Pile of Dragon Filth

I'm absolute shipper trash and nothing you say can make me feel guilty about it.  "Look at my baby off to destroy people." - Jade "She probably knows actual magic" - Anon "Fanciest dumpster in all of Thedas" - Jade

[segamascott]

Why the fuck are you 30+ on tumblr

this is my house?

[grungixfungi]

[siriusdraws]

thanatos picks zagreus up after death by natural causes challenge

[thewritingumbrellas]

Writing advice from my uni teachers:

If your dialog feels flat, rewrite the scene pretending the characters cannot at any cost say exactly what they mean. No one says “I’m mad” but they can say it in 100 other ways.

Wrote a chapter but you dislike it? Rewrite it again from memory. That way you’re only remembering the main parts and can fill in extra details. My teacher who was a playwright literally writes every single script twice because of this.

Don’t overuse metaphors, or they lose their potency. Limit yourself.

Before you write your novel, write a page of anything from your characters POV so you can get their voice right. Do this for every main character introduced.

[writerlyn]

This is legit good writing advice, especially the first bullet point! In playwriting class we did a bit where every bit of dialogue had to be an accusatory question and it was glorious.

[wingdingery]

will die on the hill of “dead dove: do not eat” DOES NOT MEAN “there are various unspecified things in here that might disturb you, so be warned”

it means “i know the contents of this bag (a dead dove) may be upsetting, so i have labeled the outside very clearly with what is inside (a dead dove), and if you look inside, you should not be surprised to find a dead dove, because that’s what the label very explicitly says is inside the bag”

i realize this is a losing battle because enough people have made it mean the other thing as to make the tag totally useless, but seeing people argue over what it should mean gives me a headache because it literally could not be clearer

[leftbooblover]

Melted steel. Mingled blood. Harrowhark-and-Gideon. Gideon-and Harrowhark at last.

[thechanelmuse]

Hazel Scott playing two pianos at the same damn time with ease

[erinbowbooks]

Hazel Scott was a musical sorcerer and a civil rights hero.   She:

 was admitted to Julliard at 8.  

was performing in top venues by 16.  

pioneered “swinging the classics” and made the equivalent of a million dollars a year doing it.  

was the first person of color to have their own national TV show.  

went to Hollywood but refused to be cast as a “singing maid.”  Demanded and got control over her casting, her wardrobe, and how footage featuring her was cut.  

refused to perform in segregated venues and led charges for integration in several northern cities, notably Spokane.  

She was brought down by the House Committee on Unamerican Activities, and has been largely forgotten.  But she was a sorcerer, and a hero.  

[domduongart]

@theladyragnell

[violent-darts]

Let’s un-forget her.

[dream-piper]

So I learned something new today!

[catchymemes]

[lesly-oh]

HUNTR/X 💥

[theshitpostcalligrapher]

req'd by @mystical-mew

yeah that's the mood tbh

text: *sips tea* Fuck

[parakeet]

Thought my gf cheated on me again so I messed around with her gay brother, but it turns out it really *was* just her cousin that she was spending time with, so now I’m kinda feeling guilty and confused

Is this how a priest in a confessional booth feels… ten hail marys

[parakeet]

[avyc02]

Zoey and Mira embracing the patterns look~ ✨✨✨

[evilwizard]

my love for you is like the moon; it controls the tides somehow through a mechanism i don’t entirely understand

[evilwizard]

my love for you is like a rose; edible except for the thorns and root system

[evilwizard]

my love for you is like a wildfire; strengthened by climate change and capable of moving at nearly 15 miles per hour

[evilwizard]

my love for you is like the Titanic; responsible for the deaths of thousands in 1912, and weirdly, at least one billionaire in 2023

[importantcatpics]

[noodle-the-queen]

Ao3 does not need an algorithm, you're just lazy

Ao3 does not need a 1-5 star rating system, you just want to bring down authors writing for FREE

Ao3 does not need automatic censorship, it is an archive, therefore anything can be posted

Writing or reading about something illegal does not mean the author nor the reader condones it, if that were true, you could never read a story involving anything negative

Purity culture is ruining fan culture and you all are fucking annoying

[goodstuffhappenedtoday]

[arcanehiddenmagic]

I've been a lurking fan for years now, since actually sitting down to write got super difficult with how life has been going. But one of my fandoms is working towards the finale and there are too many posts about how sad people are going to be when it ends because "the other fans feel like family and I don't want to lose that", so I guess I'm going to crawl from my grave to write again and see if I can't kick myself into art again while I'm at it.

[foxyjoy-art]

Gathering Veggies for dinner!

My piece from the Tgcf cookbook zine!