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Okay, I’m sorry but I just feel so restless about the bushfires, I made a mini-comic. Maybe it will get a few more people to donate. I wish I could do more.  Please see http://wires.org.au if you want to help. :(

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How are penguins not extinct?

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playing with ocs is either

or 

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Writing Prompt #101

“Who’s a good boy? You are! You’re a good boy!” “Babe, I know you think it’s funny and all cuz I’m a werewolf, but that’s pretty patronizing. I just want to wash the dishes in peace.”

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Writing Prompt #248

“You’re a…a…”

“A werewolf.”

“And you didn’t tell me? That’s…that’s…Dude. That’s the coolest thing, why wouldn’t you tell me? I’m so pissed right now, holy shit.”

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When writing a blind character, what are some things to avoid?

Ah! So this is definitely a bit of a broad question, but I can give a few basics:

Blind people don’t actually give a shit about touching faces, so please, please stear clear of that. The only exceptions may be the same way sighted lovers may caress each other’s faces and parents may hold a child’s face in an emotional moment, but it’s just like a sighted lover or parent would, nothing more.

Please avoid giving your character a cure. One of the most crushing things as a disabled reader is to finally have a disabled character, but for them to end up with a fantastic magic cure half-way through. It rarely makes for a good story, and often a much better story is that person’s journey in understanding themselves as equal and learning that they aren’t broken and useless and can do whatever they want, overcoming internalized ableism rather than “overcoming the disability.”

Few blind people actually wear sunglasses or eye coverings, so your character probably won’t either if the likelyhood says anything. Chances are they will not be part of that minority, so probably better not to do that.

Something similar can be said for characters with white or cloudy eyes. The vast majority of blind people will not have very abnormal-looking eyes, so chances are your character will not be part of that minority.

Another very similar thing should be noted about the level of vision they will have. Somewhere between 80 and 90% of blind people have some level of remaining vision, weather it be little more than light perception or enough that they were forced to use their eyes a lot growing up and weren’t taught braille or to use a cane because they could get by well enough not to die most of the time.

So these are just the first several things I can think of at the moment, but definitely feel free to ask about more things!

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Look, if you want to be an LGBTQ+ ally in/with your writing- then be the Rick Riordan, not the JK Rowling.

Don’t add in the fact one of your characters is gay after everything is said and done with. Outright put your character in as LGBT. Don’t just give tiny hints and use it to your advantage when you want to say you have diversity in characters.

Dumbledore was gay- Um, only on Twitter i guess bc nowhere in Harry Potter does is say that.

Nico DiAngelo is gay- Uh yup, he had a crush on a main character, was literally outed by a god of love, went through the experience of coming out himself (and gaining acceptance from others), was able to accept himself, as well as getting himself a boyfriend.

If you decide to make a character gay later on, after you’ve written things- that’s okay. But make sure that character is most assuredly LGBT. Don’t just use it to make yourself look woke.

Look, I love JK Rowlings work, and she’s a pretty awesome lady (for the most part. There’s some questionable things but for the most part she’s okay) and you know what, Rick didn’t outright state Nico was gay in the first series. Just slight hints and barely any at that. But the second series? He fixed that right up. He confirmed Nico was gay and continued to confirm it in actual published writing.

Be the Riordan, not the Rowling.

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straight people write gay kisses saying ‘it felt so wrong […]’ and it’s just so… inaccurate from my experience? kissing girls is the only thing that ever felt right in my gay life

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Writing Mood

ITS CURRENTLY 1:14 IN THE MORNING AND I WANT TO WRITE FAN FICS, I WANT TO WORK ON MY ORIGINAL STORIES, IM SO INSPIRED BUT I FEEL LIKE IM GONNA PASS OUT FROM HOW TIRED I AM AND I KNOW I WONT HAVE THIS MOTIVATION TOMORROW H E L P

#struggles #writer #writer problems #inspiration #up late #up all night #what even is sleep #fan fics #original story #tired #tired writer

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Me: I’m gonna write today!

Writer’s Block:

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if you’re struggling for AU ideas take a look-see at this list i wrote for my friend who dubbed it “better than the 10 commandments" 

1)     Coffee shop AU

i)       Barista and person who has a ridiculous coffee order

ii)      I’m worried about your coffee dependency

iii)     you accidentally poured boiling hot coffee over me so you’re responsible for taking me to A&E

iv)     you give me a different fake name every time you come into starbucks and I just want to know your real name bc ur cute but here I am scrawling “batman” onto your stupid cappuccino

2)      Flower shop AU

i)       You buy a weird amount of flowers and I’m concerned as to why

ii)      I’m allergic to flowers but I work in a flower shop – you’re a customer who’s very confused as to why I’d do that

iii)     (this is also a good way to incorporate flower meanings eg, buying certain colours/types for person to represent feelings etc.)

3)      Library AU

i)       You’re overdue on this book and I want it so I’m tracking u the fuck down

ii)      I work in the library and I’m a little concerned for your health bc you never stop studying

iii)     The library’s pretty empty save for you and me and OH that couple making out loudly in the shelves somewhere

4)      Awful first time meeting

i)       I accidentally punched you in the face when I was too overexcited about something

ii)      I thought you were my friend who’s just done something awful to me (read: cut my hair while I slept, dyed all of my clothes pink, etc. etc.) because you look similar from behind so I stormed up to you and shoved you from behind while calling you an asshole

iii)     You get the gist to this one

iv)     Oooh when you told me your name I thought you were joking because it’s fucking awful and I made a joke about it and things got awkward real fucking fast (perfect for a Hannibal au just saying)

5)      Weird places to meet/awkward meetings in general

i)       We live in the same block of flats but haven’t ever talked and Sunday morning we were both doing the walk of shame and had to stand in the lift together

ii)      “okay I know that being in the woods at 2am is a weird thing to be doing but my friend called me and- wait, why are you in the woods at 2am, fuck I’m going to die aren’t I?”

iii)     A personal favourite of mine – first day at a new job and oh fuck my boss is the person I drunkenly hooked up with last weekend/night

iv)     We keep accidentally running into each other I’m not a stalker I swear

v)      You live across from me in our apartments and we smile when we see each other but we don’t really know each other and oh you’re the stripper at my friend’s stag do/hen night fuck this is really uncomfortable

vi)     “My shower’s broken but I’ve got a date tonight could I possibly use your shower please?” “Oh sure (neighbour that I’ve been crushing on for the past six months) of course you can use my shower to get ready for your date (fuck fuck fuck)”

6)      Friends to romance – pining and all that wonderful shit

i)       You’ve got a date tonight and you asked for advice on what to wear but I’m so in love with you and damn you look good in the outfit I picked out for you

ii)      I really like you but you’re my best friend’s ex

iii)     You’ve liked me for ages and were really obvious about it and I didn’t like all the attention but now you’re over me I really miss it and fuck I think I like you too?

iv)     Somewhere along the way of getting into bar fights together, staying up all night with movie marathons, other friendship things, I’ve fallen in love with you but oh my god this could ruin EVERYTHING

v)      Friends with benefits oh wait I like you

7)      FAKE DATING HOLY SHIT I LIVE FOR THIS

i)       It’s my highschool reunion and I need a hot date so I can rub it in the faces of the people who hated me

ii)      My homophobic parents are coming to visit will you pretend to date me as an extra “fuck you”?

iii)     There’s a person who won’t stop bugging me will you pretend to be my partner so that they’ll fuck off?

iv)     I told my sister I have a boyfriend so she’d stop trying to set me up with people but now she’s coming to visit and I’m in too deep I need a fake boyf ASAP

8)      Soulmate aus

i)       The first words your true love(s) will say to you are tattooed on you and why the fuck are their first words something really ridiculous like ‘I’ll pay you a tenner to punch me in the face’ or ‘quick what’s your favourite animal’ or ‘fucking shit hell holy fuck wow oh my god jesus h Christ fuck me’ etc. or even worse a really ridiculous song lyric like  the opening lines of uptown funk or a high school musical song or smthing did you have to serenade me the first time you saw me asshole?

ii)      You get an ‘impression’ of your soulmate when you turn 18 or something but all I got was a strong smell of bananas or an overwhelming feeling that Thatcher was a good prime minister or an image in my mind of a fucking unicorn

iii)     The more ridiculous the better actually

iv)     Something like whenever your soulmate sings a duet you can’t help but join in and my fucking soulmate is in a goddamn band but I can’t sing for shit

v)      Or maybe something like soulmates always sneeze at the same time and I cant be sure but me and this kid in my French class just sneezed at the same time are we soulmates or was it a coincidence (proceed w character trying to make themselves sneeze around said person to see what’s what)

9)      Alternate universes for real

i)       Mermaids

ii)      Siren and asexual pirate who doesn’t understand why all his crew are losing their shit that person has a nice voice sure but what the fuck is happening

iii)     Hogwarts

iv)     We live in a world where the greek gods are real and you went and got yourself cursed and now I have to go on a fucking quest to sort this shit out why do I love you again?

v)      Pacific rim au (either they’re drift compatible or one of them is a ranger and the other stresses constantly bc what if they die yes I have read a fic like this no I didn’t come up with this one but it’s fucking good) (also if you haven’t seen that film go watch it now)

vi)     Literally any movie or book universe you like tbh just go for it

10)   Other aus that I like

i)       I wanted to go on the ferris wheel but there has to be two people to a cart come on random person let’s go oh wait are we stuck at the top? Fuck

ii)      We work in the same office and you have a goddamn squeaky chair and you wONT FUCKING STOP SQUEAKING IT BECAUSE YOU KNOW IT ANNOYS ME

iii)     Our mutual friend set us up on a blind date and I thought I’d hate it but you’re actually… kind of funny? But because I expected to hate it in no way am I going to let you change my mind just because you’re gorgeous and funny and intelligent oh no my friend is not winning this

iv)     It started to snow and I’m the only one of our friends who would go outside with you – I soon found out why none of the others would go out in the snow with you (this works best if they’re new friends who don’t know each other all that well) when you shoved a handful of snow down my back and declared snow war

v)      It’s nowhere near Christmas it’s literally still November would you calm down about Christmas wait no why are you getting the tree out no stop please stop (if you do this pre-relationship you can have the grouchy one secretly finding the other’s excitement endearing and falling in love with them actually that works for established relationship too)

vi)     Current partner got a new job in America (or other country far away) and we’re getting by on skype calls and emails but it’s not easy and then I met someone new (can be poly or can be finding the OTP person)

vii)   You want us both to get in shape and I hate working out/running but your ass looks really good in shorts oh the things I do for my friends and their nice asses

viii)  Carrying on from 10.vii. you’ve caught me checking you out in what I thought was a subtle way too many times and now you’re calling me out on it what do I do???

ix)     You’re an actor/other famous person that I really admire and I just saw you in the street and as I was debating whether or not to say hi you came up to me and started flirting what do I do??

x)      You were waving at your friend behind me but I got confused and waved back at you and now I’m dying of embarrassment but you think it’s cute

xi)     I sat down in the wrong class and I’m panicking but don’t want to get up and leave because the class has started and you think it’s hilarious and shut up you dumb fuck you don’t know me aahhh

xii)   I’m a waiter at this wedding and you’re a drunk guest who will not stop hitting on me please I’m trying to work no I can’t dance with you omg let me find you some water

xiii)  Our best friends are that awful ‘cute’ couple that make-out in public and call each other “sweetie” and “sugar” and “babe” and god they’re awful let’s talk about how awful they are – develops into “shit we’re the awful couple now”

xiv)  You pissed me off in class so I threw a book at your head and now I’m in detention and jesus fuck I hate you so much and the teacher made me apologise and wait you’re cuter up close and the way you talk is kind of nice actually oh fuck no

Okay I could go on forever but this is over 1,500 words of auing already I have too many ideas christ

send me some to @theskyis-forever with a pairing for me to write :)

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when you forget about an oc for an extended period of time

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straight people write gay kisses saying ‘it felt so wrong […]’ and it’s just so… inaccurate from my experience? kissing girls is the only thing that ever felt right in my gay life

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Look, if you want to be an LGBTQ+ ally in/with your writing- then be the Rick Riordan, not the JK Rowling.

Don’t add in the fact one of your characters is gay after everything is said and done with. Outright put your character in as LGBT. Don’t just give tiny hints and use it to your advantage when you want to say you have diversity in characters.

Dumbledore was gay- Um, only on Twitter i guess bc nowhere in Harry Potter does is say that.

Nico DiAngelo is gay- Uh yup, he had a crush on a main character, was literally outed by a god of love, went through the experience of coming out himself (and gaining acceptance from others), was able to accept himself, as well as getting himself a boyfriend.

If you decide to make a character gay later on, after you’ve written things- that’s okay. But make sure that character is most assuredly LGBT. Don’t just use it to make yourself look woke.

Look, I love JK Rowlings work, and she’s a pretty awesome lady (for the most part. There’s some questionable things but for the most part she’s okay) and you know what, Rick didn’t outright state Nico was gay in the first series. Just slight hints and barely any at that. But the second series? He fixed that right up. He confirmed Nico was gay and continued to confirm it in actual published writing.

Be the Riordan, not the Rowling.

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Ye’ Olde Rock and Roll

Summary: A tiny knight stumbles upon a human punk rocker

Author Note: You can thank @lassie-magic-bean and her love for tiny knights for this fic

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6. Borrow

Welp, we could say that things were not going as expected by Michael today.

You see, Michael was a borrower, which meant that his life was based on surviving and living hidden in some human bean house. And, because of that, he could never take what he didn’t need - basically, everything that wasn’t rope, food, water, electricity, among other stuff - but, most of that, he could never be seen. If he was, he would have to leave and search for a new life in a new house with a new bean to live with.

Michael, most of the times, would just leave his hideout at night; that way the chances of being caught would decrease. Or if he felt confident enough, he’d leave during the day, when he was sure that the human he was living with wouldn’t be at home for a couple hours. And, guess what, today was one of those days when he felt confident enough to leave during the day.

Oh boy would he regret doing that.

Michael saw the human go to his bedroom with a tired look on his face. “He’s probably going to take a nap, maybe this would be a good time to go grab some food for later” was his first though.

Grabbing his hook and putting his bag on his back, he left his hiding place with a cautious look, making sure that the human wasn’t about to just enter in the kitchen and grab him and do things to him that just God knew what.

Trying to vanish those awful thoughts from his mind, he started climbing the counter top, with his target being a couple crumbs of bread that the human was eating earlier on that same day. For the human that wouldn’t be enough not even for a snack, but when you’re just four inches tall, that would be just perfect for a few three or four meals.

When he finally reached the counter top, he though of whether he should grab his hook back or not, but then he decided that he should just leave it there. That way it would take him less work when going back “home”, he though.

After grabbing what he needed, the crumbs of bread left by the human, he was going on his way back to his hideout when he noticed that something was missing. His hook had fell on the ground, which meant that there was no way of going back to the ground.

Michael was about to start hyperventilating when he just heard a jar being slammed right beside him. He froze.

Through the glass all he could see was the human, looking at him with the biggest brown eyes he ever saw. The human was holding his phone on the little borrower’s direction, which just made Michael more scared and more intimidated. He was going to just start screaming and pleading at the human to free him when the human just spoke.

“See? I knew I wasn’t crazy! I knew it was just not my mind playing with me! He’s really here and he just looks so tiny…” The human grinned, with a big smile on his face, just fascinated at what he had captured.

Michael just felt like he was about to pass out. He had just been seen by a human which was the only rule that he couldn’t break.

“You had one rule”, he though, “you just had one thing that you could never let happen and now look at you, you’re just here, trapped by a human who happens to be recording you and who is probably about to just show your entire species to the world”. Guilt started taking over Michael’s little mind and he just felt… useless.

“What? He even has a tiny little hook!” noticed the human as he grabbed his hook between his thumb and his pointing finger. “It’s so small, where did he get this from?!”

Every word echoed on Michael’s little ears which just made him feel worse and worse. He was about to just sit on the ground and hug his legs and wait for the worst when he just saw a hand coming to him and rudely grab his so precious bag.

“Oh my god, he also keeps a little bag?! This is insane!” Said the human as his grin just got bigger which made Michael feel smaller and smaller as he felt tears that he didn’t even notice he was holding falling from his face. “P-please… not my bag…” he pleaded at the human. This human could destroy everything he had, but no, not his bag. His bag that was his parents’ bag and it was practically the only thing that he kept from them and the feeling of the human just easily taking it from him just made him feel worse and he just felt more tears falling from his face.

The human just saw something that he wasn’t expecting from the little man: his lips just started moving, which meant he could talk. He didn’t really get what he was trying to say but he realized that he looked very scared and that his eyes were super wet from the tears that just kept falling from his face. “Oh my, you’re also able to talk?! You’re really amazing, little dude… w-wait, are you crying?” Then, Michael he just saw an expression that he though he could never get a change to see from a human towards him: concern.

After that, the human just started understanding what was really happening and what he had done; he felt like an asshole. 

“I-I didn’t know you were able to talk, how could I even know you were going to just… just…” the human wanted to say “start crying and plead for your life” but he he didn’t feel that those words were able to come out from his mouth. He just though that everything he did after this encounter could never be forgiven.

“I’m really sorry for… for trapping you… hm… urgh…” the human wanted to apologize for everything that he had done for the little man but those tears falling from his face along with the quick breaths just made him freeze and don’t know what to do or what to say. “P-please stop crying little one… I didn’t w-want to harm you like this… I-I swear I would never hurt you on purpose! I just… I just saw you there a-and… I just had to get a closer look…”

Michael slowly started looking at the human’s face and realizing that he really looked like he was trying to make amends. The human just looked so clumsy over his words and he really didn’t know what to do or what to feel right now about the human… should he be mad at him for trapping him like he was some sort of rodent or should he accept the human’s apologies for sparing his life?

Michael was just about to ask him if he could give him his bag back and ask him to let him go when he just realized that he wasn’t really able to breath when he was under the jar. How could he have not noticed that earlier?!

The human was about to keep trying to convince the little man the he didn’t mean any harm to him - of course that was an almost impossible thing to do after what he had just done to him - when he just noticed that the little man stood up and just started to bang the jar’s glass walls. Was he trying to break the glass and run away?

“L-little one? What’s happening? What are you trying to tell me?! I really can’t hear you when you’re down that jar…” he told Michael as Michael was trying to tell him “I can’t breathe! Please let me out quickly!

“W-wait, you want to go out right? That’s what you want me to do? To free you?” the borrower just kept banging the walls of the jar and he realized that he was probably right, and so he just took the glass prison away from the little thing.

As Michael got free and was able to breathe again, he fell on the floor on his knees and just started hyperventilating.

When he started feeling better now that he could breathe, he looked at the human and asked if he could give his backpack back to him.

“Oh! S-sure! I am sorry for taking it in first place, I really wasn’t thinking… I didn’t hurt you when I grabbed your arm, did I?” Said the human as he gave Michael’s bag back to him and saw how glad and relieved he looked knowing that his bag was on his hands now. 

Shyly, Michael looked back at the human, still scared of him but feeling that he should say something to him. “T-thank you for giving my bag… a-and, you know… for letting me out of that jar…” He wiped away one last tear that had fell.

Well, the human wasn’t really expecting to hear a “thank you” after everything that had happened before. “Y-you’re welcome little o- hm…” he just realized that he really didn’t know what was the little guy’s name and he just felt that calling him “little one” and “tiny one” would probably not be what he liked to be called by.

“M-Michael, that’s my name. I am Michael.” Michael wasn’t really sure if he should just tell the bean his name but he just realized that he didn’t have much to loose whether he told him or not.

“H-hello Michael!” the human said as he gave him a small smile, trying not to scare more the little thing, Michael, he remembered, than he already was. “M-my name is Jonathan. Hm… you can call me just John, if you’d like to.”

“O-okay John…”

“It’s a pleasure to meet you, Michael!” said John as he lend a finger to Michael, trying to get a handshake from him. 

“Hm… i-it’s a pleasure to meet you as well, John.” Michael and John then shook “hands”, as Michael started to answer the hundred of questions the human had about him. 

Maybe this human wasn’t so bad after all, he though.

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Tropes that are totally overused and I love them to death

grumpy jerk and actual ray of sunshine are BFFs

mutual unrequited pining

character A falls fast and hard for character B

character A slowly falls in love with character B over the course of several years, realization hits them that they’ve been in love with B for a long time hits them like a truck

cool badass is actually a giant fucking nerd

The Power of Friendship ™

flat “what” reactions

sweet adorable characters with horrible tragic pasts

villains-turned-heroes becoming the Weird Uncle

characters that aren’t actually related having a parent-child relationship

characters that aren’t actually siblings having a sibling-like bond

“I can’t stand this person but I would die for them”