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apparentlysmart · 3 months

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Two thoughts dance together in my head as I walk to school. The first is that I should be prepared for Lake to continue to ignore me. That one has taken the lead and is stepping all over the feet of its partner, because that other thought trying to keep up is that, even if he does, I’m not going to be able to ignore him.

In some ways, that was already how we had spent most of our time interacting with each other. He would valiantly attempt to pretend that I wasn’t about to do something terrible to him, and I would still do the terrible thing.

This time is different. This time I don’t want to do a terrible thing.

Or, I don’t think that he would think what I want to do is terrible. For that to be true, he’d have to believe that I haven’t at all noticed how he’s acted toward me since our conversation Monday afternoon.

It was just like I told Liz. He’s teasing, and I think two can play at that game.

Then I get to the parking lot and see his Jeep towering over all the other cars. I see him open the door and jump out, then stretch and yawn. I am directly behind him when he first rolls up the sleeves of his rainbow hoodie and then, a moment later, decides to pull it off over his head and toss it back into his Jeep.

If he had taken his time, this would not have been an issue. But in his apparent rush to get it off he also pulled the t-shirt underneath it over his head as well, leaving him standing in the middle of the lot with his bare back facing me.

I stare.

I stare so hard I almost walk into one of the arched pillars along the sidewalk breezeway. His shirt goes back on quickly, but it doesn’t matter. It was less than ten seconds of his flesh hitting my retinas. If I needed one final piece of evidence that he is not the tiny yet gangly boy that I bullied in gym class, it is this.

His shoulders are still his shoulders, just like I remember them from AQUA, though now they aren’t disguised under the club’s blacklights. His back has enough definition that even from this distance, in this hazy morning sunlight, I could see shadows where his muscles peak and valley. And, if that was not enough, my eyes caught a hint of bright fabric climbing up from beneath his jeans.

He is wearing pink underwear. Lake Williams is wearing neon pink underwear.

And whatever heat he felt in the air that made him want to remove his sweater is now nothing compared to the blaze that has engulfed me and sent me rushing for the front doors and into the closest bathroom to throw water on my face.

It was then, gawking at my wet face in the mirror, that one of the two thoughts in my head changed. I was still going to have to deal with the fact that he is going to ignore me, but now I was really, really, really going to have to ignore him, too.

#wip #wip wednesday #young adult #ya #ya wip #young adult wip #writing #snippet #my writing #amwriting #ya writing #queer romance

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andva-ri · 10 months

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#rottmnt #rise of the tmnt #rise donnie #rottmnt donnie #donatello #donnie #tmnt #meme #caramelldansen #tw flashing #tw flashing lights #myne #he didn't save before the pc crashed #save every 5 minutes kids #resuscitating a meme because I'm old #told ya you were gonna be let down #i still remember after effects after not touching it for 10 years YAYYY #this has been in my wips for like 5 months

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catfayssoux · 12 days

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WHO NEEDS MIDDLE BITS WHEN YOU CAN HAVE ✨ 𝒔 𝒄 𝒆 𝒏 𝒆 𝒔 ✨

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hotcinnamonsunset · 2 months

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knitting but make it ✨dark academia✨

#knitting #wip #knitblr #the pattern is dark academia on ravelry🫶#the gothic catholic cathedral vibes are off the chart here😅#also every time I do an all over colorwork sweater I remember how much I don’t actually like doing them but the pattern is always worth it #I love the way the sleeve decreases worked out! the pattern calls it a bishops sleeve decrease so the more you know ya know?

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tempo-takoyaki · 7 months

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"Have you always looked at me this way?"

#svsss #ren zha fanpai zijiu xitong #scum villian self saving system #scumbag system #bingqiu #luo binghe #shen qingqiu #myart #reposting because I looked at my phone screen after posting and realized how desaturated the colors were #anyway this was in my wips for too long here ya go #he loves him your honor

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twisting-in-wonderland · 5 months

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Ace has a front row seat to the soon-to-be greatest event in NRC history-

based on this pic--

the energy this exudes will always crack me up-

heres a wip btw >_>

fun fact! originally grim was gonna be O_O at Jamil too, but then i remembered that grim doesnt have an ounce of awareness in him rip

#twst #twisted wonderland #art #ram's art #azul ashengrotto #jamil viper #ace trappola #deuce spade #twst grim #uhhhh yea this is like. messy and stuff #i just wanted to break my art block that ive been stuck in for over a month with a joke lol #can you tell that i drew azul in the first pic without a reference---- i hope not lol??--------#i /was/ gonna do the bg as the scarabia dorm - like they all got invited to a meal or something but i needed to finsih this man --#-its been a wip for a literal month p l s #also- shout out to the cherry pie and table that were gonna have more stuff done to them but sai straight up said 'no more layers allowed:]#anyways rip azul - nice knowing ya

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petricorah · 1 year

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something something i will follow you into the dark (comic wip)

#this comic isn't angst i promise. maybe #another wip because im an impatient person at heart and i've been working on this comic since JANUARY #arrrghhh why isn't it done? i say #knowing full well it's not done because i kept not working on it #zukka #zuko #sokka #mywips #i dont' even know if this panel makes sense out of context #i thought i'd get this done by sunday but there's no way that's happening so here. have another wip on what's apparently a wip account now #okay i was just putting that song as a title because it popped into my head bc of the way they were standing but it made me look up those #lyrics and damn. that's a zukka angst song right there ill tell ya #“love of mine someday you will but i'll be close behind” sobs #cause we'll hold each other soon

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julescarstairs · 9 months

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I think the worst part about writing a book is wanting to tell everyone everything about your characters and your ships and your elaborate fantasy world and the massive plot twist at the end of your novel but you can’t, because if you do, then where is the fun in reading it? What is a good book without its element of surprise?

#writer #my writing #work in progress #wip #high fantasy #fantasy fiction #novel writing #writing #booklr #bookish #ya fantasy

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graceshouldwrite · 10 months

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The Most Powerful Hack to Make Your Readers Cry

You’ve seen it all: show, don’t tell, plant a visceral image in the reader’s brain of the environment/character, write a complex character arc with lots of growth and setbacks, establish deep relationships, high stakes, etc.

All the advice for making readers cry I’ve seen so far is basically that list. But, while those things are absolutely important, I find that the thing that always does the trick, whether as a tipping point or in and of itself, is this:

THE CALLBACK!

Before we move on, this is an ANALYSIS heavy post, so all the book + show examples contain spoilers!!

So, what do I mean by a “callback?” Think of Chekhov’s gun, but, here, you use the gun to pierce your reader’s heart. As a refresher for anyone who needs it, Chekhov’s gun is just a rule in writing that anything you introduce in the book should play some role in the plot.

Specifically, the name comes from the example that if a reader introduces a gun in the first act, it MUST go off later, (maybe, say, in the third act). For example, in the TV show Breaking Bad, the protagonist Walter White prepares a vial of poison (ricin) that he wanted to use to eliminate an opponent early on in the series. After the assassination attempt falls through, the ricin makes an appearance again in the very last episode of the show, when Walt finally uses it to kill another opponent.

Got that? Alright, onto the examples of successful, tearjerking callbacks:

1. The Last Olympian (Rick Riordan); “Family, Luke, you promised.”

Context: The character Annabeth says this line. Years ago, Annabeth had run away from home, and Luke had effectively adopted her into a found family with another kid named Thalia. Common reason for leaving home = parental trauma! Yay! He promised Annabeth that they would be each other’s “family” from now on.

Now: Kronos, the antagonist titan, has possessed the demigod Luke and uses his body to strike Annabeth, injuring her. She’s also holding a dagger that Luke had given her when she joined his “family.”

Significance: her words + the dagger are a mental + physical reminder to Luke of his promise. They force him to recognize the sheer degree of his current betrayal by bringing him back to a different time. The fact that their found family only happened because of parental trauma bringing them together makes it worse—Luke felt abandoned by his Olympian father, Hermes. Now, he realizes that he basically did the equivalent to Annabeth by joining the titans.

2. Les Miserables (Victor Hugo); Jean Valjean’s death

Context: At the beginning of the book, the bishop had caught Valjean trying to steal candlesticks to sell. Instead of handing him over to the police, the bishop told the police that he had given them to Valjean, saving him from arrest and showing him mercy. This changed his life forever, kickstarting his character redemption arc.

Now: Jean Valjean dies surrounded by his loved ones, remembered as a benevolent man who bettered thousands of lives. He’s surrounded by light from candlesticks that once belonged to a bishop.

Context: Valjean had once taken in an impoverished woman named Fantine, showing her mercy and promising to take care of her daughter, Cosette, after Fantine died. Valjean then rescued Cosette from abusive quasi-foster parents (it’s a long story), raising her as his own daughter. This furthered his arc by allowing him to finally understand how unconditionally loving someone feels.

Now: Valjean describes Fantine to Cosette, who never knew her mother.

Significance: Both examples throw readers back to much earlier points in the story before the completion of Valjean’s character arc. In a way, this final scene feels like an external manifestation of his kindness paying off; both he and the reader feels a sense of accomplishment, relief, and just a general “OMG WE MADE IT.” Readers don’t feel cheated, because they were with Valjean every step of his 1,400 page arc. The weight of it all just crashes down on you...

3. Your Lie in April (anime); Kaori’s letter after she dies

Context: Kaori’s entire plot significance is that she helps Kousei, a piano prodigy who can’t play piano anymore due to traumatic parental memories associated with it, play again—but also, just to help him enjoy life again after a turbulent upbringing. She meets him a year before she dies of a medical condition, and her free spirit + confidence influences him to find beauty in life and music again. They basically do a crap ton of crazy funny stuff together lol

Now: Kaori has died, and she leaves a letter to him. Among other general confessions and thoughts, she references things they did and memories they shared: she says, “sorry we couldn’t eat all those canelés,” reminisces about jumping with him off a small bridge into the stream below, “racing each other alongside the train,” singing Twinkle Twinkle Little Star as they rode the bike together, etc.

Significance: Yes, the nature of the letter is just sad because she’s revealing that she loved him all along, apologizing for not being able to spend more time with him, lying that she didn’t like him (to spare his feelings b/c she knew she would die soon), etc. BUT, these small details highlight exactly how many experiences they shared, and the depth of their relationship. Thus, they emphasize the significance of her death and the emptiness it leaves behind.

4. Arcane (show); “I thought, maybe you could love me like you used to, even though I’m different.”

Context: Character Jinx says this in the last episode to her now estranged older sister, Vi. Without going into the crazy complex plot, basically, orphans Vi and Jinx used to care for each other before a bunch of crap went down that got them separated. They then grew up on opposite political sides; Jinx grows up on the side of the underbelly city rebellion, and Vi grows up working on the side of the richer city that essentially oppresses the undercity. Thus begins the development of their opposing viewpoints and work environments, to the point where they always meet on opposite sides of a political battle, never able to come together as a family or understand each other again.

Now: After a super dramatic confrontation, Jinx reveals that although she wants Vi to love her like she did before their separation, she knows it’s not possible because “[Vi] changed too.” She finishes with, “so, here’s to the new us” before blowing up a political council meeting a few blocks down filled with people Vi sides with. Oops! This cleanly seals the fate of their relationship as something basically irreparable.

Significance: This callback isn’t through literal flashbacks or items like in the previous examples. Jinx’ lines are enough to bring back images of their childhood to the audience’s mind. Now, the audience subconsciously places this image of: 1) two sisters so different, hurt, and torn apart, right next to 2) the image of two sisters as innocent children who loved each other and would care for each other no matter what.

Why do callbacks work so well?

If you’ve noticed something in common with all of them, you’re right: they remind audience of a time BEFORE the characters have come so far on their arcs, developed, and put on so much more emotional baggage.

Callbacks force the audience to SUDDENLY and IMMEDIATELY feel the weight of everything that’s happened. The character’s anguish and overwhelming emotions become the audience’s in this moment. Callbacks are a vehicle for the juxtaposition of worlds, before and after significant development.

This works because we, as mortals, fear IMPERMANENCE the most. We fear LOSS. For us, time gone is time we will never get back; callbacks make us face that exact fact through a fictional character. A lost moment, time period, or even part of oneself may hurt as much as losing a loved one, and nothing makes humans grieve more than the realization of a loss. A callback slaps the audience in the face with the fact that something was lost; loss hurts so much because almost 99% of the time, what’s gone is gone forever.

Of course, a good callback requires good previous character development, stakes, imagery, and all that jazz, but I thought I’d highlight this specifically because of how under covered it is.

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I’ve been binging general media lately: I finished Death Note, Your Lie in April, and Tokyo Ghoul all within like a month (FIRST ANIMES I”VE EVER WATCHED!!), reread lots of Les Miserables, analyzed a bunch of past shows like Breaking Bad, watched a bunch of My Little Pony, worked to fix up my old writing... and that’s not even all! The amount of times I’ve CRIED while enjoying the above media and so much more honestly just inspired this post.

Like, no joke, my eyes were almost always swollen during this period whenever I hung out with my friends and it was so embarrassing help

Personally, I just find that this method works super well for me, and I watched a bunch of reaction videos to these above scenes (and read book reviews on the book scenes I mentioned), and it seemed that just about everyone cried during these parts. That’s when I realizes that the callback might also just be a universal thing.

Anyway, this post is long and dense enough as is. SORRY! As always, hope this was helpful, and let me know if you have any questions by commenting, re-blogging, or DMing me on IG. Any and all engagement is appreciated <3333

Happy writing, and have a great day,

- grace <3

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beeqisch · 7 months

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timkon wip

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koszmarnybudyn · 10 days

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Wow i finally got around to another one of these :D

As always alt version and rant undercut:

Ok so honestly not that much changed from the og design. The wings are diffrent (eyes are a motif of the doodler are in all of these final forms and the purple is also for the doodler) i struggled with them a bit, i still think they could have been better but of well. The backround kinda looks like the old disney intro lol. I wanted him to look more bug like, so the antenne, also him becoming a full butterfly as a kinda transformation. The boots are teeny the teen inspired, i feel like in this final form he can finally embrace being a mascot kid again. The magic is more blue than the usual teal to symbolize love. And that's basiclly it, i dont have much to say today i suppose.

#dndads #dungeons and daddies #my art #normal oak #dndads magical girl au #magical girls #magical girl #this was a mess to color #hope link and taylor dont end up in wip hell cause those two are usually hard to choose colors for...#also guess whose having joint pain? its me ya boi #i think theres to much teal in this one :[ but i am not redoing it

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pjs-everyday · 3 months

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moments before disaster (I’m gonna line over this) 🫠👍

#deku in ~my style~ but the gag is that I don’t know what my style is 🧍🏻‍♀️#what comes out is what ya get lol but we’ll see— I struggle keeping the messy sketch 😑#maybe finish later! ❤️#deku #izuku midoriya #mha #mha art #bnha #bnha art #my hero academia #pjseveryday #illustration #art #fanart #anime art #digital illustration #sketchbook #wip #mha redraw

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heart-of-the-morningstar · 2 months

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IT’S ME, YA GIRL, BACK AT IT AGAIN WITH ANOTHER WIP OF A LUCI SMUT FIC CUZ I HAVE NO CONTROL :)

Might have the full thing posted later tonight

Warnings: Smut directly below this, we’re diving in real quick with this one!

NSFW below the cut, minors DNI

You weren’t sure how you ended up in this situation. Well…that’s not entirely true. But you never thought that you would ever be in the situation you found yourself in. Not that you were upset at all by it. Lucifer, the almighty ruler of Hell itself, was bound and blindfolded in your bed wearing nothing more than his briefs. His hands were restrained to the bed post with tightly knotted rope while a silk ribbon obstructed his vision, leaving him absolutely helpless. Of course, you both knew he could more than easily break free from his bondage, but he wasn’t going to. He trusted you with his entire being, his devotion to you was undying. He was now yours to tease, to use, and to break. The thought excited both of you. You had already stripped, wasting no time as you closed in on your prey.

“Are you ready, Luci?” you asked, inching yourself closer to the foot of the bed.

“Yes, darling,” he answered sweetly, “do with me what you please.”

“Good boy,” you hummed. You heard a light moan escape his lips from just your words. He loved nothing more than receiving praise from you. You began by resting your hands on his ankles, ever so slowly moving them up to his calves, and stopping to massage the inside of his thighs. It was already apparent that he was having a difficult time sitting still, he was very sensitive after all. Your touch was intoxicating, he could never be satisfied. And the blindfold certainly amplified the experience. You finally moved your hands up his briefs and onto his hips, where he finally bucked up from your touch.

“Ah, ah, ah,” you chastised, “don’t move, baby. Be good for me.”

“Y-yes, love,” he murmured.

“Already so needy, aren’t we?,” you teased, noticing the very obvious wet spot on his shorts. “We’ve barely started.” You palmed his erection, eliciting a yelp from Lucifer. You began to slowly stroke him through his clothing, you felt his cock twitch at your gentle touch.

“Pl-Please, I-mmhn, please m-more,” he babbled. The sounds of his begging were pure ecstasy. What a feeling to have power over the most powerful being in the realm. You chuckled, reaching for the hem of his briefs, finally releasing his hardened cock. His tip leaked precum onto his stomach, Lucifer whimpered softly.

“Use your words, sweetheart,” you coerced, “tell me what you want.”

You heard an audible gulp from Lucifer. Even with the blindfold, you could tell that his cheeks had flushed a bright red. “T-Touch me, pl-please…need to f-feel you,” he choked out.

You smiled as you reached out to grab the base of his cock, forcing another moan out of Lucifer. You started to stroke his shaft up and down at an agonizingly slow pace, precum leaking onto your hand. It felt like he could burst at any second, but you planned on making this last as long as possible. You could already feel yourself getting wet from the sight of him writhing under your touch. Lucifer’s breathing became heavy as though he couldn’t get enough oxygen in his lungs. Unfortunately, he bucked up his hips to your touch again. You let go of him completely, Lucifer nearly sobbed at the loss of contact.

“What did I say, Luci?,” you scolded.

“Imsorryimsorry!!,” Lucifer cried, “Please! Please, I’ll be good. Please don’t stop…”

“You need to learn some patience, baby,” you retorted, kneeling down and taking a long lick from the base of his shaft to the head. Lucifer’s moans had turned into breathy gasps for air. Without warning, you plunged your mouth down on his cock.

“FFFUUUUCCCKKKK!,” Lucifer yelled as you continued to bob your head up and down on his length. He was well endowed, so you were carefully not to take too much of him all at once. Your hot mouth engulfed half of him while your hand stroked the rest, perfectly in sync. You circled your tongue around his tip, loving the taste of his precum. The only sounds from Lucifer were screams of pleasure as you overstimulated him with your mouth.

“Talk to me, sweetie,” you commended, “how does this make you feel?”

“S-so good, love,” he panted, “ffffuuucckk, I’m so c-close, soooo close…”

“Mmm, what a good boy you are, Luci,” you smiled. You take your hand and mouth off his cock in an instant, leaving it to lay on his stomach once again. Lucifer’s breath hitched as he whined inconsolably, completely devastated by the loss of any friction. “But I’m not done with you yet.”

#hazbin hotel #hazbin hotel x reader #hazbin hotel smut #lucifer morningstar #hazbin lucifer #hazbin hotel lucifer #lucifer x reader #lucifer morningstar x reader #lucifer smut #wip #my writing #everyday I stray further from god’s light #yes it is 8:30 am what’s it to ya???#I forgot it was Valentine’s Day so now I probably have to finish this today for you filthy sinners lmaooo #I kid I wuv u guys ❤️

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