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You should bring your gwen back, reading your stuff was great!

Awe thank you so much!

I really miss her. I plan on doing a revamp, but that will take time which is why I've been putting it off :P

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I hope y’all are doing well.

Dressing up as Gwen for our local con tomorrow! 

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people have recently been telling me how much they miss my Gwen. I’m so touched! I really want to bring her back <3 

I’m thinking about moving all threads/verses that aren’t strictly my 616 comic Gwen to a sideblog?

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What are some Spider-Man blogs that you recommend to follow? Like what are some of your favourite Spider-Man blogs that you follow?

+ ( Oh, goodness, there’s so many ?? Honestly, I’ve ran into some many fantastic and amazing portrayals that it would be hard to list all of them ! 

@spiderwcman , @symbioteburnout , @thexblackxcat , @amayhem, @itsybitsyparker , @itsybitsypeterparker , @avengingspiderman , @brooklynsmile , @merveiilles , @marvariants , @heldheart , @marvclsiums, @torncast , @wovendeath, @w-e-b-h-e-a-d , @quecns, @thewxnderer, @trckstaer , @emmatriarchy , @shemarvels , @sensesdialed, @spidercursed, @goldenhope / @monogramic, @sinistres , AND SO MANY THAT I HAVEN’T LISTED BUT I COMPLETELY ADORE <3 )

#this was the post!!! #bless!!!!

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I AM alive and @dangerstxrlet is a sweetheart for tagging me that one time even  though I haven’t been active

although I think about gwen EVERY SINGLE DAY

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“I could fix him”; “I could make him worse!” Why??????? Why all this DIY???? I just wanna stand over his shoulder and see what he can possibly fuck up next

#╰☆☆ queue ☆☆╮

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#out of character ◦•●◉✿ #╰☆☆ queue ☆☆╮

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Where you feel it

#resources #this was really neat to learn actually! #╰☆☆ queue ☆☆╮

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and when chidi anagonye said “i argue that we choose to be good because of our bonds with other people and our innate desire to treat them with dignity. simply put, we are not in this alone”

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every day i see people online being needlessly cruel and hateful over the most pointless things and it only motivates me to be kinder and more understanding out of spite

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To say we were 'in love', that vague weakened phrase, cannot express it. We loved each other, we lived in each other, through each other, by each other. We were each other.

Iris Murdoch, from 'The Sea, the Sea'

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REBLOG this post to be added to the star wars masterlist here. please specify in the tags which muse(s) you write , if they are a canon character or an oc or have a star wars au. masterlist will be updated on a weekly basis ( though that is subjected to change )

ex. ‘ padmé amidala / canon ’

#gwen stacy / star wars au

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dusting things off here, but you can find sue st0rm added permanently to my muses

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no one:

obi wan on a mission that he didn't want to go on in the first place to rescue the child of two people notorious for being sassy and not following his advice while being hunted by 80% of the population of any planet he's on:

#kenobi spoilers #star wars spoilers #obi wan kenobi #it's so true

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Helpful things for action writers to remember

Sticking a landing will royally fuck up your joints and possibly shatter your ankles, depending on how high you’re jumping/falling from. There’s a very good reason free-runners dive and roll. 

Hand-to-hand fights usually only last a matter of seconds, sometimes a few minutes. It’s exhausting work and unless you have a lot of training and history with hand-to-hand combat, you’re going to tire out really fast. 

Arrows are very effective and you can’t just yank them out without doing a lot of damage. Most of the time the head of the arrow will break off inside the body if you try pulling it out, and arrows are built to pierce deep. An arrow wound demands medical attention. 

Throwing your opponent across the room is really not all that smart. You’re giving them the chance to get up and run away. Unless you’re trying to put distance between you so you can shoot them or something, don’t throw them. 

Everyone has something called a “flinch response” when they fight. This is pretty much the brain’s way of telling you “get the fuck out of here or we’re gonna die.” Experienced fighters have trained to suppress this. Think about how long your character has been fighting. A character in a fist fight for the first time is going to take a few hits before their survival instinct kicks in and they start hitting back. A character in a fist fight for the eighth time that week is going to respond a little differently. 

ADRENALINE WORKS AGAINST YOU WHEN YOU FIGHT. THIS IS IMPORTANT. A lot of times people think that adrenaline will kick in and give you some badass fighting skills, but it’s actually the opposite. Adrenaline is what tires you out in a battle and it also affects the fighter’s efficacy - meaning it makes them shaky and inaccurate, and overall they lose about 60% of their fighting skill because their brain is focusing on not dying. Adrenaline keeps you alive, it doesn’t give you the skill to pull off a perfect roundhouse kick to the opponent’s face. 

Swords WILL bend or break if you hit something hard enough. They also dull easily and take a lot of maintenance. In reality, someone who fights with a sword would have to have to repair or replace it constantly.

Fights get messy. There’s blood and sweat everywhere, and that will make it hard to hold your weapon or get a good grip on someone. 

A serious battle also smells horrible. There’s lots of sweat, but also the smell of urine and feces. After someone dies, their bowels and bladder empty. There might also be some questionable things on the ground which can be very psychologically traumatizing. Remember to think about all of the character’s senses when they’re in a fight. Everything WILL affect them in some way. 

If your sword is sharpened down to a fine edge, the rest of the blade can’t go through the cut you make. You’ll just end up putting a tiny, shallow scratch in the surface of whatever you strike, and you could probably break your sword. 

ARCHERS ARE STRONG TOO. Have you ever drawn a bow? It takes a lot of strength, especially when you’re shooting a bow with a higher draw weight. Draw weight basically means “the amount of force you have to use to pull this sucker back enough to fire it.” To give you an idea of how that works, here’s a helpful link to tell you about finding bow sizes and draw weights for your characters.  (CLICK ME)

If an archer has to use a bow they’re not used to, it will probably throw them off a little until they’ve done a few practice shots with it and figured out its draw weight and stability. 

People bleed. If they get punched in the face, they’ll probably get a bloody nose. If they get stabbed or cut somehow, they’ll bleed accordingly. And if they’ve been fighting for a while, they’ve got a LOT of blood rushing around to provide them with oxygen. They’re going to bleed a lot. 

Here’s a link to a chart to show you how much blood a person can lose without dying. (CLICK ME) 

If you want a more in-depth medical chart, try this one. (CLICK ME)

Hopefully this helps someone out there. If you reblog, feel free to add more tips for writers or correct anything I’ve gotten wrong here. 

#rather than put this on my resources page I'm putting it here since y'all don't follow that #unless your dangerstarlet because she's perfection #resources #helpful #for writing

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the absolute agony of characters too good for the media they originate in