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I have this INCREDIBLE urge to put it in my mouth. It looks like a white chocolate carving or a fondant sculpture.

Yoshimasa Tsuchiya

#art #sculpture #unicorn #put it in my mouth #no don't #it's not food

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I'm officially twice as old as when I first thought about ending myself 💜

It does get better. It's not always easier, but it does get better. I'm so proud of all the survivors, whether it's been a day or a decade. It's hard work, like putting a puzzle together while wearing a blindfold, but I promise you it's worth it. It'll all be all right in the end; if it's not, it's not the end.

Credit @traumasurvivors for the beautiful update 💙💜

Even if I didn’t have a solid plan, in the back of my head, I always assumed I’d kill myself.

Now I’m an adult and people my age have their lives in order and I’m stuck here, confused, because I never planned to be alive and I’m so far behind.

I feel like I’ll never catch up.

#survivors #trauma survival #depression #mental health #this has been a psa #keep going #surviving and thriving #writeblr #writers on tumblr #if i can't kill me then nothing will

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THANK YOU. I have skipped over SO MANY BOOKS - especially in the romance genre - because the first page was just a list of tropes. It's as bad as covering the back with quotes and reviews that tell me NOTHING about the plot. Why should I care if this book is "enemies to lovers" or "size kink" if I don't have any idea what the story is ABOUT?

Tropes, like kinks, should be an ADDITION to the plot, not the whole thing. It's like cake - icing is nice, but I didn't come here to eat fondant flowers or that gross grocery store sugar foam. I came here looking for a big fat slice of chocolate cake or a stack of stunning Red Velvet crepes. Nothing is more disappointing than scraping off a pound and a half of pure sugar to find a sad, flat, rubbery sliver of flavorless pastry.

Promoting a book based on the tropes is such a waste of time. Frankly, I (as a reader) don't give a flying fuck if the trope is right person not enough time or enemies to lovers. Why? Because 1: there are times where those tropes are so badly written that I find it difficult to finish the book and 2: if the plot isn't interesting why should i read it?

#books and reading #bookblr #booklr #books #author #writers on tumblr #writers and poets #writeblr #writing #writerscommunity #kink #writing kink #kinky romance #tropes #badly written #all sugar no substance

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My most popular comment on Instagram 😁 I'm out here causing problems because I wish to do so.

@prowritingaid Thanks!

#writeblr #writers on tumblr #creative writing #fairy #faery #fary #fae #fay #english is weird #english is hard #spelling #fair folk

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Oopsie...

Rescued this pretty lady from my kitchen screen and took her outside for release, and the wind promptly sent her tumbling. She's fine! I picked her up and put her on a lower flower in case she falls again.

#bees #flowers #roses #garden #my garden #i love bees #playing with bees #beeeeeeeeeees #whoops #oops i fell down #oh dear

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Ohh boy do I have book recs for Y'ALL

You NEED to check out Opal Reyne's Duskwalker Brides books. I've been reading them for... research purposes. If you like horror and fantasy, there you go. What's fun is that I BELIEVE they started as Ancient Magus Bride fanfiction?? So yeah, these ought to push your buttons 😁

There are more, these are just the ones I have for the moment.

You’ll never convince me that Elias doesn’t eat pussy. That man has the jawline of a thot. Male eaterrrr.

LOOK AT THAT REACHHHH MY GODS

Say YES. That’s all I wanna HEAR

#elias ainsworth x you #elias ainsworth #mahou tsukai no yome #the ancient magus bride #thotty rants #opal reyne #duskwalker #eldritch horror #fantasy horror #horror romance

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You can't spell "automaton" without "tomato".

I don't know what robots have to do with tomatoes but I remain vigilant.

#i have a Bachelor's degree #and this is what i do with it #stupid post #writeblr #writers on tumblr #authors #author #writer #brain puke #this is so dumb

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I'M WORKING ON IT GEEZ

something you said has been on my mind for a while - "kink is not inherently sexual". good faith! I don't understand that at all, could you explain it a bit?

This post is educational, hooray! Extensive discussion of kink under the cut. Nothing explicitly sexual is described in detail.

Please note that in this post, I use the terms top and Dom/me interchangeably. This is because I personally identify as a "top" and not a Dom. Some communities draw sharp lines between these two terms, and it's useful to make sure that you're using the same definition as other people when you're talking. Some people use "top" solely to refer to the giving or penetrative partner, which is not synonymous with the dominant partner. Topping subs, power bottoms, and all other permutations exist. I just use that term for myself because I don't like being called a Dom. It sounds like a guy's name to me, I don't like it.

When I text my wife in every morning, "Please bring me my coffee," and she answers, "Yes, Sir!" is that sexual? I'm surely not feeling sexual when I'm barely awake. When I hold my other wife's hand when she's having a depressive fit and tell her, "Daddy's got you, it's okay," that's kink, but it's not sexual. In that moment, neither of us feel particularly sexy, and we're surely not engaging in sex, but it's kink that - forgive the pun - binds us more strongly together.

One of my girls wears a 24/7 collar that I locked in place. (She can ask me at any point to take it off, or she can take it off herself if she wants to, but she chooses this.) That's kink. It's also... a necklace. That's not any more inherently sexual than her wedding ring, though it - for us - certainly symbolizes part of our relationship that happens to sometimes include sex, exactly the same as a wedding ring.

There are a lot of types of kink that don't include sexual contact in any way or which might include sexual contact but don't need to. One of my friends is a sex-repulsed ace bootblack. They literally take care of the boots of tops, usually at play parties. For them, this act of service and submission allows them to go into a particular headspace that's very fulfilling for them. They are explicitly serving the people whose boots they clean and polish. The Dom/mes receive that service and not only get really great-looking boots out of the deal but also get the feeling of power from having someone eager to take care of them and serve them. For some of us, that kind of service allows us access to a feeling of power that can be hard to access in our daily life, and that feels really good.

Sometimes, it can feel good in a sexy way, and sometimes it feels good in a "makes lizard brain feel powerful but not sexy" way. Neither one is inherently better or worse or more or less kinky than the other.

Sometimes, people who like being whipped like it because the line between pain and pleasure is like a wave on the ocean, and they want to surf it. Sometimes, that involves mashing squishy bits together, and sometimes it doesn't. Sometimes, it's just about riding that endorphin wave and then having someone take care of you afterwards.

Sometimes, people want to be tied up in elaborate shibari knots and fucked. Sometimes, people want to be tied up in elaborate shibari knots because that process requires a lot of trust and is an intimate ritual that takes a lot of time. Sometimes, it's both. Sometimes, people want to tie up others because it's a beautiful work of art, because that ritual of binding is a ritual and accesses something sacred for them. Sometimes, they want to be tied up because it's playtime, and that's fun for them! Sometimes, they want to be tied up because when they're tied up, they are 0% in control, and they want to just surrender control to someone whom they can trust.

Some people want to go into sub space - that headspace I talked about earlier - because in their everyday life, they have a lot of responsibilities and stress, and going into that space where nobody can ask anything from them, where they have no responsibility to make any decisions at all, is a relief to them. That might involve squishy bits, or it might not. Some people like going into that sub space because being someone's Good Boy, Sweet Girl, or Good Pup is gender-affirming for them. A friend of mine only feels really safe when he's got his pup hood on, because that means he's With Master, who will protect him.

Some people get gender affirmation out of being in control, being someone's Daddy or Mistress, Sir or Boss. It allows them to access a power that helps them to square their shoulders and take on the world.

All of this entirely skips over the fact that a person's primary sexual organ is between their ears, and some people do get sexual fulfillment out of kink even when no genitalia are involved at all, but I cannot stress enough that the reasons that people enter into the multitude of kink situations in the world are as varied as the people involved. People gain access to comfort, to feelings of stability and order and control over their lives, to gender affirmation, to endorphins that are or aren't sexual in nature, to release from responsibility, to ritual and intimacy, to the ability to provide for others and take care of others in a way that their outside lives may or may not permit. For that matter, they may simply gain access to a paycheck, and that's fine, too. That's no more or less "selling your body" than when I used to run my ass off for 13+ hours a day at my retail job, and I guarantee they're making way, way better money.

The fact that so many people see kink as only and purely sexual means they're missing out on so much of what kink can offer, and narrowing down the experiences of others to this tiny little sliver of what actually exists. Yes, it can be sexual, but it doesn't have to be. The reasons that people engage in kink are as varied as the reasons that people engage in any other kind of interaction, and the fulfillment they get from it is as varied, too.

#writeblr #writers on tumblr #creative writing #authors #author #fiction #book blog #scifi romance #booklr #romance #kink #kink romance #romance novels #romance author

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WELCOME BACK BABYGIRL!

Y'all, the world is sleeping on what NASA just pulled off with Voyager 1

The probe has been sending gibberish science data back to Earth, and scientists feared it was just the probe finally dying. You know, after working for 50 GODDAMN YEARS and LEAVING THE GODDAMN SOLAR SYSTEM and STILL CHURNING OUT GODDAMN DATA.

So they analyzed the gibberish and realized that in it was a total readout of EVERYTHING ON THE PROBE. Data, the programming, hardware specs and status, everything. They realized that one of the chips was malfunctioning.

So what do you do when your probe is 22 Billion km away and needs a fix? Why, you just REPROGRAM THAT ENTIRE GODDAMN THING. Told it to avoid the bad chip, store the data elsewhere.

Sent the new code on April 18th. Got a response on April 20th - yeah, it's so far away that it took that long just to transmit.

And the probe is working again.

From a programmer's perspective, that may be the most fucking impressive thing I have ever heard.

#nasa #voyager #voyager probe #space news #nasa is fucking amazing #get it honey #exciting news #i love space

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Writers write. That's it.

Fuck your word count!

༺𖤐๋࣭ ⭑🕸🦇🕸๋࣭ ⭑๋࣭ 𖤐༻

"Focus on your word count," "Write 2,500 words a day," "Real writers set monthly word goals."

SHUT UP! Your word count doesn't matter. You're just stressing yourself out.

It doesn't matter if you write one word today or 10,000! At least you wrote something! Focus on that.

Quality and sanity of quantity.

#writeblr #writers on tumblr #creative writing #authors #author #fiction #book blog #booklr #writer #writing #writers gonna write

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I refer to mine as Battleaxe, thank you very much. And Creepy Old Dragon, ever since I was four.

this is like 100% petty all things considered but i just can’t wait until some of u learn that it is absolutely normal for people of any age to refer to their dads as “daddy” in many parts of the south like it isn’t a red flag there. 60 year old women in my family still refer to their dads as “daddy.” and btw i think anyone should be allowed to call their own fathers whatever they want without someone either making it nasty or being accusatory like don’t you get tired of making ppl uncomfortable for no reason

#writeblr #writers on tumblr #names #nicknames #mom #mommy #momma #mom names

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One time my husband walked up on me in the garden eating rose petals and violets like potato chips. Just, walking around looking at my tomatoes eating flowers. From the look on his face, his suspicions that I'm insane were validated.

In my defense, though, roses and violets are tasty and safe to eat. In fact, roses are related to almonds, apricots and plums! Furthermore, you can make a delicious simple syrup flavored with roses or violets, you just need a 1:1:1 ratio of flowers to water to sugar.

First, you clean a good amount of flowers by removing the petals and rinsing them off in cold water. Bugs, while a good source of protein, are not very tasty. Don't ask.

Bring 1 part water to a boil, then stir in an equal amount of sugar until it's all dissolved. Then take the water/sugar mix off the heat and add the flowers. Steep for 5 minutes and strain into a pretty bottle, adding food coloring if you really want to. Keep it in the refrigerator for a month, and use it in lemonades, alcoholic beverages, teas, whatever you want.

Rose lemonade is pretty damn stellar, and violet syrup can take gin or vodka to a whole new level. In general, if a rose smells good it will taste good - just don't eat plants that have been treated with pesticides! It's bad for you and tastes nasty.

Here's a list of edible flowers from Wikipedia!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_edible_flowers

I'm partial to roses, violets, lavender, mint, basil flowers, honeysuckle, apple blossoms, lilac and daylilies 😋

3 seconds into dungeon meshi and they’re already living my dream. i love eating things I ought not in unfamiliar ecosystems

#if you enjoy eating strange plants you should watch apothecary diaries too #flowers #edible flowers #sweet flowers #tasty flowers #simple syrup #simple recipes #flower recipes #my husband thinks I'm insane

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I ate a piece of very good chocolate espresso cheesecake today 😋

The cheesecake filling was so dense and smooth, the espresso rounded out the chocolate so well, and the Oreo cookie crust was firm and crunchy!

#cheesecake #chocolate #espresso #cake #dessert #i didn't make this #but damn #this was sooooo good #little treat #sweets #snacks

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Crypto-bots. What you're looking for are the crypto-bots and the stock-market bros.

I love this website.

No offense but where are the male porn bots

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Kind of? I usually start out with a scene or a vague idea for a plot, then I flesh out the characters and the world they inhabit because those are kind of important. After that I tend to think about motivations and inciting events, and that's usually where theme comes in.

Just like plot, themes kind of occur to me in the early stages of drafting like when I'm writing garbage scenes to get a feel for the characters and setting - what comes up most often when I'm screwing around in OpenOffice? What questions do I want to answer? What subconscious nonsense wiggles its way into the dialogue and what kind of callbacks do I end up making when I'm messing with a scene from the middle of the book that I'll probably end up trashing before it's all over with?

I end up dissecting behaviors and habits, beliefs and a hundred other things that probably won't stand out to me at first, but then they'll come screaming out of left field while I'm in the middle of chapter 7 and I get to feel like a literary badass for a bit. I also like to ramble at my sister over various chats and barrage her with random ideas for inside jokes and plot points that appeal to me. We're both interested in literature and psychology, so we'll yammer about potential traits and weird habits and try to figure out what in the character's past led to this or that and why they're this particular kind of messed up.

I never set out like "I'm going to write about overcoming racism" because personally I don't think that's something to write a book about - we shouldn't need 100K words about why being racist is stupid but I digress. Instead, I start out like "wouldn't it be fun to write about eight-foot-tall seal aliens with giant dicks and glowy spots? What if they're big into science and ecology?" To me, it's all about the tactile things, the things that happen on screen that you can see with your eyeballs, and weaving theme into it is something to do very subtly. You can't ham-fist theme into everything because then you get a boring thesis paper and nobody wants that.

There's also the idea that art is subjective. We all read the same books in Literary Interpretation, and all 15 of us got something different out of them. Some students were more interested in the concept of being afraid of modernizing, others focused more on how the advent of telegraphy expanded our world and brought humans closer together across great distances. If we'd all been told "here are the themes, write a paper about them" everyone would have turned in the same paper.

So sure, I usually have one or two themes in mind by the time I have a plot nailed down and sometimes that will expand or change completely by the time I finish the story. And then once I release it into the wild like a rehabilitated salmon, it almost always gets interpreted completely differently by some internet person whom I've never met, but that's what makes it fun!

ok writeblr i have a question and it does not matter if you answer re fanfic or original work:

do you nerds know what themes you intend to tackle in longer works before you start, or are the themes a fun little surprise you don't uncover until the nth draft?

#writeblr #writing #themes #writing themes #my writing #drafts #writers #writer things #writers community #flying by the seat of my pants 90% of the time anyway #authoring #happy accidents #literary interpretation #art is subjective

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Same, sweetheart. Same.

#funny #lol #humor #memes #animal #kitty cat #tabby cat #cats #bedhead

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I've been sick for the past week, but today I actually woke up with the will to live! And I was still not prepared for the whiplash of going from my EDM/metal writing playlist to Okilly Dokilly's "Reneducation"

What the fuck, Spotify.

#writeblr #writers on tumblr #metal music #whiplash #musical whiplash #metal #okilly dokilly broke up #authors #book blog #writing blog #hard left turn #sandstorm fucking slaps #but i was not expecting ned flanders