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i hate you "pair the spares"/"everyone must be paired" tropes, i hate you forced last minute romances, i hate you implication that a happy ending means a romantic partner, i hate you amatonormativity

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i love tragedy i love circular narratives i love ppl who cannot escape their fate & characters that have been dead since the beginning

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you ever get surprised by your own recurring issues. like come on man. I thought we were past this.

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just heard a skeleton skitter past ...

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the butterfly prince

#art

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Simon Harsent - Irene. Photographs taken at Jones beach after hurricane Irene had passed through.

#inspo

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hi I'm from your pseudo-medieval fantasy city. yeah. you forgot to put farms around us. we have very impressive walls and stuff but everyone here is starving. the hero showed up here as part of his quest and we killed and ate him

#writing resources

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there are so many things on gods green earth that are not platonic but are also not romantic. the erotic, the familial, the unconditional, weird codependency, weird codependency (hatred edition), etc. let us all broaden our horizons

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something they don’t tell you about being autistic is that every character you write WILL end up autistic/autistic-coded whether you like it or not

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big fan of characters that are as pathetic as they are terrifying

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IDGAF if the women in my fiction are empowering or aspirational, I'm an adult, I don't need role models, I want the women in my fiction to be interesting, and if that involves being pathetic, hypocritical, amoral, or trapped in a delightfully dysfunctional relationship so be it

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Keep reading

#others' writing #GOOD FOOD #we are being fed lads #all of these look very interesting but Metalsea and IQRUS are especially interesting. to me. #I can't wait to dig in!!

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I think female characters who have experienced extreme violence should get to hold anger in their heart without it being seen as a moral failing

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Thank you vile thank you grotesque thank you grimey thank you hideous thank you freakish thank you bizzare thank you monstrous thank you loathsome thank you revolting thank you sordid

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It's about devotion and obsession. It's ALWAYS about devotion and obsession. And hunger. It's love with teeth.

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[COVERED IN BLOOD] Perhaps the world is slightly brighter having me in it.

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my main advice for writing an enemies to lovers relationship is to resist the urge to make the characters' loathing and attraction mutually exclusive opposing forces. it's okay if they're getting weirdly into it and having Thoughts whilst also sincerely wanting to kill each other with hammers.

#this is coded for two very special characters. for me.