#and more than a friend by girli

[inkskinned]

hey it's nanowrimo. i have tips bc i've done it about 34 times.

Don't edit. Ever. Stop it. If you just decide to start a new project half thru this one with all new characters, no problem. pick up and keep writing as if you'd already written the first half of that.

"but i spelled it wrong" whatever. "but the grammar" whatever. make it exist first. no time for sense. think like you're working on a typewriter. no backspace. only forward go.

Don't re-read further than a paragraph or two backwards. "did i mention the gun before?" listen - it doesn't matter. if you need there to be a gun there, the gun is there. put it back in once you finish the book.

"i forgot the specifics of X thing i already wrote" whatever. change it, make a note/comment to figure it out later, and just write what makes sense for the moment. "no raquel it's legit the characters name and origin" idc that character is now reborn as Claudius from Elsewhere. it's fine.

only you see your mistakes. nobody else knows. one of the ways writing and dance overlap - only you know the choreography. nobody else will know if you miss a step, so just keep dancing and pretend you meant to do it like that.

it's an illusion that you need to write linearly - from point A to point B to point C. Nah; that's just timeline propaganda. I've written a LOT of books out of order and just reordered them once i've finished. if you have a scene you'd LOVE to write but can't get there yet because of plot, just fuckin write the scene. I've always found its easier to establish "point F" "point J" and "Point A" and then wiggle my way between those scenes.

write what you WANT to write. 230 pages of smut? of well-researched discussion on bread? whatever. the point is to strengthen muscles however you can.

if you miss a day, a week, whatever. not the end of the world. we all have dry days. also time is a myth so u can do this challenge whenever u want.

as soon as you try to write for a specific audience, you kill your voice. you are writing for yourself. stop thinking about how people will take ur book. it don't matter. what matter is u, enjoying writing. i luv u.

play to your strengths. i have characters talk so much because i don't know how to write a plot if it kills me but i'm really good at dialogue so.

i love a flight of fancy. write a poem in there. shift tactics and write in code. keep it fun for yourself.

see what happens if you shift something major about ur main characters - gender, wealth, superpowers. or if you change point-of-view. or if you kill everyone in a big explosion. do NOT edit anything before this or after it. often these little weird one-off exercises teach me what interests me about what i'm working on. it is never what i thought. plus it is a fun way to add like 1k words.

stretch.

it's for fun and for practice. stop doing that project if it's giving you anxiety. once my nano was literally 50k words of half-started stories. just things i tried and tried and tried and wasn't able to flesh out. oops. but i am now 50k words of a better writer.

add dragons?

read books/listen to books on tape/etc. people often make the mistake of "buckling down" to just write. you need inspiration. you need to like. fill up on words. you need to remember how it feels to lose yourself in a story.

i don't have the time or space to really talk about this in this post but a lot of creative people turn to drugs/alcohol because it can help you be more creative. this is harmful, and walking a blade that only cuts deep. if you notice you and your loved ones are turning more to substances, please know i love you and i hope you are able to get help soon. i feel like this almost never gets mentioned because it's kind of a hazy underbelly to art. you are always more important than the work.

on that note. drink your fukin. water.

don't talk about a story until you've finished it. once you tell the story, it exists already, and isn't about discovery. i usually have a very canned "haha we'll see" response.

grapes :) tasty snack.

i love you be free.

#edit: the command not to talk about it is from personal experience! #i have heard Otherwise in the tags so i will edit to say: #if you've noticed that you tend to like Talk A Lot about ur piece but never WRITE it - #consider voice-to-text #also #u might be like me and ... need to figure it out on the PAGE and not OUT LOUD #i am often an auditory processor so i wont tell people specifics but i'll be like #huh. so i have a character who is in love .... and they don't know it #and my friend will be like ''oh they should kiss' and meanwhile #somehow #saying it out loud im like #yeah thank u ur right the dress SHOULD be purple that's what the problem has been <3 #idk!!! it's up to you!!! my suggestion is to say LESS until you know for a FACT that saying MORE works better for you #-- always better to slowly unspool in ur exploration of that #than to accidentally talk too much and get Bored Of Project #idk idk idk #i have adhd so every book surprises me bc im like #wait where did any of this even COME FROM #and whatever little gremlin in my brain that writes is like :) #''heyyy girlie.......'' #WHICH IS A LONG WAY TO SAY: #i didn't know about Not Talking About It as an option until i'd ruined a few projects!! #but there are people who need to do the other thing!!! and i love us both!!!! #wow brains are so funny!!!!

[snixx]

the shame of not having moved on from faberry in the year of our lord 2024. we all need that one yearny pretentious ass depressed white girl queerbait ship that we will never get over leave me alone okay

#at least it wasn't clexa godbless #but GIRL it's been fifteen years #the DETAILS the METICULOUSNESS the POETIC CINEMA #the PARALLELS #WHEN YOU WERE SINGING THAT SONG YOU WERE SINGING IT TO FINN AND ONLY FINN RIGHT #girlie got in a CAR CRASH to stop the love of her life from getting married to some jock tool #MY GREATEST ACCOMPLISHMENT WAS I FOUND A WAY TO BE YOUR FRIEND #YOU DON'T BELONG HERE RACHEL AND YOU CAN'T HATE ME FOR HELPING SEND YOU YOUR WAY #SHE'S THE SHINING STAR OF ALL OF US #YOU'RE A VERY PRETTY GIRL QUINN YOU'RE THE PRETTIEST GIRL I'VE EVER MET BUT YOU'RE A LOT MORE THAN THAT #i could go on #what the fuck was that #faberry

[widevibratobitch]

ive been neck deep in fitzconte the last few days and it's amazing the things people can do with a character who has 4 minutes of screentime, says like three lines in total and also never actually directly interacts with the character the fandom decided is their bestie their pal their sweet cheese their good-time boy. and lover.

the cheetah is a homoerotic allegory yes yes we know.

#but the fics ive read. holy shit. there are so many incredible writers in this fandom. obsessed. #anyway. friendship ended with fitzier. now fitzconte is my best friend. #(<- a joke obv im a fitzier girlie forever and ever. but when you CONNECT the two... my goddd. now i feel im alive) #also its so funny how the fitzconte fics seem so much more like rpf than say fitzier etc cause like. #since we got next to nothing of these two in the show - the fic writers' obvious next step is to turn to their actual life history #since they were buddies irl and all. the clio shenanigans are just a well that keeps on giving. #where would we be without that cheetah fitzconte nation huh #the terror #fitzconte #i used to occasionally dab my fingers into this ship but now that ive read some fics where they're oh so delightfully toxic... im in love <3 #i still only like it in a very very specific way tho

[kittarts]

More fairytopia please?

Cute, I’ll draw some more charas next time I get to watch it for sure 🌺

#kittchats #I have a barbie friend who makes me watch Fairytopia 1/2/3 annually now it’s super fun. #I’m a Coraline guy but Barbie girlies and guylies are v welcome. #Just expect blue hair more than blonde <3

[bread-that-draws]

Internets obsession with Sans Undertale will always be famous 2 me bc 11 year old me was there in 2015 watching blue lightsaber penis happen in real time and then I play the actual game and it’s like. He’s truly just some guy. He’s just there to troll his brother and then drops “i met ur adoptive mother in the woods and she asked me to protect you and if she didn’t oh boy your ass would be grass”. and goes back to just being a guy. Finish pacifist and he goes “I’m gonna go keep an eye on my insane brother” and walks in the opposite direction. Then 11 year old me is like ok what is the hype about. Why do we want this man so bad. Then I play geno and he’s like OUR STUDiES HAVE SHOWN OUR TIMELINE IS BEING FUCKED. UR ASS IS GRASS. GET FUCKED and like. 11 year old me thought it was kinda cool I guess but sure the entire internet wants to fuck this guy. Whatever. Fingers in his ass Sunday

#that’s the titular bitchular (11 y/o me) btw #i still don’t get it but y’all really love ur sans undertale and i respect it #I was never a sans girlie and I know lesbians who were so its not because of that #hes like. my friend #my weird uncle #I’m a Flowey the flower fan to the day I die #i have the almost 6k notes post about it for a reason #I had a personal grudge against sans for a while bc 11 year old me was super into like 4 other characters way more #but if you were into undertale in 2015-2017 you know #only content you could find was sans #but I’m cool with him now #sans #sans undertale #undertale #utdr #he is cool objectively #lazy dude that does jack shit actually knows more than anyone (besides Flowey) about the timelines and only does something about it #when he’s the last resort #his secret room and his connection to the Deltarune world

[champagnemoon]

I think it’s funny when average men talk about how no one hits on them or gives them free things as an example of female privilege because in reality that’s just not being a hottie

#just like the average woman doesn’t get those things either #one thing being friends with hot men will teach you is that they be pulling more perks than the girlies lmaooo

[pirateshavefeelingstoo]

It’s been cold outside for two days in a row… that means it’s fall and yearning season is beginning in earnest

#summer is for the wedding girlies but fall and winter are for the yearning girls #that’s right #you know the drill #i’m in love with my best friend #there’s nothing I want more than to curl up in bed with my girl #in a place that’s our OWN #wlw #wlw yearning #wlw romance #lgtbqia+ #bi #bisexual #bi yearning #bi romance #lesbian #lesbian yearning #lesbian romance #sapphic #sapphic yearning #sapphic romance

[pandavalkyrie]

The only people who don't belong at pride are cops and bigots. Anyone willing to pick up a rock to defend us from those two are welcome. And anyone saying otherwise is actually one of the previous two.

#Kinksters aces allies family friends people with neopronouns degens weirdos looky loos bi curious girlies poly dudes and freaks #You belong here #More than ever we need to be united and in the largest numbers possible

[sunnyscript]

Parallax feels for y'all

#i've been thinking about this for hours. Like it's so sad. #This happened immidiately after Hal gives up his ring to Kyle and Ganthet gives him powers #I've also been thinking about the gardiens and the way they're portrayed and seen as #Like the people who'd only read this issue they'd think Hal is selfish or just overwhelmed by grief #But it's so much more than that #When Hal calls the gardiens “Blue tyrans” it's not only genuine but also legitimate #The gardiens take a lot of autonomy from corps members like asking hal to kill his friend Priest in 1960 GL special issue 2 #And they've done a lot of terrible things that can't be erased in anyway #One good example are the manhunters (failing which led to the GL corp) and gold lantern replacing the GL in legion of superhero timeline. #Like I've gotten into comics WAY after watching animated marvel and dc stuff because TV #But I've been thinking about the Green lantern animated serie (how good it was) and the manhunters and the guardiens #Anyway my rambling is useless but I just wanted to post a thing about Hal #Sad feeling aside can you feel the babygirlism in the last panel #hal jordan #green lantern #parallax #Hope the tumblr girlies (gender neutral) are proud of themselves #They infected me with the Parallax fangirlism #sunnyscript #sunnyscriptpost #comics posting #sunnyscripttags

[milesworld96]

#wanted to make my own💔💔 #maxwell jacob friedman #mjf #adam cole #adam cole bay bay #better than you bay bay #adamjf #adamjf is real #a neurodivergent baddie with a fat ass and a girly pop man with weezer blue eyes becoming friends and falling in love with each other #love these dorks #evil and even more fucked up evil person #aew

[theprinceandthewitch]

No, no I don't think I will "get over" this shows poorly veiled misogyny lol.

#ml salt #Adrien has always been the “female love interest” character who gets nothing substantial of his own #this is really obvious in Volpina: where Adrien's golden ticket to see Foo is usurped from him and given to Marinette through plot bs #Marinette is rewarded for Adrien defying his father. Adrien knows he will be punished for breaking into the safe but does it anyway because #the book is clearly filled with important miraculous info. Suddenly the fandom cries out: #but Adrien couldnt keep the book because hes too girly - i mean too feminine- I MEAN too stupid to figure out a good place to hide this boo #yeah okay listen if this show actually gave a single fuck about making him anything more than a female LI type of character #they would have come up with a way to make sure Gabriel couldnt take the book from him. he could have given it to Nino or something since #theyre ya know. friends. and Nino hates Gabriel so hed be cool with Adrien stealing from him. #something something people need to stop appying outside logic as for why characters behave a specific way #because the job of the writer is to clearly convey why characters do (x) thing

[normcore-tertiary-character]

I'm being so normal about Buddie that I put on my sapphic playlist for a drive and then spent half the songs picturing how they could actually be about Buddie

#Like Jenny by Studio Killers and More Than A Friend by Girli and Strawberry Blonde by Mitski are reasonable-ish stretches #but like Chick Habit by April March and Pynk by Janelle Monae seems overkill #at least I couldnt make Gentleman Jack somehow Buddie #911 #buddie #buddie 911

[ecoamerica]

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[britneyshakespeare]

if i were a british rockstar dude from the 1960s id be your favorite right

#if i wouldnt then we're not friends #text post #id kick mick jagger's ass. not brian jones' and not dave davies'. maybe ray davies #not lyrically but like physically i would kick his ass #i would get in a scrap or two if i were one of those guys #actually i thought about it a lot a year ago when i was rereading my middle/early high school diaries i was like #if i had been raised a boy i would've been getting into physical fights. i had so many issues #and i hated everyone around me. #young boys see violence as an option more readily than girls do. #if a freckled curly-haired girly thing like me ever decked someone i'd never be accepted by anyone ever again #as a teacher i do see the ways that girls are encouraged to be more socially aggressive versus w boys it's more often physical/overt #but i also wasnt very socially aggressive bc i had too much anxiety to speak to ppl. anyway i say this as a good thing! #good thing i never got into any fights #anyway if i were a british rockstar dude from the 1960s id be your favorite riiiiiight?

[rattotheimperialcheesegod]

Im a modern aphmau watcher (not out of liking it really its more out of me just watching it to shit on her newer stuff cause its utter trash and she made her already decent ish at best, characters into the most annoying fuckers ive ever seen)

And with this, came a kinda guilty pleasure of seeing my girls, Nana and Kim, and i ship them.

a lot, alittle too much, they are littary dating in my rewrite...

#my art #aphmau #mystreet kim #mystreet nana #mystreet aphmau #Like the girlies don't even interact at all in mystreet and they basically are friends/enemies #because of aph wanting more shipping drama all the fucking time with zane x nana by #having kim try to hit on him and than leading to nana basically targeting her house of a nuke #but to be fr #kim x nana has kinda been my jam since i notice shit in videos that no one even sees because im insane #also um zane in modern videos is very creepy and gross and i hate him a lot #im chill with mcd zane and mystreet zane just this verison of him is THE WORST #also im chill with zane x nana by the fandom just the modern content of them is...very unhealthy and pretty toxic on both ends #and zane is like really gross about nana to the point where even her va sounds uncomfortable #so kim x nana has been my default for these videos #also i dont believe kim liking noi for a second she is a women lover you cant change my fucking mind

[sbd-laytall]

They're all variants of each other, and you can't prove me wrong.

#I finally caved and started watching Smallville (ignoring all the other stuff I planned to watch LOL) #the early 2000s tropes/cliches are very prominent in these shows #because Marissa is canonically bisexual I think this is evidence that Lana is also queer (I headcanon Lana as a lesbian but still) #plus Allison is just so very bisexual to me #all my girlies were victims of bad writing and they all deserved better #oh and they all have the snarky but caring best friend that they lowkey have way more chemistry with than their primary love interests #Chloe Sullivan 🤝 Summer Roberts 🤝 Lydia Martin #lana lang #smallville #marissa cooper #the oc #the o.c. #allison argent #teen wolf #venn diagram #meme #pics are not mine #my post

[astrxealis]

merry christmas btw i kinda forgot to say it ere at all oopsies >_< i hope you all had/have a wonderful holiday season or week or day or month regardless of your religion and if you celebrate christmas !!!!!

i got 'the end of everything' by katie mack for xmas (i begged my parents lol) bcs i finally saw it in a bookstore after months of looking for it that i just Fell to the ground ..... i love astrophysics i love space i love science. i also love u all

#⋯ ꒰ა starry thoughts ໒꒱ *·˚ #:3 :3 :3 meow #urgh. tired! i wish to ignore my responsibilities but i should not cannot #i actually got genshin again yesterday which sounds unreal. i just want pretty blonde girl navia LMFAOOO #but also i've actually been making progress w quests and shit so yay ^_^ also playing again bcs i lov my friends. nini u will not see this #but ily. also u berry even tho we are on wholly different servers bcs i'm on na haha despite the fact i am literally asian & in asia but ok #i miss ffxiv ... :(( i meant to make my theme vincent valentine and reference hit song valentine by hit band mäneskin #but i was like i do not think i can live long w this. and then thought hard. and then. ryne/gaia... my darlings <3 #also idk if i've said but i'm finally. heading and delving more into dnd finally !! tis meant to be lmfao i love my friends wow #and also my dad had his own dnd set back in the day he never used unfortunately and doesnt hav anymore but Yes <333 #bg3 ocs are tasty! you have apollo erebus and thanatos there is an obvious theme in names going on! #funny there is one silly bard (my guy ever. obviously) and then the other two are durges on opposite ends #pretty boy draconic sorcerer who tries to be good but honestly he's romancing astarion too so he's kinda Yeah #and then you have than who is. what a pretty enby he/she ladyman! romancing minthara ofc <3 they are my evil girlie #evil girlies more like. Two of them yay!!! w opposite color schemes (quite intentional but also i Just Love Red) #haven't watched pjotvseries bcs i will cry throughout the whole thing (probably not an exaggeration) so i am obviously not ready #yeah. ^_^ <3