#fiction wishes

[yudkowsky]

I understand why alchemists invented, and modern fiction writers use, systems with a few understandable Elements like Earth / Fire / Air / Water / Light / Dark.

I understand why even most nerds don't bother to study the Elements in real life. There's too many of them, and they don't neatly correspond to meaningful aspects of macro-level existence.

But just once I'd like to read a worked magical system where the author has looked up the properties of the real Elements, has put in all the work to build up a system of plausible-sounding correspondences, and the protagonist is a rare dual-element Tellurium-Iodine wizard.

#in dath ilan this exists as a collaboratively-built open-source magical system that many authors riff on #it's one of the ways that kids end up learning chemistry facts #fiction wishes

[lotus-pear]

soukoku as one of my dearest renaissance paintings

#instead of paying attention to the lectures in ap art history i just look at the paintings my teacher puts on the slides #and decide which ones fit my fictional pairings #i wish i remembered this one i think it was by bernini but i'm not 100% :(((((( #sighhh i'll go check again if anybody wants the og #i listened to luminary by joel sunny while painting this and the vibes were ethereal i felt like i was ascending #bungou stray dogs #bungo stray dogs #bsd #dazai osamu #osamu dazai #nakahara chuuya #chuuya nakahara #soukoku #skk #lotus draws

[blitheringbongus]

Personally I think they’d be cute

#BEEN shipping them for over a year I thinkkk?? #gods I wish the bachelors were polyamourous so I could marry both Harvey and Shane without it being immoral #I care a LOT about the feelings if these fictional pixel men I could NEVER cheat on either #my art #queued #sdv #stardew valley #sdv fanart #stardew fanart #stardew #stardew vally #sdv harvey #stardew harvey #sdv shane #stardew shane #sdv harvey fanart #sdv shane fanart #stardew harvey fanart #stardew shane fanart #shane x harvey #harvey x shane #sharvey #hane #??? I don’t think these guys even have ship names- #oh well #they’re in LOVE in my HEART #pickled peppers #dr pepper

[horsechestnut]

I just think it's really neat how much fans have latched onto the fact that Stephanie Brown was Robin.

Like, both in and out of universe Stephanie was never meant to be taken seriously as Robin. The writers only made her Robin so that her death in War Games would be shocking and Bruce only made her Robin because he thought it would make Tim jealous enough to come back. She only had the mantle for 71 days before being fired (for doing something that literally every other Robin has also done and not been fired over), and she was only active during 50 of them. There are only six issues where Steph is Robin in the canon timeline.

Her final words before her death are asking Batman (Batman, because even on her death bed he doesn't trust her enough to take off his mask) if any of it was real. Was she really Robin? And Batman assures her that of course she was, that she was part of the legend and no one can take it away from her. Except it's a lie, because despite his reassurances, Batman never puts up a memorial or does anything to preserve her memory. He never really thinks of her as Robin, and even her friends will always think of her as Spoiler before ever remembering Robin.

Meanwhile DC spent years ignoring her time as Robin, to the point where it was completely erased from existence for awhile. It's technically back now, because timelines are weird, but unlike the others it's never been altered. She's never been given a second chance at it, no one's ever gone back and added more issues or details about those 71 days, or even seems to want to acknowledge them most of the time.

But fans have clung on to it anyway. Sure, there are lots of people who make Robin posts that are just about the boys, but there are just as many people who are ready to fight anyone who doesn't include her. Maybe it was only for a little while, but she was Robin, and we're sure as hell not going to forget it. If DC isn't going to bother to remember, than we will.

Stephanie Brown was Robin. She was part of the legend. It was real. No matter what, no one can take that away from her.

#i know she's a fictional character and her dying words don't actually matter #but also I just think it's really fascinating to look at the similarities between how Steph was treated in and out of canon #and it does kinda make me emotional thinking about how #her dying wish was to always be part of the legend and to this day #20 years later #we still insist on including her in Robin fan works #stephanie brown #robin iv #robin stephanie brown #batman #the spoiler #batgirl iii #batfam #batfamily #listen man #war games bad #but also steph's last words always make me so emotional #war games #batman: war games #batman 633

[eskiworks]

I got possessed by some kind of blue light attracted muse, and this study came out of my fingers. As far as I can tell this is the original photo source for the lovely long haired subject: https://depositphotos.com/photo/domestic-cat-profile-291633228.html

#I saw a photo of a singer I don't know with her long hair flowing in this ultra saturated blue stage light #and I was like WHAT IF THAT WAS A CAT INSTEAD #I wish my muse wanted me to make more cool fiction things but instead it's like HOW ABOUT BLUE CAT #Anyway #eskiworks #art #artists on tumblr

[green--tea-owo]

i need him biblically.

i need him in a way that is concerning to feminism.

#the last of us #joel miller #daddy issues #he is so fine #wish he was real #fictional men #joel tlou #tlou #tlou2

[fizpup]

valentine, you're a horse ❤️

#my little pony #mlp g3 #wish-I-may #wish-I-might #ok so. I'm gonna ramble for a sec #normally when I post on valentine's day I complain in the tags about being single. but I won't this year! #I've recently realized I'm definitely somewhere on the aromantic spectrum. and that I'm perfectly content without a partner #in the past I've described myself as 'emotionally unavailable' or having 'commitment issues' but neither of those things were ever true #I'm a very loving and loyal person! #I've always been extremely affectionate with friends and family but unable to have the same level of love for potential partners #unsure if I'm just demisexual/demiromantic or actually aroace but I'm definitely not the default settings type of gay lol #I'm a big fan of romance and sex in fiction! but irl? 😅😬 idk about that fam! idk! #hypothetically I would like to have a gf one day and maybe fall in love but now I understand why that may not happen #or atleast is gonna take a while. and that's fine :) #tldr; if your top song on spotify last year was Cupid by Fifty Fifty it's time to do some soul searching lol #happy valentine's day!! 💕

[ivynightshade]

fatima aamer bilal, excerpt from moony moonless sky’s ‘i can’t be loved, swallowed or digested. must i make myself smaller?’

[text id: this thought was unceasing: somewhere must be home. / the spine-folding need to belong was woven into my skin. no amount of clawing could ever get it out. / it scared me that even at my very best, i wouldn’t be able to stop myself from being fond of the tearing. isn't mauling touch? the warmth of a hand close to you, right before is tears you apart, is something.]

#fatima aamer bilal #just read that a healthy person wouldn’t wish to be sick for people to care about them and if you wish to be sick maybe you already are #poetry #poeticstories #yearning #longing #all hunger is is love #literature #art #book quotes #book quotations #words #web weaving #typography #fiction #fantasy #lit #dark poetry #dark academia #poetry collection #taylor swift #bts #franz kafka #sylvia plath #lana del rey #mahmoud darwish #jane austen #anne brontë #parent issues #home

[ventique18]

Bro... I got chills from fright... This is exactly what Christianity preaches and promises. And proof that, in fact, Malleus is designed in narrative to be a false god.

REVELATION 21:4

"And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes, and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain; for the former things are passed away.”

#the idea of a false god and horror through false faith absolutely frightens me the most in fiction #and how fitting for it to be malleus #who only genuinely wished to love but didn't know how #twisted wonderland #ventique rambles #malleus draconia #twst book 7

[profictionoverhaul]

Anti-shippers DNIs are so stupid.

You don't want to talk to yourself? YOU'RE THE HATEFUL ASS PERSON DUDE!!! Telling people to die IS hateful!!!!

#pro ship blog #pro ship safe #anti anti #pro shipping #anti antis #proship #discourse #anti censorship #pro fiction #anti shipping #tw death wish #i guess?

[jonny-b-meowborn]

Once an Afton fucker always an Afton fucker

speedpaint

#barking and barking and biting #hes so #'but jonny bee he killed children' no one's perfect grow up #lmao #i wish hed stab me #he should 'stuff' me in a 'suit' #saying the same joke a thousand times on different platforms to different people. yeah #ive never been normal and never will be normal about fictional murder men #fnaf #fnaf movie #five nights at freddy's #five nights at freddy's movie #william afton #matthew lillard #fanart #digital art #art #my art #jonny bee art

[potatounicoorn]

The worst plan I ever made is the fact that I started my scifi reading journey with The Martian and Project hail Mary cause how the fuck could anything ever top those two books.

#I literally cant read any other kind of space scifi than Andy Weirs throwing a man alone in space type #Its so good I just know nothing can ever beat it #I wish I could read them for the first time #The martian #Project hail mary #Andy weir #science fiction

[magnusbae]

"...You had to be able to show too much of yourself. You had to be just a little bit more honest than you were comfortable with. And if people judged you, if they felt they knew who you were, that was just something that you were going to have to live with. And what was strange is, once I started doing that, and I was expecting to be judged, or shunned, or people’s opinions or to have to deal with things, what I discovered was, actually, their opinions were, we really like this. We love this story. That’s a good story. It felt huge. It felt personal. And I realized that’s because I was being honest about me.“ —Neil Gaiman

#It was such a lovely speech. I really enjoyed hearing it and I wished to have it here as well. You can youtube it. His name and Masterclass. #Neil Gaiman #The Sandman #How many of you squinted and saw Dream. #Neil Gaiman Masterclass #Dream of the Endless #You know what I WILL tag it because and I will explain #You can really see the parts of himself that Neil put into Dream #This interview more than any truly shows you some of that #Dream is essentially a creator of stories too— One who is not good at being honest with himself— One who too has a facility of voices. #Frankly— How old were you when you saw Neil's little 'self insert' OC and went 'Ah yes. Here he is.' #Also the fact that Neil always wears black and has a messy hair. #Love it. #Quote Edit #Writing Advice #Writing Fiction #buns.edits #buns.all

[a-dying-wish-if]

A Dying Wish is an interactive story about being a bird.

Well, not just a bird.

Thousands of years ago, you were worshipped - maybe they built grand temples and statues of you, maybe secret little shrines in the darkest parts of the endless woods...

But none of that matters anymore. The statues and temples of old have crumbled into dust and the woods burned away in the fires of industry.

Yet you are still there today, unknown and uncaring, hidden in the rubble of this broken world, in which a humanity far beyond its peak slowly grinds towards its own erasure.

Although fatigue should be unknown to you no matter what physical form you assume, you find yourself to be tired. That's why you chose to become a mortal bird, fragile but free, and seek out one of the few remaining forests to starve to death in relative peace - not that you're sure what death actually means to a being like you.

But as you come to rest on the branch of a lone maple tree in the midst of countless birches, you find that you are not alone... a human is bleeding out beneath your tree.

Genre: Romance, Horror Setting: Pseudo-Postapocalyptic ('90s Russia/Yugoslav Wars vibes) Note: there's only one (customizable) RO Objective: find your place among the many monsters in this world and worm your way into the RO's heart

Demo: TBA. This project will only occasionally be worked on as I focus on my main wip, Орлёнок.

#a dying wish if #choicescript #interactive fiction #wip #work in progress

[xiaq]

Publishing is weird. Especially when you're used to fic. Because you write this thing. And then a year later you cut it in half and edit it for publication. And then a year after that, the first part comes out. And then a year after that the second part comes out. And you finally decide to sit down and read both of them through after a bit of distance except then you're immediately going "look at this glaring plothole, why did you use so many en dashes, stop saying the word 'like,'" except, unlike Ao3 where you can just go...make adjustments as needed, you're stuck with everyone seeing your writing's flaws.

And now I'm being overly critical about the things I'm currently writing because god forbid I'm making mistakes (not recognizing them) that I will someday kick myself for once I have further matured as a writer.

I guess the good news is that I'm writing at all? But that bad news is I'm a neurotic mess.

#things to talk to my therapist about #lol #author things #this morning i wrote 1k words of fic and 2k words of original fiction #so progress is progress #i just wish i was less of a basketcase about the original fiction #writing is supposed to be fun #i remind myself darkly

[botanautical]

'We all yearn for the woods. That's why every fellow on this island wants to settle down near a tree - just one will do.'

#dazai osamu #bsd dazai #bungou stray dogs #bungo stray dogs #bsd #bsd fanart #it's dazai day!! #i wish this insufferable fictional man weren't so beloved to me #but as somebody plagued by silly brain issues he is oddly comforting and makes me feel less alone #and bsd introduced me to actual dazai osamu whose writing is honestly groundbreaking to me and i've barely even scratched the surface #it's something about the confluence of humour and tragedy... the desire to exist to bring joy to others at the expense of one's own #i feel like asagiri imparted this notion well onto bsd dazai - i know a lot of people dislike dazai and question his motivations #but i have faith in him and believe he's pursuing good #anyway excuse the ramble! the caption is from dazai's short story 'monkey island'! thank you to my dear partner for finding it for me!! #i'm really very happy with how this piece turned out - i wanted to depict bsd dazai but really pay suitable homage to his namesake #it's been a while since i've had fun drawing but this one and other recent pieces this month have really brought me back into it #happy birthday dazai #botanautical