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#my hero academia #shinsou hitoshi #mha #bnha #mha fanart #bnha fanart

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#annabeth chase #percy jackson #pjo #fan art

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#dabi #mha #my hero academia #boku no hero academia #bnha #league of villains #lov #todoroki touya #fan art

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Kirby is the tenth intelligent titan:

- eats people

- gains their powers

- virtually indestructible

#aot #attack on titan #attack on titan spoilers #aot spoilers #kirby #mario #nintendo #anime

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Your main concern with grammar in fiction should be, does it make sense to the reader upon first pass-through. You can have sentence fragments. Half-formed thoughts. Periods where normally there would be question marks. You can throw out many of the rules you learned in school. But that only works if the writing can still be understood without question and without unintended ambiguity.

#writing advice

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everything you need to know if you’re watching Rusty Quill Gaming and Giving for the first time

-Rusty Quill Gaming and Giving is a  24 hour charity livestream with the Rusty Quill cast and crew. It’s being held on December 4-5th 2021

-more information at this link: https://rustyquill.com/gaming-and-giving-2021/

-no shame if you can’t currently donate! but tell a friend who might be able to

-stay hydrated

-it’s okay if you miss something. The streams are uploaded to YouTube afterward (it may take a while, but they will be there)

-the Grant Howitt game is a staple

-so is Billionaire Banshee

-Mike never wins anything

-Alex can recognize basic shapes (it’s his specialty)

-it is perfectly acceptable to call Mike “Scumpy”

-there will be in-character readings, so get your requests in!!

-saying “tension” over and over automatically creates tension

-Jonny is the only one who can be trusted to diffuse a bomb

-these are the noodles of our discontent

-it’s totally a cult

-Canada isn’t real

-Ben is real, Canada is not

-Martyn is a good cow

-no one will ever be as hhhot as Anil (I’m sorry, it’s true)

-hhhot

-please hydrate

-it’s a long stream-- eat enough, get sleep, and drink water

-someone will inevitably be covered in baubles and/or glitter by the end of the stream

-the Jeopardy theme song is banned. Only the Countdown theme is acceptable

-if Alex is alive for more than a minute in Among Us, he is totally sus

Feel free to add if I missed anything!

#rusty quill #rusty quill gaming and giving #rusty quill gaming and giving 2021 #rqg #rqgg #rusty quill gaming #the magnus archives #tma #stella firma #jonny sims #alexander j newall

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Some words of wisdom from my professor

“In a comedy everyone gets married. In a tragedy everyone dies. In a history everyone gets bored.”

“Don’t kill my Cheeseman.”

“If you’re not throwing spaghetti, you’re not cooking spaghetti.”

“Hannah’s like ‘what’s going on in America?’ I don’t know, Hannah. We haven’t known for a while.”

“Wait a minute, I’m a deer!”

“It’s a threat. Bold move in a love poem.”

“Welp, there’s nothing for it but more murder.”

“If you’re gonna come after people, you better make sure you close the quotation mark.”

“You should read [the assigned reading for class], they eat so many bears!”

“There’s nothing funny about Indiana mini-marts to begin with.”

“The only thing better than a wig joke is the footnote on a wig joke.”

“Spelling is a social construction.”

And my personal favorite:

“You need a woman who can swashbuckle.”

#quotes #actual quotes #little to no context

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Worldbuilding stuff:

If your story has an idle nobility class, their culture shouldn't just be different from the general population, it should be an over-the-top caricature of the common folks' culture. Whatever the population generally agrees is ideal, fair, admirable, or good, the nobility will take into stupid extremes.

Contrary to the beliefs of many, people are actually not at all happy when they're idle - a person with no assigned task or duty will go out of their way to come up with one. And all around the world, whenever there's been an upper class with nothing to do, they've started to compete with each other over stupid shit, but always stupid shit that the culture they live in considers positive qualities.

From the noblemen in Europe challenging each other to a possibly lethal duel over insulting someone's hat, to a Chinese noblewoman being moved to tears by the beauty of someone's calligraphy, bored elites everywhere have always wanted to outdo each other in their expressions of possessing all the noble traits that this culture in particular holds in value.

You can, and should, use this as a way to highlight what the actual values of this society is. In a setting where being religious is held as an admirable trait, there is nobility coming up with new ways to one-up each other in their expressions of worship. Society that values art and music will have them competing over who hires the most artists, and who employs the most talented musicians. Aggressive, war-like people will have fuels to the fucking death over a stupid hat.

Literally anything can be competed in, and bored people with far too much time and money in their hands will become competitive over the most ridiculous things. This isn't just an useful tool in worldbuilding, but also a fun one.

#writing #worldbuilding

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Writing mistakes that editors will call you out for!

Disclaimer: this is a harsh and mean informative post on mistakes that make your writing amateurish or fanfiction-like. In the professional world, editors will call you out on them in a much harsher way that here.. but hey, they’re easy to fix! Of course, the quality of writing is often a matter of individual taste and experience, though there is a theory to it and ways to make your work clear and interesting to your readers.

And yes, as cruel as it sounds to admit—most fanfiction writers are amateurs who will not help you improve your own writing. You might have to close your Good Omens AO3 fanfic for a few hours to read the actual work by Neil Gaiman. That said, fanfiction is an amazing gateway to becoming a pro author because it gives you insight on what the audience likes, and the practice you need to improve! There are many fanfiction writers who’ve taken the time to learn from professionals about their craft, and are in a place where they could become successful published authors themselves.

That aside, here are 7 writing mistakes that hinder your writing!

1 – Dialogue tags

This is BY FAR the most common mistake that amateur writers do, and particularly prelevant in fanfiction. Alternative dialogue tags (whisper, shout, murmured) should be used VERY sparingly. “said”, “replied”, and “asked” should build up the majority of the tags you use.

Oftentimes, the reader will understand the tone based on what the character says or by their actions.

2 - Tense changes

Pick a tense and stick to it. Many times, amateurs waver between past and present which leads to awkward reading. Choose which tense you prefer and stick to it. An extra caution should be taken when using past tense, however, to correctly use past preterite (I ate) vs past perfect (I had eaten). While both can be used, they are different so make sure you understand when to use which.

3 – Pointless dialogue

It’s time to cut the small talk. While chitchat and banter may be fun to read, particularly in fanfiction, editors will ask that you remove it if it doesn’t advance the plot. What you want to do is cut down on the filler in your story, and if that means your characters NOT having an argument about macaroni cheese, then so be it. Save dialogue for important and meaningful conversation only—your readers will prefer it, I promise.

4 – Pointless description

Hand in hand with the previous point, description should be kept consise and relevant. We don’t need to know what your character is wearing or the details of their “black, leather, zebra-print sofa under the wide windowsill in the master bedroom”. Keep the descriptions short, fed into the plot little-by-little and relevant to what is happening. Your readers are smart—they can imagine the rest for themselves! That’s what makes reading fun!

5 – Use the character’s name

The blue-eyed boy has a name for the great purpose of you using it! Literal writing, nine times out of ten, is better! Green orbs are distracting, but green eyes are to the point and clear. It’s the same with names! The name, title, role (butler, governess etc), or pronouns should always be the default. Any other term should be used sparingly when there is no other alternative.

6 – Abandon the pet names

Yes, pet names are cute and fun, but not when they’re in every sentence of conversation. Things like “babe”, “baby”, “sugarpuff sunshine fairy” should be used SPARINGLY. I can assure you, the love interests saying it once or twice in the novel will have a far greater impact on the reader than if they say it every time they call their partner. An overuse of pet names becomes distracting and make the character seem both immature and a caricature. It also has a similar effet to repeating the other person’s name during a conversation—it leads to unnatural dialogue as we only really say the other person’s name to them in order to get their attention.

7 – Immature characters

This is a biiiiig one in fanfiction. You may see characters who are adults in their mid to late twenties but who still behave like teenagers. Granted, if you are a teenage writer, this can’t always be corrected, though it does become apparent to any reader over the age of eighteen.

Truth be told, adults mature and don’t react as overtly as many poorly-written characters do. A twenty-eight year old is very unlikely to tell two teenagers who are making out at the kitchen table to “get a room”, nor are they likely to be victim of some horrible miscommunication that leads to a lovers-to-enemies-to-lovers situation. Of course, it is still possible, though it does read as unrealistic and makes it apparent that the author has not yet reached the age of the character they are writing about. Take reference from real people around the age of your characters and if all else fails, you could always look for the possibility to age them down.

The point of correcting these mistakes is to create a novel that is easy to understand without the reader feeling as though they're swimming through mud. Publishers look for clear, consise books that tell one story from start to finish!

Good luck!

#writing #writing advice #please take it

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#midoriya izuku #deku #bnha deku #bnha #my hero academia #small might #art #my art #first time drawing deku #turned out meh

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The mist, a blanket ‘round my aching shoulders

Hides me from a cold and broken world

Dense as stone and heavy as a boulder

Nothing suffers ‘round which mist is curled

This house is mine, I think, though strange and empty

And I cannot find a comfy seat

Solitary comfort gently tempts me

To fall asleep ‘twixt grey and misty sheets

And I could stare here longer if I wanted

Just forget the sorrow and the fear

Turn my back to a world so grim and haunted

My own terror can caress me here

Or I could remember, will remember

My name, my love, and all the things before

                                   My name is Martin Blackwood.

I remember.

I will not be lonely anymore.

                                          --The Lonely, 2021

A poem I wrote for one of my classes based on The Magnus Archives. MAG 170 Recollection

#poetry #writing #my writing #the magnus archives #tma #martin blackwood #jonmartin #mag 170 #magnus archives spoilers #sort of

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So i don’t mean to freak anyone’s bean but (stellar firma spoilers)

TRAVIS MCELROY IS IN STELLAR FIRMA

#that's right gents it's happening #stellar firma #STL #rusty quill #mcelroys #ben meredith #tim meredith #travis mcelroy #stellar firma spoilers

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The Heart of Aphrodite Day 3 “Love all, trust a few, Do wrong to none” --William Shakespeare

#the heart of aphrodite #azu #hamid saleh haroun al tahan #rusty quill gaming #rqg #ana draws

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*David 7 interacting with Number 1 and Number 48*

Trexel: oh no, he’s meeting all of my Standards

#this is literally the dumbest joke i've ever made #rusty quill #rusty quill stl #ben meredith #tim meredith #david 7 #trexel geistman #incorrect quotes #stellar firma

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#beowulf #beowulf meme #yeet #medieval literature #ana draws

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I would like to formally apologize for my lack of self control.

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Martin showing Jon how to do some menial task: I finally get to teach you something for once

Jon: Have I ever actually taught you anything?

Martin: Patience.

#the magnus archives #tma #jonathan sims #martin blackwood #jonmartin #fluff