ohnomybreadsticks

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Pls reblog to spread and tell what specific word count in the tags!

#931 THOUSAND WORDS #which is wild tbqh #coming up on a million BABEY #for context I've been publishing on ao3 since 2018 #poll

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“but AI art lets me create my OCs!” YOU WILL USE PICREW AS GOD INTENDED

#picrew is so so good #and it supports real artists!!! #always good to have more available with poc friendly options

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You meet god and she's mostly dead fish. You ask her why and she says most of the world is dead fish, and she's made herself to appeal to the most common denominator, the everyman funnyman comedy show that runs for eleven seasons but with the entire universe in mind. You ask her how much of the dead fish is your fault, she says it's far less than you'd think, in the grand scheme of things. You ask her if you matter at all. If you can do anything. She shrugs her rotting shoulders and says mattering is a made-up concept, like life, but sure, you can matter if you want to, on some scale. She has many scales. She doesn't know what you mean by 'anything', but you can do everything you can. You ask her if it's enough. She says there's no base requirement for deserving to exist. She's smoking a joint and the smoke filtering out of her gills gathers and forms gas giants and red dwarfs. You ask her if there's any hidden secrets of the universe you should know and she says it's not a secret if she tells, plus it's fun to let you figure it out yourself. You ask her if any of your questions were right questions and she says you worry about being right so much it might keep you from fucking around, which is as close to meaning of life as she ever bothered to make. You don't ask but she says she loves your hair, also your whole being, also your planet. She says she figured out what love is yesterday and is trying it out, which explains the ten thousand rainbows and sudden influx in rains of fish. She offers you a drag of her joint and you wake up half past midnight behind a chain restaurant clutching a smoked salmon. The new stars are winking like they're in on some joke and you're sure if you try hard enough you'll remember what it is.

#this is always a fantastic read #such an amazing piece - the vibes and imagery especially #other bakeries

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"i want more media with zero drama, no tension, and zero problematic characters and i am not joking"

Great! Here are my recommendations:

#LOL

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Please reblog this post, so it will get more votes!

#usually I don't reblog “please reblog!!” posts #but I hadn't heard of this #and it's genuinely important info #opting out asap on all my blogs #because ai training models can go fuck themselves #good on staff for at least letting us know #poll

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Good news for your Thursday - there’s a new ghostie gang installment to enjoy!! Rowan is just trying to sleep after a stressful day, but we all know that’s not going to work out for him lmao

Rated T, ~4K words

#ghostie gang #bready’s fic

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Wanted to find out what Tumblr thinks are the most important ingredients for a satisfying fictional relationship. Think about your favourite ship, your own OCs, books or movies you've experienced lately. What drives you crazy about them?

P.s. I'm well aware that most fictional relationships have multiple or all of these, but you have to pick the most important one mwahahahah

If you think I've missed something put it in the tags, but first check what I mean by each of the terms below.

Spread it far and wide for sample size!

Definitions/interpretations below cut:

Chemistry: These people get on so well it'd be a crime if they didn't hook up. They are basically already fucking with their words. Think Mulder/Scully

Attraction: these characters are unreasonably hot for each other, to the point where they ignore all sense

Narrative symmetry: covers everything from being narrative foils, contrasting archetypes (e.g. grumpy/sunshine) - think Ineffable Husbands (deep down spark of goodness/"just enough of a bastard to be worth liking") (ps yes this one is Mulder/Scully too)

Obsession/devotion: enemies-to-lovers, friends-to-lovers, I'd-go-the-ends-of-the-earth-for-you, I'd-die-for-you. Think Orpheus/Eurydice from Greek myth, or Wuthering Heights

Tragedy: the love story is beautiful because you know it has to end. The world will be cruel to you but you fell in love anyway. This one is Orpheus/Eurydice in Hadestown. (Also, the potential for this kind of tragedy - the threat of a happy ending ripped away)

Something forbidden: we're not allowed to be together/we have to be together despite the odds/our families would never approve - e.g. First Prince

Fate: star-crossed lovers, soulmates, destined to be together, exes who find they need each other. "I'm the one who gripped you tight and raised you from perdition"

#love it when my otp is obsessive!! #it’s the devotion for me every time #poll

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Song Prompt Fill

A lovely friend on discord prompted me with 7 and Shep from this prompt list, so here we go! This scene isn’t from any particular part of the ghostie gang series, but would be set far further in the timeline than we are now.

Okay so our song inspo for Shep is:

We will get there when we get there, don't you worry / Feel bad about the things we do along the way / But not really that bad

“Fuck”

Shep is breathing hard, chest heaving to get just one more hit of sweet oxygen into their lungs. Their throat is burning, rough and raw from the screams, hands shaking as they press the lock on the car door over and over again like some desperate warding charm.

“Fuck”

They turn to see Travis echoing the sentiment, his eyes wide and frightened as he stares blankly out the windshield into the darkened forest. They’ve never seen Travis scared like this, like really scared. It makes the fear in their own chest tighten like a vice, squeezing painfully against bruised ribs.

“We’ve gotta leave. You’ve gotta drive.” Shep pleads, because it is a plea, or a prayer, they’re not sure. They watch with dawning horror as Travis shakes his head slowly. There’s something dark and slick on the side of his face, his hands shaking where they clutch the steering wheel, but he hasn’t even turned the car on yet.

“We left them.” He mutters, “We can’t just drive away.”

Brave, courageous Travis, always having to do the right thing. Fucking idiot, about to get them both killed.

Shep refuses to feel bad about doing what it takes to survive.

#prompt fill #ghostie gang #bready's fic

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#Only specific music with lyrics tho!! #can’t just put on random new shit #poll

[ohnomybreadsticks]

Frankly some of you should be hornier over weirder shit. The fear of being too genuine is the enemy of art. Be a bit of a pervert. It's good for the health. Doesn't have to be a sexual thing just own up to being a bit obsessed in some cringe shit it's fine.

#cringe is dead!! #be weird about your own writing #spicee breadsticks

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The levels of worldbuilding are as follows:

0-What are you talking about?

1-Umm… I may have one idea.

2-Vague idea about what’s going on.

3-Got just enough to fill out the story.

4-Got a good idea of what happens outside of the story.

5-Can’t have too many details.

6-I’ve been called obsessive more than a few times.

7-There are no gaps in my worldbuilding.

8-My archive is like the Libary of Alexandria.

9. You have summoned the Keeper of Forbidden Knowledge from the Beyond!

10-I am God. Omnipotent, all knowing.

11- Professor Tolkien said I give up! This is WAY too much information!

#I know just enough to write the story lmao #otherwise you know just as much as I do XD #level 4 #poll

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I focus on one thing. One name.

Suddence.

A little town in the middle of nowhere.

The town I’m trying to reach. The town I need to reach.

Where did my power come from? How did it happen? Maybe I’ll find answers there. Maybe I won’t. But I need to try to get there. It’s the least I can do.

✨ Part 1 of SUDDENCE is live! ✨

#daaaang #this is really cool #I love the dual timelines #and the mystery has me hooked already #other bakeries

[ohnomybreadsticks]

I'm doing an experiment

Edit: Should've added smut. If smut is your top struggle and you want to or do write it, reblog and say so <3

#action for sure #I never know how much of it I need #or if I'm describing it in a fun way #probably close second is pacing #I know I struggle with stringing events together #poll

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Feeling like this would be fun to do - anybody want to send me prompts from this list with ghostie gang characters? I'll try and fill them this week with short lil snippets

Bready's Mountain Goats Song Prompt List

hi hello uh it's been a while! Writing's been a bit of a struggle, but I'm in the mood to give it a bit of a go again. And the Mountain Goats are one of my favorite bands, so I dug up some lyrics from some of my favorite songs C:

You know the drill, send in a number and a character or pairing (dbh or witcher) and anything you do/don't want. I'll try and get them written in the next week, depending on how the inspiration strikes!

Some of these get a little darker, so I may write something in the more angsty direction, just as a warning, but my usual other limits stand.

I am coming home to you / With my own blood in my mouth / And I am coming home to you / If it’s the last thing that I do

How long will we ride this wave out? / How long till someone caves under the pressure? / My dreams are haunted by armies, armies of ghosts

Head outside most everyday / To try to keep the wolves away / Imagine nice things I might say / If company should come

And I feel so proud to be alive / And I feel so proud when the reckoning arrives

I had things I’d been meaning to say / But in the dazzling winter sun that late I could feel them melt away

I waited for you / But I never told you where I was

We will get there when we get there, don't you worry / Feel bad about the things we do along the way / But not really that bad

Fight through the ghosts in the hallway / Duck and weave / Stand by the door with my eyes closed / When it's time to leave

The endless string of summer storms that led me to today / Began one afternoon with you, long ago and far away

A tiger's never gonna change its stripes / I guess / I guess but Jesus what a mess / One way in and no way out

The first time I made coffee for just myself / I made too much of it, but I drank it all / Just cause you hate it when I let things go to waste

And I feel sure that my wounds will heal / And I will bloom here in my room / With a little water and a little bit of sunlight / And a little bit of tender mercy, tender mercy

Pine trees frozen in the silvery moonlight / Rising like giants from the cold earth / What are the years we gave each other ever gonna be worth?

Be ready and be brave / And remember what we had here / When there was something left to save

There'll always be a few things, maybe several things / That you're going to find really difficult to forgive

And I'd hope that if I found the strength to walk out / You'd stay the hell out of my way

Friends who don't have a clue / Well-meaning teachers / But down in your arms, in your arms / I am a wild creature

I am going to make it through this year / If it kills me

If we live to see the other side of this / I will remember your kiss / So do it with your mouth open

So I follow you down your twisting alleyways / Find a few cul-de-sacs of my own / There's only one place this road ever ends up / And I don't want to die alone

But I will walk down to the end with you / If you will come all the way down with me

I've got you / You've got whatever's left of me to get / Our conversations are like minefields / No one's found a safe way through one yet

Name one thing about us two anyone could love / We roll out the red carpet when rotten luck comes down the road

You find shelter somewhere in me / I find great comfort in you / And I keep you safe from harm / You hold me in your arms

I thought of old friends, the ones who'd gone missing / Said all their names three times, phantoms in the early dark / Canaries in the mines

I don't mean it when I tell you / That I don't love you anymore

There is no punchline anybody can tack on / There are loose ends by the score / What did I come down here for? / You

Long black night, morning frost / I'm still here, but all is lost

But they came, and when they finally made it here / It was the least that we could do to make our welcome clear

No one knows where the lone wolf’s gone / No one sees it camped out right there on the front lawn / We played for you but you would not sing / No one was going to get away with anything

Song listings below the cut:

Sax Rohmer #1

Idylls of the King

Lovecraft in Brooklyn

Heretic Pride

So Desperate

Distant Stations

Psalms 40:2

Genesis 3:23

1 John 4:16

Your Belgian Things

Woke Up New

Absolute Lithops Effect

Half Dead

Magpie

Up the Wolves

No Children

Broom People

This Year

Dilaudid

Dance Music

Old College Try

Southwood Plantation Road

Have to Explode

Riches and Wonders

Maybe Sprout Wings

Oceanographer's Choice

Tallahassee

Cry for Judas

Color in Your Cheeks

Rain in Soho

#obviously when I made the list I was looking for dbh and witcher prompts #but I need some writing inspo now #so send me some oc prompts!! #prompt list

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Last Line Tag

thank you @kaylinalexanderbooks for all the incredible tags lately <3 <3

Rules: post the last line you wrote/edited for your WIP

From the next installment in the Ghostie Gang series:

It explains the fluidity of the shopkeeper as well, who’s probably not just a shopkeeper but also any other narrative role that this world needs filled. 

I'll tag @sinclairsolutions @mthollowell-writes @void-botanist @did-i-do-this-write @surroundedbypearls but only if you feel like it!

#tag game #ghostie gang

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Last Line Tag

Thanks lovely mutual @chauceryfairytales for the tag!

Rules: post the last line you wrote/edited for your WIP

From The Secret Portal Part One (Lexi POV)

“Then what?” I demanded, trying to hide my voice cracking.

This chapter is much better now that I fixed this plotline.

Anyway @gracehosborn @theelfauthor @theeccentricraven @buffythevampirelover @thepeculiarbird @jezifster @ohnomybreadsticks @hippiewrites @eccaiia @mikathewriter @mysticstarlightduck @ceph-the-ghost-writer @aalinaaaaaa and anyone else

#ooooh #that's such an intriguing last line #got me wanting to learn more #other bakeries #tag game