WILDERNESS & WILDNESS

Writing blog for WIP "Wilderness & Wildness" and various short story updates. DM for main blog (will not follow from this one). Twitter @bluebeardshouse

[bluebeardsmcmansion]

WILDERNESS & WILDNESS

A Gothic horror/romance for fans of:

🌙 Dracula

🌙 Bottle episodes

🌙 Biblical allegory

🌙 Homoerotic tension

🌙 Mysterious beasts howling in the night

🌙 Unreliable narrators

🌙 Blood

Introducing:

📖 Caleb - the son of a traveling preacher, running from his past, his crimes, and from himself

🗡 Randolph - the enigmatic, sly resident of the castle, whose easygoing nature does not dull the sharpness of his tongue

[plambus]

i need to get into a bareknuckle fist fight with another guy. not in like a homoerotic way or a depressed masochistic way but in a masculine badass fight club 1999 way

[godisafujoshi]

Hmmm so how do i tell you this

[orcbara]

too many stories about turning yourself into a monster as a metaphor for pretending to be something you aren't and losing yourself in the process. not enough stories about turning yourself into a monster as a metaphor for choosing to openly embrace yourself even if it's strange to other people

[thistoowillpasss]

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[gretchensinister]

Insensitivity reader to make sure that your characters are ignorant assholes in the ways that make the most sense for the characterization you're trying to achieve

[rudjedet]

Writing smut and writing fight scenes are two sides of the same coin: without emotional depth, either becomes nothing more than a bland technical dissertation on which body part goes where.

[rudjedet]

and also sword play is foreplay

[rudjedet]

#the other day I was writing combat scenes specifically to set things up to call back to when I get to the smut :) @morkaischosen

see, you get it

[guiltfactory]

sometimes the absence is more compelling. let's lack something and then feel its presence forever in the empty space where it should be.

[stjohnstarling]

The thing is - flirting has to involve a certain bare minimum amount of twisted psychosexual mind games.

[stjohnstarling]

I'm sorry but if all parties involved don't find themselves questioning their sanity at least once you're simply doing it wrong.

[stjohnstarling]

Am I engaged in it at this very moment? Perhaps - but you're probably just imagining things.

[redstonedust]

love characters who are like "this is how the world works. this is how it has to be (because if i'm wrong i have to face what i've done // if i'm wrong i have to face whats been done to me) "

[tlbodine]

This trait is much more endearing in fiction than in my mother.

[snakes-in-mirrors]

"I'm a monster, you're a monster... oh, we're a perfect match!"

[mumblesplash]

[staggering to my feet and wiping a single perfect drip of blood from my mouth] i have to get back on my bullshit. no matter the cost

[orpheuslament]

boy i sure do love a character who is playing a Character. a character who you have to basically forcefully cut open to get a glimpse of who they actually are. bonus points if they themselves have no fucking clue because theyve been pretending for so long theyve forgotten who they are when theyre not

[asterixcalibur]

need him slowly bleeding out filled with a mortal panic he's unable to express. and moaning on it, i guess

[jmfenner91]

Inktober Day 11 - Sting

[lelif]

on survival

-// @aridante // @orivu // @buzzkillgirls // ? // ? // richard siken// @cemeterything // moomin, tove jansson// @disenchanted-killjoy // isn't that enough, shawn mendes// @ prettytheyswag on twitter// @ coletyumuch on twitter// ? // ? // bird by bird, anne lamott// undertale// @strawberrycircuits

[johnanderton]

Am I really so bad? Am I really so frightening? You've talked to me. You've confided in me. Have I tried to hurt you? It isn't me you're afraid of. What you're afraid of is the unknown.

ROBERT REDFORD as MR. DEATH The Twilight Zone — 3.16 "Nothing in the Dark"

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