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i think the hate for "miscommunication" in stories is undeserved. miscommunication is part of Being Alive, everyone experiences. you as the viewer think "ugh this is so annoying, why don't they just say what they really mean/why don't they clear it up" but in reality everyone is always miscommunication its a fundamental part of being alive and interacting with people.... im the lone defender of miscommunication tropes ok. i support u

shanuraru

headpats

sunberryart

Dumb zukka content for my heart

jaunty-skeletons

so uuuhhhhh

moshang ice hockey AU except sqh is the one who plays ice hockey - he’s a backup player, constantly on the bench, he doesn’t even want to be there if he’s being honest like he only came to watch lqg beat up guys (legally) and look hot doing it - and mbj is one of the team’s assigned physios/masseuse.

sqh actually gets called in to play one day - wqw got a concussion or something - and ends up getting a cramp in his calf after, meaning he has to see The Ice Demon. really shitty nickname, it’s probably got nothing to do with the fact that the guys generally consult their own teammate for injuries instead of their physio, and it’s probably fine that the guy with a concussion apologised to him for taking mqf’s attention instead of him. ahah, totally fine.

so sqh knocks on this guy’s door and waits for a few seconds, completely Not shitting himself, until he hears probably the deepest voice in existence commanding him to come inside. cue half an hour of the most painful, awful, most awkward, Horniest deep tissue massage that he has ever experienced, along with a full breakdown of everything that he did wrong - and right, surprisingly - on the court today.

he leaves in a daze and swears he’s never going back ever again, he’s gonna quit the team the minute he sees his coach again (former child prodigy forced to retire after a debilitating injury, good old yqy). he sees the legendary zhangmen the next day and does not quit.

and if he starts to play more? becomes vital to the team and puts up with near-crippling injuries that get him sent to The Demon’s Lair almost daily? well that sounds like nobody’s business other than his own

derinthescarletpescatarian

90% of ‘representation’ problems could be answered with just more variety. “This rep is BAD because a gay guy being femme is stereotyping”/”no it’s important, femme gays exist and deserve representation” – sounds like we need both kinds. “Queer stories shouldn’t be focused on sex”/”sex is important to the queer experience and should be represented” – sounds like we need both kinds. “Hypercompetent disabled characters like Toph and Daredevil don’t represent me and suggest that disabled characters are only valuable if their disabilities aren’t ‘disabling’ them”/”hypercompetent disabled characters like Toph and Daredevil are empowering” – sounds like we need both kinds.

Most of the Problems of Bad Representation TM aren’t problems at all, except when they’re the only Representation available. There’s absolutely nothing wrong with gay or disfigured or mentally ill villains… except when it’s a pattern across media, and there’s no variety. There’s nothing wrong with stories where the character who happens to get killed off is the minority and all the cishet white abled people make it through and live happily ever after… except when it’s a pattern, and it’s always the minorities getting killed off, rather than teh frequency you’d expect in a random distribution. There’s nothing wrong with a walking stereotype (people who are walking stereotypes do exist!), except when the stereotype is the only kind of character we’re given.

Expecting anything with a diverse cast to act as a PSA that fully explored the nuances of every race, sexuality, gender or subculture it includes and decrying it as ‘problematic’ if it doesn’t meet (your idea of) Perfect Representation is shooting ourselves in the foot. 1 piece of Perfect Representation is so, so much less valuable than 100 pieces of kinda fucked up representation that are fucked up in different ways.

#writing tings

feral-ballad

Yun Son-Do, Compiled & Edited by Peter H. Lee, From Anthology of Korean Literature: from early times to the nineteenth century; “Songs of five friends”

#fic title inspo

kidlightnings

as a fantasy writer you can absolutely just…throw away things you don’t like. it’s a fun worldbuilding exercise, actually. you have dragons and magic swords. you are allowed to get rid of ‘women are property’ and ‘being gay is taboo’ and ‘royalty is traced via bloodline’ if you want. just toss it in the trash. bye

#oh yea i do this all the time #i hate having to write homophobia #but i love regency and historical au's soo....

snapdragonling

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cheeseanonioncrisps

‘Brooding person who only feels safe enough to let the mask slip around Sunshine person’ is alright, but we really do not see enough ‘Sunshine person who only feels safe enough to let the mask slip around Brooding person’.

#hnnng #perfection

prokopetz

Both college AUs and married-straight-out-of-high-school AUs have their virtues, but I think there’s unique comedic potential in contriving to combine the two, if only for the fact that you can still depict them as the prototypical college-bound disaster couple, then turn around and make a running gag out of other characters going “wait a second, those fuckers are married?”

(As an aside, this scenario apparently comes up often enough in real life that many universities – including the one I attended – have official policies addressing married couples where both partners are students residing in on-campus housing, typically involving special exemptions to roommate assignment guidelines.)

gojirahkiin

Well now I want a fake marriage plot that’s all about making sure they can get a roommate they can tolerate.

prokopetz

Okay, getting fake married to another student in order to secure an exemption from the dorm assignment rules is a. an incredibly stupid thing to do, and b. a scenario I’d very much like to see.

sage-the-mage

I’d rather the fake married so they don’t need their parents financial information to get help from grants and stuff

prokopetz

Well, sure, but that’s actually a sensible reason to do it. In this particular scenario, getting fake married for a really dumb reason is part of the appeal.

#tropes

feral-ballad

Aila Meriluoto, tr. by Herbert Lomas, from Contemporary Finnish Poetry; “Love”

#fic title inspo #idk it just kinda looks cool #milky moonbeams?#somthin like that

damselwrites

Color Synonyms

White

also: pale; blanched; sallow; pallid; waxen; spectral; translucent; albino;

Grey

also: dust; stone; pepper;

Black

also: coal; slate; dusky; ebon; shadow; murky;

Tan

also: flesh; khaki; cream; tawny;

Brown

also: henna; russet; sepia; chestnut; cocoa; drab; bronze;

Red

also: terracotta ; rouge; carmine; fire-engine; ruddy

Orange

also: pumpkin ; rust ;

Yellow

also: sunny; amber; saffron; hay; straw; platinum;

Green

also: viridescent; grass; jade; forest;

Blue

also: turquoise; cyan; ultramarine; royal; aqua; aquamarine;

Purple

also: berry; amaranthine;

Pink

also: flushed; candy; cherry blossom; petal pink ;

—– source: http://ingridsundberg.com/

—–additional synonyms added by me

ibunnyreuni

I will forever cherish this post. I’ve seen it a multiple of times; how foolish of me to not reblog this masterpiece the first time I see it UGH

alexwritesfiction

YES YES YES THANK YOU

#writing tips

chick-with-wifi

Good Tropes™

[Orders enough food for several people] and whatever you guys want

‘Sorry I’m late’ ‘You’re right on time’

Two characters having a conversation while on opposite sides of a wall/door

The hero is snooping some place they shouldn’t be and is about to get caught. The baddies enter and the room is completely empty. Bonus points if they then show the hero clinging to the ceiling

Someone turning up in the nick of time to save the heroes in a car/plane/spacecraft/etc and asking ‘need a ride?’

Someone tells a (true) story and it is later revealed they were one of the people in the story

‘Get down!’ *tackles them to the floor*

‘Hi [name]’ *immediately begins escorting them out of the door/hangs up on them* ‘bye [name]’

Character walks past a doorway and sees something strange, carries on walking for a few steps, then realises what they just saw and backs up for another look

Someone charges at another character who dodges it by calmly stepping to the side. Bonus points if the charging character carries on through a doorway

A has been delivering a monologue for quite some time and when they are finished B slowly blinks and says some variation of ‘I don’t understand a word you just said’

New character meets the Team for the first time, who are being their usual absurd/intimidating selves, and asks ‘who the hell are you people?’

Everyone has to leave the restaurant/bar/coffee shop and one character frantically tries to finish their food/drink before they go

’[Name], I presume?’

Random character discovers some important new evidence and has to race to find the other characters to tell/warn them in time

Dramatically putting up or taking off their hood

[Badass declaration]. Any questions?

That one character who is always coming up with new slang words and hoping they will catch on

‘My friends call me [nickname/shortened name]. You can call me [full name/title]’. Alternatively, ‘you may not call me anything’

A and B are together when A’s phone rings and they answer it. After a beat they hold it out for B and say ‘it’s for you’. Bonus points if the caller had no way of knowing A and B would be together. Alternatively, bonus points if B didn’t answer their own phone because they don’t want to speak to the caller, prompting them to phone A instead

B comes to A’s house and knocks on the door. When A answers it, they barge straight in and start talking, leaving A still standing at the door and prompting them to say ‘please. Come in’

Someone tries to shoot the character but misses and hits their hat or something instead, so the character gets angry and is like ‘that was my favourite hat!’

Character wants to know the time so they grab their friend’s wrist to check the watch they are wearing

Character begins speaking about a traumatic event that happened in the past and cuts themselves off to rephrase so they won’t have to say the specifics of the event eg. ‘after he - …after what he did’

After a tragic event, the token evil teammate/morally ambiguous ally starts helping the gang and becomes one of the good guys full time

#tropes

desinteresse

Heist movies aka found family trope for bastards

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

you guys get ONE fic for zukka week by me

Ursa had died when he was seven, and although the true logistics of it weren’t clear in his seven-year-old mind, he remembered the black procession, and the dawning realization that he was completely alone. He remembered crawling under the bedsheets, old ones that she had forgotten to wash, and desperately trying to memorize the fading scent of his mother. He remembered spending the whole night curled up staring at his wrist, eyes locked religiously on the words, You are so perfect. He wasn’t alone.

When his father had spent the evening screaming to him over an eighty-four on a math test, staring down in embarrassment and only managing to keep the tears in by looking at the four words on his wrist. You are so perfect. He’s not worthless.

#fic #alta fic #zukka fic #kinda angsty ngl #zukka week 2021