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I got tagged by @poppyseedsorpoppy ✨💕

RULES: post the last sentence you wrote (fanfic / original / anything) and tag as many people as there are words in the sentence

oh how it scares me

to move my body

the way that it wants

turns out the last sentence I wrote was a one sentence poem lol. sincerely, late diagnosed autistic

(also boop you're tagged)

#bad writes #poem

Hello, i saw the message on twitter but i'm so bad at interacting on twitter so i will leave a message there. First thank you for every thing u have written and shared!!! I'm not even in this fandom and i don't remember how i came across your twitter threads BUT i have loved EVERYTHING that i was able to read and keep coming for more. The way you write characters is so !!! i remember being so thankfull i could look forward to read your threads and updates about specific ones when we were stuck in pandemy lockdowns etc. I hope you will be able to put the bondage one with sero and kami back on ao3 again. i'm pretty sure i've put a bookmark on it but it somehow isn't there anymore?? (If u removed it for reasons it's ok. I just wanted to say how i loved reading all of what u've wrote that i was able to access given how bad i am at using twitter.) I remember reading lots of other shorter ones that were super good. The ones with gender euphoria, the ones with a demi-baku etc. Idk the way u write is so cathartic. U have so much talent to write characters and make them feel real and make the reader FEEL things. And i just wanted to thank you for everything. I hope u r ok. May u stay healthy and good luck with the uni work. Have a lovely day <3

don't mind me just having a (happy) little cry over here 😭 thank you so so very much for your kind words, this really means a lot to me. I've been having a hard time liking my own writing lately so this was perfect to find in my notifications. I'm so glad that my writing can be something positive for someone else, that's just, UGH, so fucking cool, so thank you for telling me 💕

(the serokami fic still up on ao3 but I did put all my works to only be visible to registered users to try and avoid spam/AI scraping, maybe that messed with bookmark somehow?? hmm)

#ask

when doing a bachelor's everyone and their mother will tell you to read closely and understand the assigned literature on a molecular level, and then when you start a master's no one expects you to read anything besides the titles and summaries lol

#bad talks #uni

amezure

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#bokuto koutaro #oikawa tooru #kuroo testuro #haikyuu!!

throttlee

#sakusa kiyoomi #haikyuu #barbie

I think denki would fit right in with karasuno

I made an 18+ bnha drabble collection! get it here

#bnha #drabble #fandom zine #mha #minors dni #18+

here's a collection of narrative transcripts of kirishima's webcam endeavors (or: fics written like videos lol)!

beware of the content warnings and tags

#camboy kirishima #explicit #ao3 fanfic

himawarrior

Baku just found a good place to flirt with a school football star and ask him out

#kiribaku #bnha #bakugou x kirishima

wafflewarrior111

So... I found this and now it keeps coming to mind. You hear about "life-changing writing advice" all the time and usually its really not—but honestly this is it man.

I'm going to try it.

missroserose

I love the lawyer metaphor, because whenever I see “John knew that...” in prose writing I immediately think “how? How does he know it?” Interrogate your witnesses. Cross-examine them. Make them explain their reasoning. It pays dividends.

heck-in-a-handbasket

All of this, but also feels/felt. My editor has forbidden me from using those and it’s forced me to stretch my skills.

im-the-punk-who

[Link to the article for screen-readers]

pathos-logical

[ID: The full text of an article. It reads:

"Writing Advice": by Charles Palahniuk- In six seconds, you’ll hate me.

But in six months, you’ll be a better writer.

From this point forward – at least for the next half year – you may not use “thought” verbs. These include: Thinks, Knows, Understands, Realizes, Believes, Wants, Remembers, Imagines, Desires, and a hundred others you love to use.

The list should also include: Loves and Hates.

And it should include: Is and Has, but we’ll get to those, later.

Until some time around Christmas, you can’t write: Kenny wondered if Monica didn’t like him going out at night…”

Thinking is abstract. Knowing and believing are intangible. Your story will always be stronger if you just show the physical actions and details of your characters and allow your reader to do the thinking and knowing. And loving and hating.

Instead, you’ll have to Un-pack that to something like: “The mornings after Kenny had stayed out, beyond the last bus, until he’d had to bum a ride or pay for a cab and got home to find Monica faking sleep, faking because she never slept that quiet, those mornings, she’d only put her own cup of coffee in the microwave. Never his.”

Instead of characters knowing anything, you must now present the details that allow the reader to know them. Instead of a character wanting something, you must now describe the thing so that the reader wants it.

Instead of saying: “Adam knew Gwen liked him.”

You’ll have to say: “Between classes, Gwen was always leaned on his locker when he’d go to open it. She’d roll her eyes and shove off with one foot, leaving a black-heel mark on the painted metal, but she also left the smell of her perfume. The combination lock would still be warm from her ass. And the next break, Gwen would be leaned there, again.”

In short, no more short-cuts. Only specific sensory detail: action, smell, taste, sound, and feeling.

Typically, writers use these “thought” verbs at the beginning of a paragraph (In this form, you can call them “Thesis Statements” and I’ll rail against those, later) In a way, they state the intention of the paragraph. And what follows, illustrates them.

For example:

“Brenda knew she’d never make the deadline. Traffic was backed up from the bridge, past the first eight or nine exits. Her cell phone battery was dead. At home, the dogs would need to go out, or there would be a mess to clean up. Plus, she’d promised to water the plants for her neighbor…”

Do you see how the opening “thesis statement” steals the thunder of what follows? Don’t do it.

If nothing else, cut the opening sentence and place it after all the others. Better yet, transplant it and change it to: Brenda would never make the deadline.

Don’t tell your reader: “Lisa hated Tom.”

Instead, make your case like a lawyer in court, detail by detail. Present each piece of evidence. For example:

“During role call, in the breath after the teacher said Tom’s name, in that moment before he could answer, right then, Lisa would whisper-shout: ‘Butt Wipe,” just as Tom was saying, ‘Here’.”

One of the most-common mistakes that beginning writers make is leaving their characters alone. Writing, you may be alone. Reading, your audience may be alone. But your character should spend very, very little time alone. Because a solitary character starts thinking or worrying or wondering.

For example: Waiting for the bus, Mark started to worry about how long the trip would take..”

A better break-down might be: “The schedule said the bus would come by at noon, but Mark’s watch said it was already 11:57. You could see all the way down the road, as far as the Mall, and not see a bus. No doubt, the driver was parked at the turn-around, the far end of the line, taking a nap. The driver was kicked back, asleep, and Mark was going to be late. Or worse, the driver was drinking, and he’d pull up drunk and charge Mark seventy-five cents for death in a fiery traffic accident…”

A character alone must lapse into fantasy or memory, but even then you can’t use “thought” verbs or any of their abstract relatives.

Oh, and you can just forget about using the verbs forget and remember.

No more transitions such as: “Wanda remember how Nelson used to brush her hair.”

Instead: “Back in their sophomore year, Nelson used to brush her hair with smooth, long strokes of his hand.”

Again, Un-pack. Don’t take short-cuts.

Better yet, get your character with another character, fast. Get them together and get the action started. Let their actions and words show their thoughts. You -- stay out of their heads.

And while you’re avoiding “thought” verbs, be very wary about using the bland verbs “is” and “have.”

One of the most-common mistakes that beginning writers make is leaving their characters alone.

For example:

“Ann’s eyes are blue.”

“Ann has blue eyes.”

Versus:

“Ann coughed and waved one hand past her face, clearing the cigarette smoke from her eyes, blue eyes, before she smiled…”

Instead of bland “is” and “has” statements, try burying your details of what a character has or is, in actions or gestures. At its most basic, this is showing your story instead of telling it.

And forever after, once you’ve learned to Un-pack your characters, you’ll hate the lazy writer who settles for: “Jim sat beside the telephone, wondering why Amanda didn’t call.”

Please. For now, hate me all you want, but don’t use “thought” verbs. After Christmas, go crazy, but I’d bet money you won’t. End ID]

how to care for your monstera

let it dry out between waterings

leave it alone

it probably needs a smaller pot than you think

seriously just let it do its thing

dust it sometimes so it can eat the sunlight

spray new leafs with water for encouragement

give support, both emotional and something sturdy to lean on

leave it alone