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I recently discovered my new favourite snack: apple slices topped with some powdered cinnamon and peanut butter 🤩

#if you have never tried it and don't have allergies for any ingredients try it! #i promise it will be worth it

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"Like it here. Warm fire, Scratch reminds me of big brother." 🦉🐶

#this game is so good #bg3

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Every time a client even hints at something that could very well mean they're a part of some fandom, write, do art, game etc. In a meeting, there is a part of me that wants to whisper "I like your shoelaces" just to see what happens 😅

#like yes i see you mutual #but for safety reasons i can't tell you that

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THE WALKING DEAD: THE ONES WHO LIVE (2024-) S01E06 ❁ ‘The Last Time’

#excuse me while i reblog the same scene over and over again #my heart 🥺

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# back home

THE ONES WHO LIVE | The Last Time (1.06)

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You're the brave man? I am. But maybe you can call me dad.

#seeing this almost makes up for the fact i can't watch the show

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I made a terrible mistake and bought the game

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Terrible in the sense that have I spent the last couple weekends playing the game and doing pretty much nothing else? Absolutely, 100% true. I haven't played anything this good in a while

Every dang social media feed is full of Astarion and I have never searched anything related to that game but damn I want to play it so bad now

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Writing Game: Combinations

You’ve already gone through all the prompts and can’t think of a new way to use them?

Choose three prompts (you can use random.org) from my blog between 1 and 1079 and search for it on my blog by using #prompt [no.]. or use this list.

Now try to think of a way to combine all of them in one story. No matter how outlandish they may seem together at first, in the end this game helps you to see them in a completely different light and to get a new multi-dimensional idea for a story.

+ if you use even more prompts; 

who can fit the most prompts into a drabble or a 500 word short story?

++ if you choose prompts that at first glance don’t seem to fit together at all

Have fun!

#writing game #writing exercise #writing prompts #this sounds like a fun thing to try

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why taking commissions for fanfics can KILL Archive of Our Own and fanfic culture as a whole

okay, so thing is, fanfics are allowed — as in they’re not banned — because nobody is supposed to be profiting off of copyrighted characters.

this is why popular site like Archive of Our Own is allowed to be up and running, because no one is supposed to be making money from fanfics.

the fact AO3 is allowed to be up and running, unfortunately, can and will most likely change if people start normalizing commissioning fanfics and making profit off of them.

because the second those big companies learn people are profiting off of their copyrighted characters, the target they will attack after you (in terms of legal action) is a platform like Archive of Our Own, which will likely ruin it all for everybody and every fandom.

imagine Archive of Our Own getting shut down because fanfics were banned because people were profiting off of them. (I know AO3 isn’t only about fanfics, but since it’s mostly known for fanfics, it will most likely get targeted and that will most likely mean it’ll get shut down if worst comes to worst.)

honestly. most people write fanfics in their free time for free out of passion and love they have for their favorite characters.

people read fanfics for free because that’s their source of happiness.

I’m not saying there will be no fanfics left in this world if they really are banned, because people will always find a way. but it WILL be so much harder having to sneak around and find a way to post fanfics without them getting removed at best, the authors getting sued at worst. and it WILL be harder for readers to find your works if we have to censor key words and character names in order to avoid getting caught.

it’s so much easier like this, we can freely post fanfics without having to hide and censor key words or worrying about anything.

no, I’m not making this post for the sake of those big companies. this post isn’t about “hey, don’t profit off of their characters”. it’s about “hey, don’t risk ruining fanfics culture as a whole for everybody by profiting off of them and putting a platform like Archive of Our Own in jeopardy.”

if you don’t want to live in a fandom without AO3, keep fanfics free.

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Never ever be normal about fictional characters but please GOD be normal about the people who play them, I am begging you

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me as a writer: Oh no I can’t write that, somebody else already has

me as a reader: hell yes give me all the fics about this one scenario. The more the merrier

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Sometimes writing is so hard it's worse than pulling a tooth out without anything to numb the pain.

And sometimes writing is stepping out of the comfort zone, writing something completely different than your usual work and finding out you actually kinda love it

#writerslife #sometimes writing is like #writing #it's all about the journey #and the perspective #and the bravery to step out of the comfort zone once in a while #there might be something good on the other side

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Babygirl I could listen to you talk about things I don't give a single shit about for hours