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[luna-azzurra]

Things to consider when Writing about Schools/Academies!!

⊹ What is this school actually for. training mages? knights? spies? just normal education? because "prestigious academy" means nothing if you don't know what they're prestigious at

⊹ Who gets in and how. is it merit based, do you have to be rich, legacy admissions, secret tests, random selection, born with the right abilities. what happens to kids who don't make the cut

⊹ What's the age range. are these literal children or young adults or mixed ages. because a school with 11 year olds has very different problems than one with 18 year olds

⊹ How strict is it. prison vibes with tons of rules? pretty chill? different rules for different student groups (which is unfair and causes drama)?

⊹ What are the social hierarchies. obviously there are cliques but what are they based on. wealth? power level? what year you're in? family name? talent?

⊹ What happens if you fail or get expelled. are you just sent home in shame or is it worse. do people sometimes not survive the training. how often do students drop out or disappear

⊹ Who are the teachers and why are they teaching. washed up former heroes? people who never left? actually passionate educators? suspicious people using it as a cover? mix of all of them probably

⊹ What's forbidden. certain magic, certain areas of campus, relationships between students, leaving grounds, specific books/knowledge. and obviously your protagonist will break these rules

⊹ How do students get sorted/grouped. houses? teams? specializations? randomly? and do these groups have rivalries because they should

⊹ What's the curriculum actually like. is it actually useful or are they learning weird outdated stuff. are there classes that are just covers for something else. what are the hardest classes

⊹ Where is this school located. isolated castle? middle of a city? pocket dimension? floating island? does it move? can students leave or are they stuck there

⊹ What traditions does the school have. tournaments, festivals, hazing rituals (the dark kind), graduation ceremonies, weird old customs nobody questions

⊹ Is there corruption in the faculty/administration. favoritism, taking bribes, secret agendas, covering up student deaths, embezzling, working for the villain

⊹ What's the diversity situation. is it segregated somehow (by class, species, magic type)? integrated but with tension? do some groups face discrimination from staff or other students?

⊹ What happens outside of classes. clubs? underground fight rings? secret societies? banned parties? students sneaking out? romantic drama?

⊹ Why is your protagonist specifically there. chosen one nonsense? hiding from something? forced to attend? actually wants to learn? found out they have powers and got dragged there confused?

[luna-azzurra]

Chaotic gremlin best friends!!

⟢ "I need an alibi for Tuesday." - "What time." - "You didn't ask what I did." - "What time."

⟢ "Hypothetically." - "No." - "You didn't hear the question." - "Hypothetically no."

⟢ "I did something." - "Scale of one to ten." - "Depends who's asking." "Me." - "Seven." - "Police." - "Four." - "God." - "Thirteen."

⟢ "We need to leave."- "Why." - "I'll explain in the car." - "Why." - "I'll explain in a different country."

⟢ "This is your fault." - "You literally came up with the idea." - "I have bad ideas all the time, you're not supposed to DO them."

⟢ "Okay hear me out." - "My lawyer has advised me not to hear you out." - "You don't have a lawyer." - "I'm getting one specifically for conversations with you."

⟢ "Nobody got hurt." - "Physically." . "Nobody got physically hurt." - "Yet." - "Nobody has gotten physically hurt yet, which is a win."

⟢ "I have a type." - "Yeah?" - "People who are bad for me and you specifically." - "That's not a type that's a pattern." - "Same thing."

⟢ "What's the worst that could happen." - "I have a list. It's laminated. I made it specifically for when you say that."

⟢ "Rate my decision making." - "Historically or right now." - "Both." - "Zero. Consistent zero across the board."

⟢ "You're the only person I trust." - "I dropped your birthday cake last year and told you it arrived like that." - "Yeah but you still got me a cake."

⟢ "I need your honest opinion." - "It's bad." - "You didn't see it yet." - "I've met you. It's bad."

⟢ "Why do you even keep me around." - "Honestly? Entertainment. And you're warm in winter."

⟢ "I wasn't thinking." - "First time for everything." - "I resent that." - "Statistically valid though."

⟢ "On a scale of fine to not fine." - "Remember that time in Prague." - "We don't talk about Prague." - "That fine."

⟢ "Nobody panic but." - "I'm already panicking." - "I haven't said anything yet." - "I know you. I'm getting ahead of it."

⟢ "Promise you won't be mad." - "Absolutely not, that's a trap and I won't fall for it."

⟢ "I have good news and bad news." - "Good news first." - "The car is fine." - "And the bad." - "Define car."

⟢ "You're my emergency contact." - "I know." - "You're listed as my next of kin." - "I know." - "You're also listed as my therapist, my lawyer, and my spiritual advisor." - "I know." - "Do you want to talk about that." - "Nope." - "Cool."

⟢ "I'm a responsible adult."- "You once called me crying because you got your sleeve caught in a door and didn't know what to do." - "I was panicking." - "For forty minutes." - "It was really stuck."

⟢ "I regret everything." - "No you don't." - "No I don't but I feel like I should." - "Same honestly."

[luna-azzurra]

Quick tips for Writing Villains!!

☆ A villain who thinks they're the hero is scarier than one who knows they're evil.

☆ Give them something they love. It makes everything worse.

☆ Their logic should make sense, even if their actions don't.

☆ The best villains don't monologue. They ask questions.

☆ Not every villain needs a tragic backstory. Some people are just hungry for power.

☆ Let them win sometimes. Repeatedly, it raises the stakes.

☆ A villain who is polite is more unsettling than one who screams.

☆ They should change the hero just as much as the hero changes them.

☆ Give them a genuine friendship or loyalty somewhere. It humanizes without excusing.

☆ The scariest thing a villain can do is be right about something.

☆ Not every villain needs to die. Some walk away. Some become allies. Some just... disappear.

☆ A villain with a sense of humor is dangerous because you almost like them.

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[work-in-promptgress]

You have received one wish. The thing you had wished for the most and the strongest in your lifetime would come true.

It wasn't "World Peace," or a dead friend to never have died—it was something you wished for through your entire childhood.

Your stuffed animals came to life

[gamergirl-lumine]

“Never read your own work” is some really weird writing advice.

Like, I’m writing this for me. Why the hell would I not read it.

[ayo-evernight]

Agreed.

[writing-challenges-and-prompts]

Writing Prompt

Write a story set in the year 2926.

[ayo-evernight]

America and Chinese were fighting Wars, throwing bombs, digital weapons, and man-made plagues to determine who is gonna take over the world...

But No one expected, that this one little country who has always been overlooked and underestimated would reach the last stage of developing that one secret project which non of the big countries succeeded to make, for the past 10 centuries, and now it's finally time.

To make everyone else kneel before them.

[luna-azzurra]

How to write a Chase scene <3

[jumpywhumpywriter]

Badly Injured Hero Sidekick Shows up at Villain's Base to Beg for Help part 80

Warnings: talk of past trauma, mention of past failed suicide attempt, little bit fluffier than usual

Okay, I have had SEVERAL anons in my inbox ask for the same thing, so here -- I finally made it a reality! :D (You'll know what I mean when you read it, anons -- I'm not spoiling it in advance)

HUGEEEEE SHOUTOUT TO MY LEGENDARY BETA READER, @lorelaiclairinssss. They were literally THE BIGGEST HELP ever, and even wrote a significant portion of this chapter and the next themself to which I merely added to to finalize it, using theirs as the basic structure and dialogue points.

This literally would not, and I mean WOULD NOT have been possible without their help and feedback. So thank you, lorelai! You are AWESOME! I am ecstatic with how well this turned out after all your feedback and assistance!

Medic nodded, a slight frown on her lips at the sudden shift in mood. But she followed Villain as he led the way down the hall, leaving everyone else on their own.

A hush settled over her when she stepped through the door of his bedroom with him, her eyes met with the undeniably anxious mess that Villain was when he turned to face her.

Hands wringing his knuckles raw.

Eyes that suddenly didn’t quite meet hers anymore.

Mouth preoccupied with trying to chew a hole through the inside of his cheek.

But why?

Something was very wrong.

“Are you… okay?” Medic said, closing the door behind her and blocking out all noise from the rest of the hideout.

“Yes,” Villain responded flatly; but she noticed the way his Adam's apple bobbed in his throat, all the tendons visibly tight as he struggled to keep himself calm.

Medic didn’t need to be a truth teller to see through a lie that poorly disguised.

“Vil.” She stepped towards him, putting on the softest tone she had; a tone she only ever used when he was like this.

Only then did Villain look up.

“You know, if something’s bothering you, you can talk to me,” she reminded tenderly, watching the way his face shifted into what resembled a slightly more peaceful version of himself.

“I know,” Villain agreed, voice clipped. He stuffed his hands into his pockets and said nothing more.

The question on Medic’s tongue was burning, burning, burning, but she didn’t prompt him again, for fear of prying. Gave him time to choose his own words.

And sure enough, Villain took a breath, gathering what hopefully shouldn’t have to be courage. It was just Medic. There was no reason to get so worked up over this, or so Medic thought, trying to figure out what in the world abruptly made him so apprehensive.

“I…” his eyes fluttered closed for a moment, “Medic…”

Medic was going to die of suspense.

“Yes?” she whispered, bringing Villain back to reality — where he was yet to actually say what was on his mind…

“About the other day,” he started, and Medic’s gut wrenched, surprised that he was willing to bring it up by himself.

“I think…” Villain didn’t look like he’d planned this out enough, “...that I realized some things that day.”

Medic’s brow quirked up when Villain took another deep breath. Was he going into panic?

“I realized,” Villain continued, dragging out the word painfully long, “that I’ve never really expressed how much you mean to me.”

Medic’s stomach loosened. Did he really just get that worked up over expressing appreciation?

No, she figured, there must be something more. He was just preparing her for what he actually had to say.

“Medic,” Villain said for the second time now, “I would have killed myself that day. You know that.”

She involuntarily nodded her head in reply.

“I want you to know how grateful I am to be alive… if it means I get to be with you.” Villain’s confidence ran out about halfway through that sentence, leaving him barely able to get the last part out. A hint of red crept into his face.

“You’ve made me feel something… finally,” he admitted, dropping his gaze to the floor. “You told me to try and find my inner peace. To find myself. But I feel most at peace when I’m with you.”

Medic opened her mouth, but nothing came out.

“And,” he added, clearing his throat and finally looking her straight in the eye, “I think I realized… I have feelings for you.”

And suddenly, Villain was not the only one blushing.

“Oh…! Oh.” Medic was left blinking blankly at him, struggling to figure out if this was the reason he’d called her here, unable to believe his words were real; that he was, in fact, not about to break some horribly tragic news to her.

Quite the opposite, actually.

Polar opposite.

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[your-reluctant-optimist]

Writer friends: how do you name your characters?

Do you use placeholders before coming up with something better? Do you have a system? A website you use?

[asterrwritess]

Sometimes, like with my character Chord, the name shows up in my head before the rest of the story. But other times I struggle with it and I have to go to my favorite website fantasy name generator dot com which has a massive randomized database of thousands of different names from all over. (And! It does NOT use AI, it has existed since before the rise of AI)

[writingpromptaday]

After faking your death, a shocking amount of people try to take credit for killing you.

[writingpromptaday]

Finding your friend covered in bright red blood is terrifying enough. Knowing your friend doesn't have red blood is worse.

[whooooomp]

// CW physical child abuse mention (whump)

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you know that thing kids might do when theyre feeling really threatened by their parental figures. where they just. keep repeating "I love you, I love you, I love you" through tears, hoping that it'll make the other person stop attacking them...

... terrified whumpee doing that. they might be a child too, or age regressed, or just a really horrified adult (bonus points if they are saying it to caretaker, misguidedly believing that they want to punish them)

[justbreakonme]

Conditioned Whumpee kneeling in front of who they think is their new master, eyes squeezed tightly shut, expecting to be struck or worse.

But Caretaker has no idea what they’re expecting or why they’re doing this, so they kneel down too to meet them eye to eye.

When nothing happens for a moment, Whumpee dares to open their eyes, and blanks when they meet Caretakers.

[justbreakonme]

Whumpee and Caretaker hated each other, before everything went down.

But now after Whumpee had been put through hell that had fucked up everything they had ever thought about themselves and other people, Caretaker is the one they trust the most because they have no reason to lie or be kind to them and yet…

Caretaker might have hated Whumpee before, but, they weren’t a monster. So when they’re the one person Whumpee starts to trust, they know they could never break it.

[fineiguessimintowhump]

list of some tropes that are very clichés and very lovely:

someone being told to use [name] instead of a title and the name just... becomes the title. Yes, Name. Thank you, Name. Sorry, Name. It doesn't mean anything to them.

Someone with good intentions, shocked at what they're seeing and whumper's delightfulness in humiliating whumpee for them. yes, do show them how obedient your pet is.

assumptions. especially ones that cause massive misunderstanding. whumpee spending weeks in fear bc they assumed something and caretaker another. surprise! you're not dying anytime soon.

"[order] or I'll make you" (and it'll be 1838392 times worse) (:

tests. "they'll never know" except they do because it was a test and you failed. suffer.

panic over minor incidents (i.e. the beloved broken glass.)

terrified whumpee still trying to protect their new friend.

whumper bemused as they listen to whumpee's reasons to not [blank] them right now. it's happening anyway but the babbling is always fun.

scrambling away as someone slowly walks behind. so cute.

whumpee being given options and begging. they'll choose but they still beg.

the exact same torture happening every day until whumpee slowly breaks. and then it continues anyway.

whumpee who shows a bit of defiance. maybe gets some hope about freedom. and is immediately reminded of the reality of it all.