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updates my reylo au !!!!  <3  Chapter 4

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will never not be furious at the fact that we could have had fred and hermione together.

#fremione #fred weasley #fuck jkr #fuck jk rowling #hermione granger #fred x hermione

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just updated my harry potter reylo au fic!! pls read  Chapter 3 <33

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Ben calls Rey sweetheart because it makes him feel closer to his father.

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Will you dance with me?

i just posted the first chapter of my new fic 

Will you dance with me? by drinkingguk

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reylo harry potter fics

sixth year - witheyesclosed  

teach us something please - katesofheaven (WIP)

spiralling steam and broomstick wood - jitterygummy 

chaos reigned - orlaith 

Rey Niima and the American (Hot Piece of) Ass that She Just Wants to Tap, while also Not Dying in the Triwizard Tournament or Becoming Otherwise Inconvenienced or Maimed - mahoganydoodles 

legilimency. by kylorevan

Rey and Her Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Year by Bakubitch

Nocturnal Studies And Other Peculiar Magic by WaterlilyRose

#reylo #fics #reylo fics #hogwarts #harry potter #harry potter au #reylo harry potter fics

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my favourite reylo fics <3

here is a list of some of m favourites, it will probably keep getting bigger. 

if a fic is incomplete it will say wip (work in progress), if a fic is complete it will have the word count.

also! please lave kudos and comments, many fic writers feel that their hard work goes unappreciated! <3

taste your beating heart (explicit) 45k -  alpha/beta/omega au. rey doesnt need no man, until she meets ben. angst with happy ending.

dear mr president (explicit) 89k - rey is from jakku and ben is the president and they are soul mates. slight angst but happy ending, they are in love <333

ashes of the empire (explicit) 128k - rey takes bens hand.

broken things (explicit) 120k - ben and rey are neighbors and ben has nightmares every month, fluffy angsty smutt.

the great big no (explicit) 165k - angsty, sexy, music au, really good fic

soul searching (explicit) 205k - read the tags. ben and rey are soulmates but she is his student, nothing happens whilst underage#

nocturnal studies and other peculiar objects (explicit) 37k - hogwarts professor au, potions prof ben dada prof rey, there is also a sequel

the heartbreak prince (WIP) - i feel like veryone in the reylo fandom loves this fic, harry potter au, student professor au.

effloresce (explicit) 51k - a flower and tatto au, angst with happy ending.

this is just a few for now 

#reylo #fics #reylofics #fic #ao3 #ao3 tags #reylo fic #reylo ran fic #reylo fanfuc rec #reylo fic rec #harry potte #star war

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Why I love The Last Jedi

The movie itself is very aesthetically pleasing. From visuals, cinematography, music its truly beautiful.

The movie is filmed in a way that we see everything on screen. Questions are being asked on screen and we get the answers on screen. 

Along with this it also leaves a lot of room for us, the fans, to use our imagination and create our own head-canons.

The Last Jedi answered a lot of questions that were unanswered in the force awakens but also was balanced so that JJ could answer them in tros.

tlj left a great base for tros to pick up from.

A main theme in the last Jedi is failure, but it leaves hope, a spark, which for me is what i love about star wars is that even if they fail they still have hope.

this is just a few, please add your own <3

#reylo #star wars #sw #swuniverse #the last jedi #the force awakens #the rise of skywalker #tfa #tlj #tros #tlj didnt deserve all that slander #tlj deserves better #rian johnson #jj abrahm

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Hello! Do you know of any fics that have Rey accept Ben's proposal at the end of TLJ? Thank you in advance ❤️

Ashes of the Empire by dancingpenguin57

ashes in our wake by aionimica

Hand of Fate by Sweetestcondition

follow me (and i will bring you home) by BadWolfGirl01

Reign by OptimisticBeth

Brightshadow by MalevolentReverie - I don’t think she does so willingly in this one

If anyone has anymore please add them as this is one of my fav canon divergence tropes. 

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The Heartbreak Prince by Diasterisms

Now, as her roommates finish their own preparations, Rey’s studying the girl in the mirror, who looks so grown-up and ever so slightly mysterious. Who looks capable of having a secret affair. Her pulse quickens.

She can’t wait for Professor Solo to see her like this.

Reylo Week 2020 - Day 7: Free Day 💙 Read the story by @kylorenvevo here

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Chapters: 6/? Fandom: Star Wars Sequel Trilogy, Star Wars - All Media Types Rating: Not Rated Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Kylo Ren/Rey, Rey/Ben Solo | Kylo Ren, Rey/Ben Solo, Poe Dameron/Finn Characters: Rey (Star Wars), Ben Solo | Kylo Ren, Luke Skywalker, Leia Organa, Han Solo, Maz Kanata, Armitage Hux, Rose Tico Additional Tags: Slow Burn, Angst, Fluff, hand holding, Hand Jobs, Blow Jobs, First Time, Kylo Ren Needs a Hug, Kylo Ren Redemption, Dominant Kylo Ren, Reylo - Freeform, after force awakens, Romance, side stormpilot, Eventual Smut, Happy Ending, follows events of the last jedi, idk how to do tags, there will most likely be smut but idk, no hand holding before chapter ten, Canon Compliant Summary:

"The Supreme Leader is wise. Do you really want him knowing about this?" He asks, he stares at her waiting for her answer, but it never comes. Then he fades away as quickly as he came. That tingly feeling leaving her again.

She almost misses it.

Almost.

#reylo #fic #reylo fic #reylo fic rec #uncomplete #star wars #sequels #daisy ridley #adam driver #stormpilot #finnpoe #rose is a lesbian

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the essentials of writing FIGHT SCENES!

I realized that there weren’t a lot of fight scene tutorials on here that addressed a lot of the common mistakes of fight scenes. I have a non-zero amount of experience with Krav Maga and have been told I’m very good with fight scenes so I thought I might as well write out a little advice 

Keep in mind that this is best suited to “nasty hand to hand street fighting” and even then there are probably better people to ask about it. But here goes. 

What’s the One Important Thing I’d have you remember? 

Best piece of fight scene advice I’ve ever heard: Violence is fast. Whenever people are involved in some kind of accident or tragedy, what they say is “It happened so fast!” So no matter what, think fast. The main mistake I see with fight scenes is unrealistic description, and it comes from a lack of understanding of a fight being a very altered state of consciousness, where your character is at the limits of their ability to process shit. So: 

How to Describe a Fight Scene! 

The Language: Go for the strongest verbs you can find and use them. Think slam, crash, smash, pound, grind, shove, ram, claw, rip, gouge, bash…You want very verb driven writing. This is the time to pull out that thesaurus and that list of 500 verbs to use in writing or whatever. Don’t let adjectives and adverbs carry the weight. “She punched him hard in the gut” needs to be “She slammed a fist into his gut.” Or better, let the fist be the subject: “Her fist slammed in his gut.”  If there’s any time to adhere hardcore to active voice, it’s now. Also notice that I shortened “into” to “in”- it’s best to go with language that’s as short and well, punchy, grammar be damned. This is also why I go with “gut” rather than “stomach.” Sentence fragments and em-dashes and such are your friends. Cut out articles and conjunctions wherever you can. And try to keep the subject and verb of every action close together–it’s much more direct and better able to connote that intense aggression that you want. 

So, you might have something like this: “As she tried to throw a punch at his face, he dodged aside, moving in, his body twisting, to kick her in the ribs.” 

You might notice the following issues: The verbs are fairly weak- tried, moving. “Dodged” is good but the others fall flat. There are a lot of extraneous words. And the clause at the beginning makes the sentence feel too indirect. 

So these are the changes I would make: “Her fist darted for his face. He dodged aside. Slipped closer, twisted–his heel crashed into ribcage.” 

That’s the technical stuff out of the way. Now for some more general advice on fights:

In a fight, you really don’t think. There are two things your brain can do: percieve and respond. In such an adrenaline-fueled survival situation, you’re a bundle of instinctive reaction and OHFUCKOHFUCKOHFUCK. A skilled fighter doesn’t mentally remember techniques, the techniques are just the first response that springs out at an attack because they’re second nature. And the thing is, you CAN’T remember techniques in the fight. Adrenaline makes you big stupid. Brain is a faraway land, but body is here, in danger, and trying to stay alive. This is what I mean by your character being at the limits of their processing—they have very little room to think because they’re in survival mode.

That’s why you practice techniques One Fuckthousand Times in martial arts. It’s actually wild how little conscious thought there is to it. I’m always going to remember the time when I, a smol orange belt, was sparring with a larger guy and his fist was flying at my face and I just…wove underneath it. Without even thinking. Pure instinct. I had two guys like, beaming at me and pounding me on the back at the breakthrough but I was confused at the time because it felt like a complete accident. So what you should get out of this is—yeah, no internal monologue! Write what your character perceives and write what they respond.

Description of any kind, but especially visual description, will be highly fragmented. If your character is in a fight with another character, they’re not going to be extensively perceiving their surroundings and noticing the thick curtains of ivy on the walls or whatever. Their focus will be. On the fight. Part of the reason for this is that adrenaline makes you focus hard on threats and kind of cancels out irrelevant data. I want to point out visual description specifically as an area of concern though because for one thing, your field of view is going to be limited as you try to protect your head and face, you’re going to need to pay attention to your aggressor and anticipate their next move, and finally, if you get punched in the face or have anything come close to hitting you there you’re going to be blinded temporarily because you’ll instinctively shut your eyes. NO SCENERY! If your character’s getting pummeled in the face they’re probably not noticing the vicious gleam in their adversary’s eyes outside of a quick glimpse. Imagine the whole thing is being filmed through a panicking amateur’s shaky camera.

Hone in hard on your character’s body in your descriptions. They’re inhabiting their body in a super intense way and most of your description will probably lean toward the tactile. This not only includes the awareness of pain or of being hit, but also the movement and coordination of their muscles and how they are working together, their breathing, potentially exhaustion or fatigue. Martial arts allows you to experience how your body produces force—to percieve the flow of power through your entire torso that culminates in a punch. This feeling can add a lot to a description of a fight. A punch or a kick’s power doesn’t come from muscular strength of your limbs, but originates throughout your body and the ability to coordinate that and draw it together into a single hard point of power involves a lot of consciousness of your body, which also becomes second nature.

Almost the entirety of your character’s focus will be firmly in their body. They are perceiving their adversary’s movements, but that is sharply edged with their own reactions to them.

I feel like people often don’t realize how intense taking a hit in a fight can be. A punch to the face or head is blinding and dizzying; taking a hit to the temple will snap your head aside and put you completely out of it for a second. Descriptions of these things need to be very grounded and intense to feel right. Getting hit in the chest hard enough can knock the wind out of you. Getting hit in the gut WILL make you retch or throw up. A hard kick to the gut is like instant vomit. (There’s another post with really excellent descriptions about what certain blows feel like so I’ll leave this at that.)

Your character will perceive pain, both the force of the blow they take and a sense of the scale or breadth of the pain, but adrenaline will keep them going through it to a degree that isn’t possible when not pumped full of adrenaline. Your character will probably know that they’ve been injured (oh fuck, that was a nasty hit to the side) but AFTER the fight, expect the real pain to suddenly hit (oh fuck, there’s a giant bruise over my side and it’s aching so deep I can barely move).

Adrenaline makes you straight up loopy sometimes. Y’all know how much I hate anecdotal evidence, but one of my former instructors told a story about how he was mugged, got slammed against the sidewalk and briefly blacked out, fought back, and then just…decided to go to work. He thought he was fine. A few hours later, paramedics were asking him questions and he was completely incoherent. He had a severe concussion but the adrenaline rush had caused a delay in the damage really hitting, to the point that he was just like “heh, I can go straight to work, I’m fine!”

Some general facts:

A fight is probably going to be over pretty quickly: Movies are deceptive about this but it’s not super realistic to have two characters tangling with each other for like…ten minutes straight. You get tired. You get sloppy. And there’s only so much damage you can take.

Fancy kicks not recommended: They look nice on screen, sure. But having your leg above your waist for any length of time is one hell of a risk when your opponent can grab it and slam you to the floor like a sack of concrete mix. HOWEVER, kicks can be fight enders. A heel kick will break ribs easily.

Dirty fighting: This is the Kravist in me, but knees to the groin are valid and will completely immobilize a testicle-having attacker. Elbows are also highly destructive, but you tend not to see them in movie fights much. Biting is valid and bites can be very nasty. Gouging eyes is very effective. It’s also easier than you would think to rip the skin off someone’s face with your nails if you’re already going feral. A good punch to the throat might end a fight.

Blocking or dodging blows: Your character can deflect a punch or a knife attack to the upper body with forearms, and your arms will cushion a blow to the head as well. You can also duck your head around an attempted blow to the face. It’s important, though, to think of your two characters’ actions as interlocking rather than alternating—a character going in for a hit will at least briefly have one of their limbs extended instead of protecting the body, and the other character will be taking that opening. Have them dodge the blow and slide into their own opportunity in a single movement.

Shit Happens: A fight is not an equation where you plug in the size and weight of both adversaries and get the result. Again, this is the Kravist in me, but the only law is Murphy’s law. An attempt to land a blow can go sour and break somebody’s wrist. An attacker can trip and fall. Puddles and improvised weapons and getting blood or sweat in your eyes can all be wild cards. An experienced fighter can get fucked up by someone smaller and less experienced than they because of luck. That said, though, experience is what helps you adapt to the Murphy’s-law-ness of everything.

Yeah that’s what I’ve got, enjoy ur violence