usual.

"W-well now i have no time to prepare! I have to get you a gift! And a cake!" You rambled, already walking away, leaving him alone to wander.

For the rest of the day you kept a careful eye on X6 to make sure he had no clue what you were up to, which was difficult at times due to his heightened courser senses.

However you were meticulous in your work, even enlisting Deacon to be a hinderance while you got to work.

Your issue also came with the fact that you had no clue *what* to get X6, or anything he liked. He never tried to expand his horizons like other synths.

By the end of the day, you were stumped and felt like a failure. You weren't able to provide anything remotely special for X6 and he was approaching you now.

"Why do you look disappointed?"

"I... just wanted you to have something nice today but... I couldn't even manage that for you. I wanted you to feel special but I spent all day trying to get you a gift that- well there was no party or anything." You admitted with a glum sigh.

You pulled your gift out from behind your back, a box of fancy lad snack cakes with a piece of yarn tied around it to look like a bow. "Happy sorta Birthday, X6."

He didn't move, or say anything and eventually you had to look up to see if he was even acknowledging it.

"X6?"

"Thank you."

Your heart almost stopped when you saw the faintest idea of a smile gracing his lips as his hands delicately clutched the box.

"You went through a lot of trouble for me today... I know it's difficult for you, but I appreciate you trying to understand and... making me feel special. Y/N I do appreciate it."

He holds a hand out for you to take and he helps you to your feet.

"Just because it's a special day, I'll share these with you too."

The two of you walked back to one of the shelters together to take a much deserved rest for the evening and shared the snacks

My gift for @tesscorner, I apologize for the delay. School swamped me pretty bad. I hope you enjoy!

Happy Celebradiation 2024!!

Thank you @falloutfandomeventhub for hosting this event.

#celebradiation24 #fo4 #Arthur maxson #elder maxson #fo4 x688 #X688 #fo4 deacon #muffins stories

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Writing advice from my uni teachers:

If your dialog feels flat, rewrite the scene pretending the characters cannot at any cost say exactly what they mean. No one says “I’m mad” but they can say it in 100 other ways.

Wrote a chapter but you dislike it? Rewrite it again from memory. That way you’re only remembering the main parts and can fill in extra details. My teacher who was a playwright literally writes every single script twice because of this.

Don’t overuse metaphors, or they lose their potency. Limit yourself.

Before you write your novel, write a page of anything from your characters POV so you can get their voice right. Do this for every main character introduced.

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everyone should be weirder about their ocs more.

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Orphans.

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Tales from the Wasteland: Chicken Soup for the War Veterans Soul

#fo4 oc #fallout 4 oc #my ocs #my writing #muffins stories #Seth Anderson #vivian brown #knight captain cade #knight rhys #proctor quinlan #brotherhood of steel #fo4 bos #ao3 writer #tales from the wasteland #tales from the wasteland series

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Tales from the Wasteland: Chicken Soup for the War Veterans Soul

#fo4 oc #fallout oc #fallout 4 #seth anderson #Vivian Brown #knight captain cade #knight rhys #The Brotherhood of steel #fo4 bos #my writing #original characters #my ocs #muffins stories #Tales from the wasteland #ao3 writer

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Tales from the Wasteland: Chicken Soup for the War Veterans Soul

New story just dropped!

Tales from the Wasteland series: following side stories that happen during the timeline of my main fo4 story. Like side quests!

#fo4 oc #fallout 4 #brotherhood of steel #my ocs #my writing #muffins stories #seth anderson #vivian brown #knight captain cade #knight rhys #lancer captain kells #Tales from the wasteland series #ao3 writer

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Have some self insert art

And a mini comic

#muffins art #my art #digital art #digital drawing #self insert #eyeless jack #creepypasta masky #creepypasta hoodie #creepypasta

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Fiction Writing Advice Posts

Hey all, Some of you know that in addition to this Tumblr blog I also keep a blog on my website. A lot of the posts overlap, but not all of them, so I’ve made this list for your reading pleasure:

How to Control Your Pacing

How to Write During a Pandemic

How to Read Like a Writer

What if Your First Draft DOESN’T Suck?

How to Do World-Building Research

How to Properly Format a Manuscript for Submission

10 Questions to Ask an Editor Before Hiring Them

Creating Character Arcs with the DCAST Method

How to Choose the Right Point of View for Your Story

A Beginner’s Guide to Multiple Point of View

Show Don’t Tell? Not Always. Here’s When to Use Summary

8 Ways to Improve Your Fiction Writing

How to Spot Bad Writing Advice: 6 Red Flags to Look For

5 Reasons to Kill Your Critique Group

Are You Using Too Much Stage Direction?

Why Nobody Cares About Your Plot

How to Use Adverbs Like a Pro

How to Activate Your Passive Characters, One Verb at a Time

3 Easy Ways to Transform Boring Descriptions

3 Ways to Increase Conflict in Your Dialogue

A Step-by-Step Guide to Getting Killer Feedback from Beta Readers

How to Know What Kind of Editing You Need

10 Best Books About Fiction Writing

xoxo

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i'll fucking do it but christ alive

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OC Intro Dialogues

Anahita (part 1)

(Havik, Liu Kang, Raiden, Kung Lao, Kenshi, Johnny Cage)

Anahita vs Liu Kang

Liu Kang: Your war is interfering with the wellbeing of my realm, enough is enough.

Anahita: You refusal to aid me has made your realm collateral damage. The thought must sicken you.

Liu Kang: If you two cannot come to an agreement, I will have to intervene.

Anahita: a revolution is afoot. It is only a matter of time before it brings the fall to order. 

Anahita: There is calculation in chaos, what have you to fear Liu Kang?

Liu Kang: You do not see what I see.

Anahita: My chaos will not come to your realm, you have no reason to fear.

Liu Kang: but can you give me the word of your worshippers?

Anahita vs Havik

Havik: What has sparked your desire for a fight, my lady.

Anahita: You must be prepared to handle anything, my magic alone cannot save you.

Havik: Your magic runs through my blood, it burns like hellfire, but I can feel it making me stronger

Anahita: show me what you can do with it then.

Anahita: I always knew you’d be worthy to be at my side through this war

Havik: This war will be won and Seido will be ours to live in as we please

Anahita: You’re undoubtedly loyal, Havik, just how far would you go to stay in my good graces?

Havik: there is no such thing as “too far” with you, my lady.

Anahita vs Raiden

Raiden: I don’t think being reserved is a bad thing

Anahita: you’re uptight, it makes you nothing less than bad company if you can’t unclench your jaw, from time to time

Raiden: You will not influence me with your words

Anahita: maybe my actions will do the trick then

Anahita: I can sense the magic that the artifact grants you, electrifying yet so hard to control.. It must make you nervous and tear you apart.

Raiden: I am in control, do not twist my words

Anahita: You are sweeter than my Raiden was, he bore a scowl in my presence

Raiden: your Raiden? What do you mean… er nevermind

Anahita vs Kung Lao

Kung Lao: I don’t see how Liu Kang finds you threatening, you seem pleasant.

Anahita: don’t mistake pleasant for pacifist

Kung Lao: Of the five elements, water is the least threatening 

Anahita: A tsunami will change your mind.

Anahita: I sense your desire for freedom, adventure 

Kung Lao: i hear you only bring mishap and disaster

Anahita: Of course Liu Kang would overlook your potential, his desire for order limits you.

Kung Lao: Flattery won’t get you anywhere, Lady Keres

Anahita vs Johnny Cage

Johnny Cage: Woho, I see why Liu Kang was making such a fuss about you. 

Anahita: a fuss, is that what it was? I thought he was overreacting

Johnny Cage: woah momma, someone call the fire department cause it’s getting hot in here.

Anahita: allow me to assist putting you out.

Anahita: Your arrogance is almost laughable, I hope you have the skill to back it up.

Johnny Cage: Ma’am, I have enough skill to go around.

Anahita: I can sense a magic within you… something ancient, rising from below

Johnny Cage: hope it’s not that Lobster bisque i had for lunch.

Anahita vs Kenshi

Kenshi: You can’t have my sword, it’s been in my family for generations

Anahita: I will simply have to outlast your bloodline then.

Kenshi: So you’re… Nirene’s…?

Anahita: Godmother. A friend of his can find an ally in me.

Anahita: If you want to learn of your families history, you’re welcome to my library to see what you can find

Kenshi: Thanks but… I might pass on that, for now.

Anahita: An eye for an eye, revenge is something that can be afforded by everyone.

Kenshi: I do not wish to seek revenge upon Mileena

#mortal kombat 1 #mk 1 #original character #anahita (water goddess) #mortal kombat oc #mk oc #mortal kombat #mk1 Liu Kang #fire god liu kang #mk1 havik #mk1 raiden #mk1 kung lao #mk1 johnny cage #mk1 kenshi #nirene strigandr #(mentioned)

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I wanted to put a more positive spin on the popular skeleton leaving meme

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i accidentally showed some weakness earlier today it was disgusting i would not recommend it

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u should draw pyro tf2 smoking a fat bloint

Here you go buddy lol

Kind of a half assed piece i apologize

#pyro tf2 #tf2 pyro #request #tf2 #team fortress 2 #digital art #my art #digital drawing

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How old were you at the lowest point in your life? Reblog this and put it in the tags, plus your current age maybe. I'm trying to see something.

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