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No words can fully describe how special Honkai: Star Rail is to me.

The emotional healing, inspiration, and joy it has brought to my life has been insanely profound. I still can't believe everything that's happened since its launch, but I wouldn't trade these memories for anything 🤍🖤💜💙💚💛🧡❤💖🌈

Endless thank you to my awesome friends Ando, Cin, Ree, Banaz, Bamboo, Ichi, and Kali for their incredible support while I made this and to Honkai: Star Rail for entering my life the way that you did. I look forward to trailblazing with you in the coming year ✨🚂🤍🖤💜💙💚💛🧡❤💖🌈

#self reblog

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Wraith’s “DocWiki” Google Docs Template

SO A little while ago I became quite frustrated with how there’s no free and/or server-free “Wiki” style encyclopedia template out there (that I could find), so I went and made my own. Feel free to copy, modify, and improve upon as you please for all your worldbuilding, research, and other writing needs! No credit necessary. Notes:

You can link multiple documents together with the same template using insert bookmark / links. With the right sharing settings for all pages, you can make your own little self-hosted knowledge base.

This template looks best with the seamless pages option.Certain areas may push different containers around, as this is all made with regular doc features and requires no plugins.

Get It Here!

#writing reference #google docs

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Actually, all artists will go insane if you draw art of their art. The same goes for fic writers. It could be a stick figure and we'd still love it. We're also kissing you on the lips

#writing life #artist life #relatable #this is very true

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[ hsr | dancae ] finally drew these two…. he prrr (even in human form) 🥹💕

#honkai star rail #dancae #dan heng #caelus #hsr #this is so cute omfg #their expressions are priceless #their poses are so on point for their personalities I'm AAAAAAAAA

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when it comes to perspective, i have issue with how impersonal 3rd omniscient is, and how limiting 3rd limited can feel. i love writing like i’m inside the minds of all my characters, writing about their feelings and their current surroundings like i’m in all their heads at once rather than an observer, and i feel like it works for my storytelling better, but because of this i have no definitive perspective. do you have any insight on this?

Third-Limited/Omniscient Hybrid

We often say there are no rules to writing fiction while at the same time listing numerous rules one must adhere to...

The reason writing rules exist--whether we want them to or not--is because there are certain things that we know do well or do not do well, and some of those things are timeless. For example, if you write a story where you switch willy-nilly between first and third, present and past, that's generally not going to go over well with the reader. We know from centuries of good and bad fiction that, generally-speaking, we want to stick with one tense and one point-of-view, or at least save the switching for new scenes or chapters.

BUT... the reason we say there are no rules in writing is because some of the things that work or don't work come and go with trends and time. And also: some stories merit the breaking of rules, so it works when done right.

The rule regarding POV is that third-person omniscient must be objective and third-person limited must be subjective. However, I can tell you I've definitely read books where an omniscient narrator occasionally goes deep, and a limited narrator occasionally slips into the lived experience of another character. I've seen these methods described as "deep omniscient," "free indirect discourse," "guided head-hopping," and "intentional head-hopping," but there is not as of yet--as far as I know--an established POV that encompasses these techniques, or that encompasses the technique of having continuous deep omniscience.

Does that mean it can't be done? No. I think if it works for your story, all you can do is own it and do your best to do it well. Perhaps "third-person omniscient deep" would be an adequate way to describe it until an established label arrives on the scene, if it ever does. Maybe you'll be among the pioneers of this POV. As long as you're not making the switches out of convenience or carelessness, it's possible you could do it well.

Happy writing!

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#writing advice #perspective #pov #writing life

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#xiaoaether #aether #xiao #genshin impact #fanart #the concern and care in Xiao's expression for Aether has me DECEASED #Aether looking beaten has my soul sobbing but love seeing that he's safe in Xiao's hold #this is absolutely beautiful I'M EMOTIONAL

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reblog if you consider the people youve befriended on this website (and other websites) to be real friends, even if youve never met them irl before

trying to prove something to my dad

#MY SOUL IS SOBBING #I LOVE YOU SO MUCH BANAZ 😭🖤💜💙💚💛🧡❤️💖🌈 #happy feels

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#funny #birds

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Dan Heng's personal space 🧍

[Dan Heng x Caelus]

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◇ SirKingston77

#honkai star rail #caelus #dan heng #dan heng x caelus #dancae #caelus x dan heng #caeheng #hsr #THEY'RE SO FUCKING CUTE I LOVE THEM #Their faces are so on point I can't 🤣💜🌈

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Ready for Penacony! 🧳✨

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◇ SirKingston77

#honkai star rail #caelus #dan heng #march 7th #dancae #dan heng x caelus #caelus x dan heng #caeheng #hsr #I'M WHEEZING #Their expressions and reactions are fuckin' gold I can't 🤣

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im too embarrassed to post this on main BUT AGUUGHAGH

#dancae #caeheng #caelus #dan heng #honkai star rail #hsr #omfg this is so precious I LOVE THIS #their poses and expressions perfectly match up with their personalities and dynamic AAAAAAA

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Fuck your insomniac Tim Drake head canons instead join my team and start pushing the idea that Tim actually has narcolepsy boy can't stop himself from falling asleep even if he wanted to

#tim drake #dc comics #omfg i love this

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They are already selling data to midjourney, and it's very likely your work is already being used to train their models because you have to OPT OUT of this, not opt in. Very scummy of them to roll this out unannounced.

#signal boost #tumblr

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whenever i get low on money i start thinking really irrationally like what if i hadn’t spent that $10 back in 2004 

#funny #this is so accurate #I'M DECEASED

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it’s very funny to grow up and become the age you used to think adults were so old and wise at and realize that their inner monologue was ABSOLUTELY “shit shit shit shit shit shit” the whole time 

#adulting #funny #this is so accurate I hate it 🤣

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#funny #writing life #artist life #I am that fool who will play a song forever if I love it xbbcjjdcdjndjd #music

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"A story doesn't need a theme in order to be good" I'm only saying this once but a theme isn't some secret coded message an author weaves into a piece so that your English teacher can talk about Death or Family. A theme is a summary of an idea in the work. If the story is "Susan went grocery shopping and saw a weird bird" then it might have themes like 'birds don't belong in grocery stores' or 'nature is interesting and worth paying attention to' or 'small things can be worth hearing about.' Those could be the themes of the work. It doesn't matter if the author intended them or not, because reading is collaborative and the text gets its meaning from the reader (this is what "death of the author" means).

Every work has themes in it, and not just the ones your teachers made you read in high school. Stories that are bad or clearly not intended to have deep messages still have themes. It is inherent in being a story. All stories have themes, even if those themes are shallow, because stories are sentences connected together for the purpose of expressing ideas, and ideas are all that themes are.

#storytelling #writing life #It's so fun seeing the variety out there