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omg he’s sooo cute (a man covered in blood from head to toe)

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#oh god #i feel things #sage

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no such thing as wasting your 20s your 20s are for recovering from whatever the fuck happened to you as a kid so that youre ready to get weird with it in your 30s

#personal #about me

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Boyish, Japanese Breakfast

#abram

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No because pride and prejudice isn't "I changed myself for you so you would love me back." It's "your blatant rejection and disdain for me made me realize things about myself no one had ever been bold enough to tell me so I sat down and evaluated all my behavior patterns and why they came about and came to the realization myself that I had to work on myself. Also I don't expect you to love me now that I'm a work in progress, so I'm just going to do nice things for you because I don't like seeing you hurt." No wonder P&P fans refuse to settle.

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ÁLVARO RICO 

MADRES: AMOR Y VIDA Season 4 Episode 2

#face #faces #possibly abram? #hmm

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those posts always go around that are like “if you’re on Tumblr and you’re over 25 blah blah blah” but honestly if you’re on Tumblr and you’re under 25, I don’t know how the fuck you found this place. like I came here when it was actually kind of cool and then just never left because all my stuff was here. what’s your excuse

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i still love you. i still hate you. but, i will probably always love you, and i will probably always hate you. i think about you everytime i see a girl with two tone hair or a picrew icon with books. everytime i see friends tagging each other in posts i think about when we used to do that. im still bitter about those unread messages you left me with. i get a nasty little piece of resentment everytime i see the green bubble indicating you're active (and i know you see mine too)

sometimes i wonder: do you hate me as much as i hate you?

do you hate me for letting go of the last few threads that held us together? even though you cut them first?

do you hate me for taking so long to reply to simple questions because conversations between us have begun to feel like pulling teeth?

do you hate me for wishing you happy birthday on your insta post instead of privately like i did for years?

do you hate me for finally closing that tab of our dream cottage where we planned on living together?

do you hate me for the thousands of other small transgressions ive committed as we slowly drifted apart in hopes of bringing you back?

do you hate me?

do? you?

or do you not even think about me?

sometimes, i wonder which one is better: to be hated or to be forgotten?

but, i already know the answer. i hope you're still thinking of me every damn day, even if it's with enough hate that makes you want to burn down the house. even if you curse my name for the rest of your life, i hope you never forget me.

because i know i will never forget you.

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#brobram

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when you take your depression to the park

#selfcare

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Medici + text posts (pt. viii)

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Describing Feelings

whataboutwriting:

How can I describe my characters feelings? - Anonymous

Since your characters aren’t exactly real people your readers can talk to and get to know in real-life manners, their feelings and emotions and thoughts are what lets your readers connect with them. These things are what make your characters as real as possible, what gives them depth, which will determine whether your readers will root for them or hope for them to fail. Therefore, this is something you shouldn’t neglect. Below, you’ll find some tips on how to display your characters’ feelings and emotions in your writing.

Show Don’t Tell. Biological Responses. One way of letting your readers know about how your characters are feeling is by using biological responses we have all felt. For instance, if you mention that your character’s heart rate increased after seeing or hearing something, your readers will understand your character is afraid of something. There are other ways of using this method to show your characters’ feelings, but by using biological responses to certain emotions you are using the readers’ past experience with their own emotions to connect and relate to your characters. Here, you’ll learn about the role biology plays in our emotions. However, if we’re describing a character we have no “inside information” on - a character whose biological responses we don’t know -, we refer to their physical displays of emotion. People are likely to clench their teeth in anger, open their mouths in astonishment, etc. 

Use different words. There are many different words you can use to depict your character’s state of mind. If you keep using the same ones, you risk them losing their meaning or going weak. If all your characters are described as “happy” when something happens, your reader will lose sense of the different levels of importance different events have for your characters. Therefore, if you are going to refer to single words in order to display emotions/feelings, do so using different words. You can find a list of words to use when describing feelings here. 

Dialogue. People will speak differently depending on how they are feeling. When you’re really excited about something, you’re likely to speak in a fast manner, skipping some words, repeating others… whereas when you’re worried or afraid you’re likely to have an incoherent speech, stop yourself mid-sentence, speak with little “hmms” and pauses…

Your characters’ actions. The things we do say a lot about what we’re feeling. If your character is angry while walking into a room, he’s likely to slam the door shut; if he’s happy when he gets home, he’s more likely to go and greet everyone than to go hide in his room. 

Create habits for your characters. We all have different habits and while some things we do might not mean much to people on the outside, those who know us can often tell how we’re feeling by what we are doing or the way we do it. Some people only smoke when they’re stressed, and if you introduce your character to your reader as someone like this, they’ll be able to assume, when your character lights up a cigarette, that he’s stressed. Make sure your readers know about these habits before you having to use them, or else it will be less effective. (For instance, if your character only smokes when he’s stressed, have another character offer him a cigarette and then have him decline it with the explanation that he only smokes when he’s stressed). This is something that can really work, specially if the first time this habit is introduced is done in a subtle, but effective way.

Below, you’ll find some articles on the matter that might help you:

Writing Tips for Capturing Emotions & Feelings

How to Describe Emotions

1000 Ways to Describe a Feeling

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“WRITE IT BADLY. Write it badly, write it badly, write it badly, write it badly. Stop what you’re doing, open a Word document, put a pencil on some paper, just get the idea out of your head. Let it be good later. Write it down now. Otherwise it will die in there.”

— Brandon Sanderson on overcoming writer’s block to create a first draft as a professional author (via almost-always-eventually-right)

#oh #ok #writing

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It’s like wake up eat breakfast look into your phone to be blasted with non stop terrible news that makes you want to die go to your job eat lunch receive more news that makes you want to die etc.

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Friendly reminder that this blog is pro-choice and if you don’t think everyone should have full control of their own body, then kindly unfollow me right now and go to hell

#about me #personal

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“i only know the softness / that is cherished before / the small violences set in”

— — Akwaeke Emezi, “mourning,” Content Warning: Everything

#abram #words