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perpetual-stories · 3 years

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How To Fight Writers Block

hello, hello. hope everyone is doing well. as you can all tell, this post will be about how to fight writers block.

it’s really annoying to me when I hear people say “oh you don’t have writers block, you’re just lazy.”

first of all, yes, I am naturally lazy. second of all, how dare you. writing isn’t as easy as many think. granted, all you have to do is write down words on paper, but it’s not always easy to find the right words to express what you are feeling, or what you wish to say.

I have had terrible writer’s block for the last few days and it’s horrible! as a business owner or a small writing store, I have to be ready to write and fulfill my clients’ ideas and orders.

it’s not easy. It takes a heavy toll on my imagination, and digs me a deep pit of blockage, drowning in the lack of originality because of the constant writing and repetition or certain phrases and sentences in different projects.

i am making this post in the hopes to remind myself about over coming the dreaded and sometimes skeptically believed writer’s block.

What is writer’s block?

Yeah, I know. We all know what that is, but let me define it.

is the state of being unable to proceed with writing, and/or the inability to start writing something new

some people believe it to be a real problem, others believe it's “all in your head”

What Causes Writer’s Block?

in the 1970s, clinical psychologists Jerome Singer and Michael Barrios decided to find out

they concluded that there are four broad causes of writer's block:

Excessively harsh self-criticism

Fear of comparison to other writers

Lack of external motivation, like attention and praise

Lack of internal motivation, like the desire to tell one's story

How to overcome writer's block: 20 tips

1. Develop a writing routine:

Author and artist Twyla Tharp once wrote: “Creativity is a habit, and the best creativity is a result of good work habits.”

it might seem counterintuitive

if you only write when you “feel creative,” you're bound to get stuck in a tar pit of writer's block

The only way to push through is by disciplining yourself to write on a regular schedule. It might be every day, every other day, or just on weekends — but whatever it is, stick to it!

2. Use "imperfect" words:

A writer can spend hours looking for the perfect word or phrase to illustrate a concept

You can avoid this fruitless endeavor by putting, “In other words…” and simply writing what you’re thinking, whether it’s eloquent or not

You can then come back and refine it later by doing a CTRL+F search for “in other words.”

3. Do non-writing activities:

one of the best ways to climb out of a writing funk is to take yourself out of your own work and into someone else’s

Go to an exhibition, to the cinema, to a play, a gig, eat a delicious meal

immerse yourself in great STUFF and get your synapses crackling in a different way

Snippets of conversations, sounds, colors, sensations will creep into the space that once felt empty

4. Freewrite through it:

free-writing involves writing for a pre-set amount of time without pause — and without regard for grammar, spelling, or topic. You just write.

The goal of freewriting is to write without second-guessing yourself — free from doubt, apathy, or self-consciousness, all of which contribute to writer's block. Here’s how:

Find the right surroundings. Go somewhere you won't be disturbed.

Pick your writing utensils. Will you type at your computer, or write with pen and paper? (Tip: if you're prone to hitting the backspace button, you should freewrite the old-fashioned way!)

Settle on a time-limit. Your first time around, set your timer for just 10 minutes to get the feel for it. You can gradually increase this interval as you grow more comfortable with freewriting.

5. Relax on your first draft:

Many writers suffer form perfectionism, which is especially debilitating during a first draft

“Blocks often occur because writers put a lot of pressure on themselves to sound ‘right’ the first time. A good way to loosen up and have fun again in a draft is to give yourself permission to write imperfectly.” — editor Lauren Hughes

perfect is the enemy of good,” so don't agonize about getting it exactly right! You can always go back and edit, maybe even get a second pair of eyes on the manuscript

6. Don’t start at the beginning:

the most intimidating part of writing is the start, when you have a whole empty book to fill with coherent words

instead of starting with the chronological beginning of whatever it is you’re trying to write, dive into middle, or wherever you feel confident

7. Take a shower:

Have you ever noticed that the best ideas tend to arrive while in the shower, or while doing other “mindless” tasks?

research shows that when you’re doing something monotonous (such as showering, walking, or cleaning), your brain goes on autopilot, leaving your unconscious free to wander without logic-driven restrictions

showering is my favourite thing to do if I may add

8. Balance your inner critic:

successful writers have in common is the ability to hear their inner critic, respectfully acknowledge its points, and move forward

You don't need to completely ignore that critical voice, nor should you cower before it

you must establish a respectful, balanced relationship, so you can address what's necessary and skip over what's insecure and irrelevant

9. Switch up your tool:

a change of scenery can really help with writer's block. However, that scenery doesn't have to be your physical location — changing up your writing tool can be just as big a help!

if you’ve been typing on your word processor of choice, try switching to pen and paper. Or if you're just sick of Google Docs, consider using specialized novel writing software.

10. Change your POV:

great advice from editor Lauren Hughes: “When blocked, try to see your story from another perspective ‘in the room’ to help yourself move beyond the block. How might a minor character narrate the scene if they were witnessing it? A ‘fly on the wall’ or another inanimate object?

11. Exercise your creative muscles:

Any skill requires practice if you want to improve, and writing is no different! So if you’re feeling stuck, perhaps it’s time for a strengthening scribble-session to bolster your abilities

12. Map out your story:

If your story has stopped chugging along, help it pick up steam by taking a more structured approach — specifically, by writing an outline

13. Write something else:

Though it's important to try and push through writer's block with what you're actually working on, sometimes it's simply impossible

feel free to push your current piece to the side for now and write something new

14. Work on your characters:

It follows that if your characters are not clearly defined, you’re more likely to run into writer’s block

15. Stop writing for readers:

write for yourself, not your potential readers

this will help you reclaim the joy of being creative and get you back in touch with what matters: the story.

this is something I really need to do. because of my etsy business i don't write for fun anymore, but instead as a business and a deadline. i'm going to have to pull out my old crappy wattled fanfics or write some new ones.

16. Try a more visual process:

when words fail you, forget them and get visual. Create mind maps, drawings, Lego structures — ideally related to your story, but whatever unblocks your mind!

17. Look for the root of it:

writer’s block often comes from a problem deeper than simple “lack of inspiration.” So let's dig deep: why are you really blocked? Ask yourself the following questions:

Do I feel pressure to succeed and/or competition with other writers?

Have I lost sight of what my story is about, or interest in where it's going?

Do I lack confidence in my own abilities, even if I've written plenty before?

Have I not written for so long that I feel intimidated by the mere act?

Am I simply feeling tired and run-down?

once you identify what's wrong, it'll be so much easier to fix.

18. Quit the Internet:

If willpower isn’t your strong suit and your biggest challenge is staying focused, try a site blocker like Freedom or an app like Cold Turkey

19. Let the words find you:

meditate, go for a walk, take that shower

Word Palette is a great app that features a keyboard of random words, allowing you to simply click your way to your next masterpiece.

You can also try AI auto-completers like Talk to Transformer, where you can enter a phrase and let the app “guess what comes next.”

even though they often produce nonsense, it's a great way to help that writer's block.

20. Write like Hemingway:

And if your biggest block is your own self-doubt about your prose, Hemingway offers suggestions to improve your writing as you go

it's a pretty cool app if you ask me.

it highlights your sentences (if need be) and makes suggestions on how to improve them!

well, there you have it! a lengthy post on how to fight writer's block. now i just hope i can combat my own soon.

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myforeverforlife · 4 years

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my endless blue.

For @jenmyeons Junmyeon and 117. "Can I do your hair?" + 149. "I just need ten minutes, please." (Thank you for sending this in! I hope you like it! ❤️)

Pairing: Junmyeon x Reader

Word Count: 3,775

Masterlist

You didn't know much about the second prince.

Everyone in the country knew of the first prince, generous, reticent, humble Crown Prince Minseok. The third and fourth princes were also well-known, both of them praised for their artistic talents in music and dance, respectively. But Prince Junmyeon always seemed to be leaving to far-off lands, never staying at the castle for more than a week or two. He was said to have an agreeable temper, polite to all that he met and yet, he never stayed long enough for anyone outside the castle to truly get to know him. There were a multitude of rumors surrounding him: that the prince was the odd one out scorned by his family, that he was afflicted with a severe rash, that he was jealous of his older brother.

You knew better than to believe in the gossip. Your art took up most of your attention anyways, many an hour spent in your airy studio with only canvases and a rainbow of paints. Although you weren't born into a high-ranking family, you had garnered fame and renown through your vivid, emotion-filled pieces.

However, it still came as a shock when you were summoned before the king and queen.

Donned in your best clothing, each crease and fold carefully ironed out, you made your way to the castle. You were hyperaware of your surroundings, soaking in each new sight and sound as your journey brought you closer to the castle. It was an out-of-body experience, being led inside and walking down the hallways, floors intricately lain with decorative tiles in the royal colors. Even as your presence was announced, you could hardly believe that you were about to lay eyes on the king and queen — in person!

The doors swung open, your feet automatically taking steps forward. There, at the other end of the throne room sat the king and queen. Your steps faltered for a second when you realized that there was another person beside them, a face you had never seen before.

You dipped into a low bow once you reached them, gloved hands resting over your stomach. "Your Majesties," you greeted them. "I'm honored to be in your presence."

"We're thankful that you came all this way," the queen replied graciously. She gestured to the man standing beside her. "The king and I have a favor to ask of you regarding our son."

Son? Your eyes widened at the sudden realization — this must Prince Junmyeon.

The man in question was strikingly handsome, hands clasped behind his back as he stood with ramrod-straight posture. Not a single lock of his raven-black hair was out of place, and while his jawline was sharp and sculpted, his round cheeks gave his face an overall boyish appearance. But the prince didn't spare you a glance, gaze fixed on a single point on the floor.

The king cleared his throat, Prince Junmyeon blinking as if coming out of a stupor. He looked up, eyes meeting yours before dipping his head slightly.

"Prince Junmyeon, pleasure to make your acquaintance." But despite his words, his voice seemed empty, devoid of any warmth.

"Junmyeon is set to be wed by the end of the year," the king spoke up. "As per royal tradition, Junmyeon will gift his betrothed with a self-portrait as an engagement present. It is an opportunity for him to showcase his talents, as well as to display the most appealing image of himself. However, painting is something that my son has, ahem, never been particularly skilled in." The king shot his son an apologetic look. "And as we had heard of your wonderful artistry..." his voice grew faint.

"You would like me to paint his portrait?"

"Ah, no," the king said quickly. "That would not be in accordance with the tradition. We would like you to give Prince Junmyeon lessons to help him acquire the skills that he needs."

"You would be paid handsomely, of course," the queen added.

The prince was in need of art lessons? You snuck another peek at him, taking in the way his dark brows had a slight furrow in between them, the way his lips were pressed into a thin line. "I've never taught before, I wouldn't want to be a burden to you, Your Highness." Your last words were directed to the prince, waiting to see what his response would be.

Prince Junmyeon flinched as if he had been stung, clearing his throat roughly. "It would be no burden at all," he said stiffly.

The king clapped his hands together, beaming widely. "Then it's settled! We are greatly indebted to you."

"It is no trouble to me," you replied with another tiny bow. Even when you looked back up, the prince's face was just as impassive as before. You couldn't decipher any emotion on his face besides boredom and what seemed like suppressed annoyance. The prince was a mystery, hiding his true self under the mask that he wore.

And yet for some reason, you couldn't help but want to find out what lay underneath.

The second prince sat hunched over, one arm resting on his leg as he brushed globs of paint across his canvas. It was an posture unaccustomed to painting, but you held your tongue.

Before you could even begin lessons, you needed a clear picture of your pupil's current abilities. It was hard not to jump in when he first started painting his nose, much to your discomfort. Personally, you would have done a rough sketch first, starting with the edges of your face and working inwards. The prince shocked you even further when he moved on to paint his ears, facial features appearing on the canvas in an strange sequence. To add onto that, everything was out of proportion, creating a sort of optical illusion for the viewer.

You were itching to speak up, to fix the oddities that you had noticed in the past fifteen minutes. "Your Highness, I think this is fine. We can move on to other things, you've already got your entire face done."

"Oh, I just need ten minutes, please." Prince Junmyeon looked at you over his shoulder, blinking innocently.

Suppressing an impatient sigh, you forced a smile onto your face. "Ten minutes, then."

And so, you waited another agonizing ten minutes until the prince finally set down his paintbrush. "Well? What do you think?" he asked, crossing his arms across his chest.

"It's... very unique," you managed to say. "You've used a lot of color in your self-portrait, Your Highness."

It was true: Prince Junmyeon had used almost every available color provided. Dark green shadows framed the edges of his face, orange highlights running down his nose and lips painted a vivid red. How he managed to even paint blue onto his cheeks, you had no idea.

Prince Junmyeon let out a snort, taking you by surprise. "You don't need to compliment me to make me feel better. It's horrendous, I know."

"Well... do you like it?"

"What?" The prince frowned at your question.

"Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. While I may not have done a self-portrait in this way, it doesn't matter what I think, as long as your art speaks to you. Do you believe that this represents you the way that you would like to be seen?"

Prince Junmyeon turned back to his portrait, unable to help the small chuckle that escaped from his lips. "I would hope that no one saw this and thought it was me."

"Which part are you dissatisfied with?"

"Honestly, all of it." The prince ran a hand through his hair, forgetting about the paint on his fingers. "I didn't even want to do this ridiculous self-portrait in the first place, much less get married." His last words came out in a whisper.

You hadn't thought much of the prince's marriage, taking it as an accepted and natural way of life for him. Not once had you thought that he might have any objection to it, though looking back on it all, Prince Junmyeon hadn't shown an inkling of interest in his marriage.

"I'm sorry to hear that," you said truthfully. "I can't imagine what it must be like to be in your position."

The prince opened his mouth as if to speak before closing it and looking away. "Thank you," he replied after a few seconds of silence. "But it can't be helped. This is what I was born into, and so I must deal with it as it comes." He straightened up in his seat, hands resting on his knees. "Well? Where do we start from here?"

You gave the painting another once-over, eyes zeroing in on something. Reaching out for his paintbrush and palette, you took a step closer to the easel. "Can I do your hair? You have good, defined strokes here, but they're lacking variation in color."

Junmyeon watched as you mixed a few colors on your palette, creating one that was a few shades lighter than the one he used to paint his hair. He watched in awe as you added the new color to the painting, effortlessly adding more dimension.

"Wow," he breathed out. "It looks better already."

A proud smile came to your face. "It's nothing much. If you would like to do a more realistic portrait, it's important to include light and shadows as well. But there's also nothing wrong with taking a more abstract approach."

"Oh no," the prince replied quickly. "I think I'm done dealing with the abstract for a while." A grimace found its way onto his face as he stared at his artwork. "I have a lot of work ahead of me, don't I?"

"If it helps, you only have to do one painting."

Junmyeon burst into laughter, leaning back in his seat with his eyes closed. "It's an unusual way to cheer someone up, but you've succeeded. You're an interesting one, Teacher Y/N."

You scrunched your nose up upon hearing the title he had attached to your name. "Just Y/N, please. It's so strange to hear my name like that."

"Then I ask that you do the same for me as well."

"Your Highness, I couldn't — "

Junmyeon lifted a finger, your words instantly coming to a halt. "Try it. No formal titles, just my name — like between friends."

The idea was ridiculous to you. Friends, with the prince? But you thought of how lonely he seemed, always leaving for trips far away from the castle, alienated by rumors and burdened with a marriage that he didn't ask for. Maybe what the prince needed most wasn't lessons, but a friend.

"Alright then," you began hesitantly. "Junmyeon."

The prince's face lit up, chasing away the gloom that had been hanging over him all day. "That's more like it.”

Junmyeon always complained whenever you looked over his shoulder, claiming that he felt even more nervous when he could feel your eyes on him. You always spent the first half of your lessons introducing new techniques and tips, and then gave him the rest of the time to put them into practice. Only at the end of the lesson would the prince show you his work for the day.

You sat in a chair across from the prince and his easel, an easel and canvas of your own set up.

"What are you painting?" Junmyeon asked, peeking out from behind his easel.

"It's a secret," you replied with a smirk.

"Ah, don't be like that. You know what I'm painting."

"That's because you only have one task at hand, Your Highness."

"Hey." Your head shot up at the unexpected sternness in your pupil's voice. "You're doing it again."

You let out a weary sigh. "My apologies, Junmyeon."

Junmyeon set his paintbrush down, the handle clattering against the small table by his side. "Are you really that uncomfortable with calling me by my name?" he asked softly.

You paused in the midst of a brush stroke. "You're a prince, Junmyeon. It's hard to break the habit when I know who you are."

A somber look came into Junmyeon's eye. "I understand what you mean. I suppose it's one of the reasons why I enjoy traveling all the time." He seemed to forget that you were there, caught up in his own thoughts as he spoke. "Outside the kingdom, even outside this castle, very few people know what I look like. It makes it easy for me to blend in with everyone else, to pretend that I'm another ordinary person."

Junmyeon was far from ordinary, prince or not, but you kept this to yourself. He would only tease you about it, giggling at your embarassment.

"It sounds very freeing," you said instead.

"Free," Junmyeon repeated. "It is, truly. But my parents argue that I have too much freedom." He smiled bitterly to himself. "They've been wanting me to settle down for years, to stay at home where I belong. I know that they're only concerned for my safety, but still... I love my country, but I love the adventure of traveling to new lands more. At the end of it all, I get to bring what I've learned to the people that I love back home." Junmyeon turned to you with a curious glint in his eye. "Have you ever gone traveling?"

"I've never even left the kingdom," you admitted as Junmyeon's eyes widened in disbelief.

"Never?"

You shook your head. "I haven't had the opportunity to, although I'd love to see art from all over the world."

Junmyeon was silent for a moment before speaking up. "If you could go anywhere, where would you want to go?"

"Any place where there's an ocean. I've only gone once as a child, but I have fond memories of that day. Sea landscapes are some of my favorite to paint as well."

The prince paused, nodding to himself before picking up his paintbrush and palette once more, immersing himself in his work.

You weren't sure what brought on this sudden change, but you were grateful for it. Your mind had already begun straying towards visions of voyaging across oceans, walking along pebble-covered beaches, the prince even making an appearance in one fantasy of you dipping your toes into the glimmering ocean water.

Shaking your head, you followed Junmyeon's actions and resumed painting. It was silly to even think of seeking out new places with him by your side.

Junmyeon might have been your friend, but he was still a prince.

However, even calling him a friend in this past week had awakened a new, fluttery feeling in your chest. You were afraid of thinking too deeply into it, of feeling things that could never be reciprocated.

After all, he was getting married. He was your student, a friend, and nothing more.

Or so you tried to convince yourself.

Weeks passed, every other day spent at the castle with Junmyeon and your paints.

You tried to distance yourself from the prince, but found yourself falling for him more and more with each passing day. He didn't make it any easier, what with his charming smiles and increasingly playful attitude. You swore that the past few sessions had consisted less of actual painting, and more of playing around and talking about his travels.

Time was slipping through your hands, and you knew that these lessons would come to an end all too soon.

Junmyeon didn't object when you came in one day, determined to actually get some painting done. This time, you read a book to keep yourself busy instead of working along with him. The only thing you felt like painting was the second prince, but you would die of embarrassment if he saw you painting him.

The room was oddly silent, different from the weeks of laughter that had filled this room. You could feel Junmyeon's eyes on you every so often, knowing that he must be at a loss for your sudden shift in behavior.

Even at the end of the lesson, as you studied his finished self-portrait, a heaviness lingered in the air. It was stifling, almost suffocating Junmyeon as he waited for you to say something.

"You've improved so much since we first met," you finally said. "Soon enough, you won't need my help at all."

"Why are you acting like this all of a sudden?" Junmyeon shot back, getting up from his seat.

You stepped back, hand raised to your chest as you tried to calm the racing of your heartbeat. "What do you mean?" you replied lamely. "Why do I get the feeling that you're trying to say goodbye?"

"We would have to eventually. You're getting married, Junmyeon."

Junmyeon's face hardened, the sharp edges of his face emphasized as he clenched his jaw. "I can't."

"What do you mean, you — "

"I can't marry a person that I don't love. I've tried in order to make my parents happy, but the more I think about it, the more frustrated I get." Junmyeon's gaze was desperate as he stared at you. "Y/N, I can't marry someone when I'm in love with someone else."

You couldn't help the gasp that escaped from your lips as you realized what he meant. "Junmyeon, we can't." You backed up as he took a step closer, a pang of guilt striking you Junmyeon's face fell. "The king and queen, they'll be furious when they find out."

"Give me a chance to convince them," he pleaded. "Meet me here tomorrow, please. I will find a way to make this right, I promise."

There was no doubting the fierce sincerity in Junmyeon's voice, his earnestness to make things right. As terrified as you were, you still had complete faith in him.

"Okay," you agreed as Junmyeon sighed in relief.

He circled his arms around you, holding you close to him. Junmyeon was sure that you could hear the loud pounding of his heartbeat, but he didn't care. Never in his life had he cared for someone so deeply, had wanted to be with someone so ardently. No matter what happened, he was determined not to let anything get in the way of the future that he wanted.

He would run away with you, if that's what it took.

You were a mess of nerves, although on the outside, you appeared as cool as a cucumber. Upon your arrival, you had been led to the throne room — the same place where you had met Junmyeon for the first time.

Like deja vu, the king and queen were seated at the far end of the room while Junmyeon stood close by. This time, a covered easel was beside him.

The king spoke up as soon as you came to a stop in front of them, his dark eyebrows furrowing in confusion. "What is the meaning of all this, Junmyeon?"

"I've finished my portrait, Father — the one for my betrothed."

You looked over at Junmyeon, puzzled by his words. Dark shadows rested under his eyes, as if he had stayed up through the night.

Without a moment of hesitation, Junmyeon lifted the fabric off of the easel, revealing the painting underneath.

Instead of seeing Junmyeon, your own face stared back at you, painted in different shades of blue paint. The colors reminded you of the vibrant open ocean you once saw as a child. Tears pricked your eyes as you realized that this painting wasn't just a declaration of Junmyeon's true affections — it was a vow to take you to the places you had once dreamed of visiting, to go on these journeys together.

"Junmyeon," the queen said. "What do you mean by this?"

"I cannot go through with the marriage that you and Father set up for me." Junmyeon came to your side, his strong, firm hand slipping into yours. "I love Y/N, and I don't wish to be with anyone else. I beg of you, please call off the engagement."

The king and queen exchanged a stunned look, both of them speechless at this turn of events. "Is this true?" the king asked you. "You care for my son?"

You nodded with certainty, unable to stop the smile on your face. "Yes, Your Majesty. More than anyone else in the world."

"Mother, Father," Junmyeon ventured carefully. "I know that you have only been doing what you believed was best for me, but I don't want a marriage to keep me confined, to keep me from what I love. I want to travel the world with Y/N, to learn about all there is to see and experience. I'll always come back home, no matter what."

The queen brought her hand to her mouth, eyes almost as glossy as yours. "But what if you were to get hurt?"

Junmyeon turned to you, squeezing your hand gently. "Y/N and I will keep each other out of trouble. Any difficulties that come our way, we'll face them together."

A defeated sigh caught both of your attention, the king shaking his head with a weary smile. "You're too much like I was, at that age. We should have known better than to try and stop you in the first place. Alright, I shall call the engagement off."

"But you must come home at least once a month," the queen added quickly. "No more gallivanting and disappearing for months at a time."

Junmyeon laughed, the sound as soothing as a fresh breeze on a summer day. "Yes, Mother." He brought your hand up to his lips, pressing a feather-light kiss to the back of it. "How are you feeling?" he asked, voice hushed to give you two some semblance of privacy.

"I can't believe it," you murmured back. Your eyes were drawn back to Junmyeon's painting, tracing over each brushstroke, each pop of color on the canvas. "When did you have time to make this?"

"I stayed up all night working on it. I don't mean for it to be an engagement gift to you — not yet. But I wanted to show you how much you mean to me, how much you've changed my life already."

You reached up with your other hand, running your thumb over the smooth skin of his cheek. "No one's ever done anything like this for me before. Thank you, Junmyeon."

"Of course." Junmyeon leaned down, forehead resting against yours. He giggled to himself as your noses bumped into each other in the process. "Where to now, my love? We have the entire world to see."

You closed your eyes, soaking in every detail of this unforgettable moment.

"Anywhere is fine, as long as I'm with you."

A/N: 3.8k words oh my gosh, someone stop me 😂 the requests just end up being longer and longer than the one before, this is so funny to me omg. but each time I tried to make it shorter, it just didn’t make sense to cut any of the parts out. I was inspired by myeon’s “self-portrait” album, specifically the album cover!

#exo #suho #junmyeon #suho scenario #junmyeon scenario #suho fanfic #junmyeon fanfic #exo scenario #exo fanfic #writings

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spookyspaghettisundae · 4 years

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Keening of the Glass King

The scanner at checkout beeped with slow and revolving repetition. The cashier listlessly pushed the groceries over the scanner, one by one, her eyes glazed over with boredom and her gaze trained on the digital oblivion displayed on the small screen attached to the system. The smell of disinfectant, plastic, and a blend of artificially sweet smells hung in the air.

Harper experienced a state of mind of complete emptiness. Just absorbing the sights, sounds, and smells of her environment without as much as a passing thought. Such an unfamiliar sensation to her. Lost in the moment.

And then the moment was gone. Harper’s feet hurt. It had been a long day. Hell, it had been a long week. As she—in her mind—went through all the things she still had to do once she got home, she started to get impatient while waiting in line. Only one more customer in front of her having her shopping cart’s contents processed.

When the guy checking out fumbled around to pay for his groceries, Harper spotted something odd. Rather than spitting out a number that the cashier read out loud with the enthusiasm of a broken woman whose soul had been crushed under the weight of corporate oppression, the small screen displayed text.

LOOK UP

Harper blinked, making sure that her mind was not just playing tricks on her. But it didn’t seem to be. The screen still did not display the total amount of money tallied up from the guy’s purchases. Instead, the words on screen flashed a few times, as if trying to grab Harper’s attention.

Instead of doing as told, she looked around to see if anybody else was seeing this.

The five people in line behind her did not. They were all lost in their own little worlds: one of them endlessly doom-scrolling down the display on their phone, another scratching his head while staring at the cold hard floor, another playing with her baby sat on the shopping cart, and so forth.

Harper’s sights returned to the display and it flashed one more time.

LOOK UP

So she did.

An advertising sign hung low over the checkout line.

DRINK BOOZE. SPIN TWELVE TIMES. SHOUT ROO-AGH PAIR-AGH TO THE HIGH HEAVENS.

It looked exactly like an advertising sign should, complete with the attractively garish color palette and carefully measured proportions. But the words did not fit at all.

Harper did a double take and the sign looked nothing like it did a mere second ago.

SAVE. EARN. SHOP. COLLECT POINTS AND WIN FREE GROCERIES.

She blinked again and it continued to look normal.

The beeping from the register stopped and the tired-looking cashier stared at her. She mustered a feeble smile and nodded at Harper, expecting her to scoot forward and get through checkout. Because she was holding up the line.

While waiting, accompanied by the rhythmic beeping of the machine, Harper looked around for other oddities. Anything that stood out. The man fixated on his phone, waiting behind her in line, looked up at her while she scanned the environment but then averted his gaze, seemingly startled and nervous—returning his undivided attention to the device in his hand. Everybody else remained oblivious to her and the strange signs she started spotting everywhere.

A magazine on the rack had a strange logo.

THE GLASS KING NEARS

Blinking cleared it up for her and revealed a fairly typical magazine brand logo and boring headline. As it should.

From the corners of her eyes, focused on a bouquet of flowers wilted on a stand nearby, Harper believed to see the little monitor flash with words that did not belong.

PAY ATTENTION

The storefront logo and its current slogan emblazoned on the wide front window did not read as it should. It instead said something bizarre.

DO AS YOUR KING COMMANDS

And in smaller lettering beneath that line: REAP THE REWARDS AND REJOICE IN YOUR SILENT HEAVEN

Harper shook her head. Every time she focused on one of these strange messages or blinked or shifted her weight and tilted her head, she saw what they should look like. The inconspicuous, bland-by-design normalcy of corporate consumerism.

Was she going insane?

She had been pushing eleven hours a day at work and six day work weeks for the past two months, and it must have been getting to her. Harper convinced herself of that. Or at least, she tried.

The cashier read the tally of her shopping cart’s contents off the screen and waited for her to pay. Harper did and left the store quickly.

Ferrying things across the parking lot with the wheels rattling over asphalt, loading her groceries into the back of her car, and slamming the trunk—it all passed by her in a blur. Felt like forever, flowed like molten butter, just ended with barely any time having gone by.

A man in a denim jacket over a beige hoodie approached her, pushing a cart along.

“Should I return that for ya?”

He pointed at the empty steel cage of her shopping cart. She looked him over and the empty cart he had been pushing along himself. Looked like he was just bringing his own cart back to the lineup where the others were gathered, and offering to take hers along for her.

It took her longer than it should to register the simple kindness he offered. Harper flashed him a smile and nodded and he mirrored the quiet expressions. While shoving their empty carts together, he side-eyed her and spoke in a monotone, “The Glass King’s soldiers can win the battle but not the war. Power through faith is what his subjects are for. Through servitude to him we flourish. His divine favor us does nourish. Roo-agh pair-agh.”

The carts rattled and clattered with agonizing volume as he began pushing them away from her, moving along.

Harper blinked and had to know. Had to know she wasn’t going crazy. “What did you just say?”

The stranger paused and craned his neck. Tilted his head. Arched a brow and stared at her with confusion written all over his face, slack-jawed.

“What?”

They stared at each other for another brief lapse in time.

“I asked if you want me to return your cart for ya?” he asked in response. Like he had never uttered the other strange things.

She flashed another smile at him, though in retrospect it never reached her eyes. And how could it have ever been an honest expression of gratitude? Yep, going bonkers alright, Harper thought to herself.

He pursed his lips, broke eye contact, and carried on; walking away from her with the two carts in front of him. They rattled and clattered and bounced when he shoved them over a pot hole.

She got in the car and left before he could return to where she had parked. Drove home. Everything just flew by, time flew by. She focused on the lines in the middle of the road, on the steel giants that were the other cars in traffic, and their hypnotic motions. On the street lights, and less the signs. It worked, because she was intimately familiar with this route. This life. She had done these things thousands of times before—the usual rote motions and actions that constituted her everyday life.

Really, though, she tried to avoid looking at any street signs. Any billboards. Any license plates. Really, she tried to avert her eyes from locking onto any single damned thing that featured text, letters, numbers, or anything that even remotely resembled written language in any shape or form.

It was time to get things over with for the day, kick back, drink something, and sleep.

After unpacking at home and going about her chores to tidy up her lonesome apartment, she sat down in front of the television set. She sighed, feeling relief—she had banished today’s strangeness. No more signs anywhere. Food packaging looked like it should, so did the magazine covers, the local newspaper—even device labels.

Overworked and tired as she was, it kind of made sense for her to be hallucinating. She had heard and read of weirder things happening to people who struggled with a poor work-life balance and chronic exhaustion.

Harper had plenty of work-related crap to put behind her, anyway. Whenever thoughts of that work bubbled up from the pool in the back of her mind, she dispelled them by thinking mean things about her supervisor and then of the co-worker she hated who always contradicted her but agreed wholeheartedly when she heard a man say the exact same thing Harper had said.

“Fucking middle management, man,” she muttered at the TV.

IT IS TIME, read a string of letters on screen, superimposed over the advertisement of some lame small-time lawyer firm.

PERFORM YOUR SERVICE

The words on display made no sense in context of the rest of the things and people being shown.

Cryptic, ominous messages.

She blinked, expecting the strange signs and orders to vanish. But they refused to.

YOUR KING NEEDS YOU!

Harper switched channels to some edgy-looking TV series. Hectic cuts, dramatic music, low contrast and muted colors. The character actor turned to the camera and looked her straight in the eyes, piercing the veil of the screen as if he was gazing through the dimensions from his fictitious world into the real one.

“If you don’t do your part—if we don’t all do our part, perform our service to the Glass King—the world will end. We can’t let that happen,” the man in the show said in his cartoonishly gravelly voice.

Harper swallowed an empty lump stuck in her throat, a wad of nothing that felt like it had assumed the size of a fist. Her insides churned and she started feeling dizzy.

Whatever this guy on the TV show had just said, it might have fit into whatever silly narrative he served, but it also fit right in with her hallucinations.

Or were they not hallucinations at all?

And what had that sign said?

“Drink booze. Spin twelve times, then shout ‘roo-agh pair-agh’ towards the sky,” said the actor. The cheesy soundtrack died down, leaving his words to die in an awkward silence that felt out of character for this particular show. He continued to stare Harper in the eyes, as if expecting her to do something. Like the show had just ground to a halt, awaiting her cue.

Waiting for her to do what she had to. What was expected of her.

Harper got up and the room spun around her. She had already taken some meds to help remove some edge and fall asleep more easily.

Should she mix alcohol with those drugs?

Whatever, she figured. She was already dressed in pajamas. Ready for bed. Would it kill her to try?

Maybe if she gave in to this string of odd hallucinations, they would stop. Under normal circumstances, that train of thought would have made no sense to her, but she chalked it up to the bizarre dream logic she was experiencing.

Only thing being, none of this was a dream, nor would it be particularly fun to unpack in upcoming therapy sessions. She already considered never talking about it if this never happened again.

Harper grabbed a half-filled bottle of wine from the fridge and returned to her living room. The show on TV continued as it should, depicting the usual melodramatic schlock that she would normally expect it to be doing.

She uncorked the bottle with a loud plop, chugged some of the wine, put it down on the coffee table with a loud clank, and took a deep breath. She was already feeling dizzy, so spinning around might have posed a problem.

But she did it anyway.

Twelve revolutions. One by one. Starting slow, picking up on speed to more quickly get it over with. The world spun ever faster, teetered and swayed in ways that made it difficult to maintain her balance. Her heart raced as, for a moment, it seemed like she might crash through the glass of the coffee table and cut herself badly, or stumble somewhere and break a bone in a bad fall, or worse.

“Roo-agh! Pair-agh!” Harper yelled at the ceiling.

Once she finished those twelve revolutions, she fell onto the couch, twisting her left hand and gritting her teeth right after a sharp intake of air to mask the sudden sting of pain. She fell sideways, slumping into the soft fuzzy cushions, and the world continued to spin, leaving her with a sick feeling in her stomach, spreading out in every direction and into every last extremity.

Someone or something thumped. Thud, thud.

“Shut the fuck up down there,” said someone above, muffled through the floor. Angry neighbor. Typical for that asshole. Complained about the smallest things, but always blasting loud music every Saturday morning.

Harper closed her eyes, still feeling the world spinning around her. Her stomach felt like it had unhinged itself from her insides and decided to whirl around in the opposite direction. She swallowed many times, painfully and deliberately, fighting the urge to vomit.

When the spell of nausea ended, she opened her eyes. The show on TV had gone silent, though the screen still flashed with shifting images. It looked like a completely different series now. The colors were vibrant and bright, the lens through which things had been shot distorted the environments along the edges of the screen, and the set looked surreal in its dimensions.

On screen, a woman in a fancy dress walked through a strange, long hallway, steadily and slowly approaching a simply-clothed man who sat on a stool next to a large set of double doors. The angles relayed a sense of paranoia, and the lingering shots on the actors’ faces made Harper feel uncomfortable.

The bald man sitting on the stool, his hands folded on his lap—his expression eerily calm—spoke into the camera. Past the woman approaching the double doors. He spoke not to that woman, but to Harper.

“The Glass King thanks you for your service. Should you fall in this war, know that your sacrifice will not be in vain. This world will continue to exist. You will continue to live your life as you have,” said the man. His voice rolled out like silk; soft and soothing.

The corners of his lips twitched until they shaped into a timid smile.

The woman stepped past him and grabbed hold of the brass doorknob on one of those doors. The moment she gripped it and twisted, she did not open the door.

She screamed.

A blood-curdling, bone-chilling scream. So loud that the neighbor upstairs continued complaining. Thump. Thump, thump.

“—said, shut the fuck up!”

The scream never stopped. Harper held her hands over her ears and cringed, clamping her eyes shut. She did not dare to see what happened next, so horrifying was that scream. She could hear the shriek piercing her ear drums even though she covered them up as good as she could. It pierced her mind, sliced into her soul, cut deep into her consciousness, feeding fuel into the flames of future nightmares.

“You will have your answers,” whispered the bald man on the stool. But it was not from the television set. He was in Harper’s dream that followed. As if she had gone there. Into that strange hallway.

Her uneasy rest left her feeling more tired than before she had fallen asleep. She awoke on the couch and something tasted funny. She blinked and realized where she was, struggled to remember what exactly she had dreamt beyond seeing the man from the weird TV show in her dream say that one thing, and swallowed again. Tasting blood.

Something had crusted over on her lip and face and checking in the mirror revealed that to be a thin line of blood. It had trickled down from her left nostril and across her lip and cheek as she had slept on the couch, all crumpled up.

Harper almost panicked when she realized that she needed to hustle to make it to work on time. She went through the motions in a haze, rushing through every step. Coffee would have to wait, brushing teeth, make-up, slinging on some clothes and straightening them out on the way to her car, slamming the door shut, going just enough above the speed limit to win some time and not draw unwanted attention, and so forth.

After clocking in at work, she sipped her coffee and enjoyed a short breather.

It was going to be another long day. She chalked the previous evening’s strangeness up to a weird fever dream.

Or something.

She held the back of her hand against her forehead to see if she was running any fever and dismissed the thought. The less she thought about getting sick, and the more she believed she was not sick—that stopped her from actually getting sick, right?

Her co-worker—the one she hated—got a coffee from the machine and turned to her.

Nodded in greeting to meet the bare minimum of social conventions maintained between them. She sipped from her cup of coffee as well. Looked Harper in the eye.

Vacant stare. Something odd about it.

“You saw the signs, too, didn’t you?” she asked Harper. Hushed tone, then she murmured more into her mug, “The Glass King nears.”

“What?” Harper asked. Paralyzed.

With fear.

The blood drained from her face and her mind reeled with the possibility that everything she had dreamt was, in fact, real.

Nicole gulped her mouthful of coffee down and her gaze hardened into a striking stare.

“You heard me, bitch,” she snapped at her. “James experienced it too.”

The clock on the wall behind Harper ticked away, filling the air of silence growing between them.

“What—” Harper’s voice cracked. She cleared her throat and tried asking again. “What does any of it even mean?”

Nicole cradled the cup in her hand.

“No idea, but I think there are even more who saw the signs. Just nobody really talkin’ about it. Like they’re all afraid of something.”

Harper cleared her throat again. It felt like phlegm was building up in there, clogging everything up with a tedious stickiness.

“What about rewards? You get anything?” she asked Nicole.

Her co-worker smirked but the mien quickly vanished.

“Learned something about you. Something you probably would rather keep secret,” Nicole finally replied.

Harper licked her lips. Not only had the blood drained from her face, she now felt hot and cold at the same time. Like she was flush with sickness, like a sheen of sweat was on the verge of breaking out of her pores. Was she really sure she hadn’t gotten a fever or something?

“Don’t worry. I won’t tell anybody,” Nicole said. She winked at Harper.

Walked away, leaving Harper awash in her confusion and growing sense of dread.

By the time Harper took her seat at her desk, her body was trembling all over. She got to work, tried to distract herself, but her thoughts kept circling back to the odd events. It started cutting into her work.

So she started researching online.

Her body turned ice cold, the cushion of her chair beneath her becoming more uncomfortable than usual. With sweaty palms, she clicked her way through discussion threads, past posted transcripts of live chats, and wound up browsing through terrible-looking websites that looked like conspiracy theory wank assembled by unhinged lunatics. But everything reflected her experiences. Almost to the letter of some of the signs she had seen. And other people were digging through the web, just like her. Looking for an answer. Struggling to understand.

She continued to click, incapable of stopping. Filled with an unquenchable thirst for knowledge, yearning to comprehend what was going on.

The world spun around her again. The dizziness had returned.

What filled her with dread was the final realization.

Many people were being mobilized. Some got more specific instructions, being sent somewhere in Nevada. Investigating strange weather patterns that appeared to orbit around Las Vegas.

What she had experienced was not unique. Not limited to her and two of her coworkers. They were not the only ones in the city. They were not the only city. They were not even the only country with people to experience this.

To see those signs. To follow the instructions.

To know, as it was repeated over and over again: the Glass King nears.

—Submitted by Wratts

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Cold Sweats Were Made To Be Broken - How Emily Carroll Creates Effective Horror By Bending The Rules

I believe that, with enough time and resources, someone with a good eye for horror would be able to create a good horror story with just about any medium. With prose, you have the advantage of vivid description and getting to intimately know the character’s inner thoughts and fears, like in the works of Stephen King. With film, you get the advantage of visuals and audio along with the dread that comes with being a helpless audience member, such as the in the works of John Carpenter. And while the poor video game is often given a bad rep among other, older art forms, video games actually are one of the most ideal ways to experience horror stories, since the audience must become an active participant in the story to move it forward, not even allowed the escape of being a passive viewer.

It’s actually for very similar reasons that I find comics to be one of the ideal mediums for the horror genre. You get some of the benefits of prose, some of the visuals of movies, and even a bit of the forced participation of video games, in the fact that readers must choose to advance to each next page- a happy medium, if you will. There’s also one of my favorite features of sequential art as a whole- the fact that the artist has a tight amount of control over the pacing of the story. You can enhance the drop a world-shaking reveal on the reader by devoting a splash page to it, or pull out a scene with agonizing slowness with multiple, decompressed panels- storytelling devices that become lethal weapons in the hands of a good horror writer.

Keeping this in mind, it’s no surprise that horror comics have always been a huge part of comic history. In modern times, American comics are almost always associated with superhero stories, but there’s actually a rich history of horror comics- the rise of gruesome true crime stories and horror anthologies like Tales from the Crypt are why we have the infamous Comics Code, after all. Today we have titles like 30 Days of Night and The Walking Dead (though their more cinematic adaptations are typically more well-known). The huge world of European comics have given birth to a huge number of horror titles, like Italy’s Dylan Dog or Britain’s semi-tongue-in-cheek Scream! And of course, Japan has been the birthplace of great horror comics from the days of Mizuki Shigeru to the advent of modern horror with figures like Junji Ito and Masaaki Nakayama.

But of course, those figures and titles only exist in the world of print comics. In the age of the Internet, it would be remiss to ignore the staggeringly massive world of webcomics in any discussion of comics, let alone horror comics. This is due to any one of the many, many, many webcomics that exist online, but for this essay, I want to focus on an artist who doesn’t just happen to focus on horror comics while publishing them on the internet, but uses and utilizes both the medium of sequential art and the Internet to bring out the best in her comics.

Originally an animation student, Emily Carroll had only just begun to venture into the field of comics when she went hurdling to the attention of the webcomic community in 2010. His Face All Red was only her third comic, and its runaway success (helped by the recommendation of another name in horror comics, Neil Gaiman) was something she admits to be caught off-guard by. But she clearly has seemed to have taken it in stride, considering that her website now hosts almost 20 webcomics, many of them some sort of horror story. She’s also done print comics, including the original anthology Through the Woods and the upcoming graphic novel adaption of Laurie Halse Anderson’s powerful YA story Speak. As grandiose as it may be to say this, I believe Carroll’s style and approach to storytelling was made for the medium of comics, and I believe she deserves a spot up there along with Gaiman and Ito when it comes to naming masters of the horror comic.

But how does she do horror comics so well? It’s not just good writing, or good art, though she’s certainly talented on both those fronts. After spending an amount of time looking through her comics, I think I’ve come up with a solid answer, an answer that can be used to teach anyone interested in comics and in storytelling in general.

Emily Carroll is a master of breaking rules.

When I say rules, I don’t mean that there’s actual rules some God Of Comics has written down somewhere. Rather, the “rule-breaking” Carroll does refers to how she subverts expectations and goes against the conventions of storytelling that have become familiar over time. In doing this, Carroll’s comics have an air of unpredictability to them, and the reader must not only advance through the comic at their own pace, they must do it with the knowledge that the comic will surprise them in some way. In short, when a story breaks “the rules,” it creates the illusion of the audience’s safety being lost.

But how does Carroll break the rules? This is a bit of a nebulous thing to analyze- I mean, I don’t even think “breaking rules” is something Carroll consciously sets out to do. But over time, I’ve noticed recurring themes and storytelling methods in Carroll’s comics, and I think it’s worth analyzing them to gain a better understanding of sequential art and how sequential art can continue to evolve.

Breaking “The Rules” of Each Comic

One thing I like about Carroll’s webcomics is that, since they’re all self-contained short stories, they each have their own unique visual “language.” This can apply to comic’s palette (like how The Hole The Fox Did Make is all grayscale), the format of panels (like how When The Darkness Presses is told through several 4-panel pages), or even the format of the writing (like how The Prince & The Sea is told as a poem). This gives all of Carroll’s comics a sense of cohesion, similar how to repetition is used in visual design to create a sense of rhythm and reason.

But, of course, what’s even more important than the “rules” Carroll establishes for each individual comic, is when Carroll chooses to break these rules.

The Hole The Fox Did Make is all grayscale- so when the colorless 4-panel strips are replaced with a mass of panels mostly rendered in an angry red, it comes as a shock. When The Darkness Presses is told through several 4 panel pages- so the reader knows that the long vertical segments that accompany each scene about the door are meant to be considered different than other scenes. And once the reader sees what is behind the door…

Suddenly changing the established visual language of a comic is easy shorthand to let the reader know that the scene is important in some way, but in a horror comic, it can also be a subtle way to catch the reader off-guard. Rebecca’s ghost story in All Along The Wall is told in a simple style and over-saturated colors to distinguish it from the “real” scenes, but the contrast in the story’s bright, colorful palette to the sketchy grayscale of the rest of the comic almost makes it feel more menacing in contrast. The fact that it’s explicitly a ghost story rendered in these almost cheerful hues make it even more uneasy- and ends up saying a lot about the kind of person Rebecca is. In short, it’s good, creative storytelling that also serves to scare.

These breaks in the established format work best when combined with one another. The Prince & The Sea takes part mostly on land- specifically, in single-panel illustrations that show only the meeting place of the prince and the mermaid- with a colorful palette that’s equal parts earthy and warm. When the story shifts under the sea, the palette shifts to eerie, cool colors that reflect both the dark atmosphere and the horrifying turn of the plot. But in addition to this, the story finally breaks the single-illustration format, going vertical to simulate the feeling of diving, and adding in “floaty” panels surrounded by black, giving a true feeling of being underwater. Carroll uses not only tone and format shifts but shifts in space- which, incidentally, brings us to one of the most notable and important features of Carroll’s work.

Breaking “The Rules” of Comics As A Whole

In 2000, the comic book artist Scott McCloud published the book Reinventing Comics: How Imagination and Technology Are Revolutionizing an Art Form, in which he made several predictions about the necessary changes that would need to occur in the field of comics in order for the medium to survive, with a major focus on the Internet and webcomics. One interesting idea McCloud proposed was the concept of “the infinite canvas,” the idea that a comic could have limitless storytelling potential thanks to the almost limitless size and space offered by a webpage.

In the year of 2000, the art of the webcomic was in its infancy, consisting mainly of typical comic strips like you’d see in newspapers, leading to a lot of skeptical response to these ideas-- but as it turns out, McCloud was basically completely correct. We’ve seen this from the long vertical formats typical of many Korean webtoons like The Sensual M and Chinese manhua like Tamen de Gushi to the textlogs, flash games, and fully animated segments of the ambitious multimedia-mishmash Homestuck.

Of these examples, however, I think Carroll’s techniques are closest to what McCloud had in mind when he proposed the infinite canvas. His Face All Red famously had the wonderful, wordless sequence of the protagonist descending deep into a hole, depicted by the downward scroll of the reader. When The Darkness Presses switched deftly between standard “real world” pages, long vertical dream sequences, and the dramatic horizontal reveal of what lay behind the door.

To this day, I think Carroll’s most impressive use of the infinite canvas is still Margot’s Room. Initially presented as a month-long event during October 2011, Margot’s Room starts with a grim poem over a grim image, with every important word in the poem relating to a part of the picture, which the reader would click to go to a new part of the story. Each week, a new line of the poem would be revealed alongside a new link, with the last part being released, of course, on Halloween. This creative use of hyperlinks is interesting enough, but the final, shocking scene is almost breathtaking- the events are violent, chaotic, and wild, heightened only by the wide spread of panels over a massive, empty blackness, linked only by words and furious splashes of blood. It’s something that couldn’t really exist in print comics (unless on a much smaller scale) and seeing how effective it is here, it almost make one wonder why it’s not more widespread among webcomic artists.

Without the limits of the printed page, Carroll has a better opportunity to break the typical conventions of sequential art. But she actually goes beyond that, using the medium of the Internet in even more creative ways than McCloud imagined. Besides her use of hyperlinks in Margot’s Room, links are also used to tell the non-linear “story” of Grave of The Lizard Queen, or show two sides to a tragic tale in The Three Snake Leaves. Carroll even employs animation in her work, to an extent. An animated GIF in Out Of Skin conveys the horror of seeing something terrible just out of the corner of your eye, and a certain “trick” panel in All Along The Wall may make you jump out of your skin if you don’t know what exactly it’s going to do. And that’s how it’s brilliant- comic panels aren’t supposed to change, after all. Carroll knows that, and knows just how to use the reader’s unconscious knowledge of the rule of well of course comic panels are always static against them. You don’t think twice about it... until the rule is broken.

Breaking “The Rules” of Storytelling

One of my favorite examples of Carroll’s unique take on the infinite canvas is in When The Darkness Presses. Despite being a short comic released all in one go, it’s presented as a recently completed longform webcomic, complete with animated ad banners. I don’t want to spoil what becomes of these ads later, but it’s very interesting to point out that one of them is for “Alo-Glo,” the skin product that features heavily in Some Other Animal’s Meat. This is especially interesting once you realize that Some Other Animal’s Meat is technically a sequel to When The Darkness Presses.

I say “technically,” because it’s actually entirely possible to read both comics and not know this, the way I first did. They’re two different self-contained stories that just happen to involve two characters at two points at their life.

There’s no real meaning to it- and in a way, this is perhaps Carroll’s favorite rule to break: the all-encompassing question of what does it all mean?

Ever since His Face All Red, Carroll has faced this question, or at least variants of it. How did the man’s brother come back? What was that thing in the hole? In a 2014 interview with Hazlitt, Carroll admits to feeling self-doubt when readers began clamoring for concrete answers:

“People were saying, ‘What’s the meaning of this? What’s the meaning of this?’ and … I felt very much like, I need to justify this somehow, otherwise they will see that I am a faker that has faked my way into some kind of Internet buzz, so there has to be a one-to-one meaning for everything.”

Thankfully, Carroll has been able to move past this initial doubt- I believe, very much for the better. Leaving unanswered questions is almost a trademark of Carroll’s now- from the tree in Out of Skin to the “mystery man” in The Groom to the door in When The Darkness Presses. The thing that plagues the main character of Some Other Animal’s Meat. The voice that calls Regan to the river in The Hole The Fox Did Make. The list goes on.

And it’s not just monsters. From early on in my love of Carroll’s works, I began to notice connecting threads through many of her comics. What did it mean that His Face All Red draws attention to “a tree with leaves that looked like ladies’ hands” (similar to the tree in Out Of Skin) and “a stream that sounded like dogs growling” (a sentence almost identical to how the stream in Margot’s Room is described)? What did it mean that The Hole The Fox Did Make and The Groom featured Regan, or that All Along The Wall is technically a prequel to a comic from Through The Woods? What did it mean that events of When The Darkness Presses are brought up by the main characters years later in Some Other Animal’s Meat?

The answer, of course, is that there is no answer- other than the answers and ideas that begin to form in our heads when we’re presented with an unsolved mystery. Ever since early humans looked up at the stars and put together shapes in the gaps, the nature instinct of human beings drives us to pick patterns out of randomness. Our brains try to find meanings or answers where there is none, whether we want to or not, or even if we are aware of our minds doing so or not. And of course, this almost whimsical trait of ours is also one of our most massive burdens- the horror of imagination. The infinite possibility of the conclusions each person reaches on their own will always be far, far more frightening than any single answer a writer can give.

In a way, Carroll’s most mundane “broken rule” may be her most powerful tool. In the age of endless theories and fiction analysis, in the light of humanity’s eternal, inescapable desire for the solutions for every puzzle, Carroll’s works are unanswerable. And because of this, I think the unexplained monsters of Carroll’s works are some of the scariest in fiction.

Funnily enough, despite basing this essay around the concept of breaking rules, I stated early on that I don’t think Carroll herself sees her approaches to sequential art like that. While researching for this essay, I came across an interview by The Comics Journal with Carroll from 2011, not too far after the runaway success of His Face All Red. It’s a great interview, but what probably stuck with me most is Carroll’s description of how she approaches comics:

“It stems more from just what I think will be most fun, really. And since—when I started doing comics—I’d never done comics for print, I wasn’t in the mindset of doing pages anyway, which maybe led to me not really adhering to that standard when I started in on my own attempts. I like the idea of scrolling just because it’s fun to play around with revealing images that way, but you can play around with the same thing using page turns too really.”

I wanted this essay to be a tribute to one of my favorite artists, but I also initially intended it to be a way to encourage artists to shake up typical comic conventions and try to create unique art. Upon reading this quote, however, I realized that I had one more thing to learn from Carroll, one thing I want artists to know as well. Carroll has carved out her own, unique approach to sequential art, and in the process has happened to buck several storytelling conventions. You too can learn from this and know that you have the freedom to break these same rules- but perhaps the most important thing to take away from this is that Carroll does this because she has fun doing this. Carroll’s comics work not just because they break the rules, but also because she enjoys creating them.

Your own unique style should be what is most enjoyable for you. Creating new and unique artwork is all well and good, but what will make or break your art are the feelings you have while creating it.

And if you have fun in breaking rules, then more power to you.

All of Emily Carroll’s online works can be found on her personal site (general NSFW warning for nudity and disturbing content). You can buy Carroll’s anthology Through The Woods here.

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Best WordPress Wedding Themes

Your wedding day is an incredibly special moment. You want everyone involved to be able to share in this momentous occasion and to show everyone involved a great time, you need a perfect WordPress wedding theme. There are so many themes out there, how do you select the right one? Well, I think that this collection is a great place to start, we’ve gathered up all of the very best WordPress wedding themes right here in this collection.

I get it, there’s a lot to do to get prepared for a wedding. You first hear those wedding bells ringing in your head, you might not immediately start thinking about a website, but it’s something that’s incredibly important to do. A great looking, high performance wedding theme for WordPress can help you save time and energy and, believe me, you’re going to need all of both that you can get. A great wedding theme can get lost in the shuffle though, considering you need to find a dress, a location to get married, find a caterer, get the flowers arranged and figure out your guest list. Spending some time looking over this list of great themes can really save you time in the long run.

It’s relatively easy to start up a great looking wedding website and the ones in this collection all have the features and style you need to really pull off the big day in style. These themes make it easy for even a WordPress novice to make an incredible website. They have the features needed to handle the RSVPs, all the basic information about times and location and more. These themes are all responsive so you and your guests can access them on mobile devices. Many have a cool countdown timer so everyone can share in the anticipation of your wedding day. These time saving themes are a fantastic way to stay in touch while you handle all the hundreds of other tasks needed to pull off an amazing wedding day. So, here we go, the absolute best Wedding WordPress themes around.

Gittys

Gittys is a very attractive, and incredibly simple WordPress theme. Gittys is a responsive theme, created specifically with powerful social media integration and Gittys is compatible with a variety of popular plugins such as bbPress, Buddypress and even WooCommerce. Cool! The theme also includes SEO tools so that your site is really easy to find and there are loads of customization options and shortcodes so that no other marriage website will look exactly like yours. Other features include multiple galleries, portfolio pages, custom typography, custom background, slideshows and the PSD files are included with the download.

Gittys is well designed to showcase you and your significant other as a fresh couple with a trendy looking website design. The simple, almost minimalist site, features a full-screen images, “trading cards” of the couple, a robust menu with lots of features, social media sharing options for you there on the homepage. Just add your own photos and Gittys can help you make a modern and attractive wedding site quickly and easily.

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OneLove

OneLove is both the best selling and the number one rated wedding WordPress theme on ThemeForest. That’s quite an accomplishment. This theme offers a beautiful design, plenty of customization options and it very simple to use. That’s a really key point because many brides and grooms may not be WordPress experts. There are 22 different demo styles from which you can choose, each one presenting a slightly different take on how to present your information and each one available for installation with just one click. WooCommerce is full supported, there are unlimited image galleries offered to present your wedding photos to the world after the big event, there’s a handy electronic RSVP form so your guests can let you know whether they’ll be attending or not. With a countdown to the big day, video slider, slideshows and more, this is a wedding theme that does it all.

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Quinn

Quinn is a great WordPress theme for wedding event planners, wedding photographers and anyone with an eye for an elegant style that is perfect for creative websites. This thing features of full with slider and it’s great for making your wedding related business look amazing. There are plenty of good Arguments for using the Quinn WordPress theme, I think it’s a real breath of fresh air and a desirable theme that has an alluring, romantic look about it. This theme is complex in terms of its features, it’s got a responsive layout and easily customizable colors, yet the entire thing is incredible user friendly and very simple to adapt to any need. You can adjust the colors to fit your wedding palette and even upload a custom header logo to help to promote your big day. This charming WordPress theme has everything you might possibly want to create a great-looking wedding theme using WordPress.

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Honeymoon & Wedding

Honeymoon is a wonderful wedding and wedding planning WordPress theme that has been downloaded over a hundred times so far on themeforest and it’s garnered a very strong rating of 4.71 overall. For brides and grooms who want a cute event WordPress theme, this one has everything you could possibly want. With top-notch customer support and endless layout possibilities, this fast loading WordPress theme has an incandescent style that is sassy and well-informed. This theme is constantly updated so it will never become obsolete and if you want my advice, this absorbing and beautiful theme is a silky smooth option for any wedding WordPress site. It’s Dapper and beautiful, easy to use and highly adaptable.

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Everline

This theme is called Everline, and it’s a perfect wedding and events WordPress theme with an elegant and modest appearance. It’s a meaningful theme for engagements, weddings and other events. This stunning beauty is incredibly fashionable and it’s got all the features you could possibly need to craft an amazing and awesome wedding site for what should be the happiest day of your life. This attractive WordPress theme is overwhelmingly adaptable and the features are sharp as a tack. You’ll be thankful to have a joyous theme like Everline to help make your big day smashing success. This theme is WooCommerce ready and well-documented, the happy couple will love the elegant and visually striking style of this theme and so will their guests.

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Alis

For wedding websites and wedding planner websites, the Alis WordPress theme is a suitable Niche theme for anyone in the wedding business. This theme has a very purpose-built design that is suitable for users who have no experience with WordPress. The entire theme is highly coherent and when you see how many features that has, you will be Giddy and astonished. This very distinct WordPress theme has been diligently crafted to create the best possible user experience for the bride and groom as well as guests. For your momentous occasion, it’s incredibly important to have a well-designed theme with a massive amount of features and that’s just what the Alis WordPress theme delivers.

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Ultra

This is the wedding demo of the ultra WordPress theme, from Themify.me, one of my favorite theme developers. I really enjoy everything themify has ever created and this theme is no exception. This template has plenty of pre-made designs and skins to help you craft an incredible wedding-related WordPress theme, it’s a breath of fresh air to see such a breezy and inspired theme with so many features. You won’t have to be worried about how your website looks when you select this dashing and courageous template. If you decide to download the ultra WordPress theme, you’ll find that it is an excellent option for creating an inexpensive and impactful website for all your guests.

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Emma

Emma is an elegant and modest wedding WordPress theme with a fashionable and clean style that is truly an inspiration. This gorgeous and unique WordPress theme is a great way to establish a wedding website quickly and to really impress all of your guests. This theme is remarkable in its range of features and it’s spin the choice of well over 500 people so far, which shows its popularity and it’s flexibility. When it comes to building a wedding website, you’ll want one that is easy to use and adaptable. For RSVPs, photography, image Galleries and wedding events, both bride and groom or going to absolutely adore this complex and remarkable WordPress theme. You’ll be able to develop a wedding website quickly and with greater efficiency and you’re going to absolutely love the results.

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Cherished

Cherished is a WordPress theme that is beautifully handcrafted, clean and elegant. This is a responsive WordPress wedding theme with all the features you might imagine a premium WordPress theme would have. If you’ve been agonizing over the proper choice for a wedding website, cherished is a great choice. This Plucky WordPress theme is equally attractive for men and women, I think that this theme has one of them or modern and simple styles of all. Sometimes, you might not want a very feminine WordPress theme for your wedding site, and cherished has a clean, modern and well-balanced style about it. In terms of features, there are few themes that offer More Than This template. This is an amazing theme and the developer has done a great job of creating and supporting this WordPress template.

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Moments

Moments is all about celebration. This theme has been celebrated by over 1,500 people so far, they’ve chosen this theme to help develop an amazing WordPress theme for the biggest day of their life. This theme is incredibly easy to use, you’ll never be bewildered by the features, it’s incredibly intuitive and Placid. For men and women who want an amazing WordPress website to help them celebrate the greatest day of their life, this theme provides all the tools necessary to pull off an amazing celebration. You’ll be dazzled by the amount of features, the uncluttered style and the incredible adaptability of this lavishly praised WordPress theme. Take a few moments to check out the features, I think you will find that this theme is a great fit for nearly any sort of wedding.

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Jack & Rose

Having an amazing wedding website on your wedding day is a tremendous help. Wedding websites can help ease the burden of how much work there is to do in terms of handling RSVPs, invitations, showing off photos from the big event and pretty much anything else related to a wedding. If I had to grade the Jack and Rose WordPress theme, I’d give it a nap. This theme has a wonderful style and it’s incredibly ambitious too. If you want a coherent and professional wedding website, this theme can be a great Spark to producing an amazing experience for all of your guests and, most importantly, for the bride and groom themselves. This responsive WordPress theme looks great on all devices and that’s really helpful when your guests are more than likely going to access your website via smartphone.

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Chamomile

Chamomile was created by BluChic, which is one of my favorite WordPress theme developers around. BluChic creates amazing feminine WordPress themes and chamomile, with it’s breathtaking mint green color scheme, is one of the best templates around for wedding and event planners, stationery Brands and even photographers. The chamomile theme has a responsive layout, you can easily customize the colors if you don’t enjoy the mint green color that it comes with, there are plenty of layout options and it’s coded for SEO friendly and responsive display. It’s an arduous task to put on a wedding and I think the jewel in the crown of this WordPress theme is it’s incredible ease-of-use. That can help you save time and effort and help you transport your guests into a world of Wonder and joy, just like your marriage will be.

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Wedding Boutique

Wedding Day is a WordPress wedding ceremony, photography website, fashion blog and wedding photography website that use a true multi-purpose wedding theme. This theme is meant to help you highlight the most memorable events of your life, which happens to be your way. With a full width and responsive design, RSVP form and a stylish blog, this WordPress theme is packed with all the features you could possibly need to create an amazing wedding website. Wedding day is powered by the Tesla framework, one of the absolute best Administration tools to help build a feature field and flexible website. Teslathemes always does a fantastic job of supporting all of their WordPress themes that they sell, and their an ambitious and dazzling developer that I really trust. I think that with this wedding day WordPress theme, you’ll be in good hands and you’ll also be able to create an amazing, customizable WordPress wedding website.

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Bluemoon

This theme is called Bluemoon, it’s a gorgeous, simple and responsive wedding theme that has an incredibly clean and flexible style, plenty of features and it’s incredibly simple for beginners to use. You can upload your own logo or header image, select from one of five pre-made color schemes and half a dozen layout options. There are three footer widget areas, unlimited page structures and you can integrate your favorite page builder plugin to create even more great looking designs. For wedding photographers, this theme is a really nice choice. Bluemoon is a Genesis framework child theme and that means your website will load up fast, look great on all devices and since it’s a child theme, any updates to WordPress will not break your site. I think that’s a critical element to making this theme one of the best wedding photography themes out there.

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Sweetinz

Sweetinz is a creative one page WordPress wedding theme that has an abundance of incredible style. This theme features tons of great stuff to help you pull off an amazing website for your wedding. There’s a countdown clock, a couple’s timeline, RSVP forms, location map, groomsmen and bridesmaids information, a built-in gift registry and so much more. This theme has a fully responsive structure that was crafted using the bootstrap framework. It’s also written already, so it looks stunning on every type of device imaginable.

This is just about the one-year anniversary of the release of the Sweetinz WordPress theme and I think that’s great. If you need pre-made invitations, multiple color options, a fully responsive website, tons of video tutorials and online documentation to help you get started, the Sweetinz WordPress theme could be just what you’ve been looking for. I really think this is one of the better WordPress wedding themes available and I think it could be perfect for just about any sort of wedding.

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Idylle

To be honest, I had almost forgotten about this theme. It’s not that it’s not a high-quality template, it’s just that I put it into our collection of material design themes and sort of forgotten that it is a really great wedding theme as well. So, better late than never, here it is in all its Glory. This template has a stylish, full page design that really attracts attention. It’s a wedding theme with six different demo Styles and a built-in shop as well. It’s flat and modern, comes with multiple different color schemes and I believe that the 4.94 rating on themeforest, not to mention the 500 sales so far, speak for themselves. This theme is responsive and well-documented, has built-in RSVP forms and wedding countdown clock, has beautiful and fun image gallery Styles and more. It’s been very easy to use for everyone who has reviewed it.

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Wedding Invitation WordPress Themes

Your wedding is a moment to cherish forever and helping to make the day as special as possible, that’s what planning a wedding is all about. One thing that many overlook is a great website. Of course, these days, electronic communications are bigger than ever, so creating a website to help out on that front is critical. You need everyone involved to have the ability to share in this momentous event and also to show everyone involved a wonderful time, you want a perfect WordPress wedding theme. There are many themes out there, how do you choose the right one? Well, I believe that this collection is a superb place to start, we’ve gathered up all of the best WordPress wedding themes right here in this collection.

I get it, there’s a lot to do before you hear those wedding bells. Your first consideration probably isn’t going to be to start creating a website, but it is something that’s extremely important to do. A great looking, high performance wedding invitation theme for WordPress will be able to help you save time and energy and, believe me, you are going to need both all that you can get. A fantastic wedding theme can get lost in the shuffle however, considering you need to discover a dress, a place to get married, find a caterer, get the flowers arranged and find out your guest list. Spending time looking over this list of amazing themes can help save you time in the long run.

It is relatively simple to begin a good looking wedding website as well as those in this group all have the features and style that you want to really pull off the day in style. These themes make it easy for a WordPress novice to make an incredible website. They have the attributes required to take care of the RSVPs, all the info regarding times and location and much more. These themes are all responsive so you and your guests can access them. Several have a countdown timer so everyone can share in the expectation of your wedding day. These time saving themes are a fantastic way to remain in touch as you handle all the hundreds. Here we go, the absolute Wedding WordPress themes around.

Cherished

Cherished is a WordPress theme that’s beautifully handmade, clean and refined. This is a responsive WordPress wedding theme with all the features you may imagine a premium WordPress theme could have. If you’ve been agonizing over the proper choice for a wedding site, precious is a great option. This Plucky WordPress theme is every bit as attractive for women and men, I think that this theme has one of them or contemporary and simple fashions of all. You may not want a feminine WordPress theme for your wedding website, and cherished includes a clean, modern and well-balanced style about it. Concerning attributes, there are themes offering Over This template. This is an amazing theme and the programmer has done a great job of creating and supporting that WordPress template.

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Quinn

Quinn is an excellent WordPress theme for wedding event planners, wedding photographers, wedding photographers and anyone with an eye for an elegant style that’s perfect for creative websites. This thing includes complete with slider and it is great for creating your wedding related business seem amazing. There are loads of good Arguments for using the Quinn WordPress theme, I believe that it’s a true breath of fresh air along with a desired theme that has an alluring, romantic appearance about it. This theme is complex in terms of its features, it has got a fluid and responsive design and easily customizable colors, yet the entire issue is amazing user friendly and very straightforward to adapt to almost any need. You are able to adjust the colors to fit your wedding palette and also upload a custom header logo to help you to promote your big moment. This WordPress theme has everything you may need to produce a wedding theme using WordPress.

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OneLove

OneLove is equally the best-selling and the number one ranked wedding WordPress theme on ThemeForest. That’s quite an accomplishment. This theme offers a stunning design, plenty of customization options and it easy to use. That’s a point because most brides and grooms might not be WordPress experts. There are 22 different demo styles from which you may choose, each presenting a slightly different spin on how best to present your wedding data and each one accessible for installation with only one click. WooCommerce is full supported, there are infinite picture galleries available to present your wedding photos to the world after the major event, there’s a handy digital RSVP form so your guests can allow you to know whether they will be attending or not. With a countdown to slider that is video, the day, slideshows and more, this is a wedding theme that does everything. Here are some more WooCommerce themes to check out.

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Sweetinz

Sweetinz is a one page WordPress wedding theme which has an abundance of style that is incredible. This theme features plenty of fantastic stuff that will help you pull off an wonderful site to your wedding. There’s a gift registry, the timeline of a couple, RSVP forms, location map, antiques and groomsmen information, a clock and much more. This theme has a responsive structure that was crafted using the bootstrap framework. It’s also composed already, so it looks stunning on every kind of device possible.

This is just about the one-year anniversary of the release of this Sweetinz WordPress theme and I believe that’s great. If you require invitations, multiple color options, a fully fluid and responsive website, tons of video tutorials and online documentation to help you get started, the Sweetinz WordPress theme could be just what you’ve been looking for. I truly believe this is among those WordPress wedding themes offered and I think that it could be ideal for just.

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Honeymoon & Wedding

Honeymoon & Wedding is the name of this theme and it is a fantastic wedding and marriage planning WordPress theme that has been downloaded over a hundred times up to now on themeforest and it’s garnered a very powerful rating of 4.71 overall. For brides and grooms who need a cute event WordPress theme, this one has. With top-notch customer support and endless design possibilities, this fast loading WordPress theme has an incandescent style that is sassy and well-informed. This theme is constantly updated so it will never become obsolete and if you want my information, this absorbing and beautiful theme is a slick smooth option for any wedding WordPress site. It is Dapper and stunning, simple to use and highly adaptable.

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Everline

This theme is named Everline, and it is a wedding and events WordPress theme with an small and elegant appearance. It is a theme for engagements, weddings and events. This gorgeous beauty is remarkably stylish and it’s got all the features you could possibly need to craft an amazing and amazing wedding website for what should be the happiest day of your life. This attractive WordPress theme is overwhelmingly adaptable and the features are sharp as a tack. You’ll be grateful to have a joyous theme like Everline to make your day beating success. This theme is WooCommerce ready and well-documented, the happy couple will love the elegant and visually striking style of this theme and will your own guests.

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Alis

For wedding websites and wedding planner sites, the Alis WordPress theme is a Niche theme for anyone in the wedding business. This theme has a very purpose-built design that’s suitable for users who have no experience with WordPress. The entire theme is extremely coherent and should you see how many attributes that has, you’ll be Giddy and astonished. This very different WordPress theme was crafted to create the perfect user experience for the bride and groom as well as guests. For your momentous event, it is incredibly important to get a well-designed theme with a massive number of features and that is precisely exactly what the Alis WordPress theme provides.

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Idylle

In all honesty, I had nearly forgotten about this theme. It is not that it is not a great looking, highly functional and popular template, it’s just that I place it in to our assortment of material design themes and sort of forgotten that it is a wedding theme as well. So, better late than not, here it is in all its Glory. This template has a trendy, full page design that attracts attention. It is a wedding theme using a store that is built-in and six distinct demo Styles . It is flat and modern, comes with numerous different color schemes and I feel that the 4.94 score on themeforest, and of course the 500 earnings up to now, speak for themselves. This theme is responsive and well-documented, has wedding countdown clock and RSVP types, has beautiful and fun image gallery Styles and more. It has been quite easy to use.

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Emma

Emma is a tasteful and small wedding WordPress theme with a fashionable and clean style that is really an inspiration. This gorgeous and unique WordPress theme is a excellent way to set a wedding website quickly and also to actually impress all your guests. This theme is remarkable in its own range of features and it has spin the option of over 500 people up to now, which shows its popularity and it has flexibility. If it comes to constructing a wedding site, you will want one that is easy to use and adaptable. For RSVPs, photography, image Galleries and marriage events, both groom and bride or going to absolutely love this complicated and impressive WordPress theme. You’ll have the ability to come up with a marriage website quickly and with increased efficiency and you’re going to love the results.

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Gittys

Gittys is a very appealing, and easy WordPress theme. Gittys is a responsive theme, created specifically with powerful social media integration and Gittys is compatible with a number of popular plugins like bbPress, Buddypress as well as WooCommerce. Cool! The theme also includes SEO tools so that your site is actually easy to discover and you will find loads of customization choices and shortcodes so no additional marriage website will appear exactly like yours. Other features include portfolio pages, many galleries, custom typography, custom background, slideshows and the PSD files are included with the download.

Gittys is made to showcase you and your significant other as a new couple with a site design that was trendy looking. The simple, almost minimalist site, features a full-screen graphics,”trading cards” of this couple, a strong menu with lots of features, social websites sharing choices for you there on the homepage. Add Gittys and your own photos will be able to allow you to earn a wedding site that is contemporary and attractive efficiently.

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Moments

Moments is all about celebration. This theme was distinguished by over 1,500 individuals so far, they have picked this theme to help create an wonderful WordPress theme for the biggest day of their lifetime. This theme is incredibly easy to use it intuitive and Placid. For women and men that want an amazing WordPress website to help them celebrate the best day of their life, this theme provides all the tools necessary to pull off an amazing celebration. You will be amazed by the amount of attributes, the style and the adaptability of this lavishly praised WordPress theme. Take a few minutes to check out the features, I believe that you will find this theme is a great fit for any sort of wedding.

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Jack & Rose

Having an amazing wedding website in your wedding day is a tremendous help. Wedding websites can help alleviate the burden of how much work there is to do in terms of managing RSVPs, invitations, displaying photos from the big event and pretty much anything else related to a wedding. If I had to grade the Jack and Rose WordPress theme, I would give it an A+, to be honest with you. This theme features a design and it ambitious. If you’d like a coherent and professional wedding site, this theme may be fantastic Spark to producing an wonderful experience for each of your guests and, most of all, for the bride and groom themselves. This fluid and responsive WordPress theme looks great on all devices when your visitors are going to access your website via smartphone, and that is really useful.

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Wedding Boutique

Wedding is a WordPress wedding service, photography website, fashion site and wedding photography site that use a true wedding theme. This theme is meant to assist you highlight the most memorable events. With a full width and fluid and responsive design form and a stylish blog, this WordPress theme is packed with the features you could need to create an wonderful wedding website. The Tesla framework, among the absolute best Administration tools powers wedding day to help construct a feature field and flexible site. Teslathemes consistently does a wonderful job of encouraging all of their WordPress themes that they market, and their an ambitious and amazing developer I actually trust. I believe that with this wedding WordPress theme, you’ll be in good hands and you’ll also be able to produce an WordPress wedding website.

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Ultra

This is the wedding demo of this ultra WordPress theme, from Themify.me, among my preferred theme developers. I really like everything themify has created and also this theme is no exception. This template has lots of pre-made designs and skins that will assist you craft an incredible wedding-related WordPress theme, it’s a breath of fresh air to see such a breezy and motivated theme with all these features. You won’t have to be worried about how your site looks when you select this dashing and courageous template. In case you decide to download the ultra WordPress theme, you’ll find it is an excellent alternative for creating an inexpensive and impactful website for all your guests.

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Bluemoon

This theme is called Bluemoon, it’s a gorgeous, simple and fluid and responsive wedding theme that has an lots of features and it is incredibly simple for beginners to use. You can upload your own logo or header image, pick from one of five color schemes and half a dozen layout options. There are three footer widget places, infinite page structures and you can integrate your page builder plugin to make even more amazing looking layouts. This theme is a option that is nice. Bluemoon is a Genesis framework child theme and that means your site will load up quickly, look great on all apparatus and because it is a child theme, any updates to WordPress will not break your site. I think that is a critical element to making this theme one of the greatest wedding photography themes on the market.

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